Author's Notes:
Thank you to everyone who has been reviewing for the kind words, it really encourages me to continue on! Also a big thanks to everyone who followed/favorited!
Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Thanks to my amazing beta, Ellisaed!
Slightly off topic, but for this chapter [and a few others] I'm going to be using a song that I kinda wrote. It's based off another song, but I changed the lyrics. I can't sing so sadly the song will never see the light of day but whenever I cosplay Padme I always jokingly sing a few lines. I will also be using lyrics from other songs that inspire me when writing the chapter. I'll identify them so no worries! The songs A Little's Enough by Angels & Airwaves is still the main song for the story, it's the one that inspired me to begin with!
***This chapter has been updated...I posted it by accident a bit early. I meant to just save it but I ended up posting it. I apologize, I'll admit I wasn't exactly sober.
Ma said I aint' right
Crushing on you all night
But you're my, you're my guy Ani.
Anakin opened his eyes on to an unfamiliar ship. He felt something moist on his fore head and brought his hand up to touch it, he looked at his fingers which were now stained crimson. Blood. He tried to get up and walk but the restraint around his flesh arm prevented him from going very far.
He heard a cackle and turned to his left, Sidious sat on his throne, "Did you really think you could out run me? Did you really think I wouldn't find you? You thought you were hiding, you thought you were safe. But I've found you, you and your little family."
"You leave them alone." Anakin said through gritted teeth still pulling against the restraint.
Anakin looked to his right and saw Clone Troopers bringing in a young women of sixteen dressed in a white gown, she looked just like Padme. Behind her a boy of the same age that resembled Anakin was being dragged in.
"What a beautiful daughter you have. Looks just like Padme. Such a strong minded woman. She put up such a fight but in the end, well she just couldn't handle it." He laughed and moved motioning to a small still form laying on the ground.
Anakin reached into the Force for Padme, nothing. "NO! Padme!" He screamed dropping to his knees. He felt as if a part of him was gone, he felt nothing, empty. "Kill me, let them go unharmed and you can kill me."
"Daddy no!" Leia screamed trying to fight against the Troopers. "Mommy!" Leia screamed looking across the room, "No please, please leave my father alone."
"Bring her to me!" Sidious demanded, "I want to see how easily she breaks."
"Don't you dare lay a hand on her." Anakin could feel the restraint cutting into his skin.
Leia fought against the Troopers but was ultimately brought in front of Sidious, he laughed and ran a finger down her face.
"Aren't you ever going to tell them? Aren't you going to tell them who you really are! I know he's still in there. I MADE YOU." Sidious screamed sending a bolt of Force lightening, Anakin felt it course through his body it was numbing pain. "I'll kill them all Vader. All these attachments. This was never meant to happen. She was supposed to die on Mustafar and bring these two with her! Come on you useless excuse of a man use your anger!"
"I'm not Vader. I never was! He's gone. He's been gone for a very long time. Padme and my family made sure of it."
"Oh yeah?" Sidious laughed and waved his hand in front of Leia.
"Daddy, make it stop! Daddy please." She cried as her body fell to the floor convulsing.
Anakin jumped up in a sweat. It was just a dream. He pulled the covers off and put his head in his hands trying to use the Force to calm himself.
"Daddy, make it stop! Daddy please." His daughters cried haunted him. He couldn't handle it, first his mother, than Padme, and now his daughter. He was a failure to every woman in his life. How could he keep letting this happen? He was supposed to be the most powerful person in the Galaxy, and yet every woman near him was destined to die a painful death with him watching.
"Anakin." Padme turned over and squinted at him in the dark. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing Angel, go back to sleep." He said reaching over and placing his hand on her covered leg.
"Look at me Anakin, I know when you're lying. Tell me what's wrong." She sat up behind him put her hand on his shoulder.
He raised his head and looked at her, "Another dream."
"Tell me about it." She said and began to massage his shoulders with both her hands.
He relaxed under her touch and began to retell his most recent dream. When he finished she stopped and wrapped her arms around him. "It's not going to happen. Look at the last one you had, and here I am! You couldn't help your mother, and I know it hurts but you have to let it go. It wasn't your fault, it never was. He's doing this to be cruel to you, and it kills me to see you like this. Please Anakin, don't dwell on it. I promise you my love."
"Her voice is haunting me. I can't get it out of my head."
