"Why is this happening?" Padme moaned in despair, as she put on her favorite dress. It was a royal blue dress with silver stars stitched in it. She put on her silver flats, and put on the locket Leia had given her for her thirteenth birthday. The locket had the pictures of the women Padme was named after. She did not know how Leia knew them.
"You and Vader will understand very soon," Obi Wan told her.
"I wish you weren't dead," Padme responded, as she went back downstairs.
"Jedi don't die. They live on in the Force."
She approached Vader. He noticed the locket around her neck.
"What is that necklace around your neck? You were not wearing it earlier," he demanded to know.
"This was another gift from Leia, for my birthday three years ago," Padme confessed, her nervousness at a all time high.
"Give it to me." Padme took her trembling hands and unclasped the locket. She reluctantly gave it to Vader. As he looked at the locket, Obi Wan said,
"Vader will ask you where Leia got the locket from. Tell him her adoptive father Bail Organa gave it to her."
Vader did ask about the origin of the locket, and Padme told him Leia got it from Bail Organa. Vader was puzzled. This girl had both his lightsaber, and the locket with his wife and mother's pictures in it? But why would Leia give this girl these things, especially from a man he considered dead to him?
"Did she tell you who the two people were in the locket?" Vader continued to question Padme.
"No. Who are they?" Padme asked, curious herself.
"I will ask the questions, child!" Vader grunted in frustration.
"Padme, I will tell you who they are," Obi Wan said to the girl. "One of them is Padme Amidala. She was your mother's biological mother, and a close friend of mine."
Padme knew about her namesake. In history, she learned that she was the queen, then senator, of Naboo. She was shocked at the news that she was Leia's mother.
"The other woman is Shmi Skywalker, your grandfather's mother," Obi continued to explain. "The necklace was given to your grandmother by your grandfather, Anikin Skywalker."
When she heard the name Anikin Skywalker, Padme dropped to her knees. No, it couldn't be true! Leia was the daughter of Senator Padme Amidala and Jedi Knight Anikin Skywalker? If this was true, that meant Padme was their granddaughter...
"Get up, child!" Vader yelled, forcing Padme off of the floor. He held a tight grip on her. Padme was terrified. She felt she was going to die. She shook in fear. She had heard of Vader's hatred for the Jedi.
"My name is Padme," she managed to whisper.
"I know your name. Why were you given that name? Obi Wan, if you do not tell her to tell me now, I swear..."
He pulled Padme towards the couch. She had neither the strength nor the will to resist him. She could barely stand, a little grateful that Vader had a strong grip on her.
The Force flowed in her, and she blurted out,
"Leia named me after the two loves of her biological father's life. His name was Anikin Skywalker!"
That was the last thing Padme said before passing out in Vader's arms. He held the girl, and reflected on what she had said. She said that name, the name that he had not heard since he tried to turn Luke to the Dark side.
Vader carefully laid Padme on the couch. She was only a teenager, but very powerful in the Force. But she was more than a powerful Force user. She was his granddaughter, his feelings were telling him.
He glared angrily at Leia, who was still unconscious. How dare she keep this a secret, especially after how finding out about her father affected her? He thought about waking her up and strangling her to death, to punish her.
Vader turned his attention back to Padme. He needed proof that what the girl said was true. Not that she would purposely lie, but Leia and Obi Wan, on the other hand...
He called his troops back inside the house, and told them,
"Take the girl to my ship. I will deal with her there. If she wakes up, make sure she eats and drinks. If any of you harm her, you will wish you would never have been born!"
Padme was carried outside of the house. Vader walked into the kitchen. He was furious at Leia. He took out his lightsaber, and began to destroy the room. Red sparks flew as he demolished the furnishings.
Afterwards, he calmed himself down using the Force. He stepped out of the kitchen, and saw the two Stormtroopers still guarding Leia.
"One more thing," Vader grunted, as he made his way out of the living room. "Tell the princess when she wakes up that I know Padme is her daughter!" He stormed angrily out of the home, refusing to look back.
As he joined the rest of his troops and his unconscious prisoner, Vader meditated on all that had happened. He wondered why in the galaxy, of all people, Obi Wan Kenobi, would help tell Padme that her grandfather was Anikin Skywalker.
"No, Obi Wan," Vader thought to himself. "Now your failure is truly complete. She will realize that I am her grandfather. Anikin Skywalker is dead, and he is never coming back!"
The Emperor and his troops boarded the Star Destroyer. The unconscious Padme was placed in a holding cell, just underneath the front end of the ship. Vader left instructions to have her cell door left open, with one Stormtrooper to guard her. This was another test, to see what the girl would do. At the last moment, he decided to leave the lightsaber of Anikin Skywalker near her, to give her a fleeting chance when she tries to escape.