We sat there for a long time. Almost too long. We hadn't spoken a word, but Han kept looking at me the whole time.

He looked so horrible.

Even more horrible than that time I caught him crying over a cup of Caff at the breakfast table. That day seemed so long ago.

He was deathly pale, and he had huge dark circles under his eyes. He looked abused.

I was just about to say something to him when the door slid open and 4 stormtroopers appeared.

"Come on. Let's go." They said, and I walked over to Han, helping him off of the ground. The troopers marched over to me and shoved me away from him. Chewie luckily caught my fall and growled at the troopers.

"Don't you ever hurt Han's girl." I blushed, and the troopers put Han's hands in handcuffs and braces on the top of his arms.

They led Han out of the room and then I started to follow them, but Chewbacca grabbed onto my arm, stopping me.

"Leia, wait." He growled at me, and I responded.

"What?"

"Tell him. Tell Han you love him."

"Right now?"

"Yes right now."

"Not yet. It's not the right moment."

"But…"Chewie started, but the Stormtroopers motioned us on.

"Chewie! 3PO!" I said, pointing to the droid. He hurried over and attached him to his back. I walked next to Han with Chewie holding up the rear as the troopers moved us towards a very strange room. We walked down the ramp of the chamber.

It had orange lights that oddly lit the room and a big hole in the middle with smoke coming out of it. What's going on?

We approached the platform of the chamber. Han walked over to Lando. "What's going on? Buddy?" He asked him, and Lando responded without turning to look at him.

"You're being put into carbon freeze."

Oh god. He really is going to be taken away from me. I looked over the big smoke pit. I turned to look to my left and gazed into Han's eyes. I could slightly hear Vader's voice scream out. "The Empire will compensate you if he dies. Put him in!"

In terror, Chewie roars a loud, "NOO!!!" and attacks the stormtroopers that are surrounding his friend. More troopers come and start clubbing the giant wookie. 3PO cries out in shock as the stormtroopers attack.

"Oh, NO! No, no, no! Stop, Chewbacca stop….!"

The troopers were about to bash Chewie rather hard in the face, but Han hurriedly interferes. "Stop, Chewie stop! Do you hear me? Stop!"

"Yes, stop please! I'm not ready to die!"

Han shakes himself away from his captors and Vader tells the guards to back away and let Han break up the fight.

"Chewie! Chewie, this won't help me. HEY!" He screams at him, giving him a stern look. "Save your strength. There'll be another time…" He starts. "The princess- you have to take care of her." I start to back up and walk towards Chewie. "You hear me?" I wrap one of my arms in his big furry one, and Chewie wails a, "Goodbye Cub." To him. The troopers slipped some binders on the wookie who doesn't protest. Han turns to me and I could feel tears in my eyes. We look sorrowfully at one another and then I grab his arm and pull him into a passionate kiss. We locked lips until the troopers pulled Han away and onto the platform.

I briefly thought back to what Chewie said.

"Leia, wait." He growled at me, and I responded.

"What?"

"Tell him. Tell Han you love him."

"Right now?"

"Yes right now."

"Not yet. It's not the right moment."

But now's the right moment.

"I love you!" I desperately scream at him.

"I know." He almost smiled.

The tears I never thought would come rolled down my face as he moves his way to the platform. Suddenly, the platform drops down and Chewie howls a, "NO!!"

I turn away in agony, my face buried into Chewie's thick fur. Even Lando, the cruel and heartless person he is probably felt pain.

I turned back just enough to see fiery liquid pour down in a shower of sparks. Chewie turns with me in his arms, and 3PO witnesses the scene.

"What…what's going on? Turn round, Chewbacca, I can't see. Oh…They've encased him in carbonite. He should be quite well-protected- if he survives the freezing process, that is."

Chewie was already mad as it was, but he growls a, "Shut up." to 3PO. Then a huge mechanical claw lifts Han in a carbonite form out of the huge chamber and let him drop with a thud on the floor. I move away from the form. The tears came back.

Lando started to glide over to the form and then kneels, adjusting some knobs. He then shakes his head. Is that in relief or sorrow?

"Well, Calrissian, did he survive?" Vader asks him.

"Yes, he's alive. And in perfect hibernation." Thank god.

Vader turns to Boba Feet. "He's all your bounty hunter. Reset the chamber for Skywalker."

An imperial officer descends the stairs, walking up to Vader. "Skywalker has just landed, my lord."

"Good. See to it that he finds his way here." Lando walks over to me and Chewie and grabs my arm, but Chewie holds me back.

"Watch it. Don't touch her." He says.

"Calrissian, take the princess and the wookie to my ship." Vader said.

"You said they'd be left in the city under my supervision!!!" Lando shouted at him.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." Vader says and then leaves.

Lando puts his hand up to his throat and then turns to us.

"It's not over yet."

I let my eyes drag from Han to Lando's face. "I thought I faced the worst. But now I know what the worst is." I said, looking sadly at Han's encased form one last time, and turning to Chewie. I glanced at the wookie and then we went storming past Lando.

So there's the chapter. I know it's not that long, and that it's mostly the script from ESB, but whatever. I can't believe this story is almost over. If y'all want me to do Return of the Jedi too, and what happens between ESB and ROTJ, just tell me.

Thanks for all my kind readers!!!

xoxo,

Alexandra