*Decoy

🏰- Fantasy AU

🧜‍♀️- Mermaid AU

👑- Royalty AU

🧛- Vampire AU

🌹- Regency AU

🎻- Musician AU

🎨- Artist AU

“Master Kenobi,” Sabé greeted the jedi. The years between the last time they had met and now had been kind to him, and now he was training her best friend’s daughter. Just the knowledge that Leia was here made her heart skip, it made her wonder if Leia looked like Padmé.

Now the captain of the royal guard, Sabé worked very closely to the Queen of Naboo, like Captain Panaka before her.

“The Queen will explain everything, shall we wait for your Padawan?”

“It’s nice to meet you properly this time.” He told her. “Padme sends her well wishes and love. She told me to tell you that she’ll be here in a few weeks when the Senate goes on recess.”

It seemed that as the occassion needed it, Obi-Wan was getting introduced to some of Padme’s former handmaidens. It had been years since he had come to Naboo, but before he took on this mission, Padme had been trying to get him to go. But the day she wanted him to go was still to this day a day he spent mostly to himself, his Master’s death anniversary. He had become so much more experienced since that day and had learned a lot, but there were times he still felt like a padawan and could have used Qui-Gon’s guidance.

Despite this, it was true that the years had been kind to him, especially since that night when Anakin had had him come from Utapau the moment he had finished defeating General Grievous to help in the fight against Darth Sidious.

“Very well then. I do hope no one in the palace is keeping any secrets. Leia has been gifted with a particular Force ability making her able to read more into people than they might like. Do not worry. I have spoken with her and she will not give away any secrets of the Queen and her handmaidens.” He made sure that should she discover it that Leia wouldn’t give away who was the real Queen and who was the bodyguard.

A moment before Obi-Wan could answer about them waiting for his padawan, a young teenaged girl came racing up to them.

Obi-Wan looked to his padawan and smiled at her before looking back at Sabe.

“Sabe allow me to introduce my padawan, Leia Skywalker. Leia, meet Captain Sabe. She’s a friend of your mother.” He introduced.them.

Leia looked up at Sabe. “Hello.” She greeted.

The air left Sabé's lungs, it was like looking at a young Padmé. Even with the padawan braid in her hair, Sabé was transported back to being fourteen years old in the Queen's service.

"Hello," the captain said softly before mentally shaking herself to clear her thoughts.

“You must be Sabe.” Obi-Wan walked over to her. If he remembered correctly, Padme had told him that she was the one all those years ago during his mission on Naboo with Qui-Gon who been her bodyguard playing the part of Amidala the Queen. “It’s been some time since we last met, although I am aware that you know my Padawan. Leia will be along in a moment. She’s just doing a last minute memorization of the map of the city. I understand you can fill me in with the details for this mission. If I recall correctly, it has something to do with the new Queen.”

"Master Kenobi," Sabé greeted the jedi. The years between the last time they had met and now had been kind to him, and now he was training her best friend's daughter. Just the knowledge that Leia was here made her heart skip, it made her wonder if Leia looked like Padmé.

Now the captain of the royal guard, Sabé worked very closely to the Queen of Naboo, like Captain Panaka before her.

          Beru knew that someone was coming before the perimeter alarms went off.  It was easy to spot the approaching figure against the endless sand.  She told Luke to stay inside and he begrudgingly agreed,  though she could see the curiosity shining in his eyes.  Visitors to the farm were rare,  and more often than not brought trouble or bad tidings.   

Sabé nodded, Leia while as reckless as Anakin had been, was well protected, not only by Sabé but the royal guard of Alderaan. What did this boy have if his protector was to leave Tatooine like Sabé had just left Alderaan.

“It’s not much of a life, Ben.” She said, laying a hand on her old friend’s shoulder.

“Does he… is he… I don’t know how to say it, is he like Anakin?”

               THE  HAND      sabé  places  on  his  shoulder  makes  the  emotional  armor  obi - wan  wears      shake      however  slightly .  slowly ,  he  nods . 

"That's not what I meant," Sabé said gently, though she was glad to hear a part of Padmé lived on in her son. She didn't want to upset Ben, but she had to know.

"You couldn't stay. I understand." Padmé said without looking up. Nimble, but strong fingers worked to open her lightsaber's handle and remove its cracked crystal. She didn't have another on hand so they would have to reach a planet where one could be acquired. "I understood then and I understand now."

Life as a senator, in Coruscant wasn't for everyone. Padmé learned the hard way it was far different than being queen. Sabé was a little late to the lesson, but educated all the same. Yet knowing why Sabé left didn't make it hurt any less. For the first time Padmé questioned the loved ones she left behind to be queen, to be a senator -- were they hurting this much without her? What was the moon without the sun? Dark and alone. Just as her life had been measured before she was queen and after, so was it marked from the day she met Sabé to the day she lost her.

Sabé wanted to shake her friend, she didn't want this, the tension that was between them. She wanted to go back to how things had been, but that seemed impossible.

"Could you stop being so noble for a second, and just admit that you're angry with me?" The handmaiden shouted.

Sabé laughed at Padmé’s overly serious expression.

“It wouldn’t be very Queenly.” She said, still giggling, her queen, her friend and the girl she cared about more than anyone.

“Do you ever wish you were free to just be Padmé? That we could just be girls, not queen and handmaiden?”

Padmé dropped the expression and laughed too. As fleeting as these free moments were she treasured them. She didn’t feel trapped as a queen, but enjoyed being an actual teenager every now and again. Maybe her successor would be young too.

"It's not that exciting," Sabé said, with a shrug of her shoulders.

"You have to look after the queen, and believe me that's not an easy feat." She couldn't help herself but tease Padmé a little, just because she would see her smile.

“Don’t get caught.” Sabé said checking the queen’s make-up for the hundredth time. As usual it was flawlessly executed.

“We don’t want a repeat of the last time we tried to fool Panaka now do we?”

"Not if it keeps you safe in the long run." Sabé said, pulling up Padmé's hood so it obscured her face like the other handmaidens.