Au: We are getting down to the end people. Probably only like one or two more chapters left. I might do a sequel, but I haven't decided if I like the idea that is in my head yet. We shall see. Thank you again for the views and reviews definitely appreciate them.
They arrive to the planet and land the ship behind some trees . Padme gives Obi-wan a worried looked, because they both know that Anakin and Palpatine have already sensed their presence and will be waiting.
"There is no turning back now is there." She nervously laughs.
"I'm afraid not." Obi-Wan tells her.
They both quickly exit the ship and make their way to the base. They locate a back door and Obi-wan cuts the lock letting them in.
"I don't supposed you know where to go from here do you." He asks looking around.
She looks around, confused having only been here once when she escaped. All she sees is one long grey hallway with no door or window or anything.
"No. Palpatine never took me to this base and I was running trying to escape last time I didn't really look."
Obi-wan strokes his beard. "I can sense Anakin is here. Follow me." He directs them down the one way of the long hallway.
They came across a few doors ,which lucky for them she still had access to many of the locked doors. Other than that this hallway just never seems to end, besides the twist and turns.
"Don't you think it's odd we haven't run into any clones or anything." Obi-Wan asks.
"When I was escaping, I saw them practically every corner." She looks around grabbing her lightsaber, but not igniting it. "Do you think it possible they are all on Coruscant?"
"I don't think so. Anakin and Palpatine are definitely powerful, but they aren't stupid enough to do that."
At that moment a ray shield pops up between them separating them from each other.
"Well they definitely know we are here." Obi-Wan says looking at the shield for either a way to shut it off or get around it.
"I think we are gonna have to go separate ways and hopefully meet up in the middle. There doesn't seem to be a way around this."
"I agree. Try and stay low. It will take both of us to defeat them. We can't do it alone. You have your communicater on you right?"
"Yes. I will keep in touch if I find anything." she turns around heading the way they just came hoping to find another way around as Obi-Wan continues going down the other side of the hallway.
She keeps walking, but the only door she found was the door they came into. She looks up trying to see if there are any air vents she can jump into, but there is nothing.
Leave it to Palpatine to build a place with nothing but hallways. This place is a fucking maze.
She looks ahead and finally sees a door. She tries to open it, but its locked. She sees a pin pad next to it and punches in the same code she has been using. The door opens leading her to a stairway.
Hopefully this stairwell will lead me somewhere promising.
She walks up the stairs which leads her to a command center. She looks around expecting to see Clones or Anakin or just anything, but it is empty. She notices a bunch of screens on the walls and sees the scene as showing video footage of the base. She sees the hallway with the ray shields and she manges to find Obi-wan who seemed to have found a few clones.
"It was foolish of you to return."
She turns around to find Anakin standing in the doorway. She almost smiles before remembering he hates her.
He looks at her with such anger and hate, but that fades away when he looks at her stomach which is no longer huge from being pregnant. "The babies? You-You delivered them."
"Yea the other day. They are beautiful Anakin. I want you to meet them." she says to him noticing the yellow in his eyes fading just a little, but that changed quickly after her comment.
"Then you shouldn't have left with them." He glares again at them.
"Ani, stop this isn't you. You don't want this life for your children. I know you don't."
"You don't know anything about me." he ignites his lightsaber. She notices it's still the blue one he always used.
"I don't want to fight you Anakin. I came back to try and bring you back. I love you."
"That's why you brought Obi-Wan right? So he could try and kill me again."
"I had no idea he was on the ship Anakin I swear. If I would have known, I wouldn't have went to Mustafar. I did stop him when he tried though."
"What I heard is you wanted to leave me for dead." he spits out at her.
"Is that what Palpatine told you. Anakin I tried to help you. I'm the one that told him to save you. Palpatine is evil and a liar."
Tired of listening to her lies, Anakin charges after her with his lightsaber extended and swings it down at her.
Padme quickly ignites her blade to stop the attack.
"He told me you were skillful in with a lightsaber, but your weakness is you aren't force sensitive." he growls.
"I've managed to take down a Jedi once before without the force." She says as Anakin goes for another attack.
She jumps out of the way and lands on a table.
"I'm not like any other Jedi you and I both know it. That is why I sense fear in you."
She was fearful. Not of dying and not of Anakin per say. She had nothing else to say to him to make him change back, she was a afraid this mission was for nothing and that she lost Anakin. That Anakin truly couldn't turn back.
"Anakin I just want to talk. If you could just hear my side of the story." She says blocking an attack.
He jumps up on the table and lashes at her. She blocks the blade and runs out of the room down the stairs.
Anakin jumps down from the top of the stairs to the bottom landing before her.
"There is no where to run Padme, just surrender and let me take you to the Emperor, please."
She looks at him and sees he doesn't want to kill her. At least not by his own hands. That is why he hasn't used the force on her like back on Mustafar. He and both know she is skillful, but he could easily take her down with a flick of the wrist. The Jedi she killed before was basically luck.
She shuts off her blade and walks over to him. Surprisingly he lets her. She sees he is breathing hard and gripping his lightsaber hard.
"Ani. Please lets leave this place and never look back. Forget about Palpatine and Obi-Wan. Let's just leave far away you me and the kids." she tries to brush the hair out of his face, but he knocks her hand away grabbing her wrist.
"I-I cant Padme." He says afraid to look at her face and her eyes. Afraid just looking at her will make him want to stop all this and he just can't trust her yet for that.
She can see the struggle with in him. "Anakin come back to me. I need you. Luke and Leia need you."
He finally looks at her when he says their names and she is slowly starting to see more of the blue in his eyes than yellow.
I knew there was still gone. He can come back.
"No. No. You lied, how do I know you are telling the truth."
"Anakin. I lied about a couple things, but I have never lied about my feelings for you."
She can feel his hesitating to release her arm and shut of his lightsaber. She wanted nothing more than that so she could have his strong warms arms around her once more.
But at that moment, two clones walked in.
Now. Now they decided to show up.
"Lord Vader. We have captured the other Jedi and he is being brought to the emperor."
Anakin looks at Padme his hand still holding her wrist and then the looks at the clones. 'Very well. We shall take this one as well."
"Anakin." she whispers, but he is already gone. She lost he chance and she was afraid she wasn't going to get another one. Not if they were going to be in the same room as Palatine.
The clones cuffed her and Padme looked over at Anakin with a sad look. He couldn't look at her and see knew why. But maybe Obi-Wan was right, maybe he was too far gone and couldn't came back to her. She tried multiple times and each time he turned his back on her
Anakin walked ahead of her and lead them to the Emperor.