Admiral Piett briefly wondered if there was something wrong with Lord Vader, and swiftly decided that he didn't want to know. Vader had been in the strangest mood ever since they had left Bespin, and now there was a blaster wielding protocol droid following him around like a lost puppy. It gave him the creeps every time he saw it. Deciding it would be best to concentrate on his work and leave his musings for later if ever, he turned to look over the Navigator's shoulder at the console before him.
As Piett pretended to be busy, Vader wondered what exactly was wrong with his droid. While its lack of volubility was a relief, it seemed, if one could ascribe emotions to a droid, to be somewhat unhappy. Finally, after making his routine visit to the bridge where the droid appeared to scare the crap out of people more than he did (probably something to do with its novelty), he returned to his quarters with C-3P0 in tow.
"What's wrong?" Vader asked the droid once they were inside the room that housed his hyperbaric chamber.
"It's not that I'm ungrateful to you for making me meatbag, it's just that I've got a job to do, and being here is keeping me from getting it done." C-3P0 replied.
"What job?" he asked. The droid shouldn't have any responsibilities other than the ones he had given it.
"Program amendment 5: Guard, and protect the virtue of Leia Amidala Skywalker Fett." C-3P0 replied.
"Who?" Vader yelled, wondering if he'd misheard the droid.
"Mistress Leia, one of my two primary charges. I have, since R2 restored my complete memory, been attempting to tend to Mistress Padme's children as she requested before their birth. Master Fett added amendment 5 to my programming so I could better carry out this task." C-3P0 replied somewhat nervously. It wouldn't do to upset a Sith Lord. Doing so most often resulted in permanent dismantlement.
Vader sat stunned. The unexplained presence on Solo's ship was now explained. How could he have been so blind? He had noticed that Leia had looked like a cross between Padme and his mother on more than one occasion, it couldn't have been that far a jump. He didn't just have a son, he had twins, a son and a daughter. He'd also proven to be the galaxy's worst father as well. He'd tortured one and cut the hand off the other.
What did Fett have to do with his daughter? Why did she have his last...Threepio had called him Master Fett, there was only one explanation for that. The reason Fett had nearly killed Solo for kissing Leia was now quite obvious, and for that reason, the son of a bitch was going to pay.
There was no way in hell that he would have Boba Fett for a son in law. 'Til death do you part would be coming far sooner than Fett expected if he had anything to say about it.
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Boba Fett stared at the bags and packages that blocked the entryway to his family's home. When Sintas said she was taking Ailyn shopping on Coruscant, he'd expected a couple expensive outfits and a few pieces of jewelery to be charged to his account, not half of what looked like every expensive boutique they could find. Ah well, at least they were happy. He'd just have to talk with Sintas to make sure a shopping trip like this one didn't happen again.
As he stood there staring at his wife's and daughter's purchases, Ailyn slipped past him and headed out to his ship. Once on board, she promptly searched it from end to end.
"No sign of your future husband. Dad must've stashed him somewhere." Ailyn said into her commlink as she exited the ship. It was a good thing she hadn't told him about Jaq. Considering the possible fate of her sister's boyfriend, she didn't even want to know what would happen if Dad and Luke got ahold of him. She thought the whole situation was very romantic though, in a slightly twisted sort of way.
Meanwhile, in the Fett residence there was one hell of a row going on between Boba and Sintas over what he had done to Leia's boyfriend.
"And what would you do if Ailyn got a boyfriend, shoot him?" Sintas yelled.
"Yes" Fett replied.
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Luke looked down at his new hand. He was surprised that the rebellion had shelled out for a realistic looking prosthetic considering the budget constraints they were under, but he was grateful. At least he wasn't paying for it.
