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SHARING A DREAM

I was there again. Alderaan. The meadow where I was standing was wide and the breeze caught between blades of grass, was gently murmuring in my ears. The sun was setting behind distant mountains. The snow, which covered their tops, was colored in warm shades of the last sun rays. I could almost feel their warmth on my face. So pure. So gentle. Almost.

And then I woke up. When I opened my eyes I couldn't tell where I was for a second. I closed them again and tried to recall image of Alderaan, which was already fading. No use, it was gone. I rolled to one side and buried myself in the coziness of my blanket.I should probably get up I thought. Judging by the light coming through my window it was about 8 in the morning maybe more. It was Monday and on Mondays I start school at 10, so there was no need to hurry. I sat up, still in my bed. And that's when I first saw her. Most of the people's first thought would be: did I take any pills yesterday?

Let's just say I am not like most of the people. Well I was shocked, true, but the moment I saw her sleeping curled up on my rug, I recognized her. Leia Organa. Somehow, I can't really explain why, I knew it was not a dream or anything. It was real.

My mind was rushing, telling me to find a logical explanation for what was going on. I stood up quietly, trying not to wake her up. Trying not to wake her up? What the hell was I thinking? That's something special about me. I love stories and my imagination sometimes goes really wild. I could easily make up things and when I was alone pretend them to be true. I'm a fan girl, obviously. Some call me geek or even freak, but I don't really mind. I could explain this for hours, but let's just say that my life motto or guidance is a quote of George Bernard Shaw: »You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' «.

I looked down at Leia. She was wearing something that looked mostly like a battlefield outfit: pants, shirt, tunic and a pair of boots. Her hair was made in one of her famous styles, though it was kind of messy. There was a smile on her face, an expression of a nice dream maybe. I still couldn't believe it. It was Leia Organa in flesh and blood and what made it even more awkward, she was in my room.

I didn't know what to do. I tapped her on her shoulder. Barley touchable at first and when she didn't respond, I shook her.

"What?" she moaned, not opening her eyes. I shivered.

"I…. I think you should get up" I said nervously.

"Yeah, just a second lieutenant," she said in a bit more clear voice this time.

"Hey" I almost exclaimed this time. I panicked. It was all so weird. "It's an emergency." I added trying to finally get her attention.

"Empire" she gasped, while she sat up, her coffee brown eyes wide opened in shock. "Where are they?"

She looked at me and realized she didn't know me. "Lieutenant?" she asked puzzled.

It was quite obvious she thought I was someone else. "Ommm… No not really," I said stupidly.

Leia glanced around her with confusion and then with fear. She started to move away from me. "Who are you?" she said with distrust "And what do you want?"

I hurried: "I mean you no harm." There was tons of stuff I could say, but sure why not make everything even weirder by using Yoda's line?

She started talking again, babbling something about Empire, but I interrupted her.

"Stop" I said. "Just listen to me. My name is Kai and I do not work for the Empire."

"That's exactly what an Imperial agent would say" she pointed out. "How can I know you didn't drug me and kidnap me?"

"Emmmm" I mumbled. I was utterly confused.

"Tell me where am I and who are you? A bounty hunter? An assassin?"

"I'm a …" I was figuring up what to say. What should I say. A high school student? Star Wars geek? "I'm a friend" I said at last. "And for your first question. You are in my room in my house." I watched her as her angry expression slowly softened.

Leia was now observing my room, her gaze quickly traveling from one side to the other. "What planet is this?" she wondered. She didn't look frightened anymore, just puzzled and curious.

"Earth" I answered.

"Is it in outer Rim territories?" she asked and it really surprised me that she sounded just like as she was having an everyday conversation.

I smiled. "Way outer than you think."

"What did you say your name was?" she said

"I'm Kai. Kai Riven." I introduced myself again and she shook the hand I offered.

"Nice to meet you. I'm L…" She started and I finished it at the same time.

"Leia Organa." I knew it's was not going to be easy to understand what I was about to say, but it was necessary.

"Look" I said. "I know who you are. I know a lot about you. And I don't know how this happened or why, but you are not in galaxy you come from anymore. I don't think it's even the same time."

