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Chapter 30
That night, after everyone had left the apartment, Han and Leia went to bed. As they climbed under the covers, Leia suddenly remembered something.
"Han, have you talked to Ty lately? I missed him tonight. He should have been here with the family."
"Yeah, I talked to him yesterday over the com. I was just thinking that he should spend some more time with his new parents. Once he's used to them, we can go over and visit more often."
"I hope we don't have to wait too long. Do you think we made the right choice, not adopting him ourselves?" She stared into his eyes, hoping to draw out his true feelings.
"You know I would have liked to adopt him, but we've talked about this already. The Bengleys didn't have a child of their own, we do," he said, gently placing a hand on his wife's belly. "They deserve a little happiness in their lives, too. And we're going to be making a lot more people happy after we open our adoption agency."
"If they still let us open one, after all that bad press," Leia commented dryly.
"They will, unless they want to be facing three angry Wookiees, and one livid Corellian."
Leia grinned, and tilted her head forward to give Han a kiss. His lips met hers with spontaneous passion, and after basking in happiness for a moment she paused.
"Do you think we'll always be like this?" she asked in a whisper, overwhelmed with love for her husband, and terrified that what they had could fade in time.
"Do you really have to ask, Leia?"
He held her chin in his hand, and kissed her deeply, entwining his other hand in his wife's long tresses. As the kiss became more insistent, and passion engulfed her senses, Leia had absolutely no doubt as to what lay in their future. This was forever.
After they made love, Leia rested in Han's arms, all negative thoughts pushed from her mind. All her thoughts were on Han, the new baby, and Alderaanian brittle crackers. She wasn't really sure how brittle crackers had managed to enter her happy thoughts, but they were there all the same. She tried to push the thought of those delicious, sweet, and crunchy crackers from her mind, but her attempts were to no avail. The more she tried to ignore the tempting treats, the more the thought of them drove her mad. She had to have them. Sure, they didn't have any at home, and no stores would be open now, but when was the last time Han let her down? He would get them for her.
"Han," she entreated in her most sultry voice.
"Yeah, Leia?" he mumbled, on the verge of falling asleep.
"Will you do me a favor, if I give you a reward?"
He woke up a little in response to that. "Sure. Do you want your feet rubbed again?"
"No. I want you to go to the store and get me Alderaanian brittle crackers."
"What? You're joking, right? No store's open this late!"
"Well, maybe Luke has some. Or maybe Chewie – Malla told me once that he liked them for some odd reason. Please?" she begged.
"Why can't you do it? You're not exactly bed-ridden. You're not even two months pregnant yet!"
"But, Han…I'll give you a reward, remember? And you'll have my undying gratitude…"
"No, Leia. I'm sure everyone's asleep right now, anyway. Do you really want me to wake up Luke from his Jedi beauty sleep to get crackers?"
"Yes!"
"Well, I'm not going to. You can do it, I'm going to sleep," Han finished as he lay his head on the pillow.
"Solo!" Leia shouted, causing Han to jump back up. "You are getting me those crackers right now!"
Han, knowing he could never argue when she used her "princess voice," got up and dressed quickly. "Your reward had better be good, Princess," he warned before walking out the door.
Leia lay back down; content in the knowledge that she had Han tightly wrapped around her little finger. He was stubborn, but he always came through.
When Han returned, after waking up everyone he knew to ask if they had Alderaanian brittle crackers and finally finding them at Wedge's apartment (who somehow still didn't know about Leia's pregnancy so the request seemed more than a little odd), he found Leia in a deep slumber. He bent down and kissed her forehead, putting the crackers on the nightstand next to her. He got in bed and wrapped his arms around her, unable to stay mad at her, no matter how difficult an experience she had put him through.
You've got it bad, Solo, he thought to himself. Somehow, though, he didn't mind one bit.
