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mine and most of the personalities are also figments of My imagination.
Summery Qui-Gon Survived, long enough to have a daughter who ends up getting taken and sent to earth as a domestic slave. Han Solo who should know how his luck works shouldn't have any thing to do with her, but his anti-compassion center must be broken. We're now during the events of episode 4, if you haven't seen the movies.
I'm still trying to figure out how to do spacing on my chapters.
Chapter 5
Once we arrived in the System that the rebels were using as their secret base, I stayed at the ship while the others went to report in, I had met one or two of the rebels before, and knew I could get help with my plan. As soon as Han had disappeared around the corner, I went to work, In the cockpit. I took the borrowed multi tool, the protective covering came off of the Navicomputer without much trouble, I knew I had all the time I wanted, but I went quickly, taking the memory chip that I knew still had the co-ordinates of earth on it. I slid a new memory chip in its place, hiding the old one in my pocket. The new memory chip had the memory of the run in my pocket. I left the ship, and was soon in a hallway, I searched mentally for Leia, and went to the room she was in. Standing at the door to the room were two guards, "You may not enter," One of them said to me. "I just want you to pass a message to Han Solo who is in there, tell him his charity has paid off, Jaime is leaving for now, but will return to pay him once she has enough money." "I'm not a messenger," He said. "I know, but I also know you'll tell someone that I left, and that's really all I want," I said. "Alright," The guard said. I left, Leia had told me a long time ago that if I ever ended up with the co-ordinates for earth, that she'd lend me a ship to go home, but I knew if I didn't leave soon, then there would be a problem. I often had dreams of earth, but recently I had dreamt that my 'Mother' had another child brought in to do her bidding. I knew it to be true, so I had done research on Coruscant before heading to find Han. I was planning on getting him to fly me home, but when it became apparent that he wouldn't be available to do that I was bound and determined to get home anyway I could. I watched a transport being loaded, and walked up to the person who appeared to be in charge. "Excuse me, but I was wondering when you were planning on leaving?" I asked. "Not for awhile yet, about an hour, why?" he replied. "I need to pick up a ship on another planet, but I have no way of getting there from here," I said. "Well, I'm heading back towards the center, I guess you can come," He said. "Thanks," I smiled. "Get any of your things you'll need," He said.
I went back to the falcon, and got the box of electronics that Han had saved for me. I finished getting my stuff, and headed to the ship that would take me closer to home. The first ride was much shorter than the second would be, I decided to lease a ship, it was battered, but it would do, if it was destroyed, I wouldn't have to pay for it, and that was one of the things that mattered. I did all the checks I needed, paid what needed to be paid, and took off. I waited till I was in orbit before changing the memory disk, once the disc from the falcon was in the Navicomputer, I was able to call up the co-ordinates for Earth. I set the course, and was soon in hyperspace. During the two day trip, I relaxed, and worked on the disc player I had been building. The ship wasn't outfitted with any kind of sleeping area, but since I was alone, and had spent much of my life sleeping on the floor, sleeping on the deck, though unfamiliar, wasn't too horrible. I was brought out of my not so peaceful sleep by the alarm on the Navicomputer going off, telling me that I was about to come out of hyperspace. Once the elongated lines from the stars turned back to the pin pricks of real space, I took the controls and began to guide the ship towards the planet. The earth had a very predictable pattern, I headed to the same place that Han had landed, knowing instinctively what the co- ordinates were. I was walking on earth again, shortly after dark, I walked down the road, and towards the streets I had known so well, only one standard year ago. The house was as I remembered, though I did hear a baby crying inside. I walked up the sidewalk, and rang the front doorbell, the wooden door didn't open. I realized that I didn't want to show up like this again, they knew what went on outside the earth that was amazingly peaceful, compared to the galactic civil war I had just left. I walked down the stairs, and headed back to my ship, on the way, I stopped and light- fingered a small package of blank cassette tapes, and a Walkman with a Mic, they weren't actually all that expensive, but I had absolutely no cash. I made it to the ship without incident, and put a tape in the recorder, once I had done that I began to sing,
"Crossing the ocean, with my end of you, thinking of the time that I spent with you, and I close my eyes and I see the family, making up their wish lists, all dressed up for Christmas. On my own for to many years I miss the happiness, I miss the tears. When I need a friend or a helping hand, I know that you'll be there. I've been gone for so many holidays, But you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas day. I see your children playing in the snow, precious memories that I used to know, then I see the love, in the lover's eyes, always there to teach us, the real meaning of Christmas. On my own for to many years, I miss the happiness, I miss the tears. When I close my eyes and I'm all alone, I think of all the love we share, When I need a friend or a helping hand, I knew you'd always be there. I've been gone for so many holidays, but you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas. It doesn't matter, I don't think you are something happens to you when you see that shining star. When I close my eyes and I'm all alone, I think of all the love we share, when I need a friend or a helping hand I know that you'll always be there. I've been gone so many holidays, but you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas day."
