❐❝mad Love ❙ ❨anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader❩

chapter fourteen

"Senator Amidala we meet again"

Padmé raised her face towards the entrance of the cell, she was a little dehydrated and hungry, she didn't know how long she had been there. C-3PO next to her had not stopped complaining about the unfortunate situation.

"Who are you?" she asks her.

"Does not recognize me?"

Padme looked at the black suit and then at her mask in her hand, "the red cobra," she says breathlessly, "come to do the dirty work?"

The one in the black suit hummed in denial, "come on, get up, senator. I'm so sorry to see you like this." She helped her up by grabbing onto her forearm.

Padme's legs wobbled and she had to put most of her weight on the watchgirl. The girl took her to a makeshift table that was inside the cell.

"Eat and hydrate," the girl tells her as she hands him a large bowl of food and a glass of water, "it's going to be a long day."

Padmé, though suspicious, accepts the food, "what's your name?"

"Freya," she replies, as she gives C-3PO some maintenance.

"Why help me?"

Freya sighs and turns to the senator.

"Have you seen yourself yet? Do you see where you are? They think you're weak because you're a senator who only has a chatty droid by her side", Freya approached her and Padme followed her with her eyes, "that's unfortunate and pathetic, isn't it? I couldn't keep seeing you here looking like that."

Freya lifted Padme from the chair and placed her in the middle of the cell.

"First weight, raise your fists. I want them real strong, stick your thumb in the fist" she instructed, Padme did it a little clumsily, "no. Right hand. Give me your best shot"

Padme smacked Freya's hand.

"Not bad, Senator, for you to have more strength, turn your hip a little"

Padmé repeated the blow following her recommendations, Freya's hand moved and she smiled.

"That's it. Now with your right fist you hit him in the nose and with the other fist you quickly finish him off and hit him in the jaw"

Padmé was already beginning to feel the adrenaline through her veins, she made the move Freya asked and saw her smile with satisfaction.

"Add a little more speed and you have it under control"

The next few days were spent with Freya training Padme, the senator was strong and the intelligence was in her favor so it was easy.

"You were a very young queen" Freya tells her.

"Yeah, well, they decided i was fit enough for that responsibility. But now I'm a senator."

"An uncorrupted senator among a corrupt bunch," Freya sneered.

"If senators within the council make corrupt decisions, it's because of your group of bloodthirsty vigilantes," Padme snaps.

Freya sneered and rolled her eyes. "Quite a beast. Also, we don't force them all, some make their own decisions."

Padmé knew it well, that some relied on the attacks of the red cobra to be able to make decisions that affect the entire galaxy.

"Freya, I haven't been able to thank you," Padme tells her quietly, "for the food and training, I didn't think the red cobra leader had a heart."

Freya laughed and shook her head, "no honey, make no mistake. There is no heart in this chest. I just wanted to stop feeling embarrassed for seeing you fight so pathetically."

Padmé didn't take it the wrong way, he had seen a kind side of Freya, but if he preferred to pretend it didn't happen, Padmé would accept it.

"I'll be in your debt, at any time, if you need anything, just ask me" Padmé assured him.

Freya nodded with a closed-lipped smile.

"Take care, senator" Freya tells her as a farewell.

Alarms went off warning of the senator's escape and the presence of the Jedi.

Freya ran with Silas to where Theos was.

"What happened?" Silas asked suppressing a laugh.

Theos covered his bloody nose with a wince.

"The senator," he complained to him, "I wasn't even going to stop her, but she punched me in the nose and nearly broke my jaw."

Freya smiled proudly.

"Why are you smiling? I don't see anything funny in that," says Theos.

Silas then points towards one of the trains carrying an armament of weapons. Padme jumped from one train to another, where Anakin was supposed to catch up with her.

Padme looked down after that, meeting her gaze with Freya's. She gave her a grateful nod.