STAR WARS: Mara's Two Lovers
By: Char Priolo (Marajsky@AOL.com)

The following is copyrighted by Charmaine Priolo @1995. None
of the contents may be used or copied without the permission
of the writer.
CHAPTER I

    As the sun set on the Imperial City on Coruscant, Lando
Calrissian sits at the table in his apt. As he lit the
candles on the dinner table, set for two, Mara Jade walked
into the room wearing a long satin red dress that not only
brought out the red in her hair, but also made her green eyes
brighter. Lando loved her green eyes, they always made him
warm inside.  'Now make sure you say this right or she'll
never marry you.' He said to himself as he walked over to
her. "Hello, love.  How are you this fine evening. You look
marvelous in that red dress." Lando said to Mara as he kissed
her hand. He pulled out her chair for her to sit, then pored
some wine. "This better be good, Lando. I was in the middle
of writing a report for the smugglers alliance. What do you
want to talk about?" Mara said as she sat and took a sip of
wine. "Well my dear, I have a question for you that will have
a impact on both our lives." Lando said as he bent on one
knee and took her hand. "Will you marry me, Mara?" As he
placed a ring on her left ring finger, the ring his mother
gave to him before she died. Mara stood and looked at Lando
with a confused look on her face.  Lando saw her confusion as
a tear ran down her cheek. "What's the matter Mara. Did I say
something wrong. Blasted, I knew I would say that wrong. I'm
sorry Mara, But I love you and I want you to be my wife."
"I-can't-marry-you. I'm sorry Lando, but I can't marry
someone, when I'm in love with another. Please forgive me."
Mara said as she took the ring off and placed it on the
table, then she turned and ran out of the room as tears
burned her eyes.

        Lando threw his glass at the wall as he watched Mara
run to her apt. 'Dam! I'll win her over, someday. No matter
who or what I have to beat to do it. I WILL WIN HER!' He
promised himself as he walked back to his apt. to figure out
who the oth er one was.

       As Mara reached her Apt, she turned and leaned against
the door. She slid to sit on the floor in front of her door.
She pulled her legs up to her chest and hugged them and
cried. Why was this hurting her so badly, she never felt like
this bef ore. Yes she didn't love Lando, but why did she feel
like she betrayed him. Who did she love? She told Lando she
was in love with another, but Mara herself didn't know who or
why. Even if she did she would never admit it to herself. She
got up and went into her apt, to find she had a message on
her holocomm unit. "Now I get a message, This better be good.
I'm in not mood for trouble." Mara said to herself as she
started replaying the message. She stopped dead in her tracks
on her way into her bedroom when she saw Luke Skywalker's
image. She felt a warm tingling feeling spread from her head
to her toes. She let out a sigh as he sat at the unit and
listened to the message:
        "Mara, I was just wandering when are you coming to
Yavin to finish you training. I'm still waiting for you,
please let me know if you want to finish. I'll be on Yavin
until next Wed. Then I have to go to Bakura for Leia. She's
sick and asked me to sit in at a senate meeting for her.
Please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks and May the
Force be with you." The message disappeared and left a black
screen.
        'Bakura? Wasn't one of Luke's old girlfriends from
Bakura? Gaeri, I think. Is he going to this meeting or is he
going to see her.' Mara though to herself. 'Stop your acting
jealous, jealous, no why should I be. It's nothing like I lo-
--' It hit her at that moment, it's Luke."No, that's not it,
it can't be." she said as she paced the room. Is that why she
turned Lando down, did she have feeling for Luke, the man she
once vowed to kill.  "No, I wont believe it. Then why is his
trip to Bakura having such a strong impact on me?" She told
herself not to think about this now. She gather up her night
cloths and headed into the shower.

        Later that night, as Mara slipped into her bed she
thought to herself. 'I hope I don't have another dream about
him, tonight.' She closed her eyes and fell asleep. As she
slept, a dream came into her mind:
        Mara was walking on a beach somewhere she didn't know
of. She was dressed in a short blue flower dress, with thin
straps at the shoulders, they slid off her shoulder to bare
her white silky skin. She walked bare footed in the sand,
whic h felt cold on her bear skin. She turned to watch the
setting sun and started to walk backwards. She bumped into
something, she turned to see Luke standing there in front of
her. His blond hair blowing in the sea breeze, he looked at
her with such in tensity she had to look down at her feet. He
grabbed her arms and pulled her to him. As their lips met she
could feel her heart pounding faster. His lips were soft and
wet on hers, the passion between them grew with every second.
As the kiss grew mor e passionate his hand slipped behind her
back, gently undoing the buttons on the back of her dress. As
Luke's hands slowly pulled her dress past her shoulder his
lips moved to her neck. Mara's breath started to come in
gasps. 'Stop please stop.' She thought to herself, but just
couldn't get the words out. As his hands caressed her soft
firm breast her knees became weak and they slid down to lay
on the sand. His lip moved to hers again this time with more
passion than before. Mara found herself w rapping her legs
around his hips pulling him closer to her.  As he placed his
hands under her to remove her skirt he found she didn't have
anything underneath. Luke just looked down at her and smiled,
a smile that made Mara want him more than ever. As their kiss
grew more and more intense their bodies move closer.
   She sprang up out of her bed, covered in sweat. She
sat on the side of the bed with her head in her hands
and cried. "No, not him, oh god, what am I going to
do. How am I going to face him when I go back to
training on Monday? Why am I always dreaming about
him this way? " Mara asked herself this question
every morning for the past few months.  Her dream
where different than the ones she had about him a few
years ago. The dreams before were of Luke and Vader
killing the Emperor together. But now she dreams of him as a
lover not a enemy. Why was this happening? Was she really
falling in love with Luke or was she going crazy?

CHAPTER II
        It was very early in the morning on Yavin 4, when
Luke Skywalker woke from a dream. 'The room must be very warm
I'm so hot. I need some air." He said to himself as he walked
to the door that lead to the garden. As Luke walked around
the garden, he though of the dream. Mara, why was he dreaming
of Mara? The dreams were extremely passionate and tender, he
NEVER had those kind of dreams or even though of another
woman since Callista's death two years ago. In the last few
months his dreams went from trying to save Callista's life to
making love to Mara. Why was this happening to him? 'Could
this mean I love her? It must be all the pressure of the
school and missing Callista or just being lonely, I guess.'
He said to himself as he walked back to his room. As he
dressed for the morning's classes, he though of the dream.
Mara walking on a beach and the two of them bumping into each
other, then things just start happening.
         All that day Luke couldn't stop thinking of Mara. He
knew he would dream of her again that night, of running his
fingers though her long red-gold hair. Her soft voice saying
she did love him. Oh how he wanted to hear her say those
words to him.  'Stop this, you can't think of her in this
way! She's a student' He said to himself as the comlink woke
him from his day dream.  "Luke?" Mara's voice came over the
speaker. "Hello Mara, so you got my message?" He spoke into
the comlink with a shaky voice. "Yes, I do want to finish my
training. And I promise I'll stick to it this time. No
distractions, Lando and I are finished. I'll tell you about
it later. Are you still going to Bakura?"  "No, Leia just
called, she's feeling better, so I'll be here." "Good" Mara
said under her breath, hoping Luke didn't hear the jealously
in her voice.  "I'm glad to hear that Mara. You can be one of
the most powerful Jedi I know of. But please promise me one
thing, you must finish this time, ok?" "Ok, I promise. I'll
be there in a few hours." "Ok, I'll see you then" Luke said
into the comlink as he shut it down. He wanted to say he
loved her but didn't. 'No, not yet. I have to hide my
feelings for her, I just hope I can.' He said to himself
as he paced the room.   As the other students practiced their
 lessons in the great hall, Luke saw a flash in the sky. He
 hurried to the landing platform to see Mara's ship land.
 'Calm, got to stay calm. I can't let her see me like this.
 Oh, Mara what am I going to say to you? How can I not tell
 you or not touch you?' Luke thought to himself as he took a
 deep breath to calm himself. As Mara started the landing
 cycle she though out loud to herself, "Is this the right
 thing to do? How will this tri p turn out? Will we.. NO
 can't think of him that way. Mara, try to stay calm, you
 can't let him see you like this. Oh how I want to tell you.'
 The dream came to her again, his touch, his lips on hers,
 their bodies... 'Stop please stop' She thought to herself as
 she walked down the hatch.
        Luke walked up to Mara and embrace her in a friendly
gesture, she held him too. They held each other until the
passion was to much for them to handle. Luke turned away from
her and they started to walk to the great temple. "Well I'm
glad you came back to finished your training. You only have a
few more lessons to complete. But like I said before, you
will be leaning new things everyday for the rest of your
life. Don't forget that, Mara." Luke said to Mara as he
walked her to her room. Mara turned to face him as the door
slid open. "I think I'll get some rest before we start. If
that's all right with you, Master Skywalker." Mara said as
she laughed. Luke walked up to her, only inched away from her
lips and said, "You don't have to call me that, Mara. We are
old and very dear friends. You get some rest, I'll see you in
the morning.  Good night Mara." Their eyes meet and they saw
each other's passion in them. Luke told himself to stop and
say good night before he could not stop himself. He kissed
her on the forehead. She leaned into him waiting for him to
kiss her lips, but he walked away leaving her alone in her
room.
        Mara woke the next morning to Luke knocking on her
door. "Mara time to get up. Today you start your training
again. I'll see you at breakfast." Luke said through the
door. She slipped out of here bed and walked to the door.
She held ou t her hand to the door. 'Oh what am I going to
do? I'm not going to let this upset me. I'm going to finish
the training and became a true Jedi Knight. After that then I
can worry about this... this... attraction' She thought to
herself. "Stop this Mara, you are not going to let this stop
you or distract you, DO YOU UNDERSTAND." She yelled at
herself. "oh but what if I can't"

        When Mara walked in to the dinning room all the 35
students were standing all saying "Welcome back Mara" Luke
walked up to her, handing her a wild flower. Then kissed her
cheek and whisper in her ear. "Welcome back Mara" Mara took
it, as she looked at it she thought she'd saw it before. Back
in the days of when she was the Emperor's Hand, one of the
stormtroopers, Jem, she though was his name, gave her this
type of flower, he said it meant love and passion. She told
Jem she didn't like him like that. But now she couldn't say
that to the man that give it to her this time. 'Oh god, what
am I going to do?' She thought to herself as she sat next to
Luke at the head table. Five of Luke's best students sat
across from her. They were Kyp, the one who fell to the dark
side and came back. Streen, the older man Luke found on an
abandoned floating city on the planet Bespin. Kam Solusar,
Kirana Ti and the young minstrel/historian Tionne all greeted
her and how they all were going to be dea r friends. As they
eat and laughed, Mara felt as if someone's eyes were burning
though her. Reading her every though, but she knew no one
was. She was just a bit on the jumpy side. After all she was
sitting very closely to the man she has been dreaming of for
the last few months. She felt her cheeks redden with the heat
of her desire. She hoped Luke didn't see her blush.

