Warning: Most of this chapter is Author's Note.
The black shadow hovered above Leia and it's words were more taunting then its presence could ever be,
"You are just as stubborn as your mother."
Leia's thin eyebrows knitted together in anger,
"Don't speak of my mother! You've!"
Suddenly Leia felt a tight pressure around her neck and couldn't avoid focusing all her strength in breathing.
"Yes... Just as Padmé."
Leia struggled through gasps,
"Amidala.. is not my mother."
Leia closed her eyes and tried to summon the power that had grown within her but it couldn't be found.
It can not end here.
Vader's lightsabre dimmed suddenly leaving Leia to wonder if she had not been sliced by her throat yet.
"It has barely begun,"
There was silence and Leia could barely distinguish the light from the dark but she knew something was moving.
Vader called forth Luke's former sabre into his hand and held it in mid air before crushing it, letting the remnants fall to the floor in front of Leia.
"In time you will construct your own sabre. One mended completely of darkness."
Leia wanted to speak but could only watch the smaller particles of the sabre being liftedby the wind coming through the shattered glass behind Vader. Leia willed her hands to desperately grasp onto all the pieces she could as she bowedweaklyand
unwillingly before Darth Vader.
That was all left of Luke...
Suddenly the blurred darkness and her single thought turned to nothing as the invisible grip around her throat numbed her and she fell to the ground.
••••
Pooja awoke disoriented, she felt tangled in the black and blue garments she still wore. She blinked a few times trying to gain compete consciousness only to realize she was about to be transported onto a medical capsule with urgency. Pooja quickly gathered
her strength and willed her feet to stand erect.
"Alright, I'm alright."
She tried to make sense but even she was still confused as she moved through the room. She numbly made her waytowards one of the servant dressed women in search of her Queen.
Pooja began to feel desperation and anxiety as she reached the body, and just barely fell to the ground on her knees right beside her Queen,
"Here! Take her immediately to the medical center, make sure to-"
The guards were quiet for what seemed like an eternal second,
"Milady, she is dead. They're all dead."
Just then Pooja looked around the room, in a mix of white stormtroopers and red dressed palace guards,all the colors seemed to collid in her mind with her uneven thoughts. Just then it suddenly hit Pooja that the room was full of guards and servants lined
up against the floor.
Pooja ran her hands against her face in desolation as she looked at the Queen's still face and pled tormentingly silently for theforgiveness she didn't think she'd ever deserve.
In an act of instinct Pooja shot her head up and searched,
"Master Tahn?"
The guards helped her up,
"He's been taken by Lord Vader, along with the other visitor."
Pooja felt confused and distraught at the mere thought,
"Leia... And Tahn, what could he want with..."
Pooja closed her eyes trying to clear her hectic mind and she once again opened them to look down on her Queen,
"Take this body to be tended to with special care. Inform me when all the imperial troopers have left."
••••Author's Note••••
Hello guys, so it's been a while since I've had a long and meaningful author's note and considering this chapter is prettyshort (because that's necessary)here I go:
Carrie Fisher passed away AKA my forever and always space queen: Princesss Leia. Now, no—for me this has not been a moment to stop my life and cut my wrists but it has become a moment to stop and think once again, wow I'm writing a story that yes maybe
isn't canon and could never be canon or get further than 2 or 3 reads but it is a story I strongly believe in because this is a character I think so many young women could identify with and look up toand a character that has so much more left to say.
And that's another incredible thing about FanFiction is that you can get so far within the boundaries established by someone else because maybe you uncover and offer something new that someone and no one never thought about. The endless possibilities
are wonderful.
Anyway,back to my gorgeous space queen,I want to always make sure I do justice to her by sincerely considering who she was, who she could have been in the past and who she could of turned out to be by also incorporating her trademark personality but also
shaping and molding it not because I can change her into anything but because I'm making a story and that's what happens in stories you change the charecters, never really their essence but they do grow. And the best part I think is being able to
change how others view them, like how Rogue One has forever done with Darth Vader and the Death Star (which Btw the past scenes have been greatly inspired and affected by.)
So back again to my boo Carrie, these past chapters have sort of been bathed in darkness and Leia's failure also due to the fact that Carrie passed away and I somehow wanted to tribute to the idea that we are all human, even these sci-fi charecters we
all look up to so that's why Leia is in this position right now. There's nothing better than a reminder that you could lose everything, and that's why we fight.
I don't know if many of you take this as seriously as I try to take everything and anything I do but Star Wars lately has been very important to me and especially since I just started getting backto writing this story before Carrie passed away and I felt
inexplicably devastated that I hadn't been fair to her or to myself because I wasn't offering everything I could with the story. So in a way I guess this is an apology to not only her for not doing the best I could with this, which is undeniably her
story in a big way but also an apology to you guys, my beautiful readers. I thank you guys so much for the feed back and it is without a doubt so important and precious to me in writing because I am posting the chapters as I finish writing them and
the fact that you guys can tell me more about what you want me to include really helps me come up with more ways to deepen the story and shape it not into my vision but into what you envision so definitely keep on with the suggestions because I adore
every comment you guys have had to say.
So thank you and in honor of all that just in case you guys care I have been going back to rewrite and edit some chapters, extending some and deepening others. The mayor changes were done in Heiress To The Galactic Victory, where I added a fighting sequence
between Leia and Tahn and also changed some dialogue.
Carrie Fisher died Tuesday, Dec. 27th 2016, drowned in moonlight and strangled by her bra.