“Good morning, or I should say afternoon.” Padme sat down at the table and put her cup of tea down on the table.
“Yes, it is early afternoon. So, what are you doing today?” Anakin put down the sandwich that he was eating.
“Right now, I'm sitting here, about to have breakfast. I am having lunch with my mother and sister today. So, is it today that you are to hear what the Council has to say about your destiny as a Jedi?” Padme nodded to C3-PO, who came to the table with her breakfast.
“Ok. You will let me know what they say? Love you and I cannot wait to be with you.” Padme nodded, just as the door began to buzz.
“Ok. I will let you know. I love you and I too cannot wait to be with you also.” Anakin picked up his sandwich again and took a bite out of it.
Padme disconnected their Holo-cam, got up from the table and headed for the front door.
“Good morning, Padme. I hope that I am not interrupting anything?” Queen Jamillia was standing at the door.
“Your Majesty, um . . . please come in?” Padme bowed her head to the Queen of Naboo.
“Please Padme. just call me Jamillia. We are not at the Palace.” Jamillia smiled at the ex-Queen of Naboo.
“Sorry. I keep forgetting that you do not wish to be called by any of the titles that comes with being the Queen. Please come in. I was just about to start eating my breakfast. If you like, I can fix you something too.” Padme stepped aside to let Jamillia inside the house.
“Oh, am sorry that I am here during your breakfast. No, thank you. I have already ate. The reason why I am here is due to the letter that you have written. Is it true that you want to resign as Senator?” Jamillia followed Padme to the dining room.
“Ok, would you like some tea or Caf? I see. Yes, I am turning in my resignation, as the Senator of Naboo.” Padme sat back down in her chair at the table and motioned for Jamillia to have a seat at the table too.
“Tea would be fine. I see. May I ask you why you want to resign?” Jamillia sat down and C3-PO came over to the table and put a cup of tea down, in front of the Queen of Naboo.
“Because, I want to spend all my time with my husband. We just want to live a quiet life here in the country, and I believe it is time for me to retire from Government work.” Padme cut up her egg, before taking a bite of it.
“I see, your husband. I did not know that you were married” Jamillia looked at Padme in total shock, when she learned that Padme was married.
“Yes, I have been married for almost three years now.” Padme put the fork down and picked up her teacup and took a sip of her tea.
“Then, why have you never said anything to me, about you being married?” Jamillia took a sip of her tea.
“My husband and I got married in secret. The reason we did that, is because of our jobs, and who we are.” Padme took another sip of her tea.
“I see. Can I ask who he is?” Jamillia asked, as she took another sip of her tea.
“Not at this time, because of who he is. Once I talk to him later today, then I will let you know who he is.” Padme put her cup down and picked up her toast and took a bite from it.
“Ok and I understand. I will grant your resignation. So, starting right now, you are no longer the Senator of Naboo. I just want you to know that I will miss you very dearly, and you were doing a great job. I wish you all the best in your life.” Jamillia looked straight at Padme and tears began to well in her eyes, because she knew that she was saying goodbye to the only Senator and even the only person that she could truly trust.
“Thank you, Jamillia. I will also miss you very much.” Padme also felt tears coming to her eyes and she also knew that she was saying goodbye to a good friend.
“Well, I must go now, get back to the Palace and get ready for a meeting. Oh, before I forget, I will have to make your resignation public today.” Jamillia stood up from the table.
“Oh, yes, that should be done. Yes, please, let everyone know and even at the meeting today, you can let the people there also know.” Padme also stood up and gave Jamillia a hug, before walking with the Queen to the front door.
Jamillia nodded, opened the door and nodded to her security.She headed out of the house and to the waiting watercraft that was to take the Queen back to the city and to the Palace. Padme went back to the table, sat back down and finished up her breakfast, before going back to her room and getting ready for her day with her mother and sister.
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Across the galaxy, on Coruscant, Anakin was walking down the hallway with Obi-Wan, as they made their way up to the Council Chambers. It is time for Anakin to learn his fate.
“So, what are you going to do, if the Members vote for you to be expeledl from the Order?” Obi-Wan looked over to his best friend.
