Chapter 5

30 minutes later Jag and Jaina made their way 3 stories up to Luke and Mara's apartment. Jaina stopped just short of ringing the comm.

"I don't think I can do this."

"Come on. It's going to be okay." Jag grabbed Jaina's hand and rang the comm. Han opened the door still looking mad, but he let them in and managed not to slam the door. Luke and Mara were sitting on the couch when they walked in. They looked over both looking confused until Mara spoke up, "Han? Who's this?"

/Oh Gods! Did dad have to bring every one? How much has he told them? Oh gods/

"You know who they are." Han's statement brought Jaina out of her thoughts, She looked up to where they were sitting and looked her former master in the eye. Mara sat there with her mouth slightly open. And for the first time Jaina could remember she was speechless. At Lukes' still curious look, Han explained further, "It's Jaina and …well… she refuses to tell me who this is."

"Jaina!" Leia practically screamed from the kitchen door.

"Hi mom." Jaina began in a small voice. "Um…how are you?"

"What are doing here Jaina?" Luke asked getting to his feet.

"Um well you see it's kinda complicated."

"Jaina don't you dare start with me! You promised me an explanation! If I don't get it then I'm dragging you on the Falcon and never letting you out of my site again."

"Dad!" Jaina said starting to get mad again. Han just gave her "the look" that all ways made her tell him anything. "Alright, alright! I'll answer any questions I can."

"That's better, now you can start by telling me who this is." Han said pointing towards Jag, who was standing behind Jaina giving her and her family time to talk.

"Jag." Jaina answered simply.

"Jag? As in Jagged Fel?" Mara asked FINALLY finding her voice.

"Fel! Tell me I did not just hear you say Fel!"

"This is colonel Jagged Fel,"

"I told you not to tell me that!"

"Han calm down. Let's hear what Jaina has to say." Leia put a hand on Han's arm keeping him from moving towards Jaina or Jag.

Jaina looked at Leia and smiled slightly before continuing as if nothing had happened. "We're on a mission to find the locations of major Peace Brigade bases. Wedge and Iella set up an apartment for us. We're posing as a married couple," Han cringed at the thought but didn't say anything. "trying to get in with the brigade. We've met the 2nd in command, Gallian Lark, and he seems easy enough to get information from. We don't meet with them until tonight so we had the day off." Jaina directed the last comment towards Han. "What you saw today,"

"So that WAS you we saw on the beach today." Leia said almost as though speaking to herself.

"If you saw two people being pulverized by waves, then that was probably us." Jag said speaking for the first time sense this "meeting started.

Han scowled at him and said, pointing a figure at him, "Just because you all are PRETENDING to be married does not give you permission to touch my little girl!"

"Dad! In case you hadn't noticed I'm not a little girl anymore! And for your information Jag and I are dating not just pretending to be married!"

Han just stood there at a loss for words, Leia regained her presence first and she walked up to Jaina and hugged her, "I'm so happy for you Jaina, and for you Jag." She said looking over Jaina's shoulder to Jag.

"Ha! Corran owes me 5 credits!" Mara said to no one in particular.

"What?" Jag, Jaina, and Han all asked at the same time.

"Corran and I had a bet going."

"Well, what was the bet?" Jag asked coming up to stand next to Jaina.

"Hum? Oh I said that you two would make known your relation ship in the next few months, Corran said about year. And well you just told us so I won the bet!" Mara said looking smug.

"Wait you knew about us?" Jaina asked with her mouth hanging open.

"We had our suspicions. I think everyone did."

"Great, did everyone know?" Jaina said to Jag.

"I didn't." Han and Luke both said.

An awkward silence fell over the room with Jaina and Jag stood looking uncomfortable, Leia and Mara with knowing smiles, and Han looked as if he were about to explode. Han finally cleared his throat before saying, "Jag I would like to have a word with you please…in private."

