The Dreamers – Epilogue
I came home one day soon after that and the door shot open as I walked up to it.
Why is the door unlocked?
Realizing how many might be looking across the Galaxy for us, I started to panic.
I walked in calling "Padme!" while trying to sense her. She was nearby and in pain.
I found her in the next room, lying in a pool of blood. Even though my heart stopped for a beat, I couldn't run over to her fast enough. I tried to cover up the hole in her chest.
"Ani," she whispered. "You came. I love you."
"You're going to be all right. Who did this?'
"An Imperial assassin."
I rushed her to the medical canter, thinking the whole time She can't die. I can't live without her. But she looked so weak and had lost so much blood.
I will kill Palpatine for this.
After Padme was brought into a room in the medical center, all I could do was wait, pacing, for some news. After what seemed like hours, a medical droid came out.
"We don't know if your wife will survive. She has much internal damage. But if we induce labor, we can save the babies."
"Babies?" I asked, automatically.
"She's carrying twins."
I followed the droid into the room and took Padmé's hand.
"I'm not afraid to die."
"I can't live without you," I replied.
"Don't say that. You have to be here for our twins."
As the droid induced labor, I did what I could to ease her pain. But her screams sounded just like the ones in my nightmare. They broke my heart.
But as her contractions stopped and our newborn daughter was placed in her arms, I felt a small glimmer of hope that we might somehow make it as a family.
"Leia," Padmé whispered to me. "Isn't she perfect?"
"Yes, she is" I told her. And she was.
That's when the horrible, powerful contractions started again. I took Leia from her.
"This'll be over soon. Just hang on," I pleaded.
I was right about the first part. It wasn't long before our son came into the world.
"Luke," Padmé said. "Anakin, we'll be together again someday. There's still good in you."
But then her eyes closed and the machines started beeping wildly. I couldn't think. All I knew was pain.
A strange alien world.
Blood everywhere.
A baby placed in Padme's arms.
She was weak and then went limp.
Notes:
Thank you, LVB, for betaing this!
BabyBlonde: Thanks for your reviews. I love knowing that people are reading my stuff. I tried to email you, but it bounced back to me.
While this is definitely the end of "the Dreamers", if anybody wants a sequel (which could involve Anakin being accused of Padmé's murder, Anakin and Obi-Wan teaming up to kill Palpatine and rescue Siri from "the basement", etc.) let me know by reviewing. I could easily be talked into this.