CHAPTER III
        Later that week as Mara slept another dream came into
her mind:
        As Mara stood on her head she used the Force to lift
a bolder. Luke looked on telling her to contract on the rock.
The sound of thunder from a coming storm shocked her out of
her trance, she slipped on a rock near the river's edge and
fell in to the cold water. Luke dove into the chilly waters
to help her. The river's current was stronger then Mara
thought. It started to pull her down stream, Luke swam after
her telling her through the Force to stay calm. She calmed
herself let the Force carry her the root of a tree half in
the water. She held on the root for dear life, Luke came up
behind her helping her to the shore. They fell on the bank
together, out of breath. As the rain started to come down,
Mara started to cry and shiver. As Luke held her trying to
calm her their eyes met. He lean over to kiss her gently at
first. Mara wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him
closer to her. As their kiss grew more passionate their
bodies also grew closer.'
        Mara sprang up from the dream, breathing heavy and
sweat dripping down into her eyes. "No, not the dream again.
But it's different this time, almost real like a premonition,
I could feel it. No it can't be, like Luke said 'The future
is in mo tion always changing' " Mara whispered to herself as
she walked to the open door that lead to the garden. And
walked to the bench under a great tree, as she sat and
covered her eyes with her hands, she thought to herself 'Oh
this can't be happening, what am I going to do? I can't even
be in the same room with him without thinking of the dreams.
The last time I had dreams, I had to fulfill the dream to
make it disappear.' "NO I can't" Mara said out load as she
started to cry into her hands.
        Luke woke to hear a woman crying. He walked to the
 window to see who was crying. He saw Mara in a flash of
 lighting sitting on a bench in the garden crying into her
 hands. As he dressed to go to Mara he though to himself. 'I
 have to help her.  I wonder what's wrong with her, did Lando
 do something to her? If he did I will kill him. No I can't
 think like that anger is the dark side. She's a strong
 woman, so what's upsetting her?' "Mara, are you ok?" Mara
 heard a voice coming from behind he r. Mara arched her back
 to hold up her head up high and turned around.  "Hello Luke,
 I'm sorry if I woke you. I just had a dream and needed some
 fresh air. That's all." She said to Luke as she started to
 walk down the garden path. "I saw you crying, Mara. Tell me
 about these dream you been having. I'll try to help you
 understand them." Luke said as he walked beside her. He
 stopped and touched her shoulder to turn her around to face
 him. "I want to help you, Mara. These dreams are starting to
 effect your training. You can't concentrate on your lessons.
 That not like you, you always had a strong will.  I'm very
 worried about you Mara, this is eating you. Please let me
 help you." "You can't help me." Mara said as she ran into
 the jungle. "I can help, please Mara let me help" Luke
 called to her as he started to run after her. He grabbed her
 arm, when he caught up with her, to turn her around. "What
 is happen to you Mara, Please let me help, don't shut me
 out. Please trust me." 'No No no' Sh e told herself. "All
 right, it's you, you are the problem. My dreams are about
 you and me. We are lovers in them and I can't stop them."
 Mara said as she fell to the ground crying into her hands.
 Luke stood there in amazement, he said "Mara, please tell me
 about these dreams. I.." He stopped and turned away and
 finished "I've been having the same kinds of dream too."
 Mara looked up, tears streaming down her cheeks. Luke turned
 and bent down to cup her chin in his hand and said. "So what
 are we going to do about this? Mara I can't... I mean
 since... she died..." He stood up and turned away again. Not
 since his wife's death two years ago Luke couldn't bring
 himself to fall in love again. His sister Leia had been
 trying to set him up with a few of her associates from the
 diplomatic circle. He told his sister not to play
 matchmaker. But knowing Leia, Luke knew she would not give
 up that easy. As they walked back to the temple, Mara
 stopped and said. "Well then I guess we should forget about
 these dreams. But I have them every night, how can I push
 them out of my mind. I'm not as trained as you, I can't
 block this out." She walked up to Luke and told a deep
 breath and kissed him. He stood there for a few seconds then
 wrapped his arms a round her and returned the kiss with a
 more passionate kiss. Mara felt her body melt against his,
 the passion growing more and more intense. She push him
 away, even thou she didn't want to. And she walked back to
 her room. Luke just stood there watching her walk back.  'Oh
 Callista I'm sorry, but I do love Mara. I wished you hadn't
 died. What am I going to do now, I can't train her. I have
 to, I can't abandon her. I have to talk to her now, this
 can't wait.' Luke said to himself feeling more confused then
 ever.
        Mara fell on her bed and cried. She couldn't fight
these feeling anymore. She had to tell him she loved him and
see what happens. Just as she stood up to walk out the door,
there was a knock at it. "Who is it?" Mara whispered "Mara,
please le t me in, we have to talk, now." Luke said through
the door. With a shaky hand Mara opened the door. Luke
stepped into the room and walked to the window. "Mara, we
need to talk about this. We have to figure out what to do
about your training. Do you s till want me to train you? Or
would you like to go back to the smugglers alliance. I'll
understand. But I do have to tell you something before you
leave." "Luke I want to stay, finish my training with you
teaching me. I think I found away to live wit h this. I tried
to fight this and tell myself I was crazy. But I came to a
decision, I'm staying." Mara said as Luke sat on her bed. She
walked to the window and continued. "I have though of what I
was going to say to you for a long time" Luke starte d to say
something, but Mara said. "Please let me finished this or
I'll never will. Luke I want to say here not only do I want
to be a Jedi, but I also came to the realizationI love you
and I can't deny it anymore. I'm not going to let this stand
in my way of becoming a Jedi." She said as she placed her
head on the window. Luke walked over to Mara and placed his
hands on her shoulders and said.  "Mara do you think we can
do this? This is so very confusing, Mara I love you too and I
can't deny it either." He turned her around to face him, she
placed her head on his shoulder and cried. He lifted her head
with his hand and gently kissed her lips. As the passion grew
more intense his lips moved to her cheek then to her ears and
her neck. Mara m oan with desire as she let herself be
carried to the bed. Just then there was a knock on the door,
Mara said "Yes....who is it?" The voice said "Mara it's Leia
did you see Luke around I need to talk to him." "I'll be
there in a few minutes, Leia." Luke said to the door as he
got up off the bed and walked to the door to leave. Mara just
laid on the bed gasping for air. "I'm sorry Mara, I didn't
mean for this to happen. I just couldn't stop. Please forgive
me." Luke said to Mara as he opened the door to leave. As the
door closed behind him, Mara cried into her
pillow.
        After breakfast, Mara started her training. First
Luke wanted her to stand on her head and balance a rock in
the air, using only the Force. As Mara was contracting on the
rock, her dream came into her mind distracting her. The rock
fell then she fell hard on the ground. as she fell she heard
a crack coming from her arm, as she fell on it. Luke ran over
to her and knelt down to help her. "It's ok, just a sprang.
I'll be ok." Mara said as she felt Luke coming to her. Luke
just picked her up in his arms and carried her back to the
temple. The medical driod looked at her arm and told Luke
that it was broking. Mara saw Leia coming into the medical
unit, Mara wondered if Luke told his sister what was
happening between her and Luke. "Mara, how are you? I see you
had a little accented. I hope you are ok." Leia said with a
little laugh. "I'm fine. Thanks for asking. So what brings
you to Yavin?" Mara asked Leia as she played with the new
cast on her left arm. Luke came over to the two women and
said.  "Well Mara, you are ok now. I'll take to back to your
room. Let's go. Leia I'll be right back. Then we can talk,
ok?" "Ok, I'll be in the great hall." Leia said as she walked
out of the room. "Come on, let's go, Mara." Luke said as he
 helped Mara off the bed. Mara tried not to look him in the
eye, knowing it would start things up again. After last night
they hardly spoke to each other.  As they walked back to her
room, Luke stopped at a door Mara never really knew was
there. He j ust placed a hand on the door and closed his eyes
and whispered "I'm sorry." Then started to walk ahead. Mara
had to run to keep up with Luke. She wandered what that was
all about. "Luke, please stop. Why did you stop at that
door?" Mara asked as she ran ahead of him.  "Oh Mara, I feel
like I'm betraying her, with my feelings for you. That was
her room, well our room. She died in there, and I just had to
stop and appogize. I know it sound stupid, but I felt like I
had to. I have to move on Mara, I can't grieve for her
forever. It's time to move on with my life. And that is with
you, Mara." Luke said to her as he leaned against the wall.
Mara feeling his pain, walked over to him and hugged him. He
hugged her back and cried onto her shoulder. "I know it's
hard to let go, but you do have to move on. Believe me, I
know. It took me a few years to get over his death and to
except that you had nothing to do with it." Mara whispered in
his ear as she held him.

CHAPTER IV

        Lando talked to everyone he could think of, that
would know who, if Mara was seeing anybody. First he went to
talk to Karrde, Mara's old boss. But Karrde haven't seen Mara
for over 6 months and doubt she would tell him anything
anyway. Lando was getting very frustrated with all this. All
he wanted was for Mara to love him as he did for her. He was
being to think he lost her forever, but he was determined to
win her at all cost. No matter who or what he had to fight
for her love. He would have even killed his best friends for
her, that's how much he loved her. His next stop was to the
local bar under the city on Coruscant. As he sat at his booth
in the back of the bar, a bounty hunter named Kurr came over
and sat down crossed from Lando.  "OK, Lando, who do you want
me to kill?" Kurr, a human, asked as he ordered a drink from
the waiter. "Just like you, Kurr, right to the point. I don't
want you to kill anyone. I want you to follow this lady
around. I want to know who she sees , what they do, and how
they do it." Lando said as he handed Kurr a picture of Mara.
"Wow, what a looker. Who is she Lando? Your woman?" Kurr said
as he looked at the picture. "I wish" Was all Lando said.
"OK, where do I start looking for her?" Kurr
said as he got up to leave. Lando handed him a small box.
 "I think she said something about going back to Yavin IV to
 finish her training. She will be a Jedi soon. One of my best
 friends is training her there. You can start there and Kurr
 don't do anything without my permission, ok?" Lando knew if
 Kurr saw Mara kissing ANYONE Kurr would kill the man without
 question. After all Lando is paying him over 500,000 credits
 for this job. Kurr loved his work and also loved to earn
 every credit. Lando watched Kurr walk out of the bar
 wandering if he did the right thing. After all if Mara
 didn't love him he couldn't make her love him. He did want
 her to be happy, but he wanted to be the one to make her
 happy.
        As Lando started to walk out of the bar, Han Solo
comes walking into the bar. "Well Well, Look who is here. Hey
Lando what's going on, buddy." Han said as he slapped Lando
on the back. "Han, I was just leaving." Lando said sadly.
Then it occurred to him, "By the way has your brother-in-law
said anything about Mara to you? Like she is seeing someone
on Yavin?" Lando asked as Han motion for him to sit at the
bar. "No, but she is there. Leia just came back, and she said
Mara had a little accident. She's ok just a broken arm,
that's all." Han said as he took a big gulp of his ale. "Han,
how did this happen. Wasn't Luke watching her, how could he
let something happen to her." Lando said madly. "Lando, it
was an accident." Han said as he ordered another round.  "I'm
sorry Han, I'm just a bit jumpy when it comes to Mara. Han
did Leia except your proposal right away? Or did it take some
time before she finally said yes?" Lando asked his friend.
"No I had to kidnapped her and show her I was better the that
Prince she was planning to marry. But I hope you are not
planning to kidnap Mara." Han warned his friend. "Lando, what
happened?" "Well I asked her to marry me and she turned me
down. Saying she didn't love me, that she loved someone else.
That's why I asked if Luke said anything about who this other
man in her life is." Lando answered Han's question. "In fact
I just hired a bounty hunter to follow her around and to
report back to me who she is with. I didn't know what else
to do, Han. Kurr is a good man, he wouldn't hurt her in
anyway. I hope." "Lando I don't think that was a smart thing
to do. What if she finds out you are having her followed?"
Han said "Well, Han old buddy I messed up again. I might as
well give up. She is lost to me forever. Oh Han I love her,
what am I going to do." Lando said as he order another round.
"Well I know one thing. You're drunk and I'm taking you
home." Han said as he help Lando to his feet. As they walked
out of the bar, Ha n said, "Lando, if it's ment to be it will
be. Now let's go home"

        After Han took Lando home, he went to his wife's
office in the Imperial palace. Leia was at her desk working
on a hugh pile of paper work in front of her. "Well I knew I
would find you here. Leia you should take it easy you work
late every ni ght for the past few years. I think we need a
vacation, how would you like to see your brother for a few
days on Yavin? The kids have been bugging me to take them
there." Han said as he sat on the chair in front of Leia's
desk. "Oh, Han I would love to, but.."      "But nothing."
Han interrupted her. "We are taking a vacation to Yavin IV.
We will leave in two days, don't make me kidnap you again."
Han said as he left the office. Leia just sighed and went
back to her paperwork.

   Two days later the Solo family were on their way to Yavin
 IV for a vacation, the first one they took as a family in
 three years. "I hope Luke is ok, you know tomorrow would
 have been their 3rd anniversary. I never felt so bad for
 anyone in my life, he's been through so much in the time I
 knew him.  He deserves some happiness in his life, Han."
 Leia said to Han as they talked in the cockpit of the
 "Millennium Falcon" on the way to Yavin IV.  "Don't worry
 honey, the kid will come out on top, he just needs some time
 to get over Callista." Han said to his wife as he started
 the landing cycle.  "I know Han, I feel like something good
 is starting to happen for him. I don't know who, but I do
 know we know her." Leia said as she went to get her children
 from the back room of the ship. "Mommy, are we there yet?  I
 want to see Uncle Luke." Jaina and Jacen said
 simultaneously.  Leia looked at her twins and told them to
 them to get their younger brother Ankain. "Ok." The twins
 said as the ran out of the room. "Leia, are you and the kids
 ready?" Han yelled from the cockpit. "Yes, we're coming."
 She yelled back as all three of her children came running to
 her, with their backpacks. "Are we going to see Aunt Mara,
 mommy?" Little five year old Ankain asked his mother. Leia
 looked at her son in surprise and said, "I'm sure Mara is
 here, but honey she isn't your aunt, you Aunt Callista is
 gone. She went to see the maker, and won't be coming back,
 I'm sorry I know you loved her very much." "NO, Mara is our
 aunt, I saw it. I had a dream last night, I was carrying the
 ring for Uncle Luke." Ankain told his mother. Leia looked
 into her son's eyes and saw he was telling her the truth.
 'Could she be the one?' Leia asked herself. She knew her
 youngest son could dream of the future, but Luke always said
 that the future is in motion always changing. But most of
 his dreams had come true and Leia kind of hoped this one was
 real too.  Han came up behind her and whispered in her ear.
 "Let's go"

        Lando woke to find he was in his apt how he got there
 he didn't know. As He rolled over and got out of his bed his
 head hurt so bad he almost fell. As he dressed he saw the
 picture of Mara she gave him. She was smiling, which was a
 rare thing for her. He green eyes sparkled in the back
 ground light, which also shined on her red-gold hair. 'How
 lovely she looks.' Lando though to himself as he buttoned
 his shirt. He also wondered if Kurr found out anything yet.
 Even thou it's only been one day since he hired him to
 follow Mara. 'I have to go to Yavin IV, today. I feel so bad
 about hiring Kurr. I hope I can catch him before Mara finds
 out. Hiring a bounty hunter was a bad ideal, how could I've
 been so stupid.' He said to himself as he boarded his ship
 "Lady Luck".   A few hours later the Lady Luck landed on
 landing platform #5 next to the Falcon.  'Well Han and Leia
 are here too. A happy family reunion, how charming. Oh Mara,
 please listen to me and what I have to say.' Lando said to
 himself as he walked off the ship.

