Beyond - Legends A Phoenix from the Ashes - L/M, H/L COMPLETED! New Fic Announcement

Angst is always good...

Great first post looking forward to how you put this together!
RM Congrats to your son on graduating!

 

Yay! The Phoenix has landed!
Yay! Mon Mothma's dead!
Yay! Yay! Yay!

I'll be here, even if I don't always post--new job taking up lots of time--sorry in advance if I lurk too often.

Exuberantly cheering LP's return,
FreighterPilot

 

Wow, it's like being back from summer vacation! How great to see you all again, and some new faces, too!

EmilieDarklighter: Hi there, baby sis! So, you think happy endings aren't cliched? Really? Gabri and I must teach you a thing or two...

JSM: Uh...Sun Crusher? Death Star?





...runs...

HanSolo29: Hey, great to see you again!

JM_Bulldog: * waves * Welcome back! And...er...um...Saber

RebelMom: Nice to see you back, too. Congrats to your son!

Gabri_Jade: Hugs evil twin and quickly runs off with cheesecake.


...not sharing...

TiaRaye: Why, thank you! It's nice to be back!

LaYa_: * grins * Hope this lives up to your expectations

GreatOne: Well, honestly, did you think I had happy planned this early on if at all?

CodeName_Targeter: * sings * "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"

JediArwen: Oooh! Baklavas! Wonderful! They go so well with cheesecake!

Jayden112233: Nice to see you, too! * waves *

Starfighter5: * grins * Why, thank you! I'm so glad you liked the way it started off!

Jedi-2B: As for killing off the Big 4...no promises

Jedi_Liz: I'm glad you agree that it's fair to give pain to all!

calgary: Did you LIKE Mon Mothma? Wow...

kayladie97: I'm working on the agony! I am! I am!!!

Solo_but_not_alone: Welcome to the story! I'm glad you liked the other two.

Darth_Lex: * Sighs * Wonders how evil I need to be to be sure of staying in your 'evil' book

bladex2: Welcome to the story. Thanks.

ViariSkywalker: Happy ending? Heh, heh, heh!

windkull: Yes, this first post was the teaser I had at the end of JP. Hope you enjoy the rest!

jade51999: Welcome back!

FreighterPilot: Of course I understand DRL takes precedence over the boards, but come when you can! Great to see you again.

 

It starts! I'm beside myself with glee. And I'll refrain from any type of explosives for a while as blowing up New Jersey seemed to scare you off for a while . I'm very much looking forward to this. It's great to have you writing again!


RogueTerrorist **||** Protecting H/L from fanfic authors everywhere

 

Sunday afternoon, here! And no post!

Up till the post!

 

Hey, I wasn't kidding about the trial basis thing. Be nice!

 

Up!

 

A quickie to tell you I'm blissfully happy that you've begun you new 'fic. Can't wait for the rest of it!

MTFBWY,

Lauré

(I sign my name à la Naboo now...)

 

RogueSticks: Welcome back! Especially now that you're sans firebombing tools

JediArwen: Sorry, the day starts later for us here in the US

EmilieDarklighter: * grins * Little sister, you know me very well. I'm NOT nice!

LaYa_: Thanks for the up!

laurelthiel1138: Welcome back!

More right away!

 

Chapter Two

Leia?s fingers trembled as she fumbled with the fasteners on her clothing. It took her a half-dozen attempts to finish dressing herself, and she had to sit down for a moment when she was finally done.

Mon Mothma.

Assassinated.

Leia was having a hard time assimilating the thought. Mon Mothma had been a constant in her life for so long, she?d always considered the woman to be indestructible. Leia smiled mirthlessly at the thought. I should know better than anyone else that nothing is indestructible.

Leia?s relationship with the President of the New Republic had been somewhat rocky lately, but now Leia found herself remembering Mon Mothma as she first knew her when Leia was a little girl. Back then Mon Mothma was the Senator from Chandrilla. She sat on many of the same committees as Bail Organa, and they met frequently to discuss governmental matters. Later, Mon Mothma, Bail Organa and a third person, Garm Bel Iblis would form the Rebel Alliance together in their efforts to overthrow the despotic Emperor Palpatine.

Although the meetings held between the three leaders of the Rebel Alliance were highly clandestine and dangerous, Bail frequently brought his daughter, as well as her best friend Winter D?Altaire to these meetings, believing they would benefit from listening and learning as much as possible.

In those years, Leia admired Mon Mothma, but had never thought much about the older woman. For her part, Mon Mothma treated Leia with absentminded, condescending kindness. She took little notice of Leia until the princess became the Senator of Alderaan and joined the Rebel Alliance herself.

Almost immediately, Mon Mothma took Leia under her wing and it was widely believed that Mon Mothma was grooming Leia to be her protégé. The more Leia worked with Mon Mothma the more she came to admire and respect her for her superb leadership and organizational skills, as well as her uncanny military intuition. However, even back in those days, Leia remembered that Han had always mistrusted Mon Mothma and had always warned Leia that the leader of the Rebel Alliance was a control freak who only used people for her own purposes, and that Leia would fare no better than any one else under Mon Mothma?s command.

