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Kyp Durron had spent the better part of the day searching for Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel and now he had moved on to waiting, and waiting and waiting. The moment he had reentered the base Iella Antilles had reappeared at his side as if summoned through the force, although Kyp knew she didn't have any force potential. He assumed that it was her background in Intelligence work. He was immediately swept up into the former Corsec operative's wake. He was whisked down a side corridor as soon as he showed her the Yuuzhan Vong creature that he had found, and now she was showing him into a laboratory, bustling with activity.

Pulling him over towards a huddled knot of people, Iella explained as they walked. "Are you sure that, that creature is involved in Jaina's disappearance?"

"We found it in the area that the maintenance worker Tekli tracked down said she disappeared," he replied curtly.

"I'll have the scientists start working on figuring out what it is immediately. Unfortunately," she added with the certainty only a high ranking Intelligence officer can posses, "We don't have any of the experts here. We lost track of both Danni Quee and Cilghal after the fall of Coruscant and Tahiri, one of the few who have complete command of the language went with Master Skywalker."

She paused, briefly asking a passing technician about the whereabouts of a specific scientist and then continued walking through the lab assuredly, although to Kyp it all looked like a maze. "Fortunately," she continued, "Lowbacca is here, he worked with Jaina on a lot of the modifications they made at Hapes. He should be a big help. Listen," she said as they reached a set of large double doors leading into a restricted section of the lab, "there's not much else you can do here until they," she gestured loosely at the surrounding scientists, "tell us what this does. So, why don't you get some rest, or run Twins Suns through some drills or something like that. I'll have you notified as soon as I know something."

"What about whoever did this?" questioned Kyp, darkly, "are the just going to be let off?"

Smiling menacingly, Iella murmured darkly, "I already have people, including some Jedi investigating the site where we found this. We should know soon, very soon who did this. I assume you'll want to be notified immediately when we find whoever did it, Vong or Peace Brigade."

As Kyp nodded and walked off down the corridor, Iella couldn't help but reflect that she was very glad that she wouldn't be in the shoes of the Vong or Peace Brigader that did this when Kyp Durron caught up with them. She also devoutly hoped that-for the perpetrator's sake- Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel where fine when they were found or else well, nothing in the galaxy could save them from the combined wrath of the Skywalker-Solo clan.

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"Jaina, Jaina," called Leia when Jaina seemed to be distracted.

"Oh, sorry, Leia. What's the matter?"

Looking slightly uncomfortable, Leia nevertheless replied. "Nothing is the matter. I was just, well you said I named one of my kids after Darth, my father and I why? Why did I do that?" she asked Jaina, imploring the girl to answer a question that she desperately needed an answer to.

Jaina sensed through the force that this was a very sensitive conversation for her mother so she chose her words very carefully. "Anakin is only a year and a half younger than me, so I don't really know what you were thinking when he was born. I do know that you did it as an act of reconciliation with my grandfather and the galaxy as a whole."

"How can you and Luke do that?" Leia asked incredulous, "how can it be so easy for you to acknowledge that connection?"

"You and Dad never hid it from us. We've known our entire lives. At times I'll admit, it was scary knowing what we had the potential to become, but it also motivated us, made us work harder to prevent that from happening again."

Jaina knew that this wasn't entirely true. She remembered vividly her recent brush with the dark side and how little she had cared at the time. However, she didn't feel she needed to tell her mother about that or the death of her sons.

Leia's voice cut into her thoughts abruptly, "You say you started fighting when you were sixteen, what was your life like before then?"

Jaina laughed slightly, uncomfortably and then even though she didn't want to upset her mother the way she knew her answer would, she felt her mother deserved to know. "Jacen and I were born during the conflict with the Empire. We weren't even a week old before we were almost kidnapped. Only the intervention of the woman who would one day be our aunt saved us."

Jaina sighed and closed her eyes before she continued, striving to keep her customary resentment out of her voice. "Because of that and other threats against us you sent us away to a safe planet. Eventually after he was born, Anakin joined us." Leia remained silent but Jaina could see the color drain from her face. "When we were about two, we came back to Coruscant where we lived. Anakin came back soon after that because of another kidnapping attempt."

She paused and studied Leia's face for a moment making sure she was okay before continuing with her story. "We lived as normal of lives as possible, mainly we traveled with you and Dad as long as it wasn't deemed as too dangerous. When we were five and two respectively, the three of us were kidnapped from Chewie's care while you were working at a conference on Cordui-Jai by a guy named Hethir. We figured out that Hethir wasn't what he seemed and Jacen and I got ourselves out but Anakin was taken elsewhere. Finally you and Dad and Uncle Luke caught up with him. After that things changed, you or Dad were with us at all times." A smile flitted across Jaina's face as she continued her expression lightening briefly. "Life continued pretty much like that until Jacen and I were seven. Then all of us took a family trip to Corellia. There we got caught in the middle of a coup de ta by a distant relative of Dad's. He once again kidnapped us but we got the last laugh. Together the three of us flew the 'Falcon and disabled his ship."

"Giving you your first kill on the 'Falcon's guns," interjected Leia speaking at last.

"Right. Well things went pretty smoothly after that until we were about ten."

"Let me guess," Leia bit out sarcastically, "you were kidnapped again."

"Well not quite but, a lot did change. That year Uncle Luke married Mara Jade, an event that shocked the galaxy for more than one reason, and the New Republic- the government the Rebel Alliance morphed into- made peace with the Imperial Remnant."