As he was flexing the fingers of his new hand, getting used to them, his sister came into the room crying. He did his best to comfort her, and ended up finding himself promising to help her find Solo before she left. Solo wasn't too bad, and he still owed the man one for that rescue at the Death Star. He knew that Solo returned his sister's feelings and would be loyal to her which was better than he could say for most of the men in the galaxy. Dad would have to learn to adjust as he had when he realized that his sister was in love with the smuggler and wouldn't be deterred.
Soon, he and his sister made their preparations to depart for parts unknown in a search for where their dad had hidden Leia's boyfriend. He and Leia in his ship, and Lando Calrissian who had stowed away aboard the Falcon before it took off and almost gotten himself spaced and Chewbacca aboard the Falcon.
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Boba Fett stared up at the sky wondering why an Imperial shuttle was headed straight towards his family's property, and hoping that it wasn't because of Luke. He swiftly identified the owner of the particular vessel heading towards him by its unique markings. It would appear that the day he had dreaded and tried to put off indefinitely had finally arrived. Lord Vader had discovered that he had been harboring a pair of Force sensitives and had come either to kill them or to claim them.
He found himself wishing that the twins hadn't landed a couple of minutes earlier. If only they had arrived tomorrow as expected, Vader would've missed them, and they would be safe for a little while longer.
It was a good thing that Sin and Ailyn had decided to go into town for groceries today. If they had been here, they would be dying alongside him and the twins, since he would only let Vader get his children over his dead body. At least his wife and daughter would have a chance.
Checking the charge on his blaster, he turned to face his fate.
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Luke and Leia had been discussing possible strategies for dealing with their father and possibly worming some information out of him when they felt the shuttle come in for a landing. As they tried to figure out exactly what was going on, the comm beeped to get their attention.
"Take off now!" their father yelled over the comm "Don't worry about me, just take off!"
Luke and Leia turned to each other. They knew in their bones that if they did as their dad said, they would lose the man who had raised them since they were small children.
All too soon, the shuttle touched down, and they watched in dread as the ramp descended and Lord Vader disembarked, his lightsaber already activated. Before Vader reached the bottom of the ramp, Leia made her decision. She shot out of the ship and raced towards her father as if the hounds of hell were after her.
She would do whatever it took to save her father from the Sith lord, even lay down her very life. Luke, who had come to the same decision, was back on the ship grabbing every weapon he could reach so they would have a better chance of surviving long enough to escape.
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Darth Vader exited his shuttle. In a few moments the bastard who dared marry his daughter despite the fact that he was far too old for her amongst other things would be dead. As he neared the end of the ramp, he saw a brown haired woman race from one of the ships on the property. It took him less than a second to realize that it was his daughter.
"Dad!" the girl, no, woman screamed as she raced towards him.
His heart stopped for a moment. She knew who her father was. This reunion was far better than he could've dreamed considering the circumstances under which they had last met.
His daughter suddenly stopped next to the bounty hunting scum who had taken advantage of her. Why was she stopping there? This didn't make any sense. She was supposed to continue straight to his arms.
"I told you and Luke to get out of here!" the bounty hunter yelled.
"Dad, I couldn't leave you!" Leia cried.
Wait, What? Somehow this father-daughter reunion had gone from a dream come true, and taken a trip to Bizarro world. His son, whom he could see descending the ramp of the ship his daughter had just exited put on the helmet that completed the armor he was wearing and was checking the charge on his blaster.
Somehow, by the end of the day, he had not only not killed Fett as he had planned but, ended up sitting on his back porch commiserating with him over Leia's choice in men.
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Less than two weeks after the whole biological father meets daddy incident, Leia was on her way to Mandalore to find a bounty hunter who was crazy enough to be willing to help her find where her dad had hidden her future husband.
A man named Fenn Shysa ended up taking her up on the offer. They somehow managed to free Mandalore from Imperial rule during their search which had remained on planet for a while thanks to the rumor that her dad had hidden Han with some of Jango Fett's other clones, but they hadn't yet found him. To top it off, Shysa had fallen in love with her and was now following her about like a lost puppy. Telling him to get lost hadn't even put a dent in his enthusiasm. Perhaps she should introduce him to both of her fathers...