She kissed a line down his neck and across his shoulder. Lifting her head and giving him a seductive smile. She sat back and began unlacing her night gown. "Remember the last time we were in this room together? It was our honeymoon." He turned to look at her and smiled, "Make love to me Ani. Pretend it's that night again." She gave him a shy smile.
"So you want me to fumble and stutter the entire time?" He smiled leaning over her and capturing her lips. Perhaps Padme was right, it's true that she was still here. But she had died again in his most recent dream. He decided to listen to her and not dwell on it for now, not when his beautiful wife was laying before him. He moved his hands down to her hips and pulled her close. "I love you so much."
She kissed him in return and ran her hands down his bare chest. He was about to move his hands lower when a cry was heard from the other room. "There's your daughter's haunting voice now." Padme laughed as Anakin put is forehead to hers and closed his eyes. She playfully pushed him off and re-laced up her night gown hurrying to get Leia before she woke her brother.
Anakin laid with his flesh arm behind his head, this was going to take getting used to.
Anakin awoke the next morning to the feeling of being watched, he opened his eyes and jumped up reaching for his light saber. When he realized who it was he instead pulled the bed sheet around him. "Ryoo! Pooja!"
"Uncle Ani!" A small girl of six with wild brown hair and big brown eyes, and her elder sister of eight Ryoo who resembled her aunt Padme more with long straight hair shouted in unison as they jumped on him.
Padme rolled over in her sleep mumbling with a pleased smile, "No Ani, the chocolate sauce is better here."
The girls looked at each other and than at Anakin who raised an eyebrow, "I guess Aunt Padme is dreaming of ice cream!" Ryoo and Pooja laughed.
Their laughter caused Padme to roll over again and slowly open her eyes. She was met with the sight of her husband, sheet firmly wrapped around him, and her two nieces giggling in his lap. She blushed recalling the dream she awoke from.
"Hello there ladies." She said sitting up and stretching.
"Hi, Aunt Padme." The girls replied in unison.
"Why do I have this feeling Anakin got a much grander hello than I?" Padme said placing her hand over her heart, feinting heart break.
"No idea what you're talking about, right girls?" Anakin laughed. Padme was pretty sure there was a "right" in the giggles the girls were emitting. "Go on, give Aunt Padme a hug. We wouldn't want her to feel left out and heart broken. Be careful though, Aunt Padme is still a little sore." The girls took turns gently hugging their Aunt.
Pooja shot up recalling her Uncles last statement. "The babies! Can we meet them?" she asked jumping up and down on the bed. Anakin caught her mid air with the Force, and she giggled. She loved when Anakin used the Force to do things.
"When they wake up. Their little and need to sleep." he responded putting her back down on the bed.
"My turn! My turn!" Ryoo jumped up.
"There you two are! I've been looking all over for you!" Sola Naberrie, Padme's older sister, appeared in their door way. Sola was a beautiful woman, her presence was always strong and demanding of attention just like all the Naberrie woman. She had her mother's soft blue eyes and her long brown hair pulled neatly into a bun on the top of her head. "Oh I hope they didn't wake you!"
"It's not problem Sola." Padme smiled at her older sister.
"Well well well, what do we have here? Still denying he's your boyfriend? "Anakin Skywalker, look at you! Just when we thought you couldn't be anymore handsome." Sola laughed picking Pooja up off the bed, much to the younger girls disappointment.
"Oh hush now Sola. He doesn't need a bigger ego." Padme said standing up and walking to the fresher.
Ryoo looked at Anakin, who shrugged a response. "Mommy, can I show Uncle Ani, Sanani? Please!"
"Uncle Ani already are we?" Sola laughed, "Well let's leave Uncle Ani alone to get dressed and you can show him Sanani after breakfast."
Anakin laughed as the young girls reluctantly got up and followed their mother out of the room. Sola winked as she closed the door behind her and Anakin couldn't help but feel like the older Naberrie daughter had her thoughts elsewhere. Anakin stood up grabbing his clothes for the day and joining Padme in the fresher before the twins woke.
The Naberrie and Skywalker families all sat around the dinning room table enjoying breakfast. It was a sunny day in Varykino, the dinning area was a wide open space with archways that allowed the sun light to shine in creating colors and shadows in the room ornate furniture. Anakin sat at one head of the table, Ruwee the other. Ryoo and Pooja seats started out on the side of the table next to him, but somehow ended up with the three of them squished at the end. The two fought for his constant attention, telling stories and arguing over the details. Anakin tried his best to keep up with the two of them but they seemed to be speaking faster and changing topics far too often. He was unsure of what they were even babbling on about at the moment but he smile and nodded at each of them in turn. Padme sat to his left smiling as she watched how good he was with her nieces.
