Also
written 9/30/00 to where I tell you
Blue
Waters: episode #52 Luke's asthma and
Imperial Chase
Previously: Obi-Wan took Samantha to the emergency center at the medical center on Dagobah. She had her two kids, which she named Leia and Luke. Leia's a few minutes older than Luke. Leia's healthy and Luke's not. An emergency siren came on, saying that an Imperial ship had been spotted.
Obi-Wan
sys, "Soon…as soon as the doctor lets me. The boy's obviously going to have to
wait until he can breathe on his own well."
"Can you find someone for him?"
"Yes."
Suddenly the security emergency siren went on
and a voice came over the loudspeaker.
"There is a
security Emergency. An Imperial ship has been spotted in the immediate
vicinity."
Obi-wan looks at Samantha, "Crap! We can't have them find you. The may somehow
know. We're going to have to flee the planet. You'll have to take your children with you."
The doctor comes over and objects, "but the
boy's lungs."
Obi-wan says, "His life is more in danger if
he stays. If its' at all possible that he can survive, we're taking him."
The doctor says,
"Well it's possible he can, but he's real sick. I don't think it's a
good idea."
Obi-wan turns to Samantha "let his mother
decide…"
She looks away; "I guess he's coming with us.
I'm not going to allow the Empire to get their hands on him!"
The doctor sighs, "all right…at least his
lungs are working right, now. You know he cant' be on that machine if you take
him with you. I suppose I'd
better come along too because of the boy."
They grab Luke
(after disconnecting him) and Leia...and urn towards the ship. R2-D2 is on also. Once everyone is on, Samantha turns to Obi-wan.
"Where are we going?"
"To Alderaan."
The doctor says, "I'd better hold the boy."
Yoda, who had had both twins up to now, hand
Luke to the doctor. (Now the rest of
the episode is not written on 9/30) Samantha glances at Obi-wan.
"How long will
this take?"
"About an hour. We'll have to go at a slower
pace because we have another planet to go to and don't want to put a strain on
the hyperdrive…this ship is old."
Samantha says, to Yoda, "Can I have the
other? I haven't held either yet."
Yoda gives Leia to her mother. She takes her
to another end of the ship to be with her baby, since this will be it that
she'll ever get to see it.
"Now I can only
be with you an hour. It's only an hour. Well see each other again someday…we'll
meet."
She rubs Leia and holds her close. She says more to Leia, and then gives her
back to Yoda. Then she goes over to the doctor and Luke.
"How's he doing?"
"He's still sick, and I still think he
shouldn't have come. I've been watching
him carefully, and he's been coughing…very weak coughing…and he's still having
breathing problems. I think he may have
asthma on top of his other problems. Actually, I'd be surprised if he didn't."
Samantha looks at Luke.
"What can we do
about it if he does?"
"Nothing for now, but if he has an attack we
could be in big trouble. Because of the way he is now, it could kill him
if the other things don't. And to be truthful, I don't think the changes are
very high that he actually will live very long. He's really sick anyway. If he can get by the first couple of months, he'll probably be all
right. But he has to get through them. On Alderaan, we're going to have to see if we can find out if there's
some kind of medication available there for his asthma. I'm almost sure he has
it, and we have to do something about it soon."
"Can I hold him for a while? I haven't…I
haven't even looked at him that much."
The doctor thinks
for a second, and then says, "I suppose you can, but it can't be for very long.
And you have to hold him like this. I
think it's easier on him."
All right, I wont' be long."
The doctor nods and reluctantly hands him
over to his mother. She takes him to the same section of the ship in which she
had taken Leia. She turns him over and sees that he has a cute little birthmark
on his rear end. She knows that this could put him in danger if Palpatine found
out about him…because it was an identification thing. She also hugged him and
talked to him,
"When we reach
Alderaan, I won't see you anymore, but we'll get you some sort of medication.
You have to survive. You have a
very tough task ahead of yourself…you are the galaxy's only hope besides your
sister. You stay with her and together you can get this galaxy in shape."
As Samantha held him, she knew the doctor was
right. He was really sick…his
breathing was not good. She was afraid. She did not want him to die, but
knew his changes for survival were not high. She was very very sick and she
doubted the things she said to him, she just said them to comfort herself. His legs were also rally messed up…they
weren't straight…they were very crooked, and she knew even if he did survive,
he probably wouldn't ever be able to walk. She took Luke back to the doctor,
blaming Anakin for everything wrong with Luke. Of course they had no way of
knowing how much of it was because of Anakin turning evil and how much of it
would have been wrong with him anyway, but all of them knew Anakin had played a
role in at least part of it. Just as they were almost there, an Imperial ship
started shooting at them. There was no way they could land.
Obi-wan says,
"Dang it!"
Samantha says,
"Well, I guess we'll have to go back."
But a message form Arawn came over the
system, "Hand those twins over to my boarders, and make sure the Queen is
there. I want them all. I know you're
on there Samantha."
Obi-Wan says,
"We're in big trouble."
Samantha looks at Obi-Wan.
"I have an idea…"
Until next time!