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JediMasterAmanda Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 6/24 12:35pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	yay Master Windu saved that day! he will show up more now right? -----signature----- Jedi Padawan---/-\---Trust in the Force "You have that, 'we're in trouble' look." -Snips "There's a look?" -Skyguy "You can't miss it." -Snips TISSI-2 at your service.
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JediNat Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 6/24 1:19pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Yay Mace saved them! Great update! -JediNat- -----signature----- May the Force be with you! I'm a little teapot short and stout here is my handle and here's a note from my shrink he says I'm getting better. Last week I thought I was a toaster oven crazy laughter -Dot
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JediKaren Registered: Apr '07	Date Posted: 6/24 6:13pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	ohh very interesting! -----signature----- Bring Light Into Darkness Reaching Through Darkness: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28415147/p1/?0 Healing Hearts: http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/28282728/p1
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LASOS Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 6/24 11:27pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	DarthIshtar: There is no shame in commenting on hot chapters! I'm just glad that you thought it was so. dm1: Exactly! Mace was the waiter. And of course the Alliance knows. Why else would Rieekan insist that Han be Leia's escort/husband? I love those stories, too. Maybe one day I'll write a long one... JediMasterAmanda: Mace will DEFINITELY be back! JediNat: Thanks! JediKaren: Glad that you thought so! Here's a little treat for while I'm gone, but I promise I'll post when I get back to town! A/N: The things about Bria Tharen in this chapter are all from Wookieepedia. I haven’t read any of the EU books, so sorry if something is inaccurate. -- Chapter Eight: The Winter Wedding of Wedge Antilles “I asked and you were born; And like the snow you fall upon me; You’ve got me begging for some more...” O.A.R., “”52-50” -- The cynics believed that all is fair in love and war, but Luke never understood how they could compare the two in the first place. Love was something that all to often got cast aside during times of war. After all, what about war made it possible for love to flourish? It was dark and ugly and evil, and love was everything the opposite. Love, he imagined, though he was unsure he’d ever experienced it before, was bright and beautiful and good. Han disagreed. He had been in love once before. Her name was Bria, and he spent several months staring into bottomless glasses of Whyren’s Reserve trying to forget her. Their love had not been one of the songs that played so often. It was bitter and cold and if their relationship had been anything it was physical, almost animalistic. Bria’s fire in the bedroom was only matched by her temper, and even though he hated her more than he loved her, it still hurt when she was finally gone. He understood how someone could compare love and war because to him, love had been war. After Bria, Han had never wanted to fall in love again. He began his career as a smuggler to protect himself, to give him an excuse to not to stay in one place for too long so he could never be tied down again. He became gruff and cynical and rakish--women could warm his bed, but they could never stay past morning. Women who knew Han Solo knew that he would never have a meaningful relationship with anything other than his Wookiee and his ship. He erected his reputation, his armor, carefully; he wanted to protect himself from ever falling in love again. Han knew from the very first time he saw Leia that his armor couldn’t survive her. And he finally admitted to himself in the breeze of Oertzen VI that he was in love with her. Leia was so different from all the other women in the galaxy, the women against whom Han had protected himself. She was regal and intelligent and strong and independent and so many other things he never thought that he wanted in a woman. And she was beautiful, but her beauty wasn’t artificial or manufactured or painted-on or skin-deep. Her beauty was real and soft and made its way past the pain in her heart and the tension on her face. Leia, like Bria, drove Han crazy, but unlike Bria, the insanity that Leia inspired was something for which Han begged. He thrived on their arguments, loved the moments where he saw the flash of fire in her eyes and she bit out her most clever retort. They used to sting, but Han had started to like the pain. Han had given up hope long ago that his arguments with Leia would be taken at face value by the members of the Alliance. After they returned from Oertzen VI two months ago, he also gave up hope that his friends wouldn’t realize that he was in love with the princess. Everyone knew that Han was interested in more than just bedding Leia, but there was talk just the same. He tried to ignore the ongoing wagers and lewd comments from the pilots. He didn’t talk about it with anyone, not even Chewie or Luke. But Han did find an unlikely friend in his fellow Corellian, Wedge Antilles. Wedge and Han were not so different from each other. They were both rough around the edges and both excellent pilots and both had reputations for being rakish