Chapter 7
PoojaPOV:
Turning away from her com and her mother's image, she looked towards her friend.
"Leia? Would you mind if I left, my family needs me, you may stay for a while if you wish." Leia face was like stone, she didn't seem to register that Pooja had said a word, but before she could repeat herself Leia replied.
"Of course, I've got to find Luke any way. Thank you for showing me this."
"Just remember to get back to the house before night falls. I can't wait to show you my grandparent's garden, it's simply exquisite."
This time Leia cracked a true smile and lightness filled her eyes, Pooja had a suspension that tears were threatening to fall from them. But she ignored it.
"I'd love too. It will certainly be different than sleeping in the palace and it's sure to feel more homely."
She ginned at her friend before turning her back and making her way out of the palace gardens.
All the while wondering what was so important for her to come to her grandparent's house as quick as she could.
HPOV:
"Hey kid, where's your sister?" Luke's silhouette hovered at the door way of the falcon. Han didn't wait long for a reply before fiddling with some of the wires in the ships main frame.
"I don't know, at the palace I suspect." Something in Luke's voice made Han look up. He sounded troubled, more so than he did usually. Something was up.
"Ok, ok. What's happened now? Well did something explode? Did the force speak of a great disturbance?" Han rolled his eyes at his idiotic questions, but nothing else would probably make Luke speak more than insulting the force.
"No it's just…I think I found my mother."
Silence fell over the whole ship; Han couldn't even hear Chewie growling at the machinery or the ships constant beeps. Though he was sure they were still drowning on. Wow, that's not at all what he thought Luke would say. His mother and that would be Leia's too. And she would certainly want to know. What were they going to do now?
Running his fingers through his hair Han pondered. What could they do?
"How…" was the only thing that came out of Han's mouth.
"She's that senator, the one the captain told us about. This is why Naboo feels so familiar…"
Whoa, this was big. Perhaps bigger than any of them knew.
"Luke I know what you're worried about. Your dad couldn't have killed her, even if he was Vader at the time. No man kills the love of his life."
Luke's shoulders visibly relaxed, he may not have known he was worrying about that, but Han's words put him at ease.
"I… I think she might be alive" Luke's words were so faint that Han didn't know if he even said anything.
"She can't be kid. She had a funeral and everything; she's probably lying in a coffin in the palace's grave yard as we speak. And speaking of that I remember where Leia went…oh no-"
"What?"
"She went to the grave yard with Pooja…"
"We've got to go get her!"
The two men stood up and began to walk out of the ship, but before they could leave the room a person blocked it.
"Do you really believe it's her Luke?"
"Yes I do, Leia."
PPOV:
She was sitting in her old room again. She hadn't been there since the night she rid herself of her true name.
She wondered how her nieces would take it. Would they be angry, sad, or happy to see their supposed dead aunt alive right in front of them? She didn't know.
Sola had asked her to stay up here while the two sisters got comfy in the lounge.
She heard a rush of foot steps, her sister always made herself sound like an elephant when running up stairs. Which Padmé thought was quite funny.
"Their here!" her sister's face light up like a child's on Christmas day, Padmé slightly thought that she'd never seen her own children's faces on Christmas day. How she wished Anakin had never fallen to the dark side.
"Good."
"Do your know what your going to say?"
"I probably won't have to say much, just stand there till they recognize me." The two sisters laughed, after all Padmé looked almost the exact same as she had done the last time she visited the whole family during the war.
Making their way down the stairs they caught the last of the conversation between the two girls and their grandparents.
"Honestly what is taking mother this long?"
"Patience Pooja, you have to wait just as long as your sister."
Sola gave her an encouraging smile before she stepped into the room leaving Padmé outside it.
"Now girls, I know that you will be shocked by what your about to see but please remember that some secrets must be kept in order to do good for the galaxy. Now I'd like for you to meet a person you haven't for a very long time."
Padmé took a deep breath and stepped into the room. The two sisters looked questioning at her, taking her in. slowly recognition fell on their features and they both jumped up with tears in their eyes and ran to their aunt.
"Aunt Padmé!"
"You're real! Your really here!"
She hugged them close to her. Pooja was slightly shorter than her but her sister Ryoo had grown so much that she towered over her aunt.
"Yes girls and I'm staying."
LPOV:
"Come on, we might as well be early for dinner with Pooja's family. We've been late for everything else."
The group grumbled their complaints and Leia vaguely heard Han say something about lost time in fixing machinery. But she decided to ignore it.
She got out her com again to see if they were still going in the right direction, they were.
About five minutes later they stood out in front of in front of some steps with flowers around them. It look beautiful, if ever Leia wanted to settle down she would pick a home that looked similar to this. One that was out of the way and simply had that home feeling.
They began to walk up the steps when they heard the door being opened above them. A cloaked figure stood in front of them, their shoulders tensing at the sight of them. Then quickly, perhaps too quickly they ran out of sight their dark red cloak flowing behind them.
Leia smelt something, something strange. A force signature. The person was someone she knew, someone she'd always known.
"wha-"
Han face looked questioningly at the twins but before he could complete his sentence Luke ran off, following the mysterious person. Leia wanted to follow too. Thought she somehow knew the signatures path wouldn't disappear for a couple of hours.
Not wanting to be rude to the other senator's family she gently knocked on the door. And it was opened by a radiant, and smiling Pooja who looked like her world had suddenly become a brighter one. Who was that person?
note: see, i told you this was a new chapter. hope everyone likes it, or better yet loves it. i'm not really sure how long the whole stories going to be, like if i'm going to drag it out... my next update will hopefully be around next month, if not i'm too over loaded with homework. don't worry fellow readers i will make sure to update on this story! thanks for all the reviews so far i've loved them all!