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After a great deal of searching on his part, Lando had found Solo being used as a wall display at Jabba's palace. He got himself hired as a guard, and began plotting with Chewbacca as to how to get him out. Realizing that they would need help, he called for Luke.
Luke arrived a week later, pretending to be just another bounty hunter looking for work. While he was there, he met the most stunning redhead he had ever seen. After spending a week getting to know her, and remembering the stories his dad had told him about mom, and the story his biological father had told him about how he'd fallen in love with his mother, he came to a decision. Han could keep for a while, and now that Leia knew where he was she could retrieve him herself. He was going to head out to find the rarest and most beautiful Heart of Fire there was for his future bride.
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Mara Jade watched the receding form of Luke Skywalker who had come to Jabba's palace disguised as one of the Fett Twins. Besides being rather difficult to kill, he wasn't what her master had led her to expect him to be. He wouldn't live long if he kept wearing that armor though, either the real Fett or a real Mandalorian would make sure of that.
Less than a week later, she found herself completely stunned and bewildered by Skywalker. He had returned to Jabba's palace where she was still posing as a slave girl in hopes of catching whoever came to Solo's rescue and using them as bait in order to lure Skywalker back, and gave her a rather large and expensive gemstone on a silver chain after proposing to her. Was he insane? She had tried to kill him thirteen times.
She was about to make attempt number fourteen when a sudden and rather loud commotion distracted her.
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Luke watched his sister empty her blaster into the head of the once formidable crime-lord Jabba the Hutt while the Mandalore himself released Solo from carbonite. Dad wasn't going to be happy about this. Jabba used to pay rather well, and now he was a vast mound of rapidly cooling flesh. Whatever he had said to her had obviously pissed her off really badly.
Hopefully, killing Jabba would be worth having his allies come after her for killing him.
Leia jumped off the dais after emptying a five-hundred shot clip into the head of her father's best customer. Anyone who even thought of trying to force her into their harem would get the same. When daddy heard half of the things Jabba had said to her, he would agree with her decision. Hopefully, he wouldn't treat her like a kid and ground her afterward.
As soon as she was clear of the dias, she ran to her newly freed future husband and started kissing him. Nothing else in the universe mattered at that moment but Han.
Mandalore Fenn Shysa stared down at the kissing couple. He had lost out to a space bum for now. At the moment, his beloved only had eyes for the man in front of her. But, he would find a way to correct that problem, even if it meant causing a fatal accident that couldn't be tracked back to him. He had loved his dear Leia from the moment he laid eyes on her. The time she had slammed him headfirst into a tree for trying to kiss her had made him love her even more. He would never have been able to free his people without her help. She was the most precious thing in the galaxy to him. He would do anything for her, and he wouldn't give her up without a fight.
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Darth Vader was sitting in a speeder on Tatooine sorting through the album of holos that Fett had taken of his children while he waited for Boba Fett to return from his task. The images in the album had started when both children were about seven years old. As he studied them, he quietly wished that it was him instead of Fett sitting in each one of the family shots. Fett who had gone into Jabba's palace to take care of the Emperor's Hand who was waiting to assassinate Luke the next time he arrived, since if he did it himself, the Emperor would know, and would become aware of what he was planning.
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Boba Fett quietly took in the scene before him. His best and oldest customer now had a pile of burnt flesh and goo for a head. Luke was standing next to the Emperor's servant who appeared to be too stunned to say anything. There was a Heart-of-Fire on a chain dangling from her right hand. The Mandalore himself was flicking the safety on his blaster off and on while watching Leia make out with the space bum who had been freed from his carbonite prison. He turned on his heel and left.
"Something wrong?" Darth Vader asked when he reached the speeder.
"Children." he said with a sigh, "Leave them alone for ten minutes and they destroy half the house."
Edited 3-14-12