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Once Luke was sure that they were firmly en-route, he left the cockpit. The others he could sense scattered all throughout the shuttle, but it was Aria's driven and determined concentration that caught his attention. Whatever she was doing, she obviously thought it was important. Curious, Luke changed direction to head towards her cabin.
When he found her she was sitting on the bed, pouring over pages and pages spread out all over the bed around her, sticking out of her backpack, and held firmly in her hand. Luke cautiously approached her, eyebrows raised as he tried not to judge. "So...what's going on in here?"
He took amusement in the fact that she jumped at the sound of his voice, so absorbed in her work she hadn't even heard the door slide open. Blushing, she started to gather up some of the papers. "Oh, uh, several things, actually," she replied, hastily making a clear spot for him to sit. As he did he picked up one of the papers beside him, trying and failing to read the characters on the page. He did, however, recognize Han in one of the pictures.
"What's this?" he asked, showing the page to her. It wasn't familiar to him. Aria leaned forward to see the picture and only looked at it for a second before she answered.
"Han right before landing on Endor in Return of the Jedi. It hasn't happened yet, and it actually isn't what I was looking for," she told him with a slight frown, reaching around him to pick up another paper.
"And what is it you're looking for?" he pressed. He wasn't expecting such a prompt and simple answer.
"Where Han is at this moment in time. It occurred to me that I have—somewhere amongst all this, if I can pinpoint what point in time it is right now—the location of Boba Fett, and therefore the location of Han. And I will continue to have his location unless we change too much. That was just second on my mind though; there's something else I was thinking of bringing up with you."
Luke's mind was racing. She could point them to where Han was? That was wonderful news! They'd be able to get their friend back, and Luke could finally see that hole that had developed in Leia's heart filled. She hadn't been the same since the loss of Han, understandably. Then again, if that was just secondary on her mind, what could possibly be first? "Oh really?" he asked, leaning back in mild surprise. Aria pulled one of the papers in her hand away from the stack and laid it in his lap, pointing to the picture in the middle of the page. Luke took in the painting, noticing immediately that the picture was set in Tatooine. He noticed Ben's hut next, then the green lightsaber, then the familiar blonde figure wielding the lightsaber just a ways off from Ben's hut. Luke frowned. "What is this?" he murmured, taking the page from her.
"According to the Earth version of your biography in the Legends section, you returned to Ben Kenobi's hut on Tatooine, where there was instructions on how to build your own lightsaber, adequate parts you will be hard pressed to find anywhere else in the Galaxy...and even the perfect place to make your own lightsaber crystal which, with the Empire taking or destroying them all, is your only option really by now," Aria said, pointing to characters on the page as she spoke. It seemed she'd forgotten that Luke couldn't read her form of Basic. "It took you...well...several months, to be honest, though to be fair you also took a few breaks here and there to help with the search for Han or Rebel Alliance matters. I was thinking maybe we should start that process a little early. If we're going to get Han back, you might want a lightsaber, especially if things still end up to where you need to wait to strike at Jabba's Palace. Then a lightsaber is going to be essential."
"Where is Fett now?" Luke asked, skimming over the other pictures. There was a lot of paintings and drawings of him...
"Um...let's see...I know it's a sensitive subject, but I have to ask..." Aria bit her lip, and how nervous she was immediately set Luke on edge; what was she about to ask? "Does the name Lumiya mean anything to you?"
Luke frowned, brow furrowed in confusion. "I have no idea who you're talking about; should I?"
Aria hesitated. "You might...know her under a different name. I'm not quite sure how to pronounce it—I have an idea but I want to be absolutely sure I get it right—I think I could spell it...hold on..." She reached down into her backpack for some sort of writing utensil, took the paper back from Luke once again and flipped it over. "Let's hope I actually can remember the Aurebesh. This might take moment..."
"Take all the time you need," Luke assured her, watching as she carefully drew characters he could actually read. He watched as she drew the Shen, Isk, Resk, Aurek...
Shira.
Aria was still writing, but Luke's hand snapped out and stopped her, holding it firmly in his grasp. "Stop," he commanded, causing Aria to jump. Immediately he felt bad for scaring her. "I'm sorry, it's just...I know now, and it's still fresh. Shira Brie."
