Don't believe 5

"Its fairly common where I come from, you'll get used to it in time" said Luke .Sam privately wondered, just how long he thought she was going to stay. "So do you usually do stuff like this?" said Sam "Like what?' said Luke "Go to other worlds, fly spaceships that sort of stuff" said Sam "Yes I do and a lot of other things too, but I'm primarily a fighter pilot" said Luke "and a Jed eye" said Sam "and a Jedi" said Luke "Is this a fighter?" said Sam.

She was wondering what exactly she was flying. "No its called a Jedi explorer, its mostly experimental, they haven't even had a chance to put in the sub light drive" said Luke "Oh is it yours?" said Sam "No its my sisters, I just borrowed it" said Luke "Well thank gawd she isn't into pink" said Sam "Yes, thank the force she isn't" said Luke.

He didn't think he would ever live it down if she were. "So what do you do on your world?" said Luke "Oh I'm in high school and I write music for my boyfriend's band" said Sam "Your boyfriend?" said Luke "Yes Josh, he had just dropped me off before you showed up, wish you had met him he'd really love this ship" said Sam

Luke swallowed nervously, he had a bad feeling Josh was dead. He didn't want her to know that while she was flying though. "What kind of music do you write?' said Luke "Oh mostly like Goth metal grunge sort of stuff, I do some of the vocals on some of it though, we were trying for sort of a Night-wish sound" said Sam

Luke had no idea what she was talking about, but it stopped her from thinking about Josh, so it was good enough for him. Sam was going to elaborate on their plans for becoming mega rock stars, when something on the board beeped at her. "That's the com, answer it, its most likely Han" said Luke

He pointed to a button on the panel, next to the blinking light. Sam pushed it and a voice sounded right in her ear. "Hey kid, where the heck have you been, your late" said Han "Your father is going completely nuts, he's insisting something's happened to you" said Han "Ah hi, are you Han?" said Sam

"Ah yeah.. who the heck are you and where's Luke?" said Han "Relax Han I'm behind her, she's flying for me" said Luke. He sounded absolutely horrible to Sam's ears, and she hoped it was just the sound in these helmet things. "You okay kid you don't sound so good?" said Han.

His voice had gone from chiding to concerned. "I'm fine" said Luke "No you're not" Sam said "Why what's wrong with him kid?" said Han "He's hurt" said Sam. Luke groaned in embarrassment, Sam ignored it. "Why what happened and how bad?" said Han "We were attacked and he's lost a hand, that's why I'm flying" said Sam

"Have you ever flown anything kid?' said Han "Ah no not really, unless you count video games and the last few hours" said Sam "Ah okay, I'm going to talk to Luke now okay" said Han. Han wiped his hand over his face, Chewbacca next to him growled something. "Yeah I know pal, I know," said Han. He switched the channel to the gunners seat. "All right kid, what gives with the girl?" said Han

Luke groaned, "She saved my ass Han, I wouldn't have been able to get off the ground without her," said Luke. Han sighed "Okay, how's she been handling that thing?' said Han "Great actually way better than I expected her to, she's a tad bit nervous but she's losing that" said Luke.

Han ran his hand through his hair again. "Okay I'm going to walk her through it, I just hope she can handle this" said Han. He switched the com off to Luke "Yeah I know, she has no real experience, I just hope she doesn't scratch us up too badly I just repainted the undercarriage" said Han. The wookie growled something about keeping the rest of the paint. He switched on the pilots com.

"Okay kid here's what were going to do, I don't know if Luke warned you about this or not, but were going to piggyback you out of the system" said Han "Yeah he said something about not having some sort of drive?" said Sam "Okay that's right, I'm going to slowly bring my ship down on top of yours, I'm not going to hit you okay, so no panicking" said Han

"Okay, so how are we going to attach?" said Sam "Good question sweetheart. There's clamps on top of your ship and on the bottom of mine, I'm going to line them up, all you have to do is keep the ship in position" said Han "Okay, sounds simple" said Sam

"Its not hun, the ships gonna buck and bounce, and your alarms are going to go off, but you have to hold it steady, if you don't you'll punch a hole in both our ships and we're both toast" said Han. Sam swallowed nervously. Chewbacca growled at Han and hit his arm for scaring her. Sam took a deep breath, stretched her fingers and got a good grip on the yoke. "Okay, ready when you are" said Sam.

