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Following a surprisingly easy escape through the asteroid field that easily destroyed the imperial fighters without much effort on the Falcon's part, Han got the outrageous idea of landing inside one of the larger, more cavernous asteroid. Fortunately, Leia could talk him out of it. Tess wanted them out of the asteroid field so much that she didn't even call Leia out when the princess' main argument on getting out of there was that they had a kid on board and couldn't take such risks.

They stayed on the asteroid just long enough to plug Threepio into the hyperdrive and for Tess to walk in on a make-out session between Leia and Han, after which she exasperatedly insisted the two make up their minds between liking and hating each other. The second Threepio isolated the reverse power flex coupling, they were off.

Tess woke up from a nap in the one of the bunks on the Falcon and made her way to the cockpit with sleep lingering in her eyes. She immediately noticed the beautiful orange clouds.

"Whoa…" she whispered. She took her seat behind Chewbacca, who growled a good morning. "Where are we?"

"Visiting one of Han's friends, apparently," Leia explained.

"Well, that's guaranteed to go horribly."

"Glad to see your nap hasn't affected your sarcasm, kid," Han spat, already annoyed with the landing operator. "No," he repeated into the system. "I don't have a landing permit. I'm trying to reach Lando Calrissia—" Two blasts to the ship interrupted his sentence. "Whoa, wait a minute! Let me explain!"

"Well that was sooner than expected," Tess mused. "I thought we had at least an hour before failure."

As if on cue, they suddenly got granted permission to land. Tess hopped up between Leia and Han.

"Can we all do code names again?"

"No," the two of them said in unison. Chewbacca growled in agreement.

"Come on," Tess begged. "The last time wasn't that bad. Everyone believed you guys were a married couple because you argue all the time, I passed for Leia's daughter—"

"If I had you when I was eight," Leia interjected. "Besides, Han knows this person. The only person who gets the code name is you, considering the Empire decided to go heavy on the advertising with the infamous kid who escaped the Death Star."

"Ah, my bounty," Tess reminisced sarcastically. "All the crimes they came up with—thievery, deception, smuggling, all the way to the murder of imperial soldiers—how is someone going to believe that when my sketch made me look like I was five years old?"

"Yeah, well you still look like that," chuckled Han. Tess glared at him, then turned to Leia.

"Come on, you make up a code name too, its boring alone," Tess begged. "We could be sisters from Naboo—people always believe we're sisters. I'll be Inna again. What do you want your name to be?"

"No, Tess," Leia insisted. "No code names for me. Same cover story as usual. You're Inny Organa, my cousin."

"Sister," Tess demanded. "More embarrassing childhood stories to share."

"Fine," Leia sighed, throwing her head back in mental exhaustion. "You are going to give me premature gray hairs, Tess."

"Perfect. Then we'll have more fun when we do the married couple cover story because you'll finally look old enough."