Authors Note: I do NOT own star wars. Disney and Lucas film do , along with some other people . I am not one of them. For fans by a fan :)

This chapter was sooo fun to write! been excited for this for a couple chapters now. Hope i'm doing the brother sister relationship right. I am an only child and all but two of my five friends growing up and now had siblings. and only one of those two had a brother, but he was younger. So I have nothing to really go on other than what I've read and seen in books and movies and TV and my own probably romantasized view of what I think a protective brother acts like.

Yeah this took a good long while, sorry about that. Life has been very busy.

Luke watched Lalia close her balcony doors. Feeling that she was alright. He made his way into his room. Han not believing he'd actually go up to him. Was waiting for him.

He moves quick. Luke thought amused.

Han had his arms folded in front of the door, blocking any escape.

"what was that?" He growled.

"What was what?" Of course Luke knew what he was talking about, he wasn't an idiot. He was in dangerous waters though.

"Don't give me that, with my sister. Just now. What was that?"

"We were just talking" He was being honest. Going to his bed. Determined to show he wasn't afraid of Han at that moment. He laid down and gazed at the cealing bending one knee. He could feel Lalia's unique force signature pulsing just meters above him. It calmed him in a way. Knowing she wasn't in pain.

"Just talking? Looked like you were touching her to me. She's underage!"

Luke looked over at him.

"One, She's technically legal in sixty percent of the systems. Second, it wasn't anything inappropriate, and Third I was just comforting her, your reading way to much into it." To be honest even as he spoke Luke was unsure of that, but he was not going to admit that to a very pissed off Han. He wasn't a smuggler, a rebel or anything else other than a concerned big brother with deadly weapon training right now. It was like every switch was off except for that one.

"What did you do to upset her?"

"Me? I didn't upset her. We just. Talked about her mother. That would upset anyone. Also she was upset at you. She didn't have to tell me. I felt your force energies before she came down to talk to me. What on earth upset her so much?" He looked over at Han. Feeling fidgety, he sat up and started to tweak his light saber, fixing it just to keep his hands busy. It was something he had always been good at. putting things together, fixing them and taking them apart.

Han went ridged and looked around with shifty eyes. Going over to the balcony he shut the windows and the blinds before facing him with a serious face. "This has to stay between us got it?"

"I can't promise that. I don't like lying or keeping secrets"

"Luke, I'm serious. "

"Fine I won't tell her whatever this "Big secret" Is." He made quotations in the air with his fingers.

"She asked why we were at the palace."

"It was the closest medical care? and there are loyalists that wouldn't give us away to the republic?" Luke didn't see what the big deal was about that, but he had a feeling the real answer was coming.

Han became more uneasy "That's...part of it. "

"The other?" Luke probed when Han paused to long.

"This is her home planet...Her mother, Dorme was a handmaiden to a former queen turned senator of Naboo. When she fell pregnant, for some reason she got spooked. She left the planet with my Father and I and we went to Toloran where she was born. Because of her lineage. Dorme Obviously wanted her shielded for some mysterious reason. If we took her to a normal Hospital. They would of scanned her blood and easily connected her to her mother, and it would alert the empire. Since there is no record of Lalia's birth, they'd come asking questions or worse. "

Luke thought a moment. "Surely she's old enough to handle that amount of information?"

Han chewed his lip. "Her mother. A week or so before she died pulled me aside, I was only six years old. She told me that if anything should happen to her or my father, that I should take her here when she turned eighteen, to seek out a gungun named Jar Jar Binks. That he would have the answers to her heritage.

"You're afraid it will put her in more danger." It wasn't a question, Luke didn't see how since they were already here, she couldn't seek out the gungan early. "You have to tell her eventually Han"

"I know kid, just give me another year. Besides we have work to do. " He went to leave but paused. "Get closer than three feet and I promise you, next time I throw something . I won't miss."

Luke shook his head at Han's retreating back. His blond hair falling in front of his eyes. Brothers.

Lalia got up the next morning excited. She grabbed some white sweat pants and shirt she had pilfered from the medical center before leaving. Something she wouldn't mind getting torn and dirty. She got her electromagnetic duel ended staff she had gotten from her brothers ship, glad that she left her good one on his ship, so the one the empire took from her was just one of her crappy spares.

She ran down the stairs of the Inn, grabbing some cruilian apples that were out on the table where guests could eat. It had been a long while since she last spared, and the excitement bubbled up inside her tell she felt like she'd explode. She hoped she wasn't to rusty. She didn't want her adventure to end before it even began. She wasn't surprised when she saw Luke when she left the inn, already awake and waiting. She could always feel when he was close, or the general area he was in. She wondered if that had anything to do with this. Force connection she guessed she could call it. Between them or was it he was just that powerful that she could feel it through walls. Either way she was glad for this. It was like a tracking beacon , without having to carry around a device.