Hans ship began to slowly lower towards theirs. Hans ship was huge compared to theirs. The ship started bucking and trying to bounce. The alarms started going off, but Sam couldn't let go of the yoke to shut them off. Just when she thought she couldn't hold it any longer, Han's ship made a huge banging noise.

The ship stopped vibrating. "Please tell me I didn't hit you," said Sam "No sweetheart those were the docking clamps, you should have a row of green lights across the bottom of your board" said looked at the board, sure enough he was right. "Yep all green," she said, sighing in relief

"You did good hun now just sit back and relax were taking you home" said Han. Han switched off the com. "Holy vapor she did it" said Han Chewy whined something. "Of course I was worried about them too, geez I'm not heartless" said Han "Did you calculate the jump already?" said Han.

Chewy growled yes so Han hit the switch for the sub light drive and moved the lever all the way forward. He couldn't wait to get back to base.

The com went dead, so Sam turned back to look at Luke "Luke are you okay back there?"said Sam. No response greeted her. She turned to look at him. He seemed to be asleep or something. His skin was all ashy and clammy looking, he looked awful to her. She reached her hand out and shook him. "Luke!" Sam yelled "um what? Not so loud it echoes," said Luke.

The stars around them suddenly became lines and Sam gaped in wonder. "Whoa!" said Sam "What'd you want?" said Luke "Just to check on you, how are you doing?" said Sam "Great, just a little tired" said Luke. "Luke?" said Sam. He murmured something, for some reason the word tired was setting off warning bells in Sam's mind. "Luke" said Sam.

He mumbled something she didn't understand. "Luke listen to me you have to stay awake" said Sam "Mmm.. okay… just five more minutes dad" said Luke. He was obviously trying to go to sleep . "Luke!" Sam yelled, he jumped slightly "What?" he said moaning. "Stay awake your starting to go into shock, you have to stay awake" said Sam

"No I'm not, I was trying to go into a Jedi healing trance" said Luke "Did you?" said Sam "No, I'm too tired to concentrate" said Luke. "So tired" Luke murmured, "Luke please stay with me, stay awake talk to me or something, just don't sleep okay," said Sam.

Sam hit the controls for the com unit. "Han?" said Sam "Yes kiddo, What'd you need?" said Han "I think Luke's going into shock, we need to get him to a doctor fast" said Sam. "Take it easy sweetheart, I've got it covered, the medics are waiting on the flight deck for us" said Han "Okay, how long till we're there?" said Sam

"A few minutes more just try and keep him awake" said Han. Sam hit the off button on the com and turned towards Luke. He had his eyes closed, so she shook him. "What?, let me sleep woman" said Luke "Luke listen to me, tell me about being a Jedi or something" said Sam "Can't it wait?" said Luke

"No, I have to know now, tell me" said Sam "What do you want to know?" said Luke "Anything you want to tell me" said Sam. He laughed weakly. "Don't worry so much I can hear it," said Luke "How do you hear worrying?" said Sam "Through the force" said Luke "What's the force?" said Sam

"It's the energy that binds all living things together" said Luke "Okay, so how does it tell you what I'm thinking?" said Sam "Your voice tells me that, it tells me other things" said Luke "Like what other things?" said Sam "Like you can touch it too, if you learn how" said Luke

"Okay, like why would I do that?" said Sam "because it's a part of you and you have the potential to be a Jedi" said Luke "and how would you know that?" said Sam "because I can almost see it around you" said Luke

"Okay now your seeing things, that's not very reassuring" said Sam "If you like, we can test you when we get to the base and I'll prove it to you" said Luke "Test me how?" said Sam "A simple blood test, to measure the midichlorian levels in your blood stream" said Luke

"What the heck is a midichlorian?" said Sam "It's a microscopic organism that lives in your bloodstream, force users, like the Jedi have a huge count of them" said Luke "Okay if you say so" said Sam. She sounded skeptical to him. "You don't believe me do you?" said Luke

"Well no, not really, it all seems a little far fetched" said Sam "Like space travel and star ships?" said Luke "Okay, you got me there" said Sam "Will you consent to the test?" said Luke "Yeah sure, why not?" said Sam. The com beeped and Sam turned around to answer it. "Hey Kidd were dropping out of hyperspace in a few seconds" said Han "As soon as we drop out, I'm going to disconnect you and you pull ahead and they'll tractor you in" said Han