"He's going to be a really good father." Sola, who was seated across from Padme, said. "He's so good with the girls."
"He is." Padme nodded, eyes still fixed on her husband.
"I saw him with the twins yesterday, thank the Force he knows how to keep his cool." Jobel added pouring herself more Shuura juice. "Your father could barely handle the two of you and you're two years apart."
"You're mother likes to think that, in fact I was perfectly fine with the two of you." Ruwee said not allowing his wife to drag his name in the mud.
"Oh yeah?" Jobel dared, "This one time I went to my mothers for the day and when I came home Sola was baking cookies and Padme was upstairs in my wardrobe putting on all my clothes and make up. And where were you Ruwee? You were watching Holonet. You said they wouldn't listen to you so you told them to do whatever they pleased! Force knows you were only shy of eight Sola and you six Padme."
The sisters laughed as their father shook his head, "No, you tell the story wrong. Padme told me they were going to play in the sun room not to worry about them. I thought they had fallen asleep."
"I was six!" Padme laughed.
"Uncle Ani, can you make my breakfast float?" Pooja asked giving him puppy dog eyes.
"I think it'd be a better idea if you eat it!" Anakin laughed, he leaned in and whispered to the girls, "If you eat all your breakfast, I'll steal us some ice cream."
The girls giggled "Aunt Padme, why were you dreaming of having ice cream with Uncle Ani?" Ryoo asked moving her food around her plate.
Anakin looked mortified sitting between the two giggling girls, the other adults looked at Padme questioningly. Padme choked on the eggs in her mouth and turned a pale color. "I don't know what you're talking about Ryoo." She was using her Senator voice.
"When we came in your room this morning, in your sleep you said something about how the chocolate sauce would be bette-" Anakin covered Ryoo's mouth with his hand.
"She said that she loves chocolate sauce on her sundaes." Anakin said wide eyed and trying to smile. Ruwee continued to eat pretending to hear none of it while Jobel and Sola shared a laugh.
"Uncle Ani?" Pooja asked pulling at his lightsaber.
"Don't touch that Pooja." Anakin said still mortified.
"Do you always carry your light saber?" She asked her hand hovering the object.
"Yes Pooja, I do. A Jedi is never unarmed." He shoveled more eggs into his mouth.
"Do you let Aunt Padme play with your light saber?" Anakin had to keep himself from spitting the eggs looked at Padme who paled than turned a dark crimson color bowing her head down and staring into her plate. Anakin wasn't sure how much more of this she would take before she exploded. Perhaps he should wake the children through the Force so she'd have an excuse to leave.
"I bet you do Uncle Ani! Aunt Padme, do you like playing with Uncle Ani's light saber?"
Padme stared down into her plate as if it was the most amazing thing in the world. She was absolutely humiliated and horrified at the same time. Did the young girls know what they were say? Or was it simple children's innocence? If she remained quiet hopefully they would give up and move on to something else.
"Is it fun, Aunt Padme? Is it heavy? Does it work for you? Does Uncle Ani need to help you?" The girls kept throwing questions out waiting for someone to answer them.
He could feel Padme's embarrassment through the Force and combined with his it was overwhelming. It's okay angel, just let it go. They don't know better.
He couldn't help but get the feeling like he wanted to join the laughter, maybe that would ease the tension.
Padme glanced at him and could have sworn he was about to laugh. Even if he couldn't hear her through the Force her emotions and facial expression spoke volumes. Don't you dare laugh Anakin Skywalker! She stared daggers at him.
Sola had broken out into a fit of hysterical laughing, clutching her napkin to her chest.
"Girls hush now and finish your breakfasts before you give your Aunt Padme a heart attack." She said in-between laughing.
Anakin spent the rest of the day playing with the girls, taking care of the twins and spending time with Padme.
Anakin meet Sanani, who ended up being a feisty little Voorpak. It nipped at Anakin a few times, but happily sat on Pooja and Ryoo's laps while they ate the promised ice creams. Jobel and Ruwee were watching the twins while Padme and Sola walked through the gardens catching up on lost time.
