WHAT IS REAL

XI

Time went by and Padme was begging for someone to come. Anyone! She had no contact with anyone for a month - no bath, nothing, but the grating sound of a tray being shoved into her cell once a day. She thought her mind would explode with the silence. Suddenly one day she heard her door being unlocked. She was so happy to find it was not Palpatine. She started to talk to the guard who came in but he just stared at her. He roughly pushed a hard towel into her hand and gruffly said, "Let's go."

"Where are we going?" 

But only silence and stony face met her question. She looked at him and saw there was no soft compassion anywhere in this guard, she shut her mouth and followed. She was pleasantly surprised at where he had taken her. It was a shower room.

 "You have 5 minutes to get clean and you better do a good job. The master would not want you to stink when he sees you."

"The emperor is coming today?" she asked shakily. The guard just laughed and walked away.

She was alone again and so she started to peel her cloths off of her. She would be so glad to feel clean again. She stepped into the running water when she heard a noise from the room where she had left her cloths. She looked around the corner and suddenly four big burly men surrounded her. There was nowhere to go and the men backed her into a corner. She screamed but they just laughed a menacing scary laugh. Padme knew no one would help her.

She sat on the shower room floor bleeding and bruised. She washed as best she could and then went to the now empty room to find she had no cloths on the bench where they had been left. She sat there in stunned silence and did not move even when the guard came into the room. He shoved a new gown at her to cover herself and he led her back to her cell. She sat there not moving or thinking until she again heard the click of her cell being opened and in walked

Palpatine. 

He looked at her and laughed. He knew what had happened to her and he knew also that another piece of her had been broken. He grabbed her by the arm and took her to another room. There he laid her on a table and gave her an injection. This was to make her stay awake, no matter what happened to her. He wanted her to know who was in charge. Then he took her to another table that was warm when she laid on it and he slowly turned up the heat. The pain was enhanced by the fact that she was unable to pass out. Her brain was in sheer panic before he stopped. She pleading, begging, screaming for him to stop before turned off the machine. She could not move and so she was carried to her cell where she waited with no food or water for 2 days. After those 2 days the medicine wore off and she was given water and some bread. She fell into a deep sleep.