Sixteen!

lt; TwoDays Later

:The Solo Residence: New Coruscant :

"Mom, you still have these?" Jaina held up a pair of stuffed animal wookie dolls.

Leia laughed, shrugging. "I put a lot of things into storage."

Jaina, Shallin, and Dannon peered into a dusty box that was packed full of toys and clothes. Unluckily, Jaina and Zekk had soon found that once they did bring the kids home, they had no clothes for them, or toys for that matter.

There wasn't a better place to go than Jaina's mom to get what they needed.

Zekk, who sat comfortably on the couch raised his eyebrow. "Sithspawn Jaina, you sure had a lot of toys."

"More than I ever had at their age." Han agreed, from the doorway where he had been watching his daughter and two grandkids rummage through old memories. "

"Me either." Zekk looked out the large windows at the spectacular sunset. They were up on the 180 level, and looking out the window next to him he could see the sun sink below the yellow clouds. The entire Solo apartment was filled with a warm yellow glow.

Dannon pulled out a small space ship with beaten-looking wings and faded paint. "What's this?"

Luke, who sat on the couch next to Leia couldn't help but laugh. "Remember when Jason sent that out the window and was so brokenhearted about it that we had to go looking for it?"

"Where was it anyway?" Leia asked. "I forgot."

Han rolled his eyes. "On the roof of the Imperial Palace. I almost broke my neck going after that stupid thing."

"Where is Jason, anyway?" Jaina asked, looking up from where she sat cross- legged on the floor.

"I think he's with Tenel." Leia answered, letting a slight smile curve her lips.

"And Anakin?"

"Undoubtedly with Tahari." Leia glanced at Han, who shrugged. "They've been practically inseparable since he got back."

Jaina laughed. "That's to be expected."

Suddenly, Jaina spotted the ragged edge of a book that looked very familiar. Reaching in the box, she pulled out a tattered hardbound book that looked like it been read far more than a hundred times. "Mom! It's the Little Lost Bantha Cub!" Jaina looked up at her mother. "You kept it!"

"Of course I did." Leia answered. Jaina turned to Zekk, smiling. "Was this story ever read to you?"

Zekk paused, and Jaina handed the tattered hardcover to him. Quietly he looked through the bent and torn pages then shook his head. "I don't think so."

Jaina's mouth opened in shock. "We'll have to remedy that."

Shallin, one of the wookie dolls firmly held under one arm, sat in her mother's lap. "Read it!"

"Not till tonight." Jaina answered. "We'll wait till tonight."

Han sighed, rubbing the back of his head. "I don't know about you, but I'm starving. Anyone for some good old Corellian pasta?"

Dannon, who had been running his hands over his new found space-ship looked up. "What's pasta?"

Han walked over to Dannon, then bent over, resting his hands on his knees he looked into the eyes of his seven year old grandson. "You've never had pasta?"

Dannon shook his head, his eyes wide.

Jaina laughed. "Why don't you take him with you, Dad." She got to her feet, stretching.

"Alright." Han straitened, holding out his hand. "Come on kid, you don't know what you've been missing. Corellian pasta is right up there next to the Force when it comes to good stuff."

Still holding the battered star-ship in his hand, Dannon got up, eagerly grabbed his grandfather's hand and started to practically pull Han to the door. Han glanced over his shoulder. "We're just gonna go pick up the food. Be back in five."

"You better be." Jaina answered, sitting down next to Zekk. "Or we'll call out the entire Jedi Academy looking for you."

Han paused, just long enough to give his daughter a lop-sided grin. "Hey! It's me."

(((((((((Ten Minutes Later))))))))))))))))

"The power of pasta!" Dannon sat up on his chair, and promptly shoved a good handful of the spicy food into his mouth, chomping and grinning all the while.

Zekk cracked a smile. "You're right Han, this is great stuff."

