WHAT IS REAL

XII

She woke up after a days and she looked at herself in the mirror.

She was gaunt and her eyes had dark circles under them. She was sorer from the rape than from the table. In fact it seemed to her that the table left her with no lasting marks. She whipped around when she heard the door to her cell clicking again. Palpatine again came in this time with a tray of food. Meat and cheese was on this tray but she did not want to eat it. She figured it was poisoned.

"Eat. You have no choice you must do what I say." Palpatine said forcefully. He did take a bite of the food to show her though that it was ok. She ate the food for she could not help herself. She was satisfied after ward, but she was soon sorry she had eaten anything. Palpatine took her again to the room and the same thing happened to her again.

Days went by like this. One day running into the next until all time was separated into extreme pain, rapes, and then nothingness. Two years passed but Padme did not know this. Sleep deprived her of saneness and torture weakened her body into nothing but a shell.

One day Padme came across a sharp piece of glass on the floor of the room. It had been used on another prisoner and got left behind.It was small and she slipped it between her toes and held it there until she got back to her cell. She collapsed on her bed and lay there not moving. She lay there staring at the ceiling thinking about her life. She wanted to go back to the time when her Ani was a man and not a monster. He had loved her with all his heart. She knew that and she had eagerly returned that love back to him. She wanted to feel those lips on hers again, but that was not going to happen. She knew he did not even know she was alive. She knew he was alive though. Palpatine made sure she knew everything he had done since becoming Vader. Well she knew he was never coming back and she knew there was no hope for anyone finding her so she decided to end it all. She took the piece of glass from her toes and sliced her wrists. She watched as the blooded pooled around her on the bed and then drip down on the floor. She started to feel woozy and her head lulled back against the wall.

Palpatine came rushing in because alarms started to sound alerting him that Padme was about to die. She did not know that he had implanted a device in her the first night he had brought her to the prison. The device would alert him, or the medical staff if he was not there, that she was about to die. He picked her up and took her to the med center where she was to recover. She knew she had not died because the injection he had given her for her torture kept her awake. She felt every stitch and knew all the things that were done to save her. She hated him all the more for making her live. He had no plans of letting her die so easily. He wanted to be the one to kill her if he eventually wanted her dead.