Disclaimer: I do not own star wars. I do however own Lalia the character but not the name. you can't own a name. Hope you're all enjoying. One thing about being sick, I've had a lot of time to write, between sleeping thatis. Also. I was recently Challenged by a friend of mine (Username ClaireVampiress) to do a crossover story. Not sure if I should do it. Starwars/Harry Potter that just seems like a weird crossover. How would it even work? Would anyone even be interested in reading that? I am tempted to do it just for the challenge/weirdness aspect of it. I'd love to get ya'lls thoughts on this. Anyway here Is chapter five. (Ps I so could not resist adding in his introduction line to leia)

Happy New Years. I hope you are all having a good one. Would of been up sooner. but, I kept getting distracted lol.

Luke slowed the ship down as they neared one of the imperial's main fleet. He was sure this was the one she was on. He didn't quite know how he knew that. Maybe it was a Force thing. Getting in proved to be easy, he just let his ship get dragged into the magnetic field and he was boarded. Carefully, before anyone could come inspect. He jumped out of the ship, along with Esmerelda. Artoo glided over the floor beeping as quiet as possible as he went to an electric pad. Luke crouched beside him trying to hurry , but not rush the droid.

"Artoo Unlock all the Cell's in the Detention level. Can you do that?"

Artoo whirred and beeped which he took as an affirmative. Already working on the controls.

Luke noticed troopers starting to talk near the ship. He stood up and quickly disappeared out of sight. He could feel her presence rather strong. it was actually palpable, sweet and rare. He wondered if she was force sensitive. It would explain a lot.

He followed his instincts. carefully treading the corridors. Ducking out of sight when he had to. He was getting no where though. The detention levels were much more guarded now than back on the deathstar.

He gave a frustrated curse in hutesse. He was going to try to grab one of the troopers, get some information out of him when he was distracted by the sounds of clanging metal beside him. He looked over to his side, in time to see the ventilation grate get bent and pushed out. Out crawled a dragon. Blue though unlike his Esmerelda's white. It was the size of a German Shepard.

His dragon curled her back in defense and hissed. Snapping at the other dragon. Distrusting. He peaked around the corner, crap If they fought it would cause attention and troopers would come running.

The new one just stared at her, calmly and sat down. Licking it's talons in a physical way of showing it thought of her as no threat. Which only seemed to Irritate Esmerelda more, her spines along her back becoming more ridged.

Luke sighed and knelt down so he was closer to their level. He had in his experience realized dragons were a lot more intelligent than one would suggest. They understood what was being said and would even respond.

"Do you know where the girl is?" He hesitated a bit. He was talking to a dragon it was official. Months of poor and little sleep had finally fried his brain.

The dragon perked up and turned around going back into the vent, it tossed his head in a follow me way.

I'm positive this is crazy. He crawled into the vent , and followed the Dragon. His own not far behind.

Lalia groaned. putting a hand to her pounding head. Red lights were going off causing her to squint and she wished she could destroy the speakers that continuously shouted that there was a "Code red" A breach in the system. She was going to attempt to get what little rest she could when the door slid open. She looked over at it but nothing was there.

Sitting up like she just had a shot of her brothers very, very black coffee she eyed it wearily.

When no one was coming to the door, she cautiously walked over to it, her hand on the wall to keep her balance. She hadn't yet recuperated the loss of blood from her last session with the chair. She poked her head out of the door way, she saw troopers running up and down the ends of the hall.

"Go left"

It was that voice again. She decided to listen to it, she had the distinct feeling she knew who's voice it was. But, would never admit it. Not even to herself. She turned left and ran down the hall. The room spinning, but she kept her hands on it. Panting from just the few feet she moved. a hand going down to her leg feeling blood. She had reopened on eof the more nastier saber wounds from one of vaders visits.

She tried to keep the focus off her pain and listened to the directions.

"Left again, right, straight, right again, right, left." She was loosing track of how many turns she made. However she made it out of the detention level.

She paused seeing two troopers in the control room blocking her only exit. She took refuge behind one of the pillars. her vision blurred. She could only see colors. She coughed loudly to lure them into the trap. For as trained as they were, she found troopers were real idiots. The Empire really should reconsider their training methods. She heard the marching and waited until they were in front of her. Grabbing ones blaster she shot him, and then the other looking back to see if anyone was coming.

They weren't. She quickly grabbed one of the inscription key's from the fallen troopers belts and used it to get the door to open. She ran out she could taste freedom finally.

"Hey you!" A trooper called. "Don't move"

Yeah, like she was going to listen to him. She shot the blaster she had taken earlier at him , killing him instantly. If she wasn't so tired she would of felt remorse.

Before he fell the trooper fired his weapon at the exact same time, though it only hit her in the shoulder. She yelped in pain and brought her hand to the wound. Blood coated it. She winced and leaned against the hallway wall sinking to the floor. She was bleeding in to many places plus the accumulated blood loss from earlier. She wouldn't be able to get far without bleeding out.

"Damn it. " She had been so close. She closed her eyes, holding the blaster closer to her. She wasn't going back to her cell without a fight.

Luke didn't know exactly how long he followed the dragon. It must of been at least twenty minutes. Before he finally stopped at closed vent.

"This it?" He asked.

The dragon snorted in reply, a blast of icy breath hitting him, causing him to involuntary shiver. He took that as a yes. He shifted so he could push his foot against the grate. It took a few kicks but eventually he got it to come loose and he was able to get out of the ventilation systems. He looked around to get his bearings. He appeared to be at the entrance of the detention levels. He headed toward the list of occupants but was stopped by the sounds of blasters being fired, followed by a high pitched yelp

He ran toward the noise, and saw the girl he had been seeing for so long, it was hard to believe she wasn't just a dream. He ran over to her and knelt down next to her. Crap she was injured and badly, the ruby of her blood standing out even against the blackness of the base. He could tell she was clinging to consciousness.

