Obi-Wan spun around and darted away when the laser blast came towards him. His boots slid across the platform that was all ready covered in at least a good inch of water. Another blast came his way and he jumped as his lightsaber came on in a flash, the blue glow dancing across his eyes.

The gray sky started to rumble with thunder as the rain came down harder.

Jango Fett stood there with his gun and fired again, Obi-Wan used his lightsaber to deflect the blast and make it bounce off.

Just then the bounty hunter's jet pack came on and he rocketed up over him, Obi-Wan tried to keep a steady hand as he watched him jump over him, the rain clouding his vision.

Jango landed behind him and shot a thin wire out of his armor trying to entangle him.

Obi-Wan jumped out of the way, as Jango shot five darts out of his other arm...once again he used his saber to block them away.

They circled each other as the driven rain fell harder and harder between them.

Blasts were coming from the ship that Jango was going to bord, which was just a few feet away from his speeder.

Obi-Wan jumped again, this time doing a mid air turn as he skidded across the surface of the platform again, sending water to splash about.

He was about to use his lightsaber again when another blast from the ship came to close and it got knocked out of his hand and went flying across the wet surface. Obi-Wan tried to run towards it but Jango was all ready on top of him and wrapped the wire around him twice, as he tried to use to force and pick it up.

Obi-Wan fell to his feet as Jango tried to blast him again, but this time using his boot to kick it right out of his hand and making it fly far out of reach.

Jango kicked Obi-Wan in his ribs, which has been feeling sore for the past two days and Obi-Wan let out a scream as he threw himself on the in-cased man and rolled around in the water punching him.

Jango then tried to rocket up again to get out of Obi-Wan's reach as he hauled himself up and kicked Jango right where his jet pack was, sending it to rip off his back and fall off the edge of the platform.

With that chance Obi-Wan tried to use his powers to get his lightsaber, but Jango was on him again, Obi-Wan kicked him with all the force in his legs and made him skid right off the edge.

Obi-Wan stood there for a second, the rain still pouring on him when he saw the wire that was still attached to Jango...he scanned his eyes and saw that during the fight the wire fell off his waist and made a good knot around his leg.

The wire kept going.

"Not good."

With that the force of the wire send him flying backwards, whacking his back hard against the surface and flying off the edge.

Obi-Wan was sent off the edge, seeing Jango not to far behind as they both fell towards the dark ocean below.

Jango tried to lock himself with razors he had built inside his arm to lock into the metal of the surface before falling off the way off the edge as they dipped down. The razors cut into the soft metal and made sparks...soon enough Jango stopped dead as Obi-Wan flew past him with the wire still attached to him and fell off the edge, only to fall a few feet before stopping dead.

Obi-Wan swung back and forth, hanging off the platform, looking down at the ocean below.

Just then the wire snapped and he fell forward, as the wind went against his face like glass he thought quick and threw the wire out so it would wrap against a walking platform, it took hold and Obi-Wan did a jump spin and cut the wire loose before running back inside to get to the platform level.

When he reached the place where he had started, the rain seemed worst.

He tried to fire at the ship but Jango was all ready safe inside...before the ship took off out of sight he threw a tracker against it and stood there in the pouring rain, sore and out of breath.

But while Obi-Wan was risking his life against a dangerous bounty hunter, Padme and Anakin were still enjoying their day together on Naboo.

She had tried to forget about the kiss she gave, she still thought it was stupid and knew that she only gave in because of how her heart felt at the time.

They took a long walk together and then settled down into one of the fields near the waterfalls and talked about their first kisses.

Padme would never tell Anakin about her past with Obi-Wan, or her daughter.

In fact as she talked about politics, her family, what she liked. She was starting to get caught up in the moment and enjoy herself.

It was beautiful out, the sun was shinning and made her skin feel warm, the grass they sat on was soft, and somehow Anakin seemed to make her laugh every ten seconds or so.

She caught herself blushing on more then one account, and felt a strange drawing towards Anakin...maybe it was because he was so young and didn't know what real pain was like.

Whatever the reason was she liked being with him, it reminded her again of what it was like spending her time with Obi-Wan on Naboo when she was younger.

Afterwards they ran around and rolled in the grass laughing...she felt her heart start to jump around as she cursed herself and tried to calm her thoughts down.

She would never love again, she promised herself.

And she wasn't the type to move to one Jedi to the next, she just wanted to feel safe...and somehow Anakin was doing that for her.

