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The Curses of a Guilty Conscience

"Ohhhhhhhh!" groaned Han. He didn't know where he was or how he had got there. All he knew was that someone was poking him very hard in the back.

"Go away!" he said. His head was about to kill him....he remembered going out to gamble.....how much had he lost? Had Leia killed him this time? Was he in Hell for his Gambling?

"Grrharrr?" said a voice, and then something kicked him, with a very hairy foot. It took a while for Han to realize what the sound meant. Soon instead of incomprehensible growl, like it would have sounded to most people, he heard, "Cub, what are you doing on the ground?"

"Chewie?"

He felt himself being hoisted into the air and he landed softly on the wookie's shoulder, "Come on, Cub let's get you home."

Chewbacca was talking to Han softly so he didn't add to his friend's pounding headache, telling him of the previous nights events. Han didn't need to know, he was remembering. How had he let himself get so carried away? He'd lost everything........all the money he and Leia had been saving........all the furniture.......in fact all their things and everything they owned save the house and the Falcon! Han had been smart enough not to bet that. The only person dumb enough to gamble property was Lando Calrissian.

".........and then they came at three this morning and they took everything, Cub, including the Twins!"

"What?!" Han had forgotten about that.

"They kidnapped Jacen and Jaina!"

"They weren't kidnapped Chewie..." said Han his voice growing hoarse with guilt, "It's more complicated than that."

.............

He found Leia crying in the corner of the completely empty living room. She told him what had happened that morning and eventually Han, full of guilt at seeing Leia in such a state, confessed to his crimes.

"YOU GAMBLED AWAY OUR CHILDREN???!!! IS THAT EVEN LEGAL???!!!" Leia was (Understandably) furious and distraught.

She back away for Han, who she was now terribly afraid of, "How could you? I thought you'd changed! But No! You were and still are 'ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY!!' Common Pirate! "

She half stormed and half ran from the room, crying.

Han sat down in the centre of the floor, all most wishing death upon himself. It was at that point that Luke came in, returning from the Jedi academy he was constructing on Yavin 4. He had been working all night, traveling for two days and wasn't in the mood for what he saw upon his arriving home.

"What the heck happen here?"

When only a groan emerged from Han, Luke decided that more desperate measures were needed. A quick poke in his brother-in-law's mind couldn't hurt that much, could it?

"GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!" Han yelled, placing his hands over his ears, "DON'T USE THAT HOAKY POAKY RELIGION ON ME, KID!" But Luke had seen enough.

"Oh," said Luke walking over to stand beside his best friend, he sighed, "I knew this would happen."

"And don't go all mystical Jedi on me either!" he cried in exasperation.

Luke sighed again. It now looked as if his dreams of just going to bed and doing nothing for hours on end, would in fact, remain a dream.

"How much did you loose?"

"You're not that dumb Luke! Look around you!"

"You lost something more than all this," said Luke wisely. "I can tell."

Han covered his eyes with his hands and lay back on the cold stone floor. "Just the twins," he moaned, regret evident in his voice.

Luke struggled to keep calm.

'I am a Jedi. I have confronted Vader. Jedi do not get angry at a small thing like your brother-in-law gambling away your niece and nephew. Breathe', he thought to himself.

"By the way," Han said, peeping out at Luke between his fingers, "I also lost C-3P0 and R2D2, but droids can be replaced!" he concluded hopefully.

"WHA-! No, that's not how a Jedi should cope with this sort of situation!" With that he left the room, trying not to look at Han as he exited.

'Okay, maybe we can talk to these guys. Persuade them to give the twins and the droids back! Just have to send a couple of messages to a couple of friends', the thoughts passed through his head.

"Maybe," he said, aloud this time, "Maybe, they will co-operate?"

A.N. In a rush! Got to go! Hope you enjoyed!

Sweetdeath04 & Thorney