"I know we've been working together for years, but I still have no idea how you keep track of all this," Anakin said, going through the list of members of the Naboo Senatorial Delegation.

"Working together?" Padme asked, smiling. "Is that what they call it these days?"

Anakin chuckled.

"You know what I mean, love," he said. "I'm no good at politics… that's something Obi-Wan is better at."

He made a face. "Though he doesn't like it. He made me into the hero of rescuing the Chancellor."

"That's Obi-Wan for you," Padme shrugged. "Though you did deserve a lot of it. You defeated one of the Sith, that's something where you and Obi-Wan are the only two living Jedi to do it."

Anakin nodded, half his attention still on the list of members. "Who's Janus Greejatus? I don't think I've met him."

"He was the Senator after Palpatine and before Vancil, who was before me," Padme answered. "I think you've scrolled back too far."

"Probably," Anakin admitted, putting the datapad down, then frowned. "That's a weird middle name."

"What is?" Padme asked. "I didn't know Senator Greejatus had a middle name."

"Not his, the Chancellor's," Anakin explained, picking the datapad up again. "He's on here too. Sheev Attachments Palpatine."

Padme stifled a laugh.

"I don't think I ever scrolled back that far," she admitted. "He never even called himself Sheev to me, though I did know his first name… I wonder where he got that name."

"Maybe Obi-Wan has an idea," Anakin guessed. "Though if I mentioned attachments to him these days, he'd just-"

Anakin stopped, so suddenly that Padme looked up in worry.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Attachments are what draw Jedi to the Dark Side," Anakin said, repeating the old Jedi doctrine. "I wonder if it means him?"

"You think the Chancellor might make someone fall to the Dark Side?" Padme repeated.

She thought about her meetings with him.

"...yeah, I'd buy that," she said. "He's very willing to get more and more power for someone who said he didn't want it…"


AN:


Well, it's one interpretation.