Soon I was done the song, I labeled it with my best friend's name, somehow I knew that she would get it, I wrote a quick note to her on where to find me, and when. I stuck a second tape in the recorder, on that tape I recorded a short message, "Mother, Father, this is Jaime, I'm just checking in, to say that I'm watching, to make sure you treat him right, if you don't, he will be gone much sooner than I was. I'll contact you, don't try to find me, I won't be in any computer system." I labeled the tape, and put it to the side, I'd sleep for now, and get on with my job when it was a little darker.
When I woke up, I knew that when I had gone to using the outside air, I had forgotten to set the circulators up to heat the air first, the ship was freezing, and I knew it was snowing. I just had the clothes from Coruscant, and I hadn't wanted to carry around winter type clothes on a desert planet, or the tropical one, so I never did pack warm clothes, space was cold, but I was used to that. I got dressed in the warmest clothes I had, and pulled on the extra robe Obi-Wan had brought, it was to long to have been his, and it was way to long for me to walk easily, but there was nothing I could do about that. With all the technology out there, there were no sewing needles on my ship. Once I was ready to go, I saw the light saber that had belonged to Obi-Wan, I picked it up, and clipped it to the belt, under my cloak before leaving. I walked quickly and purposefully, it was about midnight, first I went to the house that I had grown up in, I put the cassette on the mailbox, using a piece of string to keep it there. I headed to Baylee's house next, it had only been two years, so I hoped they were still in the same place. It was a long walk, about half an hour. I walked up the walkway, and placed the tape and note in the mailbox, and left it half open, or else they would not check and see what was in there. As another precaution, I taped a note to the outside of the door that said I had dropped a gift off for Baylee in the mailbox, she was to get it immediately. I walked down the sidewalk, I was preparing for the time when I would see my friend again. I didn't go back to the ship, instead I began to walk around town, I headed for the lake, where I could watch the sunrise. It was about ten in the morning when I finally decided to head back. Twenty minutes later I was in my ship.
