Author's Note: Well this is it, the last chapter before we move onto Episode V (a.k.a. Revenge of the Sith). All right! I can't wait to start posting that, but as for now here's the last chapter.
The Lure of the Dark Side: Chronicle 1-The Turning of an Era
Episode IV: The Clone Wars
Chapter 14: People Change Over Time
When Padme came to an hour or so after she'd willed herself into unconsciousness she found herself lying on a bed in the Jedi Temple Medical Center. She sat up abruptly to see a young female Jedi Healer smiling at her across the room.
"Ah, I see you're finally awake," the healer said approaching her.
Padme smiled briefly before speaking. "How long have I been out?"
"About an hour actually. Masters Windu and Yoda brought you in here not long ago unconscious. I was to alert them the moment you awoke, so I must do that now, if you'll excuse me."
"Wait, hang on a minute," Padme said jumping out of the bed. "Am I all right? Am I in perfect health? You can't just leave here without at least telling me that."
Padme knew she was fine of course she just wanted to make sure this healer knew nothing about the twins she was carrying.
"Oh yes Senator, you're quite all right, just a few cuts and bruises that's all. You can leave as soon as you want just as long as you speak with Masters Windu and Yoda first."
She looked like she was about to say something else but choose not too.
She was just about to leave when Padme said, "You wanted to say something else Healer Kristen. What was it?"
Padme than waved her hand nonchalantly towards the hidden holocamera. Nurse Kristen turned back around and hesitated.
"Yes?" Padme urged patiently.
"Well it's just that you're five months pregnant Senator. I didn't know if you knew that or not."
Padme reached her hand forward and with the dark side erased that knowledge from Nurse Kristen's brain and flicked for the camera to come back on. Healer Kristen's eyes had clouded over.
"Healer Kristen are you all right?" Padme asked in all innocence and concern.
"Yes, yes," she replied as her eyes cleared. "What was I saying."
"I'd asked you what else you wanted to say."
"Oh, oh right. You're in perfect health Senator and the lightsaber cuts on your arms should heal within a few days."
"Right," Padme said sitting back down onto the bed.
"Right well allow me to contact Masters Windu and Yoda."
"Where are they now?"
"In the Council room of course."
"Wouldn't it be better if I went up to meet with them. I do know where the Council room is located after all. Antellica Grievous is my sister and I escorted her up there the day she became a Jedi."
"You're related to General Arica Grievous!" Healer Kristen exclaimed in horror. "But than why would she attack you!"
Padme smiled slyly. "People change over time. It's been my experience that sometimes you never really know someone until something...drastic happens."
With a wink at Healer Kristen she got up and cloaked her presence as she exited the Jedi Temple and went home for she had no intention of talking to those two Jedi fools.
Author's Note #2-All right! Moving on to Revenge of the Sith, a very long in-depth episode. One of my favorites besides the one I'm writing now (Episode VIII: The Twilight of War). Unlike the other episodes that had anywhere from 12 to 15 chapters Episode V has, (wait for it, wait for it!) 43 Chapters! It took a while to write but I'm very proud of it. One of the reasons it's so long is because not only does it extend 4 months after the movie but it's the first episode that's officially in everyone's point of view, not just Padme's or the Grievous twins. I thought it a good idea to do so since there are so many events that happen in this one you really wouldn't be able to understand it fully if it was just in one, or a few people's point of view.