flirts. But Wedge knew, as Han had unwittingly discovered, that even the most debonair Corellians were capable of falling in love, because Wedge himself had found it in the most unlikely of circumstances. Rogue Two had fallen in love with Pax Owren, the Ryquin woman that had joined the Rebellion following the death of her child. Leia found Pax a position as a medic assistant and Wedge met her very soon after she joined. He had been injured in the Middle Rim campaign and Pax tended to him when he came out of the bacta tank. Their courtship had taken time. Pax was still healing from the destruction of Ryquin and the death of her infant son, but Wedge, surprisingly, had been patient. He had courted her slowly on Santee and for their first year and a half on Hoth until she finally admitted that she was in love with him as well. Even though the Alliance was crammed into the frozen Echo Base and the location was less than ideal, Wedge had secured the mess hall for an impromptu wedding in military-issued snowsuits and a reception of ration bars. General Dodonna had agreed to officiate, and Rogue Two was beside himself with joy. Luke marveled that love had managed to find its way through the hells of war at all. Han knew that it was more common than everyone thought. “You sure about this, Wedge?” Han asked him the night before the wedding. Had they been anywhere else, the Rogues would have taken him out for drinks at a seedy tap. Instead, they settled for a sober game of sabacc, and Han, Luke, and Wedge had continued to play after the rest of the pilots retired for the evening. “As sure as anything,” Wedge replied, grinning. “Do you worry ever,” Luke asked, “That something is going to happen? Wouldn’t it be smart to wait until after the war?” Luke and Han had become good friends since they met in the Mos Eisley cantina two and a half years ago. He’d watched the kid mature quickly, but he was still so young and years of fighting a war and leading a squadron of pilots had not yet taught him that sometimes it was better not to plan. They were different, Luke and Han, in that respect. Luke wasn’t quite ready to shoot first. “I think about it sometimes,” Wedge answered. “But that’s exactly why I want to do this now. I love Pax. I fight in a war.” His eyes left Luke and he looked squarely at Han, as if he wanted his next point to hit home with his fellow Corellian. “We aren’t guaranteed tomorrow to stop fighting and start letting ourselves be in love.” Luke held his breath for a moment as Han eyed Wedge, certain that he wasn’t going to take that advice very well. But instead he broke out into a crooked grin and clapped Wedge on the shoulder. “Well look at you, the philosopher!” Luke could feel what Wedge as about to ask next, and he knew that Han wasn’t going to take it well. “I think you should tell Leia.” Han’s face didn’t change as he focused on his sabacc hand, but Luke felt his mood darken. “Tell her what?” Wedge placed two cards down on the table. “You know.” Han glanced up and caught Luke’s gaze for a moment. He knew that Luke had given up any passing attraction in the princess long ago, but he still didn’t want to offend the kid. Before Han could say anything, however, Luke spoke up. “I agree with Wedge.” Han shook his head and threw a few more chips into the middle of the table. “I’m not gonna tell her.” “Why not?” Luke protested, throwing some of his own chips in as well. Han was quiet for a moment, staring intently at his sabacc hand. He knew exactly why not, and he was sure Luke knew as well. As much as Han loved Leia, he couldn’t stay much longer. One of the Rogue pilots had come back from a recent shore leave with the news that Jabba had increased the bounty on his head. Han was many things, a gambler, a smuggler, a cynic, but he was not a man that begged out of debts. He had given his original reward credits back to the Alliance, but Rieekan had insisted on paying him a meager pilot’s salary after he decided to help, and he finally had enough to settle with the crime lord. It would be a dangerous job, but Han knew enough of Jabba to know that the Hutt liked him enough to give him another chance, even if it took some aggressive negotiation. But he also knew enough of Jabba that the Hutt hated him enough to kill him the second he set foot in the palace. He couldn’t offer Leia the love of a dead man. “Because, Kid,” he said finally, “I’m not gonna be around for much longer.” He threw down his hand and stood up from the table. “I win.” Wedge and Luke could only shake their heads as Han walked away. If Han had left his friends in a surly mood, he had calmed entirely the next morning. He was the first to stand up and cheer as Dodonna pronounced Wedge and Pax husband and wife, and it was his suggestion that they throw open the shield doors and let the celebration move from the cramped hangar bay to the relatively bearable snow outside of the base. Rieekan agreed, but only because recent careful surveillance had reported a decrease in native species activity and because the planet had been without snowfall for several days. The Rebels welcomed the opportunity to go outside in the bright sunlight and forget about the war, if even for a moment. Everyone donned their fur-lined parkas and joined Wedge and Pax for their first dance in the snow. Han, Luke, and Chewie were standing beside each other, watching the newlyweds as they danced. Leia, who had been standing with Rieekan, spotted them and made her way through the crowd to her dearest friends. They greeted