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Golden_Jedi
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The Blood of a Jedi (old H/L fic) COMPLETED Sept.12th
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This is a short story, only seven or eight chapters long, of which I have written five so far.
It's not a cheerful story, so if you are depressed, please don't read.
PS: this story was inspired by a plot bunny in the plot bunny thread, but I prefer to make the proper aknowledgment later, so the intrigue be sustained a bit longer.
Title: The Blood of a Jedi
Author: Golden_Jedi
Timeframe: Beyond the Saga (far beyond)
Characters: Luke, Leia, Han, everybody still around
Genre: angst (very)
Summary: Everything comes to an end.
Disclaimer: Star Wars is the property of Lucasfilm Limited. All characters, locations, objects and concepts are used without permission. No profit is being made.
I. A Night at the Museum
Jedi Master Luke Skywalker entered Coruscant New Museum of Galactic History, followed by six young padawans.
The curator of the Museum greeted him and escorted the Jedi to the new gallery. It was huge, the combed ceiling almost thirty meters high, in a perfect recreation of the style of the Massassi Temple on Yavin IV. There was even a real X-wing on display there, the cockpit open and a stair attached to the side. “Great, the kids will be thrilled,” the Jedi Master thought. But the centerpiece of the giant show was not the shining starfighter but another ship, a round shaped freighter, somewhat dark and shabby. A legendary ship, heroine of the Rebellion by her own right: the Millenium Falcon.
Jaina, Jacen and their families were already there. “Uncle, you came.” Jacen greeted him. Jaina hugged the old Jedi Master warmly. Luke saw his own son, Ben, examining a Threepio-lookalike that was standing by the lowered ramp of the ship. Lowbacca’s head could be seen above the crowd. The whole Skywalker-Solo family was here. There was also a lot of guest surrounding the Falcon. Authorities, ambassadors, many friends of the family and even the kids from Princess Leia Organa-Solo Elementary with their teachers were there. An important number of Jedi robes could be noticed in the crowd. Half of the Jedi Council was there.
A white velvety cloth with silver stars on it cloaked the cockpit of the Falcon. Around it, a tubular durasteel structure was mounted. A flight of stairs went up to a semicircular platform with a railing at window high and another went down again at the other end. The curator went up the stairs, stood on the platform, called the attention of the crowd and started his speech. “Master Skywalker,” he begun, “Masters Jaina and Jacen Solo,” he addressed the twins, “Master Lowbacca” the wookie let out a short growl. “Honorable guests: it’s a great pleasure to have you here tonight.” The speaker made a short pause. “Seventy years ago” he lectured the guests “the Battle of Yavin against the evil Empire was fought. And it was won because of the courage of a princess, a young pilot, a wookie warrior and a lucky merchant. We are here to honor them.”
“Ha!” Luke Skywalker thought, “Han would have love this! Lucky merchant indeed!” He had to hide a chuckle.
The curator went on talking about Princess Leia’s commitment, about Han’s courage and Chewbacca’s loyalty. It was not a very good speech, but he was young and full of good will. There had been so much sorrow following the unauthorized release of Leia’s Memoir, that everybody felt a bit guilty.
The curator finally stopped talking, and invited the old Jedi Master to join him on the platform. Luke Skywalker gave his cane to one of his padawans and went up the staircase. Jacen hurried after him, to help his old Master. “Jaina, Lowie, please, join us” Luke asked.
After a moment, each one of them took and edge of the white cloth, and, at the curator’s signal, they unveiled the Millenium Falcon’ s cockpit.
“Oh, Force” Jedi Master Luke Skywalker said under his breath.
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Somebody interested?
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HanSolo29
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Yup, you caught my attention.  You have an interesting start here. There's a lot of possibilities this may lead to but right now, I'm wondering what it is under that sheet that surprised Luke. 
Nice start! 
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Thak you, HanSolo29. I'll update probably tomorrow.
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I'll read on!
