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Padme had started to grow concerned when she did not hear from Anakin. Usually she could feel his presence as if she were watching over using the powers of the force, but for the last couple of days his presence was no longer there. She knew she was alive, she wasn't sure exactly how she knew that, but the fact of the matter was she did. Knowing that her husband was still alive did not do anything to alleviate her worry because if he was alive and not watching over her and the twins, did that mean he had been harmed or captured by one of the remaining Jedi? What would she do if he had? Was there anything she could do? Also, how would she find out what had happened to him? It wasn't as if she could ask Obi-Wan to track him down and because most of her memories were still MIA, she had no idea who else could help her.

"Padme!" Suddenly she was thrust out of her thoughts by Obi-Wan who burst in to the room with his light saber drawn and armed. "We must leave now! Gather the twins as quickly as you can and do not bother with personal belongings. We will get you whatever you need when we find somewhere safe."

The former queen of Naboo was confused as he pulled her towards her feet and towards where the twins lay sleeping. "I don't understand; what is going on?"

He didn't even bother to pause as he replied to her question. "Darth Vader has finally made a move. My sources tell me that he has gathered a small army and is headed this way. What I cannot figure out is how he managed to trace your signature here. I have been doing whatever I could to block it from him. I can only guess that the twins combined force signature was simply too much for me to block. Either way it doesn't matter any, we need to leave as soon as possible, the further we get away before he arrives the better our chances will be at hiding from him for a longer period of time."

Padme still did not understand why they had to leave as she picked up the twins who had started fussing. They could feel that something was wrong. "Hush now Luke and Leia, it will be alright I promise you. Mommy is going to keep you safe. Obi-Wan, why would this Darth Vader to be after me? What could I have done that warrants such an attack?"

"You took his children Padme." The master Jedi told her forgetting the fact that she had no idea her husband was Darth Vader. "You left him and he is going to do whatever he must in order to get them back."

Suddenly it all clicked in her mind though the last thing she wanted to do was believe it. "You're saying that Darth Vader is Anakin? No, you have to wrong. He wouldn't the terrible things you've said this Darth Vader has done. You are mistaken, he had done some dark things, I will not argue with you about that, but he wouldn't he couldn't-"

Obi-Wan was quick to cut her off. "He could and he has Padme. I know you want to see the good him, but any good Anakin once had in him is now gone. It disappeared the day he turned his back on the Jedi. I realize that you don't want to accept it, but you need to do it for the sake of your children. They are going to need you to be strong, especially when I kill their father. I have thought about this long and hard and there is no other way. I will do what I must in order to ensure what is best for the people of this galaxy and you should as well. The sooner you do, the easier it will be for you to move on."

"You wish me to condone the murder of my husband and the father of my children?" Padme asked her eyes filling with a fire the Jedi master had never seen before. It reminded him of the look in Anakin's eyes that day not too long ago on Mustafar. "I can't do that, I won't. You may have turned your back on him for good, but I am not like you."

Padme realized that she had just basically blown her cover and yet a part of her did not care. This was her husband they were talking about for crying out loud and she did not care what he had done, she was not going to abandon him like everyone else. The last thing she would let happen was for someone to take the father of her child out of this life. She would fight until her last breath to make sure that did not come to pass.

Something in her words caught Obi-Wan's attention and right then he knew that he had been played. Padme had never run from Anakin, it was a play to get her children back. Anger coursed through his veins, but he managed to push it back somehow. "You intend to run back to him even after everything he has done. The people he killed, it doesn't matter to you does it? You are willing to forgive him for everything! You would let that monster raise Luke and Leia? No, I cannot let that happen. I will not allow to let Anakin ruin your life and the life of your children. I lost Anakin to the dark side, but I refuse to lose you to it as well Padme. If it is the last thing I do, I will find a way to free you from his hold."

Before she could say or do anything to defend herself, Padme felt a pressure on her throat, it wasn't like someone was choking the life out of her, rather they were trying to put her to sleep and it was working. The last conscious thought she had was seeing her children being lifted from her arms by the force as Obi-Wan floated them over to him and then darkness took over as she fell to the ground never knowing at that precise moment, her husband had tuned in on her mind and seen everything that his old mentor had said and done. It was then the fate of all involved was officially sealed.

TBC…

AN: Hey people, I am so sorry it has taken me so long to update, but things are happening and it could not be helped. I am leaving Monday to see a doctor out of state and I am not sure how long I will be gone for. I will try to update if I can, but if I cannot then you know why and you know that I have not abandoned this story. Anyways, I hope you liked the chapter and I would love to hear your thoughts, if it sucked well I was tired.

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