"Mum, please open the door. You have to eat." Victoria sighed. This was crazy. "Mum, get out of bed. You behave like child!" Again no reaction. Leia and Han had fought before, but this time it seemed to be really bad. If they had so many problems, they should simply get a divorce. Victoria put the salad bowl down. "I'll leave the food here, in case you change your mind."

Victoria went back to her room. She really shouldn't be that upset. This was probably just another a bad phase the two were going through. Well, if this was what a grown-up relationship looked like, she wasn't interested in it. Mum and Han, even after all those years, did not make a good match. But what did people say – Opposites attract.

Victoria unpacked a book she had secretly ordered the Galactic Book Depository. The Battle of Lothal: Myth and Reality. Her mum wouldn't like it if she knew that she was reading it. It was one of the more famous battles her father had fought in. The book was bigger than anticipated. But before she could start reading it, her comlink suddenly beeped.

"Hello?"

"Victoria, is that you?" Leutennant Brynn asked. "I know you hate it, but we could really need your help down here. Another support freighter just arrived and it's a little busy in storage." Victoria rolled her eyes. At first her mum, and now container pushing for the Rebel Alliance. What a great day!

"Alright. I'll be down in a sec."

When Victoria returned six hours later, the salad bowl was still untouched and her mum hadn't left her rom. Neither did she the next morning.

Victoria's eyes were fixed on her mother's the door. Should she call the doctor? Or a security guard? Maybe they would force the door open if she asked nicely.

She could hear her mother moving inside, so at least that meant she was still alive. However, the situation became more and more troublesome and she had no idea how to handle it. Han had deliberately left his comlink at home and Luke was the force knows where. She still had her father's private comlink number, but did the situation really justified calling him? Probably not, but she needed someone to talk to. This was getting too much.

On the bridge of the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser "Lightbringer" an excited communication officer walk over to commander Price and general Riekan.

"Sir, we've got it. The outgoing signal, I mean. It's Princess Lea's daughter; she's talking to her father." General Riekan was lifting an eye-brow. She had never done this before. "Interesting." He looked over to commander Price. "Could be nothing…. or she's slipping information to the enemy." The other man nodded. Besides, this was too good an opportunity to miss.

"See if you can follow the signal. And put the communication through to the war room. " He nodded to Price, who followed him next door.

The dimly lighted war-room was of medium size and had a large oval table in the middle. Twelve chairs were gathered around it and in the centre of the table there was a small holo-projector, which Riekan quickly activated, a smile appearing on his face. This would be interesting. Suddenly Thrawn's imagine appeared and the ghostly voice of a female teenager filled the room.

"…, please. You couldn't you at least try."

"The answer is no."

"But why? Maybe she…" He cut her of.

"This is not open for discussion!" He sighed when saw the shocked look on Victoria's face . "I am sorry if that sounded harsher than intended. I see your distress and I am not unsympathetic. But I will not interfere in your mother's life. Besides, I doubt she would listen to me."

"She hasn't eaten in three days. And I've tried everything, I …." He cut her off.

"Victoria, I have a job, you know? And this conversation is taking way too long."

"But you're my father! You said I could call you. Well, I would like to have some advice here. I'm at a loss what to do! It's like I'm the only one who cares. And it's not just mother, my life is despicable at the moment. None seems to care what I want. Do you know what I do most of the time? I have to help people at storage! Or look after the twins! I thought maybe things would get better after Corouscant, but they haven't. I'm miserable. Everything is just stupid. I hate my life!"

"Well, if it is fatherly advice you are seeking here, Victoria, then very well, how about this: Stop lamenting and do something about it."

"What kind of stupid advice is this? I'm 16! There is nothing I can do."

"Age is no indicator for what a person is cable of. I was twenty-one when I became supreme commander of the Chiss Expansionary Fleet."

"Not fair. I'm not you."

"All that I am trying to say is that you should not make other people responsible for your misery. You are the master of your life. You are not miserable because of your mother, because of Solo or because of me refusing your ridiculous wishes. Come to turn with reality, have goals and see things for what they are, then change what is in your power to change and make peace with the things that aren't."

"I don't see how. But you…"

"Stop it. I will hear no more of this nonsense. Leave your mother at peace, she will come around. She is stronger than you think. And you better grow up."

"My mother told my not to grow up too fast. She told me to enjoy life and that … I forgot… heartbreak and pain would come without me chasing it."

"Heartbreak?" He chuckled. "Well, I guess that was more an advice to not fall in love with the first guy you see, which I totally support. Men are terrible. Especially those wearing uniforms."

"Dad!"

"Well, I guess we better leave it at that. I really have to go now. Take care."

With that the Holo-projector went out.

"Do we have that on record?"

Pierce nodded. "Naturally. Protocol demands it…. Should we delete it?"

"I'm tempted to keep it. I have never seen him so `normal. It's scary because we see the man behind the rank. We tend to see our enemies as monsters, which is a very dangerous path and a far to easy assumption."

Piece looked unconvinced. "We should delete it. It was a personal conversation and it's not right to keep it. We are not the Empire."

Riekan sighed and nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right. Delete it."

Riekan and Pierced re-entered the bridge. "Lieutenant Hobes, do you have good news?"

The young man smiled broadly. "The best, Sir. We located the Chimera."

"Where?"

The man grinned. "Only about two standard days, with maximum speed. They are in the Buck-Hibbert System, close to a massive black whole. There is a dense nebula close by, we could probably have a little peak without being noticed."

Riekan grinned. "Set course and tell Mon Mothma that I would like to have a chat with her."

TBC