Across The Galaxy
Part 4: Places
by Leaf Trebond

Luke sat in his seat in deep thought about the message he just heard. 
Leia pulled Anakin up onto her lap and rocked him. Han was bent over 
resting his face in his hands.
He sat back in his seat trying to sort his feelings. He stood up, and 
opened his mouth as if he was going to say something, but shut it 
again.
	"They are the same voices I heard when I recivied the message." 
Lusa said.
	"What could she be thinking of leaving Yavin 4?" Leia asked. 
"Does she know what's going on?"
	"Well, whem we saw her last Boba Fett had her, but she 
escaped." Jacen explained. 
	Anakin spoke for the first time in over a hour. "She wouldn't 
have just taken off, and left Zekk. He must have told her to go."
	"That doesn't make me feel any better." 
	"Han, he must have a place for her to go." 
	"Where would be more safe then with us?" Leia asked. "The New 
Republic could protect her." 
	"I've said it before, Zekk wouldn't put Jaina in any danger." 
Luke said
	"I wish that girl would listen to me as much as she would 
listen to that scruffy looking boy."

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	In the cockpit  Jaina had already by passed all but one of 
the security locks Zekk had added. All she needed now was a slicer. 
Luckly for her the Lightning Rod had one that would only need a few 
modifications to it.
	A hour later she got to the coordinates, but she still didn't 
know what planet they were taking her to, but that didn't matter, she 
could turn around and go back. The only problem was that the fuel 
tank was leaking, and she would never make it back with the fuel that 
she had left. She had to go forward. Jaina leaned back in the pilot's 
seat. Everything began to spin, and her eyes closed. When they opened 
she saw a city below her. 
	Two ships pulled up beside Jaina's. A harsh voice filled the 
craft. "Lightning Rod you permission to land at Docking Bay 56." 
	She brought the ship to an easy landing, and got out. The city
streets were narrow and the buildings were close together.  It couldn't 
have been long after sun down, but no one was on the streets. "I 
guess I'm going to have to find this place myself." She walked down a 
few streets noteing that all the doors and windows were closed.
	She could hear low music. When she came around the corner 
there was the bright lights of the Dancing Slave Girl. Jaina looked
at the outside of the building with wide eyes almost afraid to see 
what waited for her inside. Gathering her courage she walked in the 
bar. Quickly moving to the back of the building to a dark booth she 
sat down. "How am I ever going to find Davin in this mess?" Jaina asked 
herself. Suddenly another question bothered her. "Did Zekk find Davin 
here?" 
	"Hello beautiful." Jaina turned around. A tall guy about Zekk's 
age stood behind her. He was muscular with short  sandy blond hair 
and ice blue eyes. "You must be Zekk's girl."
	"No, I'm not his girl. We are just friends," she said. 'But 
not much longer if I can help it.' She thought. "I assume your Davin."
	"Well that's a good thing for me," he said as he sat down 
across from her picking up her hand and kissing it, "kitten, and yes. I
'm Davin."
	"How did you know who I am?"	
	"Well, Zekk can't go 15 minutes without talking about you. 
Plus who else would you get that hideous suit your wearing from, but 
I have to admit after seeing you in it I'll never be able to look at 
Zekk the same way again."
	Jaina couldn't help but blush. The night seemed to slip away. 
The next thing she knew she awoke in an unfimilar bed in an unfimilar 
room.  She wore a nightshirt, and her wounds were properly bandaged. 
She could hear low voices in the next room. 
	"How much stuff did you give her last night?" A deeper voice 
asked.
	"Not much, she shouldn't be out this long." Davin answered. 
Jaina could hear a slight bit of worry in his voice.	
	"You should see the wounds she's got," a female said. "It 
looks like she got into one hell of a fight."
	"Will she be okay?" The younger voice asked.
	"Seth, she has to be tough to keep up with Zekk."
	"Hey she's awake." The girl said. Five people walk into the 
room. 
	"Hello, kitten. Rest well?" Davin asked as he sat beside 
Jaina and put his arm around her.
	"What am I doing here?" 
	"I had to get you here some how, so I drugged your drink."
	"Zekk didn't want you to know where you were staying." The 
youngest boy said.
	"He would do something like that." Jaina said. 'Now how am I 
going to get out of here.' 
	"Kitten, I would like you to meet my friends. That's Delia." 
Davin said pointing to a  tall slender girl with long brown hair, and 
green eyes. "That is Trent and Seth." Trent was the oldest, but stood 
out from the group with his green hair and crystal white eyes. Seth 
was much younger. He reminded her of Zekk dark black hair and eyes, 
but much shorter. "and that's Jamie." The boy had white hair and glowing 
red eyes.
	The youngest boy came over and kissed Jaina's hand. "I'm Zen." 
when he went to back up he triped over his own foot and fell. Everyone 
began to laugh.
	"And that's my younger brother ." They didn't look anything a 
like Zen had blond hair and yellow eyes.
	Jaina stood up and offered her hand to the boy who was on the 
floor blushing, and helped him up. "Nice to meet you, Zen. I'm Jaina." 
Trent tapped Seth on the shoulder and they left the room.
	"Here," Delia said as she walked into the room carrying a 
tray of food. "You need to eat."	 
	Jaina felt uncomfortable around them. They were all looking 
at her. She didn't like to be the center of attention, that was her 
brother, unless she was taking charge. Everything went black again.