I didn't leave the ship, for the next three days, I had no money to buy anything, and I didn't like stealing, instead I built three gifts, from Han's electronic components. I gave Baylee the Discman, her dad got a refurbished datapad that was actually useful on earth, though her mom's was definitely my favorite, taking the cassette player, I used the spindles, and created something that would hold wool, and let it off as she needed it. Each present was left unwrapped, as I had nothing to wrap them with. I had built myself a radio out of the components from the walkman, and spent my time listening to that. On December seventh, I walked from my ship to Baylee's school, to be there for Lunch, she was waiting on the sidewalk off school property. "Hi," I said, suddenly unsure. "Hey, what have you been up to, you disappeared for a while there," Baylee replied. "Well, there were always problems at home, so I ran away, I've been working for a family, and learning about other cultures," I said. "Cool, come on, I'll take you home, we can have some mac and Cheese." She said. "Sweet," grinned, and followed her to her car, as we were driving to her place I remembered the speeder traffic on Coruscant. "Traffic is so horrible now," She said. "You should see the traffic where I've been living, this is nothing," I said, as Baylee followed the car in front of her, We were soon at her place. "So where are you staying while you're here?" Baylee asked. "I've got a place at the edge of town, near the lake," I said. "Near your old place, I should have figured, I liked the song by the way." Baylee went about preparing lunch for us, I sat on a cushioned chair in their connected dining room. Once the food was ready we shared stories of what was going on. "So, Jaime, where exactly have you been?" Baylee said. "Well, I've been a few places, the family I was working for, they traveled a lot, and while I was working for the family I lived down south of the equator. when I was just working for the daughter, I lived in the city, after she died in the accident, I just left, I caught a ride here," I said. "Thing is, last year, most of the major cities banned a lot of cars, there are no cars besides cabs in New York, and in Saltlake city, you can only drive your car if it's an emergency, or there are five people in it," Baylee spotted every hole in my story, "And don't get me started on Washington, Ottawa, and Toronto." "Alright, I'll tell the truth, but you must come with me," I said.
I drove, Baylee let me, surprising enough, I didn't say a word, I stopped the car on the road near where I had landed. "I thought you said you had a place at the edge of town, this is practically in another city," Baylee complained. "Oh, please, c'mon, we have to walk the rest of the way," I shut the car off, and got out. "Walking, you never said anything about walking," Baylee got out. On the way though the snow covered field I said, "Well, I can't have anyone finding the place, that just wouldn't go over well." "Why is that?" Baylee asked. "Well, if someone found my place, it would be the height of curiosity and I just could not live with that," I replied. We went over the last rise, and the ship should have been in view, but it was covered almost completely in snow. "Come on, we're almost there," I said happily. I brushed the snow off the panel to open it, and hoped that it would start when I needed it to. As the ramp came down, Baylee gasped in astonishment, I rolled my eyes. Walking on board, I pushed a couple buttons to turn the heat on. "Sorry it's so cold in here, I need to keep the essential systems running, but the heating system is not so important, therefore, I don't leave it running when I'm out," I said. "What is this?" Baylee looked around. "This is what I've been calling home for the last month, I'm leasing it for a year, it won't even cost me much. With the money I earned from my job, I will be able to pay it all, and if I lose some, I have a few friends who will help me out." "So what are you doing here?" Baylee asked, "If life is so great everywhere else." "I wanted to see you, I've missed that being away," I said. "It's about the baby they got, isn't it, you heard and you wanted to check up on them," Baylee said. "I figured I'd do that when I wasn't around your family," I said. "I'll help, also, where exactly were you?" Baylee asked. "I don't think you'd believe me if I told you," I said. "But I would," Baylee said. "Alright, I was picked up by a smuggler who's Navicomputer malfunctioned, and after helping him get what he needed to fix it, I convinced him to take me with him. He brought me to a friend of his, who got me a job for the minister of state, in his house, he had a number of staff who did meals and cleaning. Then after about a week with them, the minister's daughter was appointed to the imperial senate, she decided she liked me, and began to train me as a personal assistant. I stayed on Coruscant, as she traveled back and forth, there I learned to fly, and whenever she would go on a particularly long trip home, I would go with the smuggler who had brought me to the family's estate in the first place. I continued to fly wit him, and I was often his gunner, though on my last trip with him, I was shunned, and I got to know a very nice man, who as he died told me to take his weapon." I said. "As he died or before he died?" Baylee asked. "After, actually, we were waiting for him at the falcon, and when we saw him die, we were about to run, when I heard his voice tell me to use the tricks I learned to get his light saber." I smiled innocently. "What tricks?" Baylee asked. "Telekinesis, though they don't call it that, I like our word for it better." I said. "You know what?" Baylee said, "I actually do believe you." "Well, that's good," I said.
