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"Where else could he have gone? Tatooine isn't that far from Bespin, not even a few days at most. This whole situation seems a little strange to me." Lando announces to their small group, he and Chewie went straight to Tatooine after leaving Luke and Leia off with the rest rebels. They haven't seen or heard anything about Boba Fett during the past weeks they spent on the desert planet.

Leia shakes her head,"A little strange? I think it's very strange. What would Boba Fett want Han for other than to deliver him to Jabba?"

"Maybe he's just having problems with his ship, or he knows we'd try and get on his tail as soon as we could. I don't think Boba Fett is stupid, he's gonna wait a while to actually deliver Han to Jabba, when he thinks that we already gave up." Luke quickly reasons.

Leia nods,"possibly, that does make a lot of sense. I do believe your explanation can be true, Luke. There is only one detail I don't agree with you on, If Boba Fett isn't stupid, then why do you say that he thinks that we will eventually give up on Han?"

Luke shrugs,"He might not know what it feels like to care about someone."

Leia looks at the metal floor gloomily, I wonder what that would feel like, to not care about anyone, but myself… "We have to start planning how we'll rescue Han, when he is on Tatooine. We need to be as well prepared as we possibly can. How much do you guys know about Jabba's Palace?" Leia's confident demeanor returns as quickly as it left.

"I've been there too many times to count, what do you want to know?" Chewie grumbles.

"Everything." Leia answers plainly.

Nearly completely opaque gases and unshed tears obscure my vision. Vader's constant mechanical breathing is enough to make me feel sick, but that jarring thud…

Leia swiftly sits up. Her lips quiver slightly as she sinks her face into her hands. She rocks slightly, in attempt to ward of the tears that she knows will come anyway. She hates crying, it makes her feel so powerless, which is something that she definitely is not. But when you have nightmares of people who you love suffering, it is hard to hold your emotions in, especially when the nightmares are just repeats of events that had actually occurred.

Oh Han, how is it that you can affect me like this? Leia silently thought. Suddenly a feeling of panic and emptiness washes over her. She feels like she is suffocating, her hands claw at her neck, in attempt to remove whatever is restricting her breathing. Several moments pass before Leia begins to realize nothing was ever there, she was always breathing and still continues to, but the terrifying feeling is still there. She sits breathing heavily, staring into the darkness, trying to remember where she is.

Her breathing began to slow. The strange feelings had almost completely diminished. I'm fine. I'm fine. I was just sleeping. We had been trying to figure out how to rescue Han for hours, and we hardly made any progress, oh force! Han I'm so sorry! Leia wistfully begins to break down. She sobs uncontrollably, for minutes or hours, she is unable to tell.

"Leia, are you okay?" genuine concern is visible in Luke's eyes.

She nods,"Yes, I'm fine Luke. Aren't we all really stressed out right now?"

Luke nods as he takes a bite out of his breakfast,"Yeah, but I assumed that you might've been affected a little more than the rest of us."

Leia throws him a questioning glance,"And why is that?"

He shrugs,"Well Chewie told me you and Han's… relationship has changed, a lot too. I also kind of felt something last night."

Leia cannot control the slight blush that tinges her cheeks, or the sorrow that crushes her heart when Luke mentions Han. Luke's words confused her though,"What do you mean, that you felt something last night?"

"Well," He began slowly,"It was something, or more specifically someone, I felt them through the force. I'm almost completely certain you felt it too."