AU: Sorry it took me awhile to update. I had a pretty chaotic weekend and then I just couldn't figure out where I wanted this story to go. Hope you enjoy. After this chapter there will probably be one more and than the epilogue.
Anakin leads Padme and the clones down many hallways. She looks around trying to find a way out of this mess. She looks at Anakin hoping just maybe he will turn back and look at her with those blue eyes and stop this from happening. He turns a corner and leads them into a larger more open room. She noticed a few clones and Obi-Wan standing in the middle and in front of them stood Palpatine with his sinister smirk on his face. Padme knew at this moment Anakin, her Anakin, was truly gone. It doesn't matter what she thought she saw in the staircase. He brought her here before Palpatine and she knew there was no way out of this mess.
The clones stop her right next to Obi-Wan, she can see his right arm is wounded as he has his hand over it stopping the wound from bleeding. She sees Anakin walk over to Palpatine and hands him Padme's lightsaber.
"I thought I sensed your presents here. I assumed after you got away once you wouldn't be foolish enough to come back." Palpatine says before igniting the blue lightsaber.
She looks at Anakin, but he is won't even glance in her direction.
"The Jedi gave you a new lightsaber I see. Tis a shame its blue. Not really your color is it. "He throws the blade to ground after shutting it off.
"My lord, she is no longer pregnant with the babies." Anakin finally says to Palpatine.
Palpatine looks at her in shock. "Ah so I see. It really was foolish of you to come back, without them there really is nothing to stop me from killing you." He lifts up his hand and Padme feels the air leave her lungs. She gasps for air and holds her throat knowing it's not doing anything.
"Master. Wait. We still do not know the location of them. She could still tell us the location. With her dead, we really have no choice." Anakin tells him.
"Hmm. Very well." Palpatine says before dropping his hand.
Padme falls to the ground and coughing trying to catch as much air in her lungs as she can.
Obi-Wan try's to help her up before being smacked in his bad arm, by one of the clone's blasters.
"I will never tell you location of them." she manages to say in-between coughs as she stands up.
"I think I can persuade you to tell." He looks over at Obi-Wan and sends force lighting at him.
He groans in pain falling to his knees.
"Do you honestly think I care about the life of some Jedi?" Padme tells him.
"Oh but you do. I can sense it in you. You have grown even weaker than I thought." he stops as Obi-Wan lays on the ground clearly in pain.
"Lord Vader, take him to the holding cells. I shall deal with him later. I want to be alone with this one." Palpatine tells Anakin.
"As you wish, my master." Anakin says before leaving with the clones as they practically drag Obi-Wan away.
"If you think I'll talk, you are mistaken. I'd rather die."
"That can be arranged." he looks down and grabs her light-saber off the ground. "Even with you dead, I'm sure with the chosen one as their father, I should be able to sense them easily. It would just take longer. But with your help, it would be faster and it could possible save your live."
Padme looks at him worried. I don't even know where they are. Hopefully Obi-wan has them with someone who will protect them and can keep them safe.
"I'd rather take the chance of dying and you not being able to find them then just giving up and telling you." she tells him angerly.
"Very well." he throws her lightsaber at her. 'Lets see how weak you really have became." He charges at her as she catches the lightsaber and quickly ignites it.
They move their away around the whole room as clones run in and start to shoot at her.
"Stop. I want to do this myself. I want to be the one to take her last breathe away." he orders at the clones as they stop firing.
He almost gets her a couple times, but she manages to block every move.
"You should be grateful to have had me as a trainer." He grunts as he strikes at her. "Not many Jedi could fight as well as you."
"I guess that's one thing I should be thankful for." She dodges his strike and manages to kick his shin.
He growls at her. "Non the less you still aren't powerful enough to defeat me. You never were."
"I have a little something to fight for now." she feels her self growing angrier with each blow.
"Oh yes. Luke and Leia. Hopefully they will make better Siths than you every did."
She screams and runs at him hitting him repeatedly.
He manages to block every blow and laughs at her." I always said your anger and headstrongness would be your weakness." He dodges her strike and when she least expects, he cuts her leg before she has the chance to block it.
She cries out in pain falling to the ground.
He laughs as she tries to stand up. He kicks her back down sending her lightsaber falling.
"So many years I have though of this moment, waiting. Thinking you might be different than I always sensed. But weakness and a failure is all you are."
She tries to crawl away, knowing there is no way out of this.
Palpatine force lifts her up and throws her across the room.
She lands and tries to get up, but the pain she is feeling is too much.
A failure. He is a right. I failed Anakin. I failed my children. I just hope Obi-Wan was right and they are safe.
Palpatine rolls her over and she opens her eyes and see Anakin is the standing in the back watching.
