Inevitable

Qui Gon Jin/Padme, QGJ pov.

A/N: Wow, this is certainly not a fandom I've ever written in before. But autumnwhispers posed the challenge and I just couldn't resist.

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She's polarized between the child, the apprentice and the man. Held respectively in wide-eyed ardor, esteem and lust.

While his young companions merely see beauty and grace, he sees a lush body that will be ravished by circumstance. Touching the edge of her future with the Force, his hairs stand on end at the phantom taste of love, fear, betrayal, and death.

He's always known that there are some fights that can never be won. But if he could have any victory, he would save her from war… from pain… from him.

But even the Force cannot alter certain fates.