Chapter 10

Padme got up from a bad night of tossing and turning, caused the bad dreams that she keeps having. Finally, giving up on any kind of sleep, Padme got up and headed outside onto the balcony. Looking out over the lake, she realized the sun had not risen fully yet and there was pink and orange colors on the horizon. She stepped closer to the railing and saw two different kinds of waterfowl landing on the water. Padme took a deep breath in and slowly let it out. Then closing her eyes, she began her meditation.Twenty minutes later, Padme felt a presence.

“ Please stay.” Padme said, without opening her eyes.

“ I am sorry to interrupt your meditation, but I thought you would like to have breakfast out on the porch.” Anakin turned back to Padme and came back outside.

“ It is ok. I cannot concentrate on my meditation. I keep having those images coming back into my head.” Padme said, as she felt tears coming to her eyes.

“ I see. Padme, why don’t we leave and see your parents? That way, you know for sure that everything is fine.” Anakin came over to Padme and took a hold of her hand.

“ Thank you. I really can’t stay here, just not knowing, if they are bad dreams or visions. I have to know.” Padme looked up at Anakin and gave him a smile.

“ So, we can head to Tatooine and see your family.Can we have breakfast first?” Anakin smiled back.

“ Sure, I am hungry. Thank you, Anakin.” Padme gave him another small smile.

Anakin pulled Padme into his arms, lean his head down and began kissing her. Padme wrapped her arms around Anakin, pulling him closer to her and began kissing him back.

“ Padme, we must stop or I will not be able to stop going any further than just a kiss.” Anakin pulled slightly away from Padme.

“ Then don’t stop. I want more from you, Anakin.” Padme looked up at his face.

“ Are you sure? You know, this will change things between us.” Anakin reached out and moved a stray hair out of her face.

“ Yes, am sure. This is something I want. I love you, Anakin.” Padme said.

Anakin picked Padme up and carried her back inside her room. Once inside, Anakin put her down and began kissing her again. As he was kissing her, he felt her hands go between them and felt her untying the draw strings on his sleeping pants. Anakin moved his lips from her lips and moved them to her neck. He removed her robe and then his lips followed down to her shoulders, as he pushed down the shoulder straps of Padme’s night gown. Then, he kissed her again, as he removed her other strap and the gown fell to the floor. To his surprise, she stood there totally naked. He felt Padme begin lowering his pants, but as she lowered his pants, he felt her lips on his chest. Then, felt her going down his body. He closed his eyes and sucked in the air, as he felt Padme’s tongue began licking the head of his penis.

“ Oh yea, baby, suck me.” Anakin moaned.

Padme looked up at his face and giving him a wicked smile, before putting his member into her mouth and she began sucking.

Before Padme knew what was going on, Anakin pulled her up and began kissing her. As he lifted her up, she wrapped her legs around him. He thrusted upwards, as he pulled her down on him, as he entered her body.

“ Oh, yeah.” Padme cried out as Anakin entered her.

“ Shh . . . it’s ok, baby. The pain will stop soon.” Anakin held her close to him ,as he realized that he was Padme’s first lover.

“ It’s ok. Am fine. Please, make love to me now.” Padme open her eyes and looked at him.

Anakin nodded, carried her to the bed and laid them down, where he made slow and passionate love to her. As they laid there, after their sexual high, they began to drift off to sleep, but were interrupted by the servant droid.

“ Excuse me, sir, but breakfast is ready.” the droid stopped in the door way.

“ Thank you.” was all Anakin said to the droid, before it turned and headed out of the room.

They got up and headed downstairs to the veranda, where they talked about what will happen to them now, that they made love to each other. After breakfast, they went to their rooms, got cleaned up, dressed and packed up, before going to the house’s hanger bay and got into the small cargo ship and took off for Tatooine.

After two hours of being in the ship, they landed in one of the hanger bays, and the first place they went was to the market place. They walked around, but did not see Padme’s family’s booth anywhere. They came up to the fruit stand that was in the place that belong to her family.

“ Good afternoon, what can I get for you?” the young lady asked, as she came up to both Padme and Anakin.

“ Afternoon. We will take these two Pallies . . . Um . . . Can you tell me what happened to the people who used to run this stand?” Padme asked handing the fruit to the lady.

“ Am not sure. The oldest daughter of the lady, who used to own this booth, well, she moved to the capital. As for the older lady, am not sure about her. I think she was helping out her husband. As for their younger daughter, it is said that she left to train as a Jedi or something like that. Ok, here you go.” the lady handed Padme the bag that had the two fruit in it.

“ I see. Here you go and thank you.” Padme handed the lady the money, before leaving the market area.

“ Well, that was interesting. Lets head over to the shop.” Padme looked down the street, to where the shop was located.

“ Ok, but we need to hurry. It is getting late and the suns will be going down soon.” Anakin looked at the sky and saw the suns lowering in the sky.

“ Ok, then, let’s go.” Padme turned and began heading down the street to the shop that belonged to her father.

They headed down the street and saw that the son of the old man, who used to own the feed store was there, instead of the old man. Padme stopped, as she saw the young man sweeping the entrance of the store.

“ Hey Lucas, how are you doing?” Padme asked.

“ Um . . . hello . . . Oh,my. Padme? It has been a while. Doing good.” the older man said.

“ Yes, it has. Um . . . where is your father?” Padme asked. Then, she saw a sad look come across Lucas’ face.

“ He passed way two years ago.” Lucas said.

“ Oh, my. Am sorry. Well, it was good seeing you again.” Padme noticed the first sun was behind the buildings. Lucas just nodded and went back to his sweeping. They finally came to the shop and walked into the room.

