"Padme...open your eyes."

Padme felt a faint voice say that off in the distance of the thick darkness that now surrounded her. She felt as if she was caught in a storm and that the heavy settled mist had swallow her up casting out any scent, sight, or sound...only that voice so far away.

She then very slowly let her eye lids open, cutting the darkness and making at first her vision blurred and distorted. She opened them widen, making grits of sleep fall from them and the first thing her eyes focused on was the ceiling.

It was a glass ceiling, and showed the thousands of stars outside, the dark velvet space and the bursts of silver and blue explosions around them. It reminded her of the night's sky on Naboo, and how she wished she was still there.

In fact she spent many sleepless nights dreaming of her home planet, and how good it felt to return just days ago...but this time her thoughts were confused, being protected by another man...a man who was everything she looked for in life, but wasn't the same one that stole her heart so many years ago and she lived a lie that it was okay.

She gripped for any feeling in her body and right away felt it, a dull throbbing pain in her back. She laid there stiff and sore as she waited before she spoke out loud.

She was in the medical wing of the main ship.

She then looked around and saw Master Mace and Master Yoda. They stood there watching her with deep concern.

"Where am I?" She choked in a low and dry voice.

Mace spoke, standing up straight and crossing his arms.

"On the main docking ship, returning to your home planet senator."

"What happened?"

"We needed to take you to safely, I'm sure our guards will protect you."

"Obi-Wan..."

She said his name in a breathless voice and gasped...what had happened to him?

Mace and Yoda glanced at each other and he spoke again, his eyes set.

"Obi-Wan is fine senator, in fact he's on this very ship."

Padme thought she might of died, she tried to sit up a little more before the pain in her back returned.

"He's alive."

Mace nodded.

"Very much, we had a scare with him on Geonosis after Count Dooku escaped, we thought he was dead."

"What happened to him?"

"Hard to tell, once you were taken away the troopers were about to place his body in the other ship when they got a heart beat, a faint one...but still a heart beat."

Padme felt her insides shaking.

"We rushed him to the ship and found out he was internally bleeding, I guess he took a pretty bad fall back in the area, and when he was fighting with Dooku, the doctors were able to stop it in time and he's fine now, a little shaken...but fine."

Padme started to cry, not because she was sad...but because she was so happy nothing was wrong with him. For those few moments back on the platform she could have sworn he was dead. She felt his body and could feel the warmth in him slowly drifting out...he was dead, she was sure of it.

Then it hit her, that awful sick tossing feeling in her stomach...was that the feeling she would get if she even thought Obi-Wan was dead? No...she couldn't even take in the fact that like everything and everyone else...on day he would die.

But he was her guardian angel...he couldn't die.

She started to sob, hot sticky tears running down her face. She felt so helpless...and not the woman everyone thought she was.

Yoda and Mace glanced at each other again and then left her for the moment to speak in the hall.

Once they were alone, Yoda slowly walked with his cane until the glass doors were shut. They eyed each other and then sighed.

The ship would be docking on Corusant first, and then turn back around to Naboo. Anakin was still in the labs getting worked on, and time was getting short. He looked at Mace and both thought the same thing.

These were dangerous times with Dooku still on the loose and the war just starting, everyone's life's were at risk, and the dark side seemed to be having it's grip on the force. Yoda knew Padme would return to her home planet for a short period of time before she could return back to Corusant, and during that time Yoda would assign Obi-Wan and Anakin once they were well enough to battle in the wars, A good number of Jedi would be fighting for years to come, and only be able to come back for short spans at a time.

It wasn't that he trusted the two of them, in fact he wanted them the most to take part in these wars since he knew they could handle themeless, it was just the feeling on the platform that got him uneasy.

Love, Hate, Power.

Obi-Wan and Padme seemed clouded over and hard to see...but somehow he knew that their emotions would pay off somehow in time. In fact everyone deep down inside knew that...Even Mace.

Obi-Wan was one of the wiser younger Jedi, and they knew that the order was the most important thing to him. He might of gone against the code many years ago...but after the heart break he suffered he dared not to return to that part in his life.

Padme and him were soul mates, but somehow it wasn't meant to be.

It was Anakin that worried him.

He was the chosen one, he was to bring balance to the force. But so far so he had shown the Jedi were anger and lust as he fought and risked his own life.