She glared up at him distrustingly and pointed the blaster at him.

"Who are you what do you want?"

"I'm Luke Skywalker, and I'm here to rescue you. "

"Your not with the empire?" She asked cautiously.

"No, I'm with the Alliance. " There was more he wanted to tell her, that he had been having visons of her, to apologize for taking so long, but they would have time for that later.

She relaxed a bit and lowered the weapon.

"Can you tell me your name? How old you are? How long have you been here?" As he asked the questions he moved a finger in front of her eyes seeing if she could follow it. Her gaze was out of focus and sometimes lost where his finger was going but would catch it with her eyes again.

"L-lalia. I'm sixteen, seventeen next month and I've been here for 5 months..."

Can you walk?" He knew the answer but he wanted to keep her talking. Keep her awake.

She shook her head in a negative. Though she smiled seeing the dragons. "I See he found you. You have one as well?"

"It's a long story for a different time. Do you mind if I carry you?"

She seemed to contemplate that. before shaking her head. "No, and even if I did. It's not like we have any other options right now."

Luke nodded. "Lets get you out of here." He scooped the teenager up easily, she was malnourished and light. Hard to believe she was just a bit more than three years younger than him. At that moment she looked to be younger. a girl of fourteen and not sixteen.

She winced a bit and wrapped her arms around his neck letting him lift her.

Lalia held onto to him as he lifted her, it felt odd being so close to a man not her brother. The closest she had ever been to the opposite sex that wasn't family was five feet and that was in a classroom. Luke felt warm , and she felt immediately safe the moment he had appeared. She was a bit freaked to see the boy she occasionally saw in her sleep, suddenly very real. He had a presence that she felt from the moment he landed on the ship, it was only now that she was able to asosiate it to him, and would be able to in the future. She was glad he was there though. She was no longer alone.

She felt a warm tremor go through her and she relaxed against him , once she was sure he wasn't going to drop her. She wrapped her arms around his neck. and pushed up a bit so she could see over his shoulder. the blaster at the back of his neck.

"I got your back" There was no way he could carry her and protect them both at the same time. She focused hard on this fact. Trying to keep herself awake, even as her vision swam.

Luke nodded and looked around, He didn't get a chance to figure out what direction, before the girls, companion started leading the way again. Luke followed. Whenever they encountered a problem , the rather large dragons took out the opponents , the lasers just bouncing off their scales going in every which way. Luke twice had to shift to shield himself and Lalia from getting indirectly hit. There talons were deadly.

Lalia struggled to stay awake. blinking. Seeing a trooper she aimed, having to sense where he was though , rather than see when she pulled the trigger. She sighed in relief when she saw they were in the hanger, but there were no places to hide. She heard loud beeping and whirring.

"you did a good job Artoo, now quickly. Get to the ship."

Lalia winced as a burning pain went through her, unable to cope with it, she passed out in his arms. the blaster falling. The last sensation before she passed out was the feeling they were being surrounded.

Luke felt her go limp in his arms just as he got near the ship, but they were immediately surrounded. there were no real places to hide in the hanger. He instictivly held her closer, he took calming breaths, taking a defence and trying to find a weakness in the enemy.

There was a sound of electricity being turned on, and Luke looked around for the source, it was a imperial general. He cursed his luck he stood straighter ready to fight, though not quite sure how to . He didn't trust setting her down.

To his surprise however, the General didn't aim for him, instead the red Twi'lek turned her weapon on her own troops. Taking them off guard. The fight lasted barely a minute, before she was standing infront of him.

"We aren't friends" She said.

"But, i'm letting you go. Next time we meet we'll be enemies, and I will kill you and her, but I won't fight a weakened enemy. If I'm going to win, it will be when my opponent is at their height as I cut them down.

"You'd be dead before your weapon even touched her."

"Aww ain't you just a sweety pie. Look. You have exactly five minutes to get on that ship and fly out of here before more troops arrive, and I wont be able to play nice then. " She hissed.

Luke would rather of fought her then and there, if it wasn't for the weight in his arms reminding him that he wasn't there to fight. He walked over to the ship, Artoo being picked up by the ships machine into his spot in navigation. He settled the girl in the back. He removed his jacket and wrapped it around her waist, when setting her down, he noticed the cause of her finally passing out, several wounds in her torso and waist had opened up, probably because she was being moved.

He adverted his gazed as he managed to pull the sleeves of her dress down, securing the wounds tighter with some gauze and his jacket. IT didn't take long , he still had three minutes. Once he was sure she'd be alright for now. he strapped himself in and took off out of the hanger, getting some distance before typing in the coordinates of where the alliance was at the moment, and called in a message.

"Luke to Leia, I'm on my way and I need a medical team."

There was silence for moment before he got a reply

"Luke , Luke are you alright kid, are you hurt?" It was Han and not leia.

"No but I have a girl with me who is, The empire had her for some reason, and We just escaped her condition is bad and getting worse. We will be there soon. I thought you were looking for your sister."

"I am, but I found myself in the system and thought I'd stop in for repairs. Is it the girl you've been seeing in your head?"

"Yes. I told you it wasn't all in my head. "

"We'll be waiting for you kid, fly safe. "

"Roger that." He cut out the communications, just to make it harder to track. He focused on flying, but would occasionally look back to make sure Lalia was still breathing. He had a feeling the surprises weren't over yet.

Authors NOte; Ahh they finally meet, but this is just the beginning of their story :)