War {3}

Chapter 8

Leia's brown eyes drifted open slowly, resting on her husband. He had shaken her slowly, telling her it was time to wake up and that they were about to exit hyperspace, and left.

She stretched, feeling a few bones in her back crack satisfyingly. Sighing, she stood up and sent a mental signal to Luke and Leena that had them awake within seconds, and together the three of them walked out of the cargo bay and into the cockpit/seating area.

Kira was sitting directly behind Han, and Chewie was sitting next to him with Artoo plugged into the middle. Luke, Leena, and Leia all filed into the room, and again Leia was struck with surprise at how big the two rooms of the ship were. Then again, there were only two rooms, so the ship could afforded to have space in both rooms.

Leia had to hang onto the chair in front of her as the ship jolted out of hyperspace, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Leena stumble and Luke grab her arm to keep her from falling. The ship slowed down immediately, causing the three Jedi to lose their balance slightly.

After she had recovered Leia looked out of the cockpit windshield in dismay, seeing just how many asteroids there were. There were so many she could hardly see the planet beneath, and she had no idea how far the asteroids extended beyond the planet's atmosphere. This could take much longer than any of them could handle.

Behind her she heard Luke take a sharp breath in, and Leena looked pale. Leia pushed aside any doubt and sent encouraging thoughts to the other two, and although she knew Luke could see right through her facade she was mostly doing it for Leena to begin with. The poor girl would be extremely exhausted after this, maybe fatally so.

Even Han was starting to have doubts, because his chair swiveled around and his hazel eyes shifted between the three doubtfully. "Are you sure about this?"

"Well there's no going back now either way." Luke admitted, taking a deep breath in and closing his eyes. When he opened them he was much more determined, and he looked back at Han. "Let's do it."

Han's gaze shifted to Leia, and she nodded. His gaze then shifted to Leena, who waited a few seconds before nodding tentatively. "Alright." He said softly, turning back around. "I'll tell you which ones to move."

He began the careful trek forward, and Leia braced herself as did Luke and Leena. "I'll start." She said quietly, looking over at the other two Jedi. "Let's cycle around."

Luke and Leena nodded, and Leia turned forwards again. Han pointed out an asteroid in their path, and Leia closed her eyes, reaching out with the Force and grabbing it. She gasped softly, only audible enough for the people near her to hear. The asteroid was much heavier than she thought, and she have it a massive push before it moved enough to let the ship through.

Leia let out a breath of reprieve and opened her eyes, looking at Leena who was next. A slightly smaller asteroid laid in their path, and the Togruta closed her eyes and through the Force Leia felt her nudge it gently to test its size.

It was fairly light apparently, because it took her maybe a second or two to move it completely out of the way. Leena sighed and opened her eyes, and both girls looked at Luke now.

A larger asteroid than Leia had moved appeared and made her pale, and she looked over at Luke questioningly. He shook his head no, denying help, and closed his eyes, curling his hands into fists. After a few seconds of the ship crawling steadily forward, Leia detected a small batch of nerves radiating from Han, and sent him soothing pulses through the Force.

Chewie looked around slowly, grumbling in concern. Luke was visibly pale now, and the asteroid moved a bit but not enough. Leia decided he needed help, and closed her eyes and offered the notion again.