Thank you to all the reviews the story received! They honestly all help so much! Okay, so I just wanted to put this warning here. Leia has a bit of bleeding in this chapter but its just decidual bleeding. Everything turns out fine, I promise.


Chapter 2

Fear

Eight weeks pregnant

Leia's eyes remained trained on Han's face. He stayed calm despite the impending doom, but Leia had watched the way he walked towards the carbon-freezing chamber, the way he turned in slow, complete shock. The thought of losing him made Leia want to scream, she'd just got him. She'd just allowed herself to love him in the complete reckless way that she had loved before Alderaan.

The realization dawned on her that he was trying to stay calm for her. She couldn't help it any more. She took a step forward, not to run for Han, fighting would be useless, but to be just that much closer to him.

"I love you." Leia had never said it to him in front of so many people and now here she was declaring it in front of Darth Vader.

"I know." His face remained sullen despite his attempt at their joke. There was the slightest twitch at the corner of his mouth, but it would never transform into that full face wonder of a smile that stole her breath. She briefly remembered the first time he'd said that to her, but it did nothing to improve her mood.

Their eyes were locked as he was lowered into the carbon freezing chamber and-

Leia woke up and shot out of bed to run for the 'fresher. She was used to this routine by now and while the term morning sickness implies that you're only sick in the morning, Leia had quickly found that to not be true. She was having a difficult time hiding it from High Command, but so far she had received nothing more than a few suspicious glares while running into meetings a few minutes late.

Leia still had yet to tell anyone but that was going to change soon, today. She had decided that with Han still gone Chewie deserved to know first. He was Han's best friend, his brother in everything but blood. He deserved to be the one she told first.


Leia boarded the Falcon, not quite sure why she was so nervous. Chewbacca was never anything less than supportive of them. She was sure he would be there for her every step of the way.

"Chewie." Leia called out on the eerily silent Falcon. Usually there was a stream of Corellian curses coming from the newest broken part or a noisy game of sabacc with the Rogues coming from the galley.

Chewie came slowly ambling from the direction of the cockpit. [Hello, Princess.]

Leia had tried multiple times with no avail to get him to call her Leia, he always told her that her name didn't have a translation into his language. So it alternated between Princess and Little Princess.

"Hi Chewie." Leia flashed him a smile that she hoped masked her nervousness.

[Do you need something?] There was a slight mischievous tone to the second sentence.

Leia slightly nodded. "I need to tell you something."

Chewie quickly bared his teeth in what she recognized as a wookiee before trying to cover it up, [what is it?] He warbled innocently.

Leia narrowed her eyes in suspicion, he knew. "How long?"

Chewie let out a quick bark of laughter, finally allowing himself to smile. [A month.]

Leia's face fell into an incredulous look, "how? I've only known for a month!"

Yet another quick bark of laughter followed by, [I could smell it on you.]

Leia scrunched up her nose. "I could've lived without knowing that." She decided.

Chewie warbled out something Leia didn't quite catch before pulling her into a surprisingly gentle hug. [Cub would've been so happy, Princess. So, incredibly, happy.]

And with that Leia buried her face into Chewie's fur to hide her tears.


Later that day Leia found herself running down the halls of the Mon Cal Cruiser, tears running down her face for a completely different reason. Blood.

She had been using the 'fresher when she had noticed a spotting of blood in her underwear. She hadn't been able to think. She just ran to the Medical Bay. This can't be happening. Running through her head.

Once she was finally there and through the doors she saw Luke, who was there for the doctors to see how he was doing with his artificial hand.

When he saw Leia, with tears running down her face, his blood went cold. She is really scared, was the only thought that went through Luke's mind as he yelled for a doctor and ran over to Leia.

"Leia! Leia! What's wrong?" Luke questioned frantically, trying to see if she was injured.

"Blood... there was blood in... baby..." She choked out, barely able to breathe through the tears, let alone speak. This can't be happening.

Luke carefully reached out with the force and barely brushed her emotions, there was so much fear and sadness that he physically recoiled.

