Ahem ... I'm SO sorry that I haven't been updating for so long. I'm very bad at regular updates ... Anyway, here's the next chapter.

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"I want to go to Naboo with you, I need it!" stated Padmé to her daughter.

"Only if the medical team that is taking care of you agrees with this plan mother," answered Leia.

Padmé laughed at that, "Look at us, it seems you're the mother and I'm the child"

Leia was mortified at her mother's comment, "I'm sorry mother, I didn't want to ..." she started.

"I was joking Leia. Don't worry." She smiled and then her face shifted back to concern.

"I really have to go you know. They're destroying all that I worked so hard to set."

"I can understand that mother, but your health is way more important to me," simply said Leia. Her mother looked at her, very touched by her daughter's statement.

"Look, what if I accept to take another bacta session during the trip? I mean it could help a lot don't you think?"

"That couldn't do any harm I guess but the medics will tell you what to do exactly," answered Leia to her mother's proposition.

"Then let's go back to the medical center and ask them, then we can start to get ready for the trip," said a very determined Padmé.

"I wonder why they left so quick, they did not even let us a word of explanation, which is very odd," wondered Leia.

"It's not at all the way they are used to act; Gungans are very polite and respectful of their duties," said Padmé. "Something very bad must have taken place on Naboo. I really don't like it. Could you open a holochannel with Naboo? Maybe we'll have more information about it?" she asked.

"That's the best thing to do I guess. It's too bad they couldn't say what happened to C 3PO though," said Leia.

"It's too bad I don't know the current ruler of Naboo, otherwise I could have talk to this person," started Padmé.

"Mother, I think you'd be highly disappointed by the current King of Naboo, he's an imperial and his way of ruling Naboo isn't the best of all I'd say. Even if we can't interfere in his ways, Naboo currently is on the list of planets secretly but highly checked by the special diplomatic services of the New Republic. We highly suspect that they're not respecting the intergalactic constitution that created the New Republic and that all the systems taking part of it had signed. As soon as we'll have a real evidence of that, I'm afraid they'll have to either respond us in an appropriate way or leave the New Republic," explained Leia.

"How was it during the Imperial era?" asked Padmé.

"I was an imperial senator, but I was an active member of the rebellion. It was very tough at the beginning, I mean, acting as if I was loyal to the Empire. Then I was captured by Darth Vad..." she quickly stopped suddenly feeling very uneasy. She knew she'll have to tell her mother soon or later but was it the right time?

"Then you were captured by your father, that's what you wanted to say?" asked Padmé.

Leia looked at her and sighed. She then continued her story, "I was captured by Darth Vader and he took me to their battle station called The Death Star. He ..." then again she stopped, very unsure of how to tell her mother.

"He questioned you I guess," continued Padmé for her. Her face was much tensed; her eyes full of resentment. Leia wondered if at that precise moment, her mother hated her father for what he had done. Then Padmé continued with her voice barely audible. "Did he hurt you?" she asked on a very weak way, as if hoping with all her heart that the answer would be negative.

Leia's mind was checking every single possibility. What could she say? Her mother needed to know the truth but, the truth being what it was; it would have been terrible to tell her, especially given her current state.

"I need to know Leia, did your father tortured you on that ship?" Padmé asked again on a more confident tone this time.

"He didn't know I was his daughter at the time you know. He was still deeply in the dark side," said Leia as if trying to make her mother to understand what she meant without pronouncing the horrible words.

"How could he do that? To his own daughter? He was a Jedi, Jedis are supposed to be powerful enough to know such things! He should have known!" she said, "He should have known and done something to protect you, this is not the Anakin I knew and loved, this is impossible ..." Padmé was now crying without even being aware of it. Leia didn't know what to do. She simply came closer to her mother and hugged her tight. She suddenly heard the door behind them opening and Luke entered the room. Not a single word was said but she knew he had felt their mother's sadness through the force. He hugged his mother as well, not really knowing what Leia could have told her to make her react in such a way.

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Padmé was now lying on her bed and deeply sleeping. The events of the day had exhausted her way past her current resistance. Luke was staying close to her as Leia had been obliged to attend a senatorial assembly to explain what happened with the Gungans representatives and why she needed to go back to Naboo.

Communications with Naboo had been impossible to be set. There was a total black out about what was happening there. The New Republic had been obliged to send one of their secret agents there. He was supposed to investigate another planet but since he was close to Naboo, the senate had decided to change his orders and to ask him a full report on the situation. He should be on Naboo right now and the Senate was eager to know more.

Leia's trip was getting organized. She was going there on a diplomatic ship together with her mother and family. She will be escorted by military ships just in case. After all, it was the usual way to deal with such situation. When the communication channels were cut without any prior notice, it meant something was happening.

Her mission was still the same though: sorting out what was happening on Naboo between humans and non-humans. Nothing military, those ships were just here to protect the New Republic ambassador.

