A/N: Here it is, my final chapter. I greatly appreciated all your reviews, and I hope you will like the ending.

Padme tried to reach for the edge for the edge of the cliff, but the pain in her elbow made it jolt back before she could touch it. Her mind was clouded with thoughts; she didn't even feel the air beneath her. She felt these as her final moments. She'd always heard your life passes before your eyes when you die, and she was no exception. She saw her parents' beautiful country home, and her first day in the senate. She saw the crowd cheering on her election of Queen. She saw all her friends: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Bail, Yoda, Dorme, Sabe, and especially Anakin. She suddenly relived every moment of their lives together. She even heard the first words he ever said to her "Are you an angel?" She tried to feel for her japor snippet, but it was gone! It must've fallen off during battle, but that didn't matter now. Their reunion after 10 years, their first kiss, their picnic, their wedding, their first anniversary, and her telling him she was pregnant. Her kids, her reasons to live, she really did give it all to protect them. Vader, she thought she could stop him. She knew someone could stop him someday, but not today, and she was not that somebody. He wasn't the same with her anymore. Her opinions meant nothing to him. However, she remembered one tiny detail. Luke was the only thing that touched what's left of his heart. His breathing was calm around him, and Vader touched him gently.

She thought, maybe, Luke was the one to stop him. One day, when he was older, he could bring justice back to the galaxy. She finally realized she had indeed done her duty. If she'd given Vader the information he wanted, she might as well just have dropped Luke right into his mechanical arms. Now that she would be gone, Vader would have no one to give him Luke's location. If he went to Bail, he wouldn't get anything. He probably wouldn't even notice the Organas' new adopted daughter. She let it in that her sacrifice was kick-starting her children's destiny, and she fulfilled her vision. The world came to a close as her head broke the icy river, and she sank into the chilling water.

Vader looked down off the cliff, as he watched Padme hit the water with a crack. His problem, removed. He noticed not far from where he was standing something buried in the snow. He looked closer and picked it up. His heart dropped when he realized what it was, and Anakin briefly stirred. The japor snippet, the one he gave Padme, was in his hands. Suddenly, his troops arrived ready to take orders.

"Get reinforcements. I want you to search the entire river! We are not leaving until you have found the Senator!" Vader barked in an almost worried way.

They rushed down the mountain and looked at the hole in the icy lake. Several storm troopers put on warming wet suits and went in to analyze the area. They searched for hours, but so far they had no progress. Vader paced back and forth impatiently trying to look through the thick ice hoping she would be spotted. Suddenly, one trooper came running towards Vader.

"Lord Vader, sir, we've found something!" The commander exclaimed. Vader followed him towards the spot where Commander Fox held Padme's body.

"Very good, Commander Appo." Vader said to the trooper as they all headed back to Vader's shuttle.

Vader waited in the medical wing, looking through the glass to find the medical droids working on her. Things were not going well; her temperature was 20 degrees below average for a human being, and there were sharp pieces of ice stuck in the back of her brain. Vader could barely watch them work on his estranged wife. Her hair was getting reddish from the blood in the back of her head, she was as white as a trooper's armor, and not to mention the wounds on her knees and elbows Vader gave her. Three hours later, Vader burst into the operation room with impatience.

"What is taking so long?! Her temperature should have risen hours ago!" Vader shouted as her heart beat slower and slower.

"Lord Vader, there's nothing more we can do. We've heated every part of her body, but she's not responding. Plus, she suffered much damage to her brain." The medical droid said hopelessly. Suddenly, the heart monitor let out the noise every concerned friend, parent, or spouse feared the most: the ominous drone of a stopped heart.

Every bone left in Vader's face went numb. He said nothing, and he felt nothing at this moment. He marched out of the medical theatre and through the halls calmly. Every person on the ship stared at Vader as he passed by them without an order or complaint. Vader walked all the way back to his chamber, and sat in his chair motionless for several minutes. He didn't even blink. Then, his datapad pinged and he turned on the holoscreen to reveal the Emperor.

"Lord Vader, I am expecting an update in your search." The Emperor said stubbornly.

Vader reported, "My Master, we found Senator Amidala in the caverns of Ilum. She refused to cooperate, so I was forced to terminate her. Hopefully, a clue in her pockets may be able to help us to find a lead on the location of our…"

"Enough, Vader! This expedition is taking far too long! I've given you plenty of time to find a lead on this boy, but apparently your search is worthless. You assured me that finding Senator Amidala would give us the last clue to the boy's location. I'm sorry, Vader, but your quest must cease. We have more important and productive tasks to attend to." The Emperor interrupted and concluded as the hologram faded.

Vader stood there for several seconds with an increasing heartbeat. He calmly told his security guards to leave. As the door shut behind them, Vader ultimately broke down. He banged at the walls, and kicked his chair over. He threw vases across the room, and they shattered as they hit the floor. Sweat was pouring down his face under his mask. He felt his breathing get shallow, and his mechanical legs drop. He got down on his knees and stared at the floor. The japor snippet fell from his pocket and landed right in front of him. He could hear Padme's voice say, I will not let the Emperor tell me what is right or wrong as you have let him. He finally let streams of tears run down his face, and the heat from his mask made the tears fog up his lenses.

Seventeen years passed, and many changes were brought throughout the galaxy. Vader continued to serve under the Emperor's rule, and his next assignment was to capture Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan, and a suspected rebel leader. They suspected she had the Rebellion's plans aboard her ship, and his mission was to retrieve it. He had managed to capture the princess, but she refused to cooperate.

Meanwhile, outside the ship, an escape pod departed headed into deep space. Suddenly, a familiar spirit showed up next to the pod. She looked through the window, and recognized the two droids traveling in it. She looked out to see the planet of Tatooine behind her, and she noticed the pod flying right past it. Something clicked in her head, and she grabbed a hold on the pod turning it in a different direction, towards the desert planet. She watched the pod fly directly towards Mos Espa, and she smiled as she knew a brother and sister were to be reunited very soon.

A/N: I hope you guys didn't set your hearts on her living through the OT. I thought about it long and hard, but I felt that this fate for her was best.