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Forget about It

AN: Hi Guys! Sorry it's taken so long! My horse is lame and we have a show on Friday, so I'm training with one of my backup horses. So I've been writing this on the way there and back. I combined some chapters so you might want to go back and read it again.

Anyway, the usual 'Please Review'!

--Anne

Dedicated to: My trainer. For her confidence and incredible patience.

Leia leaned on her brother, staring at Christine's bed where her sister lay in a induced sleep. Luke snapped out of his doze when she laid her head on his shoulder.

"No change?" He asked in a whisper. Leia shook her head, not able to speak. Luke gently hugged his sister, seeing her exhaustion from the past three days. Leia quickly jumped up, towel in hand as Christine started coughing blood. Her internal bleeding had not stopped excepting a brief period two days before. Leia took the bloody towel over to the sink to rinse it. She looked around the small room. Obi-Wan was curled up in the corner, Anakin and Padme were leaning against each other on one side of Christine's bed and Luke was sprawled across several chairs. Leia hung up the towel feeling restless.

She pulled up a chair next to Christine's bed. She took her sister's hand and began to sing under her breath, her other hand stroking her sister's hair.

"You think you're going nowhere, when you're walking down the street, you're acting like you just don't care, when life can be so sweet. Why you wanna be like that, cause if there's nothing new, you're not fooling no one, you're not even fooling you. So walk a little slower and open up your eyes, sometimes it's so hard to see the good things passing by. There may never be a sign, no flashing neon light, telling you to make your move, or when the time is right." Her cheerful song gradually woke everyone up. Leia felt Christine's hand twitch in her own.

"Her Signature is getting stronger." Anakin remarked at the end of the song.

Leia sent him the look that said 'Duh, Dad'. "Well then keep singing." She said, exasperated.

"I don't sing." Anakin said defensively. One of Leia's infamous Force slaps connected with the back of his head. "Ow Leia! That hurt!" He cried.

"Why not, take a star from the sky,
Why not, spread your wings and fly,
It might take a little
Or it might take a lot
So why not
why not" Leia reached the end of the song. She watched in amazement as Christine's eyes fluttered open.

Padme gently took her daughter's hand. "How do you feel sweetheart?" She asked.

"Like a herd of stampeding banthas pounded across my head." Christine answered. "Or in other words, I have a massive headache." The group laughed as a nurse hurried into the room. After checking several bleeping monitors she proclaimed Christine free to go.

When they had walked outside Luke glanced around. "Don't kill the messenger guys, but we don't have a ship." Anakin groaned.

Obi-Wan spoke up. "The youngling that flew me over is right there." Anakin tried not to laugh as he was attacked by a mental image of Yoda saying: A youngling he is not, a boy he is.

Padme and Obi-Wan glared at Anakin. "I guess I'm sorry wouldn't quite cover it?" Anakin asked sheepishly.

"Not quite." Obi-Wan reprimanded his old Padawan as they walked over to the young man. As they neared him, the man straightened and Anakin noticed with misgivings, the man had a blaster at his hip and the Wookie at his side.

"Han Solo." The man introduced himself with a swagger. "What can I do for ya?"

Padme spoke up, her political mask sliding into place. "We need a transport to Naboo. If you can do that for us?"

Han turned to his Wookie companion and growled something totally out of Anakin's border of languages. He turned back to Padme a smirk in place. "We'd be glad to ma'am." Anakin noted the look he was giving Leia. He signaled to Luke, who in his turn stepped up and slid his arm into Leia's.

Luke then noticed the ship. "What a hunk of junk!" He bit out.

Padme rounded on him. "Luke……" She said warningly.

Luke stared at the ground, he knew when to back off.

Boarding the ship, Christine retreated to the game table, where she engaged in a game of holo-chess with the Wookie. As she hesitated, her hand on a piece Han spoke up. "I'd let him win, Princess."

Christine looked up, blonde curls falling around her face. "Why?" She asked curiously.

Han nodded toward the Wookie, "Because Wookie's usually pull peoples arm's out when they lose."

"Oh be careful, Mistress Christine." C-3PO cried from a corner. "I'd hate to start planning your funeral, although it would give me something to do…" He broke off when he noticed the death glare Padme was sending him.

5 hours later…………

"I can't believe I am finally out of that rock they call a bed." Christine groaned, flopping on her bed at the apartment.

