[A friend. There might just be something that flashes across Padmé's face that does seem to have her questioning the use of the word. Something more, although perhaps Leia doesn't know what, and it's not something that Padmé can pester her about. One day, maybe, but not today, the day that is the second time that Padmé has looked upon her daughter, that is both hours apart, and years apart.]
I was, yes. It was an honour when the new queen asked it of me.
[Not that she had planned it. No, a part of Padmé had been debating starting a family already, but there had been several key components missing at the time, being that it had only been herself. But duty had called, and much of Padmé's life had been spent towards duty, which she had never minded.]
You can call him father, Leia. It is all right. [That softness in her voice. She would never want Leia to diminish the ones who had raised her. Yet she listens, not surprised at what Palpatine has done, and nods.
And keep doing all those things we can't talk about. All those things I can't know. Promise me, Bail.
The words echo through her head, and she hopes the advice she had given proved to be worthwhile. Play the role. Be good little Senators. Keep your head down. It seems to have worked, at least for a time. For how many though? Bail had never publicly been one of the Delegation of 2000 so that would have offered him some cover. The others? Mon Mothma and Jar Jar? Although Jar Jar always had an uncanny knack of both destroying things and keeping himself alive.
Yet there was a surprised noise at those last words. She is clever then... Very clever. And no doubt Bail had his hands full with her if Leia even had one speck of Anakin or herself in her.] How utterly terrible for that to happen. Two birds with one stone, it would seem. Helping those in need, and also pulling one over the Empire.
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I was, yes. It was an honour when the new queen asked it of me.
[Not that she had planned it. No, a part of Padmé had been debating starting a family already, but there had been several key components missing at the time, being that it had only been herself. But duty had called, and much of Padmé's life had been spent towards duty, which she had never minded.]
You can call him father, Leia. It is all right. [That softness in her voice. She would never want Leia to diminish the ones who had raised her. Yet she listens, not surprised at what Palpatine has done, and nods.
And keep doing all those things we can't talk about. All those things I can't know. Promise me, Bail.
The words echo through her head, and she hopes the advice she had given proved to be worthwhile. Play the role. Be good little Senators. Keep your head down. It seems to have worked, at least for a time. For how many though? Bail had never publicly been one of the Delegation of 2000 so that would have offered him some cover. The others? Mon Mothma and Jar Jar? Although Jar Jar always had an uncanny knack of both destroying things and keeping himself alive.
Yet there was a surprised noise at those last words. She is clever then... Very clever. And no doubt Bail had his hands full with her if Leia even had one speck of Anakin or herself in her.] How utterly terrible for that to happen. Two birds with one stone, it would seem. Helping those in need, and also pulling one over the Empire.