"Anakin. I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you." she manages to say before being shocked with force lightning.
She screams out in pain as the lightning runs through her whole body.
"Anakin! Anakin. Please." she screams knowing it wont do anything for he is already too far gone.
Palpatine stops as Padme groans out in pain.
"Still refuse to tell?" he asks her.
Breathing heavily." Never" she manages to get out.
"Then you will die." He strikes her again with force lightening as she screams out in pain.
"Anakin." She manages to whisper finding it harder to do.
Please. Please make sure Luke and Leia are safe.
The pain suddenly stops. She slowly opens her eyes to see Anakin standing in front of her blocking the lightening with his lightsaber.
"You are just as foolish as her. I should have just let you die." he stops the lightening before charging at him.
Anakin blocks his attacks. The clones start to shoot at him and he blocks all the bullets while sending them back at the shoot killing them instantly.
Padme slowly tries to get up, knowing she has to help Anakin for he is no match for Palpatine. She gets to her knees before falling down from weakness.
She hears Palpatine laugh and looks up as he is standing over Anakin who must have lost his lightsaber.
"I may not have fully turned the chosen one, but I will be the one to kill him." Palpatine says.
Padme looks over and sees he lightsaber. "Anakin!" she yells before throwing it. He catches it and blocks Palpatine's attacks. He kicks Palpatine in the chest sending him falling back.
Anakin quickly gets up and charges at him sending blow after blow at him.
"You can't over power me." He growls before holding up his hand and force choking Anakin.
Feeling alittle bit stronger, Padme starts to stand up. She find Anakin's lightsaber on the ground. She limps over to it before igniting it. She quickly limps her way to Palpatine and sends a blow at him. He turns around drops Anakin and blocks her attack.
"You have ruined my plans for the last time." he walks over to her.
She backs up using her bad leg and falls.
He send his lightsaber down at her, but before it connects she sees the tip of a lightsaber protruding from his chest. She looks up and sees Anakin as he slides his lightsaber out of Palpatine.
Palpatine falls to his knees. "Don't think this over. It will never be over." he laughs his evil laugh.
Padme crawls back as he falls to the ground. She looks at him seeing if he is really dead.
"Don't worry. He's dead, I can no longer feel his life source." Anakin says shutting off his lightsaber.
She tries to stand up, but looses her balance. Anakin catches her before she falls.
She looks up and sees his eyes. They are no longer yellow or even just a little bit yellow. They are the blue she has always loved and still loves.
"Oh Ani." she embraces him and feels him stiff up.
"Um. You should leave now. I'll show you where Obi-Wan is."
"You-you aren't coming with us?" she says afraid she was mistaken and that he hasn't changed and is going to stay here.
"It would be best if I just leave. I'm sure the Republic or I guess what is left of it will have a bounty on my head as soon as they find out about this."
"Anakin. Please you can't leave. I need you. Luke and Leia they need you."
He looks at her with sad eyes. "How can you still want me after everything I did?"
"Anakin I love you. Even with everything that has happened, which I am mostly to blame for. I took advantage of you and I'm so sorry. I've done some terrible things, but that is the one I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for."
Anakin finally hugs her running his hands through her hair." Padme. I'm the one who made the choices and did the things I did. I just want you to know how sorry I am. I-I was just so caught up in wanting to save you and Palpatine got in my head, but once I let him I just got this power and almost killed the one person I was doing this all for." he says with tears in his eyes.
"Ani. Please. Please don't leave again. We will work on this, we will figure this out." she looks him in the eyes.
"Do you really think we can?"
"Of course. And besides we are better together." She smiles at him.
He smiles at her before cupping her face and kissing her.
Oh her Ani. How she has missed this.
At this moment a clone walks in and sees Palpatine dead on the floor. He manages to contact help before Anakin can stop him.
Anakin managed to just knock him out and not kill him. He walks back over to Padme helping her.
"We should really get Obi-Wan and leave now. There are going to be too many of them when they arrive."
Anakin and Padme quickly make their way to the holding cell where Obi-Wan is. Anakin unlocks the cell.
Padme sees Obi-Wan looking at Anakin suspiciously. "Its okay. He back and the Emperor is no more."
"What do you mean no more?" Obi-wan ask shocked.
"We can explain later, but now we really need to go. The Clones will be here shortly." Anakin tells him.
They quickly make their way back to the base and onto the ship that Obi-Wan and Padme arrived on. With Padme and Obi-Wan clearly in lot of pain, Anakin fly's them off the planet and to Polis Massa.
"Are you sure this is a good idea? We are leading him right to our base." Obi-Wan whispers to Padme.
"Its alright, Obi-wan. Anakin is alright." she smiles as her eyes shut and she falls asleep.