Aria nodded. "Yeah, I would have mispronounced her name...that's all I'll ask about that, you don't need to say anything else. Does the planet Gall hold any meaning to you?"
Luke frowned, understandably a little nervous after the last question. "No...should it?"
Aria visibly brightened. "I know where Han is. Or will be...eventually...and I know who not to bring on the rescue mission."
Luke straightened up, his rapt attention focused on Aria. "He's on Gall?"
She took the paper in Luke's hand back, adding it to the one that was already in her hand and looking over both of them. "He might be. Fett stopped there because his ship was damaged. A man named Dash Rendar followed him and damaged the ship a little more, but when you guys came along and he acted as your guide he abandoned you guys and Fett, who had returned in time to stop someone else from making off with Han, escaped before Lando and Leia could retrieve him. I suggest getting there as fast as possible before a bunch of coincidences lead to his escape again...but after this rescue obviously; we're already on our way to rescue the spy."
"What if Fett gets away again?" Luke asked, scooting closer.
Aria set the papers down, skimming over the accounts one more time. "There's nothing more than that and I don't know if Boba's there right now, but that should be worth something. You've got a location. After that it just says asteroid field and then in a corvette; no specifics or even the name of the corvette ship. If this goes wrong again, you'll have to wait till Boba delivers him to Jabba on Tatooine, and that's quite a ways away."
Luke sighed, looking away. "Yes, that does count for something...I'll have to come up with some idea on how to get him back..."
"I'll keep these out just in case you want to reference them later," Aria replied with a small smile, setting the papers aside.
"They won't be much use if I can't read them now, will they?" Luke asked with a smug smile. Aria chuckled.
"I suppose not," Aria mused. She looked away for a moment, messing with the utensil in her hand for a few seconds before she ripped off a clear spot on one of the papers and wrote something down in the same characters Luke couldn't read. She pressed it into his hand. "Here."
He frowned. "What's this?"
"Incentive," Aria told him, her smile widening. "The other three can read written English quite fluently, I'm sure they'd be willing to teach you."
Luke cocked an eyebrow at her tone. "Are you giving me a test or something?"
Aria laughed. "Yes, I'm testing your patience," she said humorously, coaxing a smile out of Luke. "Really, it is incentive. When you know how to read my form of written Basic, you'll be able to read that. See? Motivation."
"All right then," Luke said in amusement, tucking the paper away for later. He ran his hands along the many papers in the room, whishing he could read what was on them. Who knew what answers to the past a future was spread so carelessly across her bed? He frowned, taking in the different colored spots on several different papers. "Why do you have some of this highlighted?"
Aria was starting to tuck away the papers, pausing to see what he was talking about before she went back to cleaning up. "Oh, things I think are of importance. Red for events I feel played a key part in Anakin's fall, yellow for important people and places, green for things that could be used to backtrack any progress towards the dark side...most of my highlights have to do with Anakin's fall. Now that we're here, I'm looking at Vader again, among other things. I've marked purple for pressure points that might coax the old Anakin Skywalker out of Vader, and I used pink for people who popped up only momentarily but played some sort of monumentous role later. Orange is for close calls, though I've only marked your close calls so far as we're now your companions and I would like to be well aware of those. Blue...I put for the Emperor's manipulations. It's hard to keep up with those and I need to look very closely at those. If I can unravel those, well...that would be very useful to say the least."
"You've got this down to a science," Luke muttered, keeping an eye out for the orange. "There's quite a bit of orange."
"There's a lot of close calls," Aria returned.
"There's a lot of blue on top of the orange," Luke added, wishing he could read what was right at his fingertips.
"The Emperor is trying to kill you while your father is trying to keep you alive. Vader's the only reason the Emperor isn't just trying to kill you; he bought you time by convincing the Emperor to try and turn you to the dark side. Usually when you have a close call, the Emperor has something to do with it," Aria said gravely, gathering up the last of the papers as Luke stared in concern at the bag.
"There's a lot you're not sharing with me too, isn't there?" Luke asked suddenly, startling Aria into silence for a few moments. Finally, she nodded.
