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Chapter 8: Saturday Detention.
It was early Saturday morning, the bright warm sun had risen over Coruscant. Only a few ships were in the sky. They danced around the large skyscrapers before disappearing behind the Senate building. Usually Coruscant is alive with rivers of traffic and glittering lights but not today. Today everywhere was calm and peaceful, everywhere except the Skywalker household.
"Arrrrrrgggh! What are we arguing about? Can you just decide what it is and stick to it?" Anakin yelled at his wife.
'I'm not arguing, I'm just talking, you're arguing." Padme calmly replied in her senator voice.
Padme and Anakin were still at each others throats. Padme has been constantly picking at things to yell at Anakin about. Anakin being the un rational person he is, had lost his temper every time. There was know sign of the couple making up.
The twins weren't much better. Luke was still blaming Leia and has refused to talk to her. Making it hard for Leia to share her plan.
Even poor Threeipo had trouble understanding the family.
"I'm programmed to understand humans, unfortunately I can't understand Skywalkers," he complained to Artoo who beeped in agreement.
Since the incident with Miss Brambles, the rest of the week had gone by quite quickly and it was now time for the twins punishment.
After a lot of arguments Anakin agreed to drop the twins off at their detention before heading to the Jedi temple.
Anakin was looking forward to going to the temple today, even though he found council meetings boring, anything was better then the war zone at home.
Even though the twins were not talking, they would both agree that neither of them where looking forward to their detention.
"Hurry up, I haven't got all day Obi-wan is expecting me." Anakin called to his children.
The twins slowly made there way out of the house. There was a bit of pushing but the twins finally made it into the speeder.
There was complete silence as they made their journey up to the school.
After stopping outside the school gates, Anakin turned in his chair and faced the twins.
"Your mother will pick you up at five."
The twins nodded.
"Oh and try not to upset her, she'll only take it out on me," Anakin warnedbefore he pushed the twins out of the speeder.
"Bye dad," the Twins said together, then Anakin zoomed off.
The twins slowly made their way into the school to be greeted by the detention droid.
"Names please?" The droid asked looking down at the name list
"Luke Skywalker."
"Leia Skywalker."
"The Skywalkers twins, we been waiting for you, come this way." The droid said in a formal voice.
The twins followed the droid to the detention room.
"I see this is your first detention, let me explain the rules. The detention will start a nine and finish at five. There will be no talking and you are expected to think about your bad behavior and ways to improve it. Do you understand?"
The twins nodded.
"Good, here we are," the Droid said pointing to the door.
"I have to go and check on some files but I will be back to check up on you." With that the droid headed off down the corridor.
Leia and Luke entered the room. To Leia's horror there sat Han Solo, with his feet on the desk, his hands behind his head and a big grin plastered on his face.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here." He said smugly.
"What are you doing here Solo?" Leia rudely asked.
"Same thing as you sweetie, I've been a bad boy." Han answered as his smile grew wider.
"Whatever," Leia snapped back as she took a seat.
Han removed his feet from the desk and leaned towards Luke.
"So Lukey boy, why are you here?" Han asked even though he and the whole school knew about the prank the twins had played.
"That's none of your business." Leia said before Luke could answer.
Han raised his eyebrows and looked over at Leia.
"Hey let the kid speak for himself." Han said then turned to look at Luke, who had his eyes fixed to the floor.
"The droid said no talking." Luke replied making Han laugh.
"Look kid, I'm in here nearly everyweek, that droid has probably forgotten about us by now. So come on why are you here?"
Luke sighed, "we got caught for that prank on Miss Brambles."
"Ah, so that brilliant plan wasn't that brilliant." Han sarcastically replied and stared at Leia.
Leia glared back, Luke could sense her anger building up.
"So why are you in detention Han?" Luke asked.
Han smiled and placed his feet back on the desk.
"How long have you got?" Han asked smugly.
"About 7 hours and 52 minutes," Leia replied as she shot a sarcastic smile towards Han.
"Well there's gambling on school property, eating other students lunches, refusing to do homework and helping two twins play a prank on a teacher." Han replied feeling proud of himself.
"I'm sorry we got you in trouble Han," Luke said.
"Why are you saying sorry to him?" Leia asked as she looked at Luke in disbelief.
"Because unlike you Leia, I know when I'm in the wrong." Luke snapped back at his sister.
"What is that meant to mean?" Leia asked.
"Well, look have much trouble you've caused and you don't seem to care."
This is getting good Han thought to himself.
Leia felt hurt, how can Luke say I didn't care, she thought to herself.
"I do care! I've even come up with a plan to fix things." Leia replied.
"What?" Han asked getting into the twins argument.
"Well, I was planning on making mom and dad happy again." Leia said.
"By doing what?" Luke curiously asked.
"By making them fall in love again." She continued.
"How are you planing on doing that?" Luke replied.
"By...um...um... making them a romantic meal." Leia said proudly.
"That's your plan?" Han said in disbelief. Then both Luke and Han looked at each other and laughed.
"Come on Leia your not stupid enough to think that will work?" Luke asked
"Hey!" Leia said.
"Ok, you are stupid enough to think that will work." Luke said still laughing.
"So I'm stupid now?" Leia asked getting cross.
"No you've always been stupid." Luke replied.
"Hey children, time out," Han said breaking up the twins argument.
"I think Leia might be onto something." Han said.
The twins looked at Han in shock, this was the first Han Solo had ever agreed with Leia.
"Come on Luke its worth a try," Leia said smiling.
"Wait a minute you want me to help?" Luke asked looking back at Leia.
"Yes, we're a team, remember."
Luke looked to the floor and thought for a moment. Could this idea work? He thought.
"Well? Are you going to help?" Leia asked.
Trusting his feelings, Luke looked up at his sister.
"Ok, I'll help," Luke smiled. "On one condition." He continued.
"What?" Leia curiously asked, sensing Luke had an idea of his own.
"No more ideas and no more pranks for the rest of the year." Luke said smiling, knowing all to well Leia wouldn't like this deal at all.
Leia's mouth dropped in shock. She was speechless for a moment or two, then she tried to speak:
"Your... not... serious Luke?"
"I'll help you, if you promise to be a model pupil for the rest of the year," Luke said.
Luke knew he had her, even Han was impressed by Luke's blackmail. Leia thought for a moment, she knew she had to swallow her pride and agree to her brother's deal.
"Ok, deal," Leia said shaking Luke's hand.
"Right so how is this going to work?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, how are we going to doing it?" Han asked.
The twins looked at Han confused.
"Hey, come on you have to let me help, I mean this will be my good deed for the year."
"Ok fine, I just hope I wont regret this." Leia said.
The twins pulled their desks round to face Han. Then they all sat round and discussed how they were going to put their lastest plan into motion.
To be continued...
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