Padmé knew she didn't have much time. She carefully laid the twins on the cloak Anakin had laid down earlier In the day.
"okay" she said breathlessly. "Coruscant can't be that far." She looked at the panel in front of her confused. She tried to remember buttons she had pressed before and levers she had pulled to get a ship started, but the situation fogged her mind. "We just have to make it to Coruscant my loves." She whispered before taking off. Before leaving Anakin behind.
After the painful mess of trying to set a course she managed to get them on a steady flight.
She shouldn't feel guilty but all she could feel was guilt. Anakin threw his entire life away for her and for her children yet here she was running from him. It was all so cruel. Everything. The pain hit her worse then anything before. She never imagined a life without Anakin. From the moment she met him she knew. She knew he would one day father her children and she thought they would be happy. She thought the worse that could happen was the Jedi order expelling him. Never this.
She sobbed, loud messy sobs. Shrieking in the pain and toil it had caused. Yet again through all this pain, why did she feel guilty for leaving him? He had changed. He was now a Sith. He had slaughtered so many. It disguised her that she even felt the slightest bit of remorse for drugging and leaving him. Yet her mind wandered back to earlier.
His eyes. They weren't entirely yellow. Darth Vader hadn't fully consumed him. All she could think of was that she left Anakin. She left Anakin to fight Darth Vader alone.
Her sobs eventually became more controlled. Having her children helped to calm her.
Slowly she could see Coruscant come into view. She landed near the Jedi temple. It may have seemed risky, but she needed help.
The hatch opened and she began to walk out. There were no longer bodies littered along the path although you could see blood smeared along the walk way where the bodies had been.
She continued to walk into the Jedi temple.
"Obi-Wan?" She yelled. "Obi-Wan if you're here please we need your help." In an instant Obi-Wan came into view. It took him a moment but he eventually saw Padmé and when he did, he ran towards her and her children.
"Padmé!" He exclaimed. "You're alright!" He said. He was going to hug her but realized that she carried two children. "Oh Padmé I am so sorry. I wish I could have helped with the birth, that must have been dreadful." Padmé's eyes filled with tears again. Obi-wan took Luke from her. "He is Luke." She told him. "And this is Leia." She said with a slight smile. "I didn't know you were carrying twins." He said. "We didn't either." She said letting a tear escape. "Oh Obi-Wan!" She let herself go completely. She collapsed onto the ground careful though not to disturb Leia.
"It was terrible!" She said through sobs. "It's okay now Padmé you're safe. Your children are safe. Can you tell me what happened while he held you prisoner?" Prisoner. The word sliced into her causing her to wince.
"He-he-" but once again all that followed was cries. "He held me in an apartment and locked me in." She wiped her face with the collar of her shirt. "I managed to escape but-b- but Palpatine, he found me." She shrieked. "H-he tried to kill Me. An-Anakin attacked the emperor and took me aboard a ship." She placed her head in her palms allowing her to collect herself before continuing. "He helped me give birth, and for a while I thought I still had him, but he took us back to Mustafar." She said. "I drugged him Obi-Wan. And I left him there all alone. And I can't forgive myself." She said bawling again. Obi-wan put an arm around her in an attempt to comfort her.
"We have been trying to keep tabs on Darth Vader all month. I think the others would be very interested in hearing your story Padmé." Obi-Wan said.
Darth Vader. Another thing that cut her heart in two. It seemed as though Obi-Wan believed Anakin was gone that Darth Vader had already won. Padmé desperately wanted to believe Anakin was still alive but with each passing second it seemed less and less likely. But what if he had come back. What if Anakin was winning and Padmé leaving allowed Darth Vader to fully consume him.
Every time this crossed her mind she choked on sobs.
...
She didn't sleep very well anymore. Who could? Her mind hadn't stopped racing. It had been another two weeks and it was still the only thing on her mind. She clung to the images of Anakin holding their children as if she need it as much as she needed to breathe. She clung to hope.
"Padmé?" Obi-Wan spoke softly. Padmé turned around. "Padmé we found Anakin." Anakin. He hadn't called him Darth Vader.
"He is on Tatooine. He is with his family. Padmé I have a plan." Obi-wan said.
"When you told me about what happened you said that Anakin attacked the Emperor in an effort to save you. Padmé I think he is still in there. I think we can bring him back. But he will only listen to you."
