Padme slowly starts to come to it. She opens her eyes confused about what happened and where she is.
"Are you alright?" she hears someone say as they run to her.
"Uh-huh" She says as she sits up. She looks at the solider and then she remembers the battle, Dooku, and how Obi-Wan and Anakin are probably trying to defeat him right now and failing miserably.
"We'd better get back to the forward command center," the solider tells her.
"No. No." She says thinking about how Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting Dooku right now not knowing how skilled he is. "Gather what troops you can. We've got to get to that hanger." Seeing him just stare at her. "Get a transport. Hurry!"
Jeez and I thought dealing with droids was bad.
"Right away." he says and then he runs off to grab more troopers. Padme follows hoping they aren't too late.
Surely he knows of master plans. He wouldn't do anything stupid enough like killing them, but he did try to have us executed so who knows what he is thinking right now.
After they finally get some troopers and a ship, they make there way over to the hanger. Padme quickly jumps out with the troopers following. She sees a ship flying away.
Shit. We are too late. She and the troops blast at the ship hoping to cause some damage. Once the ship is out of slight, she remembers Anakin. Oh no. She runs inside. First she sees Yoda and she looks and see Obi-Wan and Anakin groaning in pain on the ground trying to stand. Oh thank good they are alive. Then she sees Anakin arm or what is left of it as it looks like his hand was cut off in his battle with Dooku.
Stupid Jedi. I told you you were no match for him.
"Anakin!" She shouts as she runs over to him and embraces him in a hug, not caring that Yoda nd Obi-Wan are there.
"Stupid. Stupid. I told you both you need help." she whispers to him.
"Shhh. Padme its okay. I'm fine. Just a scratch." he tries to laugh holding back the pain he is feeling.
Dooku will pay for this when Master finds out about this. He better hope I don't find his before hand.
They all gather abroad the ship and made their way back to base, so they can get their injuries looked at.
Once there, Padme got separated from the Anakin and the Jedi. They looked at Padme back and bandage it up a bit.
"This will do fine for now, but we need to get you back to Coruscant to fully make sure you are fine, milady." The medical droid tells her.
"That's fine. Can I see Anakin? Is he okay?" she asks.
"Im sure he is fine. Him and Mast Kenobi just boarded a ship to also return to Coruscant to be treated for their injuries."
She sighs. "Alright. Thank you."
After waiting for what felt likes hours but was probably only minutes, she is finally taken back to Coruscant. Once there, she is taken to their medical bay. After they determine, that she is fine and that just might be in pain for the next couple nights as the antibiotics heal her wounds, she is allowed to leave. She arrives back at her apartment and takes a shower. Cleaning away all the sand and dirty that she is covered in. She changes her clothes and makes her way to the Jedi Temple not even letting her master know that she is back.
She knows the Jedi would have taken Anakin here, so he could be treat, she just wasn't sure where at in here. Trying not to bring attention to herself, which is hard considering just about everyone here can sense her presents from a mile away, she walks around the Temple hoping not to run into anyone.
"Senator? Can i help you?"
She hears someone call out.
Shoot. Busted. She turns around to see Obi-Wan, who must have just left the infirmary.
"Master Kenobi." She greets him. "I was just coming by to see if you and Anakin were alright."
"A couple cut and burns. I've dealt with worse, but you don't care about me. Do you? You really only came to see Anakin haven't you?" he looks at her disapprovingly.
I knew that hug i gave him was going to cause question. I don't know what came over me. I guess after almost dying and everything else. I just let me guard down and wasn't thinking.
Seeing she isn't going to answer. "Padme. You know it is forbidden for a Jedi to have attachments. I know it was probably silly on our part to allow Anakin to go with you after knowing about his feelings for you. I just hoped you would be the one to turn him away."
Excuse me. How dare you blame this all on me. I'm not the one that initiated the kiss or anything. Okay well maybe i initiated the second one, but that was was different. He cant blame me for this.
Trying to hold back her anger. "I apologize for the way this turned out. I clearly wasn't thinking logically that is why i came back her to see him. I wanted to tell him in person that this cannot work." she lies to him hoping he cant sense that she is lying.
"Very well. I'd rather you not see him, but with the way things are looking I imagine you will be running into each other from time to time. The infirmary is just down the hallway. He should see be awake."
