Chapter 153

After they were in the air and away from the Imperials, or Arcann to be more specific, they all sighed out of relief and calmed down in the Falcon.

Laetitia almost sat down to get her strength back, but she froze when she saw Han out of the cockpit.

They both froze. Neither of them said a word or moved a muscle. Leah looked down at her feet with teary eyes.

Han was ... different than the others. She knew he would actually get mad at her for making him go through something like that ... But she didn't have the strength to watch it happen. She really didn't want that to happen?

Han just walked to her slowly and put his arms around him. Leah was more than grateful to see that her friend wasn't angry and just hugged him back, sobbing quietly in his shoulder. She really missed his big brother, her bickering buddy.

"Promise me you will NEVER do that again!" Han firmly shouted at her as he broke the hug and held her by the shoulders.

Leah just shook her head, unable to stop the tears from coming out.

"I promise."

"Good ... Don't you look freaky, sister!" He pointed out as he took a weird look at her.

Leah frowned in confusion. That was the first thing Arcann had told her when she woke up 3 years ago. What was different about her that was ... freakier?

"What?"

"When was the last time you looked in a mirror?" He asked, half-joking.

"3 years ago."

"That explains it." Han muttered.

"What?!" She asked in irritation and confusion.

"Maybe you should ... take a look at yourself." Thexan suggested calmly.

Leah was even more confused when she saw everyone acting like that. She just ran to find a mirror to see herself after 3 years. When she did ... she was shocked and gasped.

Her hair was colorless white, as they were for her whole life. But her eyes ... they were ... weird. The colors were mixed up. The sclera, which was supposed to be white, was black, and her brown iris was not ... white!

"Huh!" She said in horror. She was honestly scared of herself and how she looked like.

"It's really not that bad." Thexan said to make things better as he walked to her.

"'Not that bad'?! I look like a freakin' ... I don't even know what I look like!" She shouted in horror.

"Maybe it's a side-effect of being resurrected by the Force. No one's even gone through something like this, so we don't know." He calmly replied.

He was so freaked out and worried. But there was no way he would show that to her and increase her anxiety.

"You mean when she was brought back, your Force got her colors mixed up?" Han asked simply.

"Probably." Thexan shrugged honestly.

He had no idea, either. All he could guess was that Leah's ability to create midi-chlorians didn't seem to die when she did and that is what brought her back. But an ability couldn't possibly do that if it wasn't the will of the Force.

"We're just glad to have you back, kid. It doesn't matter what you look like." Rex said to break the awkward silence.

"Doesn't it?" Han muttered, which earned a smack from Ahsoka.

Leah smiled a bit, but her mind was focused on what she saw. She was ... scary. But thankfully, she felt the Force coming back to her. It felt so good to have it back. Now, she was whole.

No longer alone.

As soon as she was able to use the Force again, she created a strong Force-illusion that made everyone see her as what she used to be. A normal brunette girl with brown eyes. No white hair and ... freaky eyes!

"That's more like it!"


Han landed the Millennium Falcon on the Rebel Base on Scipio. To Laetitia, it was new and everything was out of place. The last time she was on a Rebel Base was ... 3 years ago on Yavin 4, when they were talking about evacuating for everyone's safety.

To her, it was so weird. She had never been to Scipio. She had only heard it once in her life when Padme was arrested because of Clovis.

She walked out of the Falcon awkwardly to everyone's surprise. The eyes were the worst. They weren't even someone she had missed. Not one! They just watched her in horror and shock as if she was someone or something that wasn't supposed to be here.

Leah just kept walking, trying to ignore all the eyes on her. She had no idea what she would do if she had her lightsabers with her. But she suddenly froze when she saw the blue eyes, she loved and missed so much, staring at her.

Luke.

She forgot about anything else happening around her as her one and only focus was on her brother. She hadn't seen him in 3 years. He thought she was dead ... And now, there she was, standing right in front of her.

Luke was the first one to move. He walked slowly towards his dead sister. Before she could do or say anything, he held her tightly in his arms. Leah immediately hugged him back, trying to hold back her tears.

"You came back." He whimpered happily as he cried in her shoulder.

"I told you I would." She sniffed as she tried to control her happy tears.

They stood still and didn't care about anything else. Thexan, Ahsoka, Rex, Han and Chewie walked to them. Neither of them said anything and only watched as the brother and sister were reunited.

"Thanks for waiting for me." Leah normally said as she broke the hug.

Luke chuckled slightly and wiped the tears off his face.

"No problem ... Just don't do it again. I don't think I can take it." He weakly replied.

Leah only shook her head. To be honest, she didn't think she could take it if it happened again. To feel a hot blade pierce your heart, wake up with freaky eyes and be tortured by your ... possibly-future-Sith brother-in-law. It was all ... too much.

"Auntie Lee!" A childish voice screamed from behind the crowd.

Leah recognized that voice immediately. She just sat on the ground in advance and opened her arms for her niece to get into them.

"Oh! Mina! She exhaled out of relief when Mina jumped into her arms.

"I missed you, auntie Lee. So much! So much! So much! SO MUCH!" Mina repeated herself like a kid. Technically, she no longer was. Now, she was a 10-year-old snippy kid.

"I missed you, too, kid ... You have no idea how much." She quietly said as she hugged her tightly.

