I know it's been a while since I've updated. Been extremely busy lately. Here is the next chapter, I hope you enjoy. I'm thinking only one more chapter after this one...

...I don't own Star Wars...if I did there would be more movies...Han and Leia would live happily ever after and Anakin Solo would not die.

Chapter 13

When Leia awoke she found that she was alone, but she could still feel that Han was near. She figured he must have stepped out of the room to talk to Chewbacca and her mother. It was an odd feeling, her mother was alive. She tried to stop herself from stretching out into the Force to find their presences, but using the Force was second nature to her, until Luke had reached out to her from Bespin and then revealed that they were siblings, she never realized how much she had relied on it.

It was her power in the Force that had helped her survive so much the past four and a half years. It was that power that was telling her that Han was on his way back to her room. She smiled at the comfort his presence brought to her.

The door opened and she smiled when he walked through the door.

"Hey sweetheart."

"Hi," She smiled at her lover as he crossed the room and wrapped his arms around her, then gave her a sweet kiss.

"I was wondering if you were up for some visitors, Chewie and your mom really want to see you," He told her.

"I guess it'll be alright." Leia felt nervous, although she had met her mother, who ran the jewelry shop that she and Han purchased their wedding rings from, she still didn't know her. Leia twirled her commitment ring around her finger; Han smiled at her and brought her hands to his mouth.

"Yeah it'll be alright," Han said, "Your mom is pretty great."

Padmé entered the room behind Chewbacca, she allowed the Wookiee to hug Leia before she approached her daughter. Leia looked up from Chewbacca's embrace and looked at her mother. The two women smiled at each other, and the tears began to fall from both women. Chewbacca backed away from Leia so that Padmé could approach her daughter.

Han and Chewbacca watched the women; they seemed to hold each other forever. They had over twenty years of hugs to make up for. Han could tell for the most part that most of Leia's anger toward her mother was gone. Like the day she discovered that Luke was her brother, Leia was grateful to find a long lost relative.

The silence between the women was broken by the older of the two. "Leia you have no idea how difficult it was for me to give you and your brother up, to know that I may never see you again."

"I understand why you had to do it, I-I can't complain about how I was raised, Bail was a good father," Leia said.

"Bail was always a good friend. I knew you would be well loved with him, he and Breha always longed to have a daughter. I was devastated when I heard about Alderaan," Padmé said. Padmé suddenly realized she shouldn't have mentioned her daughter's foster family's planet. Leia bowed her head and started sobbing.

Han took his cue and sat next to Leia and put his arms around her. He was one of the few people who knew how exactly losing Alderaan affected Leia.

"I'm sorry Leia. I-," Padmé started.

"It's alright, mom." Leia smiled at Padmé. "I still feel a lot of guilt over Alderaan, like I could have done something different."

"Sweetheart, there was nothing you could have done," Han said.

Padmé put her arm around her daughter, "When I heard about Alderaan I feared the worst, I thought you had died that day. But when you walked into my shop, I knew immediately who you were."

"If it wasn't for Han, Luke and Chewie, I would have been dead. They rescued me just in time." Leia smiled up at Han, "And they continue to rescue me over and over."

Han gave Leia a quick peck on her lips. Padmé smiled at them.

Luke once again was wandering the streets of Theed, trying to get a sense of Leia's aunt. She was close that he could tell. Suddenly his danger sense flared up. He felt like he was being followed. He slowed and pretended to look in a shop window when he heard the all too familiar snap-hiss of a light saber.

He slowly turned around with his hand on his own weapon. He saw the redheaded woman in attack stance. He calmed himself, knowing he would have to fight her.

"Skywalker, I was wondering what took you so long."

"Jade, we don't have to do this. Just tell me where Leia's aunt is." He could sense the woman's fear. Not of him but of something else.

"I can't, I have to kill you." She came towards him and Luke raised his lightsaber in time to block her blow.

It had been many years since the citizens of Theed had seen lightsabers. Many of the people backed away as the two people clashed their weapons together. They watched as the woman swung wildly around and the man effortlessly parried the blows.

Luke used the Force to push Mara back and she landed on her backside. He could feel a Darkside energy swirling around her, but it wasn't her that was consumed in the darkness. Mara got back on her feet and rushed towards Luke.

'Fight him, fight him hard or you will die.' Mara heard the Emperor's voice in her head. She jumped high and tried to come down on top of Luke, but once again he blocked her. They pushed their lightsabers together and the first time they looked into each other's eyes. Never in her life had she seen eyes like his. The clear blue color burned into her soul.

