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owphoenix
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9/12/07 7:38am
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Yeah a new chapter!!!
Love it...love the interaction between Han and Wedge
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Blue_Milkshake
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9/12/07 1:56pm
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Without needing further prompting, she pulled him far enough towards her to kiss him with all of the pent-up frustration and intense emotion that had fueled her vigil. Their lips trembled with something far more potent than cold as he responded in equal measure.
Yes!!!!! 
He's such a nerfherder!
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DanaeMariSkywalker
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9/22/07 9:25am
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This is a great story! I've read To Cast Away Stones before and it was excellent. You do the characterizations just right and I love it when a writer does that. 
Awww! Han and Leia at the end was so cute! 
I wonder how Vader'll react if he recognizes his son as the same person who stood up to him in the Temple.
Keep up the good work! Please update soon! 
~DanaéMariSkywalker
PS: Please add me to the PM List. :-D
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ccp
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9/23/07 7:51am
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I read To Cast Away Stones, and had started reading this but lost track. It is going great, please add me to the PM List.
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RebelMom
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I just re-read this. Just wanted to make sure you didn't forget about this. Since "sleep is for mere mortals", I figured you are just like Leia and don't sleep either.  Therefore you have plenty of time to have a life and write.  Anyways, have a cup of  .
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DarthIshtar
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I will be updating this soon. Sorry for the long delay! I've been crazy with other stuff.
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dm1
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Good to hear that, too many stories have been abandoned these days...
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star_writer24
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3/5 4:31pm
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Just found this!
Love it!
I have to say I think I like your Leia better than anybody else's,
no matter what story of yours I am reading. .
Often times in other people's fan fics she is betrayed as cold, or distant, but you get inside
of her head so well...anyways just wanted to let you know I am really enjoying
the story.
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DarthIshtar
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It was several hours before Luke was finally removed from the bacta tank. Han was treated for minor frostbite and fretted over until the medics were sure that his core temperature was holding steady at an acceptable level. He spent most of the remaining time in what must have been a fairly good mood, since he let Leia lecture him twice and kiss him three times before she had to return to work.
Finally, she was called away from her station by a comm from the medcenter and met Han halfway there without a word. Instead, he reached for her hand and did not let go until they reached their destination.
They entered the room to find Luke half-awake and doing his best to fry the logic circuits of the 2-1B droid. It was a sure sign that, whatever had happened, Luke was at least feeling better and he gave Leia a slightly bemused look behind the droid's back.
“Since I have not seen you in some time, are there any updates to your medical history?” the droid was saying.
“A few,” Luke said groggily. “I've picked up a few dings since my last mission.”
“Yes, sir,” the droid replied. “May I ask how long ago you acquired that scar?”
“Yeah...” Luke muttered as if he'd just been woken up from a deep sleep. “About...thirty-five years ago or so...”
With that, his eyelids drifted closed. Leia shot Han a slightly alarmed look, but Luke did say anything further. In addition, the 2-1B made a notation that was more comforting than anything they had heard since entering the room.
“Patient has altered mental status due to blunt head trauma...”
That was not going to look flattering on his medical record, but it was better than trying to explain that no, Luke was not joking. Leia cleared her throat and the medical droid turned disinerestedly towards her.
“He seems to be doing well,” he said flatly. “Other than some disorientation, he seems to not have suffered any serious damage.”
“Thank you,” Leia said, tightening her grip on Han's hand. “When will he be released?”
“We want to keep him here overnight for observation,” 2-1B replied, “but he should be able to return to his duties tomorrow, barring any...”
Her commlink sounded, forestalling any further conversation. Leia reluctantly let go of Han's hand to retrieve it and thumbed it on.
“Organa.”
“Princess,” Rieekan. “We have a bit of a situation. Can you come to the command center?”
It was a hallmark of their tentative reconciliation that he was demanding things of her again rather than simply expecting her to do her duty. She had not expected it to be comforting.
“I'll be right there.”
Han's eyes narrowed at that. She had explained the conversation with Rieekan while they waited for Luke to leave the bacta, but he was not as forgiving as she tended to be.
“You're going to let him order you around again?” he challenged.
“No,” Leia said quickly. “There is a situation. It is my duty to respond to it.”
“It's your duty to not let him do anything else to you,” Han retorted.
It was going to be difficult enough to forgive Rieekan for his deception without Han putting up a fight. She squeezed his hand once more, hoping that it would quiet the tension that arose every time the man was mentioned.
“I won't be gone long,” she promised.
She was halfway down the corridor when he caught up to her. “If there's a situation,” he said gruffly, “I don't want to be the last one to hear about it.”
