The Fan Fiction Archive updates with three new stories this week. In the second story, "Found and Lost" by Aunecah_Skywalker, Padmé has to make perhaps one the most difficult decisions of her lifetime.

Found and Lost by Aunecah_Skywalker

Summary

Everyone has to make hard choices at some point in their lifetimes, but Padmé has to make perhaps one the most difficult decisions. This is just a small introspection 'fic that deals with her emotions as she spends her last day on Naboo.

Excerpt

Only days, or even hours, remained before the Clone armies would arrive and destroy her world, and there was nothing she or anyone else could do about it. Her love for her Naboo was unquestionable as her loyalty, yet she was unable to act according to either.

Padmé was leaving Naboo in the time of her greatest need, and looking at the lush forests and the beautiful gardens only reminded her of what she was doing. There was nothing left that she could do even if she stayed, and Padmé knew it, but she still couldn't stop the guilt from overwhelming her. Perhaps that would be a fitting end: to die with her people when the Imperials came and attacked, and she would have done exactly that. If not for her children.

Leia and Luke Skywalker. Her eleven-day-old children. She could face the emperor without a shudder, and she could even fight her husband, Anakin Skywalker, or Darth Vader, as he now preferred to be called; but she could not stand the thought of her children dying. Read more here.

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