A/N- Another chapter for you this week. Please read, review and follow! - GP

Chapter 7

Location: Theed, Naboo

Month 6 Year 29 BBY

She closes her eyes feeling the instance pull of his lips on hers. She bites back a soft moan as his lips engulf hers. Her hands pull back into his dark curly locks. His lips leave hers and aim towards her neck. She angles her neck into his view. The precious pale flesh awaits for the taking. She sighs as he bites down on her neck to leave his mark there. She liked it when he left his mark. It showed her how much she was his.

She moans softly as he pulls the shoulder strap off her yellow sun dress and kisses her shoulder blade and arm. His hands yank at the soft light fabric separating him from touching her breasts.

Padme' bites her lip as his fingers touch the thin fabric laying between her breast and his fingers. " Palo, " She whispers, feeling the sensations throbbing from between her legs. Her head falls back at his touching. It felt so good to be touched. She had no idea having a significant other could be so enjoyable. Now she understood what her sisters' had meant by sneaking around was such a thrill! She giggles as he pulls at the other shoulder strap on her left arm. It dangles against her side as she pulls at his hair.

Each time they are together she aches for more. It had started with innocent kisses for the first few months of their dating. As the first month passed and the celebrations of the end of the term found them, he had finally asked her to be his girlfriend. She was enthusiastic about having her first boyfriend. Then the short kisses had turned a fire in her belly. She ached each time they touched and she cared for Palo. She didn't know if she loved him, but she cared enough to consider giving him everything she had. She yearned and desired more.

Her grip on his hair moves to trailing down his neck and down his shirt. Her hands stretch under his shirt and touch his olive skin. His skin is soft and hair travels down his chest. She sighs in content as he touches her. " Palo- I-" She attempts to plead for more. She is ready. She knows she wants him to be her first.

Then the romantic aura in the room dies with a fiery explosion. Her need and desire dies within her, as she hears the voice of someone familiar calling her name. The familiar baritone is close enough that she knows he has found them in the garage, sitting across a speeder no less.

Oh kriffing sith hells….She knew this would not end well. She pulls her hands away from her boyfriend's olive skin as she hears his voice falter. She knows they're dead or at least her boyfriend will be if he doesn't move promptly away from her. Palo pulls away from her awaiting neckline as he hears the venom spill from the monster's lips, " What in kriffin sith hells are you doing?"

Palo gulps and is terrified to meet the eyes of the monster. He stands up in a stiff position and eyes the terrifying blue eyed monster standing there with the coldest stare. His eyes shine with menace and disbelief. I'm dead… Is Palo's last thought before being lunged into the back wall. He half expected to make it out with at least one black eye or two.. Perhaps a broken nose to go with those beautiful black eyes. He'd be the talk of Theed University.

But the smack never comes, instead he is thrown against the wall and held there by the blue-eyed raging monster. But the monster is not near him. His body is being held against the wall without anything! His body trembles in fear of this predator. His brown eyes turn towards Padme' telling her to run. She eyes him and the angry boy in between the two of them.

Her eyes shine in astonishment. She has never seen her friend hold someone against their will via the force.

Anakin's cold stare turns on his friend and he demands, " What the kriffing sith hells are you doing?"

Her brown eyes stare back at him, anger replacing her fear. She wraps her arms around herself feeling her dress straps are not completely up as Palo had left them. Her bare skin is visible, but the material of her bra hid any of her chest. She demands, " None of your business. Anakin, put him down."

Her tone is commanding and formal. She has learned in her previous classes that commanding sometimes is necessary in a hostile situation. She stands up to him in all of her height which isn't much on his commanding six foot height.

His mouth has formed a grimace, tracing lines of the frown deep within his features. He demands again, " Why in Kriffing Sith hells are the two of you half naked laying on my speeder?"

Padme' shudders a bit at his menacing tone. Her friend is falling on the edge of a darkness within himself. She snaps back, " That is none of your business. Put him down Ani."

Her use of his nickname does nothing to soothe his anger. He turns back to the frightened Palo slammed against the wall. His tone commands, " I want to know what you were thinking! "

Palo shakes within his boots and manages to stammer out, " I- we- were about to-"

Anakin cuts him off with the closing of his throat. His anger is evident within the force. This boy had no right to touch her! How could she even think of giving away her virginity at 17?

The gurgling sounds coming from the boy on the wall bring him back to the present. The boy's lips are turning purple. It is a thrill knowing he can crack the younger boy's neck with just a slight snap. He had no idea how he had been able to manage this via the force, but the feeling of this power over another felt wonderful and it scared the living sith hell out of him.

" Anakin you're killing him! Stop! Stop it now!" Padme's pleas from behind him.

His eyes turn back to the young girl and he demands, " I will put him down if you tell me this is the last time I will find the two of you-" He cannot finish his sentence, the disgusting words won't leave his mouth.

Her eyes plead with him. Brown on Blue. " Say it, " He commands, his power from the situation growing with every moment.

Her chest feels heavy as she gives in. " Yes! I promise this won't happen again!"