He knew that Padme and Obi-Wan wouldn't be able to see each other for many years and that time apart might kill them, even if they were to never be together in their life's, and even if it was against everything they lived for...they needed to be with each other, one last time before he went to fight in the battles, she went to live a long life alone.

Since Yoda knew there would be no other further for her, she heart was to weak and it got broken easy.

They deserved this, even if they swore to each other that everything was in the past...they needed this one last time for however long they were apart to still hold on to a tiny piece of hope and each other's hearts.

Yoda knew what it was like to love, he had many years ago before he was a Jedi, and he knew that the reason Obi-Wan really did fall down dead was because of a broken heart. So many years of heart ache, and finally when he was able to try and tell the love of his life how he really felt he couldn't take it...and it almost got him killed.

Yoda feared this would happen to Padme.

They could never be together...but tonight, they had tonight.

He nodded to Mace, and then the two to of them walked down the long hallway where they found Obi-Wan.

He was sitting on a bench, looking out at the large glass windows that over looked the medical lab in which the doctor's worked on Anakin. He watched his young padawan the way a father would watch a son.

Fear showed in his dark green eyes as he rubbed his beard and watched the doctors work on him.

His robe had been taken off, and now laid beside him. He was in fresh clothes, clean of blood and dust, and he looked tried.

He had almost died the day before, and didn't even care.

Yoda and Mace slowly went to him as he looked up.

"How is he?"

"Still working on him."

He sighed.

"Are you feeling well?"

"Fine."

"Then the senator wishes to see you."

Obi-Wan's eyes flicked for a second and then he looked back at Anakin.

"I can't."

"He'll be fine Obi-Wan, please go to her."

Obi-Wan looked up at the two of them confused. Then his thoughts read theirs, and he couldn't believe it.

"Go to her Obi-Wan, this will be your last chance."

With a final glance at Anakin Obi-Wan nodded and slowly walked to her room, the doors opened and closed behind him as he stood there, his heart racing.

She laid in her bed, looking pale and sore.

She saw him and started to cry again.

"Obi-Wan!"

He smiled, felling his heart melt again and slowly walked over to her, he sat on the edge of her bed and she sat up and wrapped her arms around him. They held each other for a long time, taking in each other's fresh scents and just thanking God they could do this again after so many years.

He then turned her head towards him, tears still running down her face as she shook.

"I thought you were dead."

He locked eyes with her and felt like crying himself...but he had to be strong.

"I would never leave you."

She laughed a little as he smiled and then for that split second she was fourteen again, and he was nineteen.

He touched her face, trying to trace the tears, and then she tilted her head and rested her soft lips on his. Their kiss was sweet and short and then it broke they tickled each other's noses against each other and laughed.

With that they both laid down beside each other, face to face and smiled. This was what they used to do back whenever he would visit Naboo, they would lay out in the fields and face each other, looking into one's eyes for hours. So much could be said without words, and right now this was what they needed...to be together.

They laid there in the darkness, and soon he reached out and brought her close. They held each other from shaking and were grateful for this time they had together. She leaned in and kissed him a few times before he started to slowly sing in a low voice, the same song he used to make her drift to sleep eight years ago.

"I think I met you, must have been last July, I can't remember cause there were tears in your eyes, a band of rockets filled up the sky...then you left me and now I know why..."

In time she feel asleep in his arms and he kissed her head before slowly slipping out of bed and walking out.

That's where he met Yoda, he smiled thanking him for his time, and Yoda told him what would become of him in the future, and in the war. Obi-Wan listened, crossing his arms when Yoda looked up at him.

"Thoughts of Padme you have?"

"Yes."

"Of love."

"Yes."

Yoda sighed.

"Love her always you did?"

"I felt as if you always knew Master Yoda."

Yoda sighed and gave a slight nod.

"That I have Obi-Wan."

"Then why didn't you say anything?"

"Trusted you we have, you have been able to control you love...as deep as it has been due to what has happened before."

Obi-Wan sighed.

"I can't go on living like this Master, I almost died with the thought that I never got to tell her how I felt, holding her back there was like heaven to me...I can't live this way of life anymore...I love her to much."

Yoda nodded.

"If this is the path you choose, then let it be done."