        "I can't do this, Luke." Mara stood tall and armed
with a lightsaber; her lightsaber, the one that Luke had
given her so many years ago. She was down at one of the old,
Massassi temples with Luke to finish her training. And she
would not let anything get in her way this time, not even her
feeling for Luke. With the beam of blue light fluoresce
against her dark, Jedi robe, Mara continued to watch the
training remote that Luke was controlling. Through the Force,
she could visualize the ball in her head, moving around,
trying to fool the opponent. Luke was pleased to see Mara
this morning. They has seemed to get along better ever since
they opened up their feeling to each other. Luke was also
beginning to want to fulfill these dreams with Mara. He
wanted to touch her fiery red hair, her curvy body, to kiss
her red lips. Mara was concentrating on guarding herself from
the rays from the remote, but Luke kept his eyes on her. Luke
began to make the remote move. Mara followed with precision.
"Good. Relax. Calm," Luke said, watching his pupil achieve
the test. Mara kept an eye out. She continued to move with
precision as she followed the remote. Luke suddenly got
trapped in a stare, staring at Mara. He couldn't stop
thinking of the talk they had a few days ago or of the dreams
they been having. Suddenly, the training remote dropped into
the mud. "What happened?" Mara asked Luke. "Uh,
uh....nothing," Luke said. "I just lost concentration. Um,
let's go at it again, OK?" Mara nodded in a state of
confusion and went to where the remote lay. She picked it up
and set it back in place. "Ok what are you staring at Luke?"
Mara said very seductive as she walked up to him.  "Mara I
don't think I can do this. I just want to throw you down and
make mad passionate love to you. Now how can I train you with
these thoughts running in my head." Luke said to Mara very
shyly.  "I don't know, maybe you should." Mara whisper in his
ear as she kissed his neck. Luke just moaned and said "We
have alot of work to do, let's get back to the remote." As he
turned on the remote again, Mara turned on her lightsaber and
the lesson started again.

        Kurr herd voice coming from one of the temples, he
just arrived on Yavin IV to finish this job. He hoped he
would find out what Lando wanted to know then go home with
the money.  "Easy money." Kurr said to himself as he hid in
the bushes. He parted a few branches away to see two humans,
looking at the picture Lando gave him, he notice the woman
was Mara Jade. The man, he could see clearly, until he turned
around, Luke Skywalker.  "Oh man Lando wait to you hear this
one." Kurr whistle to himself. Taking out his camera he saw
the two kissing as he snapped some pictures as proof.

CHAPTER V
        "Well, well look who's here too." Han said as Lando
walked up to him. "Hi, long time no see, Han." Lando joked as
the two friends shook hands. "And you look as wonderful as
usual, Leia." He said as he took her hand and kissed it. "And
you as charming as usual, Lando." Leia said as her three
children came running down the ramp of the ship towards them.
"Uncle Lando." They yelled. Lando bent down to hug the
children. "Well we better get in doors, it looks like a storm
coming." Leia said as she took the twins' hands.   "Yea it's
going to rain at any moment." Han said as he picked up his
youngest son.  Lando, Han, Leia and the children left the
landing platform and walked it to the great temple. "Han."
Kyp yelled across the room. As Han turned to see who called
him, Kyp ran up to him. The two friends embraced. "Han, I'm
so glad your here." Kyp said.  "Hello Kyp, where is my
brother?" Leia asked Kyp coldly. Leia was still having a
problem trusting Kyp after what he did to her brother, Luke.
"He and Mara are practice lightsabers in the forest. They
should be back soon. Lando I didn't see you there." Kyp said
as Lando walked it to the light. "Hello Kyp, how are you. Got
a girl yet?" Lando teased Kyp. "No, not yet, but I'm trying.
By the way, how are you and Mara doing?" Kyp asked. Lando
just looked down at his feet. "I'm sorry Lando, did I say
something wrong?"  Kyp said as he noticed Lando's reaction.
"No, you don't know. Mara and I broke up last month. By the
way do you happen to know if she's being seeing anyone here?"
Lando asked Kyp as they waked to the living quarters. "No, I
don't, I'm sorry. We don't see much of her anyway. She spends
alot of her time with her lessons. Did you know she only has
two more tests to finish her training? At this rate she will
be a Jedi by the end of next month." Kyp told Lando as they
walked Han, Leia and the children to their apartment. "Well
here we are Han." Kyp turned to Han as he opened the door to
the apartment. "Thanks Kyp." Han said as the children ran to
their rooms. Luke has this apartment built for his sister and
her family. The two bedroom apartment had everything a small
family could need. A large living area, a kitchen, bath,
etc.. "Lando, I'll show you to your room now." Kyp told Lando
after he said good bye to Han and Leia. As the two men walked
down the hall, they heard two voices, laughing. "Kyp, that
sounds like Mara." Lando whispered as they hid around the
corner. But the two voices turned down the other hallway.
Kyp motioned for Lando to follow him. Lando followed Kyp
while keep one eye down the hallway were Mara and the other
went down. "Kyp, where is Mara's room?" Lando whispered as
they walked up to the door of his apartment. "In the south
wing, with the other top students and Luke. Mine room is
across the hall from Mara's room." Kyp volunteered. "Great,
do you what to make a few credits?" Lando asked. "No,
thanks." Han had told Kyp all about Lando's 'Get Rich Fast'
schemes.  "All right, well" Lando yawned, "I'm tired. I'll
see you in the morning" "Ok, good night, Lando." Kyp said as
he turned and went down the hall to the south wing.

        "Great, I'm wet now, thanks Luke for telling me about
the storm." Mara joked as she and Luke laughed as they walked
down the hallway leading to the south wing. Mara, who was
dripping wet, ran her fingers through her wet hair. Looking
down at herself, she noticed her light colored jumpsuit was
sticking to her body, almost see through. She self-
consciously crossed her arms over her chest. She hoped Luke
didn't notice her self-consciousness. "Well I didn't think it
was that important, tomorrow morning, I want you to start on
your next test. Building your own lightsaber. You have three
days to complete it." Luke said as he turned to see her place
her arms over her wet and almost see though shirt. Yes he did
notice how her clothes were sticking to every curve of her
body. Mara saw the way he looked at her. She saw the desire
in his eyes. Oh what eyes he has, so blue they just made her
sigh. "Luke, can you tell me what and when my final test will
be?" Mara asked as she started to wal k back to her room.
Luke followed her, since his room was right next to her's. As
he caught up to her he said. "Yes, in three weeks, we, I and
you, will take a trip to.." He stopped her and turned her to
face him. "Endor." Endor, no she couldn't go there. HIS
presence was still very strong there. The place were he had
died 15 years ago. Some even said part of the forest directly
under where the 2nd Deathstar blew was cursed. All life had
died there, no grass, no trees, no life. Just some trees
still stood, rotting, and this patch of death was starting to
spread. Luke had said the dark side was present there. "No
Luke, I can't go there." Mara, forgetting about her outfit,
begged Luke. Luke, who just looked at her from head to toe,
said. "You must. Only you can remove the dark side from
Endor. You must face his spirit. Not only for Endor but for
your own sake." Luke told his student. Mara started to shiver
with fear and still being wet from head to toe. Luke took her
in his arms and held her as she cried.  "Please Luke, don't
make me go there, Please." Mara pleaded.  "Mara, you must."
He said as he cupped her chin in his hand lifting her head.
"I'll be there for you, Mara. I promise." As his lips brushed
hers he pulled her closer to him. As the kiss grew more
intense, Mara backed in to the door of her room.  "Oh so
sorry." Lando cleared his throat.  Luke and Mara turned to
see Lando walking up to them. "Well I guess I was
interrupting something here, so sorry." Lando said
sarcastically. "Lando, I didn't know you were coming." Mara
said to Lando as she moved away from Luke. "No, but you would
have if I didn't bump into the two of you." Lando snapped at
Mara. "Lando, that was uncalled for." Luke stepped in. "You,
you stay out of this, Friend." Lando yelled at Luke. Luke
shocked at his friend actions, stepped back. "We will settle
this later." Lando said to Luke. "First, I need to know
something from Mara." "Mara, you don't have to explain your
self to him." Luke whispered in Mara's ear.  "No, I have to
talk to him. To tie up lose ends. I'll be all right. Luke
I'll see you in the morning." Mara said to Luke as she kissed
him again. Luke looked at Mara then at Lando.  "You hurt her,
you will answer to me." He said coldly to Lando as he walked
into his room. "Lando, please come in." Mara said to him as
he stepped into her room. As she walked to the changing area,
she said. "Ok, Lando, you now know why I can't marry you. Yes
I'm in love with Luke and he with me. I know this is hard for
you to deal with. But for the first time in my life I'm
happy, Lando." Mara said through the walls of the changing
room. "I know." Was all Lando said. As Mara walked from
behind the dressing room, Lando walked over to the window.
"Mara, I want you to be happy. But I want to be the one to
make you happy, Mara. I can if you give me a chance, that's
all I'm asking for." He said as he walked over to her.
"Lando, I'm sorry. But I have made my mind up." Mara said as
he walked to the door. "Now I'm tired.  Goodnight Lando." She
opened the door for him. He stepped in the door way and as
the door closed he said. "I will have you Mara, I swear."

        Lando noticed a figure in the shadows of his room.
"Kurr, is that you?" He asked the shadow. "Yes." Kurr walked
out of the shadows and tossed a envelope filled with pictures
on the desk, Lando walked over to the desk and picked it up
and said. "I don't need these now, I know who he is."  "Ok
then, where is the rest of my money." Kurr asked. Lando took
out another envelope and chucked it at Kurr. "Here, now
leave." Lando said as he took a bottle of wine from his bag.
As Kurr left the room, Lando took a sip from the bottle.
"Mara, I will have you and If I can't no one will" He
whispered to the bottle.

        Later that night, Mara laid in her bed staring at the
roof. 'Great, now I can't sleep. Lando is up to something, I
know it.' Mara thought to herself. She slipped out of the bed
and wrapped her robe around her naked body.  She loved this
robe, Luke gave it to her as a welcome back present. It was
made from the finest red silk from one of the worlds of
Hapes, she loved the feel of silk on her body, so soft. She
opened the door to her balcony and took a deep breath.
Letting the cool night breeze flow over her body and hair.
"Well looks like someone else can't sleep either." Mara heard
a voice from the next balcony. Luke sat on the edge of his
balcony looking at her. "Why can't you sleep?" Mara asked as
Luke jumped from his balcony to hers. "I don't know." Luke
said as he walked over to her. "So what did Lando have to
say." He asked as they walked back into Mara's room. Mara
noticed her robe was loose. She retied it and walked over to
the table where she had a bottle of wine sitting in ice.
Early she went down to the kitchen and took the bottle. "I
was told that a glass of wine will help you sleep. Do you
want some? Lando didn't have much to say. I just told him how
I felt, I think he took it well.  But I think he still thinks
there is a chance with us. But I have already made up my
mind" Mara said as she pored two glasses and gave one to
Luke. "Also I had a strong feeling he's up to something. I
don't know what, yet." As they sat together on the couch,
Mara saw that her robe was open again. She held it closed
with one hand and held her glass with the other. Luke noticed
her actions. "Well I see you like my gift. You look beautiful
in red. It brings out the red in your hair." He said as he
touched her ha ir. "I always loved the feel of silk." He said
as he gently touched the collar of her robe. "You like it."
Mara said as she started to stand up. She undid the tie and
started to retie it, but Luke stood and touched her hands
with his. "No leave it. It looks perfect like that." He said
as he leaned down to kiss her. As the kiss grew more
passionate, Mara felt the smooth silk robe slipping pass her
shoulders to fall on the floor. She also found herself being
carried to her bed. She heard her heart hammering in her
ears, her whole body tingled with every touch of his. As he
laid her down on the bed, she looked into his blue eyes and
saw the love and passion that was about to happen, for real
this time. His lips moved from her mouth to her neck and ever
slowly moving down her entire body. She closed her eyes and
for the first time in years, she let herself go. At that
moment Mara felt more happy and more content then she ever
was before in her life. She knew this is were she belonged
and n ever will leave. She could feel him move within her,
her whole body trembled with each move of his body. She cried
out in ecstasy as the passion reached it's end. Her whole
body tighten then relaxed, letting sleep consume her.

        "Mara, you betrayed me." The voice in Mara's ears
woke her from a deep sleep. She stirred in Luke's arms waking
him. "Are you ok, Mara?" He asked sleepy. "Yes, I just though
I heard something, that's all." She rested her head on his
chest and closed her eyes.  'No, please not him again" Mara
thought to herself as sleep took her again.

CHAPTER VI
        Luke woke to the sound of children paying outside the
window. Looking down at Mara sleeping peacefully, he kissed
her head and slipped out of her bed. As he dressed he thought
of last night. He never, even with Callista, felt so
connected with another person. He didn't want to leave her.
He found himself wanting her again, but he knew he had a lot
of work to do.  'No, not now, later.' He thought to himself
as he looked at her as she rolled over to rest on her back.
As he picked up his chronometer from the nightstand, Mara
woke. "Where are you going?" She asked sleepy. As he sat on
the edge of the bed he leaned down over her and kissed her.
"I have to get ready for today's classes." As he reached the
door he said.  "Don't think I haven't forgot about your test
today. See me in two hours and we will start. Mara, I love
you." He said as the doors closed.

        "Luke, there you are. I've been looking for you since
last night." Luke turned to see his sister walking up to him.
"Oh hello Leia. I'm sorry I-a I-a I-a fell asleep early."
Luke lied to his sister. "Oh really?" Leia laughed knowing
her brother was lying and she knew why, his feelings were
quite clear through the force. "Luke, I really don't approve
of Mara, but if you are happy and it was worth it. I'll give
you my blessing." Leia teased him. Luke just blushed at his
sister's straightforwardness. "Leia!" He said shyly.  "Well,
was it worth it?" Leia laughed. "Well, un, un yes." "Ok then.
Are you planning to marry her?" "Well, yes I was going to ask
her after she had completed her training." Luke whispered to
his sister. "I'm happy for you then, I knew something
wonderful was going to happen for you soon. Now let's get
some breakfast." Leia said as she took her brother's hand and
headed for the dining area.