Two weeks later, the com went off when Baylee was with me on the ship, we were fixing the heating system, though Baylee was providing more a running commentary than any help whatsoever. "Will you get that?" I said, "It's the green button on the edge of that table." A few seconds later I heard Han's voice, "Who are you, I am not spending all this money on an interstellar com to talk to some stranger." "I'm here Han, just a little busy holding my heating system together, so I'll have to talk to you without visual," I said. "No problem, with that I mean, we do have a problem with something else, I couldn't leave the Yavin system without knowing for sure you got off OK, and now I've been dragged back in with the rebellion, which I just got out of, If I need to remind you," Han complained. "Do you still owe Jabba?" I asked. "No, I paid him off, now I'm using the last of my extra credits calling you," Han said. "Well, that doesn't make sense to me, we should probably get to the point, as I know neither of us can really afford to keep up the small talk," I said. "True, so anyway, I need you to distract her majesty the princess so I can sneak off this rock," Han said. "What am I supposed to do, she asked me to stay away from the rebellion, so that no one would find my home planet, remember, I'm not allowed to go back, until this whole blowing up planets business is over with," I said. "The death star was destroyed shortly after you left," Han said. "I'm not leaving here until I know everything is going to be ok, and I want to spend Christmas with my friends." "I'm not one of your friends?" Han sounded disappointed, "What is Christmas?" "Christmas is a holiday on my planet, it's next week, I may leave in two weeks, I'll visit my parents Christmas day, and see," I said. "Oh, about that, when I paid Jabba, I also got some information about a couple slaving rings from him, I'm going to speak with the one that wasn't destroyed by Bria last year, maybe it's the same slaver as got you," Han said. "That would be great, Han, thank you for your help," I said, "See you in about a month or so, if I can find you."
A/N: Thank you all for the reviews, I actually wasn't planning on updating this story so soon, but meh, I guess that's what a review or three does for an author. The song is sung by N'sync on their chistmas album.
mine and most of the personalities are also figments of My imagination.
Summery Qui-Gon Survived, long enough to have a daughter who ends up getting taken and sent to earth as a domestic slave. Han Solo who should know how his luck works shouldn't have any thing to do with her, but his anti-compassion center must be broken. We're now during the events of episode 4, if you haven't seen the movies.
I'm still trying to figure out how to do spacing on my chapters.
Chapter 5
Once we arrived in the System that the rebels were using as their secret base, I stayed at the ship while the others went to report in, I had met one or two of the rebels before, and knew I could get help with my plan. As soon as Han had disappeared around the corner, I went to work, In the cockpit. I took the borrowed multi tool, the protective covering came off of the Navicomputer without much trouble, I knew I had all the time I wanted, but I went quickly, taking the memory chip that I knew still had the co-ordinates of earth on it. I slid a new memory chip in its place, hiding the old one in my pocket. The new memory chip had the memory of the run in my pocket. I left the ship, and was soon in a hallway, I searched mentally for Leia, and went to the room she was in. Standing at the door to the room were two guards, "You may not enter," One of them said to me. "I just want you to pass a message to Han Solo who is in there, tell him his charity has paid off, Jaime is leaving for now, but will return to pay him once she has enough money." "I'm not a messenger," He said. "I know, but I also know you'll tell someone that I left, and that's really all I want," I said. "Alright," The guard said. I left, Leia had told me a long time ago that if I ever ended up with the co-ordinates for earth, that she'd lend me a ship to go home, but I knew if I didn't leave soon, then there would be a problem. I often had dreams of earth, but recently I had dreamt that my 'Mother' had another child brought in to do her bidding. I knew it to be true, so I had done research on Coruscant before heading to find Han. I was planning on getting him to fly me home, but when it became apparent that he wouldn't be available to do that I was bound and determined to get home anyway I could. I watched a transport being loaded, and walked up to the person who appeared to be in charge. "Excuse me, but I was wondering when you were planning on leaving?" I asked. "Not for awhile yet, about an hour, why?" he replied. "I need to pick up a ship on another planet, but I have no way of getting there from here," I said. "Well, I'm heading back towards the center, I guess you can come," He said. "Thanks," I smiled. "Get any of your things you'll need," He said.
