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Crime and Punishment
The Falcon was silent. For once.
But that was only because everyone was asleep. Well........almost everyone.
Leia awoke suddenly. She had just had a nightmare. Visions she hadn't seen for years.
Her, brave, strong Han was being placed in carbonite.
So naturally the first person she would want to see when she woke up would be her husband. But he wasn't there.
She stared around the room, hoping he would crawl out from under the bed or come running through the door, crying apologies and declaring his undying love.......
But as we all know that isn't the Han Solo style. He preferred kidnapping.
After several minutes, Leia found the strength to get up out of the bed, and search for Han.
It might have been out of habit or it might have been the Force, but she headed for the cockpit.
Indeed, he was there, at the controls. Working.
Leia checked her wrist crono. It was really late, or really early. You could call it what ever. He must have just forgotten the time.
She glanced up from her crono and saw Luke, nodded to him then looked back at her wrist. Realising what she had just seen, she started and looked up.
'Luke!' she mouthed at him, 'What are you doing here?'
Sure enough, there was her brother, dressed in his usual black attire with the one black glove on his right hand. He was leaning against the other side of the door, with his arms folded, grinning at his sister's reaction.
"Well?" Leia demanded, poking into her brother's mind, "An explanation to why you are following me in the dark, if you please. That's not like you Master Skywalker!"
"Just checking up on my dearest little sister in the world!" Luke mocked, "You never know who might be lurking down these dingy corridors at night."
This made Leia feel better. Luke was insulting the Falcon now they had something to talk about. She even overlooked the 'little'.
"I know, it would be just terrible if I met Wedge the Ripper or something!" she 'said' the last bit sarcastically, "Anyway, What's up? You seem a little bit.........hyper. Lando hasn't been selling you spice has he?"
"I wish."
"Luke Skywalker. Jedi Master and drug addict. Not a great image. But seriously."
"I've been keeping my word to Han, keeping one eye on Wedge and another on Lando. I can tell you, it hurts when both eyes are going opposite directions!"
Leia suppressed a laugh, "Speaking of Han-"
"He's punishing himself, Leia," Luke cut in, "For what he did to you and the twins."
Leia looked again at Han. He was pale and forcing himself to stay awake by any means necessary.
"Personally, I would have thought torture would have been better punishment," her voice sounded scathing in Luke's head.
"Leia," he warned, "We have to sort him out, he should have put it on auto pilot hours ago."
Leia looked at him pleadingly, "He's all yours," she gestured from her brother to her husband.
Luke nodded and made his presence in the cockpit known to its single occupant.
"Han, get some sleep."
Han looked up at Luke blearily. "I thought you were meant to be keeping an eye on Wedge." Han forced his eyes to stay open.
"I knocked him out with the hilt of my lightsaber," Luke lied quickly. "Come on, let's get you to bed." He hit the autopilot button and half carried, half dragged Han out of the cockpit.
On exiting he passed Leia and whispered one word in her ear, "Success!"
Leia nodded her approval and followed them to her and Han's room.
When they were passing the room all the other boys slept in, the door slid open revealing Wedge and Lando, who paused.
"Where are you going?" Luke hissed at them.
They replied innocently, "Nowhere!"
Luke stared at them pointedly and jabbed his thumb at the room, and both Lando and Wedge retreated into it, a hint of disappointment showed on their faces.
When they finally reached Han and Leia's room, Luke, with Leia's help, managed to get Han up on the bed, where he promptly closed his eyes and fell into a blissful sleep.
A.N. Very short and not the best, but it'll have to do. We're running short of time.
Sweetdeath04 and Thorney
