A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away

Chapter 5

Luna began to come back to consciousness somewhat unwillingly.

She was pretty sure that she just had a fairly interesting dream and by no means did she want to come back to reality.

She felt something fuzzy brush her cheek and several different weights on her body.

Wait, what? she thought.

Luna opened her eyes and sat up instantaneously, and immediately regretted it as she not only saw random flashes of light sprinkled in her vision like pixels, she supposed that's what people meant when they said they saw stars, but there were several startled meows as a few kittens dug their claws into her sweatshirt to stay put, including one that accidently scratched her collar that had been previously climbing around her face. Luna propped herself up on her elbows to allow the kittens to get off, at which point she noticed that one: she wasn't alone and two: that the area was lit in a blue light.

Luna immediately looked around at the three people that were next to her before consciously making sure that she did not pass out again. Her gaze not leaving Anakin, who was the easiest to keep in her sight.

"Am I hallucinating?" Luna asked, not really knowing what answer she was expecting to receive.

"No," Padmé responded causing Luna to shift her gaze slightly to look at her but still keep Anakin in her sight. "Why would you think that?"

Um, I can think of a lot of reasons, Luna thought to herself, but she decided to not respond, not taking her eyes off of the two of them, because the only logical thought was that she was hallucinating. Therefore, Luna was worried they would disappear if she didn't keep her eyes on them.

"What's your name young one?" Obi-Wan asked.

"L-Luna," Luna stuttered.

"Okay, Luna could you tell us where we are?"

"Earth," Luna muttered, wondering why they were asking her that. Her gaze was suddenly pulled away from Anakin and Padmé when Ashla meowed loudly.

Just as quickly she realized her mistake, she looked back at them. When they hadn't disappeared, she risked looking at the nearest kitten, witch happened to be Anakin.

"Can you see them?" Luna asked the kitten.

Anakin the kitten looked at her and then the other three and then back at Luna. Luna ever so slowly reach out and touched Padmé's sleeve, witch her finger did not go through. As she brought her hand back, she tried very hard to not panic as her mind attempted to come up with a logical explanation for what was infront of her.

Ashla meowed loudly again and then started rubbing up against Luna, reminding her of why she was here in the first place.

"Right, sorry Ashla," Luna muttered as she started to open her bag to get out the thermostat, glancing back at Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan every few seconds as she readied the milk for Ashla after pinching her wrist, which hurt.

"You really think we aren't real, don't you?" Padmé asked.

"Uh, sorta, but if I was hallucinating, you three would probably have disappeared by now," Luna muttered, "right? I'm not that desperate, at least I hope I'm not." She looked at Padmé again, and this time noticed how cold she looked. "You look cold," Luna said as she began to take off her top sweatshirt.

"Oh, you don't—"

"It's fine, my house isn't that far away. We can talk more there," Luna said, holding back her "assuming you haven't disappeared by then" statement as she gave Padmé the sweatshirt.

"Thank you," Padmé muttered as she put the sweatshirt on.

"No problem, just wait for me to finish with the cats' shelter. It won't take too long."