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owphoenix
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9/7/05 8:41am
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so sad
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VaderLVR64
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9/7/05 8:53am
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Ouch! That hurt! So sad! But so good...
Bravo, Padawan!
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roguegirl
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9/7/05 10:45am
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Wow! heavy stuff.interesting though.Any chance of it being a paperback novel? I would buy a copy if it did.As Obiwan would say:Good Job.
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PonyTricks
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9/7/05 1:06pm
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Poor Han!
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HanSolo29
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9/7/05 1:09pm
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Oh, wow...this is really sad. Poor Han. I just wish there was some way to save him, but I doubt it. 
Great posts! Please keep it up! 
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Golden_Jedi
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9/7/05 5:39pm
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owphoenix: (hands tissues) (I'm buying them by tons these days )
VaderLVR64: (bows) thank you Master!
roguegirl: Are you kidding me? Thank you and welcome! 
PonyTricks: (more tissues) next chapter: some good things coming (I think)
HanSolo29: I will. Only two chapters more two go, save something unexpected happens.
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NaomiOrganaSolo
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Wonderful post, but so very sad
I don't think I'm gonna be able to cope when Leia speaks to him.
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DarthMasan
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wow.
so sad but at least Leia gets to say goodbye..
i cetainly cant imagine having to do such a thing, saying goodbye, and knowing that was IT... gosh! tough!
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Golden_Jedi
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NaomiOrganaSolo: Just stay with me one more chapter, I promise I wont be mean. 
DarthMasan: Yes, saying goodbye is a tough thing, but better than the other option. It is a very basic need.
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Golden_Jedi
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9/9/05 4:33pm
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here it goes Chapter VIII. It is a bit long, but I could't make it shorter or brake it. It comes with a song, so if you have it at hand and want to play it, it would be the perfect background.
VIII. The show must go on
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I guess I'm learning I must be warmer now/ I'll soon be turning round the corner now/ Outside the dawn is breaking/ But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free.
The show must go on/ The show must go on /Inside my heart is breaking/ My make-up may be flaking/ But my smile still stays on. (Queen, The Show must go on)
Leia Organa rushed to his husband side and threw her arms around his neck.
“Oh, Han, this is all my fault!” she cried.
Han Solo wrapped her wife in his arms. She was young again, just like him. And she was also... horrified. Grieved. Overwhelmed. Utterly sad. He could feel it. Along with her love, her pride, her unextiguished desire for him. He suddenly realized what a Force-bond meant.
“Sweet Corellian stars!” he said. “This is what it’s been for you all this years!” He sought his brother-in-law eyes over Leia’s head, his own widened in awe. “I never... I was blind, I didn’t know! I’m so sorry!” All the times he had teased them, all the times he had been bothered by their Force-sensitivity suddenly came to his mind. Not for the first time, but maybe for the last, Han Solo felt ashamed. And he wept.
“Hey, stop it, nerf!” Leia removed her face from his chest. “It’s not your fault!” She reached up with her hand and gently caressed his temple.
She really meant it. He could tell, now. A roguish grin slowly lit Han Solo’s face. “It’s not your fault either, sweetheart.” Improbable as it seemed, they started to laugh through the tears. Luke Skywalker beamed.
* * *
“Han, Jacen wants to join us.” Luke said after a while.
“Please” Leia answered, but Han hesitated. “Luke, can you... hide the panels?”
“What’s with the panels?” she asked. Her husband gave her a knowing look. “Oh” she blushed.
“Yes, I can, Han” the Jedi Master said.
The robed figure of Jacen walked in, apparently coming from the cockpit.
“Dad” he said. His father didn’t answer, but walked right to him and hugged him tightly. He was so proud. This was his son, a strong man now, tempered as durasteel, not a trace of the sheepish boy he used to be. But he nevertheless missed that boy.
“Jace, I...” Han started.
“I know, Dad”
“You do?” he blinked “Shavit, you do. Take care of your Mom for me, will ya?
Two lopsided grins mirrored each other.
The sound of steps going up the ramp startled Han Solo. A familiar strode he hadn’t hear in more years than he liked to remember. He let go his son and rushed to the exit hatch. A tall figure was standing halfway down, slightly veiled by the fog.
* * *
The alarms went on. The medic pushed a drug into his patient and waited for him to stabilize.
* * *
“ANAKIN!” Han Solo shouted, and jumped down the hatch to embrace his golden boy.
“Force!” Han kept shouting, shaking his son hard, as if to see if he was real. “LEIA! HE’S HERE!” he called, looking up to the ship.
“She can’t hear you, Dad.” Anakin Solo said with a sad smile. “And she wouldn’t see me either. It’s not her time, yet.”
“But...”
“I’ll explain later, Dad,” the Jedi interrupted his father. “We’ll have all the time in the universe. Uncle Luke was clever to inject you with his blood. It’ll make everything a lot easier.”
“But...” Han tried to say.
“Not yet, Dad. Now you go inside again and say goodbye to everyone. Don’t worry, you’ll see them again. I’ll wait for you here.” Anakin dragged his father up the ramp. “And, Dad?
“Yes, Ani?” Han said, happy to be allowed two consecutive words.
“Give Mom my love, will you?” Anakin pushed him into the Millenium Falcon again.
* * *
“Han, you...flickered” Leia said with an anxious voice. Han Solo looked into his wife’s deep brown eyes. He’s knees still shook from sheer emotion. He took her again in his arms and leaned to her ear, whispering.
Princess Leia busted into tears at the same time she repeated “I knew it! I knew it! Oh, Force, I knew it!” She beamed the news to the rest of her family. Luke and Jacen slowly let their jaws drop simultaneously.