her warmly. “They look so happy,” Leia mused as she stood between them and snaked an arm around each man’s waist. “It’s amazing how love managed to find its way through such tragedy,” Luke agreed. Han smiled a little at that and glanced down at Leia, who to his surprise was already looking at him. She dropped her head immediately and he saw her cheeks flush ever so slightly, but he told himself that it was the cold. The four of them watched the dance before them, and neither Han nor Leia suspected Wes Janson’s presence behind them until Luke suddenly broke away and spun around in enough time to tackle his fellow Rogue and prevent him from putting a well-formed snowball down the back of Leia’s parka. As Luke and Wes went down, Han, Leia and Chewie were suddenly ambushed by snowballs. Leia turned in time to see at least Hobbie Klivian, Tycho Celchu, and Biggs Darklighter coming after them, but she had no time to react because Han had grabbed her arm and they began running for cover behind a nearby snowbank. They dove behind it together, laughing, and Han immediately began scooping up snow for ammunition of his own. “Quick! Make snowballs!” Grinning, Leia did as she was told, and they were soon joined by Luke, Chewie, Wedge, and Pax. The group very quickly had enough snowballs to put up a rather formidable defense, especially considering that Chewie’s snowballs were about twice the size of the others. Each grabbing an armful, the group made their way from behind the bank, hurling snowballs blindly as they were pelted by the rest of Rogue Squadron. Leia had a great arm and was able to hit her target with every throw, but she was soon out of ammunition. Han laughed as he noticed, threw his own last snowball and hit Wes square in the face, and motioned for Leia to follow him behind the base so they could plan a sneak attack. They both collapsed in laughter as soon as they were safely behind the cover of the shield generator, lying next to each other in the snow. “I feel like a little girl,” Leia said with a giggle. Han didn’t know she could giggle. He smiled back but said nothing, suddenly captivated by the princess and his proximity to her. In the white light reflecting of the snow, he could see a hint of a scar over her left eyebrow, a souvenir from Oertzen IV, when she had cut her head against the ground as the restaurant exploded behind them. He remembered bandaging that cut as soon as they were safely in hyperspace, how she had thanked him for shielding her from the explosion... Han’s eyes fell from Leia’s scar to her lips. Her smile had faded as she studied him, but she wasn’t unhappy. Instead she was expectant, maybe even nervous. He forced himself to look back into her eyes, and her own gaze traveled from his lips to lock eyes with him. Han took a deep breath. He wanted to kiss her, wanted so desperately to feel her lips on his. Did she want it, too? He tested her. He moved his mouth closer to hers and she didn’t pull away. Slowly, he inched towards her, his heart pounding in his ears, closer, closer, closer. She turned her head ever so slightly, offering him a better angle, and he titled his own, his lips just millimeters from descending on hers. Suddenly, Leia gasped and sat up quickly, staring wide-eyed at the sky. Han swore under his breath and then turned, reluctantly, to see what had startled her. Leia was already scrambling to her feet. He stood up as well and his own jaw dropped at the sight. It was a ship, rounded, formidable, and rather elegant, lacking the sharp edges of an Imperial vessel, and it was being cleared for landing in the hangar bay. “Han,” she breathed as she stepped towards the approaching shuttle. “That’s the Resplendent! That’s my father’s ship!” -----signature----- "When Han Solo returns to the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon and shoots down the TIE Fighters and saves the Rebel cause, do you think he does so for a free beer?" - Dwight K. Schrute "I made that one up. It's called fan fiction." - Marci Maven
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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Star Wars Trivia Hostess Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 6/24 11:58pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	LOL, perfect setting to have that Han/Wedge/Luke conversation over sabacc. And poor Han and the love of a dead man. And what the ... her father's ship?! -----signature----- I've finished reading Breaking Dawn! Morale officer of the ACWDBTTCAOT. "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit." ~Virgil, Aeneid "Ecce domino" (The pizza guy's here)
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JediNat Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 6/25 4:08am Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Loved the snowball fight! Her father's ship?! -JediNat- -----signature----- May the Force be with you! I'm a little teapot short and stout here is my handle and here's a note from my shrink he says I'm getting better. Last week I thought I was a toaster oven crazy laughter -Dot
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JediMasterAmanda Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 6/25 9:02am Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Bail's ship!? but I thought he died on Alderaan! so does this mean he's alive? -----signature----- Jedi Padawan---/-\---Trust in the Force "You have that, 'we're in trouble' look." -Snips "There's a look?" -Skyguy "You can't miss it." -Snips TISSI-2 at your service.
