PART 16
Even though Obi-Wan had bought wedding rings on Endor for him and Padme, they essentially were used as disguise and they only wear them when they go out. The rings had no meaning at all. So Obi-Wan felt he should make it official and decided to use some of the spare money he had been saving for emergencies on buying a real wedding ring. He had asked Alex if he could take a few days off, he said yes so Obi-Wan, Padme, and the twins got to take a mini vacation to Dantooine. Obi-Wan had decided to buy a small ship in case they needed to get out of Tattooine if the Empire was near, but they never used the ship for recreational reasons.
When they arrived on Dantooine they found a very remote village. They found a holy man in the village who agreed to do a small ceremony. The ceremony took place on a sandy beach near the village; since Padme loved the water they thought a beach wedding would be nice. Obi-Wan used the name Ben Kenobi for the marriage license and Padme used her birth name Naberrie to disguise herself as well. The only witnesses were Threepio and R2 just as it had been when Padme married Anakin, but this time, two babies were present as well, sleeping in a bassinette by the droids.
Padme didn't have enough time to look for a wedding dress, she wore an older gown she had, a backless yellow and purple gown, the same dress she wore when she first kissed Anakin by the lake to be exact. She did feel guilty for wearing a dress she gave her first kiss to her former husband in, but the gown had always been one of her favorites. And Padme had decided she could no longer continue looking back, she had to look forward. She was officially starting a new life, with a new husband and children.
After the ceremony, they stayed in small cottage near the beach. While the droids looked after the twins since they were still asleep, Obi-Wan and Padme decided to take a walk down the beach. The sun was beginning to set as the couple walked hand in hand in the sand. Padme talked of how she loved swimming in the water on Naboo and laying out on the sand. Obi-Wan had heard the story before, but he didn't mind hearing it again especially now. When she finished he stopped walking and turned to face her.
"Words cannot describe how beautiful you look."
She looked down and blushed, when she looked back up at him she put her hand on his face and said, "Thank you, but you look just as good my handsome new husband, and I was very surprised to see you shaved!"
"Well, I admit I shaved because I didn't want you to think of me as an old man marrying you, I wonder if Alex will even recognize me when I go back to work."
"The beard didn't make you look old Obi-Wan, but it did make you look very mature."
"Not funny Padme!" and then he scooped her up in his arms and began to kiss her as the sun finally set.
After the ceremony they only had two more days to spend on Dantooine, so they made the most of it. They went to beach with the twins; Leia took to the water immediately and like her mother, loved to splash around in it. Luke didn't like the water though, he screamed every time Padme tried to take him in. Padme thought maybe the sound of the waves frightened him, but she also noticed he didn't seem to like the sand either, just like his father. She often ended up sitting on a towel with him while Obi-Wan was in the water with Leia. But when she and Obi-Wan would "switch off" as they called it, when he would take Luke and she would take Leia, Obi-Wan always had a way of soothing Luke's fears and getting him to actually go in the water. She figured Obi-Wan was using the force to calm Luke down.
In the evening while the twins were asleep Obi-Wan and Padme would go down the beach and a sit on a towel in the sand and have a candlelight dinner. Padme hadn't experienced such a romantic setting in a long time. Even when she went out with Obi-Wan on Tattooine it didn't compare to the romantic setting she had here on the beach with him. After dinner they would sit and talk and eventually head back to the cottage where after checking on the twins would go back into their room to be together. They had all the time in the world to relax and hold each either before or after making love. For those couple days on Dantooine Padme and Obi-Wan forgot about their troubles, and got to live in bliss.
They did return to Tattooine as they said they would, though for a moment Padme considered asking Obi-Wan not to go back but knew it wouldn't be right. She had to think about her children's safety, and had to protect them from the Emperor. So after Obi-Wan returned to work, she started taking the ship out when she wasn't visiting with Anna and her kids. She had given Threepio strict instructions not to mention her taking the ship out to Obi-Wan, and knew Threepio would follow her orders if she enforced it enough.
What Obi-Wan didn't know was Padme was taking the ship to go visit Anakin's stepbrother Owen and his wife Beru.