Natalie Portman - Forbidden Lovers (A/P) #4: Because their love lived on through their children.

xO_tasha · 06-29-2006, 01:11 PM

*I believe it was #4, but I stand to be corrected.

Once upon a time, in a Galaxy far, far away...<3
Anakin Skywalker/Padme Amidala Appreciation

made by JavaSiva (Cath)

by xO_tasha (Tasha)

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Their Story: (From The Moons of Iego)

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Padmé Amidala, the young queen of Naboo, is forced to flee her blockaded world in a desperate attempt to plea to the Senate to help. An attack during the escape damages her ship and forces her and her entourage, which includes the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, to seek repairs on the barren world of Tatooine. In disguise as a handmaiden, she accompanies Qui-Gon to search for parts, and in the first shop they enter, a young slave boy sees Padmé for the first time and is instantly convinced she must be an angel, one of the most beautiful creatures in the universe. It is love at sight for Anakin, though of course at the moment he is far too young to be anything but a friend to Padmé.

Anakin volunteers to enter a dangerous Podrace to win the money Padmé and her friends need to repair the ship - no doubt largely to be able to see and help this beautiful angel again. Anakin and Padmé become almost instant friends in the following days, and by the time it comes for Anakin to race, she is genuinely worried for his safety, angry enough about the risk that she lashes out at Qui-Gon for allowing it to begin with.

As he is a source of comfort for her, she is also one for him as he is forced to deal with leaving behind his mother and his home to pursue a life as a Jedi. He gives her a handmade pendant, carved by him from a japor snippet, in the hopes that no matter what happens, she won't forget him. She assures him that is not a problem, and that despite the changes all around them, her caring for him will remain.

After a fruitless trip to Coruscant, Anakin returns to Naboo with the Queen and her entourage, and is awhirl when he discovers the Queen and the girl he's come to worship are one and the same. Once again he plays champion to his lady, piloting a starfighter into the core of the battleship still blockading her world, destroying the ship and freeing Naboo. Afterwards, the two are parted when Anakin leaves to become a Jedi, but a shared smile at the victory parade is a tiny foreshadowing of things to come...

Episode II: Attack of the Clones:

Ten years later, our lovestruck little boy has grown up into an accomplished Jedi student and a striking young man. A threat to Padmé, now a Senator, deems her the recipient of Jedi protection, in the form of two old friends she has not seen in ten years. Anakin still feels as strongly as ever for her, perhaps even more so, and the combination of this as well as the additional surprise at seeing just how much her old friend has grown up begins to stir new feelings in Padmé, though she refuses to acknowledge them. Jedi = off limits in terms of romance.

Silly Jedi Council. They send Padmé in hiding to her extremely beautiful and romantic home planet, her assigned protector the guy who wants to be her bodyguard in the total sense. ;-) Padmé finds it increasingly difficult to ignore her growing feelings, dressing provocatively around him and accompanying him to romantic locales. She even allows herself to share a passionate kiss with him. When one night Anakin confesses just how deep his feelings for her run, it's a jolt back to reality for Padmé, who cuts things off between them: pursuing a relationship with one another would destroy his future and is therefore unfeasible. Anakin is highly frustrated, but accepts it.

As so often happens in love stories, it takes the threat of impending death for one or both of the two involved to suck it up and get their act together. When they go to rescue the captured Obi-Wan on Geonosis, the two are themselves captured and sentenced to death. Realizing how trivial duty is at such a time, Padmé confesses her love to Anakin. After a battle in which Anakin loses his right arm, he is sent to escort Padmé home to Naboo before he himself joins the newly-begun Clone Wars. There, in defiance of thousands of years of Jedi tradition, Padmé and Anakin secretly marry. It will be the first of all too few brief moments they manage to steal together with one another over the next three years.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith:

Near the end of the Wars, Padmé tells Anakin she's pregnant. Anakin tells her it's the happiest moment of his life, and the two happily contemplate raising their child back in Naboo's lake country. However, Anakin becomes tormented by visions of Padmé dying in childbirth. She tries to assure him this won't happen, but he's not convinced. Chancellor Palpatine lures Anakin with the idea that the Sith have the ability to stop death. Anakin resists at first, knowing Palpatine is a Sith, but his desire to keep Padmé alive is too desperate, and in the end, Anakin turns his back on the Jedi (who he's already disgruntled with) to join Palpatine.