Later in the afternoon the girls dragged him down to the lake to go for a swim, the day was not scorching hot, but enough that the cool water felt refreshing. The girls jumped in after Anakin racing him to the small wooden floating dock. They took turns jumping in seeing who could create the biggest splash, which resulted in a full on splash war between Anakin and the girls. Padme, who was dressed in a long light blue dress with an open back, her hair pulled up into a twisted braid. She sat on a blanket in the grass with the twins who were happily kicking their feet and watching all the colors and movement around them. Anakin flopped down beside her on the blanket dripping wet.
"Anakin!" She laughed pushing him off, "Don't get the babies wet!"
He laughed picking Luke up, "A little water won't hurt them. Right Luke?" The baby smiled and kicked his feet staring at his father. "See he agrees!"
"Oh Ani." Padme sighed. Leia began to fidget and cry when she realized that her brother was being held and she was not. Padme scooped her up and held her in the air, "Jealous little girl, you can't have all of your daddy's attention." She settled the baby into her arms, "My little princess, I can't wait till your old enough to learn about politics. Wouldn't it be perfect if they came to work in the Senate with me?"
Anakin laughed, "The Senate? Padme they are going to become Jedi, they are so Force sensitive even you can't deny that."
"Jedi? Anakin I don't know how I'd feel about them being in so much danger. It's bad enough I have to worry about you all the time, it would just kill me if all three of you were gone from me."
"Danger? Padme if I recall it was YOU who had a bounty hunter chasing after her along with countless assassination attempts and death threats." Padme couldn't argue with that. "How about we let them decide what they want to do. But if this little guy is anything like me, he'll be a Jedi by the time he can walk." Anakin laid his son back down on the blanket and leaned forward kissing Padme on the forehead. "I better get back to Pooja and Ryoo before they come hunting me down." He stood up and ran back towards the lake where the girls were hunting for some of the beautiful shells that littered the lakes floor.
"I miss this Ani." Padme said as they sat out by the lake while the sunset with the twins. Her nieces were inside after a long battle they were washing up for dinner. "I miss this peace. Just you and me." Leia made a noise from Anakins arms, Padme smiled, "Of course and you two as well. It's as if she knows."
Anakin laughed and laid his daughter flat against his chest. The baby looked up at him with her big brown eyes, he smiled. "Promise me Padme, no matter what, we'll end up here when we're old. This is where I want to cross over into the Force with you."
"Don't be so morbid Ani, that won't be happening anytime soon. But if it eases your mind, I promise." She leaned up and kissed him. "I love you."
"I lov-" Anakin felt a great shift in the Force. Not a dark one, but one of confusion and outrage.
"Ani?"
"They know. He told them. I sensed it." He said shaking his head. Padme kept her smile on her face, but Anakin could sense she was worried, and he knew she felt his worry too.
She leaned her head on his shoulder and they watched the rest of the sunset in silence.
After dinner and tucking in the twins, Anakin and Padme played hide and seek with Pooja and Ryoo until it was time for bed. Surprising no one, Anakin was very good at the game, often being accused of cheating by the other three players.
"I'll see you girls tomorrow, we'll play all day. I promise! Sweet dreams" Anakin kissed Pooja and Ryoo on the forehead as he tucked each of them in. He shut the lights and followed Padme out the door.
"You're amazing with them." She said wrapping her arms around him. She smiled and tilted her head up, he smiled back and brought his lips to hers.
"Let's go to sleep. I have a feeling those two will have me up early." He laughed, "And if not them, my own two!"
She laughed and pulled him into their room.
Anakin thought he was dreaming as he heard the sound of a comlink going off.
"Ani." Padme moaned in her sleep against his chest, "Just answer it."
Anakin rolled over and grabbed his comlink off the night stand. "Hello?" He said in a tired voice.
"Anakin. I don't mean to wake you, I hope everything is alright with Padme and the twins. The Council wants to meet with you as soon as possible. Bring Padme and the babies." Obi-Wan said over the connection.
"Everything is wonderful here Obi-Wan. I felt it earlier today that you told them. We'll be there by morning. May the Force be with you." Anakin jumped up placing the comlink back down on his night table. "Come on Padme, we have to go love."
Padme shot up reaching for the blaster that would be on her night table, "What?" She asked looked around, "Anakin, what's wrong?"
"The Council wants to meet with us. We have to go, I'll get the ship ready, you go tell your parents and gather the twins." He pulled on his clothes and grabbed his robes heading for the landing dock.
Pamde shook her head still unsure if she was a wake or still sleeping. "Alright Anakin, I'm coming. I'm coming."