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Golden_Jedi Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/25 9:10am Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Sweet story! But what a curve ball you threw us last chapter! -----signature----- The country is that place where chickens walk around uncooked - Julio Cortázar Unexpected Blossom http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28693266 Sailing Little Boats http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28747916
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dm1 Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 6/25 12:11pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Golden_Jedi posted: Sweet story! But what a curve ball you threw us last chapter! At least it wasn't a curve snow ball! Always something is interrupting them. Wedge is right, but so is Han. He should do what he needs to and get it over with. If he survives, then he can pursue Leia. It's not just the war in this case, this is something Han knows he should have dealt with a long time ago. Personally, while it was a nice gesture on Han's part, that reward money could have bought his freedom so he wouldn't have been in this dilemma... Hmmm, her father's ship? Wondering am I, who is on board? Glad you're updating often! Keep it up! -----signature----- Internet Mom to HSG! Hey, HSG, watch those explosives, be careful!!
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LASOS Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 6/28 11:25am Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	DarthIshtar: It was either very wise or very stupid of Wedge to broach the topic with Han over sabacc. I haven't decided which yet. JediNat: They deserve to have a little fun, don't they? JediMasterAmanda: Maybe the Force had other plans for Bail than to die on Alderaan...:) Golden_Jedi: Thanks! So glad that you've joined us! dm1: I love your reviews-they're so thorough! Han might act like a scoundrel, but I've always thought of him as a truly noble man. He does the right thing. I've kind of forgotten who is on the PM list so let me see if I have this right: DarthIshtar dm1 JediNat JediKaren Anyone else? So sad that Turkiye is no longer in Euro 2008, but I can go for Germany now I suppose! Oh, and this postie is a little short, but I decided it was necessary to lead into the rest of the story. There should be more coming shortly, probably Sunday after the Euro finals. -- Chapter Nine: Conversations with the Force “Troubles are brought back by you; Funny how we, we go down; We go anywhere; But to the ground...” Dispatch, “Mayday” -- “Unwise it was, to reveal yourself to her.” Mace Windu brushed away a small grey snake that had begun to slither its way up his leg. In all his time spent on Dagobah, he would never get used to the swampy environment that Yoda called home. He lifted a spoonful of the root-bark soup, yet another feature of Dagobah that he couldn’t stand, swallowed, and suppressed a grimace before defending his actions on Oertzen VI with the bitter mockery of a Jedi tribunal that sat before him. “I had no choice,” he said calmly. “She was about to comm the base. She would have been killed and the Alliance would have been exposed.” Yoda’s brow furrowed. “Destroy everything it could if she learns too early.” “It would have destroyed everything if she had contacted Rieekan.” The spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn cleared his throat, interrupting the two living Jedi masters seated next to him. “Does she know who you are?” “No. I only told her to get out of the restaurant.” “And what about Organa?” Asked Obi-Wan Kenobi’s spirit. “He understands the situation.” “Tell her, will he?” “I asked him to keep it from her.” Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. “The Skywalker children are headstrong, and Leia has quite a bit of Anakin in her. I think it is best to let the Force to lead the way in this matter.” “She was with Solo again,” Mace added. “Good,” said Qui-Gon. “For a man who doesn’t believe in it,” Obi-Wan said with an ambient smile, “the Force seems to have very big plans for him.” “Drawn to Solo are Force-sensitives,” Yoda confirmed. “Friend and protector of the Jedi he may become.” Qui-Gon nodded slightly. Friend and protector, yes, but he had foreseen that Han Solo would very soon become much more than that to the Jedi. The future of the Jedi Order, the Alliance, and the galaxy depended on it. “The time is nearing,” he said finally as he turned to Obi-Wan. “Luke will need to be trained more fully if he is to help Leia at all. You will need to appear to him soon.” “Train him, I will,” Yoda said quietly. “And Leia’s master Mace can become, when she is ready.” “She is stronger in the Force than we realized,” Obi-Wan mused, almost to no one. Mace nodded but said nothing, praying silently that the Force would give him the strength to train the