In this Leia, Bail and R2 deal with what happened in the last chapter.
Oh and for those of you that want to kill Din you have to get in line. IBLCD gets first dibs on the sicko.
There is a Huttese word in this that might translate to something stronger then slimeball but I figured that R2 isn't very polite to certain people and isn't above name calling.
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Bail watched as Leia lay curled up in her own bed. The medical droids and doctors had treated the scrapes and bruises but they couldn't treat the emotional pain that Leia was experiencing. He had heard that Winter was experiencing similar pain but she didn't show it when he had stopped by earlier that day.
He knew that it would take time for everyone to heal. But he desperately wanted it would happen faster then it was.
Bail wished with every particle of his body that he could rip those barbarians to pieces for doing what they did too poor Leia and Winter.
The door to Leia's bedchamber opened and a droid came in with a drink of some type. "She will need liquids." The droid informed him.
He took the glass from the droid and held it out to Leia. Leia sat up and took it from him and downed it in a few gulps.
A few minutes later she stood and walked, more liked stumbled he thought, to her personal refresher. He fought the urge to follow her. She needed some space and there wasn't anything in there that she could use to hurt herself.
Besides, if she was in there longer then it would take to either shower or relieve herself he would knock and send a droid to check on her.
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Leia considered locking the door behind her just so she could be alone. She loved the fact that her Father sat by her bed and held her when she needed to have someone to hold. But there were times that she just needed to be alone.
She felt so dirty, as if she couldn't be clean ever again. How could anyone stand to be around her, knowing that she was nothing without what had been stolen from her?
She quickly turned the shower on, set the water pressure to the highest setting and on a temperature that was nearly hotter then she could stand before getting in. She threw her wet nightgown out of the shower and started to scrub her skin. Her skin burned from both the heat of the water and the hard scrubbing.
There was a rap at the door but she ignored it. If it was her Mother then she didn't want to see her. Queen Breha had already told to her about how this wouldn't have happened if she had stayed in the Palace. To rub salt into the wounds she said that she was both sorry and disappointed.
Leia couldn't understand how the woman that had loved her as long as she could remember could have become so cold to her.
Was there any truth to her tormentors words? Was she the product of an illicit affair that Bail had had?
She slid down the side of the shower, curled up in the fetal position.
Was she worthless now?
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R2-D2 rolled into Leia's private suite. He had heard through random chatter that had taken place in the Organa's Private Hanger and the Tantive IV that Leia had been violated.
He was both confused and angry. Why would anyone want to hurt her in such a degrading manner?
If he knew who those sleemos were he would go and at least zap them for what they had done. Padmé would be furious and Anakin probably wouldn't have let them see the light of day; ever again.
He set those thoughts aside, Bail Organa had asked him to come up here and look after Leia while Bail discussed things with Law Enforcement Officers.
He entered the bedchamber only to find the Viceroy there. R2 twittered at the man who turned and looked at him.
"She's in the refresher id you are asking where she is." Bail informed him. "I've read that she will have feelings that she isn't clean enough or good enough. I feel better knowing that there aren't things in there that she could use to harm herself. And we've disabled the tub in there; she prefers showers last I knew anyway."
R2 rolled up to the man and gently bumped into him in an effort to comfort him
"Part of me says that I shouldn't have indulged her habit of sneaking out but I know that she will never take the Throne because of who she is. I didn't want her to hate me for not letting her make her own choices now I wish that I at least insisted that she take a guard or two with her." Bail told him.
R2 knew that the Viceroy didn't understand droid talk so he didn't try to tell the Viceroy that she would have lost them anyway. So he settled on a gentle series of beeps.
"Her life will never be the same. I promised myself and other that I'd protect her with all my power and my life if necessary." Bail continued.
Bail's commlink chirped before he could continue. "Yes?" "Viceroy, Detective Raize is here to talk to you." A female servant reported. "I will be there in a few minutes." He told her as he walked to the refresher door and rapped on it.
R2 watched as Bail turned off the commlink and pocketed it. "If she doesn't open the door in two minutes go in and check on her."
R2 beeped in acknowledgment.
Two minutes came and went without Leia opening the door. So R2 rolled over and opened the door. A wall of steam billowed out. He quickly moved in and saw Leia curled up in the shower weeping.
He quickly turned off the shower and used his pincer to grab a towel and tried to cover her with it.
Her looked at him her eyes red and puffy and her skin was red either from scrubbing or the hot water; R2 was willing to bet both.
"Am I worthless R2?" she asked, her voice sounded broken. R2 twittered at her that she wasn't worthless and that she had people that loved her.
He watched as she stumbled to her feet, wrapped the towel around herself and made her way back to her bedchamber.
He waited for her to get dressed before moving back into the room.
He noted that many of her clothes were strewn on the floor. He decided that he wouldn't ask her about it.
Leia was laying on her bed staring at him with brown eyes the same shade as her Mother's.
He wanted to tell her that those that had done this to her would be not only caught but brought to justice but he wasn't so sure. There were Noble families on Alderaan that would do almost anything to damage Bail's reputation. And if push came to shove it might not go anywhere and spun in such away that the ones that did wouldn't be held accountable for their actions.
R2 found himself entertaining thoughts of Anakin/Vader finding out his connection to Leia and slowly killing the sleemos. And to his interest he didn't care.
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I went on what I understand about how rape victims feel. Many of them feel unclean and that no matter how much they wash they can't get clean again.
I do know a woman that was more or less Date Raped and for a long time she didn't care about that aspect of her body. It took awhile but the wounds did heal and she has gone on to be a wonderful person that you would never know experienced something so horrible.