        After breakfast Luke called Mara into the workshop
 that held all the tools and parts to make ones lightsaber.
 "Ok, Mara" He whispered in her ear as they hugged. "It's
 time to build your own lightsaber. You will have three days
 to complete it.  You can work on it for a few hours or until
 it's done, it's up to you." He told her as he walked over to
 the parts sitting on the work table. "I hope tho, you will
 take a break tonight." He said shyly. "I don't know, maybe
 I'll work until I'm done then maybe when I am done we can
 "TALK" about it." Mara teased him as she placed her arms on
 his shoulders. "I hope you will take a break, only for a few
 hours. So we can TALK about it." He laughed as their lips
 met. Mara leaned into the kiss letting her body melt against
 his. The taste of her lips make him want her more than ever.
 As the kiss became more passionate and deeper, Mara found
 herself being lifted on to the table, wrapping her legs
 around his hips urging him closer. "Stop Please." She gasped
 as the passion grew more intense. Luke stopped and stepped
 away from Mara and said. "Your right, but I can't keep my
 hand off you now. We shall continue this later, well good
 luck Mara." He kissed her again and left the room. Mara just
 sat on the edge of the table and sighed.

       "Hey I want to talk to you now!" Lando yelled down the
hallway as he saw Luke walking the other way. Luke stopped
and turned to see Lando at the end of the hall. "Yes, I know
Lando. We do have to talk." Luke said to his friend as they
walked to each other.  "Why her?" Lando asked. Luke heard the
pain in his voice. "I think we better talk outside.  Let's go
for a walk, Lando." Luke said calmly, as they walked to the
door that lead to the garden. Once they were out of hearing
distance from the temple, Luke said, "I, we, did not mean to
hurt you, Lando. You are a dear friend and I and Mara would
NEVER do ANYTHING to hurt you on purpose." Luke explained as
he turned away. "But you did. Luke I WILL fight for her, if I
have to." "Lando, it's not your fight. Mara has to choose
what and who she wants to do with her life. We can not make
that choice for her." "Leave her alone or else!" Lando
snapped. "Lando, please don't make me do something we both
will regret." Luke said coldly.  Suddenly Lando reached for
his blaster. Luke, using the force, snatched the blaster
sending it over the bushes. Lando snapped charging towards
Luke, but his body stopped inches away from him. Using the
Force, Luke called up a shield around himself, stopping
Lando's attack. "Lando, please stop. I hope we can come to a
understanding." Luke said as he pulled his lightsaber from
his belt, not activating it.  "I don't want to hurt you."
"You will NEVER have her, Luke." Lando said as he punched the
air around Luke. "I already have." Was all Luke said as he
turned and walked away. Lando stood there in shock. "NO,
please no." He whispered "Lando" Luke turned back to face his
friend, "I love her, and you are, and will always be one of
my best friends. I will forget what happened here today, for
Mara's sake, this time. Please leave Yavin today, I don't
want you upsetting Mara. And Lando, please try to forget her,
move on with your life. I'm sorry this had to happen like
this." He turned and disappeared into the temple. Mara,
taking a short break from her work, walked outside. It was
early evening and as the sunset and the gas planet of Yavin
rose, she saw the "Lady Luck" taking off. 'Lando, I'm sorry.'
She thought to herself as she watched the ship disappear into
the heavens.  Turning back to go back in, she heard three
young voices coming from the bushes. "Ok kids, come out of
there now." Mara said to the children, who stepped out of the
bushes. "He made us do it, Aunt Mara." The youngest Solo boy,
Anakin whined. "I did not and she is not our aunt, Aunt
Callista is dead." Jacen yelled at his young brother. "Ok
kids, maybe you should go back in now, It will be dark soon."
Mara told the children. Jacen and Jaina ran into the temple,
Anakin stopped at Mara and said. "Aunt Mara, do you love my
uncle? Are you going to marry him. I saw it in a dream and my
dreams always comes true." The child asked her. Mara kneeled
down to him and said. "Yes I do love your uncle. I think he
will ask me to marry him soon. But you have to keep this a
secret until it's announced, ok?" "Ok." Was all the boy said
as he ran to catch up with his brother and sister.  'Dreams
that come true. I haven't had a dream for a few days now.'
Mara thought to herself as she walked back to her work.
"Wow, I'm almost done. Just a few more things." Looking
around the work room Mara found a box with an old lightsaber.
"Hey I could use some of these jewels for the handle." She
said out loud as she worked. "I can't wait for Luke to see
this lightsaber."

        Mara hid her new lightsaber in her sleeve as she
walked into Luke's office. His chair was facing the window,
she tiptoed up the back of the chair. Quietly she slipped her
arms down his chest. He kissed her arm and then saw the
lightsaber in her right hand.  "Well, what do you think?"
Mara whispered in his ear as she kissed his neck. Luke stood
taking the saber to the light, carefully looking at her handy
work. "I can't believe it, Mara." He said as he looked at his
chronometer, "Oh my 12 hours! Mara that's a record. No one,
even me, never could make one that quickly, does it work?"
"Yes it does! And you did give me a reason to finish fast."
She said seductively. As Luke looked at the saber more
closely he noticed she decorated the handle. The jewels on
Mara's lightsaber had come from Callista's lightsaber.
"Mara, where did you get these jewels?" Luke said as the pain
tore at his heart. "I found an old lightsaber in the work
room. I though it would be ok to use the jewels." Mara said
as he saw the pain in his eyes. "That lightsaber belonged to
Callista." Luke said as he gave her back the saber. "Oh god,
Luke I'm sorry. I didn't know. I'll take them out right now."
Mara said with tears burning her eyes. "No it's ok , Mara. I
was just taken back a bit. This lightsaber is the most
incredible one I ever saw. You can keep the jewels.
Congratulations Mara, you past this test." Luke said as he
took her in his arms and kissed her. "Do I still have to go
to Endor? Please don't make me go there, Luke. He is still
there, I heard him last night, he said I betrayed him.  Luke
I'm afraid if I go I will not make it back." Mara said as he
kissed her neck. "Mara, I had to face my father to find my
place as a Jedi, now you have to face the Emperor to find
yours. Like I told you before, I will be beside you, you will
not be alone. Anyway this dark force is taking over Endor,
and only a Jedi can stop it from taking over the entire
moon." Luke whispered to her as he kissed her again. "Did you
know Lando left today?" Mara asked him as his lips moved to
her neck. "Yes." He said as his lips moved down her body.
Mara gasped as his lip brushed her right breast.  "Please
stop I have to clean up now." Mara whisper "Ok, sorry." Luke
said as he turned to the window.    "But you can wash my
back." Mara said as she wrapped her arms around his waist.
Luke turned to face her and smiled as they walked arm in arm
into the showering area.

CHAPTER VII
        As the weeks went by, quite a few changes happened
within the academy. The first class finished their training
and were placed into many outpost within the New Republic.
Han convinced Leia to say on Yavin IV for an extended
vacation, and of course she tried to fight the idea. She
worried about how the New Republic was getting along without
her, even thou she had direct contacts with her office. But
the most surprising change was Mara moving into Luke's
quarters. This came to a big surprise to the students, for
nobody, except for Leia, Lando and little Anakin, even knew
they even liked each other let alone move in together. But
the one who was the most shocked was Han. "Hey, kid got a
sec?" Han said to Luke as they passed each other in the hall.
"Sure Han, what's up?" Luke asked. "What's this about you and
Mara Jade. Leia said something that sounded like you and her
are ..... involved." Han asked his brother-in-law as the
walked into the dining area. "Yes it's true, Han,everything."
"Even about why Lando left here in a huff a few weeks ago?"
Han stopped and turned to Luke, "How serious is this ... this
...fling?"  "Han, very. I haven't felt like this for anyone,
even Callista. What Mara and I have I believe to be true
love. Yes I did love Callista, otherwise I wouldn't have
married her. But this is different Han, I can't explain it."
Luke explained as he leaned against the wall. "Hey kid it's
ok, I just want you to be happy for a change. I hope this
time it works out for you, even thou I personally don't trust
her as far as I can throw her." Han said as he slapped Luke's
shoulders. "Let's get some food." Han said as they walked
into the dining room.

     As Mara packed for her trip to Endor, a voice called to
 her. Softly at first, so softly she didn't notice it at
 first. But the voice grew louder and louder and with more
 intensity and rage.  "MARA, MARA YOU BETRAYED ME !" "No,
 stop, you're dead!" Mara screamed as she placed her hand
 over her ears and the voice grew louder.  'YOU BETRAYED ME.
 I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE." The Emperor's voice rang in her ears
 and head. "No!" She cried. "Leave me alone."  "YOU FAILED
 ME, MARA. YOU FAILED TO COMPLETE MY FINIAL COMMAND." "No, I
 did!" "A CLONE DOES NOT COUNT, MARA. YOU MUST COMPLETE MY
 COMMAND. KILL SKYWALKER!" The Emperor's voice rang from
 everywhere and f rom everything. Mara screamed and fell to
 the floor, crying as the voice disappeared. "Mara, Mara are
 you ok?" Luke's voice came from behind the locked door.
 Using the force Mara unlocked the door as Luke ran to her.
 "What happened? I heard you screaming." He asked as he took
 her in his arms. She cried on his chest and said. "Luke, the
 voices are back, his voice. I can't go to Endor tomorrow.
 Please I can't." She cried. "You MUST, Mara. Don't be
 afraid, I will be there and don't forget fear is the dark
 side too. He's trying to scare you into not going to Endor.
 He knows you will be his finial destruction." Luke said as
 he rocked her, calming her. She lifted her head to look in
 his pale blue eyes. He leaned down to kiss her.  She
 whispered in his ear, as he carried her to their bed. "He
 told me to kill you." He looked at her in shock then smiled
 and whispered. "But you won't" "I know." Was all she said as
 he placed her on the bed.

        The next morning as Mara dressed, she felt weak for a
second. Then everything suddenly went black and she felt
herself fall to the floor. Mara woke ten minutes later to
find Luke and a medical droid, TOB1, looking down at her.
"Well she will be ok now. Just make sure she takes these."
TOB1 said to Luke as he handed Luke a bottle of vitamins.
"Ok, I'll make sure she does, thanks." Luke said as TOB1 left
the room. "What happened, Luke?" Mara asked weakly. "Well
it's very simple, you fainted." "Fainted, I've never
fainted." Mara said as she sat up in the medical bunk. "Well
I guess your condition had something to do with it." Luke
said as a smile came to him.  "What, What condition? What are
you talking about." Mara asked.  "Look inward, Mara. Use the
force." Was all Luke said. Mara closed her eyes and looked
deep within herself.  What she saw frightened and excited
her. A small presence deep within her came to her, a life, a
son. She was pregnant. "Oh no, this can't be." Mara whispered
as she came out of her trance as Luke sat on the edge of the
bunk. "Yes Mara, it's true. We are going to have a baby boy."
Luke said excitedly, his blue eyes sparking and he wore a
smile so wide, Mara started to cry. "Now I really can't
go to Endor, Luke." "I'm sorry Mara, we still have to go. I
will be there to protect the two of you." Luke said as he
kissed her.

