Chapter 7
There was an uncomfortable silence setting in between the two parties, because of the fact that Mon Mothma and her aid didn't really know how to progress in this very delicate situation. Mon Mothma shortly buried her head in her hands and asks herself over and over again: Was this woman really the person that she claimed to be? Carefully the Chief of State stood up from the chair behind the desk, desperately trying to find some way to proof to herself that it indeed was Padme Amidala that stood right in front of her after she had attended the funeral of the former Queen of Naboo. It took quite some time but then she finally asked: "Let's say that I believe you, then how is it actually possible that you are still alive? I was at your funeral on Naboo!"
Padme frantically still searched her mind to say something, that would actually ease the doubts of her old colleague but to her disappointment she couldn't think of anything right now. Because she wanted to choose her words very carefully, she took some time to think about the right words to say:
"I know this whole thing is very strange to you, believe me the whole story was unbelievable for me too as my Jedi company told me it but before my death I was put into a stasis pod to save my life." Of course there was still one question remained unanswered: whose body had been inside the casket if it hasn't been the one of Padme?
Master Ralkitta of course could sense that both of them were busy with thinking about that, as both of them weren't that sure how to progress from here and so he finally said: "Me and Master Obi Wan used a body double to make it believable that Miss Amidala was indeed dead and Master Kenobi had told me some time ago, that he saw in a vision that her life was in danger and that he needed my help to save her."
More and more this started to make sense to Mon Mothma and she couldn't imagine how it felt to wake up out of such a long artificial coma into a world that had changed so much. To wipe away her last piece of doubt about this whole story Padme told her a story that surely no imposter could know of: That one great Coalition that she and Mon Mothma had built together to force the Senate to vote on sanctions against the Neimodian Trade Federation that had been involved into illegal weapon smuggling. Even if she still was pretty overwhelmed with staying right in front of her good friend and former colleague again, she finally closed the distance between and said as she tightly hugged the former Senator: "I'm so glad to see you again Padme, I really missed you a lot over the last years and I'm sure that you would also love to see your daughter Leia."
It was pretty hard for the former Queen of Naboo to keep her emotions in check, as all the joy she was feeling right now in this moment was threating to completely overwhelm her so that she didn't realized the short mention of her daughter at first. After they had finally drawn away from each other Padme said: "She's here? What did she do all these years?"
"She's been a big part of the Rebel Movement against the Empire and I've been busy with mentoring her in a politics because Bail figured that you would probably love your daughter following in your footsteps." Mon Mothma could clearly see that now one little little tear made its way down the former Senators left cheek as she had ended her sentence, figuring that Padme must be really proud of her daughter right at this moment.
Padme really wasn't able to talk for a few minutes, so happy of the fact that one of her former colleagues and good friends had taken her daughter under her wing and she was pretty sure that Leia had been very good in politics because of the mentoring from Mon Mothma. While Mon Mothma's aid had already left the room, to give them some privacy the three finally sat down: Mon Mothma behind her desk and Padme and her Jedi friend Master Ralkitta in the two free chairs directly in front of the desk of the Chief of State and then the Chief of State tried her best to fill in the blanks about the years that she had missed in short form.
Padme listened to every word of Mon Mothma closely, how Bail and his wife had adopted Leia as their own daughter after her "death" on Mustafar and Luke had been raised by the Lars Family on Tatooine and that the old Jedi Order ceased to exist along with the old Republic after Palpatine had claimed in front of the Senate on Corusant that the Jedi were evil and had tried to overthrow the government. Of course Mon Mothma also confessed to her, that she never ever believed that Padme had died because of the rebellious Jedi as she had talked with Queen Apilana on Naboo just shortly after the funeral of the former Senator from Naboo.
As she heard all those bad things that Palpatine had done during the years, also to her home world she couldn't help but feel only hate for that man that she had trusted so much during the whole Naboo Crisis and feel so much regret for the fact that she had made his quick rise to power possible in the first place.
She had got to know Padme Amidala so well over the years, that she clearly saw now that something must clearly made her feel so sad right now and she wished that she could come up with something to make the emotional pain go away just a little bit.
"I know Padme, you're probably thinking to yourself why didn't I see that coming? Please don't beat yourself up anymore for a mistake that you made such a long time ago." It took some time to digest this for Padme but then she finally said: "Yes you're right about that, but I can't help but think that I've maybe could have prevented all this bad things from happening when I didn't trust this man in the beginning."
She sighed shortly, tried her best to ban those negative thoughts from her mind because they were definitely a lot of things that she could now finally focus one and the most important one was: Being the mother for the children that she couldn't have been during the years the two of them had grown up to the adults they were today. Mon Mothma then decided to change the subject for now as she said: "I don't want to bombard you with too much information on day, so I will call Leia now so that you two can finally see each other again after all these years."
Of course Mon Mothma was surely aware that she had some persuading to do, because of this very amazing story but she was the determined to let this little family reunion happen right here. Hoping that Leia was already back in her office Mon Mothma called her personal comlink and anxiously waited for an answer as she looked shortly into a clearly nervous face of her surprise visitor. Leia Organa then finally appeared on the Comlink and said: "Can I help you with anything?"
Mon Mothma took one short breath, carefully choosing her words in this one as she finally replied:
"I know that it's on short notice but I would like to see you at my office, because there's someone waiting for you."
Leia Organa surely had a confused look now on her face, wondering who was waiting for her at the office of the Chief of State but she put that thought aside as she answered back: "Okay I will make my way to your office directly after the end of the call."
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