Chapter 8
Padme heard the alarm going off rolling over and hitting the button to stop the loud noise.
Getting up, putting on her robe, and heading to the nursery to get the twins ready to leave within the hour.
" Here let me help you get them ready." Sabe` said coming into the room and picking up Luke.
" Thanks lets just put them in their travel seat and we can get them dress and feed once they are awake on the ship, lets just get dress and out of here quickly." Padme said as she picked up Leia's blanket and wrapped her up in it before heading out of the room.
Sabe` wrapped Luke in his blanket and followed Padme out into the family room and saw Padme put Leia in her travel seat and she went over to Luke's travel seat and put the baby in his seat.
" Can you stay with them while I'll get dress really quick, and then I'll watch them while you do the same thing." Padme said as she picked up the seat and put it onto the couch.
" Ok that's good idea, and if they start to wake up I'll give them some juice." Sabe` nodded as Padme hurried off to her room to get dress.
Padme went over to the chair and picked up the clothes that she had put there so that way all she had to do was put on some clean underwear before putting on the pants and shirt.
Once she was dress she went over to her vanity, picked up the brush, and began brushing her hair before braiding it and putting it up in a ponytail. After fixing her hair, she grabbed the small bag that had her toiletry in it and going over to the baby bag and putting it in.
Walking out into the living room, she stopped in her tracks when she saw Sabe` wrapped in someone's arms.
" What is going on here!" Padme said putting the bag down next to the couch.
" Hello Padme." Obi-Wan said as he let go of Sabe` and turn towards Padme.
" Don't you dare say hello to me, you bastard." Padme said as she began glaring at him.
" What is wrong Padme?" Sabe` asked as she watched her best friend getting upset.
" What's wrong, let me guess he never told you what he did to Anakin." Padme said looking at her friend.
" Um... no ... all he told me that he was dead and that's all." Sabe` said watching Obi-Wan look down to the floor.
" Dead! Oh that's only half of what he lied about ... he didn't tell you that he left Anakin to burn alive in that lava pit... did you know he was still alive when you just left him there ... you could have helped him Obi-Wan but no you just turned your back on him and let him die." Padme said as tears ran down her face and she saw sadness and even tears well up in Obi-Wan's eyes.
" I'm so very sorry Padme ... I never meant to hurt him, and everyday I live with that sight of him begging me to help him, but instead I turned around and just left him there to die a fiery death ... I'm sorry Padme ... I never ..." he was saying but was interrupted when there was a loud knock on back door.
"Obi-Wan you never told me that... Padme wait I'll get the door you get the twins in the other room." Sabe` said just before the back door opened up and a tall figure came into the room.
" Anakin what are you doing here?" Padme asked as turned and saw him come into the room.
" I came to make sure that you are out of here." Anakin said as he came over to her and pulled her into his arms.
" It can't be I saw you..." Obi-Wan started to say.
" That's right the last time you saw me on fire... but at the moment I don't have time to fight with you, I know that you are here to help Padme and my children, please take them to where every they are going and keep them safe for me." Anakin said just watched Obi-Wan with sadness in his eyes because he realized how much he truly missed his old friend.
" You know I would do anything in my power to keep them safe Anakin, and I just want you to know how sorry I am for everything that had happen between us... and I realized how much you were right about a lot of things and I should have listen to you more often... I'm not asking you to forgive me, but I thought you should know how I felt is all." Obi-Wan said giving Anakin a small smile.
" I see, thank you for helping my family... it will take a long time for me to forgive you for what you have done to me ... and I'll see if there is any hope for any kind of friendship with you, but first you have to prove your loyalty to my family and make sure that they get to where they are going safely." Anakin said as he went over to the twins and looked down at them.
" You have my promise that I will make sure that they are safe... Anakin and I understand what you are saying." Obi-Wan said going over to the his ex-Padawan.
" You know this is my first time seeing them... they are beautiful." Anakin said as he touched his daughter's face with his finger.
" That is Leia." Padme said coming over to the Anakin.
" Leia I like that name... you know mom would have been very proud of her grandchildren." Anakin said with sadness in his voice.
" Yes she would have been very proud of them and this one is Luke." Padme said taking a hold of Anakin's hand and giving it a light squeeze.
" Excuse me Milady we need to go now." Sabe` said coming back into the room.
" She is right you guys need to get going...I will keep you in my thoughts and remember one thing Padme... I still love you so very much... and I hope that one day we can be together for the rest of our life as a family." Anakin said turning to Padme and taking a hold of her other hand.
" I know Anakin and I still love you so very much too." Padme said before she felt Anakin's lips on hers.
Hearing Sabe` clearing her throat broke the young couple apart, Padme picked up Luke's travel seat while Anakin picked up Leia's and they walked out to the ship that was waiting for them on the landing platform.
Anakin followed Padme into her sleeping quarters and saw a travel crib set up next to her bed.
Padme put Luke down on the bed and picked him unwrapping him before going over to the crib and gently laying him in the crib.
Anakin followed Padme's lead and carefully picked up Leia, unwrapping the blanket and he just held her a few moments longer before going over to the crib. Leaning his head down and gently kissed his daughter on the forehead before laying her down in the crib next to her brother.
Before leaving the room, he turned to Padme, pulled her into his arms, and kissed her before leaving the room and ship.