Han, Leia, Luke, Jaina, and Zekk sat around the small table in the kitchen of the Solo apartment. There was a good Correlian restaurant just adjacent to the apartment complex that Han and Leia lived in, making a simple walk over to it very convenient when Leia didn't want to cook.

"Coming in for a landing!" Dannon took his space-ship, and sent it into a nose-dive toward the table.

Han, who had been watching his grandson, laughed. "I hope you teach the kid to fly better than that, Jaina."

Leia looked up. "I don't know, Han. You usually call a nose-dive a landing too."

The small group at the table laughed.

Shallin jumped up on her chair, pasta sauce around her mouth. "I've got the power of pasta!" With that, she took the slice of pasta that was clutched in her fingers and flung it at her little brother.

At any normal table, at any normal time, the pasta would have been cleaned up, the child be scolded, and the conversation continued. However, since this wasn't a normal family, or a normal occasion, Jaina was the second victim to fall to the Pasta Wars. Zekk had thrown it.

Thus it began, Han was the third to get splattered, and soon the pasta flew through the air in a very lively food-fight.

(((Two Hours Later)))

Leia and Han watched as Jaina and Zekk piled their family into a hover- craft in the main docking bay. The pasta had been cleaned up, and the clothes had been washed. Now Jaina was waving goodbye.

Han smiled. "Make sure to keep that little space-ship away from any windows!"

"We will, Dad." Jaina called over her shoulder. "Wave to grandpa and grandma, kids."

Shallin and Dannon, having eaten as much corellian pasta as possible, and still clutching their new toys, sat up in the back of the speeder, waving frantically.

Zekk, who sat in the pilot's seat, waved also. "Thanks again!"

"Come back any time." Leia called, quietly reaching out and finding Han's hand and intertwining her fingers with his. Together, she and her husband watched Jaina and Zekk fly out of the docking bay and disappear into the Coruscant night.

Leia smiled. "Jaina seems like she knows exactly what she's doing."

Han shrugged.

"She seems to know more than I did when Winter first brought the twins back." Leia said quietly.

"Well, you know she is a Jedi Knight, and so is Zekk." Han squeezed Leia's hand.

"I guess that has a lot to do with it." Leia smiled, and together they began to walk back to their incredibly quiet apartment.

Han could tell Leia was feeling slightly down at seeing the kids leave, and cracked a grin. "Hey, want to play a friendly game of Sabbacc?"

Leia looked up at him. "What?"

"I mean it, I haven't played for a while, do you want to?"

Leia paused, after years of being a politician and even more years of using her wits, she should have the skills to play her husband at cards. "Alright, you're on."

"Of course we'll have to bet something." Han put in, as they entered the lifts.

"I'm sure we can do that." Leia laughed, pressing the button for their floor. "But I'm not going to bet my best earrings against the Falcon. After all, what would I do with that hunk of junk?"

Han grinned. "Oh, that sure sounded like a challenge to me!"

(((((((((({[A far less expensive apartment an hour away]}))))))))))))

The kids were all tucked in, and the lights were turned down extra low. Jaina and Zekk sat in between the space of the two beds, resting against the wall. Zekk was about half way through the hard-bound book already. "...And the little bantha cub kept walking." Zekk's eyelids were beginning to close.

Jaina had dozed off a minute or so before.

"Do you know where my home is?"

The twins didn't stir in their sleep, and all was quiet in the apartment.

While the children's bedroom was rather colorless, it was warm. Jaina said she would decorate in the morning and go shopping. The kids had been very excited about that. The nightlight's glow was soothing and the twins had been given warm blankets because they were still getting used to Coruscant's cooler atmosphere.

"Soon they met a jawa, 'Do you know where our home is?'" Zekk's voice became softer and softer until it wasn't audible at all. Closing his eyes, Zekk leaned his head back against the wall, and drifted off to a deep sleep.

Needless to say, that the Little Lost Bantha found his home, and everyone lived happily ever after. And that's what happened with Jaina and Zekk as well. Everyone lived happily ever after, and that's how it should be. They deserved it.

Go on to epilog!