Author's Note: Just to clear everyone's ages up…
Luke: 13
Leia: 13
Padmé: 29
Anakin: 33

I know, I know, Padme is supposed to be older but this is AU.

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Leia fell on the ice several times and knew that she would have many bruises when the day was over. Padmé motioned for her to stop and skated over to her.

"You have to get comfortable with throwing your body up in the air, just remember that you'll come down…even if it is on your butt." Padmé smiled and helped Leia find the right position.

"Now, dig your toe pick into the ice and push up," Leia did as she was told and jumped in the air, it was the first time that she could actually land on her feet without her ankle twisting abnormally, falling on the ice, or losing her balance.

Padme applauded, it was a simple jump, just like jumping up a few inches from the ice but it was still an accomplishment. Leia was eager to learn more and Padme laughed when Leia anxiously asked, "What next?"

"Well let's leave the jumps alone for a little while, I have a feeling that your father will kill me if you come home to him with your ankle swelled fit to pop!" Leia smiled, but the mention of her father had put a damper on everything. Padme demonstrated skating on one foot, something that Leia had tried before but never did with much grace.

After slipping and falling one more time, Padmé decided that it was time for this lesson to end; she didn't want to return Leia to Anakin with her looking like a black and blue plum. Leia had progressed considerably and Padmé thought that she could begin on doing something a little more in the form of a routine the following day.

It was a given that any skater was going to fall, Padmé had lost count of the times she had fallen down but her…instructor just picked her back up and made her skate again. She hoped she would have that effect on Leia also.

"Padmé?" Leia asked carefully slipping her blade covers back on the sharp points of her skates. Padmé turned around and looked at her.

"Who taught you to skate like this?" Leia asked. The question made Padmé wince slightly, she was hoping it wouldn't come up.

"My sister."

Leia nodded and attempted a smile but seeing how the question had made her uncomfortable, Leia decided there that she would figure out the mystery of Padmé and Sola. She had to know what went wrong from what Luke had told her they had been close at one time but fell apart around the time he was born. He had convinced himself that it was his fault, Leia had tried to tell him otherwise but not having any example she had nowhere to go with it, so that conversation had run dry.

"Come on, your dad wants you home by five and it's already a half past, I think we're in trouble." Leia managed to smile and laugh; her father had never really had to discipline her for much and doubted he would for being almost an hour late, especially when she was with Padmé.

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"Sorry we're late. I lost track of time." Padmé said getting Leia's bag out of the back of the speeder, Anakin's hand brushed hers as he took it. He smiled at her and said, "It's no big deal, at least I knew where she was and that she was in good hands."

Padmé blushed at the last comment only this time Anakin saw it and chuckled slightly.

"I've been wanting to ask if you're free Friday night." The question surprised Padmé though she knew that he would ask, and if he hadn't she would have.

She smiled at him girlishly before answering.

"Well that depends on what you had planned." Anakin smiled at her flirtatious manner.

"Would it affect your answer?" He asked.

"Possibly." She smirked and raised an eyebrow. Anakin was about to reply when Leia walked out of the house with a noticeably forced smile on her face.

"Dad, Padmé, Luke just called and said he was ready to come home." Leia eyed her father and Padmé noticing how close they were standing. Her mind flip flopped between being Padme's friend on the ice to hating her when she was near her father. She didn't know what was wrong with them dating all she knew was that she wouldn't have her dead mother being replaced.

Padmé nodded and moved to get into her speeder but waited until Leia went back inside to answer the tall blonde.

"To answer your question, yes I'm free on Friday." She kissed his cheek boldly and with a smile got into her speeder and drove off leaving Anakin Skywalker in a daze.

He watched her drive away and went inside to meet the wrath of a very upset, very dramatic thirteen year old.

"What was that about?" Leia demanded her brow furrowed and she looked angry.

"Leia, what are you talking about?"

"You and Padmé. She's nice dad, but I don't like her for you." Leia admitted. Anakin didn't know what to think, he thought that maybe Leia would have some problems with it but from the looks of things she really loathed the idea.

"Leia does this have anything to do with your mother?" He asked sitting down in a dark green armchair. Leia looked down at the floor and then back at her father.

"I didn't even know her, why would it have anything to do with her?" She felt guilty about that, she was taught that everyone who died went to Heaven where they could look down on their loved ones; it must've surely made her mother sad to hear that. She sent a silent apology to her.

"I think it does have to do with her. Leia I love her so much, I still do but the way I've been since she died, for thirteen years the only thing I wanted to do was stay in bed and never leave our house. That's not fair to you because you need a father, you also need a mother. Or at least a mother like figure-"

"That's what grandmother is for!" Leia almost shouted, referring to Anakin's mother, Shmi who resided on Tatooine. She had met a moisture farmer there and gotten married.

"Or even aunt Beru!" Anakin sighed hearing her answers.

"So do you want me to cancel on Padmé?" Leia was tempted to say yes but the desperate look in Anakin eyes just sent her stomping to her room and slamming the door. Let him have the stupid date, what did she care?

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Hope it wasn't disappointing for anyone.