Chapter 30

The transport with Leia, Luke and their mother on board touched down at the little spaceport in the Lake Country. Padme got more nervous by the minute, because she was a little bit worried about the reaction of her family, doubting that they would really believe that she was the person that she claimed to be after they had been present at her funeral many years ago. But as the trio stepped out of the transport Padme tried to busy her mind with something else, because she figured that getting all paranoid would get her nowhere in the end and instead she decided to focus on enjoying the positive things in her life: Her children and being back at home after such a long time.

The Space Port was very crowded at this point, a lot of people were walking around with little bags swung over their shoulders like her daughter and son and Padme couldn't help but scan the large crowd for any familiar faces. Of course the arrival at the Lake Country also brought up some memories about the time that she had spent with Anakin here, but as those were so bittersweet the former Senator didn't want to give them so much thought but rather to be stuck in the past she wanted to focus on the future she was about to have with her children. "The House of my Family is only five minutes away from here and I know the shortest path to reach it on foot." Padme said as they had finally left the little Space Port behind them and took one moment to enjoy the wonderful view of the forest they had directly in front of them.

The former Queen of Naboo took one deep breath soaking in the air into her lunges, Luke and Leia enjoyed the wonderful view of Naboo's rich nature and the twins were surely looking forward to see much more of the place where their mother grew up. Padme then lead the way up a small path, that lead through a big part of the forest that they had overlooked from the hill outside of the small Space Port of the Lake Country and they also saw some small animals crossing their path along the way.

"I'm really proud of the fact that you two try your best to make a contribution in helping to rebuild the Republic again and it's sad that your father isn't able to see this with his own eyes, but deep down I know that he would also be so proud of what his children have done to bring back peace to this galaxy." Padme said, had a big smile on her face as she shortly turned to face the twins but then she had to concentrate back on remembering the way to the little house of her family because she definitely had no interest in getting lost and they didn't know if they actually would meet someone out here anytime soon that would be able to help them to get back on the right path if necessary.

Millennium Falcon on Route back to Coruscant

The flight back to the Capitol of the New Republic would still take some time and Han hoped that their wouldn't be a new assignment waiting for him, so that he could fully concentrate on spending some time with Leia the wonderful that he had fallen in love with quite a while ago. Of course being in love with a woman had been something really new to him at the very beginning but as more time he had spent with her over the last years the more he had started to realize one thing: He had fallen in love for the first time in his life, after it had been just him and the wide room of space for the past years and that surely was a feeling that was a bit scary new to him at first.

Spending some more time with Leia had changed him a lot: At the beginning he had been a very big macho to all the women that he met, even at the first time he met Leia but that had changed as he started to feel something that had been totally foreign to him all those previous years: real love for a woman. They had grown closer as they had spent more time together and over the years she had been able to do something that no one had been able to do so far: See behind the macho mask and uncover that the Captain of the Falcon was a very romantic guy deep down in his heart. Of course he tried to keep up his macho-image as best as he could, as he didn't want to be looked at as a softie who could be easily messed around with but not everybody believed that scheme to be true.

Han surely missed Leia every moment they were separated because of both of their time consuming jobs and they both definitely enjoyed every minute of being able to spend some time alone away for at least some hours from all the hectic life on Corusant. He remembered it like it was yesterday: He and Leia lying on the bed together in her apartment on the home world of the New Republic, he was softly stroking the right cheek of the woman he loved so much and for a long moment he just got lost in these wonderful eyes of her.

Naboo, Lake Country

On the short walk to the house, Leia told her mother about Han, the man that she had fallen in love with quite while after she didn't have such a good impression of him at their very first meeting. Padme was really touched by the story as she listened to every word and of course was looking forward to meet Captain Solo in person really soon. "The last time I was here to visit the Lake Country was during the Clone Wars against the Separatists, some systems that wanted to be independent from the Old Republic and its really good to see that nothing has changed here since that." Padme said as they already could see the house of Padme's Parents on the horizon and the twins were looking forward to get to know the family of their mother.

A few minutes later the three arrived at the house of the Naberrie's and of course Padme hesitated for a while to knock on the door of the house, but she finally gathered all her courage together, knocked onto the wooden main door of the house and anxiously waited for somebody inside to answer it. For a minute Padme feared that nobody was home and that they had to turn around again, but then the door was slowly opened by Jobal Naberrie and you could see that she was definitely asking herself right now if she was dreaming or if this was really happening.

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