Although the Alliance had been told Ord Mantell was perfectly safe, Han couldn't wait until the Falcon was fixed and he could get out of there. As he didn't want to gamble all day and risk losing the reward money from Leia, he'd spent all day in the shop making sure his baby was being repaired right.
"Excuse me," he had to start as he was getting tired of being ignored, "do you have any idea when this ship will be ready to go?"
"Sorry, but it'll be at least a couple of days."
Han sighed. He wasn't sure if he'd be shot at by one of the bounty hunters around or die of impatience by then. Still, one or the other seemed likely.
That is, it seemed likely until his attention was caught by a banging on the door of the shop. Maybe he wasn't the only impatient customer.
After the repairman opened the door, though, Han could tell it wasn't a customer after all. It was three kids who appeared to be looking for something or someone.
Until they saw him.
They then ran towards him, smiling and calling "Dad! Dad! Dad!"
That was the shock of his life. Han was very sure that he didn't have children. Bria had died in his arms years before, and she was the only one he'd been with about the time these kids would have been born.
"Wait a minute. I don't have kids," he told them firmly. Was this some sort of bounty hunter lure?
The youngest blond boy looked about ready to cry. "Why doesn't dad remember us?"
"Because", started the girl in her best impatient, bossy voice, "we've gone back in time before we ever existed. That's why dad looks younger too."
"Jaina, he 's scared and only five," started the older boy. "Could you be a little more patient with him?"
"Wait a sec," Han spoke up. "You've actually gone back in time?"
Considering everything he had been through over the past couple of years, somehow that didn't seem as far-fetched as it should have.
"Yes," said the girl who was apparently named Jaina. "It's to keep us safe from the Vong."
This was getting stranger and stranger. "What's the Vong? And wait, who's your mom?"
"Mom is Leia Organa-Solo," said the older boy. "And the Vong is a warrior species that's trying to change the whole galaxy so they can live here".
Han's thoughts left the Vong for a minute and he wondered what the princess's reaction would be to the news that they apparently get married and have kids together. He found that he liked the idea himself.