In his tasks to prove his allegiance to Palpatine - killing the Jedi at the Temple, then the last of the Separatists - Anakin slips quickly to the dark side. When Padmé first learns what's happening to Anakin she tries to save him, following him to Mustafar, where he killed the Separatists. Her heart breaks as she realizes just how far he's gone, that he's gone somewhere she can't follow. Anakin can't accept this, and when Obi-Wan arrives, the confused and angry Anakin rages that Padmé led Obi-Wan there to kill him (she didn't), that Obi-Wan turned her against him - he lashes out and chokes her until she passes out.
After this Obi-Wan and Anakin duel. Obi-Wan leaves Anakin dying on the edge of a lava river, where Palpatine recovers him. At the same time a mysteriously dying Padmé is agonizing in childbirth, Anakin is in his own agony as droids rebuild him in a cybernetic suit - their pain seems to be as one. Padmé dies as their twins are born - and as the Vader mask is sealed on Anakin's face - her final words that she believes there's still good in Anakin. When Vader awakens after his reconstruction, he immediately asks where Padmé is, and if she's all right. Sidious lies that Vader's anger killed her, causing Vader to rage in disbelief and anguish. At her funeral, Padmé is laid to rest forever holding in her hands the japor snippet Anakin once gave her.

Episodes 4 (A New Hope), 5 (The Empire Strikes Back), and 6 (Return of the Jedi):

The closest we get to a happy ending for these two is their twin children. When they are grown, they will become key figures in the Rebel Alliance that will overthrow the Empire. Luke himself will be the one who brings Anakin back, as his son and the reminder of the life and love he had before (and definitely of Padmé), being able to appeal to the part of Anakin Skywalker that does still exist in Darth Vader. If all beings end up in the same place in the Force, and in his redemption Anakin was restored to his youth, perhaps it's not naive to assume he was also reunited with his beloved.

Episodes 7, 8 and 9 have nothing to do with Anakin and Padme, but they have to do with Leia/Han Solo’s son Anakin Solo, and Luke/Mara Jade’s son, Ben Skywalker. They are the main heroes. These three will not be made into feature films.

Songs that remind us of Anakin/Padme:

*From the Movies: “Across The Stars”, “Anakin and Padme”, and “Padme’s Ruminations”, all composed by John Williams.