“ Hello, can I help you?” a young man came out of the back room.

“ Um . . . yes . . . I’m looking for Ruwee Naberrie.” Padme looked around the shop.

“ I see and may I ask why?” the man looked at the girl cautiously.

“ Well because he is my father. I came to see him and my mother.” Padme asked, as that strange feeling came over her, that something was not right.

“ Oh my, Padme . . . Is it really you? Don’t you recognize me? . . . Am Kitster.” the young man said, as he realized Padme was standing in front of him.

“ Oh wow, Kitster! I cannot believe it . . . Um . . Can you please tell me where I can find my parents . . . It is very urgent that I find them now.” Padme said, as that feeling only got stronger.

“ Sure. Your father sold me the shop, after he inherited a moister farm from a cousin of his.” Kitster could see Padme was getting paniced about something.

“ How long ago was that and can you tell me where this place is?” Padme asked, as fear fell over her body, but it wasn’t her feelings, it was that of her mother’s.

“ About a year ago and the place is located somewhere outside of Mos Eisley, I have the address, because they come to pick up vapoizors.” Kitster went over to the counter and began going through the daily log for the week. Once Kitster found the address, he gave it to Padme.

“ Thanks, Kitster. We need to get out there now.” Padme took the address from her old friend and headed out the door.

They got to the ship and Padme started it up, while Anakin took care of the payment for the rental of the space for the time that they were in town.

“ Ok, can you tell me, what is the rush?” Anakin sat down in the co-pilot chair.

“ I got a feeling that my parents are in danger and we need to get to them fast. How good are you with blasters?” Padme pulled the wheel down and the ship lifted up out of the hanger.

“ Ok, we need to get to the place soon, because it will be dark soon. I’m good with a blaster, why?” Anakin looked out the viewport and saw a small part of the first sun.

“ Yes, I know. It is thirty minutes from here, but if we were using a speeder it would take about two hours. Good, you will be needing it.” She turned the ship out towards the dune flats and in the direction of the moister farm.

Thirty minutes later, they land the ship. As they were walking off the ship, that’s when they heard blaster shots. Getting closer to the homestead, Padme could hear the war cry of the Tuskin Raiders. As she got closer, she saw a Raider carrying a woman, screaming off to where the Banthas were standing at. Then, she saw the man give chase to the Raider, who was carrying the woman. Out of no-where, a Raider came up behind the man and stabbed him.

“ NO! DADDY!” Padme screamed and took off running, after the Raider that had her mother.

Padme activated her lightsaber, came up to one of the Raiders and swung her saber and cut down the Raider. The other Raiders turned around in surprise, to see her, and the death of one of their tribe members. The Raiders began firing their blaster rifles at Padme, in which ,she reflected the lasers with her lightsaber. Anakin came up beside her and fired his blaster and killed three of the Raiders.

“ See about my father. I am going after the bastard that has my mother.” Padme told Anakin, before she took off after the Raider and her mother.

The two Raiders that followed behind the one that held Jobal, stopped and took up a fighting stance, as the kidnapper put his prisoner on the Bantha. Padme came up to them and struck them down, before they could do anything. Padme came up to the Raider that reached his Bantha and was putting Jobal on it, but stopped, when his head fell off his shoulders.

“ Padme! Oh my gods . . . It is really you!” Jobal cried out, when she saw Padme standing behind the fallen Raider.

“ Mommy, it is ok. Am here now and you are going to be ok.” Padme shut down her lightsaber and came up to her mother.

“ Oh, Padme . . . What . . . How . . Oh my gods, your father. They . . . ?” Jobal slid down into Padme’s arms.

“ It is ok . . . I know Mom, He is alive for now, and Anakin is with him. Come on, let’s get you inside the house.” Padme put her arms around her mother’s waist and helped her walk back to the house.

Once they were at the house, they ssaw Anakin leaning over her father and cleaning up his wounds.

“ I have stopped the bleeding. From what I can tell, nothing major has been hit. It looks like it just cut the skin deep.” Anakin told Padme and her mother.

“ That is great news. Daddy, when we are done fixing you up here, we will move you to your bedroom.” Padme came over to her father and took a hold of his hand.

“ Padme, you saved us. You are my hero.” Ruwee looked up at Padme and gave her a smile.

“ Hey, daddy. No, am not. I was just doing my duty, as a Jedi. I was protecting people, who cannot protect themselves, from a huge group of people.” Padme helped her father to sit up.

“ What brings you here?” Jobal asked, as she brought a tray over to them that had cups of tea on it.

“ For the past couple of nights, I was having bad dreams. It was about something that was going to happen to the both of you. We got here as quickly as possible.” Padme took one of the cups that was on the tray.

“ Thank goodness, you listen to your dreams.” Anakin took a cup and sat down on the couch.

After sitting around in the living room and catching up, Jobal called them to the dinner table, where they had soup for dinner. After dinner, Padme could see that the medicine that Anakin put in both of Padme’s parents’ tea, was starting to take an effect. Ruwee and Jobal headed off to bed, while both Padme and Anakin cleaned up the kitchen.

“ Well, goodnight, Anakin. I will see you in the morning.” Padme said, as they came up to one of the guests rooms and stopped at the door.

“ Ok, see you in the morning.” Anakin leaned over and kissed her goodnight, before going to the room next door.

They both got ready for bed and falling sound asleep, once they climbed into the beds. Little did Padme know, that Obi-Wan is captured and asked for Padme to resend the message he recorded back to the Temple. He only hoped that they can send someone to save him. Now, all he can do is wait, and hope that they will get there in time.