"Yes, there's just...some things I'm not quite sure should be brought to light just yet. One step at a time; I don't want to dump too much on you at once, though I am hoping to put the Rebel Alliance one step ahead of the Emperor. The Emperor's cooking up a trap for the Alliance, and I'm hoping to turn it on him."
Luke was immediately sent into a state of alarm. "What? What trap?"
Aria grimaced. "He's going to purposely let some top secret information leak to the Rebel Alliance in an attempt to get everyone in the same spot at once so he can destroy them...I'm going to get that information to them before he can." She bit her lip, thinking something over for a few moments. "You might want to see if you can get someone to check out Endor."
Luke raised an eyebrow when she didn't expand. "You're not going to say anything else? Something that could destroy the Rebellion, and you're just going to say check out Endor?" he asked in surprised. He was careful to keep his tone from being harsh or scornful; he just wanted to know why she was being so vague.
"I don't want to cause panic too early, and I don't want the Emperor knowing the Alliance knows something is off. If just one person heads out there, or two, just to check it out, then if they get caught it was just a curious probe for a possible base as far as the Empire is concerned. If they truly don't know about what's out there, then the Empire won't panic."
"They'll just believe we'll take the unreturned probe as a sign that the area isn't safe for us to make a base in," Luke murmured.
"Hopefully, it won't come to that. Hopefully, it will be a get in, see what I'm tipping you all off about, and then get out thing. It's kind of hard to miss what the Empire's got there."
"Can't you just tell us what's there?" Luke asked.
"They might not believe me; best to make an anonymous tip so that there's no questions about how I know what I know. I'd prefer if the knowledge of me being from a different galaxy and knowing almost everything stayed with very few people thank you very much. On top of that, I'm focused on Anakin, first of all, Han, and then getting you armed again, because you're going to need that lightsaber; you're going to need it soon, and you're going to need it for all these lovely next steps I'm keeping to myself right now."
Before Luke could press for anything more than Endor, Anakin suddenly walked into the room. "Hey I think I finally finished that—" he trailed off as he saw Luke and Aria sitting on the bed together, Luke staring at Aria rather intently. Luke subconsciously shifted away when he realized what it must have looked like.
"What did you finish?" Aria asked, eyebrows raised at the surprised look on Anakin's face. Anakin shook himself a little and moved to stand in front of her, pressing something into her hands.
"That way to charge your laptop. I don't know what I'm going to do now to distract myself, but—"
"Oh, don't worry about that, I already have a project for you again," Aria said with a grin, looking the device over several times. "This is great, I can start making some real progress now."
"Project?" Anakin asked, as if she hadn't said anything else. He looked rather exasperated. "What project?"
"Luke?" Aria asked pointedly, already reaching into her backpack for her laptop. Luke rolled his eyes while she figured out how to work the device, pulling the paper out once again and staring at it intently as he spoke.
"She means teach me to read her written form of Basic," Luke told him. Anakin offered his hand.
"And what's that?" Anakin asked. Aria, to Luke's great astonishment and confusion, blushed as Luke handed the little paper over to his younger father.
"Incentive, as she says. I can't read it until I know how to read her Basic," Luke said, looking quizzically at Aria. His puzzled expression switched to Anakin when the younger man made a strange noise in his throat, a grin spreading across his face before he started to chuckle, glancing between Aria and Luke. "What?" Luke asked, confused. Aria was as red as Vader's lightsaber.
"Incentive indeed," Anakin said simply. "How about I keep this until you're fluent; then you get to see what it says. No cheating."
Luke glanced in confusion between the two as Anakin tucked the paper away, grinning at Aria, who was burying her face into her laptop as she powered it up again. "I'm missing something."
"Yes, you are," Anakin said truthfully before he changed the topic. "So, what's the verdict? Is it working?" he asked as he approached Aria, peering over her shoulder at the screen. Aria pointed to the bottom right hand corner.
"It appears so," Aria said with a grin. Luke, admittedly, tuned them out as Anakin explained how the charger was supposed to work and what she would have to do if it needed more power. He kept his thoughts on what she'd told him.
Han on Gall...and they were armed with enough knowledge Fett hopefully wouldn't get away; a way for Luke to create a new lightsaber back on Tatooine, on Ben's hut. Not to mention possibly becoming one step ahead of the Empire.