My Immortal – Evanescence
Anywhere – Evanescence
Here Without You – 3 Doors Down
Incomplete - Backstreet Boys
Something More – Ryan Malcolm
My Last Breath – Evanescence
Goodbye to You – Michelle Branch
October – Evanescence
You – Evanescence
Bring Me to Life – Evanescence
Forgive Me - Evanescence
You and Me – Lifehouse
Everything – Lifehouse
Somewhere in Between – Lifehouse
Where I Want to Be – Lifehouse
Thank You For Loving Me – Bon Jovi
Always – Bon Jovi
I’ll be there for you – Bon Jovi
Never Say Goodbye – Bon Jovi
All About Loving You – Bon Jovi
Bed of Roses – Bon Jovi
Trip – Hedley
At The Beginning – From the Movie Anastasia
Here By My Side – Staind
Everything Changes – Staind
Like Lovers Do – Heather Nova
Join Me – HIM
Sunshine – Hipjoint
I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
Behind Those Eyes – 3 Doors Down
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Forever – Breaking Benjamin
Dreaming of You – Selena
I Could Fall in Love – Selena
Amazed – Lonestar
I’ll Be – Edwin McCain
The Blowers Daughter – Damien Rice
Crazy For This Girl – Evan and Jaron
We Belong Together – Gavin DeGraw
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
Open Arms – Mariah Carey
Love by Grace – Lara Fabian
Hear You Me (May Angels Lead You In) – Jimmy Eat World
The Reason – Hoobastank
Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt
You’re Beautiful – James Blunt
Because of You – Kelly Clarkson
Beautiful Disaster - Kelly Clarkson
You Are Not Alone – Michael Jackson
Tonight and The Rest of my Life – Nina Gordon
Run – Rex Goudie
Open Arms - Journey
Faithfully – Journey
When You Love a Woman - Journey
Wake Up – Coheed and Cambria
Yellow – Coldplay
Wherever You Will Go – The Calling
Colorblind – Counting Crows
Crazy for You - Madonna
I Wanna Be With You- Mandy Moore
It’s Gonna be Love – Mandy Moore
She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
Everyday – B44
There You Are – Martina McBride
There You’ll Be- Faith Hill
Completely – Jennifer Day
Far Away – Nickelback
I Wanna Love You Forever- Jessica Simpson
Wonderwall- Oasis
Greatest Story Ever Told- Oliver James
If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time – R Kelly
I Knew I Loved You- Savage Garden
You – Jim Brickman and Tara McLean
Broken - Seether feat. Amy Lee
Konstantine – Something Corperate
Warmness on the Soul – Avenged Sevenfold
In Loving Memory – Alter Bridge
All out of Love – Air Supply
Be With Me Always – Cliff Richard
Every Step – Sweetbox
Dare you to Move – Switchfoot
Blue and Yellow – The Used
I Caught Fire – The Used
It’s Hard to Say – The Used
Swear it Again – Westlife
I Wanna Grow Old With You – Westlife
Unbreakable- Westlife
You Raise Me Up – Westlife
Only One – Yellowcard
I Have Nothing- Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Angels – Robbie Williams
Do What You Have to Do – Sarah McLaughlin
Never Had a Dream Come True – S Club 7
Why Can’t I? – Liz Phair
What If - Kate Winslet
Love Just Is – Hilary Duff
The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
From the Bottom of my Broken Heart – Britney Spears
I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders
Foolish Games – Jewel
With or Without You - U2
Collide - Howie Day
Again and Again - Jewel
Who Knew - Pink
#1 Crush - Garbage
Eyes of Grace - Enation
More Than Anyone - Gavin DeGraw
Lips of an Angel - Hinder
Brand New Day - Forty Foot Echo
What's Left of Me - Nick Lachey
Awake in a Dream - Kalan Porter
Fallen Embers - Enya
Come What May - Ewan McGregor/Nicole Kidman

Reasons to Love Anakin/Padme:

1. Because he's been in love with her ever since he was a kid.
2. Because she fell in love with him too.
3. Because even though they weren't supposed to, they got married.
4. Because of the way he looks at her.
5. Because of the way she looks at him.
6. Because they are both madly in love with each other.
7. Because he did it all for love.
8. Because she never gave up faith in him.
9. Because nothing will prevent them from loving each other.
10. Because even Obi-Wan could see how much they loved each other.
11. Because they had Luke and Leia.
12. Because the thought of not being with her, he couldn't breathe.
13. Because he's "much too frightened to tease a Senator"... but we know the truth.
14. Because he called her an angel.
15. Because he dreamed about her every night for ten years.
16. Because "being around her again is intoxicating".
17. Because they shared a kiss in the lake-country on Naboo.
18. Because they rolled around on the grass.
19. Because she made him laugh.
20. Because they kept their marriage a secret for 3 years.
21. Because she kissed him on the cheek in the arena.
22. Because his fall was for her.
23. Because she tried to save him.
24. Because their love and babies were a blessing.
25. Because when Anakin put the Vader suit on, the first thing he did was ask about Padme.
26. Because their love created two beautiful babies.
27. Because her spirit was always with him.
28. Because he gave it all up for her.
29. Because her last thoughts were on Anakin.
30. Because together, they can conquer anything.
31. Because their love lived on through their children.

