Chancellor's Office

That was one afternoon as other in the senate since clone wars had begun, a lot of discussions about the future of galaxy, but no solution, just remained the senators to watch the fight of the jedi and soldiers clones without could make anything and this inconvenienced everybody mainly Padme because her husband was struggling in the war. Three years of marriage and three years of concern for Anakin, Padme could count in the fingers the times she slept calm when Anakin was in the external border, mainly now that she was waiting his child. What if he was not there for the birth of the baby? What if he died? Padme didn't used to think about that, her mother had taught to her that bad thoughts cart bad things, then Padme preferred to imagine everything was alright.

Padme never imagined her life would be in that way, nor in her more lunatics dreams , she imagined marries with a jedi , that was madness, she knew, but she was completely involved in that madness, sometimes she asked herself if she was not crazy. She hated lie, but she was now living one, she was fall in love, but she could not say nobody, not even for her mother, that was her largest confidant she didn't say, she knew that to reveal that secret would destroy her life and the Anakin life as well. She hated to watched the holo,but she became slave of it, searching all the channels of this behind one news of Anakin, some times she spent nights watching the holo and when she saw Anakin her heart calmed down, therefore at least that night he was saved. Padme got used to see Anakin in the newspapers and magazines, he was a celebrity, the " hero without fear ". Padme started to read the magazines, mainly after discovering she was pregnant, she looked for news of Anakin, news of when he would go back home, she could not wait he went back to she stayed in his arms and to tell the innovation for him.

Padme discovered in the last days she was not as strong as she thought she goes, she needed Anakin now like she never need of anything in her life. She needed him to say that everything was fine and to say what to do now. she was now pregnant of two months. But and when was she pregnant of eight months? How would she explain that baby? How could she hide the baby of her family? The Queen won't allow she continued working in the senate after the baby was born. What would she work? Those were questions that just Anakin could answer and if he didn't have the answers, certainly he would be there to help her. Suddenly Padme's heart filled with happiness when seeing the man that appeared in the office , but soon her happiness disappeared and it became concern.

It was Obi-wan, his clothes was dirty of soot, he looked like who took a beating, but he didn't seem wounded, his eyes were red and swollen what indicated he had cried a lot and just a thing would make Obi-wan cry . . . Anakin. . . . some thing happened with Anakin Padme thought and her heart immediately was tight.

"The mission in Nagara is complete chancellor, we defeated the separatists there and we got one very important position." Obi-wan informed with a pain tone in his voice

"Excellent!" The chancellor answered smiling

"But. . . we lost Anakin " Obi-wan said as tears sprouted in his eyes

"What?" Padme said in shock

"We lost Anakin" Obi-wan repeated

The chancellor sat down and Padme sat down too, she needed to sit down, we lost Anakin, these words astonished her head and she felt sick.

"He is. . . ?" Senator Organa asked

"No, but he is in coma and the doctors doesn't have any hope he will wake up " Obi-wan tell sadly

"But he can wake up. Can't he?" Padme asked, her lips tremendous

"Yes, He can, but that would be a miracle " Obi-wan answered as tears fallen of his eyes

Padme felt as if her body was being pressed strongly from within outside, her eyes were so full of tears that she didn't get to see Obi-wan sharply. Anakin was in coma, she was not prepared for it, she wanted to scream, she wanted to kill Obi-wan for don't protect him, she wanted to touch her baby, but it would get the present people's attention.

"Where is he?" Palpatine asked

"He is in the medic center of Coruscant" Obi-wan replied

"Can I see him?" Padme asked blinking her eyes trying to contain her tears

"Yeah, I will take you there Padme "Obi-wan said helping Padme lift

"I want to go too, Jedi master "Palpatine said lifting

"We too" Bail and Mom Montma said walking in the direction of Obi-wan

Obi-wan made a respectful arch for them and he walked outside of chancellor's office with the senators following him

Medic center of Coruscant

Padme walked for the narrow corridor that took them to the room where Anakin was. nobody said a word all course, everybody were with the heads of them lowered, but definitively nobody felt her pain, Palpatine seemed to feel more pain, even so insignificant before her pain, but Obi-wan, he was really suffering. Padme guessed he cried all course even he trying to hide it. Padme walked slipping her hands for the glasses of the walls of the medic center , so Obi-wan finally stopped and appeared for a room in the corridor's end, where Yoda and two welded clones were keeping the entrance of the room.