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Excellent start, Padawan! 
My Padawans make me so proud!
(And former Padawans, too!)
And I must say I'm blown away when I know that English is NOT your first language! You write better than a lot of native speakers, LOL!
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Great start Golden Jedi!! I'm looking forward to more.
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starwarsfan68: thank you!
VaderLVR64:  (Word is my ally)
cheersweetie27: I hate to make people wait for me.
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The second chapter is more like the conclusion of the prologue, the main issue starting next. It is really short, longer chapters following. Thanks for reading!
II. The Exhibit
Luke Skywalker looked through the window panel. Four figures could be seen inside the Millenium Falcon’s cockpit.
A replica of Chewbacca occupied the copilot’s seat, his powerful paws on the controls. His head was tilt to a side, as he used to do when he was thinking of something. It was exactly as Master Luke remembered him, to the tiniest hair of his fur.
Han Solo’s lookalike was sitting in his usual chair. It was wearing a white shirt and one of Han´s old vests. His familiar lopsided grin was frozen on the face and the eyes and body were turned to the lovely princess behind him. Leia’s replica was standing behind that seat, left hand on its back, right on Han´s shoulder. It had an old white senatorial dress on. Leia’s lookalike body was leaning forward as to whisper something in Han´s ear, but it smiling eyes were turned to the front window. It was looking straight into the old Jedi Master eyes.
/Oh, you were so young, Uncle/ Jaina said through the Force /And Mom and Dad too!/ Luke looked at her niece. She was visibly moved, her eyes full of tears. She couldn’t hide her emotions. Luke slipped an arm around her niece’s waist. He noticed just then the fourth figure. It stood behind the others, leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed over the chest. It took him a few seconds to recognize his own eyes. /Yes, we were young/ he replied, sighting.
The family had been asked for old holos and records, but he wasn’t prepared for something like this. He expected some kind of statues, cold and rigid. It was exactly the opposite. These figures seemed so alive, he almost waited for Han to jump out of his seat and greet him any minute. The artist was truly inspired, Luke thought, capturing not only their images, but also their spirit. “Oh, Force,” the Jedi Master realized, “I miss them so much.” Jaina tightened her embrace in response.
The group was then invited to go inside the Millenium Falcon. The Threepio-lookalike droid greeted them. Ben Skywalker joined the group, following his father. Inside, it was cleaner and shiner than it ever was under Han´s ownership. The door to the cockpit was sealed, so nobody could mess with the figures. Otherwise, the cargo bay entrance was open and some fake cargo boxes could be seen through it. The holographic game table was lit and Chuwie’s old hammock swung across the smaller cabin.
The main cabin’s door was open too. Luke entered the little room with its oversized bunk. The decoration was set as Leia had described in her Memoir that Han once did for her. Slowly, the old Jedi sat on the bed where his beloved sister had died.
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*sniffs* Very good.
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PonyTricks posted:
*sniffs* Very good.
Thank you.
/Goldie hands PonyTricks some tissues... Thinks twice, hands more tissues... (You're gonna need them!  )
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Oh, wow...I had a funny feeling since I started reading that they all had died.
I think I'm gonna need some of those tissues as well. 
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Very good. Is there more?
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HanSolo29: Yes they are. But that's not always a bad thing.
ccp: Yes, there is.
Thank you for reading!
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Tissues, please! This is so sad, but I want to hear the rest of the story.
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I'll probably update tomorrow.
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Well, Chapter III is arriving...
III. The Old Couple
It was a lovely day on the main continent of Ossus. In fact, it was the prettiest spring day ever since they have moved to this planet.
Princess Leia Organa-Solo picked up the slipped blanket from the floor and covered her husband with it again. Han Solo was taking a nap in his favorite sofa.
The old woman sat at the other end of the sofa, trying not to disturb the sleeping man. He was so tired lately, so emaciated. His short-cropped hair was full white now. Well, her own hair was mostly gray too, with only a darker bunch here and there.
