"So, Leia, you should be well protected so I'm just gonna go back to the Falcon and go to bed. 'Night." Han said, kissing me on the cheek and then leaving the apartment.
"Are you going to go to bed too?" Qu'in asked me.
"Probably." I responded, walking towards the double doors to my room. I stopped right as I was about to turn the handle and turned around. "Oh, and thanks. Don't tell Han this, but I actually may need a bodyguard. So…thanks." I smiled and he bowed his head.
"My pleasure."
I opened the doors and walked into my bedroom, stepping into the fresher and then changing into a white t-shirt and fighter pants that were an old pair of Han's. I sighed and crawled into bed, turning off the light and planning to get a good, safe night of sleep.
A while later, I woke up to a crash of a window and a bang outside my bedroom. I quickly got out of bed and flew open the doors. I gasped at what I saw.
Laying on the floor was a body.
Qu'in's body.
A gun was laying next to him and there were a couple of scratches on his face.
"Times up!!" A voice said and I whirled around.
There was no one there.
I looked all over the apartment and then I heard the voice again, only louder. "Don't try and escape me. You will soon be like your bodyguard." I looked down at Qu'in and then screamed.
I started to run towards the door and realized that it was locked.
SITH!
I jiggled the handle some more and yet it still didn't break. Quickly, I turned around and braced myself against the door.
Then I spotted the open window.
I ran towards the window and then heard a gun being loaded.
I turned around and found myself facing the assassin.
He was only about ten feet from me.
Sweat started to pour out of my skin and my heart started to beat really fast.
"There's no escape now Senator Organa." The Assassin said, getting closer to me. "Any last words?" I was too scared to say anything so I turned around and realized that I was still near the broken window. I grinned and then jumped out of it, doing a flip into the air as I landed on a awning just before I hit the ground. I got off of the awning and ran towards the Falcon.
Damn it, Leia.
I thought that you wouldn't have to run for Han again!
Too late.
I was way too scared.
A broken window, a dead body, a locked door, voices, and then the confrontion with the assassin.
Sorry, that's just too much for me.
I turned around and even in the pitch black of night I could see the assassin running after me.
"HAN!!!" I screamed as I turned the corner and ran into the landing platforms. "HAN!!!" I screamed again as I ducked a shot being fired. "HAN!!!!!!!" I screamed as loud as I could as I approached the Falcon.
SITH!
The ramp isn't open!!!
"HAN!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "HAN OPEN UP!!"
The Assassin was close to me so I started to climb up on top of the Falcon. "HAN!!!" I screamed again.
"Not another step." The assassin muttered at me. How is his voice strangely familiar?
I started to jump up and down on the Falcon's roof and screamed Han's name over and over again.
No answer.
Surely I'm dead.
Suddenly, the assassin lunged at me and I felt his body on top of me as my body banged against the Falcon. My head was leaning off of the ship while the rest of my body wasn't.
The assassin put the gun to my head and muttered, "Any last words?" Man, this assassin is patient.
Suddenly, I heard the ramp of the Falcon open and the banging of boots as they made their way to the ladder that lead up to the Falcon's roof.
"HAN!!" I screamed.
"Come on Chewie! She's up here!" Han screamed, climbing the ladder and then freezing in terror. "The assassin." He whispered as Chewie appeared behind me.
The assassin looked at me and then at Han. "You take one more step and the girl dies!"
Han looked at me in complete terror and then reached for his blaster. "All right. Have it your way." He grinned as he shot a poison dart at the assassin. He fell over, his gun rattling off of the Falcon. Han ran over to me and scooped me up in his arms.
I was trembling in fear so badly that even his tightest grip couldn't keep me from trembling. "Oh goddess Leia." He said, kissing my head again and again.
"Han." I started to cry. "You saved me."
"Yeah, well not for long." He said, pointing to the body.
"I got it." Chewie said, picking up the assassin's limp body and descending the ladder and walking off into the darkness.
"Thank you so much." I murmured into Han's ear.
"Anything for you, Sweetheart." He grinned and then stood up, grabbing me in his tight embrace as he walked be down the ladder and up the ramp of the Falcon. "Come on, let's get some rest." He said as we walked to his cabin, cuddling into each other's arms in the bed.
Finally.
I feel safe at last.
So there's the chapter. So please review!!!
xoxoxxoxoxo,
Alexandra