✧ Fourth Rebellion ✧ [Audio]

[borntorebel]

[After finding the apartment that Padmé and Anakin shared empty of her mother and her father practically catatonic, Leia tries very hard not to panic. She's tried numerous times to get Anakin to respond, but he's done nothing more than blink and just stare through her. She can still feel Luke and a quick search turns up Han in the apartment the three shared. There's no trace of Padmé anywhere and the journal that Leia's grown to associate with the other woman has disappeared as well.

She tries to send a message to her mother, but it's returned, as if....

A deep breath later, Leia knows what it means. She turns on the audio function of her journal. She has an announcement to make, since she'd realized that Obi-Wan left the day before as well.]

For those of you who knew Padmé Amidala and Obi-Wan Kenobi, I regret to inform you that they've returned home.

[She won't think about what that means for Padmé. She can't. Instead, she does what she does the best—work while stressed.]

Also, if you've spoken with John or any of the other original residents of this enclosure, I'd like to speak to you. Please.

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[borntorebel]

[She won't, but that's okay. That's why she has a keeper, right?]

It can't be helped. Things worth doing aren't ever easy. Besides, with the personalities in our family, if there wasn't some discomfort somewhere, the galaxy would end.

[notsosolo]

None of us exactly fade into the background, that's true.

[She's right. It's more or less inevitable that they clash at some point.]

We'll figure this out somehow.

[borntorebel]

And it's lucky for our galaxy that that's the case. It just makes interacting with each other difficult.

[She closes her eyes and puts her head against his shoulder again.]

Later. Just...give me a minute.

[notsosolo]

Take whatever time you need.

[He'll just stick to holding her. It's about all he can do in this scenario]

[borntorebel]

I feel really tired, but I can't justify going to sleep in the middle of the day.

[It does feel good to just let him hold her like this. It's not very often that she feels so out of control, that she has to deal with the fact that one of her parents is gone, returned to the Force.]

It's stupid, but it just feels like it's wrong to do that.

[notsosolo]

You're allowed to nap if you're tired.

[He doesn't really expect her to. But he always had to bring up the option.]

But how about some coffee?

[borntorebel]

[She looks up at him for a minute. Naps are a big no, since she didn't even enjoy them as a child. But she does appreciate the fact that Han is there to remind her that she's human and that it's okay to be so.]

That sounds good actually.

I feel like I should be doing something, however. I'm just not sure what that is right now.

[notsosolo]

[He starts leading her toward the kitchen.]

I don't know either. Is there anything but time?

[borntorebel]

[She follows along fairly tamely. She's 1) too tired to fight back and 2) has no reason to do so when she trusts Han so much.]

I'm not sure that that is true, Han. Mother's disappearance has made it perfectly clear that we might not have as much time as we thought before.

[notsosolo]

[Once they reach the kitchen he starts preparing coffee]

So you don't think we can just wait?

[He's drawing a pretty big blank here]

[borntorebel]

[She does what she can to assist him, trying her best to keep her hands busy so that she doesn't have to really think about what's bothering her.]

I think whatever purpose our returning to the past is going to serve will probably make itself known. There have been too many meetings with the original people of the enclosure as of late for nothing to be happening.

[Welcome to how politicians pay attention to things. Convoluted to say the least.]

[notsosolo]

Maybe a sense of purpose will help.

[It always seems to help her. Will it help Anakin?]

[borntorebel]

Considering how much like him I am, according to...Mother, that wouldn't be surprising in the least. The trick will just to get him mobile first.

[Which she fears might require a lot of angry words from either her or Luke. Of from Anakin aimed at either of them.]

[notsosolo]

[Han still doesn't see that much in common between the two of them, really. Possibly because he's stubborn.]

Everyone likes to feel useful.

[borntorebel]

[Get them angry, at each other, then watch the similarities pop up. Yes.]

That is mostly true. And those that don't are usually the type neither of us have time for, I'm afraid.

[She looks up at him for a long moment as he finishes up with the coffee. She really misses the modern conveniences that even "future" Luceti had to offer over this past version of the enclosure.]

In this instance, I feel vastly out of my depths.

[notsosolo]

[He presses the steaming mug into her hand]

That makes two of us.

[There are a lot of people he would never admit that to. But if he can't tell Leia what are they even doing?]