PART 37

When they arrived back on Roon, Obi-Wan handled dealing with the owner of the rental store, he had to use Jedi mind tricks on him to get him to forget about Padme leaving with one of his ships for so many days.

"It's all been taken care of, we don't own him anything, he has his ship back, and he's satisfied."

"Why do I get the feeling it didn't happen quite that easily" Padme said as she changed the bandage on her stomach.

"It didn't, it took some…..persuasion" he said with a playful smile on his face.

"The poor man, he was only doing his job, I should have gone and apologized" she winced in pain as she rubbed the healing lotion onto her abdomen.

"Are you alright?" he asked immediately at her side.

"Yes, it's getting better, really" she could tell Obi-Wan doubted her.

"Well you are not to do anything strenuous; I'll take care of everything."

"I'm fine Obi-Wan really, I can still do some work around here."

"Just humor me please, take care of Sola and Mara, that's all I want you to do."

"You worry about me too much."

"You don't worry enough."

"I guess that's true." She tried to brush it off with a smile but she could tell Obi-Wan did not find her answer humorous. There was a lot of truth into what he said, she often didn't worry enough about herself, but she always felt she had others to worry about. Her loved ones came first, they always would. But she did humor him and spent all of her time being a mother to her two daughters. It was nice being a full time mother again, not having to worry about anything except for what to make for dinner. And she enjoyed having two children to interact with; it reminded her of Tatooine with Luke and Leia.

She was happy again, she was very depressed on Hoth, she never felt it was a suitable place to live let alone with a child. She was so very glad to leave such a depressing planet. Her parent's death had been hard; but she was dealing with it, being with her daughters helped eased a lot of the pain.

Obi-Wan was acting different however, ever since their return he was more quiet and distant with her. She knew he was angry with her for going to Alderaan; for not listening to him. She knew he got very frustrated when someone disobeyed him, she had heard about it from Anakin all the time.

"So how long will you continue the silent treatment?" she asked as he got into bed beside her.

"Stop exaggerating, we talk all the time." He had a tone very similar to the one he used when he was in his Master role with Anakin.

"You know what I mean, when was the last time we really talked, the last time we just sat and held each other, the last time you touched me!"

"I touch you, I hug and kiss you everyday, you were seriously injured, your body needs to heal."

"It is healing; I need my husband, that's what I need."

"And I'm always here."

"No, you are angry with me for going to Alderaan."

He sighed running his hand over his face and resting on his chin like he always does when he's deep in thought. Finally he pulled his hand away and said, "I'm not angry, I'm hurt."

"Hurt? Why?"

"Because you didn't trust me, I said I would handle things on Alderaan and that it was too dangerous for you to come; and look what happened, you almost died, I almost lost you again."

"You think I don't trust you? I trust you with my life, with our daughter's lives."

"Then why did you come to Alderaan, you knew how dangerous it was."

"Because of Leia, I could feel in my heart she was scared, I HAD to make sure she was alright."

"And you didn't have enough trust that I would make sure she was?"

"Obi-Wan, I just had to go, I can't explain why; I needed to see she was safe with my own eyes."

"Your bond with her is very strong."

"Yes, I could feel her pain, but please understand, it wasn't that I didn't trust you, I do, I was worried about you too you know, that's why I came out of the Palace in the first place, I needed to make sure you were alright."

"You knew how dangerous the situation was."

"Since when does danger stop me from helping people?"

She saw him smile; he was finally letting his defenses down.

"Please understand; I hate it when there's distance between us."

"You need to start worrying about your safety for Sola and Mara's sake; they need you."

She nodded putting her hand on his shoulder.

"And I need you too" he added looking down.

She leaned in to kiss him, he pulled away at first then leaned in to kiss her back, as the kisses got more intense he pulled away and said, "I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't, you are always so gentle with me."

He started kissing her again, they undressed each other and held one another before they gave into their desires and made love, it had been weeks since they had been together so intimately.

"I love you" he said as he stroked her face afterwards.

"I love you too; at least we didn't get interrupted this time."

He laughed as he pulled her closer kissing her forehead before they both drifted off to sleep.