I'm so sorry for the delay in posting a new chapter guys ! I started a job and I'm very busy with it. Plus I'm giving English lessons on Saturdays so I barely have my Sunday to rest a little.

Anyway, thanks SO MUCH to all my reviewers !!! You guys are great.

On with the story now .....

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As she woke up, Padmé felt a sudden headache. She opened her eyes but she was barely able to see some light. What was that new trick they were trying on her? Was she getting blind?

It was quite unusual for them to defrost her and let her rest in a bed for so long. The usual thing they were doing was to defrost her and to immediately interrogate her.

As she heard some noise, she quickly closed her eyes in a desperate attempt to look asleep.

"She looks like asleep." Said a male voice.

"She was awake just 5 minutes ago though." Answered another man.

"If I may add my humble opinion on the question, I would say that the carbonite defrosting process is very difficult to bear with for human bodies, and I think that it is quite normal to be asleep after that. Then I ..."

"Thank you so much for such a useful advice Golden Stick" said an irritated voice.

That voice! She knew that voice. Only one droid was able to make such a stupid comment with such a voice. She would recognize this voice everywhere.

"Thank you C3PO, we all know that."

"Of course Mistress Leia". Answered a very disappointed 3PO.

3PO and now Leia. What kind a cruel mental trick were they trying on her? They were more used to the violent way to ask things. She couldn't remember how many times she had been beaten and plunged in a bacta tank to regenerate and being interrogated again and again.

When they were tired of her stubbornness they would put her into carbonite and let her this way for a few weeks. And then start it all over again. They had been quite impressed at her ability to stay quiet and not to tell anything. Lots of other people, from the strongest man to the Jedi apprentice had been broken by this interrogating system and had given their secrets. But she was not like that. She had this special thing other had not. She had a strength no other person had. Or not for as long as her.

Their only point was to find out where her daughter was. She was after all Anakin Skywalker's daughter. That Emperor of them knew that fact. He knew Leia was a threat to him. She had to protect her daughter no matter what. She was all that was left to her. Everything else was gone.

Her duty was to protect her child. She had to give up on her to Bail Organa, pretending to be her nanny at the beginning, then disappearing when it started to get too dangerous. How hard was it for her not being able to act as a mother ! She knew it was for her safety but it was a deep pain to her heart when she heard Leia call Bail "father" for the first time. Anakin should have been the one. It was even more painful when Leia said "mother" for her first time. It had brought tears in her eyes at that time.

Then she had been questioned about the Rebellion as well. The Emperor had heard that rumour about a Rebellion getting organized and laughed at that before taking it seriously when he lost his first battle ship. He knew Padmé was more or less involved within it. After all, she was the leader of the anti-clone-army group. That would have been the logic thing to do after all. Getting her imprisoned had been a great victory for the Emperor. But after months of captivity, she was a burden to his glory. She was the only one to resist him. The only one.

If only she had not been that naive back when she was Queen of Naboo. She should have understand it all. She couldn't live with the idea of having brought Palpatine to full powers. She should have never put the none confidence motion towards Valorum to votes. Palpatine had prepared all very meticulously. She had been arrested by the clone army she had fought so much against the creation. That so-called Imperial Army. Lead by a so- called Emperor, helped by a so-called Lord.

Thinking of this made her on the verge of tears. Thinking of Leia was unbearable and she was no longer able to shut her mind to her daughter like Obi Wan had taught her. He had been a rock to her during those few years between Anakin's death and her capture. He had prepared her to the torture she'll be suffering if she'd get caught by Palpatine's army. But he had not prepared her to that. She could not hold her tears now.

"Mother?" asked the female voice.

That made her eyes wide opened. She looked in the direction of that voice wondering what was happening. Those torture droids were evil. What kind of new device had they created while she was in carbonite?

"We're gonna put you something in your eyes to quickly make you recover your vision. Then you'll be able to see us all." Continued the voice.

"I won't tell anything." Said a furious Padmé.

"We're not asking you anything." Said Leia trying to ease her. "You're safe now. Palpatine died years ago. The Empire does not exist anymore. We're back to a republic now." She quickly added.

"I don't believe you. Nor do I trust you." Padmé firmly answered.

A medic droid approached her and put two drops of a blue coloured liquid in each of Padmé's eye. That took her by surprise and she tightly closed her eyes as if trying to avoid the process and then after the initial itchiness disappeared, she felt relieved and decided to open her eyes. Close to her were three persons, plus 3PO.

"3PO?" she asked.

"Mistress Padmé, it is an honour to she you again." He answered.

"Where am I then?" she asked to the woman standing in front of her. Then she looked at her more closely. Her brown eyes, her chestnut hair. That was definitely familiar. She could have been one of her handmaidens, even on of her decoys. Wait a minute, maybe it was indeed one of her friend, only older. That woman sincerely looked worried about her. What was going on in here?

"Who are you? What's going on? I want to know exactly where I am. I demand answers to my questions at once!" she said with her best regal "Former- Queen-Of-Naboo" voice.

That made the second man to smile. He even chuckled a little but was quickly calmed down by a single look of the woman. Then the woman deeply stared at her and said :

"I'm Leia."

That touched Padmé beyond anything she had ever experienced. She then deeply stared at Leia as well and started to cry. They were barely able to understand what she was saying.

"Do not play tricks on me, my daughter is only a child."

Leia took her mother's hand and quietly told her : "It's been decades since you've been made prisoner of this carbonite block. Maybe this will help you to trust me, you gave it to me when I was very young."

She gave Padmé a little pendant made of Japor. That made Padmé totally lost the few self control that remained inside of her and she started sobbing like crazy. She was holding the small pendant repeating like a mantra : "It's not possible, it's not possible !".

"Look at me mother, and you'll see" said Leia, sitting on the bed.

"Oh Naboo's Lords, it's you! You're my Leia!"

Leia was smiling broadly and she turned to look at Luke and she gestured to him saying : "Mother, this is Luke".

That made Padmé instantly stop her sobbing. She was like dead, looking at Luke. Had she just been slapped, she wouldn't had reacted in another way. She began to shiver and a whole mixture of feelings were on her face. First incomprehension, then surprise, followed by realization. Quickly it was pure joy and suddenly another realization, and then, pure hatred.

"How dared he? How could he do that to me? He lied to me!!" she screamed. "I hate you Obi Wan Kenobi!"

The three others were looking at her questioningly not daring to stop her. Then she seemed to calm down, looking at Luke and joy came back on her face. She took Luke's hand and then she held him against her.

"My son" she simply said.

To Luke it was a discovery. Of course he had experienced that with his aunt Beru. She loved him. But that was different. For the first time in his life, he knew what it was like to be loved by his mother. His real mother. He held her for his dear life and was unaware of the tears that were running along his jaws.

Han and Leia were looking at them smiling and then they silently agreed on leaving them alone, letting them the privacy they needed to actually meet each other. They exited the room followed by C3PO that for once seemed to have understood that his judgment on the situation was not needed.

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Alright, that's it for now guys. I hope you liked it. Please do read and review, constructive criticism is welcomed !