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Post by Annie on Apr 5, 2007 21:09:23 GMT -5
Naboo may be too obvious for a hiding place for Padme, but his feelings must know more than me. No matter where she is he has to find her!
How sad that Leia doesn't want to be Bail's daughter anymore after all he's done for her. She must be just too resentful she was lied to, and maybe blames Bail more since he was with her all along and Vader didn't know she existed. I hope they can work it out and be close again.
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Post by Annie on Apr 5, 2007 21:41:38 GMT -5
She's alive! I'm so happy she is with her mother, I always felt so bad for her family. Looks like she's totally shut out all memory of him. So her mother didn't know the twins were alive? Oh, no, Palo's around!
Now he has to tell her about their memories together- good ones will be best! Maybe as he tells the stories, it will start to come back to her- and be sort of a very sweet "The Notebook" crossover type of thing! Looking forward to more!
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 6, 2007 17:30:03 GMT -5
Oh, dear, Palo IS drugging her and probably blocking her memories as well, not to mention imprisoning her - she's probably always told her parents she doesn't want to move in with them just to keep Palo from punishing her! I just wonder if he isn't going to falsify the records when he gives them to Vader. Either way, though, I don't see him living very long when Vader finds out what he's been doing! And then how will he explain how he Force-choked someone to death to Padme and her parents?
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 7, 2007 20:24:58 GMT -5
After I read that latest installment, I started to imagine a real conspiracy theory about Palo & Padme. Possibly it's just that Palo was once interested in her and doesn't want her to remember her husband, however I can't see that it's gotten him anywhere. So I'm wondering what his motivation is, and am getting a sneaking suspicion he's working for Sidious, either knowingly or unknowingly. The only good thing is that I don't believe he knows that Anakin is/was Vader. I know this thought is really out on a limb and you're probably going to laugh when you read it. But Sidious would definitely have a motive for keeping her a) alive (to keep Vader in line if it ever became necessary) and b) oppressed and without her memory.
Sorry, my mind just works in weird ways. I kind of wish the whole story was here so I could stay up all night reading it (I would, too), but then it wouldn't last as long, either. I hope you can post another chapter really soon, since I couldn't make myself save up this one for tomorrow's breakfast!
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 8, 2007 12:02:54 GMT -5
Okay, I understand Palo's motive now. Told you that you'd laugh when you read my last post!
Padme's skipping the pills Anakin helped the nurse forget about, but what about the evening dosage? And when she does remember, is she going to want him back after she knows what he is now? He's not going to help matters by killing Palo, which is what he has in mind, I'm sure. Although he's also correct in that pursuing legal action will draw too much attention to them. I'd think Jobal can be convinced that wouldn't be in their best interest even if she doesn't know he's "Lord Vader" - Palpatine would still be hunting any remaining Jedi down. I'm very interested to see how you unfold everything that is going on.
Thanks for posting again last night, though I hope it doesn't mean you won't be posting today (even though I know it is a holiday).
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 8, 2007 18:09:55 GMT -5
Oh, my, I LOVE the intrigue with Padme being drugged and beginning to get suspicious about it. I hope she can hold out against it, but I guess that might be moot as I don't think Vader will waste any time now that he has his evidence. I just hope he can avoid a flagrant demonstration of darkness; that will likely cause just as much unwanted attention as a legal battle, plus alienate all the friends he's managed to make so far. But Padme should at least be rid of Palo, even so. Hopefully no irreversible damage has been done (or if it has, it's her memories of Mustafar that have been lost).
Thanks for posting on Easter. Any chance you'll post another chapter before tomorrow morning? :::hopes:::
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Post by Astrid on Apr 9, 2007 9:12:22 GMT -5
How awful, she's being drugged to keep her memory from coming back! But it looks like she's slowly coming around, I like how you ended the last chapter, I can dream now.
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 9, 2007 15:55:35 GMT -5
Thank goodness she managed to evade taking the drugs so far, even though Palo was apparently getting suspicious about it. And GOOD FOR ANAKIN that he didn't kill Palo - I don't blame him one bit for beating him to a pulp the old-fashioned way. I suspect the information he has against Palo might keep him from pressing charges against Anakin for assault the way he threatened to do, but wonder if anything will be done to solve the problem now that Padme will be free. I suspect there are others staying there who are being mistreated in much the same way.
However, even though she can think more clearly, Padme still doesn't have her memory back. I'm wondering what is going to happen when she begins to remember that he turned into Vader and tried to choke her. Or will she get some good memories back first?
I'm also wondering if Luke, Leia, and Obi-Wan are going to show up on Naboo to reinforce Anakin. And if Bail knew about Palo's mistreatment of Padme or just stuck his head in the sand because he didn't want anyone coming to take his little girl away (I suspect the latter).
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 10, 2007 19:07:22 GMT -5
So the reality of what he is going to have to tell her finally hit him, did it? I wonder how he is going to tell her and what her reaction will be if she still doesn't remember him. And, for that matter, what her family's reaction will be if they learn the truth about who he was all those years.
I also wonder if you have something very different in mind and plan to have her never remember or never completely remember, as that was a possibility with the drug she was given. He hasn't told her that part about it yet.
This story just has me completely riveted - I actually had to turn on the computer as soon as I got home today just to see if you'd posted the next chapter.
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Post by Annie on Apr 11, 2007 17:02:04 GMT -5
Oh good, she's out of there! I like the family stuff and the way those girls think! They'll all be a big help to her. Going through the past must be a good and a bad thing, but getting better! But who's in the room? I'm worried!
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 11, 2007 17:45:08 GMT -5
So she is starting to remember - GOOD! At least the first memory wasn't a terrible one. But why is she making noises in her sleep - is she now having a nightmare? I'm glad at least that he convinced Luke & Leia that it was too dangerous to come to Naboo.
However, I'm wondering if Palo is really out of the picture now - his "powerful friends" comment bothers me.
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Post by Astrid on Apr 12, 2007 9:29:02 GMT -5
nice to see things are moving along between A and P, crossing my fingers nothing else goes wrong!!
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 12, 2007 20:40:28 GMT -5
Well, he still has nightmares, even now, when he's found her alive. I wonder how much of what he shouted in his nightmare she heard? Maybe nothing. But I don't blame him for not wanting to open up a can of worms by having to tell her everything that happens before she remembers herself. She's a lot more likely to refuse all ties to him if she doesn't remember how she felt about it at the time ("there's still good in him").
However, I'm wondering how it will play out if she remembers at the lake house, when it's just the two of them alone together. Will she feel hopelessly trapped?
And, I see you've brought Piett into the story. Without Vader zeroing in on his childrens' location, I'm wondering of Ozzel will be left to ignore what the drones find in the Hoth system ... Doesn't sound like Lord Ferret (deliberately misspelled) is going to care.
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 14, 2007 11:32:42 GMT -5
Good, she's met Luke & Leia, so even if she rejects Anakin initially, she'll still probably want to maintain contact with them. And now they're going out to the Lake. That should get them away from anything Palo might still concoct, with or without the Empire's help. But I have a feeling that's where he'll either tell her or she'll remember the bad stuff. I'm wondering now if he'll tell her before she actually remembers.
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Post by crystalcat on Apr 19, 2007 17:53:08 GMT -5
Oh, no, now when he actually tells her (or she finds out otherwise), he'll have the double indemnity of having lied (misled, but it will sound like a lie) to her mother about what happened to him. Even though, so far as it went, what he said was true.
Putting Leia's thoughts at the beginning of this chapter is starting to make me imagine how you might have the dilemma work itself out, though.
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