Lasting
Love
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I love you, my
Queen
Out of the corner of Obi-Wan's eye he saw
them. The pilot, the wookie,
Luke, and her. Just like her mother.
For
you, my love
Obi-Wan pulled his lightsaber up and Vader
stuck.
20
years earlier...
Queen
Amidala of Naboo stared at the Night Sky above her. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi, held her hand and stared with her.
"What
are you thinking about?" Obi-Wan asked
"You.
Me. Anakin."
"You
love him, don't you?"
Amidala
turned to him "Honestly, I don't really know."
"You do. I can see it in your eyes."
Amidala
grabbed his other hand "but I don't want to lose you!"
He
kissed her. "You never will."
She
sighed. "I'm afaird."
"I
knew you are."
The
next morning, Queen Amidala was busy in her Royal Chambers
with Chancellor Palpatine.
"Chancellor,
what an unexpected vist." To her right stood Ani and to
the left was Obi-Wan.
"Yes,
well there have been serveal new... um... developments within
the Republic that includes Naboo."
"Such
as?"
"Perhaps
we should talk in private?"
"Of
Course." Amidala waved her guards
and handmadiens off
"The
Jedi?"
Amidala
felt Obi-Wan and Ani stffen. She
motioned for Ani to bend
own, which he did.
"I
don't trust him, Amidala."
"I
do. He would never try anything!"
"But..."
"No,
Ani. Go. Stand outside the door if you wish, but go."
Anakin
Akywalker stood up "As you wish, your highness."
Obi-Wan
took her hand and kissed it. "May
the Force be with you."
He wispered and left with a Jelous ANakin.
"Now,
Chancellor." Amidala said
"Yes
back on task. The Senate believes that
you should marry."
"What!?"
"Yes
they think that it would be best for Naboo..."
"Chancellor
Palpatine, I never..."
"PLEASE!
Your highness. They just believe
that..."
"Enough!
Chancellor, please forgive me but I do not intend to marry
anytime soon. It should be MY decision."
"Now,
please stay long enough for our dinner party tonight. It must be a long time sinve you've had a
wonderful supper at your home. Now if
you'll excues me." Amidala hurried out
of her Royal Chambers almost knocking Anakin to the ground. He grabbed her.
"Careful
Padme" he said
Amidala
sighed "Ani..."
"Padme
suits you better."
"Okay,
Okay."
Obi-Wan
paced back and forth on Amidala's balcony until he felt her
prence behind him.
"Obi-Wan?"
"Amidala,
I have to go."
"What?
Why?"
"Jedi
Master Yaddle is very ill and all the Jedi have been called back.
That and Master Yoda would really like to
speak with me."
"Obi-Wan..."
"Please
don't make this any harder."
Dinner
went without a diaster. Thankfully. The next morning though...
Chancellor
Palpatine said farewell to Amidala and Obi-Wan's farewell was brief.
"Good-bye
my Padme."
"Good-bye,
Ani." Anakin pulled out a velvet box and opened it.
Inside was a beatiful Gold Ring with writing
on it. "Will you marry me?"
Amidala
didn't know what to say. "Let me
think about it, Okay?"
ZZZZZ
Amidala
stared out her window. Ani and Obi-Wan had been gone for
six months. Her handmadien Sabe appeared at her door with a message from Jedi
Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"Obi-Wan!"
Amidala quickly switched the holo on and there was his
face.
"Greetings
your Highness." Imedetly Amidala knew something was
wrong. "Hello, Master Kenobi."
Obi-Wan
sighed "For six months now Yoda and I have been talking about you and me,
Amidala. He believes it would be best
if you married
Anakin."
Amidala
felt the tears in her eyes. "But, Obi-Wan."
"Please,
Ani is on his way there now." and the screen went black.
Amidala slumped to her bed and sobbed.
