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Hey fellow Jedi, princesses, scoundrels and wookies I apologize for the long wait but some of you wished to have some Mother/Daughter stuff with Rey and Leia so I had to come up with some ideas on what to do for that. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think. Thanks :)
Leia had been so exhausted from crying after the extremely emotional visit with her son that she slept from about four o'clock right through until ten the next morning which was unusually late for her.
She opened her eyes slowly and found Rey curled up next to her sleeping peacefully and Leia smiled as she reached over while being careful not to wake her daughter before gently brushing a strand of hair behind her ear.
Rey stirred slightly before yawning and opening her eyes,"Morning sweetheart." Leia greeted sleepily and Rey smiled,
"Good morning. How are you feeling? Han- I mean Dad said you were pretty upset after your visit with...my brother." Rey asked softly and chuckled at her slip up with her father's name.
"I'm not quite sure yet how I'm feeling about my visit with your brother but I'll let you know when I figure it out. You know, if it's easier for you to call us Han and Leia than it is Mom and Dad you can. I don't mind and I'm sure your father won't either but I'll leave it up to you to decide." Leia told her and Rey seemed to think about it for a moment.
"No, Mom and Dad is good and besides I need to get used to calling you guys that but at this point it just feels slightly awkward. Using my brother's name on the other hand, now that's something I'm not sure I'll ever get used to. I mean I know that to you and Dad he's always just been Ben but for me he still feels like Kylo-Ren, the guy who hurt Finn and bragged about wanting to see the look on your face as he sliced me open with his light saber. To me he's still the guy who dragged me to Jakku and left me there while for years you and Dad suffered because you both thought I was dead and I waited on Jakku thinking that as long as I stayed there that one day you'd come back for me. Instead, BB8 found me and led me back to you. Ironic. No, it will take a long time before I'll be able to sincerely think of Ben as my brother. I want to see him as my brother but I just can't right now." Rey explained honestly and Leia nodded in understanding.
They laid in a comfortable silence for a few moments before Rey added,"I still can't believe how extremely evil he looked as he said that though. He said, 'I would've liked to see our mother's face as I sliced you open with my light saber.' Just thinking about how he sincerely seemed to enjoy thinking about causing you and Dad more suffering makes me sick to my stomach."
"So don't think about it. We've got plenty of other things to talk about besides Ben and I'm sure there's a lot of things you don't remember from before you were taken from us." Leia replied and Rey scrunched up her nose as she thought about what she did remember which wasn't much.
"Honestly Mom, I don't remember much at all from that time. I remember that I was happy and loved very much by both of you but aside from that I don't remember." Rey said sadly and Leia smiled fondly at her daughter.
"Yes you were loved very much so and you were happy, always giggling and full of life. You had all these little nicknames for all of us. I remember this one time all six of us, Your Uncle Luke, your father, Ben, Chewy, you and me were all camped out on some planet in the far reaches of the galaxy on a sort of camping trip I suppose you'd call it. Anyway, your father and your Uncle were telling you kids about the adventures we'd gone on together before you and your brother were born. Your father brought up the one about the death star and how he and your uncle Luke had stormed in there and rescued me and you asked him and I quote 'Daddy, how come you and uncle Sky had to rescue Mommy? Was she your princess?' and your father told you that yes I was his princess and he was my prince which I laughed at because your father was a great many things but he was no prince but ever since that day you started calling me Queenie. Now usually you only called me that when it was just you and me but one day when your father was home you were in your room playing with R2D2 if I remember correctly and I had just called you, your brother and your father to help me set the table for dinner and you answered me, you said 'Coming Queenie!'. Well I tell you the look on your father's face was a mix of amusement and shock and he asked me 'Queenie?' he says 'Why is she calling you that now?' and you ran and jumped into his arms and said 'Because Daddy, I'm your princess now so Mommy can be your Queenie!' and you said that with a such serious look on your face that your father looked at me and said 'Okay that's just scary!' and I laughed and asked why he thought that was scary and he said 'Because she just gave me the exact same look you always did when you were giving orders to the rebel forces and that look always meant that you were not to be messed with or else and that is terrifying.' and I laughed so hard that I literally couldn't breathe for a minute or two after that." Leia reminisced in her memories of Rey's childhood with her daughter.
Rey had an almost painful expression on her face and Leia wondered what was bothering her,"Rey?" Leia questioned and Rey knew she must have felt her frustration because the look on her mother's face was one of concern.
