AN: So here is the first bit of the story I mentioned in "Death and Rain". No, that will not be how this version ends. I'm not sure how long this will be or when I'll update so bear with me.
The trip to Bespin took about a month but Han and Leia's relationship developed a bit faster when he promised to return after paying off Jabba. Fett failed to track them and though the Empire did show up they were to late to capture anyone and the gang escaped. Now it's time for Han and Chewie to leave to pay Jabba...
My scenarios, not my characters.
2 Weeks after escaping
Bespin
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Everyone else stayed just inside the open hanger doors, not wanting to get wet standing on the platform.
Han had understood this.
He would be back soon and then they would bring down an Empire.
But one lone figure stood on the platform, wrapped in white and rain, eyes begging him to change his mind and let her come.
"Please," she tried one last time as he came down the ramp. "Let me come with you. I can help, really, I can. Just let me come."
"Leia, this is to protect you. The minute Jabba sees you he'd make you part of the payment and I'm not going to allow that. I have to protect you."
"You can't protect me here when you're on Tatooine," she reasoned.
"Maybe not completely, but I can protect you from Jabba, and, for now, that's the best I can do, Princess."
She was crying now, warm tears mixing with the cold rain. "Please, just let me come! I can't lose you!"
"I'm sorry, Princess, " he said, leaning closer, his hand on her cheek, brushing tears and rain from her porcelain skin. "I'm sorry, Leia."
Then they were kissing, the rain wrapping them both in its embrace and neither the howls of the Wookie nor the cheers of those watching them could be heard.
But all to soon they were separated, he behind the closed hatch and she on the platform.
It was Wedge who rescued the Princess from the rain. The Princess who was wrapped in the smuggler's blue jacket.