At the end of the senate session, Leia urged to the medical center to check on her mother. She was very concerned about her state after having seen her lost conscience while she was hugging her with Luke. She shouldn't have told her, it was way too soon for this kind of information. What was she thinking? She was beginning to understand what Luke had been experiencing. She was loosing her control over her emotions because she was very happy to get her mother back. She was very far away from being as powerful as Luke in the ways of the force but still, she had been taught to deal with her emotions without using the force, so maybe it was easier for her to deal with the current situation. It might be more difficult for Luke because he was feeling way too many emotions to use the force to help him. And what about her mother then? She had been trapped into this carbonite block for years, and now she was back to life, finding her children, one of them she thought dead, finding a world free from a monster, having grand-children ... and discovering her loved husband had been a monster as well, so much that he had even tortured his own daughter. Not that easy to deal with either.

She silently entered the room were her mother was asleep and sat close to her brother.

"Did she wake up?" she asked.

"No, but I think she might be dreaming. Her eyes are moving from time to time. I didn't dare putting her in a jedi trance though. I think she needs to sort her feelings out, and dreaming might be a key to do so," said Luke.

"That's true," answered Leia looking at her mother.

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Padmé was back in her apartment of Coruscant, she had found them exactly the way she had left it when she had been forced by Obi-Wan to leave the capital planet for Naboo in order to deliver her babies. Nothing had changed. She was nearly sure she could open her cupboards and find all of her finely styled dresses inside of it. There might even be the holopic of her wedding in the secret place in her bedroom. She made her way towards it to check on it. She pressed the hidden spot opening it and a little voice said "Secret pass word please". Padmé smiled and answered "Tatooine's suns". A small part of the wall opened to reveal a bright holopic featuring two very happy young people. A man and a woman, on their wedding day. Padmé reached the holopic to touch it slightly. Once again she was feeling the now familiar feeling of tears filling in her eyes. She fought the urge to cry again and tried to avoid the tears to cascade down her face.

"Oh Anakin why did you leave me?" she said.

"I've never left you Angel," answered a calm voice.

Padmé quickly turned towards the voice and startled at the sight of the man standing in her bedroom. She couldn't believe what her eyes were showing her. There stood her husband. The one she loved, the one that left her for the dark side of the force, the one that tortured her daughter, the one that was evil.

"I came here to speak with you and explain everything," continued the man.

"You did left me Anakin,"answered Padmé's cold voice, "You did it when you choose the dark side of the Force."

"You've always been in my heart Angel," said Anakin.

"I wasn't aware that Siths had a heart." The cold voice said again.

"You're not going to make it easy," regretted the voice. "Leia did the same. But when she truly forgave me, it was too late for me to come back to her, I had only one chance to do so, and so it is for you, I won't have another chance to come and apologize for all the pain I caused to you," he continued.

"The pain? What are you talking about? Are you talking about leaving me alone while I was 7 months pregnant? Or are you talking about helping this so called Emperor? Or maybe you're talking about destroying the Jedi Council and chasing them all to kill them? Or," she continued with hatred, "Are you talking about torturing your own daughter and thousands of other people?"

Anakin was at a lack of words. He looked at her with so much pain in his eyes that she was deeply touched in spite of the anger she was feeling. These eyes were little Ani's eyes, not Darth Vader' eyes. Padmé's eyes connected with Anakin's. All was said. No word was needed.

"You won't be able to come again will you?" she finally asked.

"I don't think so," answered Anakin approaching her. He stopped within inches of her suddenly unsure of his next action. He looked again at his wife. He could feel the pain he had caused to her, he could feel it as it were deep stabs. He then lowered his stare, he was not able to look at her and see the result of his choice. Padmé was now staring at him, wondering what he was thinking at the moment. She then realized it might be her last occasion to be with her husband. If her children had been able to forgive him, she could do the same. This was her last talk with him until she joins him in the dead world.

"Ani?" she said. He looked up at her shyly. "Yes Angel?" he answered. "How much time do we have?" she asked. "Not that much, it takes loads of energy to be here you know, and" he was stopped when Padmé throw herself in his arms, holding him tight.

"I've always loved you too Anakin," she said with all of her heart. "But you hurt me so much. I'm back to our children and I'm going to love them for both of us. But it's so hard to know all that you did." She continued.

"I know Angel," he simply said. "I know I'm responsible of that entire situation. But I'm doing my best to amend from where I am," he said. "I did my best to enable them to find you. I'm so glad I succeeded!" he said in a very animated voice.

"I'll always been watching over you and the kids my love," he said cupping her face in his hand and making a deep eye contact with her. He approached her face again and then hesitated a second as if he was having a second thought. He was going to withdraw again when Padmé's lips captured his in a passionate kiss. She knew their time was counted and she wanted a good-bye kiss more than anything else.

"I love you Angel, remember I'll always be watching you." Anakin said as his figure was fading away.

" I love you too Anakin," she said trying to hold him even tighter in a desperate attempt to keep him with her. "I forgive you," she said just before he totally disappeared. "Tell Leia I know she forgave me, tell them all I love them" said Anakin's voice even if his body had disappeared.

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Luke and Leia were still sat close to their mother's bed when they noticed she was crying. She then began to stir and she looked at them smiling, but sad in the same time.

"Your father came to me in my dreams," she said.

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