Sorry, all! The new chapter is chapter 67, as I posted out of order! Sorry about the mix-up!

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Chapter 68

After the incident with the queen, the group decided to take a walk through the field outdoors, which should have been a peaceful setting for a peaceful conversation.

"I apologize for my mother. She not well," Fabio remarked with a hint of the accent that his mother had abolished.

"You mean she's insane," Han stated bluntly.

"She is not insane!" Fabio claimed passionately, then, with a magical stroke of his fingers through his lustrous hair, he was calm again. "She just upset because she not like intruders. She can feel when people intrude palace, like Fabio feel when people want him."

"That's just great. All we need is a pair of Force-sensitive crazies running around," Han groaned.

"Horse-sensitive? I always have soft spot for the ponies."

Han slapped his palm to his forehead. "No, I said Force-sensitive. I was just saying that it would be pretty bad if it turned out that you and your crazy mom were Force-sensitive."

"What is this Force?"

"Never mind. We don't want to get into it," Leia said.

"Really – Fabio wants to know," the prince pleaded.

"Okay, I'll tell you what the Force is, if you really want to know. It's an illness that will gradually make you look ugly and old. It takes about a month for its full effect to take place," Han teased.

"No!" Fabio yelled. "That not true, that impossible! The Force evil!"

"He's just kidding, Fabio," Leia clarified, rolling her eyes. "The Force isn't an illness."

"Not an illness?"

"No."

"Good – we shall move on," Fabio stated, seemingly unaffected.

The group continued their journey through the fields, tumbling in and out of conversation, and Leia thought that she was just about to get Fabio to agree to have his planet join the Alliance when he felt a drop of moisture upon his slightly upturned chin.

"Arh…Geese! A curse on all your houses!" Fabio bellowed, shaking his fist at the sky. He glanced upward, and then turned around and shot a confused look at his companions. "Where Geese?"

More drops of moisture fell on Fabio and the rest of the group, but soon they realized that it wasn't an onslaught from Geese, it was raindrops.

"Melting, I'm melting! Get me back to palace, I'm melting!" Fabio screamed, running around in circles.

"You're not melting, Fabio. It's just rain," Han sighed.

"What is this…rain?"

"You mean you've never been in the rain before? Haven't you ever at least seen it from the window or something?" Han questioned, raising his eyebrows.

"Fabio no like windows," he stated seriously.

"O-kay. I think your problem is worse than I had thought," Han commented.

"I have problem?"

Han smacked his forehead again (a prominent red mark was starting to form there from his agitated motions) and shook his head, wishing that he had never met this insane character. His wave of self-pity was broken by his wife's gentle entreaty.

"Han, we should go find some shelter. I don't want Alden to be out here in the rain."

"Definitely," he agreed, looking over to his son to make sure he was all right. He took off his vest and covered his son in its warmth, taking him from Leia's arms into his own. "Let's head to the Falcon, it's closer."

"Thank you, Captain Solo. I am certain that my gears would not have been able to survive such weather," Threepio stated.

Chewie rumbled his agreement, shaking himself so that small droplets flew off of his fur in all directions.

The group trudged through the grass, which was slowly becoming more difficult to walk through as the dirt transformed into mud. They reached the Falcon, and all but Leia were through the hatchway when they realized that they were missing a group member.

"Fabio! Where are you going? Come in here," Leia shouted at the quickly retreating prince.

"Fabio not go in there," Fabio stated emphatically, pointing at the Falcon.

"Why not?"

"Fabio would rather die in this rain than go in there."

"The Falcon's the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. She's perfectly fine. Please come inside the ship," Leia said, defending her husband's pride and joy.

"No. Fabio too rich to walk in there. I go to palace."

"Fabio, I will ask you for the third time – please come inside the ship."

"Okay," he replied, walking up the ramp. Once inside, he let out a loud groan. "Fabio no believe you figure out secret. Cannot be asked same question three times, or will always agree."

Leia took a minute to try to piece his jumbled sentences together, but once she did she realized she now knew something about Fabio that she could use to her advantage.

"Fabio," she entreated, "will you please agree to have your planet join the Alliance?"

"Not sure. Fabio need to ask mother."

"But she already said no, and she's insane anyway," Leia explained. Fabio was about to argue against his mother's insanity when Leia quickly continued her statement.

"Fabio, will you please agree to have your planet join the Alliance?"

"No, not two times! You better not…"

"Fabio, will you please agree to have your planet join the Alliance?"

"Okay."

"Yes!" Leia exclaimed, running off to tell Han the good news.

Fabio sighed, and sat down on one of the well-worn couches in the lounge. "Fabio need to learn self-control."