Luke nearly lost his balance when he looked into her eyes. It was like he was looking into the eyes of someone that was meant to be part of his life. He fell back when he felt the dark presence surround her again. He suddenly realized what the dark presence was. The Emperor.

Han sat back as the doctor examined Leia. Physically she was doing fine since the miscarriage and she would be free to leave the medical facility. He hoped that they would return to Coruscant. He was glad that her mother had decided to go with them, because he knew when they returned he'd be whisked away on another mission.

The doctor gave Leia a smile, "Well Princess, it seems everything is in order. Your body has healed well with everything that has happened in the past few weeks."

"So I'm free to leave?" Leia asked.

"Of course, although I still wouldn't over do it."

There was one question that was burning in Han's mind, but he didn't know how Leia would react when he asked it. Leia looked at him and seemed to know what was on his mind.

"Doctor?"

"Yes Princess."

"How long does my fiancé and I have to wait before we can…" Leia paused, a little embarrassed herself, "how long before we can begin to…"

"Resume sexual relations?" The doctor laughed when Leia turned a shade of pink, "I would still wait a few more weeks, and it's really up to you when you feel up to it. But I would advise you not to get pregnant again for several months. I would recommend both you and your fiancé to be on birth control."

"Me too?" Han asked.

"It would lower the odds of her getting pregnant again, but it really is your decision," The doctor said. "If you'd like I can start you on the shots."

Han looked at Leia, the baby had certainly been unplanned and something that they were not ready for. She had been on birth control when she conceived and he didn't use protection when they had sex.

"You know I think it's a good idea for both of us to start on the shots," Han said, "Until we're ready to try again."

As they climbed the ramp to the Falcon, Leia wrapped her arms around Han's waist. "Thank you." She rose up on her toes and kissed him on the cheek. "Even though I loved the baby more than anything, we really weren't ready for him, were we?"

"No not really, even though he would have been a welcome addition to our family, having a baby now would be a little much." Han sighed, "Heck, we didn't even see each other for four months. When we have a baby together I want to be there for the entire time."

Han twisted a loose strand of Leia's hair around his finger, "I'll have to get a planet side position, and with the unrest with the transition from the Empire, It'll probably be a long time before that happens."

Leia nodded, "When we get back to Coruscant you're going to be called away again. And who knows when we'll see each other again." Leia released Han's waist and finished up the ramp. Han followed behind her.

"We could not go back."

Leia looked at him wide eyed, "Han! I couldn't just abandon my duties to the New Republic, and neither could you."

Han sat down on the couch and pulled Leia into his lap, "Sure we could, we could run off, get married and just live our lives in peace."

"Don't you think that's why I can't leave, how could I leave and live in peace when the rest of the galaxy isn't?

Han sighed; he knew when Leia was right. Sure for a time she'd be content, but she'd eventually get bored and insist to go back to the New Republic. She had sacrificed too much of her life just to abandon it all. Han took her hands in his and brought them to his mouth. "It'll take four days to get back to Coruscant; at least we have that much time left together."

Luke entered the hotel room that Leia's aunt was being held in. After his battle with Mara Jade he was able to sense Celly. He hadn't killed Mara; he couldn't do that, not when she was under the influence of the Emperor. Her actions were not her own. He now had her locked up on the ship that he had rented to go back to Coruscant in.

"Luke, thank the gods," Celly said as he came into the room, "Where is Leia, how is she doing?"

Luke told her everything that had happened the past few weeks.

"Oh dear me," Celly sighed, "I feel this is entirely my fault, Leia must hate me."

"Oh come off of it you old bat," Darrik said from across the room. "It's a godsend that she miscarried that bastard child, now you have no reason to allow her to marry that loser spacer."

Luke looked at the man, realizing that he was the one that Leia had told her about. "My sister is going to marry Han."

"Oh whatever, like the Alderaanian council will allow the last Princess of Alderaan to marry him."

"Darrik will you just shut up, Luke this is the man who hired that crazy redhead," Celly said.

"Perhaps you deserve to be locked up with Jade," Luke said.

Luke followed Celly up the ramp with Darrik in binders. As Celly got settled Luke took Darrik to the hold to be locked up with Mara. But he saw that the hold was empty, Mara Jade had escaped.

"Sithspit," Luke cursed.

Darrik laughed, "Ha I knew she couldn't be held. That Corellian better watch his back."

Luke pushed Darrik into the hold, "The way I hear it, you didn't complete the payment to Jade, maybe you should be the one watching your back."