Amidala
and Anakin's wedding was held 3 months later on Naboo. It was a grand affair. Palptine, Obi-Wan, Bail Organa, and Bail's
wife were
among some of the people present.
After
dinner, Amidala dances with Bail Organa of Alderaan.
"I
want to thank you, your highness." Bail said
"For
what?"
"For
allowing Sache to marry me and leave you behind."
Amidala
laughed "Please I had to practilly kick her out of here."
"Shows
great loyalty."
"Yes,
indeed. If you are going to thank
anyone, thank those who
brought Sache to Corscant."
"and
that would be you."
Obi-Wan
pulled her asside after her dance with Bail. "Dark Skys are
coming Amidala. Be careful." and left. Amidala simply stared after him.
Obi-Wan's profecy was a true one. Not long
after the wedding Anakin was
called back to Corscant."
"Your
highness!" Panaka yelled "come see this!" But before Amidala
could move Panaka brought a holo in and
switched it on. It was a full length
image of Chancellor Palpatine. "Citzens of the Repbulic. I bring you to you a new government in which you will prosfer
from. A government that will NOT fail
to meet your demands. And I Emperor Palpatine will rule over
you!"
Amidala
paled. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.
On
Corscant Obi-Wan watched the holo "...but inorder to make these
promises every Jedi must DIE!" Obi-Wan
paled at this. Suddenly a crash
came from outside the council doors.
"Damn!"
Ankain cried. A dozen or so lightsabers, of very color,
came alive. Droids cam busting in,
firing shots everywhere. Obi-Wan
defleceted
as many bolts as he could, taking down as
many droids as he could.
Adi-Galla had never really participated in a
real lightsaber battle before but
she was doing better than anyone else in the
room. Yoda and Yaddle used
the force to crush the droids. Anakin got hit in the shoulder, but kept
going, taking down as many as threee as a time. Mace Windu took down two droids and defledted another blast. "How did this happen." He muttered
out loud. Why hadn't we seen it coming?
Yarael
Poof destroyed one droid before he heard Yoda. "Sith must be Palpatine." Yoda said calmly.
Depa
Billaba defelected a bolt as she cried back "But why didn't we
know?" Even Mace Windu didn't have the answer for that. Ki-Adi-Mundi was the first to reply "He must have blocked our vision!"
He killed another
droid.
"seprate
and flee we must." Yoda said
"Run!
From our dury!" Plo Koon cried
"We
have NO choice!" Obi-Wan yelled
"Protect
our families we must." Adi-Galla repyed
"Amidala!"
Anakin cried
ZZZZZ
Anakin
held Padme in his arms. They had been
moving and hiding
for 5 months now. Anakin was deathly quite. "Ani?" she whispered afarid
to speak. Three months ago the Jedi and banded together to take down
Palpatine, the outcome had been terriable.
Both Master Yaddle and Saesee
Tinn had died in the battle. Yarael Poof had lost an entire arm and
several
padwans and their masters had been killed.
Yesterday they had recieved newsthat
Ki-Adi-Mundi had been assaniated. They had last seen Obi-Wan two weeks ago on
Esseles, before they came here, to Bespin. Obi-Wan had
delievered news that Jorus C' boath, personal
adviosor to the once Sentor
Palpatine, and Vel Ardox had been killed.
"Yes? Padme."
"Are
you okay?"
"I
will be, I promise."
"I
hope so," Things were troubling him she knew. As well as her. Soon after
she fled, Palpatine put her planet, HIS planet, to ruins. All of her
handmaidens died, including Sabe. She had recieved news, just after she left,
that Boss Nass had died, trying to save his home. The Gungans had all
disappered and no one, NO ONE, could find
them. Thank God for that!
Amidala thought. They moved again, two weeks later on Ord Mantel, Obi-Wan found
them and asked Ani to come with him to see Master Yoda.
Amidala decided to return to Tatooine.