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	"What," Seth asked when they got out of the room.
	"She looks fimilar." Trent said thinking hard. Seth just looked 
at him.
	"So?"
	Delia, Zen, Jamie, and Davin walked out of the room. "She 
passed out again," Delia reported.
	"What are you two up to now?" Davin asked sitting down across 
the table from Trent.
	"Nothing." Trent snapped.
	"I know something is bothering you," Davin persisted.
	"Jaina. It's Jaina." Seth informed Davin.
	"What? She hasn't been awake long enough to say a whole sentence 
to you. What could she have done to you?"	
	"It's not her," Trent said. "It's that I know that face."	
	"You have met hundreds of girls. You're mistaking her for 
some one else."
	"I've seen her before, too." Jamie said.
	Seth picked up some of Jaina's stuff that set on the table. 
"What are you doing?" Delia asked.He picked up her tool belt. It wasn't 
much help except for one pouch that held some of her personal stuff.  
"I'm finding out more about her. "
	He pulled out a small container of food and opened it. "It's 
Corellian."
	"You have to have Corellian blood in you to eat that stuff." 
Trent said covering his nose.

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	Jaina came to in her room. 'At least nobody was here this time.' 
She needed time to think about what happened. 'How am I going to get 
out of here?' 
	Her stomach growled. "I'm so hungary I could eat a taun taun. 
Where was that food Deila brought?" She looked around, but it was gone. 
A strong smell of her favorite Corellian dish filled the room. "At 
least they have good taste in food here."
	She could hear the group again. Using the Force she focused 
on the voices until she could make out what they were saying. 
	"They don't know who I really am. This could work out to my 
advantage."