A doctor ran over to the pair and quickly assessed the situation. "Hi, Princess Leia. My name is Dr. Randar, how about we take you back to one of the private rooms and see what's going on. How's that sound?" She said, attempting to calm the princess. She was a tall green twi'lek with long lekku that fell over her shoulders.

Leia nodded and followed the doctor to a private room, trying not to let her legs give out under her. When Luke tried to follow, the doctor cut him off with the "family only" rule and closed the door.

"Okay, Princess Leia, what seems to be the problem?" She asked, once she had her seated on the examination table. She was simultaneously terrified and surprised that Princess Leia was sitting on an exam table as her patient, crying. This is not how she expected the day to go.

"Blood… baby… scared…" She gasped out. She wasn't sobbing, she seemed beyond that, but her words were still coming out as a jumbled mess and Dr. Randar could only grasp certain words.

She blinked slowly, thinking that she misunderstood. "You're pregnant and now you're bleeding and you're scared you're going to lose the baby." She spoke slowly giving her time to interrupt if she was completely wrong.

She nodded.

Again, not what she expected. "Okay, so here's the plan. I'm going to get the equipment for the portable ultrasound from the other room and while I'm gone…" She trailed off reaching behind herself and grabbing a hospital gown, "you'll put this on. Sound like a plan?"

The Princess nodded slowly, tears still spilling silently down her face.

"Look, Princess, if there is something wrong I'm going to fix it. Everything is going to be okay." She said, making sure to catch her eyes before getting up and going to get the ultrasound.


A few minutes later, Leia lay on the examination table numb to the world. Praying to all the gods she knew of, to the force for this baby, for her and Han's baby to be okay.

When Dr. Randar re-entered the room she instructed her to lift up her hospital gown and lay down. She immediately complied. "This may be a little cold." She murmured, as she applied the gel to the Princess's stomach.

After a moment a strong, quick thudding echoed through the room.

"That's your baby's heartbeat."

Leia felt relieved to her soul. Her baby is okay. Thank you, she prayed to whatever higher power had helped her. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

"Do you want to see?" Dr. Randar whispered.

Leia looked at the screen, blinking through her tears and nodding.

"Your baby is right here." She said, pointing to a little blip on the screen. "You seem to be about eight weeks along. Does that sound about right, Princess?"

"Dr. Randar, you're asking me questions about my sex life. Do you really think you need to call me princess?" Leia joked with a shaky laugh, finally able to speak in complete, coherent sentences. "Yes, that sounds about right. If everything is okay then why am I bleeding?"

"It's just a bit of decidual bleeding, Leia." She said, flashing her a quick, calming smile. "It's fairly rare, but also more common than you would assume."

"Thank you, so much." Leia breathed out, thoroughly relieved.

"It's no problem, ma'am."


As soon as Leia walked out of the Med Bay, Luke flocked to her like a mynock to warmth, pestering with endless questions, not that Leia expected any less from him.

"Leia, what's wrong? You went into that room crying and you came out with the biggest smile on your face." Luke was following her through the halls that led to her cabin.

"I received good news." She allowed herself to tell him, probably should have figured out something else to say.

"What good news?" He questioned eagerly.

Leia hesitated, her room was at the end of the hall, she only had to make it there. Apparently she waited a moment too long because Luke began his barrage of questions again.

Leia finally palmed her door open and practically pushed Luke in.

"After we escaped the Empire on the Falcon we had nearly sixty days of nothing but each other to cure our boredom." She began. "We- I was forced to confront my feelings for Han and for fifty days, it was amazing Luke, I hadn't been that happy in forever."

"What does this have to do with you being in Medical, Leia. You were crying." Luke said clearly confused.

"Yes, Luke, I'm aware." She paused, drawing in a breath. "Luke, I'm pregnant."

"Leia, that's great. That's great!" He exclaimed.

"Thank you." She said, muffled by being pulled into a hug, unable to stop herself from wishing it was Han's embrace.


Next chapter, Leia tells Mon Mothma and she doesn't take the news as well as Chewie and Luke.