She looked at me as if I was loony. "Yeah" she joked. "And Darth Vader is in fact a really nice guy."

"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you" I whispered to myself. But aloud I tried to explain: "I've read books about you, Han, Luke, Lando and Chewie. I've seen movies about your adventures." She looked suspiciously at me.

"What are movies and who's Lando?" She asked

It was my turn to be surprised. She didn't know who Lando was? How was this possible? "Movies are sort of holo videos." I answered her first question and decided to ignore the second.

Leia shook her head. "I don't understand the word you're saying."

I was desperate. I stood up, took a DVD - Star wars Episode IV from the shelf, where I kept my collection and handed it to her.

She observed it for a long time and when she finally gazed back to me, she was biting her lip. I noticed she looked awfully pale.

"Are you okay?" I asked and she shook her head. "Come with me" I told her and led her out of my room and in to the bathroom. I told her to sit down sat at the edge of our bathtub and handed her a glass of water. She was in shock, no doubt about that. It was interesting that I was completely fine, almost calm. But sure, on the other hand, I knew a lot about Leia and her world, though she knew nothing about me.

"Everything's going to be just fine." I assured her and realized I treated her as really close friend. It kind of felt like I knew her for a long time.

"How old are you Leia?" I asked not just to break the silence, but it was the thing I was thinking about from the start. She looked really young, about my age I thought.

She took another swing of water and said "I'm almost 20." My mind started racing again. If she was 20, that meant… it was about a year after Battle of Yavin and destruction of the first Death star. It would explain why she doesn't know Lando.

"Why do you think this happened, Kai? How come I ended up in your world?" She wondered and I noticed that her voice was beginning to sound like the one she used sometimes and Han called it royal.

I shook my head "No idea. Was it something you did? What's the last thing you remember?"

Leia sighted "Han and I had this huge argument."

"Again" I mumbled.

"What?" She asked staring at me, but I just shook my head again and signed her to continue.

"And then I had to go to mission and general Reikeen found my fights with Han amusing, so he assigned him to go with me. We were walking and making our way through forests for whole day. I was tired and I fell asleep in matter of seconds." She told me.

I quickly glanced at clock on the wall. 8:40. I should get myself ready for school, otherwise I'd be late, I thought.

"Listen" I said. "Now you're here and since I have no idea how you could get back to your galaxy, you'll have to stay."

"But Empire" she started to protest "and my mission."

"I'm pretty sure, time stopped there" I tried to reassure her.

She lifted her eyebrows. "And how would you know that?" she asked in her superior tone and I suddenly realized what bothered Han about it. It was in fact kind of annoying. But she had her point. I thought about it. I've read Star wars novels since I knew how to read and none of them mentioned that Leia just disappeared once and then repapered at the same place 3 weeks later.

"I just know. Trust me." I said. I was offering her my friendship and she was being so suspicious. Well I couldn't really blame her – living surrounded with Empire surly couldn't make one trust a stranger easily.

"You can stay at my place if you want. In fact I don't see any other option." I stated while we were going back to my room. Damn I was glad my mum was already at work and that my little brother Nal was at school. I opened my wardrobe and took out a pair of jeans. Then I opened a drawer, where I kept T-shirts and offered her. "Pick one."

Leia didn't know what to do.

"Hey, you can't walk around like that. We don't wear combat suits to school." I teased. "Here" I said and handed her simple blue T-shirt.

She smiled and said "Thanks"

"Trousers may be just a bit to long for you, but the shirt should fit perfectly. I said and led her to the bathroom once again. "You can change your clothes here. You can use the shower if you want. Here are the towels."

I went back to my room. On my chair there were clothes which I prepared for myself last night. Similar jeans as ones I gave to Leia and Star Wars T-shirt. Among other characters, Leia was there too and I decided I wouldn't take the risk of somebody recognizing her and just picked up something else. I changed from my pajamas, when it occurred to me. Can Leia even use a shower as we know it on Earth? I heard noise of water and since I didn't hear her calling for help or anything, I assumed everything was alright.

Yep, I was like that. I took me only 20 minutes to accept someone from another galaxy as a fact and another minute everything was just fine. But when I started thinking about this whole mess a bit more rationally, more and more problems occurred to me.