It was a haphazard way of being overly protective, but she did not argue. At the very least, he could make himself useful when she did not need him and be there when she did.
Rieekan glanced up as they entered, choosing for the moment not to comment on Han's presence. Instead, he gestured with his chin for her to come closer to the sensor station that he was currently manning.
“Princess,” he greeted formally, “we have a visitor.”
There was something in his voice that set the adrenaline rushing through her veins. There was a vast difference between receiving a report from one of their fighter groups or orders from command. The last time that he had announced a visitor to her, she had barely gotten off-planet ahead of Vader.
Whether or not he recalled that was not clear. Rieekan traced a line across the screen, indicating the pattern that she had already picked out at first sight.
“We've picked up something outside the base in zone twelve, moving east,” he explained.
An eastward course meant that whatever that “something” was, it was going to come at the base from the direction of the shield generators. In fact, zone twelve delineated the area that was within firing range for any atmospheric assault craft or starfighter that the Empire had in production. If something had gotten through before they had raised the defense shields, maybe shielded by one of those blasted meteor showers...
She fixed Lieutenant Soldren, the sensor officer who had been ousted from her station by Rieekan. He was obviously thinking something along the same lines, but could offer nothing more than an unhelpful “It's metal.”
“Then it couldn't be one of those creatures that attacked Luke,” Leia said immediately.
Soldren shook his head and pressed one hand to his headset in an effort to hear better. Han, ever the optimist, squinted at the screen as if he could see something benign or malignant in a small green blip on a sensor board.
“It could be a speeder,” he offered lamely. “One of ours.”
It was unlikely. Even after they had bypassed the difficulties with the cold, they had temporarily grounded all of the speeders until after the shield was up. It had been less than an hour than that had been activated and Rieekan would not have raised an informal alarm for a routine patrol.
“No, wait,” the sensor officer urged, reaching over Rieekan's shoulder to dial up the volume on zone twelve's remote recorder. “There's something very weak coming through.”
At first, it sounded like nothing more than the garbled ramblings of a tauntaun, but the chatter was too rhythmic to be something so primal. A moment later, her ears caught the dull thrumming of electronic servos underneath the bursts of communication.
“Sir,” Threepio said from where he had been half-forgotten near the extra-terrestrial sensor panels, “I am fluent in six millions forms of communication. This signal is not used by the Alliance. It could be an Imperial code.”
As if it had been caught, the transmission abruptly cut off. Han turned his attention to her for a moment and must have seen some kind of naked fear in her eyes. Either that or his thought patterns were mimicking hers.
“It isn't friendly, whatever it is,” he observed.
She nodded, thinking immediately of the interrogation droid that had been assigned to her on the Death Star. It was just like Vader to let a droid do the preliminary dirty work.
“Come on, Chewie,” Han called before she could comment on that. “Let's check it out.”
Rieekan flashed a wry smile at her for having dragged Captain Solo into yet another scouting mission of sorts. “Send Rogues Ten and Eleven to station three-eight,” he instructed.
“What do we do if it's Imperial?” Leia asked so quietly that only those standing next to her could hear.
“We pack up and move off-world,” Rieekan said curtly. “We've done it before.”
They had done it many times between the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of Derra IV, but they had invested more in this base. There were armaments that could not be torn up and shipped to the new base in a hurry and if there were an Imperial craft out there, they might not even have time to pack much more than the base personnel into the transports.
“Do you want me to start organizing for that eventuality?” she murmured.
He turned an almost relieved expression on her as if he had been waiting for her to volunteer. It was not the first time she had taken charge of such an operation and it would keep her mind off of the worrisome idea that this time, they might not have enough time to escape.
“I would appreciate it,” he confirmed.
Soldren shoved a chair at her. “Here,” he offered. “You'll probably want to know what we're dealing with as soon as Solo finds out.”
“Thanks,” Leia said honestly.
Less than five minutes later, while she was calculating personnel distribution based on the idea that all of the snubfighters were intact when the evacuation started, a crackle of blasterfire sounded over the comm. Immediately, she leaned forward, straining to hear, but could hear nothing but more blaster fire. It was immediately followed by an electronic shriek, a Wookiee roar and then a blast. Her breath caught as Chewie rumbled something, but with her pathetic skills in understanding his language, she could not be certain what he was saying.
“We got it,” Han reported.
She wanted to blurt out something along the lines of “Are you all right.” Instead, she asked something much more impersonal.
“What was it?”