When they returned back for lunch, Anakin made her fruit float...once again she caught herself in a fit of giggles as she watched his handsome hazel eyes set on hers. They spoke back and forth...Anakin went on about missions with Obi-Wan and she listened.

Something was happening to her, she couldn't explain it.

It was because he was a Jedi, and because he made her feel safe.

Later that night Padme sat by the fireplace in her home...watching the flames she remembered when she first met Obi-Wan.

He jumped down with his master, swinging their lightsaber and then he locked eyes with her for just a second.

She sighed, feeling sadness deep down inside her heart, knowing that he no longer loved her.

Anakin came in and sat down beside her...they didn't speak for a while until he touched her face, making the hairs on the back of her neck stand up as she turned and looked at him.

"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, a day hasn't gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm close to you again, I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you, makes my stomach turn over - my mouth goes dry. I feel dizzy. I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me. What can I do? I will do anything you ask..."

Padme was caught off guard, even if she felt his feelings the whole day, it didn't take a Jedi to know such powers like that.

She sighed, she remembered how it all started off like this with Obi-Wan, he was willing to do anything for her, they were so in love and innocent to the future that was yet to come. And it ended with her almost dying, giving birth to her baby and waking up almost a week later hearing the news that it had died and the love of her life had left to.

Was it just the Jedi that caused pain?

Why did master Yoda and Mace pound into Obi-Wan's head that it was for the best if he left her...why couldn't they see how much they loved each other?

If the Jedi were allowed to love, then Obi-Wan would have been there with her when she was attacked, and maybe she wouldn't be sitting here with a young boy who she had been taken back from.

He was handsome, kind, smart, and brave.

He loved her to...she saw it.

She wanted to scream in his face not to love, that it only went down in heart break. But the way his eyes danced with the flames of the fire she gulped and looked at him, shaking on the inside.

Was she still in love with Obi-Wan...a man who would never love her?

Or was her feelings turning towards his young boy.

No, she couldn't.

She knew him when he was just a child, she looked at him as a sister...not a lover. She thought about all the risks and pain that came with loving someone that couldn't be loved.

She liked Anakin, and maybe at the state that her heart was in just then, maybe she liked him more then she knew.

But her thoughts went to the heart break she was thrown into alone, and she couldn't let that happen again.

Most of all with a friend.

Most of all with Obi-Wan's padawan.

Most of all with a Jedi.

Anakin's eyes filled with tears

"If you are suffering as much as I am, tell me."

She wanted to tell him that she was...for the rest of her life.

"...I can't. We can't. It's just not possible."

She shook her head, she liked Anakin...at this point she didn't even know love was still in her heart, but she felt so unsure.

Everything was going on so fast, one moment you could gain the world, the next...lose it.

"Anything's possible. Padme, please listen..."

She then became angry and stood up, almost walking out of the room.

"You listen. We live in a real world. Come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi Knight. I'm a Senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, they will take us to a place we cannot go ... regardless of the way we feel about each other."

Her eyes grew wide...she had said it out loud.

She felt something for him?

"Then you do feel something! There's an extraordinary connection between us. You can't deny that."

She was stuck.

A crush was one thing, to think someone was good looking.

But the way her heart was jumping around she had no idea...he wasn't anything like Obi-Wan, but at the same time to close.

"Annie, it doesn't make any difference. Jedi aren't allowed to marry. You swore an oath,
remember? You'd be expelled from the Order. I will not let you give up your responsibilities...
your future, for me."

She saw his heart breaking in his eyes and it killed her.

"I was destined to be a Jedi. I don't think I could be anything else. But you are asking me to be rational. That is something I know I cannot do. I wish I could wish my feelings away ... but I can't."

She bit her lip, during this past few days Anakin seemed to be the only one that cared if her heart was still beating.

But she wouldn't do this to him...she almost threw Obi-Wan's life away, and if the Jedi found out, or anyone else...even Obi-Wan, it shook her insides to think.

To much pain came with this, it was simple, even if during these hard times she was starting to look at Anakin she knew it would never happen.

He was a Jedi.

And she wouldn't do this to another human again, to break one's heart and go on to break another.

She wasn't like that.

"It wouldn't have to be that way...we could keep it a secret."

He said before she left the room, her heart pounding in her chest.

She turned, holding back tears.