        Two days later, Mara and Luke were on a shuttle
heading towards Endor.  "I still think we should wait until
the baby is born." Mara broke the two hour silence as the
shuttle jumped into hyperspace. "Mara, we can't wait anymore.
Almost 1/4 of the moon is now dead."  "Ok, Master Skywalker,
what's the plan." Mara joked as Luke laughed. "Well we will
land about 2 days walk from the start of the problem. A place
the Ewoks call "The Arbo Maze". It's a thicket of trees so
dense and tangled that all beings, including humans, will
become lost forever. But a piece of cake for a Jedi. Then we
will, no you will do what you think should be done. From
there, Mara I can not tell you what to do, it's your
decision." Luke told her as he placed the shuttle on auto.
"But you said you would protect us?" Mara protested. "Yes, if
there is trouble I will be there." "Luke, please, you have to
be there with me!" "Mara, this is your finial test. I cannot
interfere. You will make the call." Luke expla ined to Mara.
        Two more hours passed when Luke pointed to a small
dot on the view screen. "Well there it is." He said as the
shuttle came back into normal space. Out of the view port,
Mara saw the green spear, Endor. As Luke started the landing
cycle, Mara gathered up their gear. Then she suddenly stopped
and tried to catch her breath, like something slamming into
her body, she nearly fell to the floor. She remembered that
feeling once before, they flown over the spot where the
Emperor had died. She calmed herself down then went back to
work with a sigh.   The shuttle landing 10 miles from the
edge of the dead forest.  Luke helped Mara with the packs,
then they started their journey into the forest. Within 1
hour they were 2 miles into the "Arbo Maze" they both used
their lightsabers to cut through the thicket. The trees and
bushed melted out of their way when the sabers came down on
them. "Luke, why is there no Ewoks? I thought we would come
to a village by now?" Mara asked as she sat on a rock to
rest. "I don't know, Mara. I guess it's because the dark side
is powerful here. The Ewoks probably simply moved away from
this part of the forest. But soon they will be able to came
back to this beautiful part, we will make sure of that,
right?" Luke said as they continued their trek. Hours passed,
the sun started to set, when they stopped to set up camp for
the night. As Mara gathered up wood for a fire, Luke started
to set up the tent. He was having a problem with the rods
when Mar a came back. She dropped the wood and closed her
eyes, then suddenly the rods and tent started to move.  The
rods moved to their correct places in the material of the
tent, with in seconds the tent was up. "Mara, you can not use
the Force to do your work for you."   "Well it seams the
Force is better to have around than a man." Mara laughed.
Luke looked at the tent and walked up to Mara and said. "Well
can the Force do this." He took her in his arms and kissed
her passionately. "We better start t he fire." Mara said out
of breath when the kiss ended.  "I though that was what we
are doing." He whispered in her ear. She slapped the back of
his head and said. "THAT fire!" She pointed to the wood pile
she dropped. "Oh, ok." Luke said acting hurt as he picked up
the wood. After he piled the wood, he took out his
lightsaber.  And struck one branch causing a spark, then the
pile turned into a blazing fire. "Now that's a fire!" Mara
said as she sat in front of the flames. "Ok, what do you want
for dinner?" She asked as she pulled out the rations.
"You!" Luke said as he sat next to her. 'Stop, I'm serious,
we have .... I don't know what this is. But it looks like
some kind of meat." Mara said as she looked baffled at the
box of rations. " I'm not hungry for food." He said as he
took the box from Mara and threw it back into storage. He
stood and extended a hand for her to stand. As she took his
hand, he pulled her to him and kissed her. As the kiss grew
more passionate and loving, Mara moaned when his lips moved
to her neck. Feeling their bodies growing closer, she just
closed her eyes and let herself go. Forgetting the voices,
her finial test and everything else, nothing else mattered
but the two of them. She found herself being carried to the
tent, being in his arms is where she wanted to be. How could
he have been so wrong about Luke? Why did the Emperor want
her to kill him? Did he know this was going to happen? If
that was true then he will pay for keeping them apart for
 so long. 'Don't think about it, Mara.' Mara though to
herself as Luke laid her down inside the tent. "Mara, I love
you." Luke whispered in her ear. 'I love you too." Mara
gasped as he kissed between her beast. While his hands were
caressing her body then to rest on her upper inter thigh.
"Marry me then." He said as he kissed her lips again. "What?"
Mara said as she pushed him off her. "I'm sorry, Mara. I
wanted to wait until you finished the training. But I can't
wait anymore. I love you and I want you to marry me." He said
as he sat up. "I can't believe this is happening. After all I
put you through you want to marry me? I can't give you an
answer yet, please understand. I have to face him first, then
I can think about my future. I'm sorry, I'm not saying no,
I'm saying I can't say yes or no right now. But I do love you
and I want you." Mara said as a tear ran down her cheek.
"Mara, I understand." Luke said as he took her in his arms
and rocked her as she cried. He did understand, but still her
words felt like a hot knife tearing at his heart. He knew she
was right, but he wanted to take her away from this place and
from all the pain in her life. They slipped down to lay on
the cold floor of the tent and fell asleep in each other's
arms.
CHAPTER VIII
        As the sun rose over the forest, Mara woke to a sick
feeling. She knew it was just morning sickness, a normal part
of being pregnant. A baby, she though this would never happen
to her. This was one future she though she would never have.
Afte r all she had gone through, and what she put Luke
through. After she started to the fire to make breakfast she
sat back against a rock and rubbed her tummy and said. "Don't
worry, baby, you will have a great life. With a mother and a
father, unlike both of your parents. Yes I will marry your
daddy, as soon as this mess is over." Luke woke to hear Mara
talking to herself, at lease he hoped she was talking to
herself. He was not in the mood to fight any forest
creatures. He peeked out of the flap of the tent to see Mara
rubbing her stomach and taking to it. The baby, she was
taking to their baby. Finally, he thought, he finally was
going to have a family of his own. The one thing he though
would never happen, he even accepted the fact that it may
never be in his future. Thou once he though it would be, with
Callista, until she died. They even talked about it and
started to try, but it was not meant to be. But it was now
happening with Mara, Mara who would have though it would have
been Mara. As he watched her, Luke thought at this very
moment in time all was right in the universe.

        After breakfast, Luke started to pack up the tent and
Mara packed upped the cooking equipment. "Well, all ready to
go, Mara? We have about 10 hours of travelling until we get
to the center of this decay." Luke said as he helped Mara
load the backpack on her back. Nine hours later as they
walked Mara thought of Lando, how he was doing. She felt
guilty of the way she ended things with him. When they
stopped, she pulled out her transmitter and tried to call
Lando. At first there was nothing but stacked. "Hello?" Lando
said into his comlink.  "Hello, Lando." Mara's voice came
over the speakers. He stood there in shock, he was so shocked
he had to sit or fall to the floor. "Mara, how are you?" He
said slowly into the comlink. "I'm fine. I just wanted to see
if you're ok. I know this all came to a big shock to you.
Please forgive me, I want all of us to be friends again."
"Mara, you don't have anything to be sorry for. You fell in
love with someone else.  I just want you to be happy. I'm not
going to interfere in your life anymore, Mara." Lando's voice
came over Mara's transmitter. "Lando, please." Mara said into
the transmitter.  Luke came up behind her, looking over her
shoulder. "Lando, I will take good care of her, you have my
promise. Let's put all this madness behind us and all be
friends again, ok?" Luke said into the transmitter. "OK, but
your first born better be named after me." Lando laughed.
"Ok, when he's born he will be named Lando." Mara's voice
came back to Lando. He felt all the blood leave his face, he
was sure his face was white.   "WHAT???!!!!" "Well Lando, you
are the first to know the good news." Mara said, looking back
at Luke, she smiled. 'No, oh god, no' Lando thought to
himself.  "Well then let me be the first to congratulate you
both." He said, trying to sound happy for them, even thou he
was far from happy.  After he signed off, Lando pulled out a
bottle from under his bed. He then bit off the cork and drank
the contents.

        "Well I think he took it well." Mara said to Luke as
she put the transmitter back in it's box. "I don't think so,
Mara. I feel like something awful is happening to him. I fear
this news will push him over the edge and there is nothing we
can do to prevent it. He is about to fulfill his destiny,
which I'm afraid means his death." Luke said as he walked to
a tree on the edge of the river. "Death? No, in time he will
get over me." Mara said as she walked up to him. "I saw it,
Mara. In a dream, and we both know my dreams do come true.
He will end his life in two days and I believe our love will
be the cause of his actions." "Then we have to go back and
stop him." "NO, we have to finish our work here first." "But
he will die if we stay." "He will die anyway, Mara. We have
to free Endor and the galaxy from the emperor's evil
clutches. Mara, we cannot save Lando, but we can save
millions of others. Sometimes one life has to be surrendered
for the lives of millions." Luke turned to face Mara. He
wiped away a tear from her eye and kissed her lips. "I feel
so helpless. Like I'm the one who is responsible for his
death.  Like I killed him with my own hands." Mara said as
she started to cry. "Mara, you have nothing to do with his
decision, your only crime was falling in love with me and not
Lando. Please don't blame yourself.  Well let's set up camp
here for the night, it will be dark in an hour." "All right,
I'll get some fire wood." Mara said as she wiped the tears
away from her eyes. She knew Luke was right, Lando's life was
his own decision. She had other things, more important
things, to worry about. Like her finial challenge in become a
Jedi and her child growing within her now.  A half an hour
later, Mara made her way back to the camp site, with arms
full of wood.  "Here, let me help you." Luke said as he saw
her with the wood. He took the pile from her arms and place
the wood into the pit he dug for the fire. Mara went into the
tent to change. When she was looking for the wood, she slip
and fell in at puddle of mud.  When she came out, Luke had
started the fire. She sat next to him in front of the fire.
Which was burning bright red and blue. Luke noticed Mara's
hair was bright red in the flames.  As night fell they hear
sounds of the forest. Everything was alive, bats, owls
and..... "MARA, MARA I WILL KILL YOU BOTH." The Emperor's
voice rang in her ears. Mara covered her ears and cried. "NO,
NO, stop. Luke help me, the voices!" "Mara it's ok, I'm here.
He can't hurt you." Luke called to her as he held and rocked
her. She collapsed in his arms.

        As Mara woke a few minutes later, she found herself
in the tent with a cool towel on her forehead. "What
happened?" She asked weakly. "You fainted again." Luke said
as he took the towel and wetted it and put it back on her
forehead. "Yes, the voices, His voice. Luke, he said he was
going to kill us." "He's trying to scare you, Mara. Stand up
to him, show him you are not afraid of him." "Yes, I will not
let him scare me, anymore." Mara said as she rose and walked
out the tent to the fire. She stood tall shaking her fist in
the air as she screamed. "Emperor Palpatine you do not scare
me. Tomorrow you will meet your destiny." "Now that's what I
wanted to hear, Mara. I'm proud of you, you will be a great
Jedi." Luke said as he clapped his hands applauded her. Mara
turned and walked up to Luke as he came to the fire. "Yes."
"Yes? What?" "Last night." Mara said as she sat back down in
front of the fire, which was still burning bright. "Yes, I
will marry you." "What?? Really??" Luke said nearly falling
as he sat next to her. He took her in his arms and kissed
her, gently at first. Mara wrapped her arms around his neck
as she leaned back to lay on her back. As the kiss grew more
passionate, Mara felt her flight suit buttons coming undone.
She gasped as his hands brushed her breasts. His lips moved
to her neck and moved down to rest on her right breast. As
she ran her fingers through his hair, his lips moved down her
body. Kissing and licking every part of her body. When he
reached the spot where her legs and body meet, she grabbed
the covers preparing for his lovemaking.

CHAPTER IX
        Luke woke to hear Mara's lightsaber and her grunts
and groans as if she was fighting something. He sprang up and
grab his lightsaber from under their cloths but found
nothing, he cursed under his breath and ran out to help Mara.
But he skidde d to a halt when he saw Mara was just
practicing with her lightsaber. She sung the saber like a
pro, she was so fast Luke didn't see half of her moves. After
a few minutes he called to her. Mara switched the saber off
and turned to see Luke standing against a tree watching her,
hands folded over his chest.  "I can't believe it, Mara. You
are extremely skilled at that." Luke said as he walked up to
her. "I probably can even defeat you now." Mara said
challenging Luke. "Well if you thing you are skilled enough,
let's have a practice duel." Luke said as he saw were his
lightsaber was, next to the fire. He concentrated on the
saber as he placed his hand out.  It flew into his out
stretched hand then he ignited the blue energy blade. The
white-blue blade shined in the early morning light. While
Mara's blood red blade arched in the ready position. Mara
moved first, bringing her blade down hard as she could onto
Luke's. The two blade striked each other discharging sparks
of energy in all directions. Luke struggled to keep from
stumbling from Mara's blows. As they practiced the clouds
start to darken. Luke, using the Force, snatched Mara's
lightsaber from her hands. "Hey, that's not fair!" Mara
protested as she walked up to him. But Luke would not let her
have the saber. He held it over his head, he laughed as Mara
tried to jump up and grab it. Mara was getting tired of this
game. A few nights ago she had learned what spots on his body
he was ticklish. She found the spot quickly. He busted out
with laughter as Mara tickled his hips near his back. "Stop
it Mara." He laughed as he found her spot, her ribs just
under her breasts. They both laughed as the tickling fight
continued. Both lightsabers had falling to the ground fo
rgotten. As the fight continued, Mara slipped and fell on her
back, Luke fell with her. As he pulled himself up, he looked
down at her, feeling the passion and desire coming from deep
within himself, he kissed her. As he kissed her lips, his
hand caressed the spot he was tickling a few minutes ago. As
the kiss grew more and more passionate, Mara wrapped her arms
around his body, removing his flight suit as she caressed his
back. His lips moved down her cheek then to her neck, he
lingered there, kissing, sucking, nibbling causing a small
bruise. Then his lips moved down her shoulder, his hands
caressing her upper inter thigh. Mara moaned with desire as
his hand played with the soft curls of her womanhood. As his
lips met her left breast, his hand probed her wetness deeply,
he could feel her body pushing him out then urging him in as
deep as he fingers could. Mara cried out with pleasure as his
lips met up with his hand at the point of her desire. Ripples
of pleasure flow though out her body as his fingers and mouth
moved within her. "Stop, please." She whispered as his lip
moved up her body slowly.  "Why?" Was all he said as he
kissed her lips again. "I don't know, I feel like someone is
watching us."  "Nobody is watching, Mara. Just relax and
enjoy." Luke said as he kissed her again.   "I only know one
thing right now, and that is I want you." She whispered as
she kissed his shoulders. As they kissed again, Mara move her
body slowly until she was over him. She sat up looking down
at him. She knew he rather be in her position, but now it was
her turn. Mara positioned herself in a straddling position.
Sitting up she removed her flight suit.  She felt free,
feeling the wind on her nude body. She lowered her body onto
his, feeling him enter her, letting her body become one with
his. As her body begin to rise and fall in time with his, he
cupped her breast in his hands, kissing, sucking, nibbling
them as the passion grew. The heat and friction of their
bodies make them swe et with desire. She arched her body
driving him deeper as the passion reached it's explosive
climax. Both their bodies tensed then relaxed, she collapsed
onto him as she whispered. "I love you." "I know." He said
panting for air. They laid there for a few hours, still
together as one.

        Two hours later, the storm grew more in intensely.
Lighting and thunder filled the forest. As Luke and Mara
dressed, Luke sensed a dark present. "Mara, he's here, now."
He whispered as he packed up the camp. "I know, I felt it."
Mara said as she buttoned the top of her flight suit.
"This is it, Mara. Over there, a mile or so into the dead
forest is where you will find him. Mara, I will be here if
you need me." Luke said as he took Mara's lightsaber from her
hand. "No, no weapons." "What, Luke?" Mara stared at him in
shock. "No weapons, Mara." Luke said as he took her in his
arms and kissed her deeply. "I love you." He whispered to her
as she started into the dead forest.