"Thank you Master Kenobi," she says as she walks towards the infirmary as Obi-wan watches her suspiciously.
She walks in and sees a few of the other Jedi getting their battle wounds treated. They all look at her strangely wondering why an outside is here. She ignores them looking for Anakin. She finds him laying in a bed with his eyes closed. She notices they have already replaced him arm with a new robotic one.
Sensing her presence, Anakin opens his eyes and looks at her with a smile.
Oh good. He looks a lot better than the last time i saw him.
"You seem to be looking less like death than the last time i saw you." she smirks.
'Yea I seem to feeling a little bit better. Especially now that you are here."
"Anakin, that is why i am here." She sighs. "I just saw Obi-Wan before-before I came here." She paused. "Ani, he threatened me saying I need to break whatever this is off with you or he is going to expose us." She lies to him.
Angerly he says. "Padme pl-"
"Anakin, I could loose my spot on the Senate. You know how much that means to me."
He looks at her with sad eyes. "I understand." He pauses thinking. "Padme I knw you said you didn't want to live a lie, but damn after everything on Geonosis I don't want to be without you."
"Ani...I do love you I really do bu-"
"Then fight for us!" he yells before looking around remembering there are other Jedi here. "Please."
"How do you suppose we are going to be able to do this?"
"We will find a way. I know we will." He looks at her with pleading eyes.
She smiles. "Alright, Ani. I'm willing to do this if you are." She could see the joy radiating off his face.
"So I'm going to be on medical leave for a couple days for my arm to heal, I don't supposed you will be getting any time off." He smirks at her.
She smiles." I was told it was going to take a couple days for my back to heal. I'm sure Representative Binks wouldn't mind being in charge for a little bit longer." She smiles.
"Perfect. I should be getting out of this place in a couple hours. Hopefully" he rolls his eyes.
"Come back to my apartment when you can." She smiles and leaves.
After Padme made arranges with Jar Jar to cover for her for just alittle bit longer and Anakin notified the counsel he was to be leaving who were not too trilled about this leaving but understand considering what he just went through, they made their way back to Naboo with R2 and c3po. They arrived at the same lake house they stayed at before, but this time was alittle bit different. After arranging everything, they arrived at the Varykino lake retreat with R2 and c3po, this time they met with a Pontifex of the Brotherhood of Cognizance, who would officiated their wedding. The wedding happened during the sunset with a view of the lake. Padme mange to find a beautiful wedding dress covered in lace, while Anakin wore this Jedi garb. They said their vows and decided against rings, since they were doing this in secret. They kissed one last time as two people who just loved each other to husband and wife. R2 beeps in the background, they chuckle and stares off into the sunset.
After the wedding, they went back to the Lake House and went up to the bedroom Padme used to use, but this time they would stay in together.
Padme changed out of her wedding dress into a silky night gown. She stared to brush her hair and noticed Anakin couldn't stop looking at her smiling.
"Do you understand I have been waiting and hoping for this moment for a long time." he walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Ani." she chuckled.
"You are so beautiful." he starts to stroke her arm. "I still think back to the first time I saw you on Tatooine, when I thought you were an Angel." He whispers into her ear. "I still think you were lying to me."
She shivers. Holy crap. He begins to kiss her neck before picking her up and taking her to the bed. She looked up at him and looked into those beautiful blue eyes he has as he smirked down her.
Maybe this married life wont be so bad. She thought as he made love to her for the first time.
Sometime later, Padme woke up to Anakin's arm draped over her. She looked at him and saw he was sleeping peacefully.
I guess since his mom died he is no longer having nightmares.
She quietly and carefully removed his arm off her. She grabbed one of her robes and put it on before making her way down stairs. Once downstairs and sure that Anakin didn't wakeup, she took out her holocam and contacted Palpatine.
"Master I can't talk for very long, but I just wanted to inform you that phase one of your plan is completed."
"Very good." He clasped his hands together and chucked a sinister laugh.
"It looks to me that a war may be starting after your incident on Geonosis." he continued.
"You knew that was going to happen didn't you. You-You told Dooku to do all that. How did you know the Jedi would come and save us?" she asked in shock.
"I know everything child don't you forget that." he smiled before disconnecting.