So, today was the day.
I woke up with a smile on my face, in an empty bed might I add though. Anakin had insisted sleeping in separate beds so as not to see each other before the wedding. As much as I just wanted to be beside him right now, it was sweet how much he cared about tradition and was going out of his way to make this so special.
Padme had burst into my room at the crack of dawn to help me get ready. I had always been used to her being very composed and stern but when it came to events like this, I swear she morphed into a different person.
"Alright (y/n). First, hair. Second, makeup. Third, dress. then-"
"Padme, Padme. No offence, but. I really don't care about those things. I just want to marry the man I love, nothing else matters to me"
She smiled and exhaled with an accepting breath.
The next few hours of preparation were conducted in a soothing quiet. We spoke here and there about slight alterations of the dress and my hair but the rest was silent and I liked it. In fact overtime, I discovered that silence was actually one of my favourite sounds besides Anakin's voice of course. It is where you can be completely left alone with your thoughts, and though maybe in the past that might have terrified me, now I welcomed it.
As the only thoughts I had were one's of him.
"Ok, all done" padme adjusted the final detail of my hair then stepped back. I looked over to the mirror in shock, I hadn't even been paying attention to all the work going on, I kind of just let padme do her thing.
At first, when I looked in the mirror, I could barely recognise the women in the reflection, she was too beautiful to be me. My jaw was dropped open in admiration for this mysterious reflection.
Padme had styled my hair into my usual high ponytail however now it fell with voluminous waves and had lighter highlights luminating throughout as it cascaded down my back.
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Ok sorry if you don't like it but when I've been describing her hair throughout the story and the high ponytail, I've been imaging it like Ariana's ponytail, so when I describe this wedding hairstyle, I'm imagining something like this below, but if you don't like it you can imagine whatever you like :)
I awed over the dress once again and then turned back round to Padme "you're amazing, you know that right?" I praised her.
"I know" she grinned.
I spun back round to the mirror to take one last look at the figure before me. My lips shone with gloss and my eyelids shimmered with a subtle shadow.
"You would never have looked this good as a Sith, I'll tell you that" she added
I dropped my head in laughter, she had a point.
"Ok how long do we have until we need to be there?"
She paused in hesitation for a second "...ten minutes" she dropped her eyes to the ground.
"TEN MINUTES? PADME, WHY DIDNT YOU WARN ME EARLIER, WE NEED TO GET GOING RIGHT NOW"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't want to panic you!"
"yeah, great job!" I responded sarcastically, grabbing her hand and pulling her out the room.
The wedding was being held in the grand hall of the temple, apparently it had been all done up just for today. I had always loved the grand hall, sometimes I spent hours just sitting in there and admiring the huge stained glass windows that refracted the sunlight in all different glorious colours (image above)
We ran side by side down the halls of the temple, picking up my dress so to not let it drag on the floor. The whole temple seemed completely deserted as we crossed no one on our way.
"Where is everyone?" I panted. Padme didn't even bother answer,
oh right, they're at my wedding.
A few more frantic minutes later we arrived at the closed doors of the grand hall, with 1 minute to spare might I add.
A huge arrangement of beautiful purple lilies flourished in stone pillar pots either side of the doors. hmm, who knew the Jedi could be so classy.
I could hear the excitement of voices from inside, I looked to Padme who urged me to go inside. I stepped forward slightly to peek through the crack in the door and the view that greeted me made my heart jump to my throat.
Hundreds of people were sat in wait for me, all sat row by row. People I recognized, people I didn't, it looked like they really had packed the whole of Coruscant in here. A long white aisle led all the way to the other end of the imposing hall, taunting me.
I spun round and tried to make a run for it but Padme simply grabbed my arm and spun me back round "Padme, I can't do it"
"What are you talking about?" she responded.
"Do you know how many people are in there!?" I whisper-yelled.
"How is it any different to when your fighting thousands of droids?"
"There are literally millions of differences! in fact why don't I list them all for you right now" I said, trying to stall time.
"(y/n), pull yourself together" her serious tone returned as she edged me closer to the door.
"Now, you're (y/n) (y/l/n) for only a few more minutes, THEN WHO ARE YOU?"
"(y/n) skywalker" I responded, nodding my head and taking deep breaths.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"(Y/N) SKYWALKER" I repeated.
"NOW GO MARRY YOUR MAN" and with that she pushed the doors open as every single head turned to face me.
One of my few weaknesses was that I was terrible at...staying conscious. And now when I saw all these eyes looking me up and down intently, I could feel that familiar dizziness returning as my breathing quickened and vision started to blur.
but then...
(I think I found the perfect song to go with this next bit "to build a home" by the cinematic orchestra, give it a try!)
I saw him.
Anakin's POV
I saw her.
(y/n)'s POV
And everything stopped.
Anakin's POV
And everything stopped.
(y/n)'s POV
For a moment it was just him and I, gazing at each other from a distance.
He smiled that infectious smile and nodded, Its okay, I'm right here baby, his eyes said.
And suddenly, I didn't feel so scared.
Anakin's POV
"wow" I heard Obi-Wan whisper from behind me when he saw my bride walking down the aisle.
"she's mine" I immediately responded without turning round.
My eyes were completely fixated on her and even if I had tried, I could not look away. She lit up the whole hall with her smile and as the purple tint refracted through the stained glass windows, it fell across her figure perfectly, making her glow with even more beauty.
(y/n)'s POV
For the first time whilst walking down the aisle, I looked away from Anakin, to the rows of people. I smiled and waved at my friends and acquaintances. One row in particular made me laugh to myself as I recognized my youngling training class from the other day, the bunch of ecstatic children waved at me hysterically, Liana even seemed to be crying a little.
