#padmelives

“—to leave a message, please—”

Padmé switched her comm screen off in frustration.

Obi-Wan still wasn’t answering his comm.

He’s a busy man, she reminded herself, and it is still early in the evening. Just because he hasn’t replied to your message doesn’t mean that anything is wrong.

“The Chancellor,” Padmé echoed flatly.

Anakin nodded, looking uncomfortable.

As well he should.

“Where would the Chancellor have heard such a ridiculous rumor? And why would he pay any attention to it, let alone pass it on?” she asked.

Giddean Danu shook his head, doubt plainly written across his dark face. “If we are to openly oppose the Chancellor, we need the support of the Jedi. We need their moral authority. Otherwise, what do we have?”

“The moral authority of the Jedi, such as it is,” Bana Breemu said, “has been spent lavishly upon war; I fear they have none left for politics.”

“One Jedi, then,” Padmé offered to the others. At least let me speak the truth to my love. At least. Please, she pleaded with them silently. “There is one Jedi—one whom I truly know all of us can trust absolutely …”

Her voice trailed off into appalled silence when she realized that she wasn’t talking about Anakin. — Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization

“I wish I could be, for your sake, but… I’m not Anakin,” he said quietly.

this is incredibly horrifying, intriguing, AND heartwarming in the weirdest way (in true star wars fashion!). but also I’m laughing a little, because, you know that the exact second padme “diplomacy with a blaster” amidala figured out what was going on she would be leading every charge. padmeeeee amidalaaaaaaaa!!!!! (but honestly I realllllllly like this idea)

*cackles* b a s i c a l l y.  Though since Padme can still be badly wounded, she’s going to spend a lot of time either trapped in the Resistance medical facilities and/or fighting with debilitating injuries.

And just wait until word of this development reaches Sidious and/or Vader... [cue fireworks]

@likealeafonthewind​ replied to your post:ok but what if anakin had somehow...

What an interesting idea! And so ironically tragic, because he’s now condemned her to outliving everyone she knows and loves.

The thing is, he doesn’t know that it worked, as he was on an operating table at the time and Padme was lightyears away on Polis Massa...

Padme is dead, Obi-Wan thinks, blinking back tears and cradling the infant in his arms.

...She is smaller in death.

It seems impossible that Padme, who had been so full of life, should now lie cold and pale, forever stilled. That she should never again give an impassioned speech or fire a blaster or laugh. That she should never know her children. 

(That her children should never know her, should never know either of their parents.)

He cannot bear to look at her prone form any longer.

Another dear friend dead, a victim of Vader... a victim of the Sith... Another person I have failed...

But just as he begins to lose himself in his thoughts, he hears a wild beeping from one of the machines.

“We can not explain it,” the meddroid says, blinking its photoreceptors in surprise. “This is most irregular. Most irregular.”

What is the droid talking about, what is most --

And then he notices it -- first through the Force, then with his other senses. Somehow... it couldn’t be true...

But it was. Padme was alive again.

Padme lives and recovers. She goes into hiding and raises her children. Once the children are a bit older, she assists with the Rebellion... and is shot in its service while on a mission. The blaster wound is fatal; it does not take her long to succumb to its effects. There isn’t even enough time for her to say a last goodbye to her children.

Only...

Within the space of ten standard minutes, she is alive again. 

She still has a bloody -- literally and figuratively -- bullet embedded in her body and she still needs surgery and whatever bacta can be spared... but she’s alive.

It’s impossible. (Except how it clearly isn’t.) It’s improbable. (Except for the fact that it keeps happening to her.) And, as she will discover over the coming years, it’s immutable.

Somehow, without knowing what he did or that he had succeeded, Anakin Skywalker found that which the Sith had sought for centuries -- the secret to eternal life.

She kept a blandly pleasant smile on her face as she made their excuses and steered them away from him.

“Well,” said Obi-Wan once they were out of ke Matilla’s earshot. “That was interesting.”

“‘Interesting’ is one word for it,” Padme said, voice dry as the Dune Sea.

“I am impressed you kept your temper.”

“Years of practice. Besides, I’ve hardly forgotten Grandfather’s advice so soon.”