        A few minutes later, Mara came face to face with the
spirit that haunted her life for so many years. The emperor's
spirit loomed over the trees. "Emperor Palpatine , you will
not bother me or anyone anymore!" Mara yelled at the form.
The spirit swooped down towards her. Mara ducked and went to
pull her lightsaber off her belt, but it wasn't there! She
forgot that Luke had it. "Mara, you can not destroy me."
Palpatine's voice came from the trees. "I'm going to try! You
denied me my life.  You are responsible for keeping me apart
from my destiny. I would have been a wife and a mother and a
Jedi if it wasn't for you. But you failed, I did find my true
love and I will be a mother. You only postponed it, you tried
to brainwash me into hat ing Luke. Yes, that did work for a
few years, but we did find our love after all. For this alone
you deserve to die forever!" Mara screamed over the thunder
and wind. "Yes I saw the two of you, lovers not enemies. But
it will not last, Mara. You will not have this child, I'll
make sure of that!" The Emperor laughed as he spoke. "Or you
can let me possess your body and I'll let the child live."
"NO, I'll never join you or let your spirit possess my body."
Mara screamed as a gust of wind stirred u p leaves and dirt
from the forest floor. "You will never have me or mine! Your
rein of terror is over!" "You can't destroy me, no one can. I
live as energy, I will always be. Mara, you can't destroy me
alone, not even with your lover or that child. You would need
more Jedi then there are, I'm more powerful than Exar Kun."
"I've found an ancient book with lost spells and techniques
of the Jedi lost thousand of years ago.  And I did find a
spoken spell that will send you to a different dimens ion
where there is no escape." Mara screamed over the roar of the
wind. "Ha-ha-ha-ha very funny Mara. Do you think I'm that
gullible?" The Emperor laughed as he lifted his fingers at
Mara. Blue lighting spilled from his finger tips. The
lighting enveloped Mara in a blue aurora.  She screamed in
surprise and pain. She tried to block her pain and started to
speak the spell she's been practicing without anyone knowing
it even existed. The Emperor called up a Force storm and
floated closer to her as Mara spoke her spell. A dark cloud
floated down towards the Emperor, with one last attempt the
Emperor called the Force storm to become stronger than
before. As the dark cloud came down and swept the Emperor's
spirit into it's mass, Mara was caught up in the Force storm.
It carried her up as high as the tree tops. As the cloud
floated up with Emperor Palpatine's spirit to space and into
another dimension, the force storm took Mara higher and
higher. She screamed out of fear and pain as the wind carried
her across the tree tops. Then as the cloud disappeared the
storm suddenly stopped. Mara felt her body plummet helplessly
down, her legs and arms moving rapidly as if they would slow
her decent. But to no avail, Mara tried to calm herself
enough to use the force to break her fall. But by the time
she tried to slow herself down she hit some branches then the
ground. She landed on her back, the impact knocked the breath
from her as well as plunging her into darkness.

        Luke, hearing the storm and Mara's screams, ran to
help her. But he was stopped by an invisible wall. 'The
Emperor must had put this here to stop anyone who was going
to try to stop him.' He though to himself. He closed his eyes
and contracte d on the wall. Suddenly he heard Mara scream in
terror and pain. Her screams tore at his heart, he knew she
was dying and he had to save her. Panic started to blur his
contraction, but he blocked the fear out. Then the wall
disappeared, he ran into t he forest not even noticing that
the dead forest was alive again. He stopped when he saw her,
lying on the grown. 'She must have falling on her back when
the storm ended.' He said to himself as he ran to her. "Mara,
Mara, can you hear me." Luke calle d to her as he took her in
his arms. Mara moaned as she fought back from unconscious.
"Luke, it's over, it's finally over." Mara said weakly.
Suddenly she cried out in pain. "Mara, what is it?" Luke said
trying to keep her from slipping to unconscious again.
"Something is happening." She said though closed teeth. As
the pain shot through her again. Luke looked down at her
trying to find the source of her pain, He used the Force to
look into her body. He saw that she had many broking bones ,
but nothing that would cause this much pain.  His hands moved
lower looking into her body, he closed his eyes and let out a
cry as he saw what was causing her pain.  The baby, she was
going to lose the baby and there was nothing he could do.
"Mara, oh Mara." He said as he hugged her. "What?" She
 whispered.  "The baby is dying. We have to get you back to
 Coruscant as soon as we can." He said as he carried her back
 to the shuttle, which, using the force, he called it to
 them. Luke placed Mara on one of the bunks and called Leia
 on Coruscant. She said they would have a med team at the
 landing platform waiting for them when they landed. The trip
 back to Coruscant was faster then he thought even thou it
 felt like eternally, hearing Mara's cries and scream and the
 blood. She was going to die if he couldn't stop the bleeding
 soon. Luke using all the force power he could, tried to slow
 the bleeding and ease some of her pain. When they landed,
 Luke picked up Mara and ran out of the shuttle . Running as
 fast as he could to the floating bed Leia had arranged. The
 medical droids rushed her to the medical unit.  Leia came
 running out of the building and into her brother's arms.
 "What happened?" She asked as they ran arm in arm to the
 medical area. Luke didn't answer her, he was think only of
 Mara.

        Mara woke to a medical droid looking down at her.
"She is awake now, Master Skywalker. She will heal and be
able to have more children. I'm sorry we couldn't save the
child." The medical droid said as Luke woke from a nap. He
yawn in the chair next to Mara's bed. "Thanks for
everything." He said as he took Mara's right hand. As the
droid left, Mara's eyes opened. "What happened?" She asked
weakly.  "You'll be find, just rest now." "No, what
happened?" She asked angrily.  "You lost the baby. There was
nothing anyone could have done. The fall was responsible, you
also broke your left leg and a few ribs. But your alive and
right now that's all that matters." Luke said as he held her
hand. Mara's body shook as she cried. "I'm sorry Luke. I know
this child met alot to you." She said as Luke held her.
"Sh, it's not your fault. Your battle with the Emperor was a
bit rougher then we though. Once you are better we will marry
and start again. This time we will have a child and no body
will dare to take him away from us." Luke said as he kissed
her forehead. "Now close your eyes and get some rest." He
said as he sat back down in the chair he fell asleep in. "How
did she beat the Emperor?" Luke asked himself. "I'll ask
her in the morning." He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

CHAPTER X
        As the sun rose over the Imperial City on Coruscant,
Leia stood next to her brother as he slept. He stirred in the
chair next to Mara as he awoke. "Leia is something wrong?"
Luke said as he rubbed his eyes. "No, I just wanted to see if
you and Mara are ok?" She said as she looked over at Mara as
she slept. "She'll be ok. But I'm a little worried about her
emotions. When she awakes her mind may not be able to handle
all this." "Mara is a strong woman. I'm sure she will be ok."
"I hope." Was all Luke said as he took Mara's hand.  Looking
down at her, he continued. "I don't know if I can handle
losing her. I'm still feeling guilty about Callista." "Luke,
that was not your fault you didn't know her body couldn't
handle child birth. Mara is different, she's strong, physical
and force strong. Even thou Callista was a Jedi, she lost
most of her powers after switching bodies with Cray." "I
know. Did you ever wonder what your life would have been,
like if you would had married Isolder? I often wondered what
if Callista had lived? Would I have fallen in love with Mara?
And if she didn't die I would have a wife and a son, but both
were taking from me. And now Mara. It's happening all over
again, Leia. A son, is what Mara lost. I 'm starting to
wonder if it will ever happen. I've came close twice and both
times it was taken away from me." "Luke, Mara is alive and
can have more children. Give it sometime, please don't give
up hope." "I know, Leia. It's just hurts so much.  To have
come close twice and lost twice."   "Well you know what they
say 'Third time is the charm'. Wait until Mara is better,
then try again. Mark my words, the third time it WILL happen.
I'm so sorry this happened again." Leia said as she turned to
leave the room. As she opened the door, Lando stood in the
doorway. "Hello, Lando. I was just leaving." Leia said as she
walked passed him. "Hello Lando." Luke said as Lando walked
into the room. "Hey Luke, I'm sorry for everything." Lando
said a she walked to Mara's side. Mara moaned as she woke.
On her right was Luke and Lando was at her left. "It's ok
Lando, all I'm concerned with is Mara. She went through a
heart breaking experience. Let's not fight in front of her."
Luke said as he took Mara's hand. Mara's eyes flutterer
opened, seeing him there. It was obvious that he was by her
side for the last three days, for he had a three day growth
beard. Which Mara thought made him look more mature. She
moved her head to see Lando at her other side. "Lando, you're
ok!!??" Mara said weakly. "Yes, I'm fine." He said as he took
her hand. "I'm glad. I was worried you were going to do
something dumb." Mara said as she squeezed his hand. "How are
you feeling?" Lando asked her as he stroked her hair. "Sore
and tired, and empty. It's the strangest feeling I've ever
had. I guess it's normal, after all I did have a child inside
me for the past 6 weeks and now he's gone." Mara said as the
tears flowed from her eyes. "Oh Mara I 'm so sorry." The
comlink at his side beeped. He saw it was from Tendra Risant,
he knew she does not like her callers being late for a date
"Well my dear I just wanted to check on you, I have a meeting
in an hour. I'll be back to see you again. And M ara I am so
sorry." Lando said as he kissed her hand then placed it back
on the bed and turned to leave. "It's ok Mara, let it out.
I'm here for you, I'll do all I can to help you through this.
And when you are healed we can try again. This time, it will
happen, I'll make sure of that, you have my promise." Luke
said as he held Mara. She cried on his shoulders and feel
asleep again.

   After three days in the medical unit, Mara was ready to
leave. Han and Leia were going to let Mara stay with them for
a few days. As Leia walked into Mara's room, Mara was dressed
and packed. "Well you look ready to leave!" Leia said as she
helped Mara with last minute packing. "I want to see her
first!" "No me first." Leia's children said as the rushed
into the room. Leia totally forgetting that Mara may not want
to be around children right now, brought her children. Mara's
heart ached as she saw the three little ones. Leia, saw her
reaction, nudged the kids out of the room. "You three wait
outside with your father, now!" She said as she nudged them
out into the hallway. "I'm sorry Mara. I wasn't thinking"
"It's all right. I have to get used to having children
around." Mara said as she closed her bag. "Oh, let's get out
of here then. Luke wanted me to look after you for a few
days." Leia said as she held the door open for Mara. "Where
did he go?" Mara asked as they walked to Leia's hovercar.
"It's a surprise." Leia smiled as she drove the car back to
her home.

        'Now where did I leave it.' Luke said to himself as
he searched the forest floor of Endor. He was trying to find
Mara's lightsaber, trying to retrace his footsteps. He took
the saber from Mara before she went into the forest, then he
placed it down next to him as he waited for her. Then he
heard her screams and ran to help her.  'So the lightsaber
should be over there.' His eyes fell on a clearing not far
from where he stood. As he walked over to the clearing he saw
a dark patch on the g rown. He bent down to touch the earth.
'He died here, my son. This is where Mara fell.' Luke closed
his eyes. 'Sometimes one life has to be sacrifice to save the
lives of millions of others.' He thought. 'My son was that
one, he saved millions of liv es. He was a hero before he was
even born, and died bravely.' As a tear ran down his cheek,
he rose and continued his search. It didn't take very long, a
few feet from the clearing, he saw a shinny object in the
bushed. He picked it up and brushed of f the dirt and leaves
that covered it. Yes indeed it was Mara's lightsaber, and
Callista's gems were still intact.

        "Mara!" Luke's voice came from behind Mara. She
turned to see Luke coming up to her. She ran into his arms,
as they embraced she said. "Oh, Luke your back. Hold me,
please." After a few minutes, Luke broke the embrace and
handed Mara a long sack made of black velvet. "What's this?"
She asked as he placed it in her hand. "You'll see, open it."
"Ok." Mara said as she untied the red ribbon that held the
top of the velvet sack closed. She placed her hand into the
sack and with a gabs pulled out her lightsaber! "Mara Jade,
you are a Jedi!  Your training is now complete!" Luke said as
Mara stared at the saber in shock. "Where did you find it?"
"Where I left it. Near the camp site not far from where you
fell." He said as Mara hugged him and cried. "I'm a Jedi now?
Really?" Mara said as she broke the embrace and walked to the
window. "Yes you are!" "Somehow I feel like I'm not done with
the training. Is there anything left for me to learn?" "As I
have said before, Mara, you will be learning for the rest of
your life. I'm still learning." "Now what?" "Now we can move
on with our lives, together! But it's up to you now.  What do
you want to do with your life? No one, even me, can make that
decision for you." 'I know , but I've made up my mind long
ago. I want to stay with you. I'll teach at the school, I'll
do anything to stay with you." Mara said as she turned to
face Luke. He smiled and picked her up as he hugged her. "I
want you to say with me on Yavin. If you want to teach, I
could use a few more hands in that area." "I love you" Mara
said as their lip met for a long deep kiss.

        Three days later, Luke and Mara were on their way
home together. "Luke, what's going on? You're up to
something, that smile of yours gives it away. What are you
planning." Mara said as she checked all the controls that she
was assigned to. "You'll see." Was all Luke was going to say
to her now. He surely wasn't going to tell her anything about
the wedding he was planning for them back on Yavin.  That was
going to be his surprise to her, a gift for her bravery and
strength. Leia said everything was taken care of, all they
had to do was show up. By this time tomorrow they will be
married. That's why he was smiling, but he cannot let Mara
find out about it. Even if she tried to tickle it out of him,
he will not say any more!

