Death Star: episode #73 Luke and Samantha
Previously: The Emperor and Darth Vader talked a little more about Luke. Mon Mothma and Shmi talked about Anakin. Ben warned Luke about possible dangers he may face in the near future. Luke has just drawn a straw that forces him to take Mon Mothma to a temporary base.
Luke ends up with the piece. He turns very pale when he realizes this. He really doesn�t want to take her, but he has no choice. By the same token, she would rather not travel with him. Even though she knew that Luke was a good friend of mine, she still didn�t like him too well. The fat that he had blown up the Death Star didn�t help, because it only reminded her of her ex-husband, and the fact that he had down something similar exactly 30 years before. Remember, she has no idea that Luke is related to Anakin in any way. Luke can tell that Mon Mothma doesn�t like him very well, and she makes him nervous. There�s something about her that bothers him on top of the fact that he had had that accident with her and she didn�t like him. Luke�s not sure what this something is that bothers him, but he feels really uncomfortable around her. Luke says, turning to her, �Follow me. My ship�s over there.� She follows him. �My ship�s not very big. I have no idea why they want one of us to cram you in, bout oh well.� She nods, �I�ve been on a one-man ship before�during the Clone Wars.� �Yeah, well we better get going. I have to do a pre-flight check. I t shouldn�t take long.� Luke does the checks, and then climbs in. �We�re good to go. I honestly don�t know where you�re going to sit.� �I�ll find a place.� �Whatever.� Luke starts the ship up. She says, �How long will this take?� �I don�t know. It depends on how fast I go, and if I find any short cuts.� She nods. She�s nervous being in a ship with someone she barley knows, especially since he�s a kid. Also, since she had flown with Anakin, that�s really the only one-man pilot she felt safe with. She knew that Anakin had probably been the best pilot in the galaxy ever. �Can�t you compare this to other flights you�ve taken? Anakin used to do that.� Luke was silent a moment, then says, �No. You see, I�ve never really flown anywhere before. That Death Star battle was my first time flying ever.� This really made her nervous about flying with him. She gripped whatever she could find tightly. Luke shook his head. �Listen, I can�t be that bad of a pilot. Sure, I�m not the greatest in the galaxy, but I have to be somewhat decant if I survived the Death Star run.� She had to admit to herself that he was right, but he still wasn�t Anakin. �Your ship smells.� �S, what do you expect me to do about it. I was just in an intense battle. Yeah, I sweated a lot. The ship doesn�t have built in air fresheners. It�s just a ship. Plus all the things in here�it�s not supposed to be a perfume factory.� She was starting to annoy him�and not just a little. He turned away from her to check the ship�s path. She said under her breath, �Well, maybe I�ll just have to make it one.� She took out a bottle of perfume and sprayed a bunch of it. Luke didn�t notice right away. He was thinking about something she�d said, a name. He turned back towards her. �You mentioned a name earlier�Anakin.� Luke coughed a little. �Excuse me. Anyway, you mentioned Anakin. Did you know him�.?� She gives him a quick snappy answer, �I don�t want to talk about him, okay.� �Okay�I�m sorry for bringing him�up then.� He coughed more. �Excuse me again.� �Do you need a drink?� she asked, still annoyed that he had brought up Anakin. Luke shakes his head, �No, I know that it is. I�m fine.� He wasn�t about to tell her about his asthma. He knew that would make things worse, he would only tell her if it got bad enough that he�d have to use his inhaler. He had smelled the perfume just before he had started coughing and having trouble breathing. Perfume only affected him after it was sprayed in high concentration. It didn�t bother him at all if it was already on someone. He decided to turn the ventilation on high in the ship, thought. She noticed and said, �What are you doing that for? I�m cold.� �That�s just too bead. Your perfume will make me sick if I don�t.� She thought he meant that as an insult, and hadn�t noticed how sick he rally was right now. Her response to that was to spray more. This made Luke a lot worse. He coughed harder, and his breathing went from bad to worse. At first, she thought he was faking it, but soon realized he wasn�t. �What�s wrong?� He knew he had to tell her now. �I�told you�It would�make me�. sick. I have asthma. I�m going to try and land the ship on this little planet over here.� �Do you have any idea where we are,� she demands. He had already taken the ship out of hyperspace. �No�,� he says. �We�re in Maurder Territory. You can�t land me here.� �I have to�I have to use my inhaler, and I need to get off this ship before I can do that. The ship needs to be partially vented out before I�m going any further in it. It Looks like the landing here is going to be tough.� �If only Anakin were here. He would know where we were at least. He�d be able to do this perfectly and not get lost.� She had made comments about Anakin and how he did things before and after Luke inquired about him. Luke chose not to comment. She annoyed him extremely. Luke finally says, �Well I�m not Anakin.� �That�s obvious. You� are no match to him when it comes to piloting.� She didn�t know how baldy she had hurt Luke�s feelings. He chose not to tell her that he was his son. He didn�t even care anymore how she knew him�at first he had wanted to know. He was going to tell her that his father was Anakin, but decided she didn�t need to know after her replies to him.
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Death Star: episode #73 Luke and Samantha