Chapter 15

Even if she didn't know if she could really handle it, she finally decided to take all her courage and said: „What did exactly happen….in the last moments that you were able to share with your father Luke? " Luke could sense through the force, how much courage it had taken his mother to ask him that question and that there still was a lot of pain buried inside of her considered the man that had been known as Anakin Skywalker. Trying his best to choose his wisely he finally replied: "It was great to finally see the human being behind the mask, he saved me from the Emperor as Sidious tried to kill me right at that moment where I thought that my life was over now. "

Leia and Luke watched Padme react to this, it was obvious that she was pretty touched by this and she couldn't help it but say: "So…I was right all along, there really had been some good left inside of him that Palpatine hadn't been able to fully get rid of." He surely didn't want to show it but it had been one of the most difficult decision that he had to make, leaving his own father behind on the Death Star to die because he truly had wished to somehow be able to save him because there were so many things that he wanted to talk about with him.

Of course Leia had been so curious the entire time, how their father had been like a long time before their mother had given birth to them and so she finally asked: "I know it's not an easy topic to talk about mother but….how was life with our father before he turned to the Dark Side?" Padme somehow knew that either one of her children would have ask that question sooner or later, because given the fact that their father had left them before she had brought them into this world they didn't know anything about him.

It surely wasn't an very easy task to answer this question, because it was such an emotional topic for the former Republic Senator and Queen of Naboo but after she had thought about what to say for a few minutes she finally replied: "The first time I met your father was on Tatooine, where he was a slave before the two Jedi Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn freed him and he surely was a very curious little kid that I somehow instantly connected with. A couple of years later, a young but sometimes over-eager man had become of him, the man that fell in love with slowly but slowly and even if I knew that this would get your father into trouble with the Jedi Order.

It had been quite a battle that I did have to fight between my mind and my heart, but my heart won over my mind in the end because I realized that I couldn't suppress my feelings for him anymore. He was really such a kind, loving person and the little time that we were able to spend with each was truly wonderful." On purpose she left out how the things had ended between them, because that was just one thing that was too painful to remember and her two children would surely understand her reservations about this whole thing.

Luke and Leia followed her mother's little tale about the time she had spent with their father long before they were actually born and both of them were aware of the fact, that this was a pretty difficult topic to talk about for Padme.

Right at this moment Padme remembered one thing from the relationship, that one happy moment

in all the fighting between the Clone Army and the Seperatists Movement.

Flashback

Anakin has just returned to the Capitol of the Republic after he and Obi Wan had successfully freed the Chancellor out of hands of General Grevious, who had kidnapped Palpatine during a surprise attack on Corcusant. "The fighting will continue till General Grevious is disassembled into his spare parts." Right next to him was walking Senator Bail Organa: "And I will surely do anything that I can in the Senate."

Out of the corner of his eye, Anakin could see his lovely wife standing behind one of the stone poles and so he quickly excused himself. The two lovers tightly hugged each other; Padme kissed her husband softly on his mouth as they finally drew apart and then Anakin said: "I've missed so much Padme."

"There had been whispers that you were killed." Padme finally said, clearly being so happy that her husband had made it back to her in one piece after he and his Master did have to go on such a dangerous mission because of the sudden kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine and she surely didn't want to think about the question, what she would have done without "her" Anni if he hadn't survived

the encounter with the dangerous General Grevious.

Anakin caressed her cheek now softly, wanting to ease her worries away with that kind of a calming gesture and said: "I'm alright, It feels like we have been a life time apart and I think if they hadn't kidnapped the Chancellor they would have never brought us back from the Outer Rim Siege. " Slowly but surely he then moved his head a little more forward in the attempt to kiss her, but to his surprise he was stopped by her words: "No not here."

But because of the fact, that he didn't want to keep this thing a secret anymore and he totally hated it having to hide his true feelings he answered back: "I want to do it here, because I'm tired of all this deception and I surely don't care If they that we are married." Of course Padme wasn't surprised by this answer from her husband one bit, because he kind of always had put the love for her always first before his alignment to the Jedi Code, that forbid that one thing that they had done anyway in secret: Love and Marriage. "Don't say things like that."

Then Anakin just hugged her tightly again and Padme just felt so save in the arms of him, but as he held his beautiful wife in his arms he could feel pretty well that she was trembling and that of course concerned him: "You are trembling…what's wrong?"

She looked deeply into those wonderful eyes, which she could she could lost into almost every time and replied: "Something wonderful has happened…I'm pregnant Anni." He was speechless for quite a while, surely didn't know what to say for a couple of minutes before he finally got out the words:

"That's a wonderful thing to happen; I think that I've never ever been so happy in my entire life."

End Flashback

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