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The Pirate, the Princess and a Hell of a Lot of Oil
Leia turned around, "So you finally decided to come in then?"
Han ignored the question, "I have bad news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
"You know, I think we'll go for the bad news," said Luke sarcastically.
"We've stained quite a bit of damage, though most of it we can fix where we are. However... we do have to fix one thing while landed."
"If you say it's the hyperdrive, I'm going to scream until my lungs explode!" Leia said, through gritted teeth.
Luke poked her in the ribs, hard.
"Ow!" cried Leia. Then said, rather sullenly, "Bully."
This time, it was Luke who ignored Leia.
"What is it Han?" he asked.
"It's not the hyperdrive," he said, giving Leia a withering look, "It's the deflector shield!"
"Oh but those aren't important at all!" Leia said, rolling her eyes.
"What's not important?"
Chewie, Wedge and Lando had entered the room, the latter being the one who spoke. The trio were covered in a black gloopy substance that looked suspiciously like oil.
Chewie gave a mournful groan and gestured to his fur, which was a sticky, black, mess.
"What happened to you!?!?" said Han. "You're dripping oil all over the lounge!"
"That isn't the only place that's full of oil!" said Lando, between being annoyed and amusement. He gestured a thumb at Wedge. "Genius here hit one of the oil pipes," he paused, then continued lightly, "Oh yeah, with a hammer!!!"
"Well! I didn't know which one you wanted me to hit! They all look the same!"
Han stared at him, then said exasperatedly, "We didn't want you to hit a pipe!"
"It was an experiment."
At that point Chewie growled something to the rest of the room.
Everyone, apart from Wedge started smirking, despite the dire circumstances.
"What!" cried Wedge, glancing from face to face. "Remember, I can't speak Wookiee! Don't leave me out of the conversation!"
"Chewie says," said Lando, translating, "That at least you didn't hit it with your head. That could have caused a lot more damage than any hammer!"
"Yeah! To my head!"
"Nothing in there to damage mate!" said Han, laughing.
Leia laughed too, then she realised she wasn't talking to Han, and stopped abruptly.
She sat down and sighed, "That's another thing we have to fix!"
Wedge grinned again. "Nope! I patched it up with some paper and glue! It'll hold!"
Everyone stared at Wedge, whose grin was starting to fade. None of them noticed the oil that had started seeping from under the door.
Wedge's grin had fully faded and he quickly stared at his feet.
"I'm truly sorry Han. It was stupid. I shouldn't have..." he trailed off.
Walking over, he slapped Han on the back, leaving a big oily hand print behind.
"I'm really sorry Leia," he said, holding out a hand for her to shake.
"That's okay. I'm sure we can forgive you." She backed away slightly from the sticky mess called 'Wedge's hand'.
"Anyway, back to the point," said Han, running a hand through his hair, "do we land or not? It'll take one and a half days at the most to fix. But we can go on without it."
"I think we should land," said Luke, "Just to be on the safe side."
"You're always on the safe side!" Leia muttered, concerned for her children's well being.
'Reckless Flying?' she heard Luke ask in her head, then heard him speaking to the rest of the room.
"You never know what you're going to run into near the smugglers moon! Pirates, Smugglers...."
"Obviously!" said Lando
Luke paused, "Maybe even some......scoundrel's!"
Han jumped a foot in the air and Leia yelled "What!?!?"
She had never shared this piece of information with her brother and she never had intended to!
"Care to share Luke?" said Lando.
Luke grinned, mischievously, the farm boy side of his personality showing through. He started to speak in a mystical, storytelling voice that he used on the Twins, "Let me tell you the beautiful love story of the Pirate and the Princess," he gestured at Han and Leia.
"We don't want to hear any love story!" said Han, starting to panic.
"Well tough you're going to hear it anyway!" said Wedge, "Please continue, Lukie!"
Luke scowled, but did as he was told.
"Now, I'm sure you two, knew about the rumours that were going around Echo Base," he grinned at Wedge. Both of them knew that it was the rogue squadron that had started all the rumours in the first place.
"Though, most of the rumours disappeared after the....Nerfherder incident in the Hoth sick bay, and of course, were replaced by knew rumours!"
Luke's grin turned into a glare.
"What did I do?" Wedge grinned innocently.
Luke yelled, "She's my sister!" at the same time as Leia yelled, "He's my brother!"
"Yeah, well......Janson and I didn't know that at the time, and it certainly didn't look like that at the time!"
Han was growing impatient, "Get to the point, Kid! How did you know?"
Luke's voice was annoyingly casual, "Do you remember that time you were put in carbonite, Han? And we had to go all over the galaxy to rescue you?"
"Well, I'm not likely to forget, am I?"
"Well," continued Luke, "Leia was very upset and her mind was more fragile than I realised......"
"AND????"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"You poked around in my mind!?" said Leia, disbelievingly.
Luke shrank backwards as Leia's hand went to her lightsaber. He knew he did deserve her wrath this time.
"It was and accident! It wasn't my fault! I was new to this stuff and I was looking for a way to cheer you up......but I went a little too deep and came across the wrong thing!"
"That is very private property!"
"I was only trying to help, besides it was years ago!"
"Promise me that you will never mention this again!"
"Alright," but as he turned away from Leia, Luke gave Wedge and Lando a wink that said, 'I'll tell you later!'
Wedge whispered, "Wait till Janson and Hobbie hear this!"
Han spoke up loudly, "I'll take that as a 'we're going to land' then, shall I?"
Leia nodded reluctantly.
"Okay then, I'll find a suitable planet."
He strode toward the door and opened it. There was a pause as Han stood just outside the doorway, in the now flooded, with oil, hallway.
"ANTILLES!!!!!!"
Wedge winced.
"Now would be a good time WEDGE!!!" yelled Leia.
"Yeah, right, thanks, see ya!" He sprinted out a side door.
Luke and Leia burst out laughing.
"How did he ever become a General!?!?" she grinned at Luke. She could never stay angry at him for long.
Luke could hardly stand for laughing, "Well, you were the one who promoted him!"
A.N. We are in a CAR trying to type and get this chapter done before Thorney leaves Sweetdeath home so we'll just go now!
Thorney & Sweedeath04
