Chapter 13

"Ani!" Came Padme's voice.

Anakin could have been knocked down by how surprised he was. He also felt other presences in the room. And sure enough she was holding two kids a male and a female, just like his visions had shown. Right now Anakin could not be happier if he tried.

Anakin asked her, "When did you have them?"

Padme said, "It happened about a couple hours after you left on your mission. Would you like to hold them?"

Anakin said, "You don't have to ask me twice." He took them and held them and could not believe that he and Padme had created such beautiful babies. "Have you thought of names yet?" Anakin asked

Padme smiled, "Well the boy I thought we would go with your idea a few weeks ago, and name him Luke, the girl we will go with my idea if we have a girl and name her Leia."

Anakin was basking in how blessed he felt. He finally said, "So, Luke and Leia it is then."

Anakin noticed how down Padme was, of course he probably knew why, but was wanting to avoid the topic as much as possible. "So I heard you have been nominated as Chancellor."

Padme smiled a little, "Yeah, but I am turning it down, Bail is much better than me, I just want to go to Naboo and remain there at the lake house were we spent our first several weeks of our marriage together…"

Padme felt like she did not want to avoid the topic anymore so she decided to break the ice, "How do you feel about the trial?"

Anakin took a deep breath and said, "Nervous, I will admit whatever they decide I will abide by, and I probably deserve whatever punishment I get, but I fear about just you raising the kids, I want to be apart of it."

Padme looked at Anakin with concern, but pressed a question, "If by chance they do pardon you, do you want to go with me to Naboo and raise our kids?"

Anakin nodded.

This overjoyed Padme. "Oh by the way they have agreed to let you stay here until your trial is done."

Anakin liked this news. "How about we turn in Padme, Yoda is supposed to be here early in the morning to discuss our case."

Padme nodded and the two put Luke and Leia in bed and went to bed him. Anakin never stopped holding Padme the whole night.