I turned to face back to Anakin but instead another being caught my eye.
She had come!
The second Anakin and I got engaged, I knew there was one person who I had to invite to wedding. I had never met her before but Anakin had told me thousands of stories about her and I managed to find a way to contact her through hologram. Just from looking at her now, I could see the same spark I saw in Anakin in her eyes...
Ahsoka Tano.
I nodded in silent thanks to her for coming and she nodded back in gratitude for the invitation.
By then, I had reached the end of the aisle. I stepped up in front of the altar and turned to face Anakin.
We stood a metre away from each other now, I gazed up and fell into Anakin's deep blue eyes, they shone like glass as I noticed tears welling up inside them. I lifted my hand up and caressed his cheek as he then placed his hand over mine and brought it down so that they intertwined between us.
His soft, warm brown hair looked effortless, yet perfect like always. He was dressed in his suit like formal, black attire that made him look even more handsome.
We nodded to each other then looked to man who was ready to marry us.
This was it.
"Welcome, fellow Jedi and citizens. We are gathered here today to witness the very first wedding between two Jedi - the wedding of Anakin Skywalker and (y/n) (y/l/n)"
The wise, grey-haired man stopped for a moment with a pause and collected his thoughts for his next few words. "Never in the history of the Jedi have I seen such a wonderous event occur, this day is to go down in history. So, as we welcome this loving marriage into the galaxy, we welcome a new beginning"
I noticed Obi-Wan smiling behind Anakin, he was dressed smartly in a cream and white suit, classy as always I thought to myself.
"Before we begin with the vows, are there any objections to the marriage of these two young Jedi"
Both mine and Anakin's heads turned to the guests. I scanned through the faces, holding my breath as I prayed for everyone to keep their mouth shut.
My eyes met Kayla's. I didn't even bother thinking about why the hell she was invited but I shot her a look that said,
'don't you kriffing dare even make a sound or I wont hesitate to rip every limb from your body one-by-one. Got it?'
It seemed the message got across as she dropped her head to stare down at the floor, retreating like a rabbit into its burrow.
The memory of her saying 'back off. he's mine now' rung through my brain, that didn't age well. I congratulated myself momentarily for my triumph against her.
"Right then, we shall move onto the vows. Miss (y/l/n) would you like to go first?"
I nodded and took a breath before looking back to Anakin. I squeezed his hand, making it clear I was never going to let go.
"Anakin. When I first met you...my mission essentially was to kill you" I paused as whispers flooded through the audience. "But then the mission changed and the impossible task became to not fall madly in love with you, and it's safe to say I failed miserably. And now, now the mission is to grow, to heal and to live the rest of my life with the person I most adore, you. I cant live without you Skywalker. And now that we're here, declaring our love in front of everyone, I can truly say that you saved my life. You saved me from myself and from the person I was told I was destined to become. You saved me, and I love you for that"
He lifted my hand and pressed it to his lips as he closed his eyes, taking in the moment with gratitude.
"and Mr Skywalker?" the man before us said.
Anakin looked down at me with eyes filled with love and begun "you speak about destiny, Dooku once told you, all that time ago that you were destined to destroy me. And in a way, you did. You destroyed everything that was killing me, everything that was bringing me down and then granted me with a whole new life, one I would have never expected in a million years. I once told Obi-wan when I was 12 years old?" he turned round to Obi-Wan then back to me "I said Obi-Wan, one day I will be the best Jedi ever, you can't let anything get in the way okay? if anything comes along to distract me from my Jedi duties then you must get rid of it ok?...he never responded, and wow am I glad he didn't"
This made the audience chuckle. He was always great at making people laugh, that was one of the things I so loved about him.
"If someone had asked me over a year ago, just after we had met for the first time, what I thought of (y/n), I would have laughed in their face and said she is the most evil, rude and annoying person I've ever met. Now if you were to ask me, there aren't enough adjectives in the galaxy to describe how amazing she is but I'll list a few. (y/n) is the most beautiful, funny, generous, kind, loving, talented, sexy, skilled and strong person I have ever met. I can't wait to finally be able to call you my wife. I love you"
Tears had started rolling down my cheeks almost a minute ago and hadn't stopped since. damn, he was so good at that.
I couldn't hold back the urge to leap forward and kiss him as I threw myself to him.
"whoa, whoa, whoa, not yet, not yet" the man who was marrying us laughed along with the audience.
I managed to stop the tears as I dabbed my wet cheeks with the back of my hand.
R2 then brought the rings along the aisle and we both placed the silver bands onto each others ring fingers as we exchanged our promises. Then came the big moment,
"and so, Anakin Skywalker...do you take (y/n) (y/l/n) to be your lawfully wedded wife? to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and not so good times, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?"
Anakin traced his thumb back and forth over my hand and responded with ease "I do"
In this moment I had decided, this was the happiest moment of my life. I looked at Anakin with so much love I could burst, not a bone in my body had any bad feelings towards this man, this incredible man, incredible Jedi, I loved him with everything I had
"And (y/n) (y/l/n)...do you take Anakin Skywalker to be your lawfully wedded husband? to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and not so good times, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?"
"I..." I was so ready to say do but as I started, a bright flash of light suddenly reflected past my eyes. I looked over to see what was going on as my view instantly travelled over to a tall hooded figure that stood at the back of the hall. It was their silver tattoo of the empire on their wrist that had shone into my eyes, I watched in horror as out from behind them they revealed a...DC-15x sniper rifle.
In a second this hooded servant of the empire had lifted the blaster to aim...
they pressed there finger down on the trigger,
they fired.
Bang.
(a/n)
OK, long chapter and cliff-hanger SORRY lol