"Why can't I remember anything? You'd think I'd be able to remember something more than just feeling happy and loved but I can't!" Rey muttered in annoyed frustration.
Leia explained to Rey that she remembered a lot more than she realized but that sometimes there are things too painful to cope with and to make it less painful she sub-consciously buried those memories deep in the back of her mind. Leia explained that all she needed to do to find those memories was to close her eyes and focus her mind only on things from her childhood. Leia also reminded her that some of those memories may be painful but that if she truly wanted to remember then she would just have to endure it.
"How do you know all this stuff?" Rey asked and Leia let out a small chuckle,"Just as curious now as when you were little. Honey isn't it obvious how I know?" Leia asked and Rey shook her head.
Leia pressed one index finger against Rey's forehead,"First off because I'm your mother and as the saying goes mother knows best and secondly because of the force and last but not least because you still have a lot to learn my dear."
Rey snickered but remained silent before she spoke again,"I'm sure you've probably told me this story a thousand times when I was little but tell me again how you and Dad met, Please?" Rey put on her best pouty face and Leia laughed at her adorable antics.
"Oh alright but this is the last time I'm telling it because you used to drive me and your father nuts asking us to tell you the story about the princess and the smuggling scoundrel. It was your favorite." Leia said still snickering softly.
Rey made herself comfortable and listened with child like wonder as Leia began to tell the story of how she and Han met.
"Well you know that your father and uncle rescued me from the death star with the help of Chewy of course and you know that they didn't plan it very well but what you probably don't know is that when your father and I first met we absolutely hated each other. I was an extremely headstrong princess and your father was a smug, cocky smuggler that was just a little full of himself and don't tell him I said this but he really was kind of scruffy looking. I think he thought I was a bit of a snob actually and I thought he was slightly arrogant at first and although we did eventually fall in love, we argued a lot and very often. He acted as if all he cared about was himself and even your uncle would agree that it was very convincing that is until we were getting ready to destroy the death star. You see all of our fighters except your uncle and one other had been killed but the one remaining fighter had to pull out of the fight or he would have been killed too so your uncle was the only fighter still out there and one of the empire's fighters was locked on to his ship however when all seemed lost your father came back to help us and just in time too because if we had failed in destroying the death star your uncle along with me and the entire rebellion would be dead now. The death star was about to fire the super weapon and destroy our base but just as I prepared myself to die your uncle and your father hit the death star's weak spot and saved us all. A few months later we were stationed on a planet called Hoth and your grandfather Darth Vader had become obsessed with finding your uncle so he sent droids to Hoth to probe the area and track him down but we were one step ahead. Chewy and your father went out after we intercepted a transmission from one of the probes and when they spotted the droid it blew up. We evacuated our base on Hoth and when your father was trying to get me out safely some falling ice and snow blocked our path so he informed the group that he couldn't get me to them, told them to take off and he would get me to safety on the Falcon. Darth Vader followed us into an asteroid field because your father decided that the empire wouldn't be crazy enough to follow but he was wrong. Anyway then he took us into what looked like a cave because we were trying to fix the hyper drive and we landed there. I was in the access bay fiddling with something I was trying to fix and I was having trouble with it when your father reached around me in an attempt to help me but I shoved him off. He said 'Sorry, your worship I was only trying to help.' and I said I wished he wouldn't call me that. Your father said 'Sure, Leia.' which shocked me seeing as it was the first time he'd used my name, I was so shocked that as I was tightening a bolt my hand slipped and I bumped my fingers in between the wrench and the wall. Your father grabbed my hand after I set the tool down and I told him that he could be so difficult sometimes and he admitted that yes he could be but that I could too which I allowed. I called him a scoundrel and he replied that he liked the sound of that before he asked me if I really thought he was that bad to which I said I didn't like scoundrels and that I liked nice men. Our faces had gotten so close without either of us realizing it, your father said he was nice men and I said 'No you're not, you're...' but before I could finish he pulled me close and that was the first time he'd kissed me. That was when I first realized I was in love with him although I never told him that until we landed on Bespin to meet his buddy Lando. Long story short, Darth Vader wanted to freeze Luke in carbonite but wanted to make sure it wouldn't kill him and so he froze your father first to test it. I told him I loved him and as they lowered him into the chamber to freeze him he replied that he knew that I loved him. That was the last time I saw him before I went with Lando, Chewy and your uncle to rescue him from Jabba the hutt's palace." Leia finished her story before she realized that Rey had fallen asleep next to her.