I don't own Star Wars

I don't own Star Wars

The Father

I park my speeder outside the apartment and go inside. Senator Amidala meets me there. In her black dress I can clearly see what she has been hiding for months, she is heavily pregnant. Not for the first time, I wonder who the father is, she has had no lovers that I know of and it would be all over the Holonet if she had. But, I am here on a mission, and not one I want to be doing, but still I must.

"When was the last time you saw him?" I ask Padmé.

"Yesterday," she answers slowly.

"Do you know where he is now?"

There is a long pause before she answers. It telling me that she says will be a lie, "No."

"Padmé, I need your help. He is in grave danger."

Her head snaps around faster than I have ever seen.

"From the Sith?" her voice is full of worry and, not for the first time, I wonder if there is more than friendship between the two of them.

I pause before answering, not sure what to tell her, "From himself."

Again I pause, I need to tell the senator this but I am not sure how, telling her is admitting to myself that It's true, still she must know.

"Padmé, Anakin has turned to the dark-side."

"You're wrong," her voice is angry as she defends him. "How could you even say that?"

"I have seen a... a security hologram of him... killing younglings," my voice almost breaks on the last word, the blow of the words hits me full force again, Anakin is a Sith.

"Not Anakin, he couldn't," her voice becomes quiet as the thought fully hits her.

"He was deceived by a lie, we all were," the words sound like excuses, he might have fallen because of a lie but if I had trained him better he wouldn't have. "It appears that the Chancellor is behind everything including the war. Palpatine is the Sith Lord we've been looking for, after the death of Count Dooku, Anakin became his new apprentice."

These words hit her harder than the first and she gasps and tries to reply but can't.

"I don't believe you... I can't."

Now I am sure there is something important that she isn't telling me, that I should have known long ago but was never told, the reason she can't believe me.

I come and sit next to her on the couch where she is sitting in disbelief and shock.

"Padmé, I must find him."

"You're going to kill him, aren't you?"

He words hit me hard, all along I knew that was what I must do, but hearing her accusation makes me realize the exact deed I am asking her to help me with. I am asking her to give me information so I can kill my best friend who may be something more than just a very good friend to her.

"He has become a very great threat," deep down I know that is an excuse for me to make the task bearable and without it I could never even think of doing what I am about to.

She shakes her head at me, "I can't," she says quietly and then looks down at the child still in her stomach.

As I walk to my speeder something occurs to me, something I was to bind to see before, something that has been waving in front of my face since I found out she was pregnant, the council was right and I was wrong.

"Anakin is the father, isn't he?" I ask, turning back to her.

Tears fill the beautiful woman's already watery eyes and spill out and down her cheek as she bows her head, giving me all the confirmation required.

"I'm so sorry," I say as I leave, there is no point in staying now, Padmé will never betray the father of her child.

I wonder what they are, was it just a one night stand, or are they lovers. The latter seems more likely to me but knowing Anakin I wouldn't be surprised if they are married.

My heart goes out to the young soon to be mother, she could wait at home but knowing her she won't. I feel bad for what I am about to do but I know that I must. The Senator can lead me to Anakin.