Chapter 2

"Ah!" I scream, jolting awake. I look around and see that I am back at Naboo. I jolt out of my bed and look into the mirror. I'm nineteen again. I clasp my hands over my mouth to stop myself from screaming. No... I'm . . . I'm alive once more. Before I married Padme.

I walk out to the terrace and just stand there, thinking. How in the world did I get back to this day and time? I know what has happened and yet I get this second chance, this rare second chance.

"Anakin, are you all right?" Padme asks. I take a deep breath and turn around. She is there, just as she once had been. I can't believe it. She looks so good. I pull her into my arms.

"Oh Padme," I whisper in her ear.

"Anakin, what's wrong?"

"A horrible dream."

"You are acting so strangely."

"I'm okay," I say, pulling away from her. I realize that we aren't married and this kind of intimacy isn't going to happen for another couple of weeks.

"Are you sure?" She asks me, studying my face.

"Absolutely."

We just stand in silence together. She has her arm across my back and is trying to offer comfort.

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I have to court her once again. How did I do it the first time? I can't even possibly remember what it was like. That was a life that I left behind too many years ago. And yet, here I am back to that moment.

She stands there in that soft rainbow colored dress without a back. That dress drove me wild the first time she wore it... which would be now.

"When we were children my sister and I would race out to that island and then lay on the sand and dry out upon the warm, yellow sand," she says softly as she peers out over the lake.

"I hate sand. It's corse, and hot, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. It's so beautiful. So soft, so tender," I reply as I stroke the part of exposed skin of her back. I marvel at how soft her skin is. That is one thing that I have forgotten.

"Anakin," she says, turning to me, "I thought we discussed this. You are a Jedi. I'm a Senator. It could never work."

I take her hands in mine and hold her brown eyed gaze with my own.

"I have something vital to tell you Padme. Something extremely vital. You have to hear me through without stopping me and you have to promise to believe what I am about to tell you," I say seriously, not being able to handle this knowledge alone any more. She gives me a curious look, but nods all the same.

"I have gone through my life once all ready. We got married, right here. A war will errupt and will be forever known as the Clone wars. Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord and Count Dooku is his apprentice. I took Count Dooku's spot and you and I were to have a child. Well, actually twins. A boy and a girl. I become this horrid, awful thing that is known as Dark Vader. In the end our son helped me back to the good side and I died as Anakin instead of Darth Vader. You were there because you died sometime after our twins are born and tell me that I have been given a second chance. This is our second chance. But I swear to the Force that I am not going to go to the dark side. I am going to stop the Sith Lord. I'm going to stop everything. And once I'm done we are going to be married and live here with our children."

She just stands there blinking at me. I know that what I have said must be insane to her. She barely breathes and I am dying inside. Why can't she just say that she loves me? Why can't she just admit that I am right.

"I believe you, Anakin, but I don't think that will happen. I think that your dream effected you and you believe that what happened in it is what's going to happen. I do believe that. But I don't believe it myself, Anakin," she says before walking back to the house. I hang my head and sigh deeply. That didn't go nearly as well as I planned.

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I can't believe it. The war has started. Obi-Wan found the clones and now they are being used in the war. I've began to have dreams about my mother. Yet, I know what the outcome is going to be.

"She's suffering. Greatly," I told Padme. Tears are in her eyes. She remembers my mother. Shmi was so kind to her. Now we are in her ship heading to Tatooine. I know what is going to happen. I know where to look for her. Perhaps this time I will be able to save her life. But if I can't I'm not going to kill the Sand People. I swear it.

"Shall we land in Mos Eisley?" Padme asks. I shake my head.

"I know just where look," I say. She gives me the control of the ship and I pilot it right to the spot where I knew they were keeping her. The Sand People run around the burnt sand, screaming. I give Padme a kiss upon her cheek and run out, weilding my lightsaber - not in hopes to kill, but hopes that they will back off. Which they do. I run inside, untie my mother, and run back into the ship.

"Go!" I yell as I hit the landing ramp's button. Padme rockets into the sky. I can feel her shock. I carry my mother to the medical bay.

"Mom," I whisper. She looks up at me.

"Annie?" She asks. I nod.

"Yes Mom. It's me. Your Annie," I reply as I hook up the wires to her body.

"Where am I?"

"On Padme's ship. Shh.. Now. Save your energy. We need you Mom. You can't die," I tell her.

"I'll hold on. For you, my son," she promises before drifting off into sleep. I turn and see C-3PO.

"Stay with her," I tell him before leaving. I run to the cockpit.

"We need to take her here," I said after punching in the coordinates.

"Where is there?" She asked me suspiciously.

"It is the house where my mother lives now. She is married to a man named Lars. He has a son named Owen Lars and he has a girlfriend named Beru. It's a moisture farm."

"How do you know all of this?"

"I told you all ready," I state softly. She gave him a look and said no more. I can't believe that she isn't pushing any of this. Then again, Padme knows me better than anyone else. She knows that what I tell her is the truth.

It is why I love her so.