Days passed into weeks and Luke started my training, but Leia wanted practice for when her baby came, so she took care of me when Luke had to do something dangerous...I was only four after all...
Leia was teaching me how to braid, when I heard a tiny voice in my mind...it was so close.
I giggled to myself and stopped what I was doing. Leia looked at me and smiled as I got out of my chair and came over to her, "What're you up to, Sonja?" Leia asked and paused when I reached out and cautiously touched her belly.
I closed my eyes and smiled, "I can hear you..." I whispered.
"Hear who?" Leia asked, pushing a strand of hair behind my ear.
"The baby...it's not like words, but he has a lot to say," I giggled, smiling up at her.
"He?" Leia asked, tears coming to her eyes.
"Yeah, he-...he wants to tell you something...it sounds weird, but I feel it...he loves you very much...and he can't wait to meet his Mama," I said and Leia thanked me quietly, bending and kissing my forehead, making me laugh. I had done a good thing with the Force...
Though, when Leia stood up to go tell Han, she stopped, taking hold of the edge of the table where we had sat. I knew what was happening, he was telling me...
"I don't think he's waiting at all..." I said nervously and took her hand, hearing water hit the floor.
"Oh god...HAN!" Leia cried and I pulled her hand, getting her to walk with me as we both hurried to the medical bay of the base.
"Leia baby coming through! Move, please?! Thank you!" I shouted as we got there.
In seconds, Leia started barking orders and a wheelchair was brought for her, but I went with her, holding her hand even still. Han wasn't there yet...and I sensed her fear, she needed someone with her that wasn't a doctor.
She lay in a hospital bed, crying out as a contraction came with fury, "Somebody get me an epidural!" Leia barked.
I ran into the hallway, "Leia needs and epi-thingy!" I called and doctors came.
It was another hour as I waited with her and the doctors tried to make me wait in the hall, but I refused, saying, "I'm a Jedi and I wanna be here to help, Leia!"
When Han finally arrived, it was almost time, nearly to her last push. He came in with Luke behind him.
"Where have you been?!" Leia and I shouted at the same time and both men froze for a moment before Han went to Leia's other side and Luke stood by me.
"Aaah!" Leia screamed with another push, it had been too late for an epidural, "Han, I'm gonna kill you!"
Another hour or screaming and cursing later...we all silenced when we heard crying and the doctor stood tall with a dark brown haired baby boy in his arms.
"Mr Solo, would you like to cut the umbilical cord?" A nurse asked him and Han did...but he was near to fainting. It truly sunk in that he was a father now when he held that screaming little boy in his arms...
Later, after he was all cleaned up and Leia was taken care of, I sat beside Leia on her right, Han on her left, Luke with me.
"What should we name him?" Leia asked and I grinned when I heard his little voice again.
"Ben...I like Ben," I said, smiling softly.
"Sonja, the parents pick a name," Luke said with the lightest sense of scolding in his words, only trying to correct me.
"No," Leia spoke up, "it's perfect," she said and Han grinned, almost in tears the entire time.
"Ben Solo...welcome to the world...my son," Han nearly gasped, but he covered his mouth with a hand to suppress it before kissing Ben's forehead, then kissed Leia on the lips.
I looked at little Ben, reaching out and before I knew it...his tiny hand held my little finger and I felt a tingle come from him...I assumed it was from his new life force...
