Ok here's the next chapter. I'm sorry it's so short though. If you are/know
a betta-reader please fell free to e-mail me! Remember English is not my
mother tongue (
Remnants-2011 : Thank you so much for your encouragement (
This is still a repost after some spelling/grammar checking.
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Transporting the six blocks was not an easy task. First of all they had to call another team that would be equipped with repulsors to enable the coming back upstairs, to the present Coruscant.
Then they had to put the blocks on the repulsors and it became even more difficult when they realised the were hung on the wall with a code to protect each of them. They had to call another team to the rescue composed by crackers. It took them a good hour before being able to get each block on a repulsor and making their way to the medical centre.
Han was checking on the lights stating that the people inside of those blocks were still alive. He felt like he owe them that extra security. As long as the lights were on, he guessed it was alright for them. It was a very strange feeling indeed.
Finally they arrived at the medical centre in a room that had been specially prepared for them. Leia was there with some other members of the government, waiting for them to arrive. Once the blocks were installed in their new position, the dilemma came in everybody's mind. Would they take the risk to free them? It was known as a highly dangerous process. The longer the person inside the carbonite had been frozen the more dangerous it was. And there was no doubt about the time these people had been prisoners. Years, decades, who knows. Plus maybe it was dangerous persons. The medical droids were giving their opinion on a medical point of view, and the politicians were having issues about the identity of those persons.
Han was fuming. He tried to keep quiet as long as he could but then exploded.
"Why having brought them here if it is to let them like that? Nothing can be worse than being prisoner inside of this. You have no right to let them like that and if you do so then you're as bad as the guy that did it! If Palpatine punished them like that, then they mustn't be that bad! If they are his enemies then they are my friends!"
Everybody kept quite for a few minutes after that. The decision to defrost them was soon taken. The only thing was that they will need loads of bacta to take care of them. It would take a few days before having enough for 6 persons in the same time assuming they would be in a very bad state.
Making their way back to their apartment, Han and Leia were silent. Leia knew exactly what Han was thinking. She didn't need to use her jedi powers to guess that he was thinking about his own experience of the carbonite. She knew he was very concerned about the defrost process but she knew that at the same time he couldn't live without disgusting himself if he didn't free them. The thing was she had to leave the day after for a diplomatic mission. A once peaceful planet was in a state of war between human and non human. The New Republic was coming as a last chance to avoid the war. She was needed there. She would have to speak about it on the evening with Han before she left. Luckily the kids were on Yavin with Luke, and Chewbacca was with his family. They will be alone.
As soon as they entered their apartment, they were welcomed by the smell of the food waiting for them. Han sat in his favourite armchair and stayed quiet, lost in his thoughts. Leia sat in front of him, looking at him waiting for him to speak first.
She sighed when she understood he wouldn't do so. She will have to start.
"Listen Han, I know how you feel right now, and ."
"That's the bad thing when you're married with a jedi, they always know." He interrupted her.
"I know what it remembers you, and I certainly don't need any jedi power for that."
"I don't think you can even come close to imagine what it looks like."
"You're right. I don't."
She waited a few minutes for him to continue, looking at him like an encouragement.
"Tell me."
Han deeply sighed and put his hands on his face. Then he looked at her.
"It's hell. It's like you're screaming for months. You never stop to feel exactly what you felt when you were frozen. You're living the same moment. Not again and again. It is the same state of mind that is lasting for months. Except for what you felt when you were frozen, you don't feel anything else. No move, no smell, no picture, no breath. You're dead, but it's worse, because you know that you're alive."
Leia came closer to him and held him tight.
Remnants-2011 : Thank you so much for your encouragement (
This is still a repost after some spelling/grammar checking.
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Transporting the six blocks was not an easy task. First of all they had to call another team that would be equipped with repulsors to enable the coming back upstairs, to the present Coruscant.
Then they had to put the blocks on the repulsors and it became even more difficult when they realised the were hung on the wall with a code to protect each of them. They had to call another team to the rescue composed by crackers. It took them a good hour before being able to get each block on a repulsor and making their way to the medical centre.
Han was checking on the lights stating that the people inside of those blocks were still alive. He felt like he owe them that extra security. As long as the lights were on, he guessed it was alright for them. It was a very strange feeling indeed.
Finally they arrived at the medical centre in a room that had been specially prepared for them. Leia was there with some other members of the government, waiting for them to arrive. Once the blocks were installed in their new position, the dilemma came in everybody's mind. Would they take the risk to free them? It was known as a highly dangerous process. The longer the person inside the carbonite had been frozen the more dangerous it was. And there was no doubt about the time these people had been prisoners. Years, decades, who knows. Plus maybe it was dangerous persons. The medical droids were giving their opinion on a medical point of view, and the politicians were having issues about the identity of those persons.
Han was fuming. He tried to keep quiet as long as he could but then exploded.
"Why having brought them here if it is to let them like that? Nothing can be worse than being prisoner inside of this. You have no right to let them like that and if you do so then you're as bad as the guy that did it! If Palpatine punished them like that, then they mustn't be that bad! If they are his enemies then they are my friends!"
Everybody kept quite for a few minutes after that. The decision to defrost them was soon taken. The only thing was that they will need loads of bacta to take care of them. It would take a few days before having enough for 6 persons in the same time assuming they would be in a very bad state.
Making their way back to their apartment, Han and Leia were silent. Leia knew exactly what Han was thinking. She didn't need to use her jedi powers to guess that he was thinking about his own experience of the carbonite. She knew he was very concerned about the defrost process but she knew that at the same time he couldn't live without disgusting himself if he didn't free them. The thing was she had to leave the day after for a diplomatic mission. A once peaceful planet was in a state of war between human and non human. The New Republic was coming as a last chance to avoid the war. She was needed there. She would have to speak about it on the evening with Han before she left. Luckily the kids were on Yavin with Luke, and Chewbacca was with his family. They will be alone.
As soon as they entered their apartment, they were welcomed by the smell of the food waiting for them. Han sat in his favourite armchair and stayed quiet, lost in his thoughts. Leia sat in front of him, looking at him waiting for him to speak first.
She sighed when she understood he wouldn't do so. She will have to start.
"Listen Han, I know how you feel right now, and ."
"That's the bad thing when you're married with a jedi, they always know." He interrupted her.
"I know what it remembers you, and I certainly don't need any jedi power for that."
"I don't think you can even come close to imagine what it looks like."
"You're right. I don't."
She waited a few minutes for him to continue, looking at him like an encouragement.
"Tell me."
Han deeply sighed and put his hands on his face. Then he looked at her.
"It's hell. It's like you're screaming for months. You never stop to feel exactly what you felt when you were frozen. You're living the same moment. Not again and again. It is the same state of mind that is lasting for months. Except for what you felt when you were frozen, you don't feel anything else. No move, no smell, no picture, no breath. You're dead, but it's worse, because you know that you're alive."
Leia came closer to him and held him tight.
