Chapter 7

This is where it gets interesting. Short and sweet. Gets the point across. Just a post to fill in the gap between chapter 6 and either chapter 8 or 9 (depending)

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"I believe…" Leia said, "Jaina and Jag are engaged."

"They are WHAT!" Soontir and Han yelled, both standing

up and walking to their son or daughter.

"Father! I thought you were ok with this."

"Well dating a Solo is one thing but marrying one is a completely different story."

"Hey! Are you saying your son is too good for my daughter?" Han yelped as he turned to Jaina, "Jaina, how could you get engaged! To a Fel, no less!" Han yelled grabbing his daughter by the arm pulling her away from Jag.

"Hey!" Soontir interrupted, "You think your daughter is too good for my son? Is that what you're implying?" he walked over to Han and threw a glare that rivaled Leia's. Han dropped Jaina's arm and walked to Soontir glaring daggers right back at him. Jaina took the opportunity to walk to Jag and the two sat down on the coach. To Soontir and Han's displeasure, Jaina sat on Jag's lap and put her head onto his shoulder.

The two stopped long enough for Han to walk over to Jaina. He halted just short of knocking into Jag, which he probably would have done had Leia not been here. "Jaina Solo! You've been going out for how long? Two months? And now you already want to go and get married?"

"Jagged, you are throwing you life away. You have your career ahead of you! And pay attention to this because never again will I do this. I agree with General Solo," Soontir said with as much dignity possible.

"Thank you Baron Fel…hey, wait a second. You insulted my daughter!"

"No. I was merely agreeing with you. You smuggler! You don't know the difference between an agreement and an insult. Maybe it's because all you get are insults so you just react best to them!"

"Boys! You two are arguing like young school children," Syal said as she grabbed them by the scruff of the neck to pull them away from each other, "You haven't even given them a chance to talk yet." She paused releasing them and added, "As I'm sure you would like to hear an explanation as much as I do. Now Jaina, Jag, care to tell your overprotective fathers and curious mothers and siblings what is the Force happened."

"Well," Jaina began softly, "it all started on Borleias. It was right after Jag was almost killed and Kyp and I went back for him. I don't really want to go into details but we ending up 'going out' for the next two, maybe two and a half years, or as close as you can get to going out in military terms anyway. And nobody knew because of the Goddess Scam that was going on because it would be bad for the charade if I had been dating what the Yuuzahn Vong would have called a lowly pilot. We couldn't risk the wrong people knowing. Only three people knew: Kyp, Wedge, and Jacen," She finished to see a sea of different expressions. Soontir wore one of shock and anger. Han matched Soontir's. Syal and Leia looked either hurt and happy or surprised, she couldn't tell which ones. Jacen looked as though he was ready to run except for the fact that his father was closest to the door and as for Wyn, well she just looked too tired to comprehend what had just happened.

Then Jag finished the second half of the story. "So at the end of the war, I invited Jaina back here to Csilla, but there were complications so she wasn't able to come." He substituted 'complications' for 'she needed time to sort things out' as not to put her on the spot. It would also go over better with their fathers too, "And, well you know the rest."

Leia and Syal smiled sweetly but wasted no time cutting off their husbands so they would not say anything stupid.

"That's so sweet" Leia said.

"Yes," Syal said her eyes glazed over. She stood up. "Well," she said after a moment, "It past midnight. We should get to bed. Jag you and Cem will bunk together. Jaina I hope you don't mind moving, I just want to accommodate everyone. You and your brother can stay in Jag's room."

She turned to Leia and Han. "You can stay in the guest room. I'll go get some sheets now so you can…"

"Syal we can stay on the Falcon. It's not to far away and I don't want to impose…" Leia starte,d but was cut off quickly

"Nonsense. You are going to stay here. Its late and cold out and you don't want to be caught driving back, especially when it's hard to see the ice spots."

"Thank you Syal. I really appreciate it," Leia said standing up as well, "Do you need any help? I have Han, he can help too."

"That would be great, actually. I need to bring up the spare bed for Jacen and Jag." She turned to her husband, "You and Han go get the two spare beds. Jag, you help." She finally turned to a half asleep Wyn and walked over to wake her out of her light sleep, "Wyn, sweetheart. Come on go up to bed." Wyn nodded still in a daze and headed up the stairs. "Cem, can you go get the sheets?"

"Mrs. Fel?" Jaina asked who was now by the stairs, "Is there anything I can do?"

"Hmm… let's see. Yes, actually. When Cem comes back you can help make up one of the beds." Jaina nodded and headed up the stairs.

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Jaina had just finished making up Jacen's bed. She reached out and felt Jag come up behind her. She turned around smiling, "You should know by now you can't sneak up on me."

Jag shot her a mock innocent face and said in a hurt voice, "I wasn't trying to sneak up on you! I… wanted to see if you wanted help."

"Good come back. I'm done anyway, though. Sorry. I know how much you wanted to help," Jaina said playfully.

"Oh well." He said pulling her close, "I guess I'll have to find something else to do." She smiled slightly and closed the gap letting her mouth be taken by his. They were interrupted by Jacen clearing his throat at the door.

"You know… if our dad's saw you like that, there would be hell to pay," Jacen said.

"Buzz off, Jace," she said looking over Jag's shoulder.

"Well I came up to go to sleep, but then I saw you two. Now I don't think I can sleep with this image scarred in my head. You guys," Jacen stopped as a pillow was thrown at his head. "Hey!"

"I thought you couldn't surprise a Jedi" Jag said, turning around and wrapping his arm around her shoulder.

She smiled up to him, "You can, if you're a Jedi." She started to pull him towards the door, "Come on I wanted to talk to you for a second." He complied and followed her out the door, "Is there somewhere we can talk? Alone?"

"Yeah, sure. My father's study should be ok." The two walked down the stairs and then down the hall to the left. He opened the old fashioned door for her and closed it behind them. He turned to face her to see her leaning against the desk, "What's up?"

"Well that was interesting. Convenient too," She walked over to him, "Our mothers took it well."

Jag wrapped her in an embrace and kissed the top of her forehead,. "You know Jay, you're going to be stuck in endless planning sessions with them now."

"No. I want to plan this with you. This is our wedding in case you've forgotten already," she said into his chest.

"No. How could I forget? I have a beautiful soon-to-be-bride to remind me every day," he smiled his small smile reserved only for her.

She smiled her famous Solo grin back, "I love you, you know."

"I know," He got a playful slap across the chest in return, "Come one. Let's go to bed."

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