CHAPTER XI
        As the shuttle landed on Yavin IV, Han and Leia, who
arrived the day before, were waiting for Luke and Mara to
depart on their craft. "Well do you think she'll agree to all
this? Leia, what if she's upset about the way this was
arranged?" Han said as he watched the ship's ramp descend.
"Luke said she would love it. I hope for his sake she does."
Leia said as they started to walk up to the edge of the ramp.
"Well, after all, she won't have to worry about anything.
It's all been taken care of."

        "Mara, are you ready?" Luke said as he gathered up
all their belongings. "Yes, let's go." Mara said as she came
from the back of the ship. "I just wanted to make sure we
didn't forget anything." "Well, here goes." Luke said to
himself as he p ushed the hatch open. As the hatch hissed
open they saw Han and Leia standing at the foot of the ramp.
"Well, hello there." Han said as he walked up to Mara and
kissed her hand. While Leia hugged her brother and the four
of them walked to the temple and into the great hall. As they
reached the doorway to the great hall, Kip ran up to them and
said. "Mara, I'll take your things to your room, ok?" "Sure,
thanks Kip." Mara said to the teen. "Anytime." He said as he
took Mara and Luke's thing and left the room. "OK, what's
going on?" Mara said as they stood in the doorway to the
hall. "What do you mean?" Leia said smiling. "Why is everyone
smiling, and why do I feel like all of you are up to
something?" "Mara, I, ah, We thought that you would like some
peace and quiet." Han lied.  "Han, you are a terrible liar.
Luke what is all about?" Mara said to Luke who left the room
as he tried not to laugh.

        She followed him down the hall to their room.
"Would you stop, please! What's going ON?!" Mara said as she
walked into the room then she closed the door. "OK we are
alone, now will you tell me what this is all about?" "OK
Mara, with all tha t has happened in the last few days. I
thought you would need a rest and some help with the plans.
So I asked Leia to help, that's all." "What plans?" Mara
asked truly not knowing what he was talking about. "You
forgot, well I thought after all you been through you might
have forgotten. You said you wanted to stay with me, right?
Do you still want to marry me or not?" "Oh my stars, I
forgot. I'm so sorry, yes I still want to marry you." Mara
cried as she flung herself into his arms. As he held her, he
said.  "Well then go to the changing area and get dressed."
"NOW??!!" "Well yes now. Leia found a dress for you. She
feared you would not like it." "Oh my how sweet. She didn't
have to do that." "Oh yes I did." Leia's voice came from the
doorway. "Mara let me help you." "Well I'll see you two in a
few minutes." Luke said as he walked up to Mara and kissed
her. "What, NOW?" Mara asked in shock. "We're getting married
now?" "Yes, unless your not up to it?" Luke asked as he
walked to the door to leave. "No I'm fine."  "Well?" Luke
asked. "OK!" Mara said as Luke walked out of the room leaving
Leia to help Mara dress.

        "Wow in a few minute I'm going to be married. Leia,
I'm scared, what if I can't do this?" Mara asked as she paced
the room. "Mara, I know what your feeling. I've been there
myself, it's just nerves that's all. You will be up in front
of over 50 people telling all about you love for my brother.
It's very common, just take a deep breath and try not to
think about all the people. Focus on just you and Luke." Leia
said as she took the wrapping off the box that held her
mother's wedding dress and her parent's wedding rings. A few
days ago, Luke asked her to search Ben's old place for
anything that pertained to their parents and this is what she
found. But she didn't tell Luke this because she wanted it to
be a wedding gift to her brother and new sister.  "Mara, this
is my mother's wedding dress, please try it on." Leia said as
she held the dress up to Mara's eyes. The dress was made from
the finest silk and satin of the Old Republic.  "Oh how
beautiful, it's perfect." Mara said in surprise.   "Try it
on." Leia said as she help Mara with the dress. "It fits
perfectly, Leia." Mara said as she looked at herself in the
mirror. The neck of the dress was made from the finest lace
that covered not only her neck but her shoulders, arms and
most of the top of her chest. While the silk covered her
chest and waist and the floor length skirt was all satin and
lace with a few diamonds that sparkled with every move she
made. "Wait, there's more." Leia said as she pulled a long
lacey vail from the box. She placed the crown of diamonds on
Mara's head. The lace of the vail covered Mara's face and
fell down to her waist. "Oh my, Leia this is perfect!" Mara
said as she turned to face her soon to be sister. As she
turned the diamonds from the dress and vail glittered.
"Oh Mara, you take my breath away, you look absolutely
beautiful." Leia said as Mara stood in front of her in her
mother's dress. "Well it's time." Leia said as she gathered
up the train of the dress for Mara. "Let's go." She said as
they started down the hallway towards the great hall.   Mara
and Leia walked to the entrance of the great hall. "Ok here
we go!" Leia said as she picked up the train of Mara's dress
and urged her towards the steps that lead to the alter. As
Mara walked on the red carpet, that lead from the entrance to
the alter, towards the steps, she noticed the hall was
decorated with white lace hanging from the high ceiling. As
Mara reached the steps, she notices who was at the top wai
ting for her, Luke, Han and Kam Solusar, who would be
performing the ceremony.  'Oh God, can I do this? Mara just
stay calm. Use the force to stay calm.' Mara said to herself
as she took Luke's hand and they turned to face Kam.
        As the ceremony started, Lando looked at the woman he
once loved take the hand of his best friend, he knew it was
over. He had to move on. Looking to his left he saw Tendra,
at that very moment while Luke and Mara kissed, he knew his
future was with Tendra. He will ask her to marry him tonight
and this time he knew it was right.

        As the chatter grew louder, Lando knew this was the
moment. He stood and cleared his throat.  "Can I have your
attention." He said loudly over the chatter. Luke looked at
Lando with a puzzled look. Lando picked up his glass from the
table.  "I would like to say a few things, if you don't
mind." He said looking at Luke, who nodded his head in
agreement. "Well, first I would like to be the first to toast
the new couple. Well we all know the history of these two."
He gestured towards Luke and Mara. "And my part in that
story. Well I like to wish them all the happiness in the
universe. And Luke you were right like always, the best man
did win her. Just don't hurt her or I'll have to hurt you.
Just kidding. Mara I will always love you as a friend and the
wife of my best friend, we had some fun times thou, didn't
we?" Mara nodded and smiled. "Well I would like to toast you,
be happy, be well and may the force be with you always."
Lando and everyone else held up their glasses and said
all together "May the force be with you always." Then drank
the contents. "Oh one more thing. I've been pig headed about
all this. But I know now that the one I am truly in love with
is..." He took Tendra's hand and urged her to stand with him.
"You Tendra. I love you and I want to marry you, if you have
me?" Tendra gasped and nearly fell to the floor.  "Yes I will
marry you, Lando." She said as she flung herself into his
arms. They kissed and the other 50 guest clapped and wowed.
"Well I g uess we don't have to worry about him anymore."
Mara whispered to her new husband. "Yes, I think he'll be
fine now, I hope." Luke said to her. "By the way how do you
like Leia's gift to us?" Mara asked.  "What gifts?" Luke
asked. "The dress Mara's wearing and the rings are what I
found in Ben's old place on Tatooine. I went there like you
asked and I found a box with our mother's wedding dress and
her and fathers rings too." Leia said as she came up behind
Mara and Luke. Luke looked at Mara's dre ss and the rings
they both wore now. A tear fell down his cheek as he looked
back to his sister. "Leia, how can I ever thank you? I'm
speechless, I don't know what to say. Just thank you so very
much." Luke said as he hugged his sister.  "I saw the box and
something told me to take it that this what I was searching
for. I knew, as I opened the box, that this was the perfect
gift to you and Mara." Leia said as she made her way back to
Han.

        As the night went on many friends were made, some old
ones found each  other again and love blanketed the great
temple of Yavin IV. As the night grew late, Luke noticed
Mara's eyes were starting to slip. "Mara, we should be
getting some sleep . We had a long day on top of a long week,
and you still aren't well, let's get you to bed. "Yea, I know
what you want." "No, I promise, unless you want to. Anyway
you still aren't healed yet." Luke said as he stood and took
her hand. "Well friends, the night has come to an end and now
we must leave you. Mara is still not fully recovered from her
ordeal and she needs her rest." He said to the 50 plus guest
who came to today's events. As Luke and Mara walked slowly to
the door. All the guest stood and clapped. Luke stopped at
the entrance and said, "Thank you all again. Please stay if
you wish. Good night and May the force be with you all." The
crowd clapped again as Luke and Mara disappeared into the
darkness.

CHAPTER XII
     As the weeks pasted by, Luke made plans for Han and
Leia's 15th Anniversary party. With all they had done for
Mara and him, Luke thought this was the perfect way to thank
them. "15 years, 15 years they have been married. I hope Mara
and I last that long." Luke thought as he looked over the
finial plans.  "What are you doing?" Mara asked as she came
up behind Luke. "Looking over the finial plans for Han and
Leia's party, I only have a few more days to completed them.
By the way, did you send out the invitations?" Luke asked as
he pulled out the guest list. "Yes, a few days ago. Luke, you
are putting a lot of work into this. You been here all night,
you have to get some rest." She said as she ran her hands
down his chest.  "Rest? Mara, I've had plenty of rest. A Jedi
trance is more restful than sleep, you know that." Luke said
as he rubbed her arms. "I know, but I missed you last night.
You know I'm all healed now, so we can ...." She trailed off
hoping he knew what she was talking about. "Well, I guess
this can wait a few more hours." He said as he stood and
gathered Mara in his arms. "Well, I am a bit tired, maybe I
will go to bed now." He said to Mara as they walked out of
the room arm in arm.

        As Lando opened the door of his apt in the Imperial
City on Coruscant, a letter fell from in between the door.
"What's this?" He asked himself, "Mara's handwriting." He
thought as he opened the letter. "An invitation to Han and
Leia's 15th anniversary party, WOW." He whistled to himself
as he read the letter. "Luke and Mara are hosting, wait to
they hear what Wedge and I did yesterday."

       Wedge and Qwi laughed as they walked up to their apt
door. Qwi noticed a letter sticking out from between the
doors. "What's this?" She asked no one as she opened the
letter. "Well I'll be it's an invitation to Han and Leia's
15th anniversary party. Oh Wedge, can we go?" She asked.
"Sure, let me read that. Well how about that! Luke and Mara
are throwing this party." Wedge said as they walked into the
apt arm in arm.

        "Leia, your brother wants us to come to Yavin IV for
a dinner party next week." Han said to Leia as he read the
letter from Luke. "But Han, our anniversary is next week. I
thought we were going to do something special?" Leia said as
she sat next to Han. "Well, we can do that after we go to
this get together. You know this is Mara's first attempt at
domestic living. It's a sight I have to see. Mara a wife and
a hostess. I got to see this Leia." Han said as he gather
Leia is his arms. "15 years ago I said I would love you
forever and you want to know something? I would do it all
over again." He said as he kissed her, tears ran down her
cheek as the kiss ended. "Oh, Han, I will always love you."
She cried as they held each other.

        The day of Han and Leia's anniversary, Mara woke to a
sick feeling, she remembered another time she felt like this.
When she was carrying her first child that she lost only a
few months ago. Deep in her heart she hoped and prayed this
feeling meant she was going to have the chance to have
another baby.  "I hope this is morning sickness." She said to
herself as she ran to the bathroom.

        "This hall looks great, Mara." Luke said as he hugged
her from behind, kissing her neck as she said. "I spent three
hours on decorating this place. I hope they like it." Mara
said. "I'm sure they will." He whispered in her ear. "No one
will be here for a few more hours. I think we should check on
the progress of our own little project." He said as he kissed
her neck. "Stop, I have alot to do yet." She lied, "We can
check on that later." Mara said as they swayed together.
"Later? Well I guess we can check on it here. What do you
think? "Stop that!" Mara said as his hands traveled under her
shirt. "Oh, all right, but not here." Mara groaned as his
hands reached her breast. "Ok, I'll see you there." Luke said
as he let her go then left the room. "Damn, just as I was on
a roll. I guess everything is done. All I have to do is wait
for the guest to show up." She looked at her chronometer and
thought, "Well, he's right, it's only 4:00 and everyone will
be here around 8:00.  I guess I do have a few hours to work
on this other project." She looked at the hall one more time,
then turned and walked down the hallway to her room.

