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Padmé Amidala Skywalker (i_cannot_follow) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2013-02-04 07:15:00

Entry tags:

anakin skywalker, padme amidala

Who: Padmé Amidala-Skywalker, an aged up Anakin Skywalker
What: Padmé is young. Anakin is old. They swapped up the age gap in their relationship?
When: Monday morning, February 4, 2013
Where: Padmé and Anakin's rooms
Rating/Warnings: None; will change if applicable
Status: Closed / Incomplete

Padmé stirred in her sleep, starting the process of escaping the sleepy haze that had a grip over her body and mind as she woke from the prior night's sleep. The process of rubbing at her eyes and turning to see if Anakin was still asleep was interrupted, however, as she was met by a face that didn't match what she was expecting.

Nerves and adrenaline went into overdrive as, not thinking, Padmé scrambled to get out of the bed and open the bedside stand drawer. Her blaster pistol was in there and, while she had no intent to use it unless absolutely necessary, she wanted a way to defend herself.

Perhaps because it had been the result of the shock happening right as she was waking up, but her heart was racing. "Who are you?"

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i_cannot_follow
2013-02-06 03:47 am UTC (link)

Padmé didn't immediately answer. Rather, for the first time since realizing what was going on and that it was Anakin, she was taking the opportunity to do something generally considered rude. She stared, taking in the wrinkles on his face and the familiar details that had evidently lasted through the ages. The jawline, the angle of his nose, the sandy hair color. She knew his hand was distinct, but his hand hadn't been what had been unfamiliar to her. She looked at the familiar bits and pieces that made it less about waking up next to a stranger, something that would terrify anyone, and worked toward reassuring her further that it was Anakin. In the end, she ended up with most of her focus being on his eyes. The clever, curious blue eyes that tended to express so much at times even when he, verbally, said nothing. The eyes that had melted her heart, at times, with a single gaze. In that moment, it was giving her something to anchor herself to in order to pull back toward some sense of calm.

After a moment, eyes welling up with what could've been normal or hormone caused tears, Padmé admitted, "I thought - you weren't here, that the castle had deposited someone else here. Like when the people were stuck to us, only -"

It had startled and it had scared her. Despite something in the back of her mind recalling meeting Anakin again and her telling him "My goodness, you've grown" after his notable change in age, she didn't get out such a witty comment. Instead, she moved to get back into the bed and curl up against her husband. The ages were wrong, to each other, but she needed a hug at the very least.

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darkforcerising
2013-02-06 09:33 am UTC (link)

When Padmé started crying Anakin felt infinitely worse, automatically jumping to the conclusion that it was somehow his fault.

“I can just-” he started to say when Padmé scoot towards him on the bed and wrapped her arms around him. He was going to offer to leave; he was upsetting her, the opposite of everything he tried to do. But if she didn’t want him to leave, that desire being expression so strongly (and yet in an utterly confusing way for Anakin, for she felt quite distressed in the Force) he finished with instead, “Oh.”

He wouldn’t deny Padmé anything, of course, and he pulled her close to him.

“I didn’t mean for this to happen. If you want me to leave and give you space, I will,” he said, trying to find a solution that would work.

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i_cannot_follow
2013-02-06 05:17 pm UTC (link)

"If you had meant for this to happen, you wouldn't have left my blaster anywhere I could get it." Padmé pointed out amidst her tears, not moving from the spot where she was next to Anakin.

She did, however, look up at him when he suggested he leave. "Is there a reason I don't know about why I should want you to leave?" She couldn't imagine such being the case about the future, but she figured better to ask since she had no reason. "Otherwise, you don't need to? If you want to spend time in your workroom I wouldn't object. I'm tired most of the time, lately, so there's not a good deal t-"

He was from the future, but she hadn't told him the month it was in 2013. She hadn't been pregnant, or aware of her pregnancy, for all of 2013. There was also the risk of miscarriage, she knew from numerous pregnancy books and "websites" she had read, so there was a possibility that she wouldn't be pregnant at the end of the year. She hoped not, but she couldn't be sure.

After a momentary pause and ending her prior though in the middle of it, she admitted, "I am pregnant right now. No one but you and I know, yet." The morning sickness hadn't been too bad, more a matter of consistent nausea. She was starting to be able to smell a good deal of things and certain smells of foods were quickly becoming notable aversions to her.

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darkforcerising
2013-02-07 03:38 am UTC (link)

“You’re crying Padmé,” Anakin pointed out. “Because I’m here.” And therein lay his confusion. “I only suggested it because you seem very upset.”

Anakin did know Padmé was pregnant. He remembered 2013 well; he couldn’t forget how important this year was for them. Their daughter was born in the autumn months. He could tell it was winter from the frost on the windows and the snow on the sills. If it had been the tail end of the year, as he’d noted earlier, there would be the very telling presence of their daughter and her things in the room.

And as it turned out there was a presence in the Force that was their daughter. It was so very different from them at this point, a small, barely there blip compared to the strong presence that was, say, Padmé. But Anakin, having gone through this already, knew it for what it was. It was their daughter.

“I know. I promise I won’t give away any secrets to anyone.”

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i_cannot_follow
2013-02-07 06:53 am UTC (link)

"I'm crying because it scared me. I know it wasn't intentional. But I still didn't realize it was you and I didn't know where you were." Padmé repeated in more clear terms, being completely honest about it. She didn't sense Force presences and she hadn't looked at Anakin long. She had, simply, seen an unfamiliar face and went for her blaster as a hoped matter of protecting herself if necessary. "And - it made my heart race and I'm just crying."

"I don't know how long you're going to be here. I don't suppose it will be easy for you to have a wife stuck in the past." She might have to make a point of trying to handle what she could on her own. It was a transition, she imagined, for Anakin as well as for herself.

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darkforcerising
2013-02-07 11:52 am UTC (link)

“Padmé,” Anakin said softly. He brought one hand up to brush the tears off one of her cheeks. He certainly remembered this part of the year very well, though he knew by now not to say anything about that. Many slip-ups and mistakes had taught him what exactly not to say in moments like this. Which wasn’t the same as knowing what to say. But he did know there were certain things he should never bring up, in fact maybe he shouldn’t even think them.

“For as long as I’m here, I’m here for you. I don’t care how far in the past you are for me. Whatever you want from me, I’ll do it. I’ll always do what you need me to do.” Or he would at least try. That did not change in the twenty-three years he’d lived in the Land of Make Believe.

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i_cannot_follow
2013-02-08 02:47 am UTC (link)

Padmé continued to lie there against Anakin, taking comfort in both the gesture and his verbal reassurances. She still didn't know what to make of everything, her more easily set off nerves included, but it wasn't as if she had a time deadline. They could work at figuring things out, together, ideally.

"Can we start with just - lying in for awhile?" She knew this was asking something of him, actually, as it meant staying still and not going off to jog or train or whatnot. (She assumed that hadn't changed.) He had to call in for his classes to avoid scaring students with his sudden bout of aging, undoubtedly, but that meant that he would have more time to do as he pleased.

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darkforcerising
2013-02-08 10:16 am UTC (link)

Padmé was correct to assume Anakin had not changed over the past twenty three years in regards to his need to be constantly doing things. He still didn’t like meditation. He still didn’t like remaining in one position for more than was necessary – he’d only begrudgingly accepted sleep as a necessary activity.

But he had told Padmé whatever she needed of him he would do.

“Yes,” he said, and he even had a measured tone that belied none of his dislike of lying still. He focused more on the plus that Padmé wasn't kicking him out, and that she was at least accepting him for the moment. “However long you want. We’ll work through this.”

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