A/N: I'm so sorry for not posting in so long. My dad is in the military and we are in the middle of yet another move, so life has been insane.


Chapter 9

Opia

4 months post birth

Leia was sitting criss-cross on her bed, something that she had missed while she was pregnant, with her datapad in her lap. Her eyes flitting back and forth between her work and Jaina, who was repeatedly pushing herself up into an army crawl position before falling back down and laughing.

Leia smiled at the sight, tempted to put the datapad down and join the baby on the floor. It would surely be more interesting than continuing to read about the deterioration of Naboo since the Empire was born and taking mental notes on the planet's economy.

She clucked her tongue lightly as her comm went off and Jaina shrieked gleefully at the noise. Leia reached quickly for the comm, she didn't recognize the codes and seriously considered ignoring it, but something told her she wanted to answer.

"General Organa." She said quickly.

"Hello, General, this is Ensign Bruin. You requested to be commed when-" the voice paused and she heard voices talking in the back ground before another voice took over.

"Princess, this is Rieekan."

Leia hesitated, instantly sitting up straighter and preparing for the worst. "What's the problem?" She asked, Rieekan would only take over the call if something bad had happened.

"Nothing is wrong, your Highness. You put in a request to be notified when the Millennium Falcon docked and the ensign was just calling to inform you."

Her heart leapt into her throat. "When will they be here?" He's here. He's here. He's here, was all she could think.

"They will dock in fifteen minutes."

He's almost here, her brain amended.

Leia remained silent for a moment, not sure how exactly to react with the suddenness of their arrival. She had believed that Chewbacca or Lando would comm her to inform her they'd gotten him. "Carlist?" She asked, dropping formalities at the request she was about to make.

"I can take care of Jaina if you need." He offered, his voice slightly hopeful.

She nodded for a minute before answering, "please."

"I'll be there in five minutes."

"Thank you." Leia hung up and reached over to pick up Jaina, setting her in her lap and brushing through a bit of the baby's hair with her fingers. "Today's the day, Jay. You ready to meet your Dad?"

She got a stream of happy babbles back. "Really?" She asked. "I'm that excited, too."

Leia stood and walked over to the door, stepping out in the hallway in time to see Rieekan jog around the corner. "Okay, Jay, you're going to go have fun with Uncle Rieekan." She placed a quick kiss on Jaina's forehead, shot a quick, "thank you," to Rieekan and took off towards the hangar.


Leia came sprinting around the corner into the hangar, crashing into Wedge Antilles and barely registering his surprised, "hey!" Before pushing past him and continuing on.

Her eyes searched relentlessly for the Falcon, finding it in the far left hand corner, it's boarding ramp yet to lower.

She stood frozen in her place. She felt overwhelmed and everything in her screamed that this couldn't be real. It was too good.

Leia felt someone lay a hand on her shoulder, startling her back to reality. "Princess," it was Mon Mothma, "are you okay?"

She nodded her head lightly. The ramp had begun its descent. A million thoughts raced through her head. Han's here. He's going to meet Jaina. Is he okay?

First, came out Lando, who quickly found Leia and gave her a small nod. They had found him. Han was here.

Leia let out a little sobbing laugh. Han was here, on the same ship as her, the same ship as his daughter, and she couldn't move. She was stuck in place.

She had imagined this moment a thousand times. In all of those she had been the one to let him out. In all of those she was actually able to will herself to move so she was actually able to get to him.

Finally, her legs began to listen to her and she was able to start walking towards the Falcon, stopping at the base of the ramp.

"I'm fine, Chewie, I don't need to see any doctors, I just want to go see Leia." He had his back to the ramp and Leia took a moment to just drink in his presence.

His voice was loud and strong, as if it hadn't gone unused for a year. He was wearing nearly the same outfit as he was when he was frozen, except for the shirt.

"Well then turn around, flyboy." Leia was surprised when she found her own voice.

Han turned around with his trademark lopsided grin. "Hey, your worshipfulness." His hair was a mess, but when wasn't it, and a bit longer than she remembered. His eyes had turned that lovely shade of light green that indicated he was really happy, his smile transformed into that grin that looked too big for his face. As Leia drank all this in something deep in her relaxed for the first time in over a year and she smiled genuinely.

Finally, months of missing him hit her and she moved forward into Han's arms, kissing him for the first time in a year.