I Would Die For You Once More {ANIDALA AU}

Chapter Fourteen - Second Chances

"So, you're not just lying to me. We were married, in the other galaxy."

"Yes."

"Then why did you choke me?!"

Anakin shook his head, resting his forehead in his hands. "I told you, Padmé, I was consumed by an evil force and.... listen, there's really no excuse for what I did, Padmé. This second life, this.... travel to another world.... it's a re-start. It's a second chance, a chance to start over. I want to fix what I've done. I want to make amends. I want to make this life better, make it normal, have a family. Please, give me a chance, Padmé.

Padmé looked at him, her eyes narrowed. She didn't know. She didn't understand.

Or at least she thought she didn't know.

"Then why do I keep having all of these daydreams of a different life? Explain that to me."

"They're not daydreams. They're visions, and flashbacks." He looked around him, then leaned into her lowering his voice as if someone else was there in the room with them trying to listen in. "You want to know why we're the only ones here that seem to know about this other world? Why I'm the only one who seems weird to you? We're out here alone, Padmé. All my friends, out families, the people you and I work with.... they're all back home. I traveled here to get you back. Everyone misses you. The people you work with, your parents, your sister, your nieces, your friends, your kids.... me. I miss you, Padmé. Please, come home," he pleaded.

"Anakin, I can't just leave everything behind! I'll be considered as missing, and they'll be looking for me forever."

"That's the thing, Padmé! We'll erase your records, make everyone forget, believe that you were never even here!"

She narrowed her eyes again, shaking her head. "No. You know what? None of this can be real. Maybe this is just all a dream, and I just need to wake up from it."

"Padmé --"

"This is tearing is apart! It's terrible! Can't we just act like none of this ever happened, and start over as new friends, like normal? Oh, Ani --"

Both of them gasped at the same time.

"Did you just...." Anakin started, but never finished. Then Anakin was holding out his arm, his hand outstretched toward her, and something was happening. Something was happening with her mind.

She started remembering. Remembering remembering.

Anakin was in fact her husband, and they did have twins. Luke and Leia, they were named, and they were two years old. Anakin and Padmé were forbiddingly married, their marriage kept a secret, because Anakin was a Jedi, a Jedi weren't allowed to love. Padmé was a senator, for her home planet Naboo, but had been appointed Chancellor of Coruscant after the Dark Days, after the Dark Days, after Anakin had defeated Chancellor Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious. Anakin's fellow Jedi and friends, Ahsoka Tano and Obi-Wan Kenobi, were also good friends of Padmé as well, such wonderful Jedi they were. Times had changed. They had changed for the benefit of everyone.

"Anakin. I believe you, I do! I swear! I'm sorry."