Well I didn't know if I even wanted to post a chapter today. I have literally been crying all day. My heart is broke for Carrie's family. For so many reasons I loved Carrie and this totally broke me today. RIP Carrie Fisher. I hope you all had a good holiday...Be sure to read the note at the end of this chapter!

Chapter Sixteen

Han turned around and everything happened so fast. He saw the man pull out the blaster and watched him point it directly at Leia. He didn't even think, or question his next move. He heard the blaster fire and he suddenly moved faster then he ever had in his entire life. He saw the bright red flashes moving towards them. His arms outstretched and shoved Leia to the ground, pushing his large form right in front of her. The shots landed against his chest and threw him to the ground. The hangar woke with the sound of the blaster and Leia's scream. The man stared down and looked at the Princess for a moment, he briefly debated firing again, he'd have a direct shot at the Princess, but the sound of people waking up all around him made him second guess. He looked at Leia once more before quickly turning away and running from the hangar. Leia looked over to where Han lay, unmoving.

"Han!" She said looking over to him and crawling to where his body lay against the hangar's floor. Her hands came to cup his face as she leaned in close to him. People came from their ships, curious as to what the noise had been. One of them being Chewbacca. Leia quickly looked up to Chewie and yelled. "Chewie Call the medic's now!" Chewie took one look at Han on the ground and quickly pulled out his com.

"Han look at me!" Leia told him, holding his face. Her fingers ran up and down his face, pleading with him to open his eyes, needing to see him awake and well. She couldn't believe what had just happened. She didn't understand how things could happen so fast. She replayed it in her mind and her heart clenched at the image of Han pushing her out of the way. "Don't do this Han! Han open your eyes!" She begged him as her eyes looked down to his chest, where the shots had hit him. "Han please wake up! I can't do this again…I can't lose you again. Han please look at me!" She continued to beg and plead with him. "I love you Han please wake up!"

Han opened his eyes but something wasn't right. He wasn't on the ground beside Leia, no he was standing a few feet away staring over at his lifeless body and watching as Leia started crying. Everything had been so fast, but now it seemed to be moving in slow motion. Leia's cries and the tears that streamed her face as she looked down at his body.

"Han look at me please!" She begged. He wanted to step forward and take her into his arms but he couldn't move. Han looked to his side and found the cloaked figure standing beside him. They were quiet for a moment just watching as Leia cried and begged for someone to get the medics to them.

"What's going on?" Han asked him.

"You saved your Princess." He said simply.

"Am I dead?"

"Not yet, but you are headed that way." Han looked at him angry, just staring at him silently.

"Was this always going to happen?" Han bit out.

"You dying? No it was the Princess's fate. In any world this was her fate, you simply were granted more time with her."

"Why didn't you tell me! How could you not tell me that I was meant to lose her this whole time!"

"I'm afraid it doesn't work that way…But you have changed her fate."

"I…I wasn't going to lose her again. I couldn't watch her die again." Han said looking back over to Leia. The medics had arrived and Leia was sobbing in Chewie's arms as they watched them lift Han and prepare to take him to the med center. Chewie helped the Princess walk forward as they quickly followed the medics. "She'll be alone again?" Han sighed.

"The force works in mysterious ways." He told Han slowly. "I did not expect this outcome. You and the Princess do in fact share a brilliant love."

"We always have." Han whispered out, his throat feeling tight now. He had said several times that all he wanted was for Leia to be happy, he worried what his potential death would do to her now.

"Close your eyes." The cloaked figure told Han. Han slowly closed his eyes and when he opened them they were standing in the middle of the med center. Han walked over and looked down the hallway. Chewie and Luke were sitting the the waiting room and it seemed Leia was yelling at one of the nurses.

"No I need an update on him!"

"Ambassador I am sorry, but you aren't family."

"Chewbacca is the only family Han has! Tell him the update!" Leia demanded.

"I'm sorry m'am. Our policy…"

"Screw your policy! We need to know what is happening with him."

"If you are not immediate family I can't help you." she bit out shortly.

"I'm not asking for secret secure information! I just need to know that the medics are doing everything they can to save him!" Leia screamed.

"We can't be sure Captain Solo would want his information shared with you. If you were his wife things would of course be different."

"Well I'm not! Why can't you understand we just want to know if he's ok!" Luke slowly got up and walked towards his sister. His arms encircled her shoulders and he squeezed her gently.

"Leia lets go sit down."

"I can't sit down right now!" She said pushing him away and pacing the room once more. She didn't want to start crying again but this was all too much. She just got him back.

"This is my fault Luke!"

"It's not Leia!"

"It is. He should have never been around me! I should have never…I can't get close to anyone." She said shaking her head back and fourth.

"Han loves you…"

"Too much it seems."

'He saved your life." Luke reminded her.

"I know that!" She bit out. "He shouldn't have! What the hell was he thinking!" Leia demanded to know. Luke only sighed and tried to pull her into his arms.

"He was thinking he didn't want to lose you…"

"Well now I might lose him." Leia said letting the tears fall down her face. She hid her face in Luke's shoulder and simply stood there. All they could do was wait.

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Han stood over Leia, staring at her as she sat beside his unconscious body. After hours of waiting they had finally allowed Leia and Chewbacca to see him. They had of course started treatment, but things weren't looking good. Not with how the shots had hit his chest. Han wanted to reach out and touch Leia but he couldn't. He felt like he was already a ghost. Caught somewhere in between life and death.

"Leia…" he tried to whispered to her, but she couldn't hear him.

"You must be hurting to watch her like this." The cloaked figure said from beside Han.

"Of course I am! I don't want her hurting."

"But you did choose to take her place, and I feel like you would not change that choice."

"I wouldn't…I just don't understand how in every world we can't be together. One of us has to go…Was this our destiny?"

"Do you believe in destiny Captain Solo?"

"I don't know what I believe in anymore."

Looking over at Leia, she brushed her fingers across Han's unmoving form.

"I love you Han Solo! I need you to open your eyes!." She pleaded with him. Han's heart constricted hearing her begging him now. He would if he could, that was for damn sure.

"Perhaps you have changed your destiny…" The cloaked man suggested, Han looked over to him and stared at him confused.

"What do you mean?" Han asked him. The Cloaked man said nothing, instead Han looked down to his hands and watched as he started to disappear. "Am I dying?" He asked, needing to know.

"As I said, perhaps your love for the Princess changed destiny…."


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