Anakin awoke abruptly from his dream. He immediately scooted out of the sleeping bag. His past attachment was haunting him more, and to make matters worse, there was a part of him telling him to give in to the feelings. However, he knew he couldn't do that; it was not the Jedi way. He would have to keep his distance from Padmé for the remainder of their stay on Hoth. Anakin scolded himself; he used her first name in his thoughts, and not her official title of senator. He needed to keep using her title, to help him stay focused. Obi-Wan would be there to pick them up in three days if he counted today, and then he would no longer be distracted from the code.
Anakin immediately set to meditating. Unfortunately, all that accomplished was images of his kiss with Padmé from yesterday ran in his mind. Padmé awoke thirty minutes after Anakin had started meditating and started making herself breakfast. Anakin's visions got worse as the senator moved around the cave. Not only did he see their kiss, but also he saw visions of what could have been had they kept kissing. Frustrated he stopped meditating, and decided to train with his lightsaber. Perhaps, he could tire himself out enough so that he would not have these visions anymore.
Padmé's dreams were troubled. She spent the entire night mulling over the events of the previous day, and the fire that was ignited within her when Anakin had kissed her. Now that she was awake, she continued to think of what had happened between her and Anakin. She was definitely attracted to him, and by yesterday's display, he was attracted to her, but he did not seem to want to pursue a relationship with her. Padmé spent the day in silence, trying to find something to say to Anakin.
Trying to tire himself out did not seem to help Anakin's visions. After his long practice, he set back to the task of meditating. This time instead of him kissing Padmé in the snow, he had visions of them kissing while she wore a wedding dress. Anakin finally gave up; he was not helping his situation by meditating if he kept having these visions. Instead, he sat quietly trying not to think of anything for the rest of the day.
Both Padmé and Anakin ate their dinner that night in silence, neither looking at the other. For the remainder of the night, they stared into the fire, trying to reason out their own thoughts.
Finally, Padmé broke the silence that had resided for the entire day. "It's getting late, I'm going to bed."
"Ok, I'm going to stay up for a little while."
"Ok."
Padmé crawled into the sleeping bag, and fell asleep shortly there after. Anakin did not join her. His dreams kept getting worse if he slept next to her, so he decided to stay away from the sleeping bag tonight. He inched himself closer to the fire as Hoth's night chill swept into the cave. Wrapping his Jedi cloak more tightly around him, he used the Force to block out as much of the chill he could.
Two hours later, Padmé was woken by a strange noise. She woke up and noticed that Anakin was not in the sleeping bag with her. She scanned the cave, and found him and the source of the noise. He was sitting next to the fire with his cloak wrapped around him, and his teeth were chattering.
"Anakin?"
There was no answer, so Padmé crawled out of the sleeping bag and walked over to him.
"Anakin?"
He looked up. "Ye…Yes, mi…milady," he replied as he shivered.
Padmé stared at Anakin and noticed his lips were blue. It was obvious that he had been up all night. "Anakin Skywalker! What do you think you are doing? You are half frozen. Get in that sleeping bag right now before you kill yourself."
"I…I ca…ca…can't mi…milady."
Padmé put her hands on her hips and glared at Anakin. "Oh, and why is that?
There was a long pause where Anakin did not answer. "Anakin, tell me now. This is silly," Padmé said with exasperation.
"You are the…the…there." Anakin replied weakly.
"Anakin, I've been there for the last 5 days."
"Ye...ye…yes, bu…bu…but ye…ye…yesterday."
Finally, she knew what was bothering him. It was the same thing that was bothering her. They would need to talk this out with one another.
Softening her tone from earlier, but still angry Padmé replied, "Well, that is no reason to freeze yourself to death. What were you thinking?" She shivered as she started to feel the night's chill.
"St…st…stop vi…vi…visions."
Visions, what visions? Padmé thought to herself. She needed to talk to him to figure this puzzle out, but first she needed to get him out of the cold before he turned any bluer.
"Well, we need to talk about yesterday, but first you have to get out of the cold." She replied.
"N…N…No!"
"Anakin, don't argue with me because I will stay out here all night even if I freeze myself. Get in that sleeping bag, NOW!" She pointed in the direction of the sleeping bag as she glared at him.
Anakin knew she would make good of her threat if he refused her. He could not allow her to risk her life because of his visions, that would be selfish, and against the Jedi Code. At the moment, her possible death seemed to be a bigger code violation, than his visions. Anakin sighed and shakily got to his feet. "Ve…ve…very well mi…mi…milady."
Anakin walked over to the sleeping bag and slid inside and shortly thereafter Padmé joined him. Padmé gave him a few moments to warm up slightly before she started questioning his actions.