"Wow, It sounds like a busy year."

"It was. When we were thirteen or fourteen though, we were started attending Uncle Luke's Jedi Academy on Yavin Four. We lived and trained there for the next three years going through various challenges, kidnappings and adventures until the Yuuzhan Vong came along and made the empire seem like a piece of cake." A brief pained look passed over Jaina's face before she explained. "That's why Jag and I had so many kills today. Compared to what we're used to fighting, this is like target practice."

"Wow," Leia breathed, "You're life is very different from how I would have pictured it."

"It wasn't all bad," Jaina reassured her, "I just gave a few of the high points."

"I just can't picture it. I haven't really thought much about the future," admitted Leia in a reflective tone, "I know I truly love Han, but I have never thought about our future."

Jaina smiled unused to seeing Leia in such an open mood, but was startled even more when Leia started talking again.

"I wonder what Father, Bail," Leia corrected herself, "would have thought of Han."

Snorting derisively, Jaina added sarcastically, "And here I am hoping that my father won't shoot my boyfriend on site."

"That bad, huh?" asked Leia in a commiserating tone of voice, momentarily diverted.

"Oh," muttered Jaina with a slight smirk, "Dad's just a little overprotective at times. I am his only daughter after all."

Leia paused as if hit by a deep thought then looked at Jaina seriously for a moment. "Do we get along well?"

Surprised at the question, Jaina's reply was a little more defensive than she had intended. "Why do you ask?"

"Well," this time it was Leia's turn to stall, "you seem to be a lot like me and as stubborn as I am," she allowed her words to trail off.

Surprising even herself, Jaina answered Leia honestly. You're right we haven't always gotten along well. The stiff formalities and endless posturing of diplomacy always seemed despicable to me. I was more like Dad. I just wanted to go in lightsaber blazing and blasting away, but you weren't generally fond of that approach. Plus," she rolled her eyes, "I'm something of a rebel. I hate being dwarfed by your shadow and I'm very impulsive. Instead of continuing my Jedi training like my brothers I joined Rogue Squadron." Jaina sighed, but then said, "You didn't really approve but you made sure I could because it was necessary."

Choosing her words carefully Leia asked, "Because of this new horrible menace you and Jag have been talking about?"

Jaina nodded quickly confirming Leia's suspicion before Leia started to ask her next question. She was interrupted however, by the chirping of her commlink.

Leia spoke quietly into it for a moment, then looked at Jaina regretfully. "I'm sorry Jaina but I have to go, Senator Belden wants to speak to me. Chewie and Han will probably go with me and Jag is with Luke will you be okay here?"

"Oh yeah, sure," Jaina said dismissively, "I'll probably just meditate or something."

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Jaina wandered around the suite idly for a moment or two before she finally settled down on the repulsor couch. She was almost drifting off into sleep in the fighter pilot's habit of catching sleep whenever possible, when Jag entered. Delighted to see him but forcing herself to appear reserved out of habit, Jaina stopped herself from running over to him and throwing herself into his arms.

"What have you and Uncle Luke been doing?"

"Mostly x-wing maintenance," he said as he walked over to the couch and sat down next to her. No longer being able to resist, Jaina leaned over and kissed him. Jag's face lit up as he returned her kiss whole heartedly.

Minutes later when they finally came up for air, Jag asked knowingly, "How did your talk with Princess Organa go?"

"Better than I had expected actually. She's less dignified, more approachable, more in the spirit of the Rebellion I suppose."

She looked up at Jag noting his sudden shift in emotion both through the force and by the expression on his face. Straightening she asked, "What's the matter, Jag?"

He refused to look at her, to even answer her. He was almost beginning to frighten her with his silence, and while he wasn't usually Mr. Talkative he usually didn't have a problem telling her what was on his mind.

"Jag, Jag" she repeated more urgently, "what's the matter? What's going on?"

Finally Jag looked at her. Jaina could sense the division in his thoughts. He knew what he had to say would upset her, but he refused to back down because he felt that it must be said. "I don't think we should help them fight, I think we should help them fight. I think we should leave, commandeer a few x-wings and go off to some deserted planet. We shouldn't be here, Jaina," he said more anxiously, "the more we say and the more we do, the more we change. What if we vape some Imperial pilot that's supposed to do something important? We could change the course of history. Jaina, this is serious."

"So we're just supposed to leave them here, desert them. Who's to say we weren't meant to be here, Jag. We can help them so much." Both Jaina and Jag were shocked at the vehemence of her response.

"I think this Goddess thing has gone to you head, Jaina because anyone would know better than to try to play with the fate of people's lives, of the balance of power in the universe."

She looked at him, deeply hurt for a moment before her pain turned into anger. Abruptly she pushed away from him and stood. "I don't believe you would say that. Jag we could save the lives of so many Rebels and the citizens of Bakura."

"Yes," he replied just as determinately, "but at what cost to the empire. You know as well as I do how this mission ends."

"So that's it," Jaina said slowly, "It's you precious Empire, I didn't know you were such a fan, why don't you go and join them then?"

"Jaina that's not what I meant, I'm just saying it's not our place to rewrite history even if it seems like it would make the future better."

But by this time, Jaina was refusing to look at him or talk to him. So, instead he sighted and sent a "fine but we'll talk about this later, Jaina," at his furious girlfriend as he stalked out.

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