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A Tad Too Late

"We're coming up on the space port now," Han yelled to the others, "according to the scanners, there's only one ship there..........I think we've got them.

Leia let out a sigh of relief, as did Luke. Lando and Wedge grinned at each other and Chewie roared something.

"I know! I know! I see it, hold on everyone!" yelled Han. They all felt the Falcon accelerate.

"What's wrong?" cried Luke.

"They're taking off," Han yelled in reply, "It's a huge freelance cargo ship!"

Leia ran to stand beside Han and saw the enormous craft life from the ground and speed away.

Leia swore as violently as Dengar.

"I hope she doesn't use language like that in front of the twins," said Luke to Han.

"Nope," said Han as they sped after the ship, "It's usually me!"

Luke ignored him, to intent on catching the bounty hunter before he went into hyper-space.

"Can't we go any faster?" asked Wedge.

"Well yeah," said Han, pushing a button on the dash bored, "If we wanted to over take them. But I don't see the point in that."

"Well can't we track them or something?"

"We know where they're going, we just need-"

Something hit the ship, with a force that knocked Lando to the ground. Leia stumbled backwards and tripped over Lando. Luke, with his amazing Jedi reflexes, grabbed onto something, which just happened to be Wedge, they too came tumbling down on top of Lando and Leia.

Chewie heard the thumps and said something that sounded suspiciously like, "What are you doing down there?"

Han turned around. "CALRISSIAN!!! Get off my wife! And you Wedge! Luke, your own sister!"

Wedge and Luke jumped up and brushed themselves off, both blushing slightly. Lando and Leia hadn't moved.

"Calrissian..." said Han in a warning tone.

Lando sighed. "Alright, alright! Maybe some other time Leia." Both picked themselves off the ground and Lando gave Leia a wink and his own unique winning smile. Leia went scarlet, but she was grinning to herself.

Luke quickly tried to change the subject. "What hit us anyway?"

"That was a laser blast, farmboy!"

Luke was about to retaliate, when they were hit again.

Lando was once again thrown to the floor and he looked up at Leia hopefully. But Leia had grabbed the back of Chewie's chair and Luke had grabbed the back of Han's. Wedge had been flung up against the wall.

"Thanks for grabbing onto something else that wasn't another person Luke!" said Wedge sarcastically.

"Someone take the guns!" yelled Han.

Luke and Leia dived for the ladder, Leia going down and Luke going up.

"Pirates!" Han yelled again. "Coming up behind us in old Corellian freighters!"

"Might be old friends!" said Lando with a grin.

"How many are there?" yelled Wedge up at Luke.

"Seven!"

"Six!" corrected Leia, as there was an explosion in the distance.

"Fine, six!" The annoyance was clear in Luke's voice.

"Now, now Lukie! Don't get annoyed just because your little sister got the first shot!"

From the belly gun they heard Leia yell back, "Five minutes does not make me his little sister!"

"Ten!" Enjoyment was evident in Luke's voice as he blasted a freighter out of the sky.

"There! Now you're even! Now there's no need for anymore fighting!" yelled Lando, falsely cheerful.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw another shot come from the gun Leia was manning. One of the small ships spun off into space and exploded. Lando knew he should be happy, but he couldn't help but groan.

"As if!" came Leia's cheerful voice.

"Hang on! They're backing off! That's not fair! I won't be able to win!" cried Luke, disappointed.

"Are Jedi supposed to be this blood thirsty?"

"Put a sock in it, Wedge!"

"Okay. Just as long as it's not one of Han's!"

Laughter was heard from everyone apart from Han.

Leia's cry broke through the laughter, "They're coming straight for us!"

Han glanced at the chart, "No, they're going to pass us," as Han spoke, they flew past and Han swore in Huttese, "They're preparing to go into light speed!"

Luke and Leia climbed down from the guns just in time to see the remaining freighters and the cargo ship leap forward into light speed.

There was a stunned silence for a minute or so. Then Chewie roared.

"I know pal," said Han sadly, as he stared after the ship, which most likely held his children, "They got away."

"They're not completely lost, we know where they're going," said Luke, putting a hand on Han's shoulder, trying to comfort his friend.

Han swivelled round in his chair. It was probably the first time that Luke had seen Han look so helpless.

"They could change the flight path, they could do anything, they could..." he lowered his voice, "they could kill them!"

Han had realized this before, but the words coming from his own mouth made the situation sound a lot more dire.

"They won't," said Luke hopefully.

"Come on Chewie, Lando," said Han standing up, "let's check the Falcon for injuries."

"Bria Tharen was his first love," said Lando, trying to make people smile again, "But the Falcon was definitely his second!"

"And Leia was his true!" said Wedge.

"I didn't know you had a sensitive side!" said Lando.

"I do try to hide it."

Lando grinned and followed Han and Chewie.

Wedge turned to Luke, "How do you know they won't change the flight path, anyway."

"You don't know very much about Jedi, do you Wedge?" Luke asked, giving him a side ways glance.

"Let me guess," said Wedge, waving his fingers in front of Luke's face and putting on a mystical voice, "You felt it in the Force."

"That's right Wedge!" said Luke in the air of explaining one plus one equals two. "I have a feeling that they want us to follow them, and if I'm right, which I'm almost certain I am, why would they change the flight path?"

Wedge was silent for a minute and then said, almost sulkily, "All right, all right, I get the point."

"Well done! Now, if you don't mind, Master Antilles, I'm going to find my darling little sister."

As he left the room he heard Leia in his head say, "I'm not your little sister!"

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