Padme slowly starts to wake up. Her head is a little fuzzy and her throat still feels sore. She looks around confused about where she is at. She sees a medical droid roll over next to her.
"Good. You're awake. Your vitals are still good and so are the vitals of the babies." The droid says looking at a monitor she is connected too.
She starts to replay everything that happened, slowly remembering. Her trying to convince Anakin to run away with her. Anakin force choking her. Her watching as Obi-Wan stabbed Anakin. She touches her stomach and sighs in relief that after everything, her babies are okay.
Wait. Did he say babies? As in more than one?
"I'm sorry. You said the babies vitals looked good right?" she emphasizes the word babies.
"Yes. Your blood pressure was a little high and you have a concussion, so we were worried about them, but they seem to be doing fine."
"So more than one baby?"
"Yes. You are carrying twins." he tells her before rolling away.
She lays there in shock. Twins. That crazy. Wait till Anakin hears. She bolts up a little too fast cause she starts to feel dizzy.
"Anakin. Where is Anakin?"
"You might want to just follow." The medical droid tells her.
The droids rolls away as Padme gets ups slowly and follows it. The droid leads her down a hall into a room where she sees Anakin. He is floating in a bacta tank to help heal his wound.
Padme gasps as she walks over the tank looking at him.
"He-he is okay right?"
"Unfortunately, the wound was more severe than we thought. We are just keeping him in here to keep him comfortable until-"
Padme puts up her hand to stop the droid from saying the last part.
"Please, you can leave." she tells the droid.
Once hearing him leave, she looked up at Anakin's face as tears fell from her eyes.
I killed him. I did this. I'm the reason our baby, no our babies are going to grow up without a father.
She stood there staring at the face of the man she loved so much.
A few hours have pasted and Padme still never left Anakin's side.
"It's such a same this had to happen."
She jumps having not heard her master walk in.
"Please, can you just leave." she angerly whispers at him.
"It really is shame." he says clearly ignoring her. "Such power, such strength. I really thought he would have done better. Oh well, pretty soon I will have two new apprentices that I can train from birth. Clearly that was my mistake with this one."
She starts to breathe heavy, having not felt rage like this in a long time. She looks at him as he smirks away at Anakin. She notices his lightsaber hanging from his waist. Before even thinking what she is doing, she quickly grabs his ignites it and points it at his neck.
He laughs at her. "You know there is nothing stopping me from swiping this right across your scarred up neck." she hisses.
He continues laughing. " Foolish girl. You have always been so headstrong not thinking before you act."
"I think for the first time I'm actually thinking pretty clearly."
"Really? So you thinking killing the only person who can save the man you love is thinking clearly." he chuckles. "You are more foolish than I thought."
"Save him? You-you can save him."
"Well of course. It's really only a minor wound. I was just going to let him die for his failure really?" he shrugs. "But I suppose it will be some time until the children as fully grown."
"How can I trust that you will actually do it and not kill him or me when I drop this lightsaber?"
"Child. Please let me help you. You helped me succeed in turning the chosen one after all."
Padme thinks about what to do. He's awful he really could just be lying. But-But Anakin, this is the only way to save him.
She shuts off the lightsaber. "Please. Just help me save him. I can't live without him."
"Funny he said the same thing about you."
Padme turns around and sees clones surrounding her.
"You can take her away." he tells them.
"What? No. You said you would save him!" she yells as the clones hand cuff her.
"And I will, but I said nothing about you. You will be put into a holding cell until the birth of the twins and then I will have no more use for you."
"You little-" she starts to say before the clones drag her away and shut the door.
Padme paces around in her cell angry at herself for letting this happen and thinking of a way to get out. Growing frustrated she kicks the wall before sliding down. She puts her hands in her face just hoping that Palpatine saved Anakin like he said he would.
She waits for what feels like hours before hearing the door open. She looks up and almost jumps for joy. Anakin. Her Anakin. Alive and well. She jumps up and runs to him, but stops for she sees his eyes they are still yellow like they were back on Mustafar.
"Anakin. You need to listen to me Palpatine. He isn't who he says he is. He has been-" she starts to say hoping even with his yellow eyes he still loves her.
"Stop. I don't want to hear anymore of your lies." Anakin growls at her.
"Lies? What are you talking about?"
"Are you saying you havent been lying to me since I first met you? That you haven't been trying to turn me to the dark side for the past three years."
"Anakin, if you would just let me explain."
"I think he has heard enough." Palpatine walks out from behind him and smiles his sinister smile.
"What did you tell him?" she growls on him.
"Oh just the truth. Something you for one clearly haven't done." Palpatine says.
"Anakin. I'm your wife you have to believe me.", she tells Anakin looking into his eyes for just a glimpse of the old Anakin.
"My wife." Anakin laughs at her." You only married me to try and turn me against the Jedi. You don't even love me do you? You just-just messed with my emotions all these years." Anakin says angerly clenching his fist. " Do you understand I did all of this for you? I betrayed and- and killed people I trusted. To try and save you."
"Ani-"
"No. No. I don't want to hear anymore." he turns around and starts to walk out before stopping. "You know I should be thanking you actually. Because of you, I have this power that the Jedi would never let me access. And dont worry i'll make sure to teach our children this power when you are gone." he leaves without even looking back at her as Palpatine follows him.
She just stares at the spot Anakin was standing in.
I've lost him. It's over.
She sits on the floor crying for the Anakin that she lost. Crying for her children that if Palpatine gets his way will never know her.
She quickly sits up.
Padme. What are you doing? This isn't like you to give up so easily. Just accepting this faith.
She stands up and starts to plot a plan to get out.
Ill be damned if he lays a finger on my children.
Two of the clones walk over to her cell to check on her. They look in and see she is missing.
"The emperor isn't going to be happy about this." The one clone tells the other as he unlocks the cell.
Both the clones walk in, looking for Padme and trying to figure out how she escaped.
Padme jumps down from the corner she hide herself in and lands on the back of one of the clones. Managing to steal his weapon before the clone knocks her off. She blast him in the chest before quickly shooting the other clone.
Huh. Still got it in me.
She runs out of the cell through the hall looking for a way out or a ship. Turning the corner she stops when she sees two clones. Quickly turning away as to not draw attention to herself, she bums into another clone.
"Hey you arent supposed ." to to be here." He yells as Padme blasts him.
The two other clones turn and see her and start to blast at her as well.
She runs back while trying to blast them. She runs into a landing platform and see multiple ships. She runs to the closest one and starts to power it up when she looks up to see the two clones, but this time Anankin is with them.
She quickly turns on the engine and starts to fly away.
She looks back and hears Anakin screaming her name as he runs trying to stop her, but he is too late.
She flys out of the atmosphere and continues flying as far way as she can get. She soon realizes she has no where to go before she remember one person who might still be able to help her.