And we finally get back to Padme! Thanks again for all of your reviews. This chapter is a little shorter than the others.
Padme looked out at the Coruscanti skyline, wondering what had happened at the Jedi Temple. She had been scared stiff ever since the previous night, knowing that Anakin's dreams were back. The had been right before, what about now?
The thought worried her, and she suddenly felt the need for Anakin to come and save the day, to make it all better. He was good at that, being able to make her forget all the troubles and problems around her.
"Are you ok? You look like someone died."
Padme whirled around to see her husband leaning up against the wall, grinning at her.
"Anakin!"
Padme rushed into his arms, breathing a sigh of relief at his calm demeanor.
"What happened?"
Anakin's smile grew even bigger.
"The Council approved our marriage, we don't have to hide anymore."
Padme looked up at him in shock, which quickly turned to joy.
"Really? Thats wonderful!"
She kissed him passionately, pouring all of her love into this single kiss. Anakin laughed, and sat they sat down as he began to explain everything that had happened, not knowing just what evil lay in wait.
Darth Sidious, Heir to the legacy of Darth Bane and the entire Sith history, suddenly jerked from his meditation., sweat dripping from him.
"What was that?"
His mind was racing. It couldn't have been what he thought it was, it wasn't possible. And yet, he had felt it, as clearly as he felt the hood on his head. The darkness in Skywalker, darkness he had cultivated and encouraged for the past thirteen years, was fading.
"NO!!! I will NOT lose this one! He must become a Sith!", he roared as the blue in his eyes faded to a sinister yellow.
He stretched out, determined to find the source of the light that was filling the young Jedi. As he tried to find the source, the more it confused him. What was strong enough to destroy the darkness within Anakin? He was CREATED using the Dark Side, his master Plagueis' grand experiment, life formed by nothing more than the will of the Force.
Suddenly he saw flashes, of Anakin talking to the Jedi, to his wife, and in particular to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu. Sidious growled, he hated the Korun Master with a passion, as he was one of the few whom actually posed a threat to the Sith Lord.
"So Skywalker is trying to overcome his anger. He thinks the Jedi will help him, but I know his secret. His wife is his weakness, one that I will exploit." Sidious laughed, not realizing that the Jedi knew of Anakin's marriage, not knowing that the dream of Padme dying that he was sending to the powerful Jedi would only push him further from darkness now that he no longer lived in fear.
The one thing the Sith failed to realize, is that he had already lost.
TBC