However, there was something else that he could already tell wasn't going to leave him be.
"Why did you call her Lumiya?" Luke asked suddenly, interrupting the discussion Anakin and Aria had been having. Anakin, predictably, was confused, though Aria suddenly looked very uncomfortable; she wouldn't look Luke in the eyes.
"She's...well, first of all, she's not dead," Aria said quietly. Luke jerked from the jolt of shock that went through him at her words, suddenly finding himself on his feet.
"N-not dead?" he stuttered out. "How could she not be dead? I shot her down myself! I was stripped of command and put on trial for it, I lost faith in the Force for a while because of what happened; how could she still be alive?"
"She was pulled from the wreckage by the Imperials; you shouldn't blame yourself, Luke. If you hadn't have taken that shot she would have killed you; that was her mission. To either kill you or smear your name."
"Well she succeeded," Luke snapped, his tone bitter as he ran his hand through his hair. "There's still so many in the Rebellion that don't trust me, that think I'm actually in league with the Empire because she'd made herself a Rebellion Hero herself."
Luke leaned against the wall, resting his forehead on his arm. How was she alive?
"Hold this," he heard Aria murmur to Anakin. The next moment Luke felt a gentle hand placed on his shoulder. "Hey...you had no way of knowing. You're lucky to be alive, actually. Give it time, and they'll trust you again."
Luke shook his head and pulled away, headed for the door. "I think I need a moment," he murmured.
"Take all the time you need," he heard Aria say before the door slid shut behind him.
Aria sighed and turned to Anakin. "I really wish that question hadn't come up..."
"Who was he talking about?" Anakin asked, still confused about what had just happened. Aria suddenly looked depressed.
"Lumiya is the future Sith Lady arch nemesis of Luke's, but he doesn't know her as Lumiya yet. Not too long ago, apparently, there was a woman that he fell in love with named Shira Brie. She was a Rebellion Hero in her own right and became part of his squadron when he rose to the command of Rogue Squadron. While they were on a mission Luke's targeting computer was knocked out, so he relied on the Force to pick his targets. When he returned to base, he learned that one of the targets the Force had told him to hit was Shira; he'd shot her out of the sky. He was stripped of command and put on trial, as he said, and his faith was shaken in the Force. He set out to figure out why the Force had told him to shoot down the woman he loved, and found out that she was an Imperial Spy. His name was cleared and he was given command of Rogue Squadron again, but...obviously it's still fresh and he hasn't recovered from it yet. It must not have been that long ago," Aria explained quietly. Anakin felt horror and sympathy settle inside of him.
"You said her mission was to kill him or smear his name?" Anakin asked eventually. Aria nodded.
"She infiltrated and climbed the ranks of the Rebellion to either kill him or ostracize him. Unfortunately she succeeded with the latter," Aria murmured, sitting down and running her hand through her hair as Luke had done not moments ago. "It's also true, however, that eventually those that still don't trust him will again. He just needs time to heal."
"How did that even come up?" Anakin asked, allowing Aria to take the computer back.
"I was trying to figure out just where in the timeline we are; I asked about Lumiya, having forgotten he didn't know her by that name, and then asked about her to see if that had already happened. I really should have thought before I said Lumiya..." Aria muttered.
"Just..." Anakin sighed, shaking his head. "Just let him have some space."
Aria sighed. "I know; I just wish I hadn't brought up such a sensitive subject. Can we change the topic now?"
Anakin nodded, glancing back at the laptop before he straightened up and pulled out the note she'd given Luke. "Seriously?" he asked, an eyebrow raised. Aria blushed.
"Yeah...seriously..." she said in embarrassment, unable to look him in the eyes. Anakin chuckled.
"I'll be sure to keep this safe until he can read English fluently. Maybe he'll even agree with you by then," Anakin teased.
"Shut up," Aria muttered, reaching into her bag and pulling out the Star Wars Saga again. "Show me where Obi-Wan and Padme are, and I'll set you guys up to watch A New Hope. I've got to ask Luke something before you watch it though."
Anakin's smile vanished. "You're not going to say anything else to upset him, are you?"
