Chapter 2

Leia woke up still in her Mother's arms. She felt safe there but she still wasn't sure she could trust this woman or the monster. She slipped quietly out of the arms of her Mother careful not to wake her. There was no one else around this was her chance to get away in a escape pod or sneak on a ship heading in the direction home. This was her chance and she would not let it slip by. She looked back at her Mother and felt bad about leaving her but she wanted to go home and for this nightmare to end.

Leia quietly walked up to the door and it opened she couldn't believe her luck she slipped into the hallway staying against the wall tell she was sure she was alone. Then she headed off in search of a hanger or an escape pod. She was walking around for a while when it acurred to her that it was strange that she hadn't seen anyone around. What she didn't know was that most people tried to stay as far away from Vader's chambers as possible and even more so after his wife had arrived. But then as she got farther away she started noticing people and had to duck and hide to avoid being seen. She had no idea where she was going and she was starting to get scared but she was a princess and she needed to be brave. Maybe she could follow an officer or a storm trooper to the docking bay. She didn't think it would be a good idea to ask someone because she was not sure if there were other little girls on the ship and she did not want to be recaptured but at this rate she might have to risk it. It was possible that some of the officers had their families on board.

She saw some men in uniforms walk by and she decided she would try and follow them and see where they went it was worth a try. So she got up and walked out of the hallway. She walked right into someone making his data chips fall to the ground "Oh, I'm sorry" said Leia quickly as she starts to pick them up and gives them to the man, when she notice the man is staring at her. She takes a step back. "What are you doing here, I didn't know there were children onboard, and you shouldn't be out here alone." Leia thought oh no what am I going to do and then an idea came to her. "I..I got lost, I was with my parents they had a meeting and I wandered off the ship where I was suppose to wait for them and now I can't my way back to the hanger" She said and added a few tears to go along with her story. The man thought for a moment wondering how she got all the way up here. Without being spotted, And secondly who in the right mind would bring a child this close to the dark lord was out of his or her mind. She was luckily she didn't run into him. He needed to get her back to the ship before she got into any trouble. He had kids of his own and wanted to give her parents a piece of his mind when he found them, "I will take you back there, we just have to drop off these files first, you are lucky you didn't run into any trouble." he told her as he took her hand and Leia accepted because she felt she could trust him. "Please, don't tell anyone on the ship I wander off I will be in so much trouble." Leia pleaded, she hoped that stop him from talking to anyone on the ship she was going to stole away on. He made small talk with the little girl as they walked along he hoped they didn't run into Vader on the way he didn't think he be too forgiving to find a little girl was able to bypass the security and when Vader wasn't happy people died.

Meanwhile

Padme woke up to find Leia missing. At first she hoped Leia had woken up and was scared and hid some where in one of the other rooms. But as she looked more and more she stared to panic she could not find her daughter. She ran out into the hall she knew she wasn't suppose to leave his chamber alone but she was too worried to care. Plus, her monitoring devices would notify her husband that she left and he would come for her. Of course this time she wasn't trying to escape she tried that before and found it was futile, she just wanted to find Leia. She was on the ship somewhere alone and that was not safe place for a little girl. And if Leia is anything like either of her parents she would find trouble.

The officer was approaching the command center with his data chips and Leia. They entered the room and he noticed the dark Lord he walked forward quickly hoping that Vader wouldn't notice the little girl. She had stiffened when they enter the room and was about to run but he tightened his grip on her hand so she couldn't call attention to her self by running away. But it didn't matter Vader could feel her enter the room. Vader turned around and stared at the Man and his daughter. He was angry what was this man doing with her. Vader stormed up to the officer "What is the meaning of this?" he growled. The officer swallowed as he tried to gather enough courage to speak up for the girl if it was his child he hoped another man would do the same for him, "My Lord, I just ran into her and was going to take her back to her parents, she just child no harm done." Leia was now hiding behind the man and entire crew was watching. "Leia, come here now." Vader commanded. Leia gulped and knew she had no choice so she approached Vader. "You know her, " the mad said surprised. Vader looked around at the crew and put his hand on Leia's shoulders and pulled her closer. "She is my daughter," he said. Leia looked down in shame as everyone gapped at her. "You are very lucky you didn't take her off ship, I would be very displeased if that happened." The man was shocked he'd been trying to do the right thing and it could have gotten him killed. "And I like to remind everyone the rules about my wife also apply to my daughter." He threatened as he picked up his daughter. She didn't like all the eyes or what everyone was thinking she buried her head in the crook of her Father's neck trying to block it all out. She could feel her Fathers anger but strangely enough it wasn't aimed at her. He blamed others for her escape attempt, he seemed to think she been brainwashed or whatever that meant.

They ran into the panic stricken Padme. She rushed forward and embraced her husband and daughter. "Leia, don't ever ever do that to me again you scared me to death." she said as she held her daughter close. "Padme, this is all my fault," Vader said, "I will have the proper security measures taken to prevent this from happening again." Padme sighed that could not be good but it not like she didn't know it was coming he would never allow them to leave, Vader should have posted guards and had Leia outfitted with a monitoring device right away he had figured one night wouldn't have hurt mainly because he didn't think he could pry Leia from his wife's arms. But again he let his comparison guide him and it almost cost him his daughter. He was Vader now he was not weak, he would protect his family. He could not lose them again.

Vader followed his family into his chamber and called his security team to put the monitoring device on Leia. It looked just like a bracelet and would keep track of her location and knock her out if she tried to go somewhere on the ship she was not allowed. That way there would be no escape possible. Vader approached his daughter and said, "What you did today was bad and dangerous and you frightened your mother." Leia just rolled her eyes. "I am your Father weather you like it or not and you listen to me." Vader said sternly. "The bracelet will allow you to go to certain areas of the ship and if you try to escape or enter an off limits area it will put you to sleep" Vader explained. Padme walked over to join the conversation, "Leia please listen too your Father it dangerous to wander off on your own you are not to leave the chamber without your father or me present. Leia knew she had upset her mother and she did feel bad about that part at lest. And it didn't sound like she had much of a choice anyway. She looked up at her Mother and nodded. Vader turned to Padme and said, "I found our son." Padme was happy and sad at the same time. She wanted to be with her son more then anything but that would mean he was exposed to Vader too and that was not a good thing. "I will be going to get him. You are to stay in my chamber why I am gone. If you need anything contact Piet. I will also have a group of guards outside for extra security while I am gone." Padme, "Alright," she said. Vader knelt down to his daughter height. Leia tried to back away but ran into Padme's legs and she held her there. "Be good for your Mother," he told her as her caressed her cheek. And stood up and left.