Anakin/Padme Storybook:

Episode I:

Anakin: “Are you an Angel?”
Padme: “What?”
Anakin: “An Angel. The Deep Space pilots talk about them. They’re the most beautiful creatures in the universe...”

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Anakin: “I made this for you. I carved it out of a Japor Snippet. It’ll bring you good fortune, for you to remember me.”
Padme: “It’s beautiful. But I don’t need this to remember you by. Many things will change when we reach the Capital, Ani. My caring for you will remain.”
Anakin: “I care for you too...”

Episode II:

Obi Wan: “It’s a pleasure to see you again, Milady.”
Padme: “It’s been far too long, Master Kenobi. [looks over] Ani? My goodness you’ve grown!”
Anakin: “So have you, far more beautiful, I mean. Well, f-for a Senator, I mean…”
Padme: “Ani, you’ll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine…”

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Padme: “Sometimes mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults than we would like. It’s the only way we grow.”
Anakin: “But I am grown up. You said it yourself.”
Padme: “Please don’t look at me like that.”
Anakin: “Why not?”
Padme: “It makes me feel uncomfortable.”

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Padme: “We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island everyday. I love the water. We would lay on the sand and let the sun dry us.”
Anakin: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here, everything is soft…and smooth. [Touches her hands and back]

[they lean in and kiss]

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Anakin: “From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by where I haven’t thought of you. And now that I’m with you again, I’m in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you, I can’t breathe. I’m haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss won’t become a scar. You are in my very soul, torturing me. What can I do? I’ll do anything that you ask.
Padme: “I can’t…we can’t its…just not possible.”
Anakin: “Anything is possible Padme, listen to me.”
Padme: “No, you listen! We live in a real world, come back to it. You’re studying to become a Jedi and I’m…I’m a Senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, it will take us to a place we cannot go. Regardless of the way we feel about each other.
Anakin: “Then you do feel something.”

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Anakin: “Don’t be afraid.”
Padme: “I’m not afraid to die. I’ve been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.”
Anakin: “What are you talking about?”
Padme: “I love you.”
Anakin: “You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love, that we’d be forced to live a lie. And that it would destroy our lives.”
Padme: “I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. I truly, deeply love you. And before we die I want you to know…”

[they kiss]

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In this scene, Anakin and Padme secretly get married while Anakin is escorting Padme back to Naboo. R2D2 and C3PO are the only witnesses. The beginning of the end is very near…

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Episode III:

Anakin: “I’ve missed you, Padme.”
Padme: “There were whispers that you’d been killed.”
Anakin: “I’m alright. It feels like we’ve been apart for a lifetime. We might have been if the Chancellor hadn’t been kidnapped. I don’t think they would have ever brought us back from the outer rim sieges…” [leans in to kiss her]
Padme: “Wait, not here...”
Anakin: “Yes, here. I’m tired of all this deception, I don’t care if they know we’re married.”
Padme: “Anakin, don’t say things like that.”
[they embrace]
Anakin: “Are you alright? You’re trembling. What’s going on?”
Padme: “Something wonderful has happened. Ani, I’m pregnant.”
Anakin: That’s…that’s won-that’s wonderful!”
Padme: “What are we gonna do”?
Anakin: “We’re not gonna worry about anything right now, alright? This is the happy moment. The happiest moment of my life!”