His hold on the boy lessens and the boy sags against the wall. Padme' scrambles to her boyfriend's side and exams his neck. There are no marks evident. Nothing but the fearful chokes and sobs of the poor boy cowering in fear.

" Palo, you can't tell anyone about this." She whispers.

Palo chokes out, "They won't believe me if I did-."

She tries to help him up but he pushes her away. His feelings of fear and cowardice are evident. Anakin smirks at the power over the scrawny looking insect. Palo pushes himself away from the pair of them and says nothing to his girlfriend. Padme' attempts to follow him, but Anakin stops her with his commanding voice, " Where the hell are you going?"

She whirls on her heels and walks straight up to her friend and slaps him across the face. " You're a bastard! How could you hurt an innocent boy?"

Anakin's rage is now on his friend and the consequences are dire. He snaps, " That boy is hardly innocent in this situation."

Smack! Her hand hurts this time as she makes sure it leaves a mark. The third time, Anakin catches her hand and she demands, " Let me go."

His cold eyes stare her down as he releases her. He demands, " Do you have any idea how much trouble you'd be in if your father knew about this?"

She keeps the distance between them close. Her anger seething off of her in waves in the force.

Her tone is threatening, " If you tell my father about this then I will tell him you almost killed him."

Her tone is dead in statement. No other threat is needed. Blackmail it is then. Anakin's usual clear blue eyes are stormy as he demands, " If I find you in here with him, I'll drag you to your father myself."

Padme stares him down and snaps back, " Go ahead and try. I care about him."

This yanks at his heart strings, hearing her confession. She loved the cowardly little boy? His deep chuckle is menacing, " You know nothing of love, you're a girl. That boy is just after one thing."

She crosses her arms and responds, " You know nothing of his feelings for me."

His arms cross as well, matching her body language. He replies flatly, " I felt it through the force P, he's after sex and nothing more."

Her head cocks to the side and she suggests, " He cares for me too. Nothing you'd know about." Her mocking tone isn't missed by her friend. She knew he didn't have any girls lined up back at the university. He always kept to their group of friends and if he had a fling it was that and no more.

" You're too young to know what love is, " Is his mocking reply.

It is her turn to cackle mockingly. " You're one to lecture me on love. You act as if you know this sort of feeling when I've never seen you take a pretty girl on a date more than once or twice."

He shrugs and snaps coolly, " I know what a young boy wants at age 17 and that doesn't change with age."

She shifts uncomfortable under his fiery gaze. His stormy eyes glint in knowing.

She adds, " Maybe I desire what he wants too."

Anakin's heart strings throb against his chest. Seeing her with Palo ached his heart over the past few months. Seeing her giggling happily, noticing the stolen kisses between the pair…

Seeing the desire upon his friend's features had broken his control. She had been sitting there moaning that boy's name. Her lips still showed signs of those stolen kisses on her bright red lips. How could she not see? How could she not see the truth?

Anakin's anger simmers some with his aching thoughts. He needs to be away from her before he regrets the words leaving his mouth. His voice holds anger but is firm, " Don't give up your virginity for a boy you don't love."

She rolls her eyes at his older brother's speech. She doesn't need this from him. He isn't her brother, nor parent. His protectiveness of her overstretched into her personal life and relationship. She surmises, " And how do you know I don't love him?"

Her voice is mocking in tone. Mocking and cutting him like a knife. Did she love the boy? Had she found her first love? That stung him. It cut and wounded his heart, leaving a bruise. Her eyes hold his. He uses the force to pull on their connection to drag the truth out of her. Her statement can't be true. He desired for his hurt to be wrong.

He cocks his head to the side and utters, " You don't. If you did you would have gone after him."

She gulps over his wondrous blue gaze. His gaze pulls her in, deep in. Her eyes wander down to her friend's lips and back to his eyes. He is so close to her, close enough too…

She snaps her mind back to reality. She can't want- no. She shakes her head and states softly, hoping the tone of her voice doesn't give away the feeling in her stomach.

" I care for him and I trust you won't try to kill him again."

He sighs and mumbles out, " I didn't mean to choke him."

Padme' eyes her friend and snaps out, " You need to control your anger or you just might kill someone one of these days."

His eyes are cool as the lake on a foggy morning. He states coolly, " Well you won't have to worry about me staying around much longer."

Confusion crosses her face. He notices this change in her features and states firmly, " I've been accepted into the Imperial Academy on Coruscant. That's what I came to tell you."

Her eyes fall from his at this notion. He is leaving her? Leaving for another planetary system. They had been inseparable for almost five years. And yet this notion makes her stomach queasy. Being without her best friend isn't something she is ready to hear. She bites her lip and questions, " When do you leave?"

He states, "At the end of the summer, though you were too wrapped up in your own business to hear me out."

He turns on his heels and begins to exit the garage. She calls after him, " Anakin."

He stops and turns his head to the side to hear her out. " Yes?"

" Congrats on your acceptance to the Academy," She says calmly, meaning her words.

He says nothing and leaves her to her own thoughts.

To Be Continued.