Ties that bind, chapter nineteen.

Okay. I guess I left you hanging. Oh well. You'll get over it. I hope. Anyways, you'll find out soon (not in this chapter) who was making Jaina see those things, but you might already know. I was rereading it, and I'm sure you all have noticed all my mistakes. I'll fix them when the story is done, but for now, they're gonna stay that way, so get over it. Anyways, on with my brilliant story!

Jaina walked through Coruscant's many walkways, intent on getting home to get some of her stuff before she leaves to do battle again.

She met Jaden on the way. "Your mom told me to come to your house. She's the Chief of State, and I didn't want to disobey her." Jaden smirked. The girls chatted all the way to Jaina's house, about new clothes, and boys, and the like. Yeah, they were both engaged, but hey, who said they couldn't say who was cute or not?

Jaina unlocked her front door, and found it dark. She didn't sense anything amiss, and she didn't sense anyone in here, either. Something was blocking it. Probably a stupid head cold. She flicked on the light….

"Surprise!" She looked around the room. Rogue Squadron, Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Riekaan, Dodonna, her parents, her brothers, Kyle, Wedge, Mara, Luke, Erin, Chewbacca, and many of Jacen's friend and family friends were there.

"W..What?" Jaina stammered. It was supposed to be impossible to surprise a Jedi. Oh well, she didn't care. She was having a birthday party.

"We figured we'd give you guys a birthday party before you went off to fight." Leia explained. Jaina grinned. "Who's Idea was it originally?"

"Mine!" Kyle called over the noise in the room. Somebody had turned on the stereo system and it was playing the Rogue's theme song.

"Hey change that to Metallica! I want to hear the New Republic's theme!" Jaina called, and Leia looked at her.

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
never begins it, never, but once engaged...
never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

The Rogues cheered. "Now this is more like it!" Kyle could be heard, yelling.

don't tread on me

Jaina grabbed Kyle by the arm and hugged him. It was a wonderful idea. "hey, get of my man!" Jaden called, and Jaina flashed her a smile.

"Dude! Who brought the keg?" Roy Chrish, Rogue two, asked. Leia sighed. Yep, definite teenage party. But she had to remind herself, they were twenty.

The adults didn't seem to mind that the kids had taken over the party. No one was on duty, anyways.

So be it

Threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it

Settle the score

Touch me again for those words that you'll hear evermore

Kyle walked up to Han, an amused smile on his face. "Were you ever this wild?" Kyle asked.

"When? When I was twenty? I was a smuggler. Of course I was wild"

don't tread on me

"Imperial here. We never had wild parties. I sometimes wondered how we'd survive. But then, all we had mostly, was that crappy armor. Kinda hard to party in that." Kyle chuckled as the image of a stormtrooper attempting to party popped in his head.

"Sorry, Han, but I have to take Kyle away from you" Jaden pulled him away.

"Hey, no tonsil hockey!" Anakin yelled, and Jaina turned, thinking he was talking to her. He saw Kyle and Jaden going at it instead.

Love it or live it, she with the deadly bite

Quick is the blue tongue, forked as lightening strike

Shining with brightness, always on surveillance

The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

"Don't tread on me!" Jaina cried, her fist in the air.

So be it

Threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it

Settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore

Everyone knew the song from sometime or another and repeated the phrase at the same time

"Don't tread on me!"

So be it

Threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail

Once you provoke her, rattling on her tail

So be it

Threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it

Settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore

Don't tread on me…

The last phrase echoed all through Coruscant, and using the force, Erin sent the message to her sister, wherever she was at.

They partied through the night, Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Riekaan, Dodonna and some of the older members of Rogue Squadron left long before the party was over.

That Morning…

Leia, Han and Chewbacca left to sleep on the Falcon, claiming that there was too much noise. Leia was the first to come back to the house.

Kyle and Jaden slept on the couch, Kyle's head falling off the edge. Wedge fell asleep in front of the bathroom door, Jaina curled up next to him. Luke and Mara had the sense to fall asleep in a bed, although it was Anakin's. Anakin and his girlfriend lay in Jacen's bed, and Jacen slept on the floor.

Erin was the only one who wasn't sleeping. Instead she sat in the very middle of the floor, meditating.

"Somebody had to make sure no one attacked them." She said, and Leia shrugged. Erin got up and helped Leia begin to make breakfast for thirteen people.

Luke was the first to wake, seeing as how he was the only one who didn't drink a drop of the alcohol. He walked in the kitchen, and nodded sleepily at Leia. He didn't bother trying to wake himself up, not today.

One by one, the partiers began to wake up. Corellian Wedge Antilles, who probably had the most to drink, woke up last. He looked around blearily and realized that everyone, even though they all had drank quite a bit, looked perfect.

"Curse you and your Force" He said.

"Here, sweetheart" Jaina walked over to him, and brushed her hand over his forehead. Immediately he felt better.

"Well, we all go on duty in a few hours. Lets get everything together" Jaina had said after everyone was finished with breakfast.

After groans and murmured consent, they all dressed, showered, made themselves decent and walked to Command Central.

I know. I know. I need to add more, make the chapters miles long. Bite me. Or don't. Just review.