It was day four of Anakin and Padmé's stay on Hoth. Every night during their stay, Anakin kept being woken up by the dream of his first meeting with Padmé. Due to this, he threw himself into his Jedi training, and barely spoke to the Senator. Meanwhile, Padmé kept to herself, trying to focus her attention to anything but the Jedi Knight in her presence. She had been sitting around the cave doing nothing for the last few days, and was extremely bored. She needed to do something before she snapped. She decided that she would go out and explore the planet. It might be a vacant ice block, but at least it would be a change of scenery from the interior of the cave. However, she could not leave until she notified Anakin.
"Anakin?"
Not moving from his meditation stance, "Yes, Milady."
"I am bored, so I am going to go outside and look around for a bit."
"No milady, it could be dangerous out there, you will need protection."
"Well, come with me then."
"You heard Master Windu, he gave me strict orders to stay here."
Padmé glared at Anakin, "He gave you strict orders to protect me, and I'm going outside. If you plan to protect me, you will have to follow me." With that, she stalked off out of the cave entrance. Anakin did not realize she had left.
"Senator, please rethink this." There was a pause and no answer. "Milady?" Anakin turned around and did not see Padmé. He knew she must have left. He cursed to himself and walked out of the cave.
Once outside, Anakin scanned the area ahead of him for the Senator. There was no sign of her. Suddenly, something hard and cold hit him on the left side of his head. He heard giggles come from his left as he wiped the remains of a snowball from his face.
Anakin slowly turned towards the giggles. As he turned, he spoke, "Senator Amidala, I thi.…" Thunk! Another snowball hit him, this time directly in the face. Padmé burst into laughter as Anakin wiped the second snowball off his face. However, when his hands left his face, she noticed he was staring at her intently.
"Turnabout is fair play, milady." He stressed the courtesy title.
Suddenly, several snowballs hit Padmé. Followed by several more. Anakin smirked at her; he was using the Force to throw the snowballs. Padmé tried to dodge the snowballs, but it was no use, she could not evade Anakin's Force powers. Continuing to giggle, she ran off in a vain attempt to flee the oncoming snowballs. However, she was soon exhausted and flopped down on the snow. Anakin stopped his antics when Padmé quit running; he figured she had learned her lesson. However, he soon became worried when Padmé did not get back up.
He called out to her, "Milady, are you ok?"
There was no answer, and Anakin ran toward her. When he got there, she appeared to be perfectly fine. However she was flailing her arms and legs over the snow in a peculiar fashion.
"Milady, what are you doing?"
"I'm making a snow angel." She said with a smile.
Padmé stood up. Anakin stared at the spot where she previously lay, and saw an imprint that resembled an Angel. Suddenly, he got a vision:
"Are you an Angel?"
Anakin turned away, and closed his eyes trying to block out the memory.
Seizing the opportunity of having Anakin's back turned to her; she grabbed another snowball and threw it at him to get even for his previous use of the Force. The snowball smacked Anakin in the back of the head. Padmé ran away from him giggling madly.
"Why you!" Anakin called out, and then ran after her.
Padmé could not outrun Anakin, and he soon caught up with her. He grabbed her around the waist to throw her off balance and stop her, but she twisted and he lost his footing as well. They both hit the ground and started rolling, one over the other. When the rolling stopped, Padmé was on her back in the snow, and Anakin was over her. Padmé was smiling and laughing, but the laughter died as their eyes met. Blue eyes, met brown in an intense stare. They continued to stare in silence for several minutes. Padmé was about to say something to break the moment, when Anakin leaned in and his lips met hers.
Padmé was shocked as Anakin tenderly kissed her, but was soon caught up in the moment. She just started to kiss him back when he suddenly pulled away. A look of terror was on his face.
Shakily he responded, "I… I shouldn't have done that."
Anakin stood up quickly, and walked quickly back to the cave. Padmé remained lying on the snow for a few minutes confused by what had just happened. When Padmé finally got up and returned to the cave, she found Anakin meditating again, trying to refocus. Both were silent with each other for the rest of the day, seeming to ignore what had transpired between them.
That night, Anakin and Padmé slept in the sleeping bag again, both trying to keep as much distance between each other, at least as much distance as was possible in a sleeping bag. Sleep did not come easily to both of them as both of their minds processed the previous events. However, after several hours, both fell asleep from mental exhaustion.
However, the dreams of Anakin's past continued to plague him. Except this night, they were longer.
"Are you an Angel?"
"What?"
"An Angel. I heard the deep space pilots talk about them; they are the most beautiful creatures in the universe. They live on the moons of Iego, I think."
…
"I'm going to marry you."
"Well, I'm afraid I can't marry you…you're just a little boy."
"I won't always be."