To all the questions asked, it will all come together at the end!
PART 13
In an effort to help Padme deal with her depression, Obi-Wan talked to his boss whose name was Alex and told Obi-Wan that his wife was more than welcome to meet his wife Anna and their two children. When Obi-Wan told Padme he was surprised that she wasn't very excited about it.
"I thought it would a good way to get you out of the house but still be close enough I can keep watch."
"It's not that, it's just, what if she doesn't like me? I mean she and I come from completely different worlds. What if they all don't like me?" She seemed very scared about meeting them, it was the first time Obi-Wan ever saw Padme nervous about meeting anyone, and she was always so poised and confident when it came to presenting herself.
"Of course they'll like you, there's nothing NOT to like about you" Obi-wan smiled at her.
"Quit teasing me Obi-Wan"
"I'm not teasing" his voice raised about two tones higher when he said it.
"I have plenty of flaws."
"Well, you are as close to perfection as one can get."
She formed a small smile when he said it. He realized it was the first time in awhile he saw her smile.
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Padme and Anna got along better than Obi-Wan could have expected. Anna's two daughter's Jade and Ariel took immediately to Padme. The girls loved playing with the twins even though they were only 3 months old and mostly slept. Ariel, who was only five, loved holding Leia in her lap when Leia was awake. Jade was the older sister and was nine. She too enjoyed spending time with Luke and Leia though not nearly as much as Ariel did.
When the girls were busy with the twins, Padme and Anna would get a chance to sit down and talk while they had tea every afternoon. Padme mostly talked of her life on Naboo; she never revealed that she was the former Queen and a Senator. Padme learned a lot about Anna's life, how she lived on Tattooine her whole life and was a former slave as Anakin had been. But that she was freed by Alex when he bought her to work to help his mother with the house. They quickly feel in love and her freed her and married her. Padme was quickly becoming as close to Anna as she was to her former handmaidens.
Having a new friend definitely helped Padme. She was able to get out of the house and have a conversation with someone besides Threepio. But Obi-Wan was still making an effort to help her in other ways as well. At least once a week he would take her out to dinner in some of the villages in the outskirts of Mos Eisley. They went to a different place each week so they wouldn't get recognized. He also would go shopping after work and look for novels and other materials for her to read when he got home. Obi-Wan was totally committed to helping Padme recover from her depression. In the beginning he wasn't sure if any of it was helping, but as the weeks progressed he saw Padme becoming more and more like her old self again.
He saw the joy in her eyes when she spent time with Anna and the girls every afternoon. She was completely attentive to Luke and Leia, even at night when Obi-Wan offered to get up when they cried she still insisted on doing it. And everyday when Obi-Wan came home from work she would have dinner ready for him, except of course on "date night" as they soon started to call it. It was the only night of the week that Padme was away from the twins; she missed then but knew they would be okay with Anna. And she loved having those few hours to spend with Obi-Wan. Their relationship had definitely improved, they no longer argued and they started really talking again, as they did those few weeks on Endor and back on Corescant. They hadn't really talked like that since they arrived on Tattooine. They got very close intimately as well, every night they made love. Their lovemaking was different yet the same. It was more passionate and more forceful since Padme was no longer pregnant. But it wasn't just sex; it was their way of showing their love for one another. Padme completely gave herself to Obi-Wan, he would ask her if he was hurting her during their lovemaking, she would always respond by saying he could never hurt her for he was hers that night.
They truly had become a family, Obi-Wan thought of Luke and Leia as his own and would refer to them as his children even at home when he didn't have pretend he and Padme were married. Obi-Wan and Luke became attached at the hip; he often talked about how he couldn't wait for Luke to get older so he could do father/son things with him. But he loved Leia just as much, Padme often said that she was no doubt going to be a "daddy's girl." Padme sometimes wondered if the twins preferred Obi-Wan over her, for sometimes they would fuss when she was nursing them if Obi-Wan was not right there beside her. But she never minded, she knew they were force sensitive and knew when Obi-Wan wasn't there.
Obi-Wan was now a changed man, he never thought he would ever be a father or a husband. He never imagined this life because he had always been a Jedi. Even though he had to come to terms with no longer being a Jedi, he knew he still was and would always be one at heart, even if the Jedi order was completely destroyed. The order still lived in him, and he hoped one day to give Luke his father's light saber.
Even though Obi-Wan was not married to Padme and Luke and Leia were not his children, he loved them and thought of them as his own. But he never forgot they were in fact Anakin's children, and that Anakin was Padme's wife, not his. And a part of him still continued to feel guilty about taking his role, as a lover and a father.
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Back on Corescant the Emperor was slowly beginning to take total control with Darth Vader as his number two man. Word had gotten to Lord Vader that a woman matching Padme's description had been seen on the forest moon of Endor. As soon as he heard this he shouted for his shuttle to go to Endor at once. He still sensed that Padme was alive, and he was going to find her and the baby no matter how long it took.