Author note: I wasn't going to post this today because I was too caught up in the events over here in London, but then I decided that I'd probably made you lot wait long enough so here you go...who did die? Read on to find out who and how!

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From their view up on the top bank, a figure stood watching the chaos below.One handclutched their side, which had a deep puncture wound, and when they walked, they were limping badly, hardly able to put any weight on one foot. Their face was smothered in black from the smoke and ash and they were sweating from the intense heat.

But Padme Amidala was still very much alive!

She thought back to her lucky escape.

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She had seen Obi-Wan and Anakin swinging out and landing safely on the bank, but she knew she would never make it in time, so she had swung back to the pillar and clung to it as it had tipped over the edge. Following it down, she had slashed a long length of the wire with her saber and wrapped it round an overhanging rockwith the Force. Then she had swung away from the platform as it had hit the lava below and exploded.

Sheswung into a tiny cave that was luckily lava free. However it did have very sharp rocks lining the bottom of it, and as she landed, one rock hadstabbed her side.

As she recovered from the shock of the injury, she picked herself up and began to stagger down the dark corridor, trusting the Force to guide her, knowing she had to get back to Anakin and Obi-Wan as quickly as she could. However when she heard Anakin scream her name, she had been momentarily distracted, causing her to slip off the narrow ledge that she was edging along and fall at least thirty feet, landing heavily on her left ankle. There was a loud crack and pain shot up her leg.

Resisting the urge to cry out in agony, she focused on calming herself down and re-directing her thoughts so that they weren't on the stinging pain in her side and her foot.

She had to rest for a few moments incase she should faint and fall down another hidden dip, but then when she heard Anakin's screams she knew he needed help.

She forced herself to continue on, and at last she saw daylight as the tunnel led out near the control building. From there, she had looked down and seen the events from down below. Obi-Wan was trying desperately to pull Anakin out of the lava, and the Emperor was just about to blast him with electricity.

Hopping over the fencing and collapsing on the ground, she had gritted her teeth, pulled herself up and limped on to where she was now.

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She had seen the Emperor walking towards Anakin and Obi-Wan who were slowly being swallowed by the lava, and she was full of hate, at that moment in time, for the one man she would once have trusted with her life. Holding out her hand, she had tripped him up using the Force, but his stupid clones had stopped him from falling straight in to the river of fire below.

Still Padme didn't care. Let him hang there and watch as I leave him to die!

She hobbled and skidded down the bank, cutting the remaing clone down with her saber. Then she reached the beach area and grasped Obi-Wan's hand firmly. He had passed out because of the intense pain, so it was so much harder for her to pull him back out, but at last she managed it. His foot had been burned right off up to his ankle, but apart from that, he seemed otherwise unhurt.

Anakin on the other hand, was unrecognizable. The lava had reached to just above his knee now, and his force signature was very weak, but Padme knew he was still alive. She knew she would be unable to pull him out the same way she had pulled Obi-Wan out because it would have been impossible not to rip his arms from their remaining limbs.

Instead she closed her eyes and used the force to drag him out, laying him to rest a little further up the beach.

Now that her friends were out of immediate danger, Padme turned to the Emperor who was clinging to the clone for dear life. He couldn't let go with either hand, so there was no way he could inflict any harm upon her now.

"Well, My Lord!" she called up to him. "This truly is the end this time. You're un-confronted reign has gone on long enough. It is time for someone more worthy to take your place!"

And with that, she raised one hand towards the huge rock that the grapple was wrapped tightly around. Concentrating and using every last ounce of energy she had left, she lifted the rock high up, dragging the Clone and the Emperor with it. Then she positioned the rock over the very centre of the lava pool and let it drop.

There was a loud hiss as the Emperor's body hit the burning lava, and blue sparks issued from his fingertips as he screamed in agony and slowly sunk. Beside him the clone thrashed around, as though he were trying to tread water, but the lava soon got the better of both of them and swallowed them, leaving nothing but ripples where they had once been.

Padme managed to stay awake long enough to see Bail and Yoda running towards her, then she passed out beside Anakin's charred body.