ZZZZZ
When
Obi-Wan asked Anakin to accompny him he never thought that it would change the
lives of the galaxy forever. Obi-Wan
came to Tatooine
to see Amidala, while Anakin was trying to
find and recurt the Jedi.
"Obi-Wan!" Amidala cried as she
spotted him coming out of the ship "How
are you?" Obi-Wan didn't answer, instead
he stared behind him at his brother,Owen Lars. Ten years after Amidala met Anakin, Ani had returned home to
buy his mother free from slavery. Only he
came across a bounty hunter
named Boba Fett. Fett told him that Shmi had been sold to Jabba the Hutt
and then killed by the Maldorian Warriors
when War broke out. Anakin had gone out
when he came across a mosture farm owned by a man named
Owen. Owen Lars. Owen had told
him that he once had a brother, named
Ben Lars, but Owen's parents wanted him to be
a Jedi and that person turned out to be Obi-Wan Kenobi. Owen approched him, his wife, Beru, not far
behind him "What do YOU want?" Owen
barked
"Oh
Owen!" His wife cried "Please come join us for lunch, Obi-Wan."
"Owen?"
Obi-Wan asked.
"Please,"
Owen bit back "Big Brother."
After
lunch Amidala and Obi-Wan sat outside the home. "Things have certainly
changed." Amidala began "Obi-Wan... I'm pregant."
"You
are?"
"Yes
but, I am SO so frightened."
Obi-Wan
took her hand, I never stopped loving you He thought
"I
know," Amidala thought. Obi-Wan stared at her "I know you've
never stopped loving me."
ZZZZZ
On
Alderaan, Amidala was so frightened. She had been here two
months. Hiding from Palpatine. Ani
didn't know she was pregant. Obi-Wandidn't even know where Ani was. Obi-Wan traveled and moved with the
Jedi. He had also changed his name to Ben Kenobi. Ben grew closer and closer to Amidala. Yoda and diaspered. All that he was dead. Sache came in
"hello, your highness."
"Padme"
she corected. Obi-Wan came in behind her. "You don't want to use that name."
"Why
not?" Amidala asked
Sache
sighed and had Amidala sit down. Obi-Wan knelt down.
"We found Anakin." He said.
Somehow, Amidala knew this was bad, very
bad. "and..." she asked
"He...
He... He was the one who killed Adi Gallia."
"NO!"
"Yes,
oh Amidala I am SO sorry, but he has joined forces with
Palpatine." Amidala let out a sob.
Amidala
was due in a month. Ben left her side
only once in a
great while. She knew she was having twins and that scared her, because
what if one of them was strong in the force?
Not a single Jedi, Jedi Knight,
or Jedi Master had been since Adi Galla.
Naboo had been crushed. The
remaints of the Rebublic had got a few
survivers off. Jar Jar Binks, a long a
friend and helper of peace, had been saved
and was working with the small
rebellion.
Amidala
felt pains shortly after midnight. Anakin was hunting all over the galaxy to find her. She screamed. She cried. Squeesing Ben's
hand all
the way through. About nine hours later she gave birth. "It's a girl!" the
doctor cried and five minutes later "It's a boy!" She named them Leia and
Luke Skywalker."
An hour later Ben
came to take Luke to Owen. "Why
Luke?" he asked "and Leia?"
"After the
first rulers of Naboo."
Ben kissed on the
cheek "I will watch over him on Tatooine."
"Thank
you."
Two
days later, Nabre, formly known as Amidala and Padme had
C-3PO gold plated and his memory whiped as
well as R2's. It was one of thehardest
things that she had ever had to do. She
left Alderaan and traveled to
meet Obi-Wan on Tatooine. She knocked on the home of Beru and and
Owen's home. Beru answered the door.
"Amidala!" She cried. Amidala
put a finger to her lips. "Ssshh, its Nabre now."
"Well come in then, Nabre."
Amidala entered.
" I can only stay for a second. I just wanted to say
thank you."
