Chapter 40

The trio finally left the Royal Palace and Padme was really happy with the decision that she had made even if she had to admit that it hadn't been a very easy one to make but in the end she was pretty determined about one thing: Going back to what she loves so much and being a good mother at the same time. Of course she was aware of the fact that being an advisor for the Queen would be a time consuming job but hearing the great adversity on her home world she couldn't nothing else but accept this gracious offer from Queen Mairayn. As they were standing outside the Palace Padme took one long moment to look one more time at this majestic building, this special one that was connected with both happy and horrible memories and one thing was for sure: Never had she thought after the events on Mustafar that she would enter those halls again.

It could be very well said that Jedi Master Ralkitta had been her personal guardian angel somehow even if she didn't know for sure why he had chosen to save her in the first place. Having the feeling that some explaining had to be done Padme finally said: "The Royal Palace of Naboo is a very special place to me, ever since I got elected the as the youngest ever at the age of fourteen. But the time as the Queen wasn't easy the whole time, the Invasion of the Trade Federation definitely being the biggest challenge in my term as the Queen of Naboo because they were times when I had to fight really hard with myself not to give up hope no matter how hopeless the situation was at this time." The Former Queen then drew away her look from the Palace and then motioned her two children to follow her back to the Speeder Taxi that was waiting for their return near the Entrance of the Royal Palace.

Leia was happy that her mother had accepted the position as the advisor of the Queen because after hearing those kind words from Queen Mairayn towards one of her predecessors' it was obvious to her that she was not a well respected politician but also a very driven person that would always have that big wish to change people's life's for the better, especially in this time of great need where everybody was still busy with taking care of the damage that the Galactic Civil War had done to the belongings of the people that lived on planets like Naboo.

Han Solo's and Leia's Apartment on Corcusant

Not far from the Senate Building Han Solo entered the Apartment that he shared with Leia since they had decided to move into the apartment together a while ago and as he looked around the empty room he wondered what she was up to right now. Of course he never had been that kind of sentimental guy before, but right now he couldn't help but admit to himself that he was truly missing her a lot and every minute without having her by his side was almost unbearable to him. He continued with getting all sentimental, as he sat down on the edge of their bed in the big bedroom, took one wonderful looking framed picture from the nightstand and kept looking at it for quite a while.

I guess that's some new side to me that came to the surface as I discovered my feelings for Leia and it's kind of weird to feel this comforted around her, because I never felt like this for a woman in my life and that can only mean that she might be the one that I want to spent my entire life with. He kind of couldn't really believe at first what he was thinking there, as he apparently was ready to settle down after having a very dangerous life for all these years by having the most dangerous job that you could ever have in the Galaxy in his opinion: A Smuggler of any kind of goods for the highest bidder before he decided to join the Rebellion again the evil Empire.

But another part of himself couldn't help but ask if this really was what he wanted: Leave his adventurous career as a Pilot of the Millennium Falcon behind so that he can maybe concentrate on maybe building a family with the woman he felt in love with a couple of years ago: the former Princess of Alderaan Leia Organa. This question wasn't so easy to answer as it might seem to any person that wasn't involved in the whole thing, because he still loved piloting the Millennium Falcon through Space even if every mission out there still came with a lot of risk.

So there was his big dilemma that he would definitely have to continue having trouble to solve any time soon: On one side he didn't want Leia to lose another person that was dear to her, after she had to witness the destruction of her home world first hand but on the other side he knew that wasn't the type of person that could sit at home for very long because it had always felt to him like being out there flying through space was something he needed to survive as much as he needed Oxygen.

Meanwhile on Naboo Leia, Luke and their mother had reached the Lake Country this one place that held a lot of good memories of Anakin, the Jedi that wanted to save her from dying after seeing that in a vision of the future and then had supposedly killed her in the attempt of doing so. Remembering the whole tragic of this for a second, Padme couldn't prevent some tears flow down her cheeks because she didn't want it to end this way between them after all the things that they had been through together but it seems that Destiny had another idea for the future of him. As quickly as those thoughts had clouded her mind she pushed them away again and tried her best to see into a positive future: Helping the people in need on Naboo and the rest of the New Republic and being a good mother for Leia and Luke.

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