Chapter 41

Padme enjoyed the wonderful beauty of the Lake Country for quite some time, Luke and Leia telling about some things that she had missed during the time that she had been away: Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order after the end of the Galactic Civil War, that had cost a lot of lives on both sides and Leia falling in love with the former Smuggler and now loyal member of the New Republic Military Han Solo. The former Senator and Queen really couldn't be more proud of her children and right now she just wanted the positives things to matter, no matter how difficult it might be for her to move on at this very moment she had to finally realize that there was no use holding onto the past even if it hadn't been all that bad.

Anakin would definitely want her to continue to living her own live and not having any regrets about things that she maybe could have made better, because even if liked it or not she couldn't undone anything that had happened and that meant that she had to come to terms with one hard truth: Anakin was gone forever and there probably wasn't anything she could have done to avoid him from taking the path he decided to take in the very end. To distract herself a little bit from those she asked her daughter: "So…when I'm going to meet Han? Because he seems to be a very interesting person to say the least and you know that Mother's always want to check out the boyfriend's of their daughters." Saying the last part of the sentence she had a little grin on her face, wanting to say pretty clearly that she wouldn't mess around with her daughter's love life because from what Leia had said about the former Smuggler the former Senator was quite sure that he was the right one for her daughter. Leia was definitely very pleased by the fact that her mother already seemed to like her boyfriend a lot and with a big smile on her face she replied:

"I hope very soon since he must have finished his current mission for the New Republic Military he definitely returned to Corcusant by now and I know that he will be happy to meet you." Of course Padme was also really proud that Luke had also found his calling in rebuilding the Jedi Order, a very old institution with a long tradition of Jedi Knights that fought for Peace and Justice in the Galaxy. The three then continued eat for a little longer, all of them enjoying the wonderful view they had for their current position on this meadow that seemed to be endless.

Corcusant, Office of Chief of State Mon Mothma

While sitting behind her desk in her office that hovered over the rest of the houses on the big Capitol World of the New Republic, Mon Mothma was discussing the current State of Security inside the newly formed Republic with her two Security Advisors and given the current status of that there was a lot of problems to discuss. "We lost a lot of freighters in the Outer Rim Territory because of attacks from Small Groups of Imperial Ships and I kind of start to think that these aren't coincidences anymore and even if our Military Intelligence hasn't found any solid prove yet there's definitely still some kind of Command Structure intact. "

Te'klaan from Corellia said with a very grim look on his face and he hoped that Mon Mothma would agree on his assessment of the Security Situation at the far edge of the New Republic even if the those systems that were that far away from the Core Systems probably weren't that high on the Priorities List of the Chief of State.

Mon Mothma took some time to think about those words that she had just heard considering the Outer Rim Territory while she looked over a data pad that Te'Klaan had given her prior to this meeting. "I totally agree with you on this whole thing Te'Klaan and that is why I'm going to make sure that the Security in the Outer Systems will be increased as we have to make sure that those important transports of any kinds of goods need to reach their destinations in one peace and we cannot let some left over Imperial Forces undermine our chain of supply."

"I think it's only appropriate if we also discuss this topic with the Chief of Military Intelligence General Parks very soon." Pete Talor from Naboo said what resulted in Mon Mothma and Te'Klaan only nodding in response instead of saying anything.

Naboo, Lake Country

After they had finished their little picnic quite some time later Padme and her children just walked on the wonderful looking green meadow she thought back to her childhood days. She remembered it like it was yesterday: Running through the endless seeming meadow, breathing in the fresh as she played hide and seek with her childhood friends. Her train of thought got interrupted as Leia asked: "Did you think about where you will be living now?"

Luke's sister was aware of the fact that she might have hit her mother unprepared with this question, but she knew that this was a topic that they had to talk about at some point because their mother couldn't return to her own apartment anymore. Of course Padme hadn't expected this question coming up right now, so it obviously took her a couple of minutes to think about it before she finally said: "I honestly haven't thought about that, as I am still so busy with adjusting to this new world where a lot of people that I knew so well aren't there anymore but I'm confident that I will find some place to live at in the end."

"You can live with me and Han in our apartment on Corcusant." Leia finally said and yes that offer may have been a surprise to her brother but after being reunited with her mother after all those years she wanted to have her as near as possible to her and really hoped that her mother would agree to this idea.

A little bit unsure how to respond to this unexpected suggestion at first Padme replied after doing some serious thinking concerning her response: "That's such a gracious offer but I really don't want to intrude into your private couple time." Of course Leia had expected that reaction from her mother and with a smile on her face she said: "Don't worry too much mother, I'm really sure that Han would also love to have you living with us in the apartment that is way too big for just the two of us anyway so I won't take no as an answer."

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