Episode III: Attack of the Clones

Chapter 8: Confessions of a Teenage Love-Struck Jedi

Once they finished eating, Padme suggested they look at the still-images in the den with the beautiful fireplace. Anakin laughed when he saw the stills of himself and commented that the Senator looked very beautiful in all of the ones she was in.

"Thank you Anakin," she said, placing the stills back in their folder. She turned her attention towards the fireplace, watching the flames flying around within it.

A few moments of silence went by before Anakin spoke. "From the moment I met you," she turned her head to face him, "all those years ago. Not a moment's gone by when I haven't thought of you."

He gave a brief sigh before he continued. "And now that I'm with you again, I'm in agony."

Padme was slightly puzzled. Agony?

"The closer I get to you, the worse it gets." Anakin began to move closer to her, but she moved herself away from him. "The thought of not being with you, I can't breathe."

Perhaps you need to see a doctor, she thought sarcastically.

"I'm haunted my the kiss that you should never have given me-"

"What?!" Padme protested in disgusted outrage. "The kiss I gave?!"

Anakin ignored her protest. "My heart is beating, hoping that that kiss will not become a scar."

As he said the last part, he tried to move even closer to her, but she again moved even further away and glared at him. He seemed undeterred by it.

"You are in my very soul," he continued. "Tormenting me. What can I do? I will do anything that you ask?" He then looked at her expectantly. She, however, didn't know what to say. She was totally taken aback by him once again pouring his heart out to her. She knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to tell him to beat it. But then, there was the matter of Sidious. He wouldn't be pleased if she violated orders. She had been all but ordered to go through with them. So despite her better wishes, she simply looked at Anakin a moment before kissing him passionately on the lips.

Anakin seemed a bit shocked by this, but kissed her back all the same.

As the kisses got more heated, their hands began to wonder and clothes began to be discarded.

When finally all their clothes were off, Padme and Anakin laid down in front of the warm fireplace and made love multiple times, not caring how loud their moans of pleasure were.

Eventually stopping, they both lay naked on the floor in front of the once blazing fire, which was now going out, panting.

Catching her breath, Padme moved into her lover's arms and kissed him again. "Anakin, I don't care that you're studying to become a Jedi and I'm a Senator. I love you and I just want us to be happy."

"Oh Padme," Anakin sighed. "I love you too; so, so much. Make love to me again."

By the time they were finished their second round, the pair were utterly exhausted, but able to pull themselves off the floor and up to Padme's bedroom. They both collapsed onto the bed. Anakin was asleep almost instantly, and though Padme had been slightly worn out by the evening's activities, she was nowhere near as tired as Anakin.

As she lay next to him with his arms around her, she thought over what she'd done. It was the right thing of course and gods had it felt good. Her relationship with Anakin may not be so bad after all.

Pulling herself out of his arms ever so slightly as not to disturb him, Padme got up off the bed and retrieved her comlink. Going into the adjoining fresher, she dialed the number to Antellica's own comlink to see how she and Arica were.

They were fine, however, another assassination attempt had occurred soon after the Senator's leave of the capital.

"This jet-pack armored hunter came blasting in through your bedroom window," Antellica explained. "Fortunately, I was in there at the time so-"

"Hang on a second," Padme said slightly suspicious. "What were you doing in my bedroom?"

"I was looking for your 'How to Get Even Richer When You're Already Rich' novel, but-"

"Oh, I'm still reading that. Sorry."

"No sweat. Anyway," Antellica continued. "I was in there looking for that with my back to the window when suddenly I heard this crash from behind me. When I whipped around I saw, as I said earlier, a jetpack-armored bounty hunter with a blaster raised. I, of course, wasn't scared. I'd kind of been expecting something of the sort to happen, but not during the bright sunshine of day. He told me not to move or he'd shoot, but I was pretty much like whatever man. Clearly this upset him, for he fired, only I moved out of the way in time. He kept continually firing, and I kept jumping and backflipping around the room, evading his shots."

"That's when I came in," Arica said, joining in the tale. "I had my blaster with me and started firing at the scum. Yet because of his armor, it didn't do anything. Frustrated, I started throwing things at him. All types: books, trash cans, the little coffee table you had next to your bed..."

"WHAT?!" Padme exclaimed in disbelief. Then remembering Anakin was in the other room lowered her voice. "What? Did you actually think throwing things was going to do any good to stop a top notch assassin?!"

"Well actually yeah. I mean, I don't know," Arica said a bit sheepishly. "And it kind of did work. When I ran over to the little Holovision, picked it up and threw it him-"

"WHAT?!" Padme shouted.

"And then I picked up the stand the HV had been sitting on," Antellica said, joining in once more and ignoring the Sith, "and threw it at him afterwards. The impact of both things had him crashing to the ground."

"Right at that moment, Captain Typho and a bunch of other security personnel came in with their blasters firing at the scum," Arica continued. "He didn't even stay to fight. I guess he felt he was outnumbered. He just got up and blasted out with that jet-pack of his."

"Afterwards, we had to tell Palpatine and a posse of other Senators," Antellica informed.

"And then we had to report what happened to the Jedi Council," Arica added. "And they advised that we stay at the Temple till this conflict is dealt with."

"We moved some of our stuff out of your apartment and into Obi-Wan and Anakin's quarters in the Jedi Temple afterwards," Antellica continued. "That's where we are right now."

"I see," Padme commented.

"So all in all, it's been quite an interesting day," Arica finished.

"Indeed," the Sith Lady said. "I'm glad to hear that you two are alright, but was it really necessary for you to throw my Holovision set?"

"Well no, perhaps not," Arica said rather guiltily. "But it was all I could think of at the time and it did work. Don't worry Padme, I'll buy you a new HV."

She smirked, and though the girls couldn't see it, it was heard through her voice. "With what money?"

"I don't know. I'll borrow it from you," Arica replied.

She laughed. "If you used money you borrowed from me to buy me a new HV, you wouldn't really be buying it now would you? No, no I'll buy myself a new one. It's no big deal. I was probably going to get another eventually anyway."

"So you're not mad?" Arica asked.

"Of course not," she replied. "Just a bit startled and amused."

"Yeah, Yoda was amused too," Antellica said. "Ha, you should've seen the look on that little green frog's facewhen Arica told him and the other Council members that she'd thrown a Holovision at the assassin."

"Even Master Windu cracked a smile," Arica added.

"Really?" Padme asked intrigued. She'd never seen him smile or even crack a smile before. She always sensed that he had this serious aura around him.

Since they told her about their day, she decided to tell them about her, as she called it, "less than exciting day."

When she got to the part about Anakin, the twins were both a bit surprised about how she reacted to them.

"But-but I thought you didn't want to you know go through with it," Antellica said.

Padme peeked outside the door of the bathroom to assure that Anakin was still asleep before answering. "Well I didn't, but then I also didn't want to have to deal with an angry daddy."

Antellica laughed. "That's true."

Padme waited for Arica to say something, but she remained silent.

At that moment, the Senator yawned and realized how tired she was becoming. "I'll talk more with you two tomorrow. Good night girls."

"Good night Padme," Antellica said and hung up.

Padme returned to Anakin's side and fell asleep.