“I will tell Padme what the Council has decided for me, and then I will leave Coruscant and Padme and I will live quietly somewhere.” Anakin gave Obi-Wan a small smile, as he thought about Padme.
"I understand, and I do wish you both well. I have been thinking about everything that has happened, and if you are expelled from the Order, then I will leave the Order too.” Obi-Wan patted Anakin on the back.
“Thanks, but your do not have to do that. This is your life, Obi-Wan.” Anakin looked at his best friend in shocked.
“Yes, I do. I thought about it and have been for a while now. I realized that the Jedi have begun to lose the true meaning of being a Jedi.” Obi-Wan looked forward, as they came up to the turbo-lift.
“I have noticed that too. Well, here we go.” Anakin watched doors of the turbo-lift opened up and they stepped onto the lift.
The ride up to the Council Chamber was in total silence. Both men were lost in their own thoughts in what they were going to do, if things did not go well for Anakin.
The lift stopped and the doors opened up. Both men stepped off the lift and headed down the small hallway to the double doors of the Council Chamber.
“ Enter!” Yoda’s voice called out, as Obi-Wan knocked on the door.
Both Anakin and Obi-Wan entered the room and as they stepped into the room, they were followed to the center of the room by four Temple Guards.
“ Master Kenobi, please take your seat. Anakin, please stay in the middle of the circle.” Master Windu motioned for the seat and the center of the room.
Both men did as the Jedi Master said and then they waited for the verdict. Ten minutes after everyone was in the room, they nodded for Master Yoda to let the young man know how they all voted.
“Anakin, step closer, you will. Give you the vote, I will.” Yoda motioned for Anakin to step closer to him.
Anakin stepped closer to the little green Jedi Master and he lowered his head, as he waited to hear what Yoda has to say.
“Thought hard we did, and come to a decision we did. Stay as a Jedi, you will, and to ask Padme to teach here, I will.” Yoda gave the young man a smile and even saw a huge smile come across Anakin’s face.
“ Thank you, to all of you. I am sure that she would do it, just as long as we are together.” Anakin bowed first to Master Yoda, before turning to all of the Jedi Masters that were sitting in the room and bowed to each of them. They too bowed their heads back and even gave him a smile too.
“Now, this meeting is over, and am sure that you have news to send to your wife.” Master Windu was the last one to nod to Anakin, and he looked at everyone, before he dismissed everyone.
Anakin just nodded, turned around and left the Council Chamber. Ten minutes later, Anakin was back in his room, when Obi-Wan came back to the room, to take off the monitor that was on Anakin’s ankle. After Obi-Wan left the room, Anakin went over to his work bench and put in the code that will connect to Padme’s Holo-communicator.
“Hey, Anakin. So, what is the verdict?” Padme hit the on button and Anakin’s image came up on her desk.
“Yes, the verdict did come and I am to stay as a Jedi. Oh, and you will be getting a call from Master Yoda and he will be asking you to come and teach here in the Temple.” Anakin went over to a trunk and opened it up.
“That is great news! I see. I wonder what he would want me to teach there? Um . . . I have to go, because I was just about to head out to my mom’s. I will be staying the weekend there.” Padme nodded at C3-PO, who came into the room to let her know that her watercraft was waiting for her.
“Ok, I understand. You have a great visit with your family and I hope to see you soon. Love you, Paddy.” Anakin smiled and blew Padme a kiss goodbye.
“I love you too, and I will see you soon.” Padme returned his kiss, before turning off her Holo-cam.
Padme got up from her desk and headed out of the house. She went down to the water craft, where Paddy helped her on board the craft and then took her to the City, where she stayed the weekend.
Three days later, she said goodbye to her parents. She boarded her ship and headed back to Coruscant and to make her new life at the Jedi Temple teaching: the initiates, and Padawans how to do treaties, and other stuff that has to do with Politics, and even how to negotiate with people, who want to make treaties with the Jedi and even with the Republic. Padme walked into her private chamber in her cruiser, laid down and slept all the way to Coruscant, and to her new home in the Jedi Temple.