Disclaimer: I don't own Obi-Wan, Siri, Luke, Mara, Han or Leia. I'm just borrowing them from Lucas for awhile.
Echoes Of The Past
Chapter 10
"I really don't like this idea of waiting around until Luke says it's safe," Han Solo grumbled trading glances with his wife. "And this environment is doing nothing for the Falcon; in fact I think the vegetation is trying to eat it."
"I don't like this either," Leia replied. "But I think we need listen."
"You know me," Han answered with a smirk. "I don't like sitting in one place too long."
Leia rolled her eyes in defeat. "Of course you don't," she said and then she sobered. "Han, there is something I need to tell you."
"What's wrong Leia?" Han asked, all of a sudden playing the role of overprotective husband.
Leia sighed and her eyes darted down to stare at a misshapen tree branch at her feet. "Well," she started. "Right before we left I learned something."
"And that is?" Han pressed.
Leia's brown eyed gaze returned to glance at her husband and she smiled. "I'm pregnant."
Han's eyes went wide and his mouth dropped open. He stood there in silence for seconds before a grin flashed across his face. Pulling Leia to him, Han kissed her soundly.
When they parted to breathe again; Han was still smiling like he'd just won the biggest sabacc pot. "That's the best news I've heard in a long time," he exclaimed.
Leia sighed in relief and paused for a moment before continuing. "I'm glad you think so because I'm having twins."
"Twins?!"
Luke Skywalker looked over the notes on his datapad and sighed. This entire situation was something he really wasn't very comfortable with. He was very unsettled when Mara told him that the Emperor was alive and well. As hard as Luke tried, he never fully erased the memory of Sith Master zapping him with Force lightening. It was certainly an experience he never wanted to repeat.
He supposed that Zora was somehow forced into joining up with the Emperor; seduced to the Dark Side much like his own father had been. She was once a Jedi and followed the righteous and good path. It would now be his duty to figure out what it was that changed that about her.
Luke also wondered how Zora—Siri avoided the Jedi Purge in the first place. Was she left to live by the Emperor? He disregarded that idea as soon as he thought it, there would've been no way that Palpatine would've let go someone who could possibly defeat him one day. Then what exactly happened to Siri Tachi during those twenty plus years when she was supposed to be dead.
He wished Ben would return so he could question the Jedi Master about her. It was strange to Luke to think of Ben being best friends with someone like Zora, but then again she must have been very different when he knew her. Still there seemed something out of place to Luke as if there was something the Jedi Master wasn't telling him about her. He could feel it. Now he only had to wait.
Suddenly Luke's musings were distracted by a tremor in the Force and within a moment his green bladed lightsaber was ignited and in his hands. Taking a defensive posture he stared at the intruder who just entered his quarters. It was Zora; she returned. Luke held his saber in a defensive posture and made a resolution. This time she wasn't going to escape.