A/N: (4-6-2010)I decided to connect these two chapters together, so there will be at least one chapter less.
Chapter VI & VII: Damages
About an hour after the explosion of Resolute, Falcon seemed to an outside watcher totally silent, but actually it was slowly waking up from unconsciousness. It took many hours before Falcon was operational so Vader's fleet started to spread and left Falcon alone in space.
Leia awoke and opened slowly her eyes; she had fallen to the floor. She rose carefully up, trying to maintain her balance and testing, if her leg was healthy enough to carry her weight. Her leg wasn't well enough to walk properly, but somehow she limped to the cockpit of Falcon. She was shocked when she opened the door; there was freezing cold in the cockpit, thick front windows had cracked and the worst of all: Han and Chewie lolled in their seats, both unconscious.
"Han! Han, wake up!" Leia shouted and shook Han's shoulder to awake him.
Han felt like he had just been hit by a spice freighter. He slowly opened his eyes and noticed that his sight was confusingly blurred and he could just barely see that someone was standing before him.
When his hearing returned, he heard Leia shouting his name. Han tried to tell her to stop shouting but only sound that left his mouth was dull cough. His sight started to sharpen, but then it blurred again.
He heard Leia's voice telling him to stay in place. Han felt Leia's hands at side of his head and suddenly pressure hit through his ears and he pass out for a moment.
Leia waited agonistically for Han to wake up; if the trick her father taught to her didn't work after all… Han opened his eyes and Leia sighed in relief.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, I think so." Han said in puzzlement. "What did you do?" he asked and tried to stand up.
"You've been hit by a pressure wave, likely caused by that star destroyer, what I think has exploded. That trick is used to retrieve hearing to its victims. My father once taught it to me."
Han slumped back to his seat and sighed. He looked out and said: "Hopefully those aren't going to try anything", pointed to star destroyers around Falcon and continued: "Because Falcon isn't going anywhere for many hours, if it goes at all. And I can't even start to repair her, because I'm dizzy!" Han hit in his anger one wallpanel and the front window cracked a bit more.
"Where's the fixing mass of that?" Leia asked as she stood up and limped to the corridor.
"I don't remember it straightaway, but I'll come looking for it when this damned dizziness fades out."
Leia nodded to Han and limped away to find Luke and get some medicine to her knee.
Leia limped to medbay, but before she opened the door, she saw Artoo hurrying towards her and whistling in the way. Artoo opened the door, that had apparently been locked and Leia stepped in. Luke had fallen to the floor and lied there, unmoving. Leia almost thought that he was dead, but then Luke breathed weakly and his eyes flied open.
"Luke…?" Leia asked carefully as she limped towards Luke's otherwise lifeless body. Suddenly his face twisted to grimace and his limbs started to shake and then convulse. Leia watched in terror when froth started to pour down from Luke's mouth.
Leia was incapacitated for a moment, but then she sought through all the drawers to find crippling medicine to stop Luke from convulsing.
She stabbed it into Luke's shoulder and his convulsing immediately settled to shaking and then to trembling. The froth stopped to pour and Luke's face relaxed, but his eyes were still fully open.
Leia closed them carefully and then lifted him back to bed. She lifted bed's balustrade up that Luke wouldn't hurt himself by falling again. She told Artoo to watch after him. When she was leaving the room, she remembered her own knee and put a bacta patch to it and took some painkillers. She heard that Luke's breathing was uneasy and weak, so she put an oxygen mask to his face.
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Luke was dreaming; he saw himself as a years older, fully-trained jedi. Then the scary part appeared; he took his lightsaber and slaughtered Rebel leaders, Han and Chewie. Luke saw himself bowing in front of Emperor, electrocuting Leia and three children.
All of them Leia's… Luke realized before he woke up.
Luke took breathe in anguish and opened his eyes. He saw nothing but dark and light spots, but he realized he was under bright light, but outside its spotlight seemed to be completely dark.
"Luke…?!" Leia's dull voice echoed in his ears. Luke tried to outreach towards her, or even turn his head to see Leia's face. But he couldn't do anything; every place in his body hurt just too much.
He heard Leia's voice saying: "I'll give you some more painkillers, you seem so anguished."
Is she giving me those painkillers, what makes me very sleepy? Luke thought. Yeah, she gives me exactly them. Luke's sight darkened as he fell asleep.
Leia sighed in relief when Luke shut his eyes and fell asleep. Artoo whistled sadly beside her.
"Guard away. If he starts convulsing again, call me with intercom." Leia said and stepped out from the room. When she walked pass top hatch, what brought some unpleasant memories to her mind, she realized that she was staring at a can of window fixing mass attached to the wall. Leia carefully pulled the can and opened a box full of them, all unused. Leia smiled and took the biggest can and headed to the cockpit.
"Han, I found that fixing mass. Good place you've chosen, by the way." she said as she stepped in.
"Great, now let's fix this window before it shatters completely. Go and get another can while I start here."
Leia got few cans more from the box and started to spread mass into windows. When they had finished, they had used five cans of fixing mass.
"Jeez, that was some work." Leia said as she wiped some sweat from her forehead.
The cockpit had become freezing cold (even more than before), when Falcon's earlier red-hot chassis had cooled down.
"Let's start to work with engine. I think that that explosion might have broken it. Chewie, wake up." Han said and shook slightly wookie's shoulder. Chewie opened his eyes and growled something so fast that even Han had no idea what Chewie was talking about.
"Chewie, try to do something to engines. I and Leia are trying to get communication- and life support systems back. And try to stay away from here cockpit, the heating is broken."
