Leia and Padme- part 2
When she’s a little older and the memory of the woman with flowers in her hair had faded, her family goes to a political summit on Naboo. She sits on her father’s lap while he’s in committee, trying to keep up with the seasoned politicians as they argue and negotiate. It’s then that she decides that this is what she is going to do with her life, fighting for the people of the galaxy’s well-being in the halls of government, like her father before her.
After the session ended, her family ventured further into Theed to visit the lavish tomb of Padme Amidala, the beloved queen and brilliant senator of Naboo and her father’s dear friend and political ally.
Staring up at the stained glass window with her hands held securely in those of her parents, the woman looked like something out of a fairy tale, a beautiful and virtuous queen who tragically fell in love with a Jedi and died in childbirth.
She seems so familiar somehow…
It’s then that she is told that she was her birth mother, a secret that she wasn’t trusted to keep until now.
Her father shows her a holo of her funeral, and she notices the same curly brown hair with small flowers woven in, the same shimmering blue robes and even the same wood carving in her hands as the woman in the garden.
She wonders if she was the spirit of her birth mother, before dismissing the thought.
As Leia grows, she continues to see flashes of the woman with flowers in her hair, her mother. They don’t last long, but every once in a while she’ll flash her a watery smile and disappear. It’s gotten to the point where she thinks she might be going crazy.
She’s 13 when she finds her Mother sitting in the garden again. This time she sits next to her on the marble bench and asks her questions about how this was happening, why she kept appearing to her, and why she looked so sad. Her answers are vague and confusing for the first 2 questions, and the last one she seemed so forlorn Leia didn’t push it. That talk for a while afterwards, her mother weaving roses into her braids as she told her about her life.
When Leia asks what her father was like, her face grows dark and sad.
She disappears soon after.