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I might have less time to update this thing, because now school started and I actually have stuff to do—oh, the horror!

Chapter 2: Go Shove It Up Your Tauntaun

2 hours later

"Well where do YOU think he is?" yelled Han over the storm.

He and Lila were embroiled in an argument over Luke's whereabouts.

"Not here! He wouldn't go onto a frozen lake!" retorted Lila. "He's somewhere over that way!"

"How do you know?"

"I just do!" Lila spurred on her tauntaun, knowing Han would follow. Riding for ten minutes, shivering all the way, telling the Force to go fuck itself (it had been constantly reminding her that Jedi were supposed to ignore pain), she pulled her tauntaun to a halt. A small dark form about ten feet away was laying facedown in the snow.

"Kid!" Han quickly got off his lizard and went to the partially-unconscious Rebel Commander in the snow. Lila followed.

"Come on, give me a sign!" she muttered. "If you die Leia is going to kill me!"

"Ben . . . Yoda . . . Dagobah . . ."

Then, a second later, she spoke again: "Shit," said Lila and Han at the same time as their tauntauns collapsed.

"Okay," said Han, "Lila, you are gonna have to cut open that animal."

"Um, ew. Why?"

"Because the kid's gonna die if we don't get him warm!" snapped the ex-smuggler. Lila didn't move. Han sighed and used Luke's lightsaber to cut open the animals. He then did exactly what he said he would, and shoved Luke headfirst into the tauntaun guts.

"You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me."

"Nope. We gotta keep him warm until I get the shelter up."

Lila shook her head in disgust and helped Han raise the small tent in his pack, then raised her tent.

"And I thought these beasts stunk on the outside!" she huffed as she and Han rolled Luke into the tent.

"What, mature, responsible Lila can't handle a bit of bad air?" teased Han. Lila slapped him across the face and stormed off into her tent.

No matter how many times she told herself she needed to rest, she couldn't sleep. It wasn't just the cold, though that was a big factor. It was what Luke had mumbled when they first found him. If Ben's ghost had indeed appeared and talked to him, and instructed him to go to Dagobah, then she was in trouble.

Yoda didn't like her.

He thought she was too headstrong, willful, and rebellious. But there was no question of her not going with Luke; she was in dire need of completed training. And before Ben had died, he'd told her that Luke needed to be trained in the Force. If he died out here, she was so screwed it wasn't even funny.

Finally she shoved her thoughts to the back of her mind and went to sleep.

SWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSW

Lila awoke to bright sunlight. Heaving herself out of her tent, she shielded her eyes against the blazing white landscape that awaited her.

"Good morning, lazy-head." Lila scowled at Han.

"Any contact from Base?"

"Not yet, but they better come soon. Luke's got frostbite in his fingers and toes."

"Tauntaun treatment didn't work?" she asked sarcastically.

Han glared at her.

Lila relented. This was not the time for smart comments. Luke was in danger, her Padawan-hood was in danger, and if someone didn't find them soon . . . . Han fiddled with a few controls on his transmitter. The antenna was out all the way, and he was sweeping it in random directions, but nobody was answering.

"Wait," said Lila. She reached out with the Force, concentrating as though her life depended on it. Which, technically, it did.

First nothing, then . . . wait! There was something flickering on the edge of her senses, just barely there . . . she reached out with all her strength.

"They're coming," she said. "They're coming to find us."

"How do you know?"

Lila sighed and threw a snowball at Han. After five years, he still didn't believe in the force. Then static came over the radio transmitter, then a voice.

"This is Rogue Two. This is Rogue Two. Captain Solo, do you copy? Commander Skywalker, do you copy? Commander Kenobi, do you copy?"

"Good morning," said Han. "Nice of you guys to drop by."

"Echo Base, this is Rogue Two. I've found them. I repeat, I've found them."

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So there's chapter 2, have fun reviewing!