headstrong woman that had long ago been predestined to deliver peace to the galaxy. -- In the years since he had ceased to be Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader had little in the way of dreams. His slumbers were induced comas, necessary to restore what was left of his human body during his rest. He had cast aside his memories, images of his mother’s smiling face, Padme’s joy when she announced her pregnancy, years ago when the guilt of what might have been became too much to bear. He slept only because it was vital to survival and in the mornings had never once idled in his chamber, enjoying those last, languid minutes of twilight. There were the nights, intermittent though they were, when another woman had haunted his dreams. She came to him in a vision, even a nightmare, the night after he first met her, a feisty sixteen year-old princess from Alderaan, and he dreamt of her at every meeting thereafter. The nights where he held her captive had been particularly arduous. She was so defiant, so refractory, and so much like someone he had forced himself to forget over twenty years ago. His anguish over her captivity, a time of torture that he had demanded himself, surprised him. How could she, this tiny senator that simply bore a resemblance to a woman he once knew, a girl in possession of no remarkable powers whatsoever other than sheer stubbornness, have taken such a hold on his mind? His own master had sensed Vader’s torment through the Force, a torment that he worked fervently to conceal. But then she escaped his clutches and the Death Star was destroyed by a young man that he would soon learn was his very own offspring. As his pursuit of Luke Skywalker, the pursuit of his son, intensified, Vader forgot about the young girl that haunted his mind. After all, what was her place in this war? She was only a thorn in his side, a small obstacle to overcome if he was to ever turn Luke to the ways of the Sith. Why was it, then, that he had awoken this morning after another dream about her? He hadn’t seen her in years, hadn’t thought about her in almost as long. There was nothing that should have triggered his mind to wander in her direction. And then he had his realization. Leia Organa was the only person in the galaxy that could lead him to his son. -----signature----- "When Han Solo returns to the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon and shoots down the TIE Fighters and saves the Rebel cause, do you think he does so for a free beer?" - Dwight K. Schrute "I made that one up. It's called fan fiction." - Marci Maven
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JediMasterAmanda Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 6/28 11:46am Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Master Windu's gonna train Leia? sweet! -----signature----- Jedi Padawan---/-\---Trust in the Force "You have that, 'we're in trouble' look." -Snips "There's a look?" -Skyguy "You can't miss it." -Snips TISSI-2 at your service.
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JediNat Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 6/28 5:13pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	Great Vader is back. Leia's gonna be trained by Windu, SWEET! -JediNat- -----signature----- May the Force be with you! I'm a little teapot short and stout here is my handle and here's a note from my shrink he says I'm getting better. Last week I thought I was a toaster oven crazy laughter -Dot
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JediKaren Registered: Apr '07	Date Posted: 6/28 7:04pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	ohh this will be interesting! Doing great! -----signature----- Bring Light Into Darkness Reaching Through Darkness: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28415147/p1/?0 Healing Hearts: http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/28282728/p1
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dm1 Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 6/28 10:02pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	So the Jedi support Solo as well as Rieekan... interesting take on his role. It does seem that Force sensitives surround him (poor guy!). -----signature----- Internet Mom to HSG! Hey, HSG, watch those explosives, be careful!!
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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Star Wars Trivia Hostess Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 6/30 2:50pm Subject: RE: My Once and Constant Savior, AU spanning OT
	LOL, even the Force wants them together! Sorry, had to say it. Interesting that Mace will be Leia's master. -----signature----- I've finished reading Breaking Dawn! Morale officer of the ACWDBTTCAOT. "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit." ~Virgil, Aeneid "Ecce domino" (The pizza guy's here)
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