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I know that many of you were probably looking forward to the scene where Leia finds out everything about her parents, but I couldn't get something that I was happy with, so I skipped it and moved the story forward to Leia being 15. If I can hammer out something that I like for the revelation I'll post it as a Chapter 9 add on separately. Read & Review!
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Chapter 10- Fett's Princess
Leia Skywalker-Fett was on a mission. For the last few years she had been training with both of her dads and now she was going after Bail Organa. She had her own ship now, a beautiful but small Nubian cargo ship that she and her dads had transformed into the perfect weapon, she named it The Dark Angel. Leia piloted her ship into Alderaan's space with practised ease, avoiding space traffic controll, and landed in a heavily forested area not far from the capitol.
She shut down everything on board to ensure that signals could not be picked up to reveal her location. The boarding ramp lowered, and had anyone been there to see it an impressive sight would have met them. A beautiful young woman dressed all in black with her long brown hair coiled tightly to her head seated atop a small agile swoop bike appeared at the top of the ramp. She had customised the bike herself, muffling the sound of the engine and adding a powerful Mandalorian weapons array; in short she transformed her swoop bike from a noisy racing bike into a bounty hunter/assassin's dream.
She sped toward Aldera with the deftness of someone who had travelled this path thousands of times. In reality she had only been to Alderaan once before, her dad too nervous about Bail Organa finding her to allow her to accompany him here, she gained her knowledge through simulations on the Exactor.
She arrived at the lakeshore exactly on schedule. It was the darkest part of the night, which was necessary as there was no cover for her approach to the city, just a vast expanse of plain leading to the lake that surrounded Alderaan's capitol city. Leia turned her trajectory toward the mountains and sped for the other side of the crater lake while hugging the shoreline, and soon enough she reached the narrowest part of the lake.
Leia guided her bike into the water and buried it in the mud beneath the lake. She couldn't take her beloved bike with her and also couldn't leave it exposed on the lakeshore. Only a standard month prior she had altered the bike so that it should survive years left underwater, now would be the ultimate test.
Standing in shoulder-deep water Leia secured her breathing apparatus and walked out into the lake. As the water got to be above her head she began to swim toward the island city, putting months of endurance training to use.
Leia made good time in her swimming, first light had not yet broken as she made the run from the edge of the city to the Aldera Royal Palace, home of Queen Breha Organa and her consort. The most difficult task so far was scaling the building. Alderaan's architecture was famously sheer, finding handholds and footholds was impossible. Leia had to use magnetic climbing tools that relied heavily on her ability to lift her own body for the entire duration of her climb. As she levered herself up onto the balcony attached to the prince consort's chambers the first light of dawn could be seen on the horizon.
Leia crept over the balcony and deftly picked the lock on the senator's door, re-locking it behind her. She made no sound as she slipped past Organa's sleeping form and entered his office. She unwound her hair and used the force to comb through it and lay it neatly into place in long, soft waves. She had been told that she looked an eerie amount like her mother when she wore her hair like this, and was hoping that her appearance would shock Organa more than finding an unfamiliar girl in his offices before any meetings of the day. Leia sat down in the senator's chair and waited for him to begin his day.
Bail Organa's day began as usual. He woke shortly after Alderaan's sun was visible above the horizon, and had a light breakfast with his wife. He then collected his datapad with his work for the day and went back up to his rooms to his office. It was when he turned on the lights and entered his office that his day took the dramatic turn from normal to galaxy altering.
As Bail turned to his desk he nearly jumped in shock. Seated at his desk was Padmé Amidala, though he knew it was impossible as she had been dead for almost sixteen years. As he stared at her in disbelief the woman spoke, her voice soft but cold, "Where is Luke?"
Bail's throat closed up in fear, he was sure that this was the ghost of Senator Amidala and she was here because of what had happened nearly sixteen years ago at Polis Massa. "I… I don't know."
"You were there when Kenobi took Luke. You were part of the plan to kidnap him. Where did Kenobi take him?"
"I swear I don't know. Kenobi never told me where he was taking the boy, he would be safer from the Empire that way…"
"Very well then. If you truly cannot tell me where my brother is, there is one other thing that I will ask of you. And you will comply if you do not want your wife to know what happened at Polis Massa."
Bail started again at the word "brother", finally realising that the woman on the other side of his desk was not Padmé, "Leia?"
"Take a seat, Senator."
Author's Note: This chapter was getting extremely long, so I decided to split it up. The next part of this chapter should be up tomorrow or the day after. In the meantime, here's another cliffhanger (I know I'm doing more of these, I guess I'm just mean).
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