TM Challenge 114 - Overheard Secrets
Muse: Anakin Skywalker
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 444
Secrets. I have overheard there have been many in my life from the time I was a small boy I'd overhear Watto and my mother Schmi trying to talk she's bartar herself to save me, to allow me to stay in and fix the electronics while she did the hard labor. I heard her begging him to spare me that pleading in soft hushed secretive tones but my hearing was alot better. I went to my bed and sat not sleeping that night but thinking of a way to get her out of there to get her a better life. It never came to pass by my hand however but she died a freed slave none the less.
Then there was the time when I was a young boy and I first joined up with Obi-wan and Qui-gon I heard them that day. Discussing me like I wasn't even nearby the words chosen one coming up often. I have to admit for a small boy hearing all that, hearing that I'd be that responsible for something that important was overwhelming. Bring balance to the force that's alot of strain to put on a person. I was a scrawny little slave boy how in the world was I supposed to do all that. I remember going and curling up in a chair to try and sleep. Restless I was until as on most nights I saw her, Padme to me just a Queen's handmaiden, still another shock when I found out who she really was.She talked to me soothed my fears on everything. She was the only one that really ever talked to me like I was a person at that time to everyone else I was just a little kid. I liked Padme for that.
When Padme "died" I had been hearing all kinds of rumors and whispers, that she had not really died that she was secretly wisked away and was being kept from me, her and my babies. This angered me though I forced myself to believe they were lies put out meant to hurt me meant to torment my very soul. It made it more bareable of course until I could feel her again feel the force around her that had grown stronger. Until I had to find her.
Over the years I have heard many secrets revealed, That Obi-wan had fallen from grace from the Jedi and had turned from them. That he and Sabe' had reunited and were married and expecting a child. Soon it would all fall into place. Soon Me and Padme will make our empire rise, and true balance will be felt. Together as one each balancing the other.