After an exhausting late night, no sleep flight to Coruscant, they landed on the dock at the Jedi Temple.
Anakin dialed in Obi-Wan's number and spoke into the comlink, "Master, we have landed."
After a few moments the comlink came to life, "Wonderful, the Council has already been in session for a few hours. We await your arrival. I'm glad you had a safe flight."
"Are you sure they requested me as well?" Padme hesitated as she dressed the twins. She had already dressed herself in some of her finest deep purple robes, and pulled her into to buns on the side of her head.
"Last night Obi-Wan said to bring you and the babies. I don't know if they'll actually call you in front of the Council, but I'm sure they want to see the twins." Anakin picked up the dressed Luke, as Padme finished on Leia's nappy and dressed her in a simple white dress. Anakin could feel Padme's nerves as she picked Leia up with shaky hands. "It's okay angel. I promise it'll be okay." Anakin leaned forward and kissed her.
She kissed him back and smiled, "I know Ani, I trust you."
Finally standing outside the chamber doors Anakin took a deep breath a looked down at Padme. "Ready?" she asked.
"As I'll ever be." He said as the doors opened and the pair walked in carrying a sleeping Luke and Leia to the center of the room.
Padme felt like she were back on Geonosis being brought up for trail. There was complete silence in the chamber as everyone present stared on at them.
"Young Skywalker, Senator Amidala." Yoda finally broke the silence. "These children of yours, Force sensitive they are."
Anakin nodded, "Yes Master, we know."
"Mediate on this we have. Decisions we have reached." Anakin took a deep breath unsure of what was coming next. He could only hope for the best and trust that the Jedi would do what was right. He wanted to have faith in them, against what Sidious had told him. "Children we would like here at temple."
And with those words, that faith was shattered. He could feel Padme's emotions turn deep and dark.
"Ani, no!" Padme yelled bringing her children closer to her and taking a step back towards the door. When she turned to see two Youngling Nurses standing at the door, she backed up to Anakin.
"Young Skywalker unlike Master Yoda I'm not going to beat around the bush. We're going to give you two options you give your children to us and continue on your path as a Jedi, or you will be expelled." Master Windu spoke.
Anakin stood still as stone staring straight ahead of him fighting an internal battle. Padme looked up tears streaming down her face, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before stepping forward to the nurses and holding the babies out.
"Here." She said handing them over to the Nurses. She grabbed onto Anakin's side, "Ani." she sobbed hysterically into his robes. His arm wrapped around her pulling her close to him, it's the only part of him that moved. "We'll be able to see them, right? We'll see them growing up here in Temple? Ani, you'll see them everyday?"
Mace shook his head, "No. The children must never know who their parents are. They are not to create attachments." Padme glared at Mace as he spoke.
"Then can't we raise them from our home? We live in 500 Republica. Anakin can bring them here everyday with him, he can teach them. Please Masters." Padme pleaded.
Anakin loathed this, he couldn't stand to hear his wife begging the Jedi Council. His wife was a Queen, she should beg no one. Yet here she stood begging these people for their children. He felt a shift in his emotions, he felt the darkness starting to take over him. They brought him here, trapped him and his wife in this room where they thought they could decide the future of his children. No they didn't call him here, Obi-Wan did.
After a few minutes Yoda spoke up, "Much pain I sense in you Senator, su-"
"That's what happens when you take a woman's children from her." Anakin said through gritted teeth.
"Watch your tone Young Skywalker." Master Windu said sitting up in his chair.
"I won't. I told you this before Padme, and I'll say it in front of them. I don't care about what they think of me. I don't need them to tell me I'm a good Jedi. I know I am good Jedi." Padme could feel Anakin tensing up. "And you, Obi-Wan. You knew about this and you still brought us here."
"Anakin it's not like that-" Obi-Wan started
"LIAR!" Anakin screamed at him, "I'm not allowed to be happy am I? He was right about all of you, you just want to use me because I am the Chosen One."
Padme looked up and saw the changes in his eyes, she grabbed onto the front of his robes, "Ani don't do this, not here."
Obi-Wan sensed Padme's panic and immediately understood what was happening, "Anakin, you must control your emotions. The rules of the Jedi Order apply to everyone the same." Obi-Wan was trying to reason with him, but feared Vader was feeding off his anger and pain. He could sense it and feared that the rest of the Council were also sensing the darkness taking over the young Jedi.
