being enabled to CWP

[uncondoned]

This endeavor is only being done to watch our suffering-- his suffering. It is cruel, regardless of the subject matter. I can't watch that, and it isn't fair if Anakin hasn't even committed the crimes I'll so harshly judge him for. You do this for some pleasure I can't fathom, and it will hurt him more than anything.

Please.

I come to you to seek reason.

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[maytheforce]

Padmé? Is it really you? [He looks on in disbelief for a moment, but then her words pierce through the happy fog of looking upon the woman he loved and he gets both curious and a little annoyed.]

What crimes? What would you judge me for?

[uncondoned]

[She smiles, though it cannot reach her eyes. The pain is too fresh to bear seeing him like this.]

It is.

[Her hands remain at her side. There's no want to touch him, though she wants to comfort him. She loves him too much to stand idly by though.]

Something you have yet to live through.

[maytheforce]

[He doesn't understand and steps forward]

Padmé, everything I do is for you, for the Republic. I don't understand what you are saying.

[uncondoned]

I know, Anakin. [She doesn't move, face drawn down. She can't smile, the pain in her chest ripping through her right now.]

Your love for me is the problem.

[maytheforce]

My loving you is a problem, now?! I have longed to be with you in the open for so long and now we have a chance to be together, to raise our bab-

...why are you not pregnant?

[uncondoned]

Our children are safe. That is all you need to know. [She sincerely hopes they are.]

[maytheforce]

Children? There was more than one?

Padmé... [He steps right in to her and reaches for her] why are you being like this?

[uncondoned]

A son and a daughter, yes.

[His touch makes her stiffen, as much as she wants to be in his arm.] There are things you do not know.

[Her head dips to the side, away from him to pull away.]

[maytheforce]

[He is trembling and looks like she cut him with the expression on his face.]

What could I have done to make you flinch from me like this? I would never hurt you Padmé, I love you too much to ever hurt you.

[uncondoned]

I do not doubt that. [But it will change. Her hand moves to touch him, but stops before she can reach his face. She cares, and she will always love him, but she cannot help fearing the man he may soon become.]

[maytheforce]

Why can you not even bear to touch me?

[uncondoned]

Because you are the man I love and will always love, but not the man you will always be.

[maytheforce]

That doesn't make any sense to me, Padmé. Don't try to fool me with Senator's words.

[uncondoned]

I would never fool you.

[maytheforce]

Then speak to me in words that make sense! [He moves back because he threw his hands in the air and he did not want to clip her, also being this close to her and having her shy away from him was so frustrating and heartbreaking.]

Nothing else matters but that you're safe. If you've given birth then I succeeded in keeping you alive, we beat my dreams.

[uncondoned]

And if we did not?

[maytheforce]

What do you mean if we did not, I- [He pauses, something he heard since his recent arrival pops in to his mind. People can come from different times and places, could they come from the grave as well?]

You... I did not save you? I could not save you like I could not save my mother?

[virginia_potts]

They really do seem to enjoy our misery. But it looks like you may also have to deal with people recognizing you because you resemble someone else they know.

[uncondoned]

Do I? Though I have had doppelgangers before as an issue of safety.

[virginia_potts]

Well the double part may be easy for you then. It's probably others mixing you two up that would be confusing at first.

[uncondoned]

Is she there as well? [Granted Padmè is younger.]

[virginia_potts]

Not yet, but I hear she may be coming fairly soon.

[uncondoned]

That wouldn't be good for Anakin.

[virginia_potts]

Yeah, I suppose that would be pretty awkward and confusing for him, if someone showed up resembling his wife, but wasn't her.

[uncondoned]

Not with how he strongly he feels.