Darth Sidious could feel his apprentice's anger through the Force. He cackled softly, obviously Vader's gift was causing him problems. He wondered what Amidala had done to cause such a strong surge of anger from his apprentice. Intrigued, Sidious decided to contact his apprentice and learn more.
Vader quickly walked to his comm. unit, he could sense that it was his master calling. As Vader answered the comm., he knelt on the ground before the image of his master and spoke, "What is thy bidding, my Master."
Sidious smiled down at his apprentice as he replied, "Nothing at the moment my apprentice. I was just curious as to what has angered you. I do believe that every Force sensitive in the known galaxy could feel it."
"My gift was a rebel."
"Yes, I know." Sidious's smile grew. He thought that was the cause for Vader's anger.
"And she is insolent, stubborn, and will not reveal the location of her rebel friends."
Sidious cackled softly, "I see she has wasted no time in showing you her true nature."
"Why can we not kill her? She is defiant and even with her many beatings, still fails to be compliant. "
"And she has told you of her imprisonment."
"Yes, my master."
"Well we cannot kill her, no matter how much both of us long to do so. She was a strong leader of the rebellion, and killing her will only give them a reason to unite together. Her death will only strengthen the rebellion, she can do less harm if she is kept alive."
Vader's anger increased with this admission, he longed to be rid of the woman. Perhaps he could persuade his Master to get rid of her a different way. "Very well, my master. But why did you make her my slave, why not keep her in prison?"
Sidious smiled. "By making her a slave I have demoted her in the eyes of everyone in the Republic. As a slave girl she will not influence citizens of the Empire to join the rebellion. I gave her to you for two reasons. First, given your past I thought you would enjoy being the master to someone." Vader stiffened slightly but remained silent as Sidious continued. "Second, as the military commander in charge of hunting the rebels, she may be of use to you."
"But she will never consciously betray the rebellion." Vader replied, trying to hide his annoyance.
"I agree my apprentice, but if anyone can get the information from her, I believe it is you. Do what must be done, do not hesitate, and show her no mercy."
"Yes, my master, but beating her does not seem to help."
"Then look for other ways to break her, my apprentice."
"Yes, my master."
"Good." Sidious smiled. "I will now leave you to your gift."
As the image of his master faded, Vader quietly replied, "Yes, my master."
Once Sidious ended his transmission with his apprentice, he walked over to his window to look at the night sky of Coruscant. Soon another day would dawn, a day in which his apprentice would face Amidala. Sidious cackled softly, for Amidala had no idea with whom she was dealing.
She may be very stubborn, but so was his apprentice. He had proven that ten years ago when he killed Count Dooku to become his apprentice. Vader would never give up on something once he put his mind to it, particularly if it undermined his power. Based on Sidious's own experience with Amidala, he did not think she would ever give up the information on the rebellion, but Vader would make her life miserable in return.
Yes, her insolence was annoying, but the thought of her misery made the Emperor smile. As the Emperor turned from his window, he whispered into the night, "You have provoked me long enough Amidala, now you will know the true nature of the dark side. Good luck, my apprentice."
With his transmission ended, Vader stood up and walked to Padmé's room. He would take his Master's advice and find new ways of extracting the information on the rebellion from her. He was not sure what he was going to do, but he would do anything to bring peace to the Empire.
Padmé had laughed for a few minutes at Vader's outburst after he had locked her in her room for a second time. She knew she had made him angry, but she did not care. She would not betray the rebellion because it would please her housemate. He was going to have to get used to that. She sighed at this thought, and got up to put away the clothes he had given her.
After she finished that task, she went back to her bed to sit on it and think. She had been trying to get Vader to give her his real name, but he refused. This was very curious, and something she would have to explore further. She had other questions she wanted answered as well, but they would have to wait. His evasion of giving her his name must have some significance, and she wanted to reveal it first.
Padmé was shaken from her musings an hour later when her door opened. She stared into the blue eyes of Darth Vader as he entered her room.
He walked to the foot of her bed. He stood still, glaring at her with his arms crossed over his chest. He did not say anything, and to Padmé it seemed that he was concentrating on something. Padmé decided to break the silence.
"Have you come back for another chat?" Padmé said with a smile.
Vader remained silent and continued to stare at her.
"Care to give me your name now?" Padmé asked.
Vader's eyes flashed yellow before reverting back to blue once again. He did not move or say anything to her.
"You know, you are an exciting conversationalist." Padmé pressed on, quirking her eyebrow as she spoke.
Vader still remained silent at this comment, but he turned on his heel and walked out of the room and locked it behind him.
"Pleasure talking to you too." Padmé yelled at the door.
"Sith!" Vader yelled once out of earshot of Padmé's door. He had tried to read her mind to get the information on the rebels, but she was too strong willed for the mind trick to work. He had suspected as much, but a part of him wished that the trick would work. It would have saved him a lot of trouble, now he would have to think of something else. Unfortunately no ideas came to him, so he decided to wait until she was sleeping and try to read her mind again. Perhaps she would be more susceptible to the mind trick if she was unconscious.
A few hours later in his meditation room, Vader sensed that Padmé had fallen asleep. Now was his chance to try the mind trick again. He silently crept into her room and approached her sleeping form on the bed. He concentrated with all his might on extracting the information from her mind, but failed again.
He cursed under his breath at this failure. Unfortunately, his voice was loud enough that Padmé started to wake up. Not wanting to deal with her questions, he reflexively used the Force to suggest that she go back to sleep. Padmé fell back to sleep almost instantly.
Vader was surprised by this action. He had only performed the Force persuasion out of reflex; he realized as he did it that it would not work on the strong-willed woman before him. However, it had worked. He could not access her thoughts with a mind trick, but she would follow some Force suggestions. This perplexed him, something he would both need to look into and keep as reference in the future. Vader smiled, he now had a weapon against her annoying barrage of questions. With that thought, he left her room, happy that the evening had not been a total waste. He kept the door unlocked as he exited to his own bedroom to rest himself.