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	Look what I found." Seth pulled out a two small black boxes. 
"Should I play them?" 
	"Are you kidding me?" Zen asked.
	"I'll take that as a yes." The first was the message from 
Zekk the second was an unsent message from Jaina to Zekk. The holo of 
Jaina spoke. "Zekk, I haven't heard from you in a long time, so I'm 
not even sure that  this will make it to you. As you know graduation 
is comming up, and you promised to be here. We all want you back.  
Raynar wants you back. Jacen wants you back, and..." Jaina bit her 
lower lip and blushed. "I want you back. I miss you. It's not the same. 
I wish things would go back to what they were like before. When we 
were on Coruscant."
	Trent raised an eyebrow "I wounder what they did on Courscant."
	The message continued. "You can come back anytime you want. 
Uncle Luke has a room saved  for you, and Lando even offered a room 
on Cloud City if your ever near there. Well Zekk, please just think 
about it. May the Force be with you." The holo faded .
	"Well," Davin said "I guess we know who kitten likes now."
	"Lando? The administrator of Cloud City?" Delia asked. "Now 
we know what kind of crowd she runs with."
	"A Corellian smuggler or Bounty Hunter." Trent said confirming 
what everyone else though information on it as he could. 
	"What does it say?" Jamie asked.
	 "A top level security cleareance for the New Republic pass. 
That's all I can get."
	There was a long silence. "Top level? Are you sure it's real?" 
Delia asked.
	"If it's a fake, then it's the best damn fake I've ever seen."  
	"That's like, Chief of State." Trent said in astonishment.
	"Or daughter of the Chief of State."
	Delia picked up the tool belt, and placed it back onto the 
table next the door to Jaina's room. "We better not look for anymore. 
We don't know what we are dealing with. We don't really know who she 
is, other then what Zekk told us, besides a smuggler with a New 
Republic security clearance, and she has to be in some kind of 
trouble to be sent here."
	"Delia, we probley know as much about her past as she does. 
Zekk just sent her here, because she fell down on her luck." Davin said.
	Zen walked over to Jaina's stuff and came back with a long 
cylinder shaped object.
	Davin took the object from Zen and looked at it. "Where did 
you get this?" 
	"I think it's a lightsaber." Delia said.
	"Don't Jedi use them?" Seth asked.
	"I think so, but why would she have one?" Zen asked "She's 
not a Jedi. Is she?"  
           	"I don't know." Davin said.
	"Maybe she knows that guy who trains Jedi. What's his name? 
Skywalker guy or something like that." Zen asked.
	Jamie took the lightsaber. "How do you use this thing?" He 
hit the handel a couple of things and the third he hit the power stud. 
A violet blade appeared starlting him.  Jamie jumped swinging the blade 
over Davin's and Zen's head and just missing Trent, and bringing it 
down on a chair splitting it in two. Deila rushed over and got the 
weapon away from him, before he killed someone, and placed it in the 
middle of the table to keep a close on it.
	"By the maker. I never seen anything like that before." Seth 
said. 
	
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	'Uncle Luke, Corellia, New Republic, lightsaber, and Lando. 
What do all these have to do with Jaina?' Trent asked himself.
	He knew that he had seen that girl before or at least a picture 
of her. Trent didn't really know why it bothered him, but there was 
something wrong. He had a bad feeling about her, about her being here, 
and about the reason she was here.

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	Jaina stood up, walked to the door, and slid it open. She 
could see her blaster, tool belt, and clothes sitting on a small 
table next to her door. Making sure nobody saw her took her stuff 
into her room. She pulled on her clothes and tool belt, and went to 
clip her lightsaber onto her belt, but it was gone. "I know I had it 
with me." 
	She slid the door open a crack and peeked out. She saw it 
sitting on the table. "Great. I was going to need that to get out of 
here." She closed the door and sat on the floor. She saw Zekk's 
blaster sitting on the bed. Walking over to the bed she picked it up 
and looked at it. "Okay, Jaina a change of plan." 	
	She walked back over. Taking a deep breathe she opened it a 
crack. "Well then, what are you waiting for?"