Padme felt Anakin tense up even more at the sound of his former Masters voice, she shot Obi-Wan a warning glare, "Please don't leave me Ani. I can't do this a lone. I love you. Please." Anakin looked down at his wife, he was fighting for the control over his body. "I know you're in there." Padme grabbed his face and kissed him. Anakin still stood like stone, Padme sighed she was going to have to take a different approach. The Council around them stared on in a concerned and confused fascination. "Anakin Skywalker." Padme demanded his attention, she stood with one hand on her hip and the other pointing at him "Don't you dare do this to me. You get this together right now and face your issues. Vader you are not welcomed here, nor will you ever be. So leave my husband a lone, I need him…our children need him. Wait till I get my hands on the Chancellor for doing this to you. I'll…I'll kill him."
Padme watched the change in his face, he closed his eyes and shook his head. "Come on, let's get the twins and go." He turned to the Council and bowed, "Thank you for whatever it is you think you've helped me with."
The two of them turned towards the door and collected their children from the reluctant nurses, exiting the chamber.
"What did we just witness?" Ki-Adi-Mundi asked from his seat. The Cerean looked around at the rest of then Council, who all had similar unsure shocked faces.
"Young Skywalker turn to the Dark Side, and Senator Amidala bring him back." Yoda said putting his head in his hands, "Much to mediate on, this is. Perhaps we were wrong."
Obi-Wan knew what he had to do, he stood up and walked to the center of the Council chamber. "We need to reconsider our options. We can't let him walk away. You just saw it for yourselves Masters. If he falls back into Sidious's hands then we are going to be facing worse issues than this. We all know what he is capable of, and I fear that his anger and resentment towards the Jedi will lead him down the path to the Dark Side. He needs help, our help to keep Darth Vader out of him, I fear the day that Senator Amidala's love is not enough to keep him in the light. And right now her and those children are the only things keeping him from coming in here and chopping all of our heads off. Masters, I have terrible news. I intercepted some high profile information from the Chancellor and I didn't think it was true, but what Padme just said confirmed it. When Anakin was set to return from Mustafar he was to put a plan into action labeled Order 66. It would wipe clean all of the Jedi. Our fears are correct the Clone Troopers work for Sidious. They wanted him to execute the plan, give him a sense of power." All the Masters in the Chamber began to talk amongst themselves. "We need to reconsider, we need to help him. This could be the difference between life or death of the Jedi as we know it."
"Why are you telling us this now?" Shaak-Ti questioned adjusting her golden robes, Obi-Wan would have thought he saw her rust colored skin pale a bit. "Why didn't you tell us before?"
"I was going to tell you after the meeting, just as I am now. But I fear for Anakin now more than ever."
"An attachment you have formed to Young Skywalker." Mace said giving Obi-Wan a knowing look.
"I love Anakin as if he were my brother. But this situation has taken a new turn for the worse. We need to act now." Obi-Wan looked around the chamber, "We need to re-instate him. We need to make him a Master."
Anakin and Padme walked swiftly through the Temple, both wanting nothing more than to leave. Anakin felt the familiar presence but was such in a hurry he didn't think.
"Master Skywalker?"
Anakin stopped dead in his tracks and turned, "Snips."
"Master Skywalker!" Ahsoka 'Snips' Tano came running to her Master. She was a small teenage Togruta with rusty skin and big blue eyes, her lekku and montrals were adorned with a beautiful black and white pattern. She adorned the usual Jedi robes, but more importantly she was Anakin's Padawan. She was about to hug him when she noticed the small form sleeping in his arms. "Master, why do you have a Youngling?" Anakin looked back at Padme who was standing a few feet behind of him, Ahsoka looked past him and saw the Senator standing there with another child in hand.
Padme stepped forward and took Leia from Anakin, who knelt down in front of Ahsoka, "Ahsoka. I am so sorry. I don't mean for this to hurt you. These Younglings are mine and Senator Amidala's."
"How?" Ahsoka asked not sure if she was hearing her Master correctly.
"Well Snips, we went over that didn't we?" Anakin winked. trying to joke with the Padawan.
"How could you do this?" Ahsoka had lost the battle at holding back tears.
"Ahsoka it's not that simple. I-"
"No! No! Now they've expelled you haven't they?"
Anakin lowered his head, "It was my choice."
"Now they're going to give me to a new Master. I don't want a new Master! I want YOU!" Ahsoka took off down the hallway in a hysterical fit.
Anakin looked up at Padme, who tried to give him a small reassuring smile. "That went well."
Author's Notes:
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