The group that arrived made an arch to the two men and the small green jedi. Obi-wan looked at Yoda and he asked

"How is he?"

"He is as before" Yoda answered lowering his ears sadly

Obi-wan dried his eyes with his shirt and he entered in the room followed for the senators, the chancellor and master Yoda. the Anakin image touched everybody, Anakin was lying in the stretcher, dressing a medicine white clothes, with a fine tube connected in his real arm that monitored his heart beats, he didn't have a wound in his skin, he was perfect of beautiful and beside him there were many flowers comings of the Jedi and of the Anakin fans, he seems an angel, Mom Montma commented and it was true ,Anakin seemed an angel, if somebody didn't know he was in coma he would say he was sleeping peacefully, a calm and eternal sleep

"As I said, he is in coma, he is stable, but he doesn't answer the any stimulate " obi-wan said

"How it did happen?" Bail Organa asked

"We were in the royal palace of Nagara, in a battle against the separatists droids, the separatists noticed their eminent defeat and they dropped the columns of the palace, we got to leave safe of the palace, but Anakin felt children there inside, then he came back until the palace and he held the roof of the whole palace and he moved away it of the children with the force, but that effort made immediately Anakin unconscious and he are ever since like this" Obi-wan told

"Skywalker is always noble" Bail said formally while Padme touched the real hand of Anakin discreetly

Padme was sick, sadness that invades her body, the Padme heart was small and kneaded as a pea, Padme was pale and tears ran violently on her face. Please wake up she sighed for Anakin, but he stayed immobile. Anakin was cold and he always had the hot body Tatooine consequence he kidded when Padme commented the heat of his body and now he was cold like Hott. Padme wanted to lie down beside him, to sleep and only to wake up when her husband woke up

"He needs some thing, I can provide what he needs, the best doctors. . . "Palpatine said

"No, we already provided it, all the best doctors are taking care of him and everybody twist for the Anakin recovery, but they don't have hope unhappily" Obi-wan said crying

"Our hope won't die " Mom Montma said supporting her hand in the shoulder of Obi-wan

"I will make a homage for the general Skywalker in my planet " Bail said

"Me too" Mom Montma accompanied

"Me too" Padme repeated as her tears fall in the cold hand of Anakin

"And I will make a homage for Anakin seen by all galaxy " Chancellor Palpatine said

"Thank you, happy the youth Skywalker would be" master Yoda thanked in a respectful arch

"Well, I think better we go now, after all master Skywalker needs rest" Mom Montma said moving away Padme of Anakin

"Yes, I think so" The chancellor said "Wake up soon, my friend, we need you" he concluded touched quickly the Anakin hand

The senators and Palpatine made a respectful arch for Anakin and they had left the room leaving Obi-wan and Yoda veiling Anakin

Padme apartment

Padme arrived home, but she didn't feel herself in home, she felt herself at a hell, she could not believe what was happening, the image of immobile Anakin in the stretcher doesn't leave her mind. What would happen for her without him? what would happen for the baby without him? Padme touched her belly as she reached the entrance of the balcony, she could see Anakin there smiling, but he was not there and perhaps he never was there again. The Padme tears ran like her eyes was a river

"Are you okay, Milady?" Dorme asked trying to reach the Padme hand

"Yes, I am okay" Padme said impeding Dorme of touch her "Now leave me, you have this night free"

"Thank you, Milady" Dorme said leaving the apartment

Padme hoped to hear the sound of the door closing and she entered in total despair, it was the first time that she was alone from she knew Anakin was in coma and it was the first time she can cry as she wanted, she felt weak, she didn't know what to do, she wanted to wake up Anakin ,she wanted to hire the best doctor, but that was already being made, without success. Padme would maintain the secret of them alone, she would have to be now strong, for her and for the baby. But how? The world was tumbling in her head, she didn't get to be strong now, she didn't know how to live without Anakin, she needed him.

Padme walked until her room and went to her closet, she caught one black overcoat of Anakin , she lied down in his side of the bed, she covered herself with his overcoat, sank her head in his pillow, she exhaled his smell and she cried and sobbed until her to sleep