Star Wars: Cross Paths

Chapter 76 - The Next Day

Leia and Han's apartment:

It was 8 in the morning and Leia was in the kitchen making breakfast. Today she had to go the Senate. Yesterday she had a day off because it was her birthday, but today she needed to get back to work, but she will enter the Senate as a fiance now. Looking at her beautiful engagement ring, she couldn't help but smile. She never thought Han was the type of a guy that wants to get married. She didn't mind to live with him, after all they were living together for months now, but deep inside she always dreamed with a wedding day, wearing a wedding dress, and now she will have that. Now what she needed was to plan everything and being the perfectionist she always was, she would start soon and the first thing she wanted to find out was the place where she wanted to married. She didn't want to marry the same place that Luke and Ines married. She wanted to be in a different location. But with the work in the Senate, she needed help and after seeing the amazing things Ines did for the Temple, she indeed was the perfect person to help her with the wedding planning.

Feeling two arms wrapping around her waist, she smiled

"Good morning future Mrs. Solo" Han told her at her ear

"Mrs Solo? Who told you I want to take your last name" she replied turning around and wrapping her arms around his neck.

Han looked at her

"Well I thought that after we married you could take the Solo name, but hey if you don't want, I will not be upset. I will still love you."

Leia smiled at him

"Leia Organa Solo" she said thinking "I kind of like it" and with a smile she kissed him.

"You don't planning to use the Skywalker name, do you?" Han asked her after a while making Leia sigh. "I'm just asking okay" he said raising his hand "I'm not trying to force you on anything. After all that is a decision that only you can take."

Leia nod. She knew Han was right. Sitting by the table, they started to eat the breakfast

"I will always be an Organa and that is the name I want to wear forever, even if I know I'm a Skywalker by blood, but wearing that name.... I don't know, I just can't do it"

Han hold Leia's hand and kissed it.

"Leia, you must do what you feel right, but I know I'm not the right person to say this but let me tell you just this: as long as you take that anguish against your biological father, sooner or later it will consume you. I'm not tell you to forgive him now. Take your time. It can take days, weeks, months, even years, but you two need to find peace: you and him. There will be a time you need to talk to him again and trust me, when you do, you will fell so much better"

"Hey since when you became so philosophical?" she giggled

"I have my moments you know. After all you were the one who told me that remember?" he winked making shake her head, but she knew he was right. Sooner or later she need to find the strength to talk to her father again and put that pain and hate behind her back. The question was it would bring her peace of mind? Luke did find it and so did Ines. She accepted Anakin as her father in law. If her sister could, she could too, right?

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Coruscant Royal Hotel:

Inside their hotel suite, the Skywalkers were laying in bed. Luke was supporting himself on his left elbow, while he ran his right prosthetic hand down Ines naked back. Ines was on her stomach, with her arms under the pillow, with her eyes close, feeling her husband hand on her back.

They were awake for a while now, and decided to stay there, relaxing after an intense night for them, before they head home.

Luke leaned down and started to kiss Ines lower back, going up, making Ines smile feeling Luke's lips going up her back. Once he reached her neck, he ran his fingers through her long hair and pulling aside, he kissed her neck and then nibble her earlobe, whispering to her