Leia had laughed off Han?s warning, taking it as proof of Han?s universal distrust of politicians. She continued working under Mon Mothma?s tutelage, rising ever higher within the Rebel Alliance hierarchy until Leia?s son Rydor was kidnapped by minions of the Emperor. Publicly defying direct orders from Mon Mothma, Leia had left the Rebel base at Sullust with Han, Luke and Winter and had gone to the second Death Star. There, they fought with Darth Vader and a mysterious woman they later learned was Mara Jade, the Emperor?s Hand, and managed to rescue Rydor before the Death Star was destroyed.

Mon Mothma never forgave Leia for her insubordination and defiance. However, after the Emperor was killed and the New Republic was formed, she reluctantly recalled Leia into service as Chief Aide to the President. Whatever Mon Mothma thought of Leia now, the President of the New Republic respected Leia?s extraordinary administrative abilities. However, Leia was no longer heir-apparent. Although Mon Mothma respected Leia?s skills, she also feared Leia?s innate morality and incorruptibility. To neutralize Leia, she appointed a second Chief Aide?the ambitious Bothan, Borsk Fey?lya.

Leia?s relationship with Mon Mothma settled into a sort of armed neutrality. They worked well together but there was never anything more than cordiality beneath the surface. Leia saw that Han had been quite right about Mon Mothma, but knew also that there was no other alternative to working under Mothma if she wanted to help bring back peace and order to the galaxy.

Despite the disintegration of their relationship over the past few years, Leia still could not help feeling a pang of grief and sadness. Mon Mothma, for all her faults, had been a great woman and had done many things for the good of the galaxy.

 

Great chapter!

I miss you so much, Han, Leia thought sadly. She waited, expecting to hear his familiar response, ?I know.?

But there was only silence.


Only silence...

 

The sound of silence ::le sigh:: I truly hope you plan on fixing things between Leia and Han SOON. I've been in an absolute state after the way you left things in TJP.


RogueTerrorist **||** Protecting H/L from fanfic authors everywhere

 

Whoa. You started it. LadyPadme, in case I never mentioned it before, I absolutely adore everything you've written for us here. The previous two stories, of course, and all the other ones you've listed, too. I'm a junkie of your stuff, so if I haven't ever said something to you before, hear it now. I'll do my best to keep up with this with my once a week library visits.

 

Wow! This is a really great story. Poor Mothma. Poor janitor guy. But even more, poor Leia! You've hooked me. I need to go read In Love and War and The Jade Prophecy (something to do over summer break! ), but I still understand what's going on. Wonderful. I can't wait for more!

 

I can just see Borsk and Leia having an all out mud slinging campaign. Well, maybe not.

 

- That was a very reflective chapter on the life and ambitions of Mon Mothma. (why is it that everytime I type Mothma I think of a giant flying moth fighting Godzilla.... oh never mind ) Anywho.... wonderful writing there, LadyPadme!

 

Great post. Interesting. I'm glad the New Republic got control of the only system where the fuel for Toth's weapon is made. They will be able to keep it, right? Please.

I never really did like Mon Mothma but I agree with Leia. She did not deserve to die like that. No one does.

I miss you so much, Han, Leia thought sadly. She waited, expecting to hear his familiar response, ?I know.?

But there was only silence.
*thwacks Leia* There wouldn't be silence if you hadn't of pushed Han away. I can understand that you were grieving but you took it too far.

 

Sigh. Imiss Han, too.

Hope we see him soon.

I'm hooked, LP. I can't wait to see where you take us this time!

 

This is what I consider a great, basic, set-up chapter. Wonderful explanation of what went on during the past four months (it's been about that long since you finished Jade Prophecy, right? ), and impressive description of Mon Mothma.

Now, when are we going to see Mara, Han, & Luke?

 

I miss Han too. Hope he gets in story like gang-busters. I love they way you heat up the chemistry between them even more. Looking forward to more.

 

AHHH I miss him too. But i have a sneak feeling that Leia was called for more than the reason of the murder...maybe to be appointed new prez????? One can only hope.

 

Great start, LadyPadme! Really enjoyed the synopsis of Leia's history with Mon Mothma. Kind of sad that they could never really get on the same page, because if Borsk becomes Mon's successor, I suspect Leia is going to have even more stress in her already stressful life. Can't wait to see what Han's reaction is to the news of Mon's assassination. Hopefully he will have enough concern to give his wife a call. I believe it is now a really good thing that Leia has Mara staying with her.

 

Great job again. I love how you worked a recap of the previous stories into Leia's thoughts. Also, it was nice to gain insight into Leia and Mon Mothma's relationship.

 

That was gorgeous. I like the rhetoric of political intrigue. You showed both Leia and Mon Mothma as caring human beings (from Leia's POV anyway), but also as politicians which is as much a part of their personalities as they are calculated facades as well. Beautifully done.