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[nonerfherders]

Characters: Leia Organa and Han Solo
Location: Leia's room on Coruscant (C-6)
When: Just after Tenel-ka's announcement of Jacen's death
What: Not knowing how or what to grieve
Rating: Most likely PG

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[initformoney]

Han had thrown himself into working on his ship again after hanging up with Leia. She needed time to process, and, well, so did he.

He didn't know Jacen that well. They'd talked a few times, sure, and he liked the kid well enough, even if the Jedi thing got annoying. He didn't want the kid to die. And... god. His son. He didn't have much family at home. And now that Leia was here, not some distant fantasy trapped back home... he wasn't sure how that changed things either.

It helped a little to focus on the fact that Outworlders came back to life. But that posed a whole other set of problems he wasn't sure how to handle.

Ten minutes later, he hadn't really made any progress, and he had told Leia he'd go find her. So he made his way back to the apartments and went to knock on her door.

"Leia?"

[nonerfherders]

Leia swallowed hard. "Come on in."

Distantly, she realized he'd been calling her by her name. Not Princess, Highness, or Worshipfulness, any of her actual titles or the ones he made up either to tease her or use when he was annoyed. Just her name. How long had he been doing that? It was new since they'd arrived here, she was sure.

[initformoney]

He pressed the button that opened the door and walked over to her, standing in front of her and crossing his arms. Maybe that hadn't been the time and place to tell her. Since the kid was dead and everything.

"Gonna go into shock on me, Princess? Come on. Someone's gotta be all uptight and respectable, and it sure as Hell won't be me."

[nonerfherders]

Well, that did at least startle her out of that shock-state. Leia glowered up at him. "Don't over-awe me with your empathetic abilities, laser brain. And don't worry, I wouldn't even dream of asking you to do anything that might make you more uptight. What do you mean, someone needs to be respectable?"

Damn, there wasn't some ceremony that had to be performed in order for Outlanders to come back from the dead or something, was there? She'd just got here. She hadn't even met Jacen Solo.