I went back to the falcon, and got the box of electronics that Han had saved for me. I finished getting my stuff, and headed to the ship that would take me closer to home. The first ride was much shorter than the second would be, I decided to lease a ship, it was battered, but it would do, if it was destroyed, I wouldn't have to pay for it, and that was one of the things that mattered. I did all the checks I needed, paid what needed to be paid, and took off. I waited till I was in orbit before changing the memory disk, once the disc from the falcon was in the Navicomputer, I was able to call up the co-ordinates for Earth. I set the course, and was soon in hyperspace. During the two day trip, I relaxed, and worked on the disc player I had been building. The ship wasn't outfitted with any kind of sleeping area, but since I was alone, and had spent much of my life sleeping on the floor, sleeping on the deck, though unfamiliar, wasn't too horrible. I was brought out of my not so peaceful sleep by the alarm on the Navicomputer going off, telling me that I was about to come out of hyperspace. Once the elongated lines from the stars turned back to the pin pricks of real space, I took the controls and began to guide the ship towards the planet. The earth had a very predictable pattern, I headed to the same place that Han had landed, knowing instinctively what the co- ordinates were. I was walking on earth again, shortly after dark, I walked down the road, and towards the streets I had known so well, only one standard year ago. The house was as I remembered, though I did hear a baby crying inside. I walked up the sidewalk, and rang the front doorbell, the wooden door didn't open. I realized that I didn't want to show up like this again, they knew what went on outside the earth that was amazingly peaceful, compared to the galactic civil war I had just left. I walked down the stairs, and headed back to my ship, on the way, I stopped and light- fingered a small package of blank cassette tapes, and a Walkman with a Mic, they weren't actually all that expensive, but I had absolutely no cash. I made it to the ship without incident, and put a tape in the recorder, once I had done that I began to sing,
"Crossing the ocean, with my end of you, thinking of the time that I spent with you, and I close my eyes and I see the family, making up their wish lists, all dressed up for Christmas. On my own for to many years I miss the happiness, I miss the tears. When I need a friend or a helping hand, I know that you'll be there. I've been gone for so many holidays, But you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas day. I see your children playing in the snow, precious memories that I used to know, then I see the love, in the lover's eyes, always there to teach us, the real meaning of Christmas. On my own for to many years, I miss the happiness, I miss the tears. When I close my eyes and I'm all alone, I think of all the love we share, When I need a friend or a helping hand, I knew you'd always be there. I've been gone for so many holidays, but you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas. It doesn't matter, I don't think you are something happens to you when you see that shining star. When I close my eyes and I'm all alone, I think of all the love we share, when I need a friend or a helping hand I know that you'll always be there. I've been gone so many holidays, but you can light the fire, 'cuz this year, I'll be home for Christmas day."
Soon I was done the song, I labeled it with my best friend's name, somehow I knew that she would get it, I wrote a quick note to her on where to find me, and when. I stuck a second tape in the recorder, on that tape I recorded a short message, "Mother, Father, this is Jaime, I'm just checking in, to say that I'm watching, to make sure you treat him right, if you don't, he will be gone much sooner than I was. I'll contact you, don't try to find me, I won't be in any computer system." I labeled the tape, and put it to the side, I'd sleep for now, and get on with my job when it was a little darker.