        As Mara opened the door to her quarters, she noticed
that someone lit over 100 candles, the old fashion type. She
called out, "Luke is that you? Hello anyone here?" But no one
answered. She walked to the closet, as she opened the door
she felt Luke coming up behind her. She pretended not to
notice. She stroked a few pieces of clothes until she found
what she was looking for. A red silk robe, the one Luke gave
here as a welcome back present. And the one she wore the
first time they made love."Now that brings back alot of
memories." Luke said as he touched her shoulders. "I know
that's why I picked it." Mara said as she turned to face
Luke. She noticed he was wearing a plain black robe. She
walked past him to the changing area. As she undressed, Luke
walked into the area. "Stop, we don't need it." He said as
Mara started to pick up the robe from the couch. Luke walked
up to Mara and kissed her. Wrapping his arms around her waist
pulling her naked body to his. Mara felt his hands caressing
her back and waist, while her hands slowly removed his robe,
letting it fall to the floor. As the kiss grew passionate,
she felt herself being guided to the couch. Her legs fell to
the sides of the couch.  As Mara opened her eyes, she saw
Luke looking at her. He was kneeling at her feet and looking
at her with such intensity, a shiver of passion ran up her
spine. She just closed her eyes and relaxed her body. She
felt him kissing her toes, slowly kissing, licking and
sucking his way up her body.  Starting with her toes then her
legs, knees, thigh, upper inter thigh.  Stopping at the point
where her legs connected with her body.  A shiver of passion
ran through her body as his lips met with the lips of her
womanhood. Her body instantly tensed as he explored every
part of her womanhood.  With his every move of his mouth and
fingers, ripples of pleasure passed through her body as he
brought her to the very edge of bliss until she screamed out
his name. She then felt his lips moving up her body, kissing
and licking his way to her belly and chest. She inhaled
deeply as his lip kissed and sucked the nipples of her left
breast, while she wrapped her legs around his hips.  While
she caressed his back and waist, she begged him not to tease
her anymore.  They looked deeply into each other's eyes as he
entered her.  Mara thought to herself, as she kissed his
neck, how incredible this was, how their bodes knew just what
to do.  Moving in perfect time match each other's moves,
match each and every thrust. Just as she was brought to the
edge again there was a knock on the door. "Hello?" A child's
voice came from behind the unlocked door. Luke held his
breath, not moving, not breathing. "Who is it?" He said
without breathing still connected with Mara. "It's me,
Ankain. Can I come in?" "No honey, I, I, I'm not dressed."
Mara said as she started to get up. Luke just looked at her
shaking his head no. "Tell your mommy we will be there in a
half an hour, ok?" Luke said to the closed door. "Ok, bye."
The little boy's voice faded as he left. Luke and Mara just
looked at each other and let out a deep sigh. "Close one."
Mara said as she started to laugh. "Yea, very close, I don't
want to get that close again." Luke said as he started to
laugh too. "Well, we have two choices. One: We pick up where
we let off at." Mara said as she wrapped her arms around his
neck, "Or we can get dressed and go out there like good
hosts." "I don't know about you, but I think our guest can
wait a few more minutes." Luke said as Mara laughed. "Ok, so
where were we?" Mara teased as she kissed him pulling him
down to lay on top of her. She wrapped her legs around his
waist urging him into her again.  "There that' s better." She
whispered in his ear as they started to move in time again,
this time with more passion and eagerness. Within a few more
minutes their lovemaking became more feverish and frantic
bring them both to the edge of pleasure at the same time.

  "Ankain, what is it?" Han said as his youngest son, who
came walking into the great hall looking sad. "They said they
will be here in a half an hour." Ankain said as he walked up
to his father. "Who? What do you mean?" Han said as he knelt
down to be eye to eye with his son. "Uncle Luke and Aunt
Mara. They said they were not dressed yet." The little boy
said. Han stood up and started to laugh as he walked over to
Leia, who sat at the table with her other two children. "What
is so funny, Han?" Leia asked. "Think Leia, they are not
dressed yet, we ARE a few hours early, and they are still
newlyweds." Han laughed. "Oh, my. Maybe we should have let
them know we were coming early." Leia laughed as she turned
red from embarrassment.

        Lando, Tendra, Wedge and Qwi walked in to the great
hall together. "Hello all." Lando said as he walked to Han
and Leia. "Hey old buddy." Han said as he and Lando shook
hands. "Well were are the hosts?" Wedge said as he and Qwi
came up to Lando and Han. "Well, they are a bit busy being
newlyweds." Han laughed as he shook Wedge's hand. They all
laughed and talked about the old days.

        Later that evening, just before the end of the party,
Lando stood and said. "Well, I just wanted to say a few
works. First congratulations to these two." He turned to face
Han and Leia. "For 15 years of partnership, I hope you have
15 or more yet to come." He lifted his cup and took a sip
with all the others. "Also I wanted to announce that Wedge
and I got married last week, no not to each other. I married
Tendra and Wedge to Qwi." Everyone including Luke just stared
at Lando in surprise. "Well this is a surprise." Luke said as
he stood.  "Wedge and I were talking last month, after your
wedding. And we decided we both were going to do it too.  So
we had a double wedding. Sorry we didn't tell anyone, but we
did it at the last moment." Lando said to Luke. "Well then, I
think we all should toast the four of you, and Han and Leia.
We, Mara and I, wanted to thank you for all you did for us in
the past few months." Luke said as he turned to face Han and
Leia. "We hope you have many more years together.  And to the
four of you" He turned to face Lando and Wedge.  "Good luck I
hope you have happiness like I found with Mara." He held up
his cup high and said. "May the Force be with you always!"
Then took a sip of the contents.

EPILOGUE
        Seven months after her anniversary party, Leia
received a emergency call from Mara, who was in her last days
of her pregnancy. Since Mara never had a baby she asked if
Leia could help her. The day before Leia left Coruscant for
Yavin IV, she found out that herself was also going to have
another child, her 4th. Leia was almost at the end of her
child bearing years and she knew this would be her last
child. In a way this made her truly sad yet fortunate to have
this last chance. Han's reaction was a bit differed then she
thought it would be, she thought he would think he was too
old to have another child. But he was very happy about it,
and her other three children were equally happy to have a
younger brother or sister. In fact little Anakin was happy
his brother and sister will have someone else to blame things
on. As Leia's ship entered hyperspace, she sat back in the
pilot's seat and thought of the events of the past year: Luke
and Mara falling in love, Mara's fight with the e mperor's
spirit, her miscarriage, their wedding, her own anniversary
party and all the surprises. From Lando, Tendra, Wedge and
Qwi's double wedding to all the pregnancies (Mara, Qwi,
Tendra and now herself). This along was the most unusual
event due to they all conceived while on Yavin IV. It even
made all the headline in all the entertainment bands for
hundred of system. There was even a running joke: There must
be something in the water or air on Yavin, for most of all
the women are now pregnant. Even Mon Mothma joked about it to
Lando and Luke. "Is there something in the water or air on
Yavin IV?" She said to Lando one day last month. "What do you
mean?" Lando asked, not knowing the joke. "Well, first it was
Mara, then Qwi and now Tendra. They are all pregnant.  Who's
next, Leia?" Mon Mothma joked as they all laughed. Who knew
she would be right. The alarms telling her she was close to
Yavin, woke her from her daydream. As her ship landed, Luke
and Kyp came out of the temple to greet her. As she walked
down the ramp, her brother gave her a big hug. "Oh, Leia.
I'm so glad you came here so fast. I think it's almost time.
Mara has been having pains for the last few hours. She's
frighten and so am I. I mean after what happen with
Callista." Luke said as they walked to the medical unit where
Mara was.  Kyp took Leia's thing to her apt.

   Mara laid on her medical bed, sweat dripping down her
forehead into her eyes. She wiped away the sweat and tried to
use a re laxing technique Luke taught her. But just as she
started to relax a pain shot through her lower body, she held
her breath and squeezed her eyes closed. Trying so hard not
to bear down or cry out in pain. Why was she doing this? She
asked herself ove r and over with each contraction. Love?
Love, right the love of PAIN more like. The pain eased as she
opened her eyes to see Luke and Leia walking into her room.
"Ok, Mara, did you use the relaxing and pain technique I told
you about?" Luke asked as he took her hand. "Yes, but it's
not working." She said softly as if she was too weak to
speak.  "I know it's hard, Mara. I've been there twice and
now I will again." Leia said as she took Mara's other hand.
"Leia are you?" Mara asked weakly as another contraction hit
her again. "Yes, Mara. I'm expecting my 4th child." Leia said
as Mara squeezed her hand as the pain hit again. Luke looked
at his sister and smiled.  Leia smiled back at him and said.
"Well it's time Mara. Luke do you want to be here?" Leia
asked as she started to help Mara. "Yes, what do I do?" He
asked. "Take her hand and help her relax and with the pain."
Leia said as she position herself at Mara's feet. "Ok, Mara.
Legs up and wide. And don't be modest. You are having a
baby." Leia said as she opened Mara's legs to see the head of
the baby emerging from her body. "Well, this won't take long
at all. The head is almost out now." "What?" Mara cried in
pain.  "Just lie back Mara and push down as hard as you can.
"Leia said as she placed one hand on Mara's belly pressing
down, helping her.  "I can't the pain" Mara screamed in pain.
"Luke do something about her pain," Leia screamed over Mara's
screams of pain.  "Ok, Ok it's out, Mara. A boy, it's a boy."
She placed the baby on her belly as Mara cried out in pain
again. "What?" Luke asked in surprise and fear. "Well, well
there's another. Wait, ok Mara." Leia said as she took the
first baby and gave him to Tionna, who just came in to help.
Tionna took the baby and bathed him then wrapped him in a
blanket. While Mara screamed and cried out in pain as her 2nd
child was born. "Come on Mara, push as hard as you can." Leia
said from between Mara's legs. "I can't, too weak. Help me
please I can't" Mara said as the darkness took her. "Great."
Leia said to herself, "Ok Luke I want you to push down on her
belly, NOW." Luke did what his sister told him to do, he
pushed down on her belly, as Leia took the baby's head and
gently pulled. "Harder Luke." Leia said as he pushed, she
pulled the baby out. Leia cut the cord and handed the baby
boy to Tionna. Leia and Luke started to clean up Mara, but
she didn't stir. "Leia is she going to be ok?" Luke asked as
he took Mara's bloody clothes and replace them with clean
ones. "Yes, she fainted that's all.  Childbirth is hard work.
Some women can't handle it, like Callista. But Mara did very
well and has two beautiful sons, identical twin boys." Leia
said as she took the first child in her arms as he cried.
"Well do you want to hold your first child, your first born
son?" She handed the baby to Luke. He took the child and they
both cried. "I can't believe this, Leia. He's beautiful and
his twin brother is beautiful too. After coming so close
twice, it has finally happened Leia. I have two sons." Luke
said as he paced the room. Mara stirred, moaning and sighing.
Leia took the child from Luke as he took Mara's hand as she
woke. "What happened?" She asked weakly. "You fainted from
the pain." Luke said as he kissed her. "The baby? He's ok,
right?" "Yes, they are both fine and healthy." "They both?
Twins?" Mara cried, tear of happiness. "Yes." Leia said as
she placed the 2nd child in Mara's arms and the 1st in Luke's
arms. They all cried, Mara, Luke, Leia and the two newborn
children, they cried tears of happiness. "So what are their
names, Mara?" Leia asked "I haven't thought of two names,
only one, Benjamin. But the other, I don't know." Mara said.
"Well what about ....... Beau or Blake?" Luke said "Beau? I
like Beau." Leia said. "Ok, the 1st born is Benjamin and the
2nd is Beau." Mara said as she kissed Beau's forehead.

        A few months later, just as Ben and Beau Skywalker
were starting to sit up, word came from Lando that he and
Wedge both became fathers. Tendra gave birth to a little
girl, Sonja. And a few days later Qwi had her little girl,
Rhiannon. Leia, who was within her last few weeks of her
pregnancy, arrived on Yavin to visit her brother and his new
family. "Well hello there." Luke said to his sister as he
walked up to greet her. "I just wanted to see how you are
doing?" "We are all just fine, and you?" "I'm ok, but I
wanted to have this child here on Yavin, is that ok with
you?" "Leia, why? Our med unit is not as advance as the one
on Coruscant." Luke asked is surprise. "I don't know. It's a
feeling. Also I want to complete my training while I'm on
leave. I have a few months leave to have this child, Mon
Mothma will take over while I'm gone. I want to be a jedi,
completely." Leia said. "But you are Jedi, Leia. I've told
you this years ago, remember?" Luke looked at her in shock.
"I know, but I thing I should spend some time here as a
trainee, please." She begged her brother, "Please let me
train here, I feel it will help me more than you will know."
"Ok, Leia. Let's get indoors, it's going to rain soon." Luke
said as they walked into the temple.

   "Leia, hi, it's so good to see you again!  I wanted to
thank you again for helping me with Ben and Beau." Mara said
as she carried one boy in each arms. Ben, the oldes t by 7
minutes with his blond hair and pale blue eyes, tried to get
down. While his identical twin brother, Beau with his
strawberry blond hair and bright green eyes, closed his eyes
and fell asleep in his mother's arm. "Here let me help." Leia
said as she took Ben from Mara. "You shouldn't be carrying
him, Leia. You are due anyday now." Mara said as she placed
Beau in his cradle. Then she took Ben from Leia and placed
him is his cradle. "Here sit and tell me all the gossip on
Coruscant." Mara said as Leia sat on the chair between the
two cradles.  "Not much, we are finally getting the New
Republic in order.  I couldn't ask if anything could so
smooth. Peace Mara, we are finally at peace." Leia told Mara.
"And Lando and Wedge, they are fathers now. Tell me more
about Sonja and Rhianon?" Mara asked. "Well they are
beautiful, I was there for their births too." Leia stopped
and rose slowly. "Mara can you help me. I think my water just
broke." She said as the first pain hit her. "Oh, no.  Ok,
here let me help you to the med unit." Mara said as they
walked slowly out of the room to the med unit. As they walked
pass Tionne's room, Mara knocked on her door. Tionne opened
the door as Mara spoke. "Tionne, Leia is in labor, please
watch the boys for me?" Mara asked as she and Leia walked
down the hall.

    Luke ran to the comunit calling up Han's ID.  "Han, get
to Yavin NOW." Luke said to Han's image as he appeared on the
screen. "Why? What's going on? "Leia, she's having the baby
NOW." "I'll be right there." Han said as he disconnected the
call.
        As Han ran into the great hall on Yavin IV he heard
Leia cry out his name. Running as fast as he could, he
arrived at the med unit just as his daughter was born.
Anastasia, was the baby girl's name. As Han held her, she,
with dark eyes like h er mother, looked at her father as Han
rocked her asleep. Leia woke to see her new daughter
Anastasia, who was named after Leia and Luke's mother, asleep
in her father's arms. Leia looked around the room, everyone
was asleep. Her brother with his son Ben and Mara with Beau.
She knew everything was going to be right from now on. No
more war, no heartache, no pain. Just happiness for her
entire family until the end of time, now finally all is right
in the universe.