Shmi covered her mouth with both hands. They are back together, which meant no more torment for her son. She remembered every year, every month, every day that her son had to survive without Padme. She knew how Anakin suffered.

"I'm so happy to see you together, you belong together. It's going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow...but why are you not in New York with your family?"

"Anakin comes first and...with my family, well...we had a little disagreement about how I have to live my life."

"They are probably still against Anakin."

"They don't know we're back together, I'll tell them when I get the chance, but the time they were able to influence me, is past."

Shmi didn't ask any more, but she knew that Padmé used to be quite under the influence of her parents, she was young and inexperienced back then and that was kind of okay.

"I'm looking forward to tomorrow night with all of you. I'll order something for dinner and we'll prepare Thanksgiving together tomorrow."

"The kitchen isn't big enough, I'll just set the table festively." Cliegg offered help.

"I think Padmé and I in the kitchen, is enough."

"I feel superfluous." Anakin joked and smiled.

Padmé barely approached him, put her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear: "You are needed elsewhere."

He quickly pulled her to him, hugged her tightly, and answered in a whisper. "I can barely wait for it."

Shmi watched and was happy...for her son and hoped not to experience any tragedy this time. That shouldn't happen, they were adults and can talk about the problems arise.

Padme and Anakin stood in a tight embrace in the middle of the kitchen, almost forgetting that they are not alone. Anakin broke away with a big fett kiss.

"What should I order, what would you like?"

"I could eat pizza."…said Shmi, Cliegg and Padmé nodded.

"Good idea, it doesn't always have to be caviar."

Anakin ordered pizza from Nico's, it was delivered an hour later.

They sat there for a long time and told who had done what in the last few years.

Around ten o'clock Anakin got up and checked with some nearby hotels for a double room. He got a room at The Eliot Hotel. His second bedroom was turned into an office, so now someone had to sleep in the hotel.

"We take the room in the hotel."

"Absolutely no way. You should sleep in your bed, we are guests."

"I wanted to sleep on the couch, but it's too small for Padme and me."

"Ani, we take the room in that hotel, no arguments."

"OK. , I'll take you there and pick you up in the morning, so we can have breakfast here all together, talk and start preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I bought everything you wrote down. I don't know if there would be something missing from Padmé's family table."

"No, it will be made the way your mother always prepares it, I'll do it that way...later as well." and winked at him.

Anakin past her and whispered in her ear: "I love you."

Shmi packed a small bag with things that she and Cliegg will need for a few nights at the hotel. Anakin took them to the hotel.

While Anakin was away, Padmé took her clothes out of the suitcase and hung them in the closet, putting her underwear in the dresser drawer. A beautiful blue taddy and matching short kimono she left on the bed to put on after the shower. She took a quick shower and dried her hair, which she left open. Lingerie fit perfectly, it was a luxury Victoria Secret piece, Anakin will be amazed, she thought and smirked. The blanket was pulled to the edge of the bed. She sat with her back against the headboard. With iPad in her hands, she browsed the internet, looking for something...and nothing. She was waiting for Anakin. How will he react?

They haven't even talked about their new-old relationship. She'll tell him again how she feels about him, still feels about him, had always felt for him, what she decided...if he can control himself for that long when she's dressed like that.

The apartment door closed behind Anakin with an impatient bang.

"Padme... where are you?"

"Already in bed."

Oh yes, he thought, just the place he wanted her in, where he wanted her…for so long. The trouble was, there are still some clear words to be spoken before they give each other ...forever.

He came into the room and saw her sitting there. That was Padmé from his dreams. That's how he'd seen her for years, whenever he closed his eyes for the night, but it wasn't a dream this time, she was real. He stood there hypnotized.

"Anakin?"

"I...I wanted to take a quick shower." He squeezed his growing erection.

"Take a cold shower, we still have to exchange a few words."

"You can talk easy, do you know how I feel? It hurts."