The younger Jedi closed his mouth to announce: “Dad, Jaina is dropping out of hyperspace, she want’s to talk to you now. I’ll channel her.”
A brown-eyed, brown-haired young lady not older than fifteen standard years ran through the Falcon shouting “Daddy! Daddy!” The Falcon’s Captain took his daughter in his arms and spun her around. “Oh, Princess!” He pressed the girl hard to his heart while she whispered to him “I love you, Dad”. Her beautiful Princess, a seasoned warrior and a full woman all at the same time. Just like her Mom.
“I...” Han Solo started
“I know, Dad” Jaina stated, trying to be brave.
“Damn” He aimed at her his most charming smile “Take care of the Falcon, girl, will ya?”
“Tell Ani we miss him, will you?” She answered.
* * *
“You should be going” Han Solo said to his family. He looked at Luke, who was starting to show dark circles below his blue eyes. He was tired, Han felt, from the loss of blood and from the effort of controlling this experiment.
“Just a minute” Jedi Skywalker said. He nodded to his niece and nephew.
The room was suddenly filled with voices.
“Goodbye, Han”
“Take care, Solo”
“I love you, Grandpa”
“See ya later, Uncle”
The corellian captain felt like if a dozen hands at once caressed his cheek, ruffled his hair, pulled his sleeve, patted his back. He felt how much his family and friends cared for him, all at once. He sensed even the tiny mind of his youngest granddaughter through her link to Jacen. He perceived the serious, ordered ones of the Jedi in the Temple. They were keeping a vigil, just to accompany him and his family. And they were thankful for the good news he had brought in the last minutes of his life.
It was a web of love, linking Luke to Leia, to the twins, to their beloved ones, to their children, to their friends. And all of them to him.
“Goodbye” he whispered.
As the voices went away, Han Solo found himself weeping again. But this time the tears were of pure joy.
* * *
The twins hugged their father again. Jaina looked now older, grown up. Their images slowly disappeared, as they painfully retired.
Husband and wife then engaged in a close embrace that seemed to last forever. Luke Skywalker tried to look the other way. At last they parted and the former smuggler cupped her face with his hands. “Don’t cry, Princess,” Han Solo begged, “please.”
“Han, I don’t want...”
“Don’t say that, sweetheart. You have to tell the little one about her gorgeous grandfather. Will you do that for me?”
Tears run freely down the Princess’s cheeks.
“I love you, Han.”
“I...” He lingered for a while, pondering the answer. And he finally chose something that had been true for almost fifty years, and yet was now truer than ever.
“I know.” And he kissed her.
* * *
“Break it, Luke” Han Solo asked.
“Goodbye, flyboy” Leia said as she vanished.
The corellian turned to his brother-in-law. Luke’s appearance was terrible, tired and stressed. He had aged, too.
“The midiclorians are starting to decay, Han. I must go.”
“Kid” he said while hugging him. “You...”
“I know, Han”
“Will anybody let me finish a sentence?” the smuggler grunted.
“No” the Jedi master smiled. “May the Force be with you, brother” and he disappeared.
* * *
Han was finally alone. “Now what?” he asked to nobody in particular.
And he suddenly knew.
He walked up and down the Millenium Falcon one last time, remembering things long gone. He stood by the hatch, and glanced back. “Helluva life, Solo” he whispered, patting the durasteel.
He took a deep breath. Anakin waited for him at the bottom of the ramp, arching his brows, expectantly.
With a confident step and a smile on his face, Han Solo went down the ramp.
* * *
The alarms went on again. Nobody in the hospital room moved.
After a while, the medic droid shut off the machines and carefully detached the now useless tubes and sensors from the body.
Princess Leia Organa-Solo opened her eyes. She let go the hand she clutched and leaning over the bed, kissed her husband’s still warm lips.
* * *
Two forms walked through the fog.
“Damn, I’m old again, Ani” Han Solo complained.
“I guess that’s the way the Force thinks you are at your best” his son answered, laughing.
A question burned in the old man’s throat.
“He’s here, Dad, don’t worry. He wanted to come to pick you up, but I was faster.”
“But how... he wasn’t...”
“Neither were you, Dad. But Chewie had some influence with a certain green Jedi Master and besides, my Grandpa is changing things here too.”
“Your Grandpa?”
“The one you named me after? He says he owes you, you know.”
“Me? For the carbonite?
“That too. But mainly for stopping him from killing Uncle Luke. And for the gorgeous grandchildren that you gave him.” He winked. “Come, we’re coming through.”
“Whatever you say, son.”
...
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies/ Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die / I can fly - my friends.
The show must go on – yeah / The show must go on / I'll face it with a grin / I'm never giving in / On with the show. (Queen, The Show must go on)
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PonyTricks
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Date Posted:
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*sniffs* that was so sad and so nice with the Anakin part. But why-oh-why did Han have to get all old again? That's not fair! - If poor Han has to die, at the very least he could get his youth back in the afterlife! What kind of stinkin' afterlife is it if you have to be OLD and CREAKY? *hits the Force in the face for being unfair* 
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9/9/05 5:15pm
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Lovely goodbye scene. So glad they got the chance.
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But so well done! Bravo, Padawan! 
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DarthMasan
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OH MY GOD!
that was sad!
now i have to go find a chirpy fic cause otherwise im gonna be all sad inside before I go to sleep... GAH!!
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Golden_Jedi
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PonyTricks: Obi Wan and Yoda are old either in the Force... Besides, Han is lucky to have an afterlife at all... and I didn't say creaky, just old.
RebelMom: I'm glad you liked it 
VaderLVR64: Was it? I was very doubtful of this...
DarthMasan: Go to Ponytricks's, I go there also when I get too depressed by this.
Thank you everybody!
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