Sacrifice and love chapter 7

Leia woke up and opened up her eyes, she found herself submerged in a bacta tank. She looked through the water inside of the tank and realized she was inside of a medical room. Her first though was that she had been saved by Luke and was back safe with the rebellion. She slowly pushed herself up to the top of the tank and pulled the tube out of her mouth that had been providing oxygen to her.

After she had successfully pulled herself from the tank she found a pair of neatly folded clothes on a bench. She quickly put them on and looked around; she was alone as far as she could tell. She walked over to a mirror and looked at her reflection. Her face was still bruised but at least the swelling had gone down a lot.

Leia made her way to the exit and the door slid open, she poked her head out and looked around. She couldn't see anyone down the long corridors so she stepped out and began walking down the hallway.

It wasn't long however before Leia felt herself nearing a person that she had a bond with. "Dad…" she said, her father was near she could feel him she wasn't that far from him. Leia began to run down the hallways following the force signature that was her father her feet carried her down three different hallways up one floor and down another hallway to a door.

Vader sat in his room meditating he hadn't been entirely please that Wraeththu had almost beaten his daughter to death but he did understand her reason why. He searched the force for the whereabouts of his son the force was telling him that he would find them soon. He knew he could turn Luke over to the darkside as he wasn't even a fully trained Jedi which made him more susceptible to it, it was his daughter however that would be the problem. Leia like her bother shared his force sensitivity but she had a strong loyalty to the rebellion.

He had been so deep in thought and meditation that he hadn't heard his door open up and a person calling his name. It wasn't until he was engulfed in a hug that he realized someone had entered his room. His first thought was it was Wraeththu but her force signature didn't matched the one he was feeling hug him, and the person's skin was warm unlike Wraeththu's and he felt relief and joy flooding off of this person.

He opened his eyes and found Leia practically sobbing tears of joy as she clung to him. He quickly slammed his mental shields up and hid his darkside casting a spell that would make his aura appear light instead of dark. "Dad" he heard her say, Vader quickly took on the roll of a concerned and relieved father and hugged her back tightly "Leia, I'm so glad you're alright" he said.

Leia took several moments just to enjoy her father's company, his embrace. It had been so long since she had seen him, at first she had thought Wraeththu had been lying to her when she said that her father was being well taken care of but he looked healthy, well fed and actually relaxed which was more than what she could say for herself.

Vader slowly eased Leia off of her and looked at her "What are you doing here?" he asked in a slightly surprised yet with a hint of fear laced in his tone. His hand carefully reached up and touched Leia's bruised face "What happened to you?" he asked. In reality he knew exactly what had happened to her but to play his role he needed to pretend otherwise.

Leia looked up at him "I woke up in a bacta tank and I felt you were near" she replied whipping the tears of joy from her face. "Why were you in a bacta tank how did you get here?" Vader asked. "Mom and I came looking for you on Bespin, when we got there everyone was dead. We searched the entire city looking for you but I guess the Empire had gotten to you first. Wraeththu was waiting for us and she brought us aboard her ship" Leia explained.

"And Padme where is she?" Vader asked curiously, Leia shook her head "I don't know I haven't seen her since we were captured. Where are we by the way?" she asked. "Aboard Wraeththu's star destroyer…" he paused and gently grabbed her by the shoulders. "You shouldn't be here Leia you need to go back to where you woke up at, if Wraeththu found you here with me she wouldn't be to happy about it" Vader said.

"No, we need to find mom and get out of here. We need to get back to the rebellion" Leia said. Vader sighed "Leia, we are in the middle of Empire held territory. All the shuttles are locked down and require clearance from Wraeththu to leave" Vader replied. "You're a Jedi can't you use the force to get us out of here?" Leia asked, Vader shook his head "No, Wraeththu would sense I've left and we would be captured again instantly. I don't want to risk you getting hurt again Leia" he replied.

"We cant just sit here and do nothing" Leia argued and began tugging on her father's arm. "We need to find mom and get out of here now, the Emperor wants us for some reason and what ever it is it cant be good" Leia replied.

"Come on dad we need to get out of-…" Leia trailed off as she heard the door behind her open up. She turned around slowly and saw Wraeththu standing at the door glaring at her. Leia was about to tell her father to run but she was pulled toward Wraeththu and felt the mechanical hand grab her by the throat. "Looks like the princess got a little to curious for her own good" Wraeththu said pinning the girl to the wall and tighten her grip around the girl's throat.

Leia found it almost impossible to breath and she clawed at Wraeththu's arm desperately for air. She looked over at her father with pleading eyes begging for any kind of help and for a moment she watched him just sit there and do nothing. "Wraeththu please put my daughter down she just wanted to see me" Vader said softly in what sounded like a pleading tone.

Wraeththu looked at Vader for a moment then back at Leia before her hand loosened and she let the girl fall to the floor. She hit a button on her arm and seconds later four stormtroopers appeared in the room "Take her back to her cell" she ordered. Leia was gasping and couching violently as the stormtroopers drug/carried her back to her cell.