In MurderHusband, is everyone safe or does Order 66 go through?
Watching the live
flatscreen event of the Chancellor’s funeral, Qui-Gon let out a
small hum of amusement that gained him a shocked look from Amidala
where she sat curled up in Anakin’s lap. His lips just twitched
even more at that as he remained leaning over the back of the couch.
“Come now, do you really expect me to be anything but amused at
Sidious fail?” He chuckled at her before yelping when Obi-Wan
suddenly had a hold of his lobe. “O-Obi-Wan!”
“Don’t taunt
her,” Obi-Wan said sternly, his lips a stern line and his eyes
narrowed at him. “She doesn’t need that stress and neither do we
honestly since not all of us were in the know about the full extent
of Palpatine’s betrayal against the Republic and us personally.”
He grunted out.
“Y-Yes love.”
Qui-Gon eeped out before letting out a gasp of relief and covering up
his ear when Obi-Wan let go off his lobe, hissing a bit as he rubbed
it.
He sent Anakin a
small glare of embarrassment when the blond gave a little snigger
though he took note that Anakin did not lift his head from Amidala’s
shoulder. Obviously Anakin wasn’t doing so good with the revelation
of Palpatine’s betrayal as he was pretending to be and the fact
that the man was dying without proper repercussion and without anyone
knowing what he had been up to was really pissing the former Jedi
off.
Rubbing his ear and
moving around the couch, Qui-Gon settled down on the couch with
Obi-Wan to pull the other against his side, sliding his arm around
the others shoulders to hold around him.
There was a moment
of resistance and then Obi-Wan melted to his side with a quiet noise.
“…What happens now?” He questioned quietly.
Feeling both
Amidala and Anakin’s eyes on him at the question, Qui-Gon let out a
small hum while rubbing his beard and chin slowly at the question.
“To be honest, Sidious was the driving force behind the CSI
unwillingness to work with the Republic and also the Republic’s
unwillingness to work with the CSI. I imagine there might be progress
now.” He mused since he was honestly just going to leave the entire
CSI in Yan’s hands.
He had what he
wanted.
There was a soft
noise and he glanced over to the Naboo Senator.
She glanced up and
meet their eyes before shrugging. “I’m just reminded about the
various officials decrees that made it so much harder to achieve
peace,” Padme said softly, her hands absently playing with Anakin’s
shirt. “Like any meeting with the Separatists were illegal because
it would ‘legitimize’ them. Its so clear now in retrospect.”
She swallowed heavily. “We never questioned them too hard, never
really…” Padme breathed out heavily. “Sure we talked and
suspected but Stars…”
The three stared at
her, watching this determined, strong woman realizing how much she
had missed out on even when she thought her eyes were wide open and
watching everything suspiciously.
“He knew how to
pull the wool over the eyes of people,” Qui-Gon finally drawled.
“He hid even in the Force and no one knew who he was.” He
shrugged, trying to provide comfort to the lady since he knew how
hard she fought for her people.
“Its okay angel,”
Anakin whispered, stroking her belly gently as he tried to comfort
her. “I didn’t see it either and I was around him a lo-” He
shut up, suddenly tensing with his eyes going wide as Padme gave a
loud, embarrassed squeak.
“…I think my
water just broke.” She whispered.
“Well either you
wet yourself or the water broke because my lap is wet.” Anakin
yelped.
“About time.”
Qui-Gon grunted before standing and moving to help the lady to her
feet. “Lets get you to the medic my lady, time to bring some life
into the universe.” He smiled gently as she clung to his arms,
providing the support as Obi-Wan quickly grabbed the comm to call for
the medics and mid-wife they had on standby.
Anakin just let out
a loud squeaky noise, still frozen in the chair. “Baby.” He
squeaked high pitch to a tone closer to what only canines could hear.