When Falls the Night

Chapter 8

Anakini smoothly walked through the back of the spaceship, where the bathrooms were. He had plenty of experience moving around the bumping and gliding of the ship and barely even wavered. Once he reached the bathroom door it opened a slight crack and the pale face and whiskey eyes looked out at him. "Can you help me with my dress?" Anakin smiled, "Ofcourse. How can I help?" 

Padme opened the door wider and Anakin had to draw in a breath. Her bar back was revealed due to the need to zip the back of a floor length yellow silk dress. "I can't get the zipper." 

Anakin nodded, though Padme's back was turned and there was no way that she could see it. His hand may have shaken just a touch as he reached forward for the zipper on the back of the dress. 

He tried to resist temptation, he really did. But the exposed skin called to him like a beacon in the night. He was a ship and she was a lighthouse, there was no avoiding it at the end of the day. 

     His fingers lightly grazed the smooth, pale exposed flesh that had been offered up to him. He took his time with the zipper, loving how he could hear Padme;s breath catch at certain points, This power was new to him, the power over a woman that he currently held over Padme. He longed to explore it more, after their wedding of course. He wanted to learn all of the breaths and the sounds that he could elicit from the love of his life. Once the zipper was all the way up, Padme slowly turned around to face Anakin. If Anakin normally called her eyes whiskey colored, he would now call them the color of honey. They were open as wide as they could be and were locked on his lips. He knew it was a risk here on this plane with the captain so close, but he couldn't care in the least at that moment. He leaned down, without breaking eye contact, and kissed Padme senseless. He knew he was kissing her senseless because her body had gone completely slack in his arms. If he hadn't had his arms wrapped around her, she would be laying on the floor she was sure of that. 

     Anakin kissed her for as long as her felt like he should tempt fate, before breaking away slowly. "Oh Ani." Padme's body was still a little limp so he kept his arms firmly around her. He smiled into the now honey colored eyes of his love and placed one last kiss upon her forehead. "Let's take our seats, we should be landing in Naboo shortly." They could have easily played off the arm that Anakin had around the Senator as her needing help walking on the ship, but the captain never took his eyes off of the open sky in front of him. Once they reached the seating area Padme longingly looked out the window, " I love coming home, Naboo will always be where I feel happiest and safest." Anakin took her hand, " I have very fond memories as well." They looked out the window to the stars that floated by and thought of their last time in Naboo at the lake house. How their love had grown, and their friendship had flourished. Anakin couldn't wait for the upcoming memories they were sure to make this trip as the ship descended into Naboo's atmosphere. 

     The flight had been honestly fairly uneventful and they hurried off the ship as soon as it landed. Anakin had one hand on his lightsaber as always and one arm protecting the Senator. There was a waiting armoured looking vehicle there to take them to the lake house. Anakin did a once over of the vehicle and then allowed Padme entrance. He tried not to think of all the things that could go wrong on the short trip to the lake and settled into and uncomfortable position at the back of the vehicle. "Ani you make me nervous when you stand around like that." Padme was looking at an old looking book she had retrieved from her bag. "I know that Senator." Anakin replied with a grin. They drove along for a mere ten minutes before the vehicle stopped suddenly, causing Anakin to draw his lightsaber. "Ani relax. We're here. I told you this airport wasn't far." Anikan wondered what had made him so on edge. Was it the travelling during such a dangerous time? Or something else?