If You Come Softly
Summary: AU, during ROTS. Padme is married to another man under Anakin's wishes. But will her love for Anakin get in the way? And what is Padme's deadly habit? Can Anakin save her?
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Chapter 13
(Normal POV)
Dorme pushed open the doors and held it open for Padme. Padme walked through the huge doors and into the long hallway. She hated how they had always had a house when she would of preferred a small apartment where everything felt like home and she didn't always feel like she wanted to jump out a window and just end this madness. Padme walked into the kitchen where Sabe was getting things ready.
"Milady! I wasn't expecting you so soon!" Sabe said and wiped off her hands on her apron and hugged Padme quickly then lowered her voice, "Mistress, should you really be here?"
"Where else would I be darling?" Padme questioned and laughed. Then she walked out of the kitchen and into the great hall where Bail sat with his paperwork in front of him. She smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
"Bail, I'm home and it feels good to be home." She lied and he smiled at her. He gazed into her deep brown eyes and looked at how her curly brown hair fell happily down on her bare shoulders. Her sleeves of her gown rested on her upper arm, her shoulders totally exposed. Her brown hair was tied to the side in a low ponytail and it ran just below her chest. She grinned and then turned and walked away towards the door. "I should freshen up."
"I don't think that's necessary darling."
"Bail, I think that I should at least be decent before you see me like this." Padme said and stood on her tip-toes and kissed him.
'Just pretend he's Anakin, just pretend he's Anakin.' She chanted inside her mind and then lowered herself back to the solid ground and turned around and walked out the door. "I'll see you at dinner."
"Alright then, until then my love." He whispered and then sat back down as the woman he had been seeing; named Julie came up behind him. She rested her hands on her shoulder and then leaned down and kissed her cheek.
"When will our plan take action Bail? I can't wait to get her out of the picture."
"Soon my love and life, soon." He replied and snickered.
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Padme took off her gown and changed into a shorter gown that cut off at her knees. She slipped on ballerina flats and then pulled her hair of the pony tail that tamed it. She fluffed it a little bit and then threw a jacket over her shoulders and walked out of the room. She clipped a clip in her hair as she entered the great hall once more. It had been a half hour since she had last been in here and Bail was gone from the room, his paperwork all packed up neatly and stacked at the end of the table. Sabe walked into the room and handed her a drink.
"You're compact is ringing." She said quickly and handed it to her. She smiled and thanks Sabe and watched as she walked out of the room before answering it.
"Amidala here." She said into the compact and she saw Anakin smiling at her. He had the twins in his arm and beside him, one of her friends that she had made stay with him to look after her kids was there also. "I am so glad to see you." She whispered and looked around before walking out of the great hall and into her room.
"You won't believe the day I've had."
"Hopefully it wasn't that bad." Anakin said and smiled at her. She smiled back and brushed back her bang before flopping down on her bed. "You missed me?"
"Terribly! I don't know what I'm suppose to do without you."
"Just go along with the plan and then you'll be back here before you know it."
"Alright, I know that everything will work out in the end… It always does… Doesn't it?" Padme questioned and Anakin nodded. Padme whipped her head around as she heard footsteps passing her door. "I have to go, I'll talk to you later. I love you."
"I love you too." She closed her compact and threw it in her draw. She then watched as the door opened slowly and saw that it was only one of the serving woman. She smiled friendly at the woman who smiled slowly but brightly back at her.
"I don't think that we've met." Padme said.
"I don't think so either… I'm Julie milady and I've come to just get you anything you need."
"Well, I don't really want anything right now, but when will dinner be?"
"In about 20 standard minutes Mistress."
"Alright, can you call me when we're going to eat?"
"It would be my pleasure." She then curtly bowed and walked out the room, closing the door behind her. Padme sighed in relief and then placed a hand to her heart and prayed that she would make it through the night.
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"So how have your two months been darling?" Bail questioned as her placed his hands in his lap and looked across the huge table to his wife who stopped raising her glass to her month and then placed it down. She couldn't drink when she had to think of some lies to come up with.
"It was wonderful, I got a couple days off during my work reign and I think that the people of Bendon are starting to like me." She smiled, "I would love it if they would accept me but liking me is just as good."
"That's great."
"And you? What have you been up too?"
"The same old things, paperwork, meeting with important people all that stuff." Bail said, "But I missed you terribly wife."
"Well husband, I have missed you as well." Padme lied and grinned.
"That's good to know, I don't want to be the only one missing you." He muttered and Padme placed down her fork finding that the food was nothing like what Anakin made. She missed him too much to eat. She didn't want to eat if it meant that she would have to be seated across a table from this stranger that she called a husband.
"Yes, yes you are right. I know what you mean." She said quietly and then smiled again. She didn't know what she was getting herself into, all she knew was that she just wanted to get out of here and back to her babies and the love of her life.
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Sabe looked at Julie who was new. She poured something in Padme's drink and smiled simply at Sabe. "We just want her sleeping tightly tonight." Sabe nodded and she knew what she had to do.
"Let me take those out, you can get the dinner ready." Sabe said and grabbed the glasses. She placed a lemon slice on the one that Julia had put something in and placed it in front of Bail. She placed the regular drink in front of Padme and smiled. "For you mistress."
"Thank you Sabe, that was really thoughtful." She caught onto what Sabe was talking about and raised her glass. "To us being reunited!"
"Cheers." Bail nodded his head and sipped down his whole drink. Padme giggled slightly and then placed her drink down. Padme excused herself from the table and walked to the bathroom where she fell into hysterical fits. Nobody was going to kill her tonight,
Or at least that's what she thought…
End of Chapter 13