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Padme: “Ani, I wanna have our baby at home on Naboo. We can go to the Lake Country where no one will know, where we can be safe. I can go early and fix up the baby’s room. I know the perfect spot. Right by the gardens…”
Anakin: “You are so beautiful.”
Padme: “It’s only because I’m so in love.”
Anakin: [laughs] No, It’s because I’m so in love with you!”
Padme: “So love has blinded you?”
Anakin: “Well, that’s not exactly what I meant.”
Padme: “But that’s probably true…”

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Anakin: “Sometimes I wonder what’s happening to the Jedi Order. I think the war is destroying the principles of the Republic.”
Padme: “Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side?”
Anakin: “What do you mean?”
Padme: “What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists? And the Republic is becoming the very evil we’ve been fighting to destroy?”
Anakin: “I don’t believe that. And you’re sounding like a separatist.”
Padme: “This war represents a failure to listen. Now you’re closer to the Chancellor than anyone, please, ask him to stop the fighting and let diplomacy resume!”
Anakin: “Don’t ask me to do that! Make a motion in the senate where that kind of a request belongs!”
Padme: “What is it?”
Anakin: “Nothing…”
Padme: “Don’t do this. Don’t shut me out let me help you. Hold me, like you did by the Lake on Naboo. So long ago when there was nothing but our love. No politics, no plotting, no war…”

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Anakin: Something’s happening. I’m not the Jedi I should be. I want more, and I know I shouldn’t.
Padme: “You expect too much of yourself.”
Anakin: “I found a way to save you.”
Padme: “Save me?”
Anakin: “From my nightmares.”
Padme: “Is that what’s bothering you?”
Anakin: “I won’t lose you, Padme.”
Padme: “I’m not gonna die in childbirth Ani, I promise you.”
Anakin: “No, I promise you.”

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In this scene, Anakin is in the Jedi temple and Padme is in their Apartment. They look out to the sunset and feel each other’s presence. Anakin is makes his decision and questions his fate as he starts to cry as he walks away.

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Padme: “Are you alright? I heard there was an attack on the Jedi temple, you could see the smoke from here!”
Anakin: “I’m fine, I came to see if you and the baby are safe.”
Padme: “What’s happening?”
Anakin: “The Jedi have tried to overthrow the republic.”
Padme: “I can’t believe that!”
Anakin: “I saw Master Windu attempt to assassinate the Chancellor myself.”
Padme: “Oh, Anakin…what are you gonna do?”
Anakin: “I will not betray the Republic. My loyalties lie with the Chancellor, and with the senate, and with you.
Padme: “What about Obi Wan?”
Anakin: “I don’t know. Many Jedi have been killed. We can only hope that he’s remained loyal to the Chancellor.”
Padme: “Anakin, I’m afraid.”
Anakin: “Have faith, my love. Everything will soon be set right. The Chancellor has sent me on a very important mission. Separatists have gathered on the Mustafar system. I’m going there to end this war. Wait for me until I return. Things will be different I promise.”

[Last kiss]

Anakin: “Please, wait for me...”

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Padme: Anakin, all I want is your love.”
Anakin: “Love wont save you, Padme. Only my new powers can do that.”
Padme: “At what cost? You’re a good person don’t do this!”
Anakin: “I won’t lose you the way I lost my mother. I am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of, and im doing it for you, to protect you.”

In the end, the shadow is all you have left. And within your furnace heart you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker ; Forever…

"One fire burns out by anothers burning, One pain is lessen'd by anothers anguish." - Shakespeare

Tina · 06-29-2006, 02:00 PM

Nice thread, Tasha! I'll add this to the Natalie Guide.

Here is a list from the A/P on this board... maybe you could replace it or something.

xO_tasha · 06-29-2006, 10:37 PM

yay, thanks!

Tina · 06-30-2006, 11:35 AM

You're welcome.

I've edited out my post and took it out.

xO_tasha · 07-01-2006, 01:31 AM

okay.

*Shannon* · 07-01-2006, 09:04 AM

I love the title of this thread.

xXSTARwarsROXx · 07-01-2006, 11:02 AM

beautiful title and first post

JavaSiva · 07-02-2006, 12:21 PM

Wow Tash, an incredibly brilliant thread!!!

The layout and info is just great...I'm seriously blown away!

xxxx well done hun! xxxxx

xXSTARwarsROXx · 07-02-2006, 04:49 PM

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In the end, the shadow is all you have left. And within your furnace heart you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker ; Forever…