Chapter 27
The Blood test didn't take very long to complete and so the Medical droid returned to the Throne Room again after a few minutes with a little data pad in his right mechanical hand. The whole time Queen Mairayn had been focused on her thoughts, maybe she needed to consider that the woman in front of her was the person that she claimed to be: Padme Amidala, very popular Queen and Senator for Naboo during the Days of the Old Republic but of course she also asked herself: How was this possible? It was kind of hard to believe that one person, who was supposed to be dead since the End of the Clone Wars would be able to return from the dead but the Blood Test would give them all needed proof. With much anticipation for the result the Queen of Naboo looked at the Medical Droid as it returned from the room next door with the result in his right hand and said: "Can you confirm the identity of this woman?"
"The Result shows that she is indeed Padme Amidala, I've done the test twice to be sure your majesty." The Droid replied in his usual mechanical voice and you could see that the Queen and her two advisors hadn't expected that result one bit as they all were speechless for a couple of minutes because of that revelation. The following silence felt a little bit like an eternity for Luke, Leia and especially Padme even if the former Senator had kind of expected that reaction and it wouldn't be the last shocked facial expression that she would see. The Queen then got up into a standing position, got a little bit closer to Padme and said: "I admit that I still have a hard comprehending how this is possible, but I also want to welcome you back home and never thought that it would be difficult for me to find the right words to say but that's the case right now." Padme of course could understand how stunned Queen Mairayn was right now, she would also have trouble putting her feelings at this moment into words if the roles would have reversed.
Then Sio Bibble, one of Padme's advisors during her reign as the Queen of Naboo also stepped forward and said: "It's really a miracle to see you after having witnessed your very emotional funeral many years ago and I think that you can take an important part in the New Republic because dedicated people like you are always needed." The former Senator was so touched by the words of her former advisor that she had to fight hard to keep the tears at bay, of course Leia saw how touched her mother was by this warm words and so squeezed her left hand to make sure that she knew that her children would be there the entire time to give her all the emotional support that she needed.
It took a while to gather her emotions again but then she replied with a confident tone in her voice: "Thank you both for the kind words and I'm planning on helping my home world in any way possible." Queen Mairayn had heard a lot about Padme Amidala, the most popular person that had ever lived on the planet and they had even made her a memorial on the Capital World of the New Republic: Her former apartment on Corcusant had been transformed into the well known Restaurant "The Naboo Queen". Queen Mairayn sighed because telling one of her predecessors the following wasn't the easiest thing to do right at this moment: "The situation on Naboo is not pretty to say the least, the humanitarian situation of the people here is catastrophic because of the damage that the battle with the Empire that was caused on most of the building in Theed and the smaller cities of the Planet." She was very grateful for all the help that Naboo had received from the Government of the New Republic, because she was very well aware of the fact that they couldn't have endured this situation without receiving any outside help at all.
Of course Padme was sad but at the same time thankful for the honesty from the Queen as she heard this and it took quite a while for her to digest this. So it sounds like Naboo has been hit by even more devastation like back in the day where the Trade Federation invaded the planet. I know it will be a lot of hard work but I'm willing to do everything in my power to stop the suffering of my people.
After a longer pause the former Queen said: "It sounds like the planet is in much worse shape than it was back at the time where the Trade Federation had invaded Naboo and trust me when I say, that I want to do everything possible to help the people of Naboo through this very difficult time."
It was no surprise to Queen Mairayn that Padme wanted to help Naboo in any way she could, because she had read in the Royal Archives here in Theed how much dedicated to the well-being of every person on the planet she had been during her reign as Queen. Of course the day, where everybody on the planet thought that she died was the saddest day and having endured the brutal reign of the Empire after that had made their lives very miserable.
"We can use all the help we can get and as you have so much experience as a former Queen of Naboo I would like to offer you a position as my personal advisor. Of course there is no need to rush this decision, please just take all the time that you need to think through this whole thing."
Of course Padme was honored by this offer from Queen Mairayn but right now she was unsure if she even wanted to accept it or only concentrate on that one thing that she couldn't be for so long: A mother.
Flashback
Standing Ovations that didn't seem to end very soon were echoing through the Senate Chamber, as Chancellor Palpatine had accused the Jedi of trying to overthrow the Government by making an attempt on his life. Of course Padme didn't believe for one second, that the Jedi had tried to transformed Democracy into a Dictatorship, because they always had been keepers of peace and deep down she had hunch who really was the aggressor here: Chancellor Palpatine but unfortunately for her she didn't have any prove for that allegation.
Padme who was sitting right next to her good friend and colleague was speechless for a moment as Palpatine had declared, that the Republic would be reorganized into an Galactic Empire but then she managed to say: "So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause."
End Flashback
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