She grinned. Anakin showered in record time and emerged from the bathroom naked to sit on the bed next to Padmé... fully erected. She looked at it with a smile.

"We didn't get to talk...well, Anakin, I've really thought about everything..."

He started stroking her thigh.

"So I forget what I was thinking about."

"So you've been thinking... about us and how to proceed, right?"

"Exactely. All these years have been agony for me. I was treated insane, I should forget, I should move on, I should pull myself together, I should keep studying, distract myself…. No one asked at all if I wanted that, at least my parents, but deep down my love for you had never died, no matter what happened. I kept telling myself things, fooling myself. It was until I had this verbal argument with my parents, it was the moment I realized what I don't want and more important, what I want...whom I want. I wanted you, so after this difficult Corona course I decided to see you, to have to see you, to tell you how I feel, no matter if it's the last time, no matter if you reject me or not. You said you still love me and you want me forever, so do I. I love you, Anakin...deeply."

"I love you, you know that, and now I'll show you how much."

She left her iPad on the bedside table and slid into a lying position. He threw his left leg over her and he was on his knees over her thighs. With his fingers he combed the not quite dry curls and caressed her face. His hands slid down the neck, slipping the lacy kimono from her shoulders, followed by the straps of the blue taddy. As her breasts were revealed, Anakin gasped and let his hands grip the curves that felt so perfect in his hands.

"You are beautiful more than ever, Padmé...my love, my only love."

With a few quick movements he slipped the kimono off his body and pulled the teddy down to the navel where he kissed tenderly. Then he freed her from the beautiful lingerie by slipping it over her legs. He grabbed both feet and kissed each toe, put her legs over his shoulder and slowly lay down. Her flat stomach was his next target where he took his time kissing and biting lightly, which he immediately licked off. So he continued the hike down and buried his face in her crotch. The scent so familiar...Padmé was...longing...heaven. He tongued her most sensitive spot and heard Padmé's moans, true music to his ears. She arched her back as he inserted his tongue and she pleaded.

"Ani, please, I need you...in me, please."

"Yes, just a little longer, then it will be even better..."

"Ani please..."

He was her Ani again. He shouldn't tease her, not make her beg and he was also about to explode. Then he crawled up on her and kissed her deeply. "Put your legs up on my back...and I don't know how long I can hold it up, I..."

He slid into her with his full length, she cried out. "Are you OK. ?

"Yes, but you're so big...now..."

He smiled and started to move...faster and faster. It wasn't long before he felt her walls kramp and felt her fingernails deep in the skin of his back. That was all he needed to reach his own orgasm. They buried their faces in the crook of each other's necks and cried…..like long time ago.

Anakin kissed her tears away.

"Shhh, don't cry Padmé...it was wonderful, why are you crying?"

"Yes it was, and because it was like that...it was like it used to be...or even better. Looking in your eyes at the most beautiful moment...it's a feeling like no other...and why are you crying?"

"I love you so much, no one is like you, Padmé, no one."

"...and no one is like you...love me Ani. Only now that I have you again, I know how I missed you, how I missed your closeness, only now I can realize how terrible it was to be alone, how useless my life was."

And indeed, after a few minutes the lovemaking continued. They made love a few times that night and fell asleep in each other's arms.

The next morning, Anakin picked up his parents and Thanksgiving day began with breakfast together, after which they all got busy preparing for the festive dinner. Shmi showed Padme everything she wanted to know and adopt.

In the evening they dressed nicely, put everything on the table in the dining area, gave the hands each other and said a little prayer, thanked God for the gifts and for the happiness they found again, after that they enjoyed the delicious meal.

Shmi saw how happy Anakin was, he was shining, Padmé was back and that was enough to make him feel that way. He held her hand most of the time and just smiled, what he rarely did before. He had seemed sad for years, what he actually was.

Padmé brought him back to life.

She felt like she was beginning to live again. She didn't want to think about the past anymore. She was here in the present, with Anakin, and felt like it was seven years ago, or better.

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Best regards from Germany