Sorry I think this chapter is way to jumpy. And oh in case you don't know I do not own Star Wars nor will I ever unless for some reason George Lucas wills it to me.

Chapter 5: Death of The Assassin

Padmé's scream echoing through the place instantly woke Anakin up. He jumped out of be retrieved his lightsaber activated it and ran down the stairs. He felt he wasn't running fast enough though, that whatever was happening to Padmé would kill her before he got there.

As he reached the bottom of the stairs he saw what was wrong. Padmé was sitting on the sofa screaming, a teenage woman perhaps a few years older than Luke and Leia was pulling a red lightsaber from the right side of her back. She had gotten it out and it looked as though she was going to stab the other side.

Determined not to let her Anakin flipped and landed behind her. She turned to face him, swinging her saber at his chest her parried and force pushed her over Padmé and over the sofa. She landed in front of the window and her saber almost leaped from her hands. Anakin jumped rolled and grabbed it reactivating as he came up by her.

" I'm going to make sure you never hurt anyone again!" He said raising her saber and bringing it down on her neck. As it came up her head rolled away from her body and hit the window.

Then Anakin came to from his fit of rage. He had just murdered a defenseless teenage assassin. It sounded alright at first unless you listened closely to the defenseless part. Thankfully though he was jogged out of his regretful thought by Padmé.

" Anakin!" She sputtered. He practically jumped over to her throwing the assassin's lightsaber as he did. Hugging her he looked at her wound. It was way beyond his healing. From the right of he spine it went down and came out just at the bottom of her back.

It would have been painful, and apparently it was, the assassin must have wanted her to suffer.

" Padmé what do I do?" Anakin asked.

" Med center." Padmé choked, before passing out from the incomprehensible pain.

Anakin ran to their communication terminal and dialed in the med center's frequency. A sweet woman's voice issued from the end of the line.

" Coruscanti med center how may I help you?"

" My wife was stabbed by an assassin!" Anakin blurted out.

" Calm down sir. We will dispatch units immediately. Where do you reside."

" Senator Amidala's apartment. Have your units land on the veranda."

" We know where it is and we are sending out units as we speak, now sir your name is… Anakin Skywalker?"

" Yes."

" Padmé Amidala Skywalker is the victim here?"

" YES!"

" Can you tell me what happened?"

" An assassin came in when I was asleep and stabbed her in the back to the right of her spine. She just passed out."

" Yes, we have seen this kind of injury before when the Empire was still in place. This is more to cause pain but half the wounds were fatal."

" Don't keep anything from me."

" No sir. Ah yes we have confirmation that units have just arrived."

" Thank you."

" No problem."

The connection buzzed away and Anakin ran up the stairs to the veranda. Seven paramedics stood there two with a stretcher. Anakin led them to where Padmé was and they took her to their transport along with the dead assassin. As the ambulance took off Luke approached his father from behind.

" Dad."

" Yes."

" Where is mom?"

" At the hospital."

" What happened?"

" I'll tell you later. 3-PO!"

" Yes master Anakin." 3-PO walking onto the balcony.

" Watch Luke and Leia. I'm going."

" Yes master Anakin."

XxX

Anakin was not allowed in Padmé's room just yet. It seemed the doctors were operating. He sat down on a comfortable levitating chair outside. He had called Obi-wan who sat down beside him.

" Anakin what are you going to do?" Obi-wan asked.

" I need to see Bail. We are going to crush that station and the woman who runs it."

" Alright Anakin. But what happened to Padmé?"

" An assassin snuck in and stabbed her in the back. I woke up ran downstairs pushed her away from Padmé and cut her head off…"

" In defense?"

" No, she was unarmed then. I'm sorry Obi-wan…"

" I nearly did the same to a bounty hunter on Tatooine when I was looking for you. I cannot say anything about it, because I would have done it myself."

At that moment a masked surgeon stepped out of Padmé's room.

" Our operation is done. She should be fine but we are going to keep her for a while. She's in a drug endorsed sleep now you can visit her in a while after all our checks are done."

" No, I need to see the Chancellor. When she wakes up tell her that."

" Will do."

XxX

Anakin literally burst into Organa's office Obi-wan behind him. At this intrusion the new blue robed guards raised their force pikes. They lowered them when they recognized the Jedi. Organa sat at his desk reading data pad after data pad. He looked up as the two Jedi approached him.

" Anakin. I'm so sorry, I just heard about Padmé. How is she?" Organa asked with concern.

" They say she'll be fine." Anakin snapped. " But we came here because we need to kill the rest of the Imperials. I'm going to start a full scale investigation for that station tonight."

" There will be no need for that. It has been located, I was planning on contacting you tomorrow but seeing as you're here…" Organa trailed off as he tried to locate a certain data pad amongst the dozens of others on his desk. " Ah, here is the report."

Anakin greedily yanked the pad out of Bail's hands and scanned it over.

" Its orbiting around the forest moon Endor, using its natural oils for fuels." Organa said.

" We need an attack fleet."

" Well you have my permission to take as many men as needed, but are you so sure you just want to jump in now?"

" Every second we waste gives them more time to prepare."

" Yes but do you really think we should jump at them with no plan."

" Long distance space travel gives us plenty of time."

" Anakin," Obi-wan spoke for the first time. " This is unwise."

" No, we will plan on the way. It says here Endor is thousands of lightyears beyond the outer rim. It practically takes six hours to get a fleet even there."

" Alright, Anakin if you insist, but what about your children."

" R2 and 3-PO can handle it."

" But don't you think they'll wonder where their father is?"

" I'll contact them but we need to leave now."

" Its ten in the evening."

" It doesn't matter we have to go."

" Alright." Said Organa. " I'll send word to the military base."

By the way thanks for the reviews. I wanted to make a very evil cliff hanger and I guess I did. This chapter was kinda evil to since Mara died, but more on that you shall receive later.