"That's just insensitive," Aria said with a scowl. "No, I'm not; I'm just going to ask if he wants to come join us; it is his story we're watching, and it might give him something to distract him from...that."
Aria sighed, putting one of the discs into the laptop and handing it to Anakin. "Here, go hunt down the others, I'll go find Luke and talk to him."
Anakin rolled his eyes. "Try not to make it worse."
"Thank you so much for the vote of confidence Anakin," Aria replied sarcastically before he door slid shut.
"Anytime," Anakin murmured, sliding the mouse over to her videos file instead of the movie.
He distinctly remembered her saying something about tribute videos...maybe he could get away with watching one or two of them.
It took her a while, but Aria eventually got enough sense to realize that if one was looking for a Skywalker on a starship, they needed to look in the cockpit. Sure enough, Luke was in the pilot's seat, reclined back and staring at the stars of hyperspace passing by. The only sound in the cockpit was the faint hum of the many different devices she couldn't' even begin to name; she'd always focused so much on the people she forgot to look at quite a bit of the technical aspects of the Star Wars Universe. Hesitantly, Aria approached Luke and took a seat next to him in the co-pilot seat; he didn't even acknowledge that she'd entered the room.
"How are you holding up?" Aria asked tentatively.
"I've been better...but I've also been much worse," Luke replied after a few beats of silence. Aria nodded, wiping a sweaty palm on her lap as she tried to figure out what else to say.
"Why don't you ask me something?" she suddenly said. Luke gave her a strange look.
"What?" he asked. Aria sighed.
"Whenever I was upset, sometimes my father would have me start asking him a bunch of questions to get my mind off of what was upsetting me," she said sheepishly. Luke blinked in surprise, but eventually managed to get a question out haltingly.
"All right...ah...your favorite food?" he managed to ask.
"My mother's enchiladas or quesadillas. But I also love fruit, and chocolate is a given," Aria said promptly.
"Favorite animal?"
"A tiger...or a wolf...or a cheetah...or an eagle," Aria said, starting to grin.
"It sounds like you're not very decisive," Luke mused.
"I have a lot of favorites," Aria responded.
"Favorite color?" he asked.
"Blue," Aria said immediately as she held his gaze, a blush creeping up her face before she cleared her throat and looked away. "And red and purple, those too."
"What are you afraid of?" Luke asked, deciding not to dwell too much on her sudden embarrassment.
"Heights, namely falling from them, spiders, I hate spiders...and loosing people I care about," she finished a little awkwardly. It was Luke's turn to clear his throat, and he quickly steered the conversation in a different direction again.
"What did you sing to me when I was unconscious?"
Aria blinked in surprised. "What?"
Now Luke was blushing. "Well, I kind of heard you singing to me while I was unconscious back on the Executor, and I was wondering what it was you were singing."
"Oh," Aria said, then to Luke's surprise she started to laugh. "That, well...I was singing different versions of Angel of Music, one of my favorite songs from my favorite musicals."
"What's the musical?"
"The Phantom of the Opera. It's actually a romantic tragedy, sometimes classified as horror, but it's amazing, I love it," she said with a sigh.
"Could I hear you sing that again, sometime...it was really beautiful," Luke complimented, looking away with a blush the next moment. Aria was blushing as well.
"Thank you...I could, if you want me to. You just have to ask," Aria said.
"Did you come back here just to check up on me?" Luke asked, steadily sobering. Aria shook her head.
"Mostly, but at the same time no. I was just about to show the other three A New Hope, the first movie in your trilogy. I was wondering if you wanted to join us; see how the first Star Wars movie was, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, etcetera, etcetera," Aria said. "Plus you might need to explain a few things and I'm sure there's a few questions that they'll have as they watch. For example, Anakin doesn't know he has a stepbrother yet."
Luke looked away for a moment, fiddling with his prosthetic hand he didn't realize she knew was prosthetic. He wasn't too keen on seeing Ben, Aunt Beru, Uncle Owen, and Biggs die all over again. "I guess so..."
It seemed Aria hadn't forgotten about the deaths surrounding the events of the Death Star either. "You don't have to stay there for the entire movie, you can get up to, oh, I don't know, check something in the cockpit, get a drink, I don't mind."
He smiled gratefully. "Thank you."