"Thank
you," Beru said " I always wanted a child but am not able to
have one."
Amidala
nodded "Thank you for taking Luke, now I must really be
going." Amidala looked past Beru though
she didn't say anything because if
she saw Luke she knew that she would never
leave.
"Good-bye
Nabre." Amidala walked out and traveled to where the
podraces used to be held against Jabba's
knowledge.
"Nabre?"
Obi-Wan asked
Amidala turned
around. "Imange if Ani hadn't won that race. Where
would be today?"
"Probably
here." Obi-Wan took her hand "But he won the race,
Nabre. Don't worry about it." Amidala
nodded "Have you been practicing
with Adi-Galla's old lightsaber?"
"Yes,"
Amidala said "Yes I have."
"Good
because we need to travel to Corscant and take down
Palpatine-"
"and
Ani." Amidala finished for him "What did Qui-Gon mean when
he called Anakin the Chosen One?"
"Several
hundered years ago, before Yoda was probably even born,
there was a profecy about the Chosen One. He, or She, would bring balance to the forces
of good and evil... thats all I know."
Amidala
didn't say anything "Reading Nabre?"
"Yes,
I am."
ZZZZZ
Obi-Wan
held Amidala's hand as they approched Corscant. Since the
rise of Palpatine things had changed greatly.
They had little difficulty gettingto
land. They got off and looked at the
newly built Imperial Palace. It stood
where the Jedi Temple used to be.
"I
am so sorry, Obi-Wan." Amidala said
"There's
nothing you could have done and its not your fault."
"I
keep feeling as though it is."
Obi-Wan
kissed her softly "Why?"
"Because
I wanted to elect a new Chancellor."
"YOU
didn't, Palpatine did and you trusted him."
Amidala
was silent. The Senate Hall had been
destroyed and ruined
and rebuilt over. They reached the Imperal
Palace and were greated by
Anakin. "Hello, Padme." Ani said
"Hello,
Anakin" Amidala said. Anakins eyes drifted to where Amidala's hand
cluctched Obi-Wan's hand. "Why, Ani, Why?"
"Emperor
Palpatine told me the truth behind my mothers death. He
told me that the Republic killed her!"
"What!?"
Obi-Wan cried. Anakin's eyes blazed as he turned to
Obi-Wan
"The
Emperor is waiting." They followed him along corridors, halls,
and turbo lifts. They entered a room decorated in blue.
"I
have been waiting for you."
"Palpatine!"
Amidala cried "How could YOU!"
"ah
my young Queen, Naboo sould never have elected you."
"and
the Republic shoud never have elected you!"
Palpatine
waved his hand forcing Obi-Wan and Amidala apart.
Obi-Wan and Anakin both ignighted their
lightsabers. Blue against blue.
Stormtroopers entered the room and held
Amidala back
"Obi-Wan!"
Amidala cried. Palpatine was laughing loudly. Amidala
ignited Adi-Galla's lightsaber. Both Anakin and Palpatine stopped. Ben had the chance to take Anakin down, but
he didn't. Amidala brought most of the
troopers down, before one shot her in the
back. Amidala's mouth opened and she
collasped. Obi-Wan, risking his own life, ran to her. "Amidala!"
"Padme!"
Anakin cried
"I-I-Love
you...A-Ben" Those were Amidala's last words. Anakin
cried out in rage and attacked Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan fought the hardest he'd
ever fought since the Sith that had killed Qui-Gon all those years ago. They
traveled down the halls and corridors,
lightsabers crashing and clasing all the way and somehow they made it to a pit.
"You
stole her from me!" Anakin cried
"Anakin,
I-"
"You
pretended to be my friend." Just
as Anakin said this Obi-Wan's
lightsaber met Anakin's wrist. The one with
the lightsaber. Anakin stumbled
back and fell into the pit.
18
years later...
Vader
watched as Obi-Wan's cloak feel to the ground. You took my
wife, so know I take your life.