She slowly moved nearer the dozing man and took his left hand. It was cold; it had been cold since the stroke nearly paralyzed his left side two years ago. Luke and Jacen had done their best efforts to heal him, and succeeded partially. Han had recovered the speech and the use of his left arm but he still needed some help to walk. They had moved to Ossus the day after he left the medic facility.
Han Solo was turning eighty the day after tomorrow. He wasn’t very happy about it. He had been shouting at everybody that suggested a party that he didn’t want any celebration, that he had nothing to celebrate. That would change, his wife thought, the moment he had his younger grandchild in his arms and the rest of the kids around him begging for a story. Jaina and everybody else were coming to Ossus for Han’s life day surprise party.
Leia felt somewhat responsible for the stroke. She positively knew she wasn’t, but it was only true that Han had collapsed during a heated argument with one of the holo-reporters that harassed her. If she only hadn’t written that damned memoir...
But everybody had insisted on it, she had been leading woman or privileged witness to many of the most important events in the Galaxy in the past sixty years; she should write a memoir. Leia had intended that it would be published after Han and her had passed away, and with Jaina and Jacen approval only. But some greedy thief had sneaked into their home during an off-world trip, and stole her back-up copy.
The fact that Luke and her were offsprings to Darth Vader had been of public domain for ages, but that she had witnessed Alderaan’s destruction in company of the Dark Lord wasn’t. Some twisted minds had speculated whether she could have prevented that event, overlooking that Grand Moff Tarkin was the one to order it, and that Leia wasn’t aware at that time of her connection to Darth Vader.
More to her embarrass, the yellow holo-press had published very private details about her honeymoon. The former Chief-of-State had written those only to tease her husband and thought she had erased all of it. She forgot about the peculiarities of her new datapad’s back up feature.
Former General Han Solo opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was his beautiful wife. Yes, she was old now, they both were. But he still thought she was the most beautiful woman in the galaxy. Well, maybe second to Jaina, maybe.
“Hi, sweetheart” he said “how long you’ve been here?”
“Not much, dear” she answered. “Let’s have a cup of tea and go for a walk. It’s a wonderful afternoon outside!”
“Tea?” Han made a face, “Make it caf and I’ll go with you”.
“Han, you know it’s not good for you” Leia shook her head “Be glad you can swallow anything at all.” He was becoming more like a child every day.
“Alright, alright, help me stand” He presented his right arm to her. She stood up and took his hand. But before she could steady herself, he pulled her arm and she landed on top of him. “This is ridiculous!” Han snorted “I can’t even stand for myself.”
“Hey, flyboy,” the Princess said in a playful tone, kissing his now wrinkled chin scar, “fifty years ago you did all sort of ridiculous things just for the chance of having me like this, don’t you remember?” She forced him to look her in the eye.
The ghost of a lopsided smile twisted the former smuggler’s lips.
“Yeah, I remember,” he said softly.
Han Solo remembered many things. Some of them happy, as the time when he unrelentingly chased her, or the little voice of Jaina calling him Daddy. Many of them sad: friends long gone, the street rat he had once been, the time when his dearest wife became a stranger. But the worst memories always seemed to float near the surface, clouding the rest.
How many nights in the near past had he awaken to an empty bed? And as he looked for Leia, he found her wandering through the house, lost herself, looking for Anakin? “He’s calling me, don’t you hear?” would she cry as he wrapped her in his arms. The same number of nights probably that he had awaken with his face wet, not recalling really what he dreamt, knowing only that his Jace was in pain, somewhere.
“No one is supposed to outlive their children. It’s not right”, the former smuggler thought many times. But Jacen did come back, and that was a good memory to hold on.
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A little action is coming in Ch. 4. Thank you for reading!
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Oh, it's so sweet, and yet so sad. I missed one update, but i just caught up! Keep up the PM's with the links thanks!!
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