Chapter V
Sitting in the rest area of the Falcon, Leia, Luke, Lando and Chewie all tought about the revelations that Han had made the day before. Each one tried to understand why he had hidden his past from them. When he finally left his cabin they all glanced at him.
Han: Is there a problem?
They all shock the head while Chewie shouted him an answer.
Han: I'll be in the cockpit.
He left, leaving the other four perplexed.
Luke: I'll go...
The jedi rose and threw a last glance at his friends before joining Han. He find him sitting in the pilot seat, scanning the deep space.
Luke: You okay?
Han: Why would I not be okay, Luke?
Luke: Let me say that you don't seem like your old self.
Han: Come straight to the fact, what do you want Luke?
Luke: I... Why have you never talk about your past? It's not like you have to be ashamed of it?
Han: It's nothing like that Luke!
Luke: Than what? Why have you never told me your mother was a jedi?
The ex-smuggler took a deep breath before beggining his story.
Han: My mother was a powerful jedi. She was the youngest one to have acess to the Great Council and being named Jedi Master. She gave up the order to be able to marry my father. Despite everything, she remained very close to the Great Council. I grew up surrounded by Jedi Masters and Padawans... I saw the fall of the Jedi Order and the rise of the emperor. I saw my parents fights for the freedom of the galaxy. I saw my mother losing her other family. And then... I saw them being killed. I heard Vader ordering to open fire on my parents' ship. I still hear my mother's supplications...
Maya: Vader, I beg you! Save my children! Kill me, but please... Please Vader, don't kill my son and my daughter! The aren't Force sensitive!
Vader: Face your death, Master Kale!
Han: The fact of having been a jedi killed them Luke! Vader killed them for that! This damn Force carried out my mother to her tomb, and my father with her!
Luke: I understant your feeling toward Vader, Han... But, may I ask you to remember that Vader and Anakin Skywalker were two different person?
Han: I know Luke... It's not your father who ordered my putting in the carbonite, and it's not him who killed my parents, but... If only she hadn't been a jedi!
Luke: Then what happen after your parents death's?
Han: My mother sister's, Adena, came to live with Mayra and I. As the years passed I started to feel more and more choked by the life that I was living... I couldn't make any choice, my future was prepared in advance! So fourteen years ago, on the anniversary of the day my parents died, I decided to leave. I integrated the imperial fleet, I still don't know what I was thinking, choosing the empire over all the possibilities... Sometimes I wonder what would have happen if I had remained on Corellia.
Luke: She would have surely been less animated!
Han: Yes and... Maybe I would have never met Chewie, Lando, Leia and you.
Luke: Don't forget the droids!
Han: Yeah, sure! What would my life be without 3PO?
The two friends laughed before regaining their serious.
Luke: What will you do after?
Han: After what?
Luke: After the diplomatic mission? Will you stay on Corellia or will you come back with us on Coruscant?
Han: Honestly? I don't know... I still don't know how this mission will happen. On one side there's my amazing life as a General of the New Republic and on the other side there's my sister, whom I haven't see in fourteen years!
Luke: It doesn't matter what decision you will make, it will be a good one!
Then the on-board computer started to make some noise. Han pressed on some bottum before taking his comlick.
Han: Corellia in sight. We will land in fifteen minutes, so let's prepare.
Luke: I'll send Chewie.
The jedi left the cockpit, leaving the corellian alone.
Han: And here I am... Back home.
TBC
