Fare thee well, y'all!
Chapter 30
Endor
5 Years Later
Ben moved quickly, transferring the hot loaves of bread from the oven to the basket without burning his fingers. Behind him, a giggle resounded through the half-enclosed ovens and he turned, strands of hair twirling around him.
Han's glittering brown eyes watched him with playful mischief, his grubby little hands holding a sweet cake that his mother forbade him to eat before supper.
"Put that back," Ben warned, setting the basket down on the wooden table.
Han giggled again, bobbing his head back around the corner, inviting his father to come and play.
Ben narrowed his eyes, then burst around the baking table with a growing roar emitting from his throat, spreading his arms out to better illicit a scream from his son.
Han yelled with abandon, racing through the Lower Haven until he reached the sturdy metal ladder to the when he was forced to stuff the sweet cake into his mouth in order to climb like a squirrel to the spacious and open Top Haven. He took three steps, the pivotal direction towards his room, when his father's arm clamped onto him around the middle, lifted him and twirled him around in a series of endless twirls that caused Han to drop his sweet cake and laugh and close his eyes until his father had to stop or lose his balance.
"Where's mommy?" He asked, kissing Han's neck.
Han pointed, gesturing towards the rope bridge that had, hands-down, the best view of the sunset of the system. Sure enough, Rey was there, near the bridge itself, watching the sun set over the trees and Ewoks in their huts. She was swelling again, and so rubbed her pouting stomach as she looked, watching and smiling, possibly thinking of their future family.
"Hey, there," Ben called, tearing her attention away from the scenery.
"Hi," She grinned, turning to him.
"Hi Momma!" Han called, reaching out to her.
"I got you, bud," Ben told him, readjusting him on his hip, cancelling his want to be held.
"Look at that sky," Rey sighed, moving close to her husband and wrapping her arm around his waist. "The sun over so many trees."
"Yeah," Ben agreed, looking down at his wife. "It's beautiful."
An Ewok, one used to doing housework in the Haven to aid the Jedi students studies, waddled passed the Solo family, seeing the three of them, three black figures against the waning sun. A solid unit that could never be divided.
It was my pleasure to write this incredibly, freakishly long, fic. I learned so much about Star Wars lore, and I had a blast! Carry on, Knights. Carry on.