Akya Sagral is no Jedi. Not yet. And in her situation, you'd think she may never get there. Yet, the midichlorians still run through her blood, and she has nothing to show for it.
Anakin Skywalker is lost. He has a destiny to fulfill and doesn'...
"Akya, you truly are a wonderful cook," commented Padmé with a smile at her host.
"You know, this is better than usual," added Anakin.
"Maybe it was the near-death experience," said Padmé.
"Maybe," chuckled Akya. "I should start almost dying every time I cook."
"Absolutely not," said Anakin. "I think it's just the ingredients."
Padme and Akya laughed.
"So," Padmé said, turning to Anakin, who sad beside Akya across from the senator, "wife?"
"What?" Anakin said, cocking a brow.
"When you introduced yourself to the guard, you called Akya your wife. When did that happen?"
"Oh," said Anakin, glancing at Akya. "That."
"We're not, um—" Akya began, pointing from her to Anakin.
"No," Anakin added. "We're not..."
"We're not married yet."
"Yet?" added Padmé, still smiling.
"Well, we'd like to," said Akya. "But it's a difficult thing to find someone to do it, find someone who can keep it away from government files but is high enough to sign the papers and all that—"
"I could do it," interrupted Padmé.
Akya and Anakin glanced at each other, both their eyes asking the other, Did you know? Neither of them did. "You could do that?" asked Anakin.
"I'm a senator," began Padmé. "My signature makes the marriage valid, and I could technically perform a ceremony, if I really wanted to. And I could keep the whole thing away from the Jedi and the rest of the Senate. No one would see it, but your marriage would be legal and valid."
"You would do that for us?" Akya said, a smile beginning to form on her face.
"You two are my friends," she said. "Besides, it's the least I could do after you two saved my life."
Akya glanced at Anakin, and he nodded. "We'd like that," said Akya. "We'd like that a lot."
"How much time do you have?"
Akya looked at the clock on the wall. "Three hours until our shuttle leaves for Coruscant," she told her. "Is that enough time?"
"More than enough."
"Where should we do it?" asked Anakin.
"What if we did it out on the balcony? It's a beautiful spot, and the sun will be high in the sky."
"That's perfect," he said.
"I have a dress you could borrow, Akya," added Padmé. "It's not traditional white, or anything, but it's something. If you just want to wear your formal Jedi robes, that's alright too."
"I would love to see you in the dress, Akya." Anakin turned to her and said.
"Then I'll wear that," she said to him, then nodded to Padmé.
"I love weddings," said Padmé excitedly. "Okay. You come with me, Akya. Ani, you go and get dressed. We'll meet you on the balcony off the common room in an hour."
"Will do."
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"Akya, that looks beautiful on you!"
"You really think so?" Akya turned from side to side, looking at the dress in the mirror. It was light blue with embroidery all around the neckline, a lace-up front, and light fabric coming from the sleeves. The bottom of the dress was adorned with lace and ended just at her feet. She and Padmé weren't the same shoe size, so she wore the boots she had arrived on Naboo in.
"Absolutely. You know, after all this, I think you should keep it."
Akya turned away from the mirror and looked at her friend. "Padme, I couldn't."
"I want you to. It's your wedding dress, Akya. Even if you never wear it again, you should have it."
Akya looked down at the beautiful fabrics draped over her, admiring the handiwork and stitching. "I'm really not supposed to," she said, almost as if trying to convince herself not to take it. She really wanted to— but Jedi didn't have possessions. She couldn't keep it if she tried.
"I'll keep it here for you," said Padmé. "I've got room. But it's yours. I won't wear it."
"Are you really sure?"
"Absolutely. I know it's not allowed for you to have things like that, but you deserve it."
"Thank you, Padmé. Truly." She took her friend's hands and smiled at her.
"It's my pleasure. I surely don't need more clothes, anyway."
"For everything, I mean," Akya explained. "For getting us here, for cooperating with the fake names, not telling anyone about Anakin and I, and especially for marrying us."
"It's the least I could do, Akya." Padmé took Akya's necklace from a table beside them and clasped it around her neck as she continued speaking. "You and Anakin deserve this. While you two are out there fighting wars for the Republic, I'm sitting in Senate meetings, deciding where to ship you off to next. It isn't fair that you aren't allowed to have the pleasure of love in all this war."
"What you do is important too, Padmé. And all the things you're doing for us, that could get you removed from your post. It's all very illegal."
"It is," she said, a small smile on her face. "But you and Anakin put your lives in danger. It's only fair."
"I appreciate it," said Akya.
"I know you do." Padmé patted her on the shoulder. "Now. Are you ready to get married?"
a.n.
short one bc I want the wedding to be another chapter lol.
also here's some of Akya's outfits from the past couple chapters! I couldn't help but draw her ♡
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i just finished a really nice Akyakin chapter so i'm publishing this for u. it's a busy weekend and i've got a lot of essays to write, but i'm finding time to do this. my strategy is to go back and forth between wattpad and google docs while i do them so that when i'm out of the flow in one, i can just go to the other. it's like multitasking but only doing one at a time? it's fun. it works.
anyway how do you like akya's outfits? i can never refrain from drawing my girlie. if you want to see this bigger, you can drag it into another tab (this only works on web lol)
there's soooo much of akya and anakin on the graphic gallery and im begging you to comment on your favorites there because i'm not putting those on my art instagram so i can't really feel the love there, you know? pretty please leave a comment on the graphic gallery :)
