This is for the people who reviewed. This is for all of you are stressed out at the moment. Bria is for venting…. : )

Oh yeah, I don't take things like 'make Bria less evil' very well if it is the WHOLE POINT OF THE STORY. Anyway (read my reviews and see my therapist if you want to know what that was about!)

Chapter 13

"You OK?" asked Han of Leia. As soon as he had spotted the gleam of the blaster rifle, he had grabbed Leia and pulled her inside the cabin and slammed the door controls.

Hey, he'd grown up on Correlia. He was used to reacting to guns.

Still, it didn't explain why his ex girlfriend had one trained on the Princess's head just seconds before.

Leia, to be fair, was holding up pretty well. She'd gone pale and was a little shaky, but other than that she was OK. Han wouldn't have minded if she did have a fainting fit because then he would have to catch her and… wrong time to be thinking about that.

Leia looked at Han and started to say what she was saying earlier;

"Han, I got some notification from head office, regarding Bria Tharen"

Gods, why did she have to sound like a computer the whole time? Leia inwardly scorned herself. She wanted to break watch she had to tell Han gently. Instead she sounded like Threepio at his least sympathetic.

Han looked down at her quizzically.

"Well, erm… official documents say that Bria was um, thrown out of the Rebellion a couple of months back."

Great, Leia could address a thousand delegates from hundreds of galaxies but she couldn't put that any softer.

"How do you mean? Why? What she do?" asked Han. He had so many questions bubbling inside of him; he had no idea which one to ask first.

"It seems that she may have….." began Leia. But at that very moment another blaster shot, fired at the cockpit door reverberated around the ship.

It was followed by Bria yelling hoarsely;

"Han, if you don't let me in there I am going to blow the fuel storage to kingdom come!"

Han looked at Leia. Leia looked at Han. Slowly he reached for the door controls, making sure to put himself between the Princess and the cabin door.

Seconds later, Bria Tharen, looking wild eyed and angry entered the small cabin still brandishing the blaster pistol.

"OK, We're going to do this my way" said Bria in a low voice

Wes Hobby and Wedge reached the unknown ship at the same time as Luke Skywalker. All four of them felt pensive and nervous by the presence of the cruiser. They couldn't work it out, but it seemed as though the ship was a herald of bad news. Even the sky had gone a dull grey and the air seemed more humid and uncomfortable than it had been.

"Does anyone know what's going on?" asked Wedge of Luke.

Luke shook his head.

"None of us anyway. Leia seemed pretty worried about something a few minutes ago. I saw her heading for the Falcon" he said.

Luke wasn't sure how he felt about that. If Leia had a problem, why was she going straight to Han about it? It made him feel uncomfortable and jealous and something else more intangible. A strange sense of acceptance seemed to fill him as he stood there

"Hey look!" said Hobbie, juddering Luke out of his thoughts of Pirates and Princesses.

As they men watched from their slightly elevated view point of the landing bay, they saw a youngish man in a Rebellion issue uniform stride out with a tall, older man.

This was General Lisle and Commander Ratchet, and neither of them wanted to be there.

As he steeped of the landing ramp, Lisle turned to a Rebellion Official. He didn't bother with protocol.

"Have you found and isolated former Commander Bria Tharen.

The young official ran her hand through her wavy black hair. She was really nervous and hated being put on the spot like this.

"Well, we have had some difficulty finding her exact location…" she trailed off in th face of his disconcerted look.

"Well it is imperative that we find her immediately! She is a highly dangerous, unstable individual." he barked at the woman.

Before he could say anymore, everyone in or around the docking bay was alerted to the sound of a ship's engine starting up. No ship was authorized to leave the bay at that time so it caused some confusion to the techs.

Not that the pilot of the ship could've cared less. She was hell bent on getting off Yavin VI as soon as she could, taking the two hostages with her.

Which was why, just a few seconds later the Millennium Falcon accelerated out of the docking bay and swooped up and out into the open sky.