✧ 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.

Comments

[borntorebel]

That's...a comfort. Well, it's something, I suppose.

[thefinaljedi]

It's better than most people get, yeah.

[borntorebel]

Have you seen Anakin yet?

[It's the only thing they haven't talked about and probably the most important at this point. There's no avoiding the topic, no matter how much she wishes they could.]

[thefinaljedi]

Only briefly. I...can't really go near him. Not without getting a headache.

[He smiles ruefully.]

He's in shock. And I'm not in the mental state to block him out as well as I should.

[borntorebel]

You're more connected to the Force than I am, so it's not surprising that you would be affected more. But when I look at him, I feel like he should probably be screaming or yelling instead of staring off into space like that.

[She frowns and looks at the half-empty glass in her hand before putting it down. Her head is a little light, but that could be the liquor on an empty stomach. She should probably stop now.]

I don't think any of us are. I'll try again later and keep trying until he realizes that we're both still here. I just...I couldn't stay in there with him for long. Not with him like that.

[thefinaljedi]

No. That's not his way, not...when he's really upset. And only Mother can do that to him.

[Luke finishes the rest of his drink in a gulp, feeling the burning sensation.]

I'll...probably go sit with him a while once I've cleared my head. I should be able to do that for him, at least.

[borntorebel]

I can understand that.

[After all, only Han was able to make her so angry she forgot how to think clearly sometimes.]

You don't have to do that alone, you know. I want to sit with him as well. It'll help remind him that he's not by himself. At least I hope so.

[thefinaljedi]

It probably will. He's eating, at least. Which is a blessing.

[Catatonic people were not his favorite. Especially family.]

[borntorebel]

At this stage, I will take anything that appears to be a sign of life right now. Small victories count every bit as the large ones.

[Something they both were acquainted with.]

[thefinaljedi]

Yeah.

[Seriously, they knew that more than most. When every survivor was a blessing.]