When I woke up, I knew that when I had gone to using the outside air, I had forgotten to set the circulators up to heat the air first, the ship was freezing, and I knew it was snowing. I just had the clothes from Coruscant, and I hadn't wanted to carry around winter type clothes on a desert planet, or the tropical one, so I never did pack warm clothes, space was cold, but I was used to that. I got dressed in the warmest clothes I had, and pulled on the extra robe Obi-Wan had brought, it was to long to have been his, and it was way to long for me to walk easily, but there was nothing I could do about that. With all the technology out there, there were no sewing needles on my ship. Once I was ready to go, I saw the light saber that had belonged to Obi-Wan, I picked it up, and clipped it to the belt, under my cloak before leaving. I walked quickly and purposefully, it was about midnight, first I went to the house that I had grown up in, I put the cassette on the mailbox, using a piece of string to keep it there. I headed to Baylee's house next, it had only been two years, so I hoped they were still in the same place. It was a long walk, about half an hour. I walked up the walkway, and placed the tape and note in the mailbox, and left it half open, or else they would not check and see what was in there. As another precaution, I taped a note to the outside of the door that said I had dropped a gift off for Baylee in the mailbox, she was to get it immediately. I walked down the sidewalk, I was preparing for the time when I would see my friend again. I didn't go back to the ship, instead I began to walk around town, I headed for the lake, where I could watch the sunrise. It was about ten in the morning when I finally decided to head back. Twenty minutes later I was in my ship.
I didn't leave the ship, for the next three days, I had no money to buy anything, and I didn't like stealing, instead I built three gifts, from Han's electronic components. I gave Baylee the Discman, her dad got a refurbished datapad that was actually useful on earth, though her mom's was definitely my favorite, taking the cassette player, I used the spindles, and created something that would hold wool, and let it off as she needed it. Each present was left unwrapped, as I had nothing to wrap them with. I had built myself a radio out of the components from the walkman, and spent my time listening to that. On December seventh, I walked from my ship to Baylee's school, to be there for Lunch, she was waiting on the sidewalk off school property. "Hi," I said, suddenly unsure. "Hey, what have you been up to, you disappeared for a while there," Baylee replied. "Well, there were always problems at home, so I ran away, I've been working for a family, and learning about other cultures," I said. "Cool, come on, I'll take you home, we can have some mac and Cheese." She said. "Sweet," grinned, and followed her to her car, as we were driving to her place I remembered the speeder traffic on Coruscant. "Traffic is so horrible now," She said. "You should see the traffic where I've been living, this is nothing," I said, as Baylee followed the car in front of her, We were soon at her place. "So where are you staying while you're here?" Baylee asked. "I've got a place at the edge of town, near the lake," I said. "Near your old place, I should have figured, I liked the song by the way." Baylee went about preparing lunch for us, I sat on a cushioned chair in their connected dining room. Once the food was ready we shared stories of what was going on. "So, Jaime, where exactly have you been?" Baylee said. "Well, I've been a few places, the family I was working for, they traveled a lot, and while I was working for the family I lived down south of the equator. when I was just working for the daughter, I lived in the city, after she died in the accident, I just left, I caught a ride here," I said. "Thing is, last year, most of the major cities banned a lot of cars, there are no cars besides cabs in New York, and in Saltlake city, you can only drive your car if it's an emergency, or there are five people in it," Baylee spotted every hole in my story, "And don't get me started on Washington, Ottawa, and Toronto." "Alright, I'll tell the truth, but you must come with me," I said.