All Padme could do was stand there and tears ran down her face, then she heard the hatch door close and the ship began to lift off the platform and headed off towards the deep outer space.
Two days later, they came out of hyperspace and was ten minutes from Alderaan.
" We are about to land, are you sure that you don't want to say with us Padme." Sabe` asked as she came into the lobby and watched Padme with the twins.
" It's better this way, less I know the safer they will be." was all Padme could say as tears came into her eyes.
" I understand, let me get back to the cockpit." Sabe` said as she heard Obi-Wan get landing instructions.
" Ok." Padme said down between the travel seats and took each twins hands and held them.
The ship landed and waiting for them was Padme's good friend Bail Organa, and Queen Breha Organa, his wife.
" Welcome to Alderaan and its so great to see you alive and well Padme." Bail Organa said coming up to Padme and giving her a welcoming hug.
" Thank you Bail, Breha it's so great to see you too. I want to thank both of you to helping us." Padme said as she also hugged Bail's wife.
" It's great to see you too, and we are very happy to help out." the Breha said.
" Well I hate to say this but we need to get going, there is a ship waiting for you guys." Bail Organa said as he looked over to Sabe` and Obi-Wan and nodded to them.
" Ok, well I better get back, I have things to do back home and if I'm not there then some people will began to wonder what I'm doing. I'll let you know when things are clear for us to get back together." Padme said as she came over to the both Obi-Wan and Sabe` who were holding the twins.
" Ok, we are going to miss you very much, and we will take really good care of the babies." Sabe` said as tears began coming to her eyes as she handed her best friend her daughter so she could say goodbye to her.
Padme just held Leia close to her, before kissing her good bye and handing her back to Sabe` before going over to Obi-Wan and taking Luke from him, and hugging him and kissing him goodbye too.
Padme stood there and watched the small group turn and board the other ship that was waiting for them.
" Well it's time for me to go too, and I call to let you know that I'm back and when the next meeting will be." Padme said to Bail Organa.
" Ok, be careful we got a message saying that there have been some pirates spotted not far from here." Bail said as he hugged Padme goodbye.
" Ok I will." Padme said as she turned and headed back up into her ship.
Once on board she made sure that everything was latched tightly before heading into the cockpit and began starting up the engines of the ship.
Three hours after leaving Alderaan Padme was just sitting back in the pilot's seat eating her evening meal and talking to Anakin who was off Naboo at the moment and was on Tatooine taking care of some business with Jabba.
" I should be home tomorrow afternoon." Padme took a bite of her sandwich.
" Well I have bad news at the moment I'm not there I have couple of things to do off planet so I'll be gone for about a week." Anakin was walking into a restaurant in Bestine.
" Oh well then I'll see you when you come back then... WHAT THE!" Padme called out when she felt the ship shake.
" PADME! What's going on?" Anakin heard a loud bang come from Padme's end.
" I don't know something hit ... NO.. PLEASE ... N..." Padme began to say.
" PADME! PADME! NO..." Anakin called out, as he felt something bad just happen.
He turned on his holo-com to her com-link and tried to get her last known coordinates before something happen to her, but at the moment he couldn't do anything because he had to do this job, the next day. It will be two days before he could find out what happen to her.
It was an hour later Padme woke up but as she laid there in a dimly lit room, she realized that she wasn't alone in the room either.
" I was worried that you wouldn't wake up." a small voice said from the other side of the room.
" Um... where am I... and who are you?" Padme tried to sit up but laid back down as she began to get really dizzy.
" I'm not sure but you are on a slaver ship." the voice said.
" Oh ... man ... what I thought the ... never mind ... I forgot the Empire believes in slaves." Padme was finally able to sit up.
" I take it that you don't keep up in what is going on in the Empire? Oh my name is Telayah," the young girl said getting up from her small cot and coming over to Padme.
" Not really, it's nice to meet you Telayah, I'm Padme... you remind me of someone I once knew... I haven't heard nor seen her in couple of years." Padme felt sadness come across her as she remembered Anakin's ex-Padawan Ahsoka Tano, who was also a Togruta.
" Same here Padme, really what is her name?" Telayah asked.
" She was a Jedi Padawan Learner, but something happen and she left the order, that was before the fall of the Galactic Republic." Padme said with a sadness in her voice.
" A Jedi Padawan you say... mmm... I have heard of one and I saw her about a couple of months ago, but then she disappeared." the Togruta said before going back to her cot.
" Really... oh man I hope she didn't get caught by any of the Imperials." Padme said as she pulled her legs up and rested her chin on her knees.
" Oh man if she was caught by Darth Vader he would kill her right on the spot, him and the Emperor are hunting down the Jedi and killing them." the Togruta said as the hatch door opened up.
" Well ... well I'm glad to see that you are awake, you had me a little worry. You well bring in lots of money." the slaver said as he came into the room and saw that Padme was awake.
All he did was slid two bowls of mush into the cell before leaving the room and going to his captain to let him know that their new slave was awake.
Two hours later since there wasn't really anything to do but sleep Padme laid back down on her cot, closed her eyes, and prayed to her gods that she will be free, and that Anakin would be the one to come and get her. Then she just began to cry softly and thinking about Luke and Leia and was hoping that she would get to see them again, and with that thought she drifted off to sleep.
But little did she know that her prayers were going to be answered very soon, in the form of Darth Vader.