Padme gently hugged her daughter. "I know darling, I know." She pulled the blankets up around her daughter's neck. She nodded to Anakin who then put his daughter into a healing trance.

As the group walked out of the room, Leia pulled Luke aside into her room. "What are you hiding from me Luke Skywalker?" Leia demanded, hands on hips, braid coming out.

Luke tried to brush off her comment with a forced, unreal laugh. "Very funny Leia. What would I be hiding from you?"

Leia straightened to her full height. 'Sithspit, I am in for it now.' Luke thought. Little did he know, that wouldn't even cover it.

"How dare you look in my face and tell me that's not true!" She screamed, Force-enhancing her voice to magnify it.

Luke winced under the power of her voice. "I'm telling you Leia, I'm not hiding anything." He lied skillfully.

"Don't you lie to me, Luke Skywalker." She said quietly yet dangerously.

"No kidding Leia. But you would make a good assassin." Luke teased. That did it. Any dam that had been holding Leia back, broke.

"You lying, foul, twisted, son of a Sith Jedi!" She screamed at him before pacing the room, before coming to rest before him. "And I ask you again, what the Force are you hiding from me?" Her voice had gone deadly.

"Nothing Leia." Luke said with steely resolve.

Anakin who was peering around the corner with Obi-Wan and Padme whispered, "Wow. He's strong to face Leia like that. She's going to have his head."

"Luke!" She screamed. "Do you think I have the sense of a Bantha! I know you're hiding something from me and I will find out what it is."

So, Luke tried a different tactic. "Well, banthas are quite smart actually."

Leia turned away from him, running her hands through her hair. "Why did the Force create twin brothers?" She muttered to herself.

"Because you love me and you know it." Luke said sweetly, testing his limits.

"And believe me, even that has it's drawbacks." Leia snapped.

Luke dropped any plans he had for annoying Leia. He stood up and put his arms around her. "What's up Lei?" "It's so hard." She choked out. With a start Luke realized his sister was crying.

"What's so hard Leia?" He asked.

"Watching everyone around me die." Leia said, getting her emotions under control.

"Yeah, first Mom, then you-" Luke broke off as Leia interrupted him.

"No, first Breha died, then Mom got shot." Leia corrected him.

"Who's Breha?" Luke asked in confusion.

"Bail's first wife." Leia answered.

"He was married twice?" Luke asked incredulously.

"Yeah. Breha died around five years ago. She was like a second mother to me. That's part of what made the marriage between Mom and Bail such a great union. Bail married Mom about a year later." She shrugged. "And the rest is history."

"Yeah." Luke glanced at his twin, monitoring her emotions. "I never knew that."

Leia looked confused. "It was all over the news."

Luke laughed. "Well it's not like we get holo-papers on Tatooine."

Leia frowned. "I never thought of that."

Luke smiled slightly. "Welcome to the galaxy, little sis."

Leia threw her arms around him. "I'm so sorry."

Luke wrapped his arms around his sister's thin frame. "Leia, part of being a sibling or in our case, twin is that we are going to go rough patches. Everybody does. Mom and Dad did."

Leia smiled. "A big one."

Luke laughed. "Maybe that's an understatement."

Leia smiled, tightening her arms around her brother. "Sure, of the year."

Anakin, unable to stop himself, called out, "I heard that." Two seconds later, two suspicious twins poked their heads out from behind the door.

Seeing Padme, Obi-Wan, and Anakin, Luke and Leia exclaimed simultaneously, "You were listening!"

Anakin shrugged. "Of course. You might have said something important."

Luke's mouth fell open. "That's it. I'm putting up a Force barrier the next time Leia says a word to me."

Anakin grinned evilly, "Barriers are made to be broken."

Obi-Wan spoke up. "Which is a total understatement for you."

Leia suddenly perked up. "Why Dad? What did you do?"

"Yeah Dad, what did you do?" Luke asked, echoing his sister.

Anakin shot Obi-Wan the look that said: You got me into this, you get me out.

"I, um married your mother." Anakin said, clearly uncomfortable.

"What?" Leia said, confused.

"It's a long story." Padme interjected, sitting down and dragging Anakin with her.

"It all started on Tatooine with Obi-Wan's Master." Anakin began his tale, his two children hanging on his every word.