Chapter 01 of The Good Emperor and The Good Empress.

I don't own Star Wars. All the credits go to George Lucas.

Warning: Mention of Rape

Padmé was working away in her office for the upcoming Paris Fashion Week. She has been selected to come there and there is only 3 months left. She is still working on the last 3 designs. The theme was renaissance themed. Now it was lunch break. Tomorrow was their anniversary and Padmé was excited what was her beloved husband up to. Then she smiled as she recalled the memory of how they met...

It was a beautiful sunny day at Naboo. As Anakin was walking down a bricked street, he heard joyful music filling the air.

"What's that Sound?" Anakin questioned. The guards were not there at the moment. He insisted to be alone, much to his father's chagrin, Qui Gon agreed and he let his youngest son go. Anakin walked to where the music was producing and what he saw took his breath away. He saw a beautiful woman reading a book, sitting on a bench near a fountain. She had curly chocolate brown hair and chocolate brown hair. Her beauty was outstanding. She was wearing a long red skirt with intricate flower designs and a yellow, short sleeved top. Her hair was clipped on in the sides. Anakin was staring at her long enough for her to notice.

"Can I help you?" asked the brunette beauty.

"Are you an angel?" Anakin asked with curiosity.

"Excuse me?" the woman asked.

"I said are you an angel, because I have never seen such a beautiful woman in this whole galaxy." Anakin managed to mumble out bravely.

"Well you flatter me, but I am certainly not an angel. I am just an ordinary woman. I am Padmé by the way." Padmé introduced herself.

"I am Anakin" introduced Anakin.

"Aren't you the Emperor's son? Oh my force! I am so sorry!" Padmé quickly gathered herself and bowed.

"No! Don't bow!" Anakin quickly picked her up and her brown doe eyes met Anakin's azure blue eyes. Padmé became lost in his eyes and quickly looked away.

"I am so sorry I should know better to not speak in this manner. I just had a bad day at home. I probably shouldn't bother you now." Padmé said as she was packing up her things to leave.

"No please don't go. I want to know you better. If you want." Anakin blurted out.

Padme smiled.

"Are you asking me on a date Your Majesty?" Padmé asked. Anakin just smiled sheepishly and nodded.

"Well come, I have a good place to talk." Padmé invited.

"Also don't call me Your Majesty call me Anakin, I hate being called that." Padmé nodded and said "Ok, Anakin".

Padmé and Anakin went to this beautiful meadow and sat down on the field. The conversation started out light getting to know each other better and all but the conversation was starting to get deeper. You see, Padmé didn't have an easy life, her father was very abusive to her, her sister, and her mother. She ran away to live with her grandmother Winama at the age of 14 and she opened up her little clothing shop when she was 16. She made all kinds of designs and met a wealthy man who said he will help her. His name was Palo and at first he was a gentleman and they started a relationship. But after sometime, he became abusive and started to hit her. She told him stop but one day he shoved her into the floor and raped her horribly. She was 17 at the time. And she finally reported him to the police and she had a security from the police ever since. She proceeded to tell Anakin her life story and she was practically sobbing.

"I am sorry, I shouldn't burden you with this." Padmé said while sniffling.

"Hey it's ok, I am really sorry what happened to you. I mean you are really strong and brave. Some girls won't even trust a man if something like this happened to them. You are really strong." Anakin tried to comfort her.

"Well it's getting dark we should probably go. And Anakin, thank you for your time you made my day a lot better." Padmé said.

"Of course it's no problem. Will I ever see you again?" Anakin asked.

"Really? That was my question too. I would love to see you again." Padmé replied.

And after a few dates they fell in head over heels in love with each other and 2 months later. Anakin asked her to marry him and she said yes. They had a big wedding right after he was crowned Emperor. After 1 year they had twins Luke and Leia.

Padmé smiled at the memory. Lunch break was over a pond she went back to her work. After few hours she picked Luke and Leia from Primary school. She went home with the twins and enjoyed the rest of the day together with her husband and her children.

So in this story Anakin will be 2 years older than Padmé. I will do an age check next chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. This story was inspired Lilac moon's story.