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I DO NOT OWN STAR WARS!If I Could Change Our Fate
Summary: AU: During ROTS. Padme has visions of the future and her and Anakin's fate. She decides to change it, if she can. Book 1 of 2: What If? (COMPLETED)
-Epilogue-
Padme Amidala Naberrie Skywalker stood at the window of her Naboo house, silently humming a lullaby that she had heard as a baby. She ran her fingers along the railing of the window lost in the tune of her song.
Anakin Skywalker walked into the room and watched as his wife danced around the window trailing her fingers against the railing and humming a sweet tune. He yearned for her touch, just to feel her against him for all the time he was away in the last five months.
"Padme…" She jumped at the sound of her name. She spun around and smiled at the sight of her husband.
"Anakin!" She ran to him, only to be caught in his awaiting arms. He gently kissed the top of her head.
"I missed you." She mumbled as she pressed her head against his chest.
"I missed you too angel." He gently started to run his fingers through her curly brown hair. She smiled as she closed her eyes.
"How are the twins?" Padme sighed in relief as her laughter filled his ears.
"Their fine, as fine as two five month old twins can be."
"They're sleeping?" Anakin questioned and Padme nodded.
"Finally." Padme added and broke away from his embrace only to get a confused glance from her husband. She ignored it.
Padme sighed in happiness; she had everything she had ever wanted. A house of her own, a family of her own, and was married to Anakin Skywalker. Her dream.
"You mind taking a walk?" Padme questioned and Anakin nodded.
"If that's what you want."
"It's what I want." Padme confirmed and grabbed Anakin's head leading him outside.
" Angel, what about the kids?"
"They can watch the house." Padme laughed as Anakin stopped making her jerk and get pulled back towards him.
"Padme…"
"Sabe and Dorme can watch them Ani, everything's fine!" Padme dropped his hand and ran out the door, feeling free, finally free.
Free to show their love, free to be out in public, and free to do whatever they please. After the final battle with Sidious, Anakin had been kept on the order, but had been watched carefully.
Padme left the Senate to take care of Luke and Leia their five year old twins. She didn't mind too much about leaving it.
"Have you ever wondered what our life would be like if I had turned to the dark side?" Padme turned around, of course she knew what it would have been like, she was the one who had the visions.
"Ani, don't say that."
"No Padme, I want to know what you think." Padme thought for a moment. Should she tell him the truth?
"The truth Anakin?" She questioned and turned around as her husband walked up besides her.
"Yes, the truth."
"Remember that night so long ago, that I told you about me being pregnant?"
"Of course, that was one of the happiest days of my life."
"Remember how I woke up in the middle of the night crying?" Anakin nodded.
"Well you see, I had a vision."
"A vision? I thought only Jedi's could get visions or force sensitive people."
Padme leaned against the railing of the deck.
"I don't know, it just sort of came."
"And what did you see in this vision?"
"Remember the night after you hit me and I told you that you were never going to lose me and that I had a vision about you turning to the dark side?" Anakin stiffened at that.
"Don't worry Ani; it's all in the past." He took her in his arms as they stood on the deck, her head resting on his chest as his arms were wrapped tightly around her middle.
"Go on…"
"Well in that vision, I found out that you were turning to the dark side because of me… Because you thought I was going to die."
"That vision I had on the same night?"
"Yea, you were so caught up in saving me in my vision… That you ended up… Choking me and that made me lose the will to live and die." Anakin didn't move.
"Ani?"
"I did… I did… I did what?" His grip tightened on his young wife.
"It didn't happen Ani! You can't blame yourself for something that never even happened!" Padme felt his grip loosen at her words. She breathed out in a sign of relief.
"I'm sorry." Padme turned around to look at him.
"For what Anakin?"
"For turning, for hurting you, for leaving you, for-" Padme gently laid a finger on his lips.
"Don't say sorry for anything Ani, you did nothing wrong."
"How can you still love me?" Padme laughed softly and ran her fingers through his sandy brown hair, twirling strands of it onto her finger.
"I love you because you're my Ani." She kissed the tip of his nose.
"And because you're the father of my children."
"And because you're an awesome powerful Jedi." Anakin laughed at the last comment and pulled her closer to him.
"Is that all?" Padme smiled.
"Of course not! I could go on forever and ever." Padme answered and walked out of his embrace once again.
"Let's go!" Padme said as she rushed down the stairs and started into the beautiful maze garden. It had been Padme's idea to put it there.
