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Padme realized that she must be sleeping because the last thing she remembered was putting the twins to bed before she herself laid down for the night and the next thing she knew she was in dark room watching her Ani be tortured by the monster that was Palpatine. She knew it was a dream since the two men did not seem to see her and when she cried out and tried to free Anakin her hand went straight through him. Since the former queen of Naboo new she was not dead, her second guess was this had to be some sort of nightmare conjured up due to her worry over her husband. Dreams, especially nightmares, were made up of your foremost worries and fears.

"You could have been strong you know." The Sith Lord was pacing in front of Anakin who was chained to some sort of wall and occasionally he would stop to shoot lightning from his finger tips trying to make the 'Chosen One' break down and scream, but he never did. "You could of had it all. I was willing to take you under my wing and how do you repay me? You thought you could kill me! Did you honestly believe I wouldn't find out the truth? If you entertained such an idea for even a second, you are still a stupid child. What are you fighting for? Love? Love makes you weak! Why do you think I went to so much trouble in order to make you have that vision of Padme dying in childbirth? I knew it would separate you from the Jedi and it worked. I never thought she would actually live this long, you were supposed to kill her before she gave birth; your guilt over her death would have fueled your hatred. You could have been the best and helped ruled the galaxy by my side, but you wasted that chance on love. You're pathetic! What does love get you? I'll tell you what it gets you; a painful death is what you get though you will see your precious family die first. Maybe I will keep the children alive and raise them to be the way you should have been, but your wife will die a slow and extremely painful death I promise you this."

Padme realized that she should probably be worried about the threat on her life and his plans for her children, but she wasn't. In fact, she was actually rather calm considering. Since this was a dream or perhaps a vision of some sort, there had to be a reason as to why she was seeing it. The best thing she could do was pay attention to detail in case this whatever it was actually came to pass. That would be the only way she and Anakin would be able to get out of the situation alive and hopefully unharmed. Fear would do no good in this situation and so she pushed her fear to the side. It was something she needed to do for the sake of her family because fear was selfish and the former queen would not let selfishness endanger her family.

"You don't know anything about love." Dream Anakin replied with a cold expression on his face. "What Padme and I have is unbreakable even in death. If you kill it won't destroy the love we share. No matter what you do, you cannot break us apart and that terrifies you. for as strong as you are, for all the power you have, you are still unable to break us apart. We are stronger together and you know that. All you care about is power and for a while you have me thinking power and how much I could obtain, but I came to see something along the way. You could have all the power in the world and in the end it means nothing if you end up alone. Of course you have people who follow you out of fear and yet they will turn on you as soon as they can find a way out. I would rather be powerless surrounded by people and I love who love me back than powerful and have nobody who really cared for me. The only reason I ever joined you was because I could not bear the thought of losing my wife and unborn children. Once upon a time I actually respected you, but that was before I saw the truth and I have never been so glad to have been proven wrong before. Padme helped me see what I wanted in life and it has nothing to do with you or the power you promised me. I have everything I could ever want and you have nothing. One day you are going to see that and everything will come crumbling down around you. When that happens I am going to be there, you can count on that."

Palpatine laughed before he shot more lightning from his fingers and this time the strike appeared to hold more power which meant more pain though Anakin still did not break by screaming. Padme wished that she could take away his pain and yet since this was a dream she was smart enough to realize her husband wasn't really experiencing the pain in the real world. A part of her wished she could interact in this dream or have some guide that could tell her what she should be looking for. There had to be something and if she could figure out what it was then maybe, maybe she could stop a disaster from taking place. Taking a step closer since she did not need to worry about being seen or heard. It was while she was studying the Sith Lord that she realized every single time Anakin mentioned the word love or anything remotely close to it, he would flinch as if it caused him actual pain.

Was that his one weakness? Was this why the Sith hated emotions such as love? Maybe that was the reason behind everything. It's why Palpatine worked so hard to sever every emotional relationship in Anakin's life. He had needed him to be alone in order to corrupt him, but he hadn't counted on the fact Anakin had a wife who would do anything for him. Losing her memories had actually saved her husband of that she was sure and right when she came to that realization, a bright like filled her vision though she did manage to hear her husband's final statement before his voice trailed off.

"In the end love always wins. You may not believe that now, but you will soon learn the truth. Yes, you may succeed in killing me now, but you are the one who is dead."

In the next second Padme shot up in bed as she woke from her nightmare. The first thing she did was look over at the babies sleeping in the crib to be sure they were alright and then she quickly got up out of bed. She needed to inform Yoda of her dream and her suspicions about love being a weakness for the Sith. While it was late she knew it was better to do it now rather than wait because if she waited there was the chance she may end up sleeping and that was not a risk she could take. Yoda would not mind because this was important and from what she could remember of him he was very understanding.

Pulling on her robe she checked on the twins once more before heading out after locking the door. She would have taken them with her, but she thought they needed their sleep and she would only be a few minutes. "Ani, everything you have done was because you love me and you wanted to keep me safe. Well now it is my turn to save you and I am not going to let you down."

TBC...

AN: I hope that you all liked this chapter and I am sorry it took me so long to update, but my birthday was the seventh and I have been busy.

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