I'm back! And I'm trying to finish this one!
She avoided him for days. She didn't run. She ate what she could sneak out of the mess hall.
He came knocking on her door and she didn't answer.
He had saved her before. Brought her back from the brink. Brought her back to herself. She had lost everything and he made her realize she had more.
Now after three years, she didn't know what she had. She hadn't faced the truth about her biological father. She had ran. She had seen the disgust on his face as a reason to cut and run.
The day after the battle and celebration, she had asked for an undercover assignment. Rieekan questioned her. He said she was needed in rebuilding. She could be a state official again. She had told him, she didn't want to be. She wanted to fight the last pillars of the Empire, the farthest away.
He hadn't understood why then. But he got it now.
"Today, we are going to test this unit to see if it can infilatrate an Imperial building," Rieekan began.
She stood against the wall. This impentrable being. All eyes on her.
She watched him motion to her. "She is your target."
"Her, sir?" a younger member asked.
"Yes. Leia has been in and out of Imperial buildings for several years now all by herself," he confirmed. "Solo will take his team of 10 and try and take the room next door to us. Again, your target is Leia."
She stood straighter. This was her test, too.
"And while it does seem easy gentleman, there are going to be some obstacles. It will be pitch black in that room and contain smoke from a smoke grenade."
She smirked. They thought it would be easy, she knew she'd win. It was too simple.
She watched from the two way mirror with Rieekan. Han and his team were prepping for the test run.
"You have everything ready?" Rieekan asked.
"Yup."
"You sure this is going to work?"
"Nope. But it's my last card."
The room was pitch black, full of smoke and quiet.
But if you listened, you could hear everything.
And if you were trained, you could take out an elite team in the matter of seconds without a sound.
A red glow illuminated from the center of the room. And a muffled groan was all that heard.
"Lights!" a voice screamed.
"Leia, it's been sixty seconds," a voice rang out of the speaks.
"Well, my job is done."
The lights flickered, generating back to life.
And there she stood in the middle of the room with a knife to Han Solo's neck and a red lightsaber in the other.
"Looks like they failed, Rieekan," she stated, not loosening her grip on the General.
"Very well, let General Solo go and let's try again."
"I don't think I can do that, sir," as she kept her grip on the sharp blade.
"Leia, let General Solo go," Rieekan demanded over the speakers.
The soldiers around her tried reaching for weapons but found none to train on her. They were all missing.
"I told you, you had a mole in your ranks," she said with a laugh, staring straight at the two-way mirror. Solo tried to get out of her grip. "It would be best Captain, if you didn't move, or you might get a more deadly scar than the one on your chin," she chided.
"What do you want?"
"Just the General and his ship and I think we will be on our way, we have a meeting that we have to be punctual to."
She pushed the knife enough to make him back up with her. He tried jerking again. "This is a rather sharp knife, I've let people bleed out before," she threatened again.
She backed out of the door into the hallway before throwing the lock, capturing his team in the room.
"Alright, let's go," she commanded.