Hello my lovely readers, here is your update. Although I doubt that anyone is reading this I would like to say thank you for everyone who has read, favorited, followed, and reviewed. All of your reviews make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. And every time someone follows or favorites I just start to fangirl. But I doubt anyone is reading this. Does anyone actually read there before the chapter things? I know I don't. Well if you are then congratulations, you get to read an extra paragraph of me going on about some random things that pop into my head.

Anyway, you should all know that I will defy some sure things that were in the show. It's not AU, it's just...me tweaking the story line a bit to move more around how I think it should go. Bear with me. Things get really exciting in the next chapter, this one is mostly fluffy Anakin and Padme.

Disclaimer-I don't own Star Wars the Clone Wars or any of its characters.


Chapter 3

Padme POV

"Master Kenobi!"

Padme gave a quick sprint to catch up with the Jedi Master. She was suddenly realizing how long of halls of the Senate Building really were.

"Obi-Wan!" She called again and this time he stopped and turned around.

"Senator Amidala, I'm sorry. I didn't hear you at first." Obi-Wan smiled and greeted the Senator with a polite nod.

"Oh it's fine, I needed a bit of a workout anyway. Sitting in meetings all day doesn't quite do that for me." She gave a small laugh. "And I've told you before Obi-Wan, call me Padme, it's silly for it to still be formal between us even when we're not in front of The Council."

"Your right Padme, it is." He smiled that comforting smile of his. "So you obviously tracked me down for a reason. May I ask what that may be?"

Padme grinned at the Jedi and let out a breath of air. "It's just…I haven't seen Anakin in a while and I was just wondering…I'm pretty sure he isn't on a mission and-" She struggled to get out her real point past there.

"He isn't." Obi-Wan's face fell. "On a mission I mean. He's here on Coruscant, but… have you not heard?"

"Heard what?" Padme wondered if something was wrong. "About the attack on the Jedi Temple? Yes I heard about that, but I heard it was a fairly simple battle. Some Clones died, but not that many…why? Is there more to it?"

Obi-Wan's face fell impossibly more than it had before. Now he just looked purely sad. "Come. Sit down with me Padme."

She followed Master Kenobi into the nearest senate room and they both sat down at the round table. Not a second went by that Padme didn't wonder what this could be about. Was something wrong with Anakin? No, she would've known if there was, but still what could have happened to make Anakin disappear and Obi-Wan act like this?

"Obi-Wan, what's happened?"

"It wasn't just the Death Watch that invaded the Temple. Savage Opress was there as well."

Padme covered her mouth to try to muffle the small gasp that escaped her. "Is Anakin-"

"He's fine Padme. But Ahsoka is dead."

The shock and sadness didn't flow into her automatically. First it was just her mind processing the words. Ahsoka is dead. The next thing that came to Padme was an image of the now dead Padawan. She remembered Ahsoka's smile and her courage even in the worst of situations. More memories of Ahsoka flowed into the senator's mind as she recalled all her times with the young girl. The girl who was now dead.

She didn't even know when she started crying.

"She killed Savage Opress but was injured badly in the fight… She didn't survive." Obi-Wan still seemed saddened talking about the events out loud. Padme knew he must've cared a great deal about Ahsoka's death. And what it must've done to Anakin.

"Oh, Anakin…" she realized why she hadn't seen him in so long. She knew how he must be taking his Padawan's death.

"I haven't seen him lately, but I figure he's probably not doing well. He lost his Padawan after all." The Jedi Master let out a long sigh and leaned back. "I'm not sure where he is, but I'd imagine if he'd go anywhere it may be the West Wing. That's where it happened."

Padme still had tears streaking her face and she knew her eyes were getting puffy. She stood up quickly ready to head off and find Anakin. "Obi-Wan I have to go."

"I understand." He nodded solemnly. "He won't let me help him Padme. And he needs someone with him right now.

The senator nodded and rushed out of the room heading to the West Wing.


"Captain Rex!" Padme stopped the captain in his tracks.

"Senator Amidala," he greeted with a bit of a quizzical look on his face.

"Have you seen Master Skywalker recently, I'm looking for him." Anakin wasn't at the West Wing and Padme really had no idea where else to look for him at. He could be anywhere so she decided to ask Rex. Maybe he'd seen her husband.

Rex pulled through for her. "I saw the General about an hour ago head to the hangar. He may be doing some work on his fighter."

Padme was already off running to the hangar. She threw Rex a 'thank you' over her shoulder as she dashed away in the opposite direction.


She was out of breath as she entered the hangar, but she saw Anakin. He was working under his X-Wing fighter and Padme could see his legs popping out from underneath the ship. Carefully she walked up to the ship and gazed down at her husband. Well, she could only see his feet.

The senator couldn't think of anything to say at first so she just stood there until Anakin eventually pulled out from under the ship on his own.

He looked up at Padme a bit shocked, but didn't show too much emotion. Padme could tell that he was heartbroken just from a single look at his face. She sighed to herself feeling awful about how he must be holding up.

"Ahsoka's dead." It sounded like he'd never get used to saying the words aloud.

Padme's voice came out just above a whisper. "I know. Obi-Wan told me earlier and I came looking for you."

"Isn't this where you ask me if I'm okay?"

"I know you're not okay."

Anakin sighed and looked up to his wife. His face was full of obvious pain and suffering. Padme's heart fell just looking at the sight. Obi-Wan was right, Anakin needed her right now.

Anakin wiped his oily hands off on his clothes and stood up. He struggled for a minute looking for something to say until words just started to flow out of his mouth. "I keep thinking that she's still here. Earlier I said 'Ahsoka hand me the screwdriver,' and didn't even remember that she was…not until she didn't answer me. Then I sat up and thought 'that's right, she's gone, and I'm never going to see her again.'" He let out a shaky breath. "It hurts Padme."

"I know it does Ani. I knew Ahsoka too. I'm not going to pretend to know her like you did, but she was my friend too, and I'm so sorry." The tears were starting up again. Padme didn't want to start crying in front of Anakin, but he took it as a sign for him to cry as well. His eyes started to well up and eventually they couldn't stop the tears from dripping down his face.

"I'm sorry too." Padme was probably the only person he'd cried in front of since Ahsoka's death. It would've been viewed as disgrace to the Jedi. "I couldn't save her."

Padme's eyes snapped open and her tone turned from comforting to stern. "No Anakin. It's not your fault she's dead. You can try and blame yourself but it is not your fault and Ahsoka wouldn't want you blaming yourself."

"I know she wouldn't." He sounded dazed as he spoke. "She was such a stubborn little thing, couldn't follow an order for her life." Literally. He told her to get out of there, not to fight Savage Opress. She could've left and lived to fight another day. But no, she did the honorable heroic thing and saved the younglings. And Anakin couldn't even be mad at her for that. All he could be was proud.

"Ani, come on. Let's go back to my house, I'm not leaving you alone to go through this. If you want we can get out the wine and talk about our favorite memories of her."

And Anakin couldn't turn down that offer.


Thank you for everyone who stuck with this story even after 1 chapter. I know its hard to stick with sometimes, but I really appreciate it. I'll update in two days, like I plan to always do. Thanks. -Saraphine