Crossed Paths
By: Angel of Fire SG1
Rating PG-13
Pairing: Han/Leia
Set: Between A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back
Category: Action/Adventure/Angst
A/N: Now it's been a substantial amount of years since I wrote Star Wars fan fic, in fact it was the first fandom I ever wrote fan fic for, but here's my shot at something...hope you enjoy :D
EDITED: Thanks to jaggedlover for pointing out my Earthism, it has been removed
Chapter One
Princess Leia Organa sat alone on the bench of the Corellian spaceport. She didn't like the place, she didn't feel comfortable there, and she didn't like the clothes she was wearing, she didn't like the fact that Han Solo had dragged her there, and she hated the fact that he continuously referred to her as 'Princess' or 'Your Highness'.
In fact she hated Han Solo full stop.
Moving aside as a large alien of some species she'd never even seen sat down next to her she gritted her teeth.
This was the last time that she agreed to take a small side trip while on a mission.
"We're leaving."
She looked up to see Han and Luke Skywalker standing in front of her. She stood up, glaring at Han.
"About time, what in the galaxy were you doing here anyway? And why couldn't I come inside?"
"Because a Corellian bar is no place for a Princess, Princess," Han replied. "And I had to drop something off to an old friend."
"Oh of course," she snapped, turning around and marching towards where they'd parked the Millennium Falcon.
She felt sorry for Luke for a moment, it wasn't his fault. But then again he hadn't complained when Han had decided to take a detour, and not a minor one, to his old home planet. Alderaan popped into her memory but she shoved it into the back of her mind, she couldn't think of her own home planet.
"So, Your Highness, what's next on the list?"
She cringed, how had he caught up with her? Damn her short legs…
"Ord Mandell and then Naboo," she said, curtly.
"Hey look I never asked to join this little rebellion of yours," Han said.
"And no one asked you to stay either," she snapped back at him.
"Well would you like me to leave? I'm happy to stay here and let you and Luke find your own way back to Hoth!" Han snapped back.
Leia stopped in her tracks and turned to face him, grabbing his sleeve. "Don't ever say the name of that planet in public again!"
"No one heard!" Han said in his defence, shaking his arm free. "And even if they did, as if any of them would care…this is Corellia, your Highness, not Coruscant. Now if you'd excuse me, I have a ship to fly and places to be."
He stormed off, walking up to Chewbacca who was standing outside their parking bay, making sure they didn't get unwanted visitors.
"Argh!" Leia said out loud, clenching her fists into balls.
"Calm down, Leia," Luke said, coming up behind her. "He's just trying to agitate you, don't let him see it working."
"He's just so frustrating," she replied.
"You'll learn to love him," Luke replied.
Leia made a noise that was something between a choke and a snort. She would never learn to love any part of that man…except maybe his flying skills. She had to admit he was the best pilot she'd ever met.
But besides that, nothing, at all.
Luke, now there was a better candidate, but somehow she couldn't find herself attracted to him as anymore than a good friend. She shook all thoughts of romance from her head, she had a war to fight, no time for personal worries.
"We should get moving," she said, suddenly aware of her surroundings.
"Han looks like he's ready to go," Luke replied.
"Of course he is," Leia said, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
"Come on, Leia – he's not all bad," Luke said.
She looked at him dubiously. Luke smiled at her before walking towards Han and the Wookie. Even though he wore a cloak over the clothes he had borrowed from Han, the lightsaber which now always hung from his belt was still visible.
She pulled her hood further around her face and followed after Luke. She wasn't allowed to show her face in public anymore, having a bounty sponsored by the Empire on her head. Han somehow didn't mind showing his face in public, which she found odd, considering he also had a bounty out on him but his had been placed on him by Jabba the Hutt, someone who Leia feared much more than any Stormtrooper.
Maybe it was because she'd spent her life in the grasp of the Empire. Luke and Han, the only thing they had in common, had both grown up under the rule of the Hutts.
"Hurry up, your worshipness!" Han called over his shoulder as headed towards his precious ship.
She glared at him, but sped up, catching up to Luke.
If she lasted this trip without killing him she decided this was the last time she went anywhere on a spaceship with Han Solo…