Chapter 8
"There is still one tiny thing that I still don't understand completely, why did neither you nor Master Kenobi tell anybody of my family or my closest friends that I'm still alive?" Padme asked after a longer silence between the three had started, as they waited for Leia's arrival in the office of Mon Mothma and that one question just popped up in her mind that still had been unanswered. Of course Jedi Master Ralkitta had somehow known in advance that this question would be asked by the former Senator sooner or later and he would probably ask the same question if he was at her position. Because he was trying to choose his words very carefully, it took some time before Ralkitta finally replied: "You have to believe me, that this decision was definitely not an easy one to make at this difficult time for the Jedi. There was a long discussion about the question, if Padme's children and her parents should know about the plan that Master Kenobi and I had put together and we two had a very different opinion about that.
I was the one that suggested that at least her children and her closest friend deserved to know about the plan for Padme but Master Kenobi was against that suggestion, because of the fact that the Senators of the Loyalists Group were definitely now next on the hit list of Palpatine as the Jedi had been taken care of. Obi Wan didn't want to put the big mission at risk by trying to secretly divert a message to Mon Mothma or Bail Organa, figuring that Palpatine was probably already spied on every move Bail and Mon Mothma did. "He somehow hoped that the reasons for their actions were somehow reasonable to Padme and he surely hoped that she wouldn't hold a grudge against him or Obi Wan. Padme of course thought about all that she had just heard from the Jedi and it was hard to hear that Obi Wan and Ralkitta had kept the truth from her closest friends and her family, it maybe also seemed kind of totally cruel from her point of view but then another voice in her head kept telling her: From the Things I've heard about Palpatine's Galactic Empire so far it really seems that they maybe had no other choice at all. She couldn't hold a grudge against either man even if she wanted to, because all that mattered to her in the end was one thing only: Finally being able to see her children again after all these years they had been separated, even if she was a little bit nervous about their reaction to this shocking news.
Finally Leia stepped into the large office of the Chief of State, shortly nodded at the two yet unknown visitors as stepped nearer to the desk of Mon Mothma and then said: "You wanted to see me?" Padme turned her head to have a look at the young woman that just had entered the office of Mon Mothma and she kept looking at her, of course she couldn't help but think the entire time: Will she recognize me? Mon Mothma of course was well aware of how uncomfortable this whole situation must be for Padme so she decided to cut right to the chase without any hesitation: "I know the story I'm going to tell you is going to be hard to believe but this is your mother Padme Amidala. Two Jedi Masters have put her into a stasis pod to save her life."
Of course Leia was pretty shocked by what she just had heard, all these years she had thought that her mother had died after her birth as Bail had told her as she had been old enough to understand and now here she sat in Mon Mothma's office being alive? That really couldn't be possible!
For a couple of minutes there was an uncomfortable silence in the room, nobody really knowing what to say at this moment and of course Mon Mothma had expected that kind of reaction from Leia and who wouldn't be shocked by that kind of news at her position? Padme decided to be the first to break the silence between them as she stood up from her chair in front of Mon Mothma's desk and said in gentle tone to Leia: "Believe me this whole story was very hard to believe for me too at the beginning and I totally understand the confusion that you're going through right at this moment, as you contemplate if you can really trust me or if I am just a very good imposter of your biological mother."
She took all the time that she needed to process all this information that she just heard and then finally said: "Is that really you Mother? I have to admit that I've somehow kept dreaming about this moment from the day that Bail told me about my real mother but never ever did I think that it could actually happen in reality." Even if she tried so hard to keep them at bay, some tears now made their way down her cheeks as she somehow realized that the woman that stood directly in front of her right was really her mother. Padme now stood up from her chair too, Leia practically collapsed into her mother's shoulder so much overwhelmed by the fact that her real mother was standing in front of her and it clearly wasn't a dream.
Leia cried into Padme's shoulder for a couple of minutes and for the former Senator from Naboo it felt so good to hold her grown up daughter in her arms and now she also let some of the tears flow down her cheeks, that she tried so hard to bottle up since she had seen Leia for the first since all these years between that faithful day where she had been on the verge of dying and the present day. But right at this moment she wished to be able to enjoy this precious moment with another person also: Her husband Anakin but she didn't have the guts right now to ask what had happen to him. She finally decided to forget about this question for now, because she surely didn't want to ruin this moment between her and her daughter in any way.
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