Trials Of Love
Chapter 7
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As soon as they had opened the kitchen door, they were met by a furious looking Anakin who immediately went to punch him but was stopped by Padmé.
"No Ani, Obi Wan will hear you," she said calmly her tone having exactly the effect she wanted for soon after she felt his shoulders relax and she watched his fists unclench.
"But Padmé, he told my master that you were engaged." He said looking slightly disappointed by the fact that he wouldn't get to beat the living daylights out of Laseo who was looking very smug at the moment.
"Oh, so you do know him, thought you did, after all the way you were so anxious to be out of view was a bit obvious." He said smirking. Anakin went to hit him again but was once again stopped by Padmé and also this time her mother.
"Anakin, it won't do you any good to get into fights." Jobal whispered to him.
"And here I was thinking that Jedi were supposed to be good at hiding their feelings and controlling there anger, your not exactly the poster boy Jedi that your made out to be are you?" he said, laughing as his words took their affect on Anakin who was almost blowing steam out of his ears at this point.
"You had no right to tell him we were engaged!" Padmé cried, her anger flaring up at his insults towards her husband.
"I was trying to protect you Padmé." He told her sweetly. All three of them could see past his mask though.
"You didn't need to tell him we were married!" she said in a hushed voice, for suddenly she realized how loud they were talking.
"It was the only thing I could think of to say, I was in shock, you had just told me that you were married, when I myself was already deeply in love with you." He said sadly. Padmé could feel her heart soften and she felt guilty for springing it on him in the way they did. Anakin could feel her heart go out for him as well. He turned sharply towards her.
"You don't seriously believe this nonsense, do you?" he asked her.
"The moment I saw he was a Jedi, I immediately thought of telling him that one of his fellow Jedi had gone off and secretly, illegally got married. I knew how much that would hurt you Padmé. So until he is gone I thought you could be my fiancée." He said. Any sorrow she felt for him was gone in that instance, he had obviously been planning this.
"If I pretend to be engaged to you, you won't tell the order of our marriage?" she asked, only now was she beginning to understand what type of mind he truly did possess.
"Padmé you can't seriously be agreeing to this, this… blackmail." he said, looking on with disgust towards Laseo, "This deal you have offered us could be considered blackmail; you could be taken before the Jedi order for this."
"What? Are you going to tell them that I blackmailed you and your wife into her pretending to be my fiancée just so I wouldn't tell them about your marriage?"
"I'll do it." She said nervously.
"No, I'll just go in there and tell Obi Wan that we're married," Anakin said.
"What! No! You can't give up all this for the sake of a sick man who wants me to pretend for one day that I am his Fiancée." She said.
"I'm don't trust him," he said.
"Padmé, I think perhaps he's right love," her mother said, stopping cutting up the vegetables that were to be in the soup they were having for dinner.
"One day? No, no, no, you see I'm going to come back to Coruscant with you," he smiled, "After all, if Obi Wan sees Padmé back there doing her senatorial work without me, he'll start to think something's wrong."
"Something is wrong! You aren't really going to marry her! In fact, when we're back in Coruscant, she can just tell him that she broke it off." Anakin cried outraged that this sick freak would even consider going back home with them.
"And that is the reward for my silence, no can do. It's going back to Coruscant with you for two weeks or I go and tell your friend in there the truth." Laseo said, crossing his arms over his chest in a smug manner.
Padmé looked more hesitant to agree this time but never the less, she held her head high and stuck out her hand. She was going to do this for her husband, if it meant she could live a peaceful and happy life with her family knowing about her marriage, or as peaceful as life could be with having a Jedi for a husband, she would gladly pay any price. She was going to agree to this; at least she was until Anakin grabbed her hand and pulled it away from Laseo's grasp.
"Are you crazy?" he asked, looking at her incredulously, "God knows what he'll do while he's living with us."
"Ani, you'll be there, I'll be perfectly safe." She smiled.
"Yeah, safe until I get called out into the outer rim again, and then you're left alone with this punk!"
"Ani, I'm doing this and you can't stop me." She said.
"No, but I can, I am your Mother." Jobal added. Anakin smiled gratefully at her, she was thinking the same way he was.
"Mother, I am a grown woman, you neither can tell me what to do!"
"What if I was to carry you back to the speeder now and go back to Coruscant?"
"You'd have to walk through the living room, where Obi Wan was, plus you wouldn't dare." She told him.
"If you do this, I'm not leaving you for one minute, not even in the senate, we'll lie of something, say you're under threat again." He told her, "And I'm not negotiating!"
She nodded; in all honesty she would feel a whole lot safer if her husband was there all the time with her. She once again held out her hand for Laseo to shake.
"Alright," she agreed. He smirked; this would be a whole lot of fun.
(I could leave you there...)
(But I won't!)
Jobal finished preparing the food and had set it on the tray while Sola, Padmé and a forced Laseo were made to clear and lay the table. Anakin was in the kitchen helping to cook while Obi Wan he could only assume was still in the living area talking to Ruwee, he had thought he'd heard his protests about laying the table, but if he was to then he'd have to come into the kitchen and that for obvious reason was not a good idea.
"Anakin, I'll leave your food here," Jobal said gesturing to a large bowl she'd left on the kitchen counter, next to it was a plate with at least eight rolls on, "I hope you enjoy it.
He sighed, this was meant to be his vacation with his wife, sort of like a late honeymoon, but now he was confined to the kitchen while his master sat down at the dining room table, eating with Padmé. He was also very reluctant to let Padmé out of his sight, but Jobal and Sola (who had been informed of the deal) had assured him that if they did anything they'd let Ryoo and Pooja beat him up, to which Anakin had replied with a chuckle. He was sure that he would be scared if he was left in a room alone with them and they weren't happy with him.
Only ten minutes into the meal Padmé had finished and had joined Anakin in the kitchen, Laseo had promptly followed and dragged Padmé back in. He thought he'd try and look through the door using the force, it had never worked before but he thought he'd try again today.
He sat down against it and tried using all the strength he had to look through it. It wouldn't work; he banged his head against it in frustration.
"Aha, there'll be plenty more of that later Padmé, you wait and see." He had heard Laseo laugh, he looked up sharply and amazingly the door to him had become semi-transparent.
Laseo had his arm slung around Padmé's shoulders, this alone had had Anakin's blood boiling but that wasn't all, from this angle he could make out quite clearly Laseo's foot on top of Padmé's. It took everything he had in him not to go and beat the prat to a bloody pulp. He remembered why Padmé was doing this to herself, it was for him. At this thought his heart swelled with love and he couldn't help but think; they'd just have to get through it. One way or another
A/N – Well there is the seventh chapter for you. Thankyou to all of you who reviewed and I hope you review again.
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