Aria shrugged. "It's nothing. Now we just need to worry about finding Anakin again; I left him alone with my laptop. Now that I'm thinking about it that probably wasn't the wisest thing for me to do."
"Why, what do you have on there?" Luke asked, concerned as he rose to his feet with her.
"A lot. Including some videos that have some information in them I'd rather he didn't find out about yet," Aria explained, making her way out of the cockpit with Luke close behind. "I'll go get him; could you find Obi-Wan and Padme? I'll meet you in the central chamber."
"All right," Luke said with a nod, taking a right. Aria took that as her sign to take a left towards the cabins; she'd already been turned around.
She was speaking as soon as the door to the cabin had opened. "Okay, how much have you seen?"
Any light scolding she had in mind vanished when she saw how pale Anakin was. She was at his side in a flash, kneeling in front of him and trying to pry the laptop out of his clutches. "Anakin...Anakin are you still with me?"
He looked like he was trying to answer her, but was unable to, opening and closing his mouth several times. His pale color was starting to turn green, and his eyes were red like he might have cried at some point as well.
"Anakin, what did you watch?" Aria asked sternly, finally managing to pry the laptop away from him. As soon as the laptop left his clutches he managed to utter a few syllables.
"Luke...Padme..." he croaked, and Aria rushed to look at her history.
Luke and Anakin – Remember me for centuries
[Star Wars] There is Still Good in Him
Anakin Skywalker | A Tragic Hero (Redemption)
They were all tribute videos she'd downloaded from YouTube a long time ago.
"Sister?" Anakin rasped out. Aria set the laptop aside, focusing all of her attention on Anakin. She placed a hand on his cheek.
"Anakin, look at me..." she said firmly, waiting until his eyes were locked onto her gaze before she continued. "There was a reason I didn't want you looking at this, all right? You haven't hurt them, okay? You haven't done them wrong in any way, you haven't done that, not yet, and we're going to make it so you won't, okay?"
"My mother...I thought it was just Luke..." Anakin continued to mumble. Aria was starting to worry he'd gone into shock.
"You're mother's going to be fine Anakin, I promise you, I've already made sure of that. I already talked to Obi-Wan about letting you go to Tatooine, she's going to be fine." She hesitated before making sure she had Anakin's absolute attention. "Anakin...I need you to not say a word to anyone about Luke having a sister; no one knows, not even his sister. It's also the only reason she's still alive and well to this day. You can't say anything about Luke's sister, not even to Luke. Luke doesn't know yet, and he won't know for a little while longer. You can't say a word about it, or her life will be in danger, okay?"
"I-I hurt them, I..." Anakin trailed off, unable to voice the horrors he'd seen in the videos. Aria shook her head.
"Anakin, I need you to take a deep breath and calm down. You know some of the secrets I'm carrying now, and I need them to stay secret, okay? We need to go out there and act like you haven't just seen these, all right? You can't say a word to Luke about his sister."
"He was screaming, and the lightning...he was dying and V-Vader...I was just standing there..." Anakin stuttered out.
"But Vader still saved his life, he still turned from the dark, killed the Emperor, and saved Luke. Anakin, please, you need to calm down; this is why I wouldn't let you look at it yet."
Anakin blinked, looking up at her. "You promise me we'll change this? I...I could never hurt them like that, I would never..."
"I know you wouldn't Anakin, I know you wouldn't," Aria said soothingly. "I need you right now to take a few deep breaths so that we can go out there and act like this hasn't happened. You just hold onto the thought that we're not going to let any of this happen, okay? It's going to be all right."
It took him a while, but Anakin eventually managed to take several deep, steadying breaths, the red left his eyes, and he was able to bottle away the look of fearful, horrified panic that had been on his face just moments earlier.
"You promise?" he asked, his voice flat and monotone.
"I promise; it's why I'm here," Aria said firmly. "Now, let's try to make yourself sound a little livelier; you're finally about to see one of the movies I forbid you from watching, remember?"
He cleared his throat. "Right...right..." With that, he stood up, hands shaking slightly as he took the laptop from her and started up the movie player. "Let's go...I'm all right."
Aria sighed, shaking her head. "You guys are impossible. At this rate all the secrets are going to come out way too early."