AN: Thank you to all who read this story. I hope you are not mad that it takes me so long to write. Between my schedule and the fact that I have some major writers block, I am having a hard time getting chapters written. I hope you all like this chapter.

Disclaimer: Because I have not put this on here in a while, and because I don't want anyone to think I own these people, I am going to say GL owns them and make money on them. I am just making them livein an alternate universe.

Chapter 8

"Anakin …. Anakin , where are you!"

She looked up into the face of a baby. It's a boy. Pain suddenly seized her body again. "Anakin! Help me!" she cried as the pain wracked her body two more times. Then she was looking into the face of another baby. This time it was a girl."Luke and Leia." was said a bare whisper. She asked to hold her babies but suddenly they were gone.

She was walking through a forest searching , calling the names, "Luke ….. Leia…" No response. She became frantic, calling louder. She started running searching holes, caves, and behind trees. All to no avail. Suddenly a loud sinister laughed caused her to jerk around. A man in a black robe that covered his whole body stood right behind her. "What's the matter, my friend, can't you find your children?" the voice was the voice of Emperor Palpatine, and she was very afraid.

Yet she could not keep herself from asking, "Do you know where there they are?"

He said nothing ; only threw off his black robe to reveal, not Palpatine as she had expected, but ObiWan. His face was aglow with a eerie yellow light. His eyes were glowing red. His hands suddenly became skeletal bones and his voice became a snarl as he said, "Here they are!" and in his hands appeared two tiny skeleton remains.

"Nnnooo!"

Padme sat straight up in bed screaming. Sweat dripped from every part of her body making the sheets cling to her. Vader sat up next to her and pulled her into an embrace. She wailed into his shoulder for so long he feared he would have to call for a doctor. She finally seemed to settle down though it was a while before she could speak. Vader hit his com and ordered Jennifer to bring Padme some water. She gladly took the glass from Jennifer when it was brought and Vader waved her out of the room.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked gently.

"Not right now please just hold me until I go back to sleep."

He did as she asked. Neither of them went to sleep for quite a while. Vader lay beside her his jaw working as anger built up inside him. He was so angry that Padme had been though such horrible tortures. She should never have to relive those things even in dreams. She would not have to relive such things if had never crossed the line. The Little voice of Anakin seemed to pipe up. No sooner had he reared his head than The strong voice of Vader walked over and squashed him flat. Regrets were for cowards and Vader was no coward.

Padme watched the clock change from 3:30 to 4:00. Then minute by minute she watched it change to 4:30. Around that time she made out the sound of Vader's deep breathing. She careful extracted herself from his arms and went out on the veranda. She needed some cool air on her skin and she hoped it would serve to clear her head. She sat on the reclining chair and closed her eyes to try and forget the dream. She quickly opened her eyes again becauseinstead of forgettingthe dream came flooding back to her. She wondered what had prompted such an awful dream about her children. She had no idea where they were, or even if they were alive.

Then a thought hit her that she had not thought about. What if she told Vader about them and he turned them into a Sith. Could she deal with that? She thought about on that and she pictured a tiny little hand fixed in the shape of a C while his nursemaid lay on the floor gagging for her life. The thought sent shudders through her.

Yet the thought of never knowing where her children were or if they were dead, sent a chill through her body that did not seem to stop. She pulled her robe closer to her body to help ward off the chill, but since it came from within it did nothing to stop the trembling. She knew also, that she could and would never be able to keep the information about the children to herself forever. She determined that she would tell him when he woke up.

Before she knew it she realized the night was passing and the morning was coming. Because the Balcony faced East she was rewarded with full view of the sun making it's entrance for the day. The purples were slowly turning brighter blue when Vader stepped out on the veranda. He took the seat next to her and quietly took her hand. They sat in companionable silence for sometime until Padme broke the silence.

"I am sorry about waking you last night."

"No need to apologize. I have had dreams like that before…." His words just seemed to fade into nothingness. Yet she knew that he meant before he had found her.

"I dreamed about the children."

He was silent for a moment; then he realized what she had said. "Children! You said children not child. Why!"

"Because Ana…Vader I had twins three years ago." She said starting to cry.

Vader got up he and he started pacing the Balcony. He was muttering to himself as he was pacing. "Lies everything that man ever told me was lies. ….. I can't….. Stupid….. More powerful than him someday."

Padme did not hear everything he said nor did she care too much about what he said. She was lost in her own world at the moment thinking about the children. What had happened to them? Everything was fuzzy in her mind about that day except that she clearly remembered twins being born.

Suddenly Vader came over and sat beside her. "What were their names?"

"The boy was Luke and the girl was Leia."

"Did they live?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know? How can you not know?" He practically yelled at her.

She did not know why he had to yell at her about it. It was not her fault. In fact, if she was to blame someone it should be him. He was the one who left her in the critical moment of her life."I don't know, because I was apparently dead as soon as they were born. No thanks to you." She spat back angrily through the tears that were streaming down her cheeks.

At that Vader, who reacted with volcanic emotion, smacked Padme across the cheek quite hard. Padme stood up and left him on the balcony. She ran downstairs and called for Jennifer. She was going to leave and she needed help.

Jennifer came right away and she went with Padme to the room. Suddenly Padme realized she had nothing. What am I going to do? she thought. She would not stay with a man who slapped her. She'd had enough of men's cruelties when she was a prisoner. She would not take it when she had the chance to stand up for herself. She did the only thing she could do at the moment. She left the room that she had shared with Vader since coming. She moved to the Blue room and she locked the door.