"Then we'd be living a lie - one we couldn't keep even if we wanted to. My sister saw it. So did my mother. I couldn't do that. Could you, Anakin? Could you live like that?"

He locked eyes with her and she knew how much pain each one was feeling.

The truth was, she was starting to get feelings for him, on so many different levels she had every right to, but then she thought of how wrong she would be to.

Anakin lowered his head and sighed, holding back his own tears.

"...No, you're right. It would destroy us."

There was silence for a moment, and then Padme returned to her chambers.

Once she shut and locked the door, she fell against it sobbing.

Why was this happening?

She cried in the darkness of her room, putting her hands to her face and trying to catch a smooth breath, but all that came were more tears.

If only she hadn't of fallen in love with Obi-Wan, in fact she wished they had never met.

She wished that her daughter would have lived, no one seemed to take notice...but she was just a child herself when she lost her own, and even if she acted as if she moved on, almost every single waking moment she cried on the inside for her little baby girl.

She wished she could have held her longer, look at her tiny face and even if Obi-Wan left, she would have still had part of him with her.

She wished all these things hadn't of happened when she was so young.

Obi-Wan was being the fair one and sticking to what they had said, he was the better one of the two.

He knew they couldn't live like that anymore, and he wanted her to get the chance to meet someone that would treat her well.

And even when she still thought, after all these years of being away and heart break, there still might of been a chance.

She was so sure of it.

The way they had looked at each other, the way he smashed out of the window for her.

Only to be made a fool, and be left alone.

Obi-Wan was a good person, and she knew deep down inside he only wanted what was good for her.

But now she had met Anakin, a young boy trained under Obi-Wan.

He was different, and somehow made her heart which was slowly breaking apart feel alive again.

But he was Obi-Wan's padawan, he was a Jedi, he was someone who had fallen in love with a woman who was so unsure of herself she thought it might kill her.

She then ran to her dresser, only lit by the moonlight and took out the leather bound book that was given to her the same day she told Obi-Wan she was pregnant.

Inside was everything, samples of what he had seen in those first twenty years of his life.

He had brought back everything he had seen to her.

How she wished for these past eight years, he would have brought back more for her to see.

She wished in fact she was with him that whole time.

She threw herself on her bed, and opened the book up to the many pages, some were leaves, plants, sparkles, anything he could get his hands on and take back to her.

Also poems, and passages he had written down to share with her.

But it wasn't the book she was looking at...it was the braid that she kept as a marker inside it.

She took it in her hands and looked at it until she started crying.

She stayed that way until she fell asleep. fresh tears still on her soft skin, and the braid still in her hands.

The next morning when dawn touched the sky, and Obi-Wan was half across the galaxy, going after he bounty hunter who had tried to kill Padme, he landed on a planet called Geonosis.

Padme woke seeing the early dawn sunlight touch the sky and walked out of bed until she noticed Anakin standing on the outside deck, looking at the thin fog settle over the lake.

She came behind him and thought better of it and was about to go when he turned and asked her to stay.

She felt funny standing there.

He told her he had to leave, he had another nightmare about his mother and he knew she was in danger.

Padme rememberd Anakin's mother, a sweet woman who had a strong will to give her child up to strangers.

She saw the fear behind his eyes and knew that last night had almost killed him.

"I'm sorry, but I have to go."

Padme then told him she was going to, she wouldn't hear anymore of it. Even if Naboo was her home and she loved it very much...it seemed as if everywhere she went heart break came. So she thought as long as she was helping someone, she might forget.

Last night she had dreamed about Tatooine, almost ten years ago when she had gone into town and met Anakin as a young boy.

She remembered the pod race, and how Qui-Gon had been at her side the whole time.

How she wished she was back there when everything seemed right.

She remembered Anakin calling her an angel, and how she smiled.

She also remembered at one time dressing up as a handmaid to fool the others and it was almost night fall, the day before they would go into the city for spare parts.

She sat right outside of the ship, not to far for safety, and how she heard footsteps and saw Obi-Wan when he was just a young padawan himself, looking very much like Anakin did.

She casted a quick smile at him and he asked if he could sit down. She said fine, and he just sat there, looking at the velvet night sky.

He asked her name, and she told him...

"Padme."

"Obi-Wan."

They shook each other's hands and smiled...and just then one of the guards called Obi-Wan back in.

She smiled waking up from that dream, but knew those times were over.

She took Anakin's hand and told him that they would leave right away.