WHAT IS REAL

II

The troopers finally came and they quickly took him aboard the ship. The med droid hooked him to oxygen and did all he could to ease his pain for now. The burns were bad but not unfixable with a few skin graphs and lots of bacta baths he would be back to normal.

Padme was not doing to well. She seemed to be breathing normally and all but she was not waking up. Obi Wan was worried for her sake and the sake of the baby. They still had a day to travel to get to the rendezvous point. He had alerted Bail to the fact that that he was coming with a medical need. He did not mention yet who it was or that she was pregnant. He was not sure if Bail knew of Padme's condition. He certainly knew Master Yoda had no idea. Right now all he could do watch over her and make sure they got safely to Polis Massa.

Padme slowly felt wakefulness coming to her. She did not want to open her eyes there was a light too bright for her eyes just yet. She wondered where she was at the moment. For that matter she wondered why she was somewhere that was this bright. Her bedroom was always kept in the dark or lower lights, and her room on her ship was warmer and a lot less intense also. She decided to use her other senses to determine where she was. She smelled cool crisp air and she heard the hum of an engine roaring at light speed across space. She opened her eyes expecting to see Captain Typho or Anakin at the controls. Who she saw really shocked her.

"Obi Wan!" she asked shocked to see him in her ship. "Why are you here?"

"Padme, I am so glad you are awake. How do you feel?"

"Weak, terribly weak," she replied letting her head fallback onto the pillow. "Why are you here?"

"Don't you remember anything?"

"I know I went to find Anakin." She searched her mind and it did not take long for everything to come flooding back to her. She looked at Obi Wan accusingly, "You stole on my ship. What did you do to Anakin?"

A dark look came over Obi Wan's face. "Nothing I wanted to do but something I had to do."

"Is he dead?"

"Not when I left him," he said flatly.

Padme lies back down as tears formed in her eyes. All she thought about was what happened between her and Anakin. Her heart felt heavy and she started to cry uncontrollably. Her already weakened condition, added by the heartbreaking sobs, caused her to fall into unconsciousness again.