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Chapter Two
It is a beautiful morning on Coruscant. Padmé walks into her kitchen to get a cup of coffee. Clovis will be over in an hour to start the long day ahead of them to find a solution to the newest crisis. They decided to meet at her place instead of the office so they were less likely to be interrupted and can be more focused on the task at hand. As she takes her coffee to the balcony she absentmindedly caresses the necklace Anakin made her. She thinks about him and hopes he is okay. She hadn't heard any news of the Hero with No Fear lately so she worries. "Oh Ani." She says to herself. "Come home soon." She is startled from her thoughts as Rush enters her apartment.
Rush notices her jump. "Padmé, sorry to have startled you. Your servant let me in." He states as he sets all of his work down and walks over to her and kisses her hand again.
"It's okay. She knew to let you in. My mind was just elsewhere; on more peaceful times." Padmé says.
"Ah. I understand. This war has been going on for a while now and is stressful. How about we get to work and see if we can't figure out a way to help get to the end of the war sooner rather than later." Rush says as he takes a seat on the couch motioning for her to do the same.
"That would be great." Padmé says as she sits down next to him and picks up a datapad.
After spending hours of looking over the information Padmé gets up and stretches. "How about a break?" She asks.
"A break is exactly what we need." Rush says as he stands up and walks over to the balcony.
He leans on the railing and looks at Padmé in the kitchen grabbing food for them.
"How about tonight we go to the Opera?" He asks while she sets the food on the table. "I think it might do us some good to get away from all of this and allow us to clear our heads to come up with a plan."
"I don't know Rush. Shouldn't we stay here and keep working? If we leave now, we might get off track or miss something that could help." She states as she takes a bite of food.
Rush walks over to the table and grabs some food as well. "A couple of hours away from all this will do us some good. If we don't do the Opera than how about a walk around Coruscant? I could use the fresh air and a chance to just think without everything in front of me." Rush says as he looks to her with sincerity in his eyes.
"A walk sounds like a great idea." Padmé says.
After they finish with their food they head out for their walk. Unbeknownst to Padmé that her holopad was flashing for an incoming message.
Anakin sighs in frustration that Padmé is not picking up. He was hoping he would reach her by now. Only three days away from reaching Coruscant and finally in range to get a hold of her but she wasn't answering. He figures she is busy with her new assignment but he desperately wants to see her and hear her voice.
Rex walks into the cockpit and sees that his General is upset. "Everything okay Sir?"
"Yes Rex, just anxious to get back to Coruscant." Anakin says. "I am ready for a break from all of the action. I am sure the men would like some down time as well."
"Yes Sir. We have all fought hard and could use the time to heal and make repairs." Rex says.
"Hey Rex, could you see if there is any way to push the hyperdrive a little harder so we can get back sooner?" Anakin asks. He could do it himself, but he also likes to let the troops have the chance to try different things as well. Since he already showed a couple of them how to do it, it was time to see if his teaching paid off.
"I will get right on that." Rex says as he leaves the cockpit.
As Padmé and Rush walk along Coruscant, Rush grabs Padmé's hand to lead her to a statue in the garden area of the grounds around the Senate building.
"Do you remember this statue?" He says while looking at her still holding her hand.
Padmé looks at it and smiles. "Of course I remember this statue. It is the one where they lined us up to take our picture of the new Senators."
"Yes, but do you remember what happened for our incoming class picture?" He asks again with a huge smile on his face.
"That's right. I do remember! One of the Senators tripped and started a domino effect on the rest of us!" She says laughing. "Our picture looked like a comedy of errors!"
"Thankfully I was standing next to you so I could catch you." Rush says as he puts his arm around her shoulder.
Padmé is torn on what to do. She wants this to be just a friendship but do friends do this? It did feel good though to have an arm around her, but it was the wrong arm and she knows it. She finally shrugs Rush's arm off of her shoulders and turns to him.
"Yes Rush, these are great memories but they are what is in the past. Let's work on the future and more importantly let's work on stopping Scipio from being a war torn planet. I think we should call it a night and start again in the morning. Thank you for the walk." And with that, Padmé walks to her building and leaves Rush standing there.
He is disappointed the memories didn't work the way he wanted but she did tell him to focus on the future, so there was hope for him yet. He walks to his apartment smiling, thinking about the possibilities of their future together.