"Daddy—what are you going to do to him?" Jaina asked cautiously,

"Nothing." Han said putting a "reassuring" hand on Jag's shoulder before guiding a worried looking Jag into the kitchen. Jaina looked at Luke, somewhat pleading look on her face. Luke nodded slightly before following Han and Jag into the kitchen.

What are they going to do to him?" Jaina asked her mother still looking worried.

"Han will probably just give him the old carbonite talk, threaten him once or twice then leave him standing there looking confused."

"That doesn't make me feel any better."

"So, how long have you two been dating?" Mara asked falling back into Master apprentice mode quickly.

"Um…since Borleias so, about 6 months." Jaina smiled remembering those few happy times they had at Borleias.

"6 months? Who all actually knew about this." Leia said sitting down on the couch.

Jaina and Mara both sat down on the chairs across from the sofa. "Uh Wedge new, and I'm sure Tycho new, and Wedge must have told Iella, if not the other way around."

"Well no matter what Han says I'm happy for the two of you. You've been so depressed lately. Come to think of it you did become happy all of a sudden at Borleias, I suppose it was because of him."

"Technically."

"I have a question. What was Han mumbling about, "sucking lips off" when he came and got us from the beach?"

Jaina turned bright red, "Um…well, when Dad found out we we're here, and he followed us to our room and kindabargedinwhenwewe'rekissing." Jaina mumbled that last part out rather quickly.

Leia and Mara both laughed, "Well that explains why Han was in such a bad mood." Leia said still laughing.

"Well is he a good kisser?" Mara asked still laughing slightly.

Jaina blushed an even deeper red, "Incredibly."

"Mara do you think you could help me? Actually Mom, I could use your help to."

"Sure what do you need?" Mara asked becoming serious again.

"Well as you can see Wedge had fun with my appearance," Jaina ever the animated one pointed at her hair and eyes. "Well he decided to have even more fun when he assigned Wes to get our clothes and he didn't exactly pick…decently. So I need help finding a place to hide some type of weapon. That's were you come in Mara. And I have NO idea how to do anything to my hair but pull it into a bun. That's were you come in Mom."

"Sure did you bring your stuff with you?" Mara said standing up.

"Yea, it's in my bag."

"Okay well lets go back to my room so you can change. Leia if you could go and get something to do Jaina's hair with."

"Fel stop looking so worried and sit down. I'm not going to kill you; Wedge would be too upset with me for ruining his mission, and I don't think Jaina would be too pleased either. But what I want to know is what exactly is your intentions with my daughter?"

"Um well sir," Jag started, "I don't know what to tell you. All I can say is that I love her, and would do anything for, that I'll never do anything to hurt her." He shrugged not knowing what else to say.

Han thought about it looking like he didn't know whether or not to believe him. "Good," He finally said, "Cause if you do hurt her you'll not only have me to deal with, but you'll have Leia, Luke, Mara, Kyp, and everyone else after you. And lets not forget you'd also have Jaina herself after you." Jag shuddered at the memory of how mad Jaina could get. "But if I ever, EVER find out that you've done anything to hurt her or been disrespectful to her I will kill you, then bring you back just to give you to everyone else. Is that clear?"

Jag gulped, "Yes sir."

"Cut the sir crap Jag, makes me feel old."

/That's the first time he's ever called me Jag instead of Fel./ "Yes si—um Han."

"Right. I have a few questions for you." With out waiting for Jag to reply Han continued, "How long have you and my daughter been dating?"

"Um…roughly 6 months."

"That's since Borleias." Luke said from the door.

"Borleias! And nobody knew about y'all this whole time!"

"No, Wedge knows and I'm pretty sure Tycho and Iella know too."

"What were you two doing on the beach today?"

" Well we didn't know what else to do and well I never really learned how to swim so Jaina was teaching me."

"What I saw wasn't swimming."

"No si—Han it wasn't. I thought you of all people would recognize kissing when you saw it." Jag said, his Corellian cockiness finally coming through.