When she opened her eyes, Leah could see Ahsoka and her husband smiling in front of them.

"Good to see you, Lux." Leah said, still holding Mina in her arms.

"It's a miracle to see you, Leah." Lux stated, smiling in happiness.

Leah just shook her head, fully understanding the meaning behind what he said. It was a miracle to come back from the dead.

After a while, she let go of Mina and grabbed her seriously by the shoulders.

"Okay, Mina, come here. Let me take a look at you." Leah said as she examined her goddaughter closely. Mina stood still while she did.

"Well, you look … exactly the same." She seriously said after a minute.

"I do not!" Mina defended herself quickly, clearly not expecting to hear what she did, which only caused Leah to laugh.

"I'm serious! I thought by now, you'd be bigger than this. Biggie, not Mini ... Or at least, you'd have grown a Lekku." She joked seriously.

"I can't grow a Lekku. My dad's not a Togruta." Mina simply stated.

Leah shook her head, chuckling.

"If you say so."

"When will you start my Jedi training, auntie Lee?" She suddenly asked, which caused Leah to scoff.

"Maybe when I get in, have a shower, get a good rest. Give me a minute to breath, kid." Leah said as she stood up.

She paused and looked around in confusion. She had no idea where her room was now, assuming she had a room.

"Um ..."

"Come on. I'll show you." Thexan said what she was thinking.

He grabbed her hand and led her to her room.


Thexan asked everyone to stay back as he led Laetitia to a room. She had been through enough to lose her mind. She needed to be alone ... Or at least, be with Thexan, who was the only one she seemed to talk to.

He opened the door to his room as she entered. There was only a bed, a chair and a desk to work on. Nothing more.

"Not exactly what you were expecting to come to, huh?" Thexan said to break the silence.

"I wasn't excepting to come home at all, so ..." Leah bitterly trailed off.

She still couldn't believe she was out of that hell-hole and away from Arcann. The fact that Arcann and Thexan had the same face didn't make a difference to her. They may have had the same face, but even a toddler could tell the difference between them.

"Hey. At least, it's better than Tatooine!" He joked to lighten the mood.

Leah scoffed and turned back to face him.

"At least on Tatooine, I could have felt my ass!" She stated sarcastically.

"True that!"

"I don't have a room?" Leah suddenly asked.

She could tell that this room wasn't hers. She didn't even know why she asked that. She was dead. Why would they have prepared a room for her when she had a funeral?

"Well, we didn't think you'd come back." Thexan quietly said in shame.

"Sleep in my room for the night. We'll think of something tomorrow." He said, not knowing how it could have been interpreted.

Leah turned around quickly, covering her body with her hands.

"What do you think I am?!" She shrieked. She knew he didn't mean it that way, but it was always fun to mess with him.

Thexan just realized what he said and just slapped himself in the forehead.

"Oh, my God! No, no, NO! I did NOT mean it like that. You, uh ... You can take my bed, and if I wanna sleep, I'll sleep at Luke's."

"So, you and Luke are close now?" She asked.

It was funny to think that the person Darth Vader considered as his son was actually close friends with his son.

"Well, I have been teaching him the ways of the Force for the past 3 years. So ..." Thexan paused to see Leah's reaction. She just nodded.

"Good. If anyone should have done it when I was gone, it's you."

"Sleep. Or just go to bed. You'll need your rest." He ordered softly in concern.

"Don't worry about anything happening while your asleep. I'll stand by the door and wont let anything happen." He reassured her when he felt her anxiety in the Force. She was afraid to sleep.

Leah just shook her head in appreciation and sat on his bed. Thexan could feel she had something to say, so he stayed and waited for her to say it.

"You know, even when I found out about dad being Vader, I still had hope." She started quietly.

"I didn't show it, but deep down, I believed … Wanted to believe, that he was still my father. That one day, I'd just wake up and he was my father again. Or you know, when the push came and he had to choose between Sidious and me, he would choose me and come back to me. But now, after being tortured for 3 years …" She trailed off again.

"When your father came up with the idea of putting you in this place … That was the first time I ever hated him less. Maybe he can wait for his turn torturing the person who put him in that suit."

"He knew. There was no way that he didn't know what I was going through. I mean, it was his Master that put me there. He knew ... and just left me there. Now, I'm sure he'd choose his Master over me in a heartbeat." She sadly stated her disappointment.

Thexan didn't say anything and just listened. He didn't believe that his Master was capable of doing something like that. That he'd abandon his own daughter to suffer. He loved her ... He didn't believe it ... or didn't want to believe it.

"Even when I was left alone on Tatooine with no memories, I had a strong will. Now that it's taken away from me, I'm broken … left with nothing. I don't have anything anymore." Leah quietly and weakly said, crying in tears.

Thexan shook his head, disagreeing with her. He sat on the bed and made her look him in the eyes.

"That's not true. You have Luke, Ahsoka, Mina, Han, Chewie and the people in the Galaxy. You are not broken ... Give yourself a minute to feel like that. You went through hell in the past few years. You deserve a break ... Besides, even if everybody leaves you, which will never happen, you'll still have me. You will always have me." He softly said.

Leah looked down with tears in her eyes. She didn't reject the comfort he was offering and let herself calm down in his arms.

Thexan just held her closely as she cried and let everything out.

Done :)