A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away

Chapter 80

Not too long after the Falcon had landed, Luna curled up in a chair alone. The three adults had run off to find the twins and Han leaving her to her own devices, something Luna had practically begged them to do. It had been exhausted keeping her mask on while staying cloaked in the Force and keeping her mental shields up. While Luna's shields were down to a basic instinct, do to her current emotional upheaval the three plus her far too close to the surface memories and having been running from the Empire beforehand combined made it more than difficult.

To say Luna was relieved when she was finally left alone would have been an understatement. It had taken a while, Padmé and Anakin both wanting to make sure that she was okay with being left alone in light of what had happened on the cruiser and that she was okay after the argument she had with Leia.

It had been repetitive, and had Luna not been in the state she was, she may have enjoyed the oddity of them caring enough to repetivally ask. As it was in this case, she, like most normal teens, was over the attention and wanted to be left alone.

So, they were finally gone, and while Luna didn't want her mental shields to fall or her presence to be felt through the Force by anyone anytime soon for fear of what they might find, she was relieved to let the mask over her face drop, but didn't dare do much else. She didn't even allow her mind to relax, not only afraid of her mental shields coming down, but also of where her mind might wander.

Luna took out a well loved teddy bear from her bag. It had been a gift from her parents when she was born and was one of the only things she still had from them. One of the few things that brought happy thoughts of them. The bear had been named Teddy, as cliche as it sounded, and was in a Jedi Knight costume she had gotten Force knew how many years ago. He never left her back pack for fear that one of the other foster kids would find him. Luna knew it was a little risky to have him at school, but she always kept an eye on her bag. She rarely took him out for the same fear, but it was times like these that she was incredibly thankful for him, triply thankful that he was always in her bag, he would have been left on Earth otherwise.

So, Luna curled up in a chair and snuggled with Teddy as she opened up a book and began to read the Prequels out loud to take her mind far, far away from her past.

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Anakin, Luke, and Obi-Wan where walking into the lounge area that Luna was sitting in after some more training in lightsaber combat, after Luke had checked to make sure Artoo had escaped the Redemption in his X-Wing, only to have Leia, Han, and Padmé shush them. It only took a moment for them to hear Luna's voice narrating what sounded like....a battle?

Anakin traded a look with Obi-Wan as the two recognized the it.

The First Battle of Geonosis, Luna had gotten out her Star Wars books.

The three of them found a place to sit with those that had arrived before them. They didn't dare make their presence known, knowing Luna would stop. All six wanted to listen in.