"Are you happy?" Puzzled by her question, Anakin stopped and pulled his wife towards him.
"Happy about what?"
"Happy about… I don't know, everything." Padme questioned and started to walk again.
"You mean happy about the twins? Happy about being with you? Happy about still being in the order?"
Padme nodded. "Yes, that's what I mean."
"Of course I'm happy, how can I not be?" She laughed and pulled him deeper into the maze.
"I don't know… It was just a question." Padme released Anakin's hand and sprinted away.
"Padme?" Anakin called after her, wondering what had really gotten into his wife of three and a half years. Usually she was a strong minded not willing to let anybody but him get to see her fun and causal side, but now she was totally different… And that was because she had left the order and they were finally free.
"It's been a long time since I've had any fun Anakin Skywalker, so let's go!" Padme screamed as she looked behind her watching as her husband traced after.
Padme screamed in delight as she felt herself getting tackled by her husband and rolling down a hill to the beach that they lived on. Padme sighed as she got up from the position of laying on top of her husband.
"Have you ever really wondered what our future is going to be like?" Padme questioned as she walked up to touch the water.
"Why bother worrying about the future?" Anakin questioned as he walked up behind Padme and wrapped his arms tightly around her.
"Well… I just want to know where we'll be."
"We'll be here Padme, we'll be right where we've always been!"
"I know, but I mean… Will you want to train the twins to be Jedi's? Should I have one become a senator? Should we-"
"Padme, let them decide what they want and what they don't." Padme sighed in defeat.
"I guess you're right. I had no choice in whether to be a queen or not. I should at least let my children do what they believe is right."
"Right." Anakin confirmed.
"Would you have wanted to keep our life a secret once the twins were born?"
"Padme why so many questions suddenly?"
"I just want to know Anakin, I just want some answers!"
"No, I would have let the Council know that I was sticking with my family no matter what they thought. If they had wanted me to leave the Order, I would have. I would have done anything just to be with you and the twins." Padme gently kissed him.
"Thank you Ani… For answering my questions."
"It was nothing Padme." And then there was silence, just the husband and wife thinking to themselves how lucky they were.
"Do you think we should go back Ani?"
Anakin spaced out for a little bit. "Where?"
"Anakin!"
"Oh, you mean to the twins?"
"No Anakin, to Coruscant." Padme joked and that only got her pulled into a deep kiss, which she didn't really mind.
"Ok… Now we can go." Padme laughed and skipped the way back to their house.
"Sabe? Dorme?"
Dorme appeared first, holding her head.
"What happened Dorme?" Padme questioned and looked into the doorway to the nursery.
"They were screaming until you two walked through the door. May I be excused milady?"
Padme nodded. "Of course!"
Sabe was the second to appear, holding Luke and Leia in both arms.
"Here you go milady and milord." She handed Luke to Padme and Leia to Anakin.
"How are you doing Sabe?"
"I'm doing fine milady." Sabe answered and gently brushed a piece of hair that had been hanging on Luke's forehead.
"You can take the day off Sabe, if you want."
"Of course milady." Sabe smiled brightly and walked out the door.
"Oh and Sabe?" Padme questioned making her young friend spin around.
"Yes?"
"Call me Padme please."
"Yes… Padme." This time is was both Sabe and Padme that smiled.
Later that night…
Padme sat in a rocking chair gently swaying back and fourth with her young daughter in her hands.
"Oh Leia, you're going to be wonderful someday and you're going to change the galaxy forever, I just know it." Padme told her as Leia cooed in reply.
There was a crash in the kitchen. Padme stood up and walked towards the sound, hoping it wasn't what she thought it was. Oh no.
Anakin was hopping around, trying to clean off what Luke had done to his Jedi robes. Padme laughed as she watched her husband jump up and down. Luke was sitting in a little swing laughing.
"Anakin?" Anakin stopped jumping as he heard her voice.
"What is it Padme?"
"What happened?" She questioned and placed Leia down in a high chair.
"IT spit on me!" Anakin whined as he gratefully let Padme clean off the mess Luke had made.
"It has a name Anakin." Padme answered and smiled.
"Ok, well Luke spit on me." Padme giggled as she threw away the towel.
"Go get changed." Padme ordered and pointed towards their bedroom. Anakin hung his head and wandered off.
Padme laughed harder as she thought to herself 'This is only the beginning.'
And that was their future, their fate, and their destiny. Padme had done what nobody had ever done before and it was now that you could say that she was the one that had changed their fate.
-End-