Everyone ran to the hanger bay to greet the returning heros, but Leia and Clover were out in front Sprinting to celebrate with their returning friends. Han barely noticed Clover before she barreled at him full speed and wrapped him in a tight hug with her wings wrapping around bother of them. She let out a child-like laugh as Han spun her around in the air before setting her down and the two ran to greet Luke. Clover hugged onto him and Han just put his shoulder around him.
"I knew you'd come back, I just knew it!" he exclaimed as he wrapped his arms breilfly around the other man.
"Well, I could just let you have all of the credit and take all the reward!" he said tensing the younger who responded with a smile. Leia went over and hugged Han tightly.
"Hey I knew it was worth more to you than money!" she exclaimed as he wrapped his arm around her also. The group went silent as R2 was lowered down from the X-Wing badly damaged and unmoving. She heard Luke muttered an 'Oh No' and placed hsi hand on the droid.
"Oh My!" 3PO said from beside Luke, "R2, can you hear me? Say something! You can repair him, can't you?" he asked the man lowering the droid onto a transport cart and strapping him in.
"We'll get to work on him right away," the man answered as the cart drove off towards the repair wing with a few other people following close behind.
"Sir, if any of my gears or circuits will help I'll gladly donate them!" 3PO said to Luke and the man just patted him on the shoulder.
"He'll be alright," he said and he linked arms with the other three and they strode off to celebrate the victory.
The best alcohol was brough out of the store room and was passed around. It wasn't enough to get everyone completely drunk and wasted as most of it was given to Han and Luke. Luke turned down the offer and gave his shared to Han who gave it to Clover. She looked at the ice blue liquid in the clear bottle and debated weither it was a good idea or not. This was a Corilean drink and these kinds of drinks were super strong drinks. Clover shrugged and, to everyone amazment including Han's, downed the bottle in less than a minute. It felt like she was swallowing burning glass, but it tasted amazing. She raised the bottle in the air and the crowd around her whooped and hollared. Not wanting to be out done by the her, Han did the same which resulted in him making it half way through the bottle before throwing up and blacking out in his own vomit. Clover only laughted and pulled the man up to his feet as best she could. Everyone else in the crowd had a shot of whatever was left before hesitantly making their way back to their posts and jobs.
"Any place I can let Light-Weight here sleep off his drinks?" she asked midly surprised by how unslurred her speech was. Luke and Leia who watched to pair with amused looks.
"We've some empty rooms just past the control room down the hall and to the left," Leia said, "Put him in their and lock the door and he should be fine in a couple of hours,"
"Sounds like a plan to me," Clover said trying to get a better grip on Han's limp body.
"That thing just downed an entire bottle of Kingstreet Brandy!" someone shouted loudly and drunkenly and Clover tried not to flinch at the comment, "AND SHE STILL STANDING!"
"I can see why you keep the booze locked up," she said through a forced smile and laugh. She hulded up Han and made her way to the spare rooms.
After a short walk/drag, Clover found an empty room and laided Han down on the bed. She propped his head up to keep him from choking on his own vomit and cleaned up the vomit and brooze from his face. She left him a glass of water and two pain pills from the medbay and went out to lock the door.
Hey," Luke said nearly making her jump out of her skin in surprise. Her hand instinctively went down to her blaster holster before she realized who it was.
"We need to tie a bell around you or something," she said jokingly as she entered a pin and locked the door, "If really wanted to clean up his spit and vomit then you could have just asked,"
"Actually, I came here to talk to you," he said sheepishly. This took Clover back a bit and she shuffled her wings uncomforably.
"Alright," she said trying not to show her worry, "What is it you want to talk about?" Luke took a deep breath before responding.
"I just want to say that I'm sorry for how I acted when we first met," he said meeting her gaze, "I know that I seemed harsh and a little naive..."
"A little?" Clover asked amusingly and brushed past him. Luke jogged up beside her.
"Ok, I was really naive, but I have never been off Tatoonie before and..."
Luke, if anyone should be apologizing it should be me," she said cutting him off, "I was rude and hateful to everyone but you the most, but that happens when I hide my wings from people,"
"Folding them inside your back would make anyone a bit moody," he said in her defense, "And, why do you have to hide them? I mean, we dont get many travlers on Tatoonie, but surely there are others like you?" Clover just shook her head.
"Han and I have looked everywhere for any kind of information as to what I am, but we haven't found anything," she said almost sadly, "All we have to go by is how others react to me and even then that doesn't help,"
"But surely you had a family?"
"Han is my family," she said stopping and sitting on a small chair in the hallway as Luke leaned against the wall, "Han is all I've ever had. I grew up alone in the Outer Rim," She felt tired reliving the past and reopening old wounds and scars, "Han found me about to be killed for witch craft and being a demon, but he told the towns people that he would take me and that they wouldn't hear from me again..."
"Clover you don't have to tell me all of this if it hurts you to remember it," Luke said quietly and then she realized that she was crying. She quickly whipped away the tears, but she had a feeling that Luke already noticed them.
"What about you farm boy?" she asked trying to lighten the mood, "How did you get dragged into this mess?" Luke laughed tiredly.
"It's a long story," he said tired with the same glazed look in his eyes that he had on Tatoonie.
"Come on," Clover said, "I told a bit of my past now its only fair that you do the same,"
"R2 lead me to Ben and Ben told me who my father actually was," he said shortly and Clover rasied her eyebrow.
"And?" she asked, "You can't leave me on that,"
"Apparently, he was a Jedi Knight along side Ben in the Clone Wars,"
"A Jedi Knight wow thats amazing," she said.
"You don't know what that is do you?"
"Nope, not a clue," she said with a slight grin which Luke returned with a slight shake of his head.
"They were peacekeepers before the Emporer hunted them down," he said, "They could control the Force and used it to defend those that couldn't defend themselves, but they were forced to become generals during the Clone Wars,"
"That sounds...very impossible," Clover said skeptically, "But there is always some truth to storys,"
"You're more open to it than Han was," Luke chuckled and Clover joined. After the quiet chuckle died down, they were stuck in silence that wasn't overly awkward, but it was enough that Clover's wings hugged tighter to her shoulders. Then, a gold plated savior shuffled down the hallway to save them from the growing tension with a gray bird perched on his shoulder.
"Master Luke," 3PO said as Clover exstended her hand for the fledgling to return to her own shoulder, "They have fully repaired R2D2, but they request your pressance to make sure that everything is as it was before."
"Yeah, I'll be there in a bit," he said and the golden droid shuffled off once more. Luke just watched as the fledgling borrowed itself down into Clover's pocket and the processed to fall asleep with her stokeing it with her finger, "You want to come and maybe help out?"
"As much as I would love too, I think I've already made a name for myself by the small party we had back there," she said nodding out to the main hanger, "I think I'll find a spare room and sleep off todays excitment." Luke shrugged and started walking down the hallway towards where 3PO went before turning back to say something.
"Thanks for telling me..." he called but stopped his sentence short and then jogged away. Clover almost called out a snarky comment, but simply chuckled to herself not really knowing how to feel. She turned and made her way to the hanger bay to hopefully do some work on the Falcon.
AN: Man I'm actually pumping out these chapters and I'm actually pretty proud of myself! Also, 100 point to who ever gets the reference in the chapter and then we can be best friends for all of time. Anyway, Luke and Clover relationship is going to be pretty important during the events of the next movie/story piece but she's going to be pretty important to just about everyone. I have about 2 more chapters planned before I move it on to the next movie/story and I actually pretty proud to see how much my winged baby had grown :')