A loud cry split the air.
Padme Amidala gasped in pain as she forced a child out of her womb, it's cries becoming quieter. "Shhh, it's going to be fine." said Obi-wan Kenobi trying to calm the distressed senator who was crying in pain as he took the baby from the medical droid.
"It's a boy, and a quiet one at that." Obi-wan laughed softly as Padme looked up at the now silent infant, thinking of a name to give her son.
"Luke" she decided reaching out for the baby, wanting to hold him in her arms. Obi-wan carefully handed the newly named Luke to his mother who could hold in one arm easily, he was so small. The former queen of Naboo held her silent child with tenderness. With a happy sigh, the exhausted parent place her new progeny on her chest, the baby's head resting over her heart and lovingly stroked the fragile newborns head. Another scream came from Padme as her second child began its journey out of her womb. The bearded Jedi gently snatched Luke out of the mothers arms, for fear the she might unintentionally crush him in her pain.
After many minutes filled with screams of pain and attempts to calm the woman giving birth for the second time in those minutes the second baby was held in the medical droids servos. Carefully placing Luke in his mother arms the battle worn Jedi master Obi-wan Kenobi lifted Luke's new twin sibling out of the droids servos, holding the baby in front of Padme so she see it and translated the droids sounds
"It's a girl." He spoke softly so not to alarm the twins and their mother, whose breath was extremely laboured as she next spoke.
"Leia... Her name... is Leia" the now mother of two's voice was faint now, fading.
Padme's POV
All I knew was excruciating pain as I gave birth to my children, both Luke and Leia who was slightly larger that Luke. The cause of their birth a month and a half early was because my beloved husband Anakin, who had turned to the dark side of the force and massacred countless Jedi, be they younglings, padawans, Knights or masters excluding a handful he missed including the two near me: Yoda and Obi-wan Kenobi, had tried to kill me in anger by choking me with the force until his former master Obi-wan stopped him
'So this is what it is to die' I though, feeling my energy fading and my ties to the world of the living loosen. Slowly but surely the force that the Jedi believed in and wielded was claiming my life so I chose to force my last words out now.
Third person again
"Obi-wan" Padme's voice was faint and faraway now.
"Yes Padme." Replied said Jedi looking down at the frail woman who held her twin children to her chest, who curled up, listening to her heartbeat.
"Since I won't have the chance to raise them so..." But she was cut off.
"WHAT." Demanded Obi-wan, "What do you mean you won't get raise them, you..." The aged warrior staggered as realisation overcame him "You don't mean. You can't die, Naboo needs you, THEY need you. He exclaimed pointing at the babies.
"You say I can't die, yet if that if that is so why have I felt like I was dieing my whole life. Tell me that Obi-wan. Tell me why."
Obi-wan had no answer to that heart wrenching speech the woman before him, who had always seen the light in the darkness no matter how great it was, had rasped out.
"True Luke and Leia will need me and I will never get to raise them, I will leave behind a family I'll never know." Padme paused in grief but continued, "That's why they will need each other so keep.. them to..to..together...please."
Suddenly she began violently coughing, blood trickling from her lips. Padme wiped some of the blood on her fingers and drew a straight line on each of Leia's cheeks and would have have drawn a line down Luke's forehead but her heart finally gave out.
From the point on Luke's forehead his mothers trigger and middle fingers dragged down his face, down the left side of his little nose continuing to the bottom of his chin where her fingers slipped off.
Luke's POV
I was curled up alongside my other half on out mothers chest while she was talking to some other person but she started doing something strange with her chest and a red thing came out of her mouth. Mummy made lines on my over half's face with the red thing and started to do the same to me. But that was when I felt her heart beat its last. I was numb from shock as her fingers slide down my face slipping of past my chin and fell on her chest, motionless.
I wept as me and my other half were lifted of Mummy's chest as I saw her tear streaked face, eyes closed.
Little did I know that sight would haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.
(An: what did you think all and any helpful comments/criticisms are welcome.
Luke's 'other half' is his twin Leia. I wrote it like that because he's a baby so yeah.
I wrote this chapter based off of the theme song Padme's Song - Sad Star Wars Song and Nickelbacks song 'lullaby'.
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