Instantly Padmé started to cry. He wants her to go back. She wanted to see Anakin but was too afraid to find Darth Vader instead. "Ob-Obi-Wan." She said her breath shaky.
"Are you okay with this?" He asked her. She shook her head. "We'll leave shortly." He said placing a hand on her shoulder and pulling it away after a brief moment.
...
"Padmé are you sure you're okay with this?" Obi-Wan said. "I want my husband back. If this is how I get him then so be it."
And off they went.
Padmé wasn't worried about the children too much as she knew they were in good hands with senator Organa.
Before she had time to comprehend the situation their ship landed.
There he was. She saw Anakin standing on a mound of sand watching the two suns rise. She didn't think, just walked towards him. Each step she took was a step closer to getting Anakin back. Each step was a step closer to the life she had always wanted, until finally she was right behind him.
She placed a hand on his shoulder. "Ani?" She whispered. Anakin turned around. "You left me." He said softly.
"I am so sorry Ani. I was scared, I-I didn't know what else to do." Padmé said.
"Go." He said. She was taken back by this. "Padmé leave. I said go." He said sternly. What happened to him?
Tears built up in her eyes. "Fine. Fine Anakin you want me to go? Let them finish you!" She yelled.
"what?" He said.
Rage filled her. He was gone. She couldn't see him anymore. "Anakin I was brought here to SAVE you."
"like hell you were. I bet you just brought the enemy here to kill me."
"Anakin why do you always think everyone is out to get you?" She yelled.
"because they are. " He replied coldly.
"Anakin everyone who had ever loved you is on this planet, your family, me, Obi-Wan-"
"he's here?" Anakin asked quietly.
"Anakin the only people who ever cared about you you now call enemies."
"liar."
Rage fueled her. "Liar? I have always been there for you Anakin, even when everyone else turned their backs on you." She yelled.
"you're a liar." He said coldly.
"I don't even know who you are anymore. How could you say that?"
"You don't love me anymore, you turned your back on me." He said quietly. He was fighting back tears. Padmé saw his Addams apple bob up and down.
Padmé fell to the ground as she sobbed. She wanted him to come back to her, but she felt it was impossible.
"I love you more than I love anyone in this galaxy. I would give up anything for you. Just you, my Anakin Skywalker. For the boy on Tatooine! The boy that won races and battles for my love. The boy who carved me necklaces to remember his face for decades. The boy who held me in his arms under the moonlight in Naboo! I would give up my breath, my soul, my life to see you walk in the light again. How can you say I don't love you, Anakin? For me, you are my galaxy. My life source. Yet you don't even notice me anymore.You don't care about my feelings or my wants."
Anakin sank to his knees in front of her, listening to her words carefully.
"Words do not exist that can confess to you how I feel about you, Anakin. You are my husband, the second half to my being. But you won't work with me! We are supposed to make decisions together! Not take seperate sides of a war!
We're supposed to fight in unity, not against each other! I don't understand how you could let your pride, your greed, your hunger for power come above me! I've lived my life as a lie to be with you. I've hidden a marriage, our children, my wants, and my needs from the outside world to protect us. So that we can exist! You can't even look past your nose to see that I am falling apart! That I can't be apart of the Sith's schemes. But I need you! Why can't you need me! Why can't you give up the dark for me? I've given you everything!"
"you love me?" He whispered.
"more then anything." She said.
"my love." He said as he pulled her in for a kiss. The two shared a kiss for a long while. His hands roamed her brown hair and Padmé held her arm at his side. She missed this so desperately.
"Anakin, leave this place with me. Please. I know there is good in you and I can see you fighting. But you can't let yourself sink. You can't let yourself sink further into the sand. Please Ani. It's not too late."
She looked at him with pleading eyes.
"I killed him." Anakin said. "Palpatine he's dead." A look of relief and happiness came across Padmé's face.
"Darling that's wonderful news! Now we can leave this behind. Start a new life with our children. Be happy. The fight is over! The war has been won! You destroyed the Sith!" She said excitedly.
"you don't get it." He said. "Padmé I can't go back. The Sith is not destroyed." He said.
"I am the new Sith."
*Just wanted to say sorry if some things don't line up this is my first fanfic.*