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	It had been a long two days on Yavin 4, and everybody was just 
getting some sleep. Han woke up next ot his wife. She was beautiful 
when she sleep. Touching her stomach lightly he remembered when she 
told him he was going to be a father, and of twins no less. He would 
always wonder how they would turn out. They made him so proud. He remembered 
how Jaina, when she was just learning to walk,  would waddle her way 
out to the Falcon and try to help Han and Chewie work on it. She would 
barely be able to pick up the tools, but that wouldn't stop her.
	Even as she got older and began to sneak out of the Imperial 
Palace to meet Zekk it would worry Han when he didn't find Jaina in 
her room in the morning, but this was worse. Never in his wildest 
dreams would he ever think that this would happen to his little girl. 
If his kids ever got into trouble they were always there to help each 
other, but this time she was by herself.
	He couldn't sleep. Han stood up and walked down the hall. 
Everything was quiet.  Han came to the end of the hall, and turned to 
open the door of one of the rooms. He walked in. The rock floors felt 
cold on his bare feet. He looked around. Jaina's room was a mess. Ship 
and droid parts were strung across the floor, but all her tools were 
neatly organized on her work bench. He walked over to the door that 
connected Jaina's room to Jacen's. He could hear Jacen talking in his 
sleep.
	He jumped when he felt someone slip there arms around his 
waist. "Couldn't sleep either?" Leia asked.
	"No."	
	"What are you doing?"
	"Listening to Jacen. Remember how the twins would hold 
conversations in their sleep?"	 Han smiled
	"Yeah." Leia laughed remembering when they were just toddlers. 
"Almost every night they would communicate to each other though the 
Force.  "
	"Yeah, the Force. Did you and Luke ever do that?"
	"A couple of times. Usually when we are thinking about each 
other or we need help. To bad Jacen couldn't talk to Jaina now and 
find out where she is."
	Han's face went serious. "Han, what is it?" Leia asked worried.
	"I got an idea."

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	She hid the blaster behind her, and walked into the next room.
"Kitten, your awake."
	"The names, Jaina not kitten."
	"Okay, okay. Don't get upset Do you want anything?"
	She began to think this was going to be a bad idea. As far as 
she could tell none of them had weapons that she could see. "Do you 
know where docking bay 56 is?"
	"56? Can't say that I've been there..." He looked at the rest 
of the group who just shook their heads.
	"Well you can take me to the Dancing Slave Girl right?"
	Davin looked over at Delia. He could tell by the look on her 
face what she was thinking. 'Zekk siad not to let Jaina leave the 
apartment.' "Listen, why don't you sit down, and..."
	"Your going to take me there now." Jaina said as she pulled 
out the blaster. "Keep your hands where I can see them. Out of the 
corner of her eye she could see Zen reach for something and fire at 
her. She fell to the ground missing the shots. She kicked Zen's feet 
out from under him. The blaster flew out of his hand. Jaina moved 
over to Zen. Useing her left arm she put it around his neck and held 
the blaster to his head with her right.  She pulled him up from the 
ground.
	Jamie and Seth pulled out their blasters. Trying to aim so 
they would miss Zen. Using the Force she pulled her lightsaber to her, 
and reflect the shots that Jamie and Seth shot. They fell to the 
ground when the shots were returned. Jaina looked at the surprised 
look on everyone's face. "Would anybody like to try another stupid 
attempt to stop me?"
	"Well. It looks like our kitten is on the prowl." Davin said.

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	Gennavie sat in her ship, The Finial Glory. The last few 
messages from her Bounty Hunters had confirmed what she already knew: 
Jaina Solo had left the system, but Zekk remained on Yavin 4. Her 
friend and fellow nightsister walked up behind Gennavie. "There have 
been reports that Jaina Solo has been spotted in different systems.  
I have compiled a list of the most likely systems she went to. If you 
want to send your Bounty Hunters..."
	"No."
	"but..."
	"I said no, Jessa."
	"Well what do you plan to do then. Just sit here and wait for 
her to come to you?"
	"Exactly."
	"How do you know that she'll come back?"
	"Zekk is down there."
	"So? No one would be that stupid. To come back for a boy? 
It's to dangerous."
	"She would.   I've been doing research on the Solo family. 
From what I gather, and from what Boba Fett and Dengar said, Zekk 
told her to get on the ship she left in. Considering what I have 
heard about the Solo children, they are just like their father, they 
will rush head first into danger. Especially the girl. She is much 
more reckless. She'll be back."