Padme stood in the throne room, looking out over the courtyard below.

They were running out of time.The Trade Federation's blockade on her planet was worrying her and upsetting her people. Her people were suffering and that just wasn't something she could tolerate. It was her job to protect them and do what was best for them. What the Trade ( Read more... )

My family has always been a very important part of my life. Even when I started doing political work and then became the Queen of Naboo, my family was always someone that I kept close to my heart and in my mind. There were times when I sought out their advice and their counsel when I was trying to make an important decision ( Read more... )

What If...What if she had stopped everything with Anakin the moment that it looked like it was going to start? Would that have changed everything that happened afterwards? Or would that have only served to speed up the process by which Anakin was corrupted by the Dark Side? If she had put her court mask on and firmly told him that they could never ( Read more... )

My family and their way of life influenced me the most when I was growing up. It was mostly my grandmother, though.

Grandmother believed very styrongly that if you always did the right thing then you couldn't help but be satisfied and rewarded. She was also the one who taught me that the right thing wasn't always the easiest thing to do. Even the ( Read more... )

She felt Obi-Wan carrying her away from that place and placing her in her ship. She didn't know what had happened between he and Anakin, but she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes and ask him to tell her. She felt broken and she was having an awful time trying to breathe normally. She wasn't accustomed to feeling this weak or this ( Read more... )

Looking back, I wonder if there was a moment when I would have had the strength and the determination to say no and to stop everything that happened from the time we were at the Naboo retreat until the way it ended. Looking back now, I can see how wrong it was for me to admit my love for Anakin and for us to get married secretly on Naboo after he ( Read more... )

I believe in freedom ( Read more... )

* Prompt A: You discover a letter you wrote to yourself ten years ago. What does the letter say? Write the letter.

Padme ( Read more... )

My most powerful memory would be the look I saw on Anakin's face when I went to him at Mustafar. His eyes were... different and he was a changed person. I had gone to him to warn him about what the Jedi had thought he had done...and when I saw his face, I knew that what I had been told was true. I tried to talk to him, tried to get him to come back ( Read more... )

My Dear One ( Read more... )