A.N I do not own Star Wars

A.N2 AU/OOC

A.N3 Leia is an only child in this story and she grew up in an orphanage. She found her way into the Rebellion at 17 as a starfighter pilot. Vader is suitless. Also, Leia will not be the pilot to fire the shot that destroyed the Death Star. There will be character bashing.

A.N4 It will take place during ESB

Wedge Antilles was the pilot that fired the kill shot that destroyed the Death Star. Leia's success was taking out nine TIE fighters. That was when Vader found out one of the pilots but it was not the one who destroyed the Death Star. It was the pilot who took out many TIE fighters. When the holo, name, and service record was shown; Vader nearly passed out. Lieutenant Leia Skywalker, parents Padme Amidala Naberie and Anakin Skywalker, life day - Empire Day.

Vader had suspected that Padme was pregnant with a girl. Padme was convinced was having a boy. He knew Sidious lied and he would pay dearly for that. However, if the karking Rebels figure out Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are the same, Leia would be executed by them. He decided to shift his daughter's involvement in the battle over Yavin 4 on one of the defected Imperial Starfighter pilots.

While Vader was searching for the Rebels, especially his daughter, things went to hell on Hoth. Leia was gravely ill with some virus. Mon Mothma knew Leia needed treatment that the Alliance could not offer. She knew if Leia was kept on Echo Base, she would die. Padme would have risked it all to get Leia to help. That is why she was taken to a medical facility on Bespin. Hopefully, she wouldn't be recognized. Leia would be on her own.

Leia was admitted to the ICU on Bespin and that was when she tested positive for Chryo Hemorrhagic Fever, a hemorrhagic fever that has a high fatality rate if not treated with anti-virals within four standard days. The people who brought her in said she had been sick for two days. Doctor Veeru commed the Empire. That was when Captain Piett took the comm.

"Milord, you will want to take this. A Doctor Veeru has Leia Skywalker as a patient in the intensive care unit at Cloud City General Medical Center. He said she is positive for Chryo Hemorrhagic Fever."

Piett was the only one of his men who knew the truth that Leia is his daughter. "I will take it in my quarters."

Vader pushed the button for the comm. "This is Lord Vader, what is going on exactly?"

"The Rebels brought her in. She had been sick with a high fever for two days that wouldn't respond to normal medications. She is already on anti-virals."

Never mind the Rebels, he needed to worry about an intergalactic pandemic.

"Has she said what planets she has been on recently?"

"No milord, she is unresponsive. The Rebels who brought her into emergency abandoned her there."

"I will be there in twelve hours."

The line went silent. Right now would be the ideal time to pull Leia out of the Rebellion. She would be too incapacitated with fever to be worried about her trying to escape. He blamed the Rebels for his daughter's illness. It took too long to reach Cloud City General Hospital in Vader's mind. When he landed in Cloud City, Vader was taken to a private family room where Leia's doctor would be down to see him. It was a short wait.

"Milord, I am Doctor Veeru. Skywalker has responded to the anti-virals but she is still unconscious."

"I wish to see her."

"You will need to put on protective clothing and a mask."

"That's fine"

He was given protective clothing, gloves, and a mask to put on before he entered Leia's room. The sight was horrible. Leia was drenched in fever. She has an ice blanket on, tubes and wires were everywhere. The doctors had placed her on an oxygen mask. Vader decided to use the force to see what planets Leia has been on recently. He could feel the heat of her fever through the gloves. When he entered his daughter's mind, he saw a frozen wasteland. It looked she has been on Hoth and the Rebellion has been there for quite a long time. He pulled his comm and hit the button for the ship.

"Captain Piett, the Rebels are on Hoth. The planet is to be put on a military quarantine. Alert Imperial health services incase the Rebels have fled Hoth. We could have a potential pandemic on our hands, Chryo Hemorrhagic Fever."

"I am on it. Do you want troopers down to the surface?"

"No, we don't have the protective equipment on the ship. If they are down there, block them so they can't transmit this to the rest of the Empire."

"Yes Milord"

Piett hung up and he knew what needed to be done to stop an intergalactic pandemic.

Back at the medical center, Vader put his daughter in a healing trance. If Doctor Veeru said what he was seeing was considered an improvement, he did not want to see the condition Leia had to have been in when she was brought in.

That night he spent on the shuttle and came back to see Leia the next morning. Doctor Veeru was examining Leia. Vader waited out in the hallway. Ten minutes later, he was out.

"Lord Vader, she is doing better. Her temperature dropped during the night. She should regain consciousness sometime today. However, she is severely anemic. That is a common complication of Chryo Hemorrhagic Fever. She is getting iron supplements by drip."

Vader put on the protective clothing, mask, and gloves and went in to see Leia. Leia's color looked better and she was off of the ice blanket. Suddenly Vader saw Leia's eyes open. She looked dazed and confused. Vader left to get a doctor.

"She's awake"

A few minutes later, Leia saw a doctor come in. "Leia, my name is Doctor Veeru. You are a patient at Cloud City General Medical Center. You have Chryo Hemorrhagic Fever. I need to know what planets you have traveled to recently. It's important because the virus you have is highly contagious and has a high fatality rate?"

A single tear fell down Leia's cheek because she knew she would be betraying the Rebellion but she did not want other people to get sick because of her. "We have been Hoth. I did have an assignment on Naboo a week ago. I was only in Theed."

The doctor gasped and the woman who was with him left the room. She could see she was speaking to an Imp out in the hallway. The man pulled out his comm. Leia knew her time in the Rebellion was over. She would be seen as a traitor but she did not want other people to get sick because of her.

Leia saw the Imp come into her room as the doctor left. "If you wish to kill me, just get it over with. I would rather be dead than be told I can never fly again."

The sith lord lost it and began laughing. While Leia looks like Padme, she is clearly his daughter. "Why would I kill my own daughter? You were kidnaped as an infant and placed in an orphanage. I had been a Jedi before you were born. Kenobi was the one who kidnaped you and your mother. Leia, were you on any other planets besides Naboo and Hoth?"

"No, those were the only places I have been. Supplies come in from wherever we can get them, I don't have that type of clearance."

That answered some of his questions. From what the nurse told him, Leia is going to be in-patient for at least a week. She will need continuous monitoring to make sure she doesn't relapse. "Leia, what about your involvement in the battle over Yavin 4?"

"What about it? My orders were to strictly provide cover fire for Wedge and to take out weapons stations. It did not matter if I was in a better potion to take a shot against the Death Star. They did not want a female being the one to take it out. That was according to Mon Mothma."

Vader was surprised and now he had a name for the pilot involved in the actual shot. "Your mother was friends with her in the senate. If she heard that, Mothma would need treatment for a ruptured eardrum."

"The witch wouldn't stop comparing me to mom. She said how disappointed my mother would be by choosing to be a pilot instead of a senator."

"You know you are not going back there."