Luke covered his mouth trying to hide his laughter however Han did not find it quite as humorous, "Watch it Fel. Plus that's not what I would call kissing; it was more of you shoving your tongue down her throat." Han smirked when he saw Jag turn bright red.

"Uhhh…"

"HA! Look Luke I finally made a Fel speechless, I've been trying since I was in the academy!"

Still laughing, "How is old Soontir anyway, Jag? We haven't seen him in years." Luke asked.

"He's fine Master Skywalker, at least I think he's fine. To tell the truth I haven't talked to him sense before Borleias and haven't seen him since before Hapes."

"Please Jag its just Luke. Truth be told I've never really been comfortable with the hole master thing."

"Sure Luke."

"Well, I think we've wasted enough time here. Come on I'm hungry lets go eat."

"Solos, they're always hungry." Luke murmured to Jag. Jag silently laughed before following Han out the door.

"Where did they go now?" Han asked looking around the empty room.

Luke's eyes half closed before he answered, "Their back in Mara's and my room. … Mara says to leave them alone. They're um talking about us."

Jag looked questionably towards Han, "Force thing you'll get used to it," Han put his arm around Jags shoulder and led him to the door, "come on kid, lets find something to eat."

Luke grinned at Han's word usage, everything would be fine between the two of them. /Well when I think about it the two of them are a lot alike. /
/Yes they are farmboy. Now GET. OUT. /
/Alright, alright we're going, we're going. / Shaking his head he followed the two of them out the door.

Han, Luke, and Jag came back a few hours later to find Leia, Mara, and Jaina sitting in the living room, still taking. Han and Luke stopped in their tracks when they saw what Jaina was wearing, Jag however seemed unaffected and sat down next to her putting his arm around her.

"Jaina! What are you wearing!" Han asked finding his voice about a minute later.

"This," Jaina said pointing to her self, "Is Wes's fault. Wedge seemed to find it funny by letting him pick out my clothes." Jaina had on a tight, spaghetti strap, low cut black dress that ended mid-thigh with a split up the side. Her hair was slightly curled framing her face. She had on black eyeliner, brown eye shadow and red lipstick, and black high heel sandals.

"I'm going to kill Janson!"

"Thank you daddy, I was hoping you'd say that."

"Well, practical or not you look gorgeous Jaina."

Jaina blushed and smiled slightly, "Thanks Uncle Luke."

"Jaina could I talk to you for a minute?" Han asked looking slightly uncomfortable.

"Sure Dad." Jaina got up and followed Han to one of the bedrooms. "What you want to talk to me about."

"Couple things actually. First about Jag."

"Daddy--," Jaina stared him in the eye, "What did y'all talk about today?"

"You know the usual, threatened him a little, made him turn bright red, it was really quite funny. Then we just went to lunch, not much to tell really."

"You aren't telling me something."

"Look Jaina I'm not exactly happy about this,"

"Dad,"

"No Jaina let me finish, I may not be happy about this but, Jag is a good person once you get to know him, once you get him to talk. And he makes you happy, and with all that's happened to you, with everything that you have to deal with anything that makes you happy is worth it. I just wanted you to know that I realize that your old enough to make your own decision and that you're not my little girl anymore. It's just hard to let go of you after losing Chewy, Ani, and Jace."

Jaina felt tears stinging her eyes as Han pulled her into a hug, "I'll always be your little girl daddy, just not so little anymore. I can't promise you that I won't go anywhere, no one can. But I can promise that I won't go quietly, and I'll do everything I can to keep out of trouble, but you know us Solo's we never can keep out of trouble."

"That's what worries me." They stood there just holding each other for a few more minutes before Jaina pulled back, "I hate to stop this wonderful bonding moment, but Jag and I have to get going."

"Just make sure he doesn't touch you."

"Daddy-- he kinda has to, we are married you know."

"Unfortunately." Han mumbled as Jaina started to the door.

"Jaina, be careful."
Jaina just gave him that cocky smile before heading back to the main room.
End Chapter 5