"you ready?" He smiled at her.

"I should be asking you if your ready to have your butt kicked" She grinned.

"Keep dreaming"

"Witnesses? I'm sure Chewie wouldn't mind, might have to drag Han. I have them"

"Artoo and Threepio are mine. "

"Droids don't count"

"This time they do. We don't know anyone else here. "

"Alright as long as you don't have them programmed to do what you want"

"Deal. So where are your witnesses?" He playfully nudged her.

"Probably asleep, I'll go get them. Operation wake Han up is a go."

She turned on her heel and went the way she just came. She knelt in front of her brother's door. Taking a hair pin she started to pick the lock. Once she heard a faint click. She stood up straight and walked right on in.

Her brother was sound asleep on the bed. one arm behind his head. the other kept a pillow over his face to block any stray sun rays.

She grinned evily Crouching down so that she could crawl under the bed. Once under she put her hands and feet under the mattress and pushed up, hard enough to turn the matress and her brother with it to the floor. Scrambling Lalia jumped onto the mattress and shook it.

"Wake up, its time to get up."

There was a loud oof and a pained grunt coming from beneath her. Lalia soon found herself on the ground. Han having flipped the matress over. He folded his arms.

"How many times do I have to tell you Lalia. I don't get up until the sun is high up. It's barely peaked over the horizon!"

She laughed standing up and brushing herself off.

"Grab chewy. I need witnesses. "

Han made an audible growl. "What did you do now?"

"Nothing. Yet. Luke and I are just going to have a friendly match, and I need you as my witness. So come on, We don't got all day. Burning daylight."

"You two are not fighting."

Lalia ignored her brother and pounded on chewy's door. "Come on, meet us outside"

"It's just a friendly match. It's not like we will be fighting to the death."

Lalia headed down the stairs once chewy left the room. Meeting Luke, who waited with the two droids and their dragons.

Lalia smiled, and took off at a jog away from the Inn and toward the beach. Ignoring her brother's questions and protests. Once away from the inn, they were in a clearing in front of the forest, but away from the buildings. She got into a defensive stance, holding her electric duel ended spear out in front of her.

"Just be careful will ya?" Her brother called out and leaned against a tree. Chewie gave a loud call of encouragement.

"Dear me, I hope they don't do anything to bring harm on themselves." Threepio said. Artoo beeped and whirred.

"I hope your right old friend"

The dragon's didn't seem to care what their companions were doing. They curled up around each other and went back to getting some beauty sleep.

Luke took his place across from her, starting up his lightsaber. She hoped her spear was made of a metal that it didn't cut through. They started to walk in a circle around each other.

Chewie gave a loud call, and they both simultaneously sprung into action. Lalia raised up her spear, just as Luke took a side swing, blocking each others attacks. Thankfully the metal didn't give under the heat of the saber. She leaned down and ducked, as she removed her spear. Luke took several steps forward from the sudden removal of the weapon. He recovered quick, Spinning around to block her spear as she tried to hit him why he was distracted, deflecting her.

They continued like that for hours, One of them attacking the other parrying the attack. Or they attacked at once creating sparks and loud noise of a light saber hitting metal. knocking them both back. Lalia criss crossed her feet walking to the side. she was exhausted the sun high in the sky now. Luke looked a bit less out of breath but he was hitting his exhaustion point. In one final move, they sprung and their weapons landed at each other throats hovering there.

Han clapped. "Wow, you've gotten pretty good Kid. It seems this ended in a Tie. What was the bet? We're going to have to find a middle ground"

"Well, I said if he beat me I'd stay on whatever planet you dropped me off at , why you do force knows what. If I won I could go with you without to much complaint."

Luke seemed to contemplate. Still out of breath he took a swig of his water bottle. Lalia took a moment to admire the way his muscles moved a bit with his movements and the way the sweat caused his hair to stick in random places. She snapped out of it when her brother raised his voice.

"No, no absolutely not. It's to dangerous. As for you Luke you didn't have a right to make that promise"

The Farm Boy turned pilot and Jedi shrugged his shoulders. "She made it, I just stated my terms. Besides I've learned by now if she wants to do something. She'll do it with or without permission, at least that way there was a chance she'd stay put."

"How about" Threepio interrupted. "That she comes along, but if things get to out of hand she must leave or stay where you tell her too. "

"Fine" Lalia agreed. Though secretly she had no plans on actually doing as she was told, especially if she could help.

She went past her fuming brother and toward the town. Come on, I know a great place for lunch. At the mention of food both dragons perked up and suddenly were walking on either side of her.

As she made her way to that diner again. She didn't notice the staring contest behind her.