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FIC: Cat in the Cradle (SW, gen, "What Remains" series)
This was supposed to be something else, but Han and Leia demanded their installment first. Lando and his action figures will have to wait.
Assumes that the mother Leia remembers is Lady Organa. Lyrics (C) by Harry Chapin. 386 words, 15 minutes including editing.
Previously in this series: Aere Perennius
CAT IN THE CRADLE
There was a saying: as rare as seeing the stars on Coruscant. But now Han was seeing them as he landed his speeder at the balcony to Leia's apartment. They still had not repaired the battle damage in the industrial quarter, and the power shortage meant that Coruscant's lights were running at less than quarter-strength. Not enough to light up the sky at night.
The stars were beautiful, as always.
Han opened the door quietly, not wanting to wake Leia. Repairs to the Falcon had kept him at the spaceport long past midnight, and he was not looking forward to the lecture.
He need not have bothered. Leia was awake and sitting on the sofa. The data pad she held threw strange shadows on her face.
"Hello, stranger," she said with a smile.
Han grinned. "Hello yourself. Shouldn't you be sleeping?"
"Maybe I got too used to your snoring."
"Yeah, right." He hung up his jacket and rubbed at his eyes. "What kept you up, anyway? Didn't know there was a crisis on."
"There isn't." Leia's hair was down, and it made her face look longer, older. "I really couldn't sleep. Right now I'm reviewing records of the Emperor's rise to power - when we write the Constitution, we should put in safeguards so that it doesn't happen again."
"Probably a good idea." He perched on the back of the sofa, looking over her shoulder. The pad showed a picture of a young girl, dark-haired and dark-eyed, pale and determined. Han wondered if he had seen her before. "She's pretty. Who's she?"
Leia leaned back, propping her head on his thigh. "She's the woman who put Palpatine in power - she called for the vote to make him Chancellor, and later her representative proposed the first set of emergency powers. Later, my father and Mon tried to use her influence over Palpatine to push through some resolution to curb him, but I guess she wasn't as good a puppet for them."
There was something familiar in those eyes, hidden behind layers of ceremonial make-up. "She doesn't look like someone who'd do that."
"I don't know if she was good or evil." Leia sighed and shook her head. "All I know is that our lives would've been much easier if Padme Amidala Naberrie had never been born."
~FINIS~
when i hung up the phone
it occurred to me
he'd grown up just like me
yeah
my boy was just like me
Next: Childish Things
Assumes that the mother Leia remembers is Lady Organa. Lyrics (C) by Harry Chapin. 386 words, 15 minutes including editing.
Previously in this series: Aere Perennius
CAT IN THE CRADLE
There was a saying: as rare as seeing the stars on Coruscant. But now Han was seeing them as he landed his speeder at the balcony to Leia's apartment. They still had not repaired the battle damage in the industrial quarter, and the power shortage meant that Coruscant's lights were running at less than quarter-strength. Not enough to light up the sky at night.
The stars were beautiful, as always.
Han opened the door quietly, not wanting to wake Leia. Repairs to the Falcon had kept him at the spaceport long past midnight, and he was not looking forward to the lecture.
He need not have bothered. Leia was awake and sitting on the sofa. The data pad she held threw strange shadows on her face.
"Hello, stranger," she said with a smile.
Han grinned. "Hello yourself. Shouldn't you be sleeping?"
"Maybe I got too used to your snoring."
"Yeah, right." He hung up his jacket and rubbed at his eyes. "What kept you up, anyway? Didn't know there was a crisis on."
"There isn't." Leia's hair was down, and it made her face look longer, older. "I really couldn't sleep. Right now I'm reviewing records of the Emperor's rise to power - when we write the Constitution, we should put in safeguards so that it doesn't happen again."
"Probably a good idea." He perched on the back of the sofa, looking over her shoulder. The pad showed a picture of a young girl, dark-haired and dark-eyed, pale and determined. Han wondered if he had seen her before. "She's pretty. Who's she?"
Leia leaned back, propping her head on his thigh. "She's the woman who put Palpatine in power - she called for the vote to make him Chancellor, and later her representative proposed the first set of emergency powers. Later, my father and Mon tried to use her influence over Palpatine to push through some resolution to curb him, but I guess she wasn't as good a puppet for them."
There was something familiar in those eyes, hidden behind layers of ceremonial make-up. "She doesn't look like someone who'd do that."
"I don't know if she was good or evil." Leia sighed and shook her head. "All I know is that our lives would've been much easier if Padme Amidala Naberrie had never been born."
~FINIS~
when i hung up the phone
it occurred to me
he'd grown up just like me
yeah
my boy was just like me
Next: Childish Things
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And yes. That's exactly what Leia would think.
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And thanks :)
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I hear they missed a lot of significant scenes with Padme, Mon Mothma and Bail in RotS, but gah! That's still painful to think on. Poor old Padme.
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On a silly note, I love your Han as well ♥
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Honestly, he's one of those characters who write themselves.
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Damn!
What a punch to the gut! Interesting, what secrets and lies that are passed down, and what survives to be remembered.
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And very much in character.
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Oh, man, I bet that comment would've come back home and bit her hard when she and Luke finally found out who Padme really was (circa the Joiner King trio, in the EU).
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I don't do a lot of EU, myself, nowadays, oddly. (I say oddly cause I grew up reading SW novels and adore Timothy Zahn and am still kind of p.o.ed at Lucas for having screwed up the Clone Wars timelines in the prequels by compressing what was explained as a series of quite long, devastating, interconnected wars in the EU and the backstory for the OT.) I know about that trio of EU books from having been told it's the place in EU where the twins finally get to find out about who their mom was. *Winces because it's not very pretty, the way they find out* Most of my EU knowledge comes from doing online research rather than reading the actual books or whatever anymore. I just happen to be extra taken with this particular possibility because honestly, if any real historical info survived Palpy's attempt to wipe out all info except for the government sanctioned propoganda, it would cast Padme in a very bad light. And she she died so young, there would be no record tying her to the Rebellion or to Bail and Mon Mothma. So Leia's reaction here? Is 100% believable in my mind. And the fact that it is so believable kind of boggles my mind, because it is, after all, Padme we're talking about here and she would be outraged to the depths of her soul at the thought that she's been linked to Palpy in this way.
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I think that since at the point I have Leia, Mon Mothma's still kicking around, that may get things cleared up. Providing Leia ever breeches the subject. Which I'm not sure she'd do.
Dear me. I think I like being evil to my characters ;)
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Swarm_War
See the third note down under "Trivia" in the article if you wanna know. *Nods*
Mon Mothma is the reason why my brain stopped me from completely buying Dooku making it into the monument Luke was looking at in your other fic like this one. *Sighs regretfully because it really would've been such a great reason for Obi to come back and smack Luke up-side the head, otherwise!* But you're right! Here, Leia would have to ask, and honestly, why would she bother asking when the truth's so obvious to her?
*Snickers* Be evil, by all means! I'm enjoying these tremendously!
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I'm not sure if Mon would be aware of Dooku's Sith connection, actually. IIRC from the novelisation, Dooku's rep in the Republic was as the bright-eyed ex-Jedi idealist whose ideas were twisted by the corrupt Separatist leadership.
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Anakin, after all . . . *Nods*
*Scratches head* Well, maybe not the Sith connection, no, but certainly she knew that he wasn't a very nice man. I think it was widely acknowledged that the CIS wouldn't have existed at all without him, and he and the Separatists did do a lot of very awful things - like the whole thing with disregarding medships as off-limits during the war.