I drove, Baylee let me, surprising enough, I didn't say a word, I stopped the car on the road near where I had landed. "I thought you said you had a place at the edge of town, this is practically in another city," Baylee complained. "Oh, please, c'mon, we have to walk the rest of the way," I shut the car off, and got out. "Walking, you never said anything about walking," Baylee got out. On the way though the snow covered field I said, "Well, I can't have anyone finding the place, that just wouldn't go over well." "Why is that?" Baylee asked. "Well, if someone found my place, it would be the height of curiosity and I just could not live with that," I replied. We went over the last rise, and the ship should have been in view, but it was covered almost completely in snow. "Come on, we're almost there," I said happily. I brushed the snow off the panel to open it, and hoped that it would start when I needed it to. As the ramp came down, Baylee gasped in astonishment, I rolled my eyes. Walking on board, I pushed a couple buttons to turn the heat on. "Sorry it's so cold in here, I need to keep the essential systems running, but the heating system is not so important, therefore, I don't leave it running when I'm out," I said. "What is this?" Baylee looked around. "This is what I've been calling home for the last month, I'm leasing it for a year, it won't even cost me much. With the money I earned from my job, I will be able to pay it all, and if I lose some, I have a few friends who will help me out." "So what are you doing here?" Baylee asked, "If life is so great everywhere else." "I wanted to see you, I've missed that being away," I said. "It's about the baby they got, isn't it, you heard and you wanted to check up on them," Baylee said. "I figured I'd do that when I wasn't around your family," I said. "I'll help, also, where exactly were you?" Baylee asked. "I don't think you'd believe me if I told you," I said. "But I would," Baylee said. "Alright, I was picked up by a smuggler who's Navicomputer malfunctioned, and after helping him get what he needed to fix it, I convinced him to take me with him. He brought me to a friend of his, who got me a job for the minister of state, in his house, he had a number of staff who did meals and cleaning. Then after about a week with them, the minister's daughter was appointed to the imperial senate, she decided she liked me, and began to train me as a personal assistant. I stayed on Coruscant, as she traveled back and forth, there I learned to fly, and whenever she would go on a particularly long trip home, I would go with the smuggler who had brought me to the family's estate in the first place. I continued to fly wit him, and I was often his gunner, though on my last trip with him, I was shunned, and I got to know a very nice man, who as he died told me to take his weapon." I said. "As he died or before he died?" Baylee asked. "After, actually, we were waiting for him at the falcon, and when we saw him die, we were about to run, when I heard his voice tell me to use the tricks I learned to get his light saber." I smiled innocently. "What tricks?" Baylee asked. "Telekinesis, though they don't call it that, I like our word for it better." I said. "You know what?" Baylee said, "I actually do believe you." "Well, that's good," I said.
Two weeks later, the com went off when Baylee was with me on the ship, we were fixing the heating system, though Baylee was providing more a running commentary than any help whatsoever. "Will you get that?" I said, "It's the green button on the edge of that table." A few seconds later I heard Han's voice, "Who are you, I am not spending all this money on an interstellar com to talk to some stranger." "I'm here Han, just a little busy holding my heating system together, so I'll have to talk to you without visual," I said. "No problem, with that I mean, we do have a problem with something else, I couldn't leave the Yavin system without knowing for sure you got off OK, and now I've been dragged back in with the rebellion, which I just got out of, If I need to remind you," Han complained. "Do you still owe Jabba?" I asked. "No, I paid him off, now I'm using the last of my extra credits calling you," Han said. "Well, that doesn't make sense to me, we should probably get to the point, as I know neither of us can really afford to keep up the small talk," I said. "True, so anyway, I need you to distract her majesty the princess so I can sneak off this rock," Han said. "What am I supposed to do, she asked me to stay away from the rebellion, so that no one would find my home planet, remember, I'm not allowed to go back, until this whole blowing up planets business is over with," I said. "The death star was destroyed shortly after you left," Han said. "I'm not leaving here until I know everything is going to be ok, and I want to spend Christmas with my friends." "I'm not one of your friends?" Han sounded disappointed, "What is Christmas?" "Christmas is a holiday on my planet, it's next week, I may leave in two weeks, I'll visit my parents Christmas day, and see," I said. "Oh, about that, when I paid Jabba, I also got some information about a couple slaving rings from him, I'm going to speak with the one that wasn't destroyed by Bria last year, maybe it's the same slaver as got you," Han said. "That would be great, Han, thank you for your help," I said, "See you in about a month or so, if I can find you."
A/N: Thank you all for the reviews, I actually wasn't planning on updating this story so soon, but meh, I guess that's what a review or three does for an author. The song is sung by N'sync on their chistmas album.