Chapter 10

Padme, Jedi Master Ralkitta and Leia Organa where finally back on the old freighter at the space port on the Capitol Planet of the New Republic. Being back at here was still so surreal for the former Queen of the Naboo, never would she have imagined in her head to have opportunity ever again to return to this place and one thing she clearly needed some to get used to: A lot of things had changed here on Corcusant and also probably in the rest of the galaxy during her long absence. As good as could she still had avoided to busy her mind with thinking about the one person that she had surely loved the most over the years: Anakin Skywalker, a young Jedi Knight that she had fallen in love with after she had thought that she couldn't live a lie but decided to screw all her doubts as they both were on the verge of dying in a big arena very far away from their home.

But no matter how hard she tried to get this question out of her head, she had asked herself over and over again: Had it been a big mistake to marry him? Padme couldn't help but somehow think, that she somehow had been a part in the downfall of her own husband because she figured that it maybe had ended all better if they could have showed their love openly even if that meant that Anni had to leave the Jedi Order in the end. Maybe she was totally wrong about that, he could also turned to the Dark Side of the Force because of the whole "being the most powerful Jedi ever" thing and after he had a vision that showed how she died being in a lot of pain. It still horrified her as she thought back to the last talk they both had on Mustafar, how he was dreaming on ruling the galaxy by her side after he had overthrown the Chancellor of the Republic and it all sounded like a dictatorship to her. She couldn't believe that this was still the same man that she married on her home world Naboo, had finally confessed her love to him for the first time ever right before they were forced to fight against some horrible looking creatures in the big arena of Geonosis.

Of course it didn't go by Leia unnoticed, that her mother was deeply lost in thought as she just blankly stared at the ceiling of the old freighter but she surely didn't want to push for anything figuring that she would definitely talk about what ever bothered so much on her own terms. Slowly the entrance ramp of the freighter finally closed, so that the ship was ready for take-off and after Jedi Master Ralkitta had made one last quick pre-flight check-up he started up the engines to lift off from the ground.

As they entered they had left the big city planet behind them, Padme had none final look at the big planet and kind of asking herself if she would ever return or maybe go back to her home world Naboo that one place where she had always felt more at home than on the capitol world of the Old Republic. In the pilot seat Ralkitta was busy with making the final preparations for the jump to hyperspace and Leia couldn't help but ask himself the question: How would Luke react seeing his mother in person, the one person that he didn't have any memory off? Her mother was probably asking herself the same question, Leia also couldn't really imagine how all this surreal situation most of the people that she knew were already dead a long time ago and all these changes would definitely take some time getting used to.

Yavin IV- Jedi Training Center

The meeting of the Jedi Council was finally finished, Luke was now back in his chambers busy with meditating feeling some the Force Signatures from Jedi Knights that were almost located all over the galaxy. Surely the newly formed wasn't nearly that big than the old one, about which Luke had read a lot in the process of becoming a Jedi Knight under the watchful eyes of Ben Kenobi. Somehow he couldn't help but think that Ben was probably still watching over him after all the training and the knowledge about the ways of the Jedi he had given him.

Somehow he was there were still moments, where he was surely second guessing himself strongly doubting that he really was fit for this challenge in the end and in this low moments only one thing kept him going: He needed to have faith in the force, that had chosen him to be that one person who would bring back balance to force and not his dead father Anakin Skywalker. Not seeing it coming that the young Skywalker would soon be there downfall, the old Jedi Order had seen the Prophecy of the Chosen One finally fulfilled but in the end the Dark Side had beaten the Jedi because they successfully hidden one Sith Lord right under their nose: Palpatine.

Because it would take a while to reach Yavin IV, Padme went into the back of the old freighter trying her best to mentally prepare herself for the first ever talk with her grown up son. Of course the question would pass through her mind, how she would cope with the fact that he maybe had no memory of her because of whatever reason there maybe. Leia contemplated for a while if she should join her mother in the back of the freighter and then she finally bottled up all her courage at once to leave the cockpit to see what her mother was up to.

Padme lay on one of the little metal beds, deeply lost in thought as she closed her eyes the entire time she didn't notice at first that her daughter had entered the resting area and Leia was quite unsure of what to say exactly.

Slowly she sit down on the other metal bed that hung on the opposite wall of the freight room, the young politician took one deep breath before she finally said: "I'm sorry to disturb you but I couldn't help but notice the troubled look on your face and I just wanted to say that whatever happens on Yavin IV I'll be there for you the entire time as your moral support." Padme opened her eyes, sit up straight to face her daughter and replied with a smile on her face:

"Thanks I'm glad to hear that, but I guess I shouldn't be worried about this too much because this something that I need to do even if I've been totally nervous about this whole first meeting with my grown up son." Padme said with a little smile on her face, and then she softly kissed her daughter on the forehead and she really looked forward to finally being the mother that she couldn't be all these years.

Meanwhile Jedi Master Ralkitta was busy with keeping a close eye on the cockpit controls, knowing very well that all this must be very difficult to handle for the former Naboo Senator as he could feel her obvious distress through the Force.

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