In which Padme and Sabe tell Mara about her father. Well, half the truth, at the very least.
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Author's Notes: This was actually a chapter that I kind of sort of struggled with, mostly in regards to if Padme should tell Mara everything, or do what Obi-Wan did in canon and tell...half the truth, shall we say. (And even that's a goddamn understatement. I'm sort of adjusting a bit more to Ben lying to Luke, but I'm not entirely happy with it. I mean, maybe it was kind of him trying to sort of cope with Vader's fall in his own way -- such as his comment about the good man that Anakin was being destroyed when he became Vader, and like a lot of good lies, there's a grain of truth in it; Anakin really did metaphorically die when he pledged himself to Sidious -- but still... Then again, I doubt Lucas really intended us to really agree with Ben. After all, it was really Luke showing compassion to Vader that saved the day in the end, not just killing Vader and the Emperor. A pretty damn good lesson, I think, and pretty damn awesome for the time)
I figured here that Padme would tell half the truth, really. Just to not break Mara's heart, even though it would no doubt break Mara's heart in the long run.
Also, yes, Sabe's alias is partially an Actor Allusion -- "Elizabeth" is the name of the character that Keira Knightley played in
Pirates of the Carribbean. I haven't seen all the
Pirates movies (I think I saw the first one at a friends' house), but they definitely sound fantastic. And Nerus...yeah, I took the name "Nerys" (think Kira Nerys in
Deep Space Nine) and changed a vowel. Yeah, I know.
Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter. :)
( "Please, explain it to me. Because I'm really confused." )