“A droid of some kind,” Han called over the howling of the wind and Chewie's unhelpful input. “I didn't hit it that hard. Must've had a self-destruct.”
That narrowed it down immediately.
“An Imperial probe droid.”
“It's a good bet the Empire knows we're here,” Han agreed grimly.
It was not nearly as bad as a TIE fighter or an Imperial shuttle, but it meant that either of those could be here as soon as the transmission got back to the the nearest Imperial fleet group. Knowing Vader's obsession with Luke over the past few years, they had a few hours at most.
“We'd better start the evacuation,” Rieekan muttered. “Get back here, Solo. We'll need your help.”
“Nothing new,” Han rejoined. “Solo out.”
Leia pushed to her feet, suddenly overcome by nervous energy. “I'll finish these figures and get the hangar chief to do an estimate on how many ships we can get to haul.”
“I'll be here once you have those ready,” he assured her.
By unspoken consent, she and Han both arrived at the medcenter. Luke was awake again and looking highly suspicious at the fact that they were both out of breath and looking shell-shocked.
“Too-Onebee said you were in the command center,” he explained. “What's going on?”
Han looked at Leia, for once not feeling the need to know it all. He shrugged and gestured invitingly.
“Probe droid,” Leia said curtly. “Han got it, but we don't know if it got a signal off-planet and the nearest Imperial group...”
“Is the Executor,” Luke guessed grimly. “I'm guessing you don't want to take a stab at redeeming him now?”
“I don't think we're anywhere near ready,” Leia shot back, fighting the urge to pace. “We need to make sure that none of us is around to be his welcoming committee.”
“No problem,” Han said confidently. “The kid'll be flying escort duty and I'll be hauling you and half the base off-planet. As long as neither of you decides to play hero, we should be fine.”
She could not be certain if he were referring to her tendency to stay in the command center until the last moment or Luke's recent tendency to get involved in the Jedi Purges when everything went to hell.
“I'll be on my best behavior,” she insisted.
“There's something else,” Luke interjected. “Ben Kenobi wants us to go to Dagobah.”
He mentioned this as casually as if he could not make a meeting because of a lunch date. Leia's thought process stopped dead in its tracks and then went rushing in full-throttle.
“Ben Kenobi?” she repeated. “You heard him again?”
“I saw him,” Luke corrected. “Remember Yoda?”
Of course. It had impossible to avoid hearing about the gnomic creature in the end-stages of the Clone Wars.
“He's on Dagobah,” she guessed.
“Yes,” Luke confirmed. “I thought it might be a good idea to see what he has to say about all this. Maybe even give me...us some pointers on dealing with Vader as a Jedi. He knew him back then.”
“Good idea,” Han said. “The question is how we pitch it to Rieekan.”
“We've been on recruiting missions before,” Leia reminded him. “Maybe this could fall under that category. After all, the Alliance could use Jedi strength against the Empire.”
Luke nodded thoughtfully. “Let's get to the rendezvous point and then head to Dagobah together.”
“Or you could go on ahead,” Han suggested, “and we can catch up once we've convinced Rieekan that we're not all deserting.”
“That makes more sense,” Leia conceded.
“When will you be getting out of here?” Han asked Luke.
“Well, I'm supposed to be overnight for observation,” Luke pointed out, reaching for his jacket, “but I don't think the evacuation can wait that long. Let me come see what Rieekan can do to put me to use.”
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Golden_Jedi
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He spent most of the remaining time in what must have been a fairly good mood, since he let Leia lecture him twice and kiss him three times before she had to return to work.
Let me do it again... Aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... Thank you. 
It's so nice to see this story updated! 
So... They'll get stuck in the Falcon now? 
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dancing_star
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I've got to echo that aawwwwwwwwwwww. I just found this story recently, and I've kinda been lurking. That's usually what I do when I find things late. Anyway, just wanted to let you I'm thoroughly enjoying this wonderful story and eagerly awaiting more!!  
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RebelMom
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Nice to see a new update. It's nice to see Han and Leia not fighting, though that's part of their charm.
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Stellar update. Wriggle!! I loved it--H&L being together through this version of ESB already--it melts my mush loving heart
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dm1
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Wow, I think for some reason I missed the last post, too. Just ... wow! I'm so glad you're continuing this. It's fascinating the way you mix your story right in with the canon to give everything a twist. And you ditched the yucchy kiss between Luke & Leia, added more Han/Leia kisses! I'm all for that!
Don't wait so long to update this time around, ok?
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Still sitting on the cliffs of tttb and ponr but this one is one of my fav. to see updates of too. Excellent to read this excellent chap. <g> going to reread now...
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