Le'Kaal a later

Padmé looked out the window, it was one of the most beautiful cities she'd been to. Especially in the winter, it looked so peaceful and so pure. No signs of battles here. It was such a contrast against the other side of the wall that kept the city from the battle field. On the white surface blood was almost covering the ground, no bodies could be seen but she knew they where there, cold and lifeless. She herself only had a few scratches that was taken cared of in a matter of a minute or two. She sighed as she looked back at the table where the politicians still where fighting over her check.

A couple of years ago, she would have been one of them. A politician a fighter, one of the most famous politicians there was. Now to famous to even get back to her own home planet. The king of Le'Kaal gave her a look, a short smile, then he looked back at his fellow men and he heard he was defending her voice. Before that day, they had only meet two maybe three times. She liked the man, he was a fair ruler who had control over a world like the one he had. She knew how hard it was, for good sake be done already. She couldn't take it for much longer. Taking the five steps she needed to reach the table she stopped and looked around. It all went quiet.

"If you believe your world you right now live in, is worth that little." She raised her voice for the first time in over an hour. "Then I can just go out there and call it all back, this is the numbers I want"

She put the paper down again. It was a huge number in itself, but for a world to have peace. If she had been queen all over again, she hadn't been fighting over it. Le'Kaal's king raised to his feet, making the other men raise as well, some costume.

"This is a amount of money we can afford" He declared, the one she thought to be the minister for their economics tried to argue, but the king just waved his hand. "Yes, single. The number is huge. But this lady here..." Oh, he called her a lady. That was a long time anyone called her that. "...has rescued us from the war. As we have been fighting for over a year. And maybe we would have still been fighting, and continue the fight for many years. It's small amount of money for the peace she have been giving us." Just her thoughts, precisely. She actually had a smile on her cold face as she turned it to the king.

"We will take your offer." He said finally.

Inside she almost did flippover. But on the out side she just did a polite nod and after that she left the room.

Just outside the door, she stopped and smiled looking down on her check. Home to Coruscant and a holiday, free time. She could live a little. Walking down the hall towards the landing place. Her fighter was ready and so was Artoo, ready to go home. Home, not really. She wasn't even welcome there anymore. And she had done nothing wrong, except disappear from one ceremony after the great victory. And that was it, no more Naboo.

She so did not like this new queen of theirs. Did she even have to deal with the feeling of loss. She had no idea of what Padmé had to go thru. Every day she blessed her sister who tried to make it all right again. She was one of the few who knew the truth. The one who alone stood up for her at her home planet. But it didn't help her much, for some reason the queen didn't want her back.

She didn't get why.