This story may be a bit corny, but that comes from the bad combination of 
being both a first-time fanfic writer and a hopeless romantic. Of course, by 
the time you finish reading this, you'll probably be wondering if I'm 
writing this from inside a rubber room. Oh, by the way, the characters in 
this story are not mine and I am making no money from this story. It is
purely for the enjoyment of the author and readers.

Snow
By Anonymous

Oh, man, he had really done it this 
time. Han Solo sat in a chair as he 
agonized over this new problem. He 
and Leia had just had a terrible 
fight, (about what, he wasn't really 
sure) and she had left him. *She's 
gone for good and I'm not getting 
her back oh Gods what was I 
thinking, just letting her walk out.* 
Han's thoughts were running faster 
than he could process them. One 
thing was for sure, however. He had 
one killer problem.

"So she just left?"Luke Skywalker 
repeated. Han had, of course, told 
Luke about what happened 
immedietely and he had come over 
to talk to his friend. "Yeah," Han 
said dejectedly, tugging absently at 
the corner of his black vest. "Han, 
old buddy, you screwed up big 
time." "Yeah, I know." Luke felt 
that Han really didn't need 
chatisement. He knew that he had 
messed up. "So how are the kids 
taking it?" Luke tried. "OK, I guess. 
They're upset, but they have a good 
reason. What am I gonna do, kid?" 
Han almost yelled. "You could 
apologize," Luke suggested, "I'm 
sure she would accept an apology." 
"No way," his friend said sharply. 
"She left, she's gotta come back and 
apologize to me." *Then,* Luke 
thought,*I'm going to need a really 
good plan to get these two back 
together.* 

"Why won't they just apologize?" 
Jaina Solo asked. "Yeah, why not?" 
Jacen Solo put in. The thirteen-year 
old twins and their younger brother 
Anakin sat opposite Luke and 
Lando Calrissian. "Because," Lando 
grumbled,"they're both rock-hard 
stubborn." "It's not like their not 
upset over this, too," Jacen 
clarified. "Yeah," Anakin 
said,"Dad's been spending hours 
working on the Falcon." "And 
whenever we see Mom, she's 
working," Jaina added. "I know 
they're upset," Luke said. "And 
that's why I have a plan to get them 
back together. But it'll take all of us 
working together to do it." "What's 
the plan?" Jacen asked eagerly. "All 
right. Does everyone know about 
the Coruscant Winter Ball?" "Yeah, 
we were invited," Anakin said. 
"Good. Now, first we have to get 
both Han and Leia to go. Kids, you 
have to convince your dad and 
Lando, you and I will convince 
Leia." "No problem, Uncle Luke," 
Jacen said with a grin. "Yeah," 
Anakin said, also grinning from ear 
to ear, "we'll just get Jaina to smile 
and give him the sad eyes." Luke 
and Lando laughed. "Good idea," 
Lando said. "Yeah, Han could never 
resist that," Luke agreed. "What's 
the next part of the plan?" Jaina 
queried. "After we get them to 
come," Luke continued, "we get 
them to go out somewhere alone 
and hopefully things will work 
themselves out." "That's not much 
of a plan," Jacen frowned. "You'd 
be suprised, Jace," Luke said 
thoughtfully. "Your parents really 
love each other, and in their hearts, 
they want to be together again. We 
can only hope that love can 
overcome stubborness."

Leia Organa Solo stood just in back 
of the door to the reception hall and 
thought,*What am I doing here?* 
This had to be, without a doubt, 
one of the more suspicious things 
that Luke had asked her to do. Why 
had he and Lando nearly begged her 
to come? After all, they could go 
without her if they wanted. They 
had come in the middle of the day 
and had pleaded with her to come 
to the Winter Ball. When she had 
repeatedly refused, they left, only to 
come back the next day with the 
same plea. She had kept on refusing 
and they had kept on coming day 
after day, and had used every 
method of convincing her short of 
using Luke's mind trick. But she 
had finally said yes.  *Most likely,* 
she thought,*to get them off my 
back about it. But why were they so 
insistent? Oh, well. I'm here and 
besides, Winter took the night off 
already* She made sure all her 
hairpins were tight, smoothed her 
skirt, and walked up to the door. 
The door-droid opened the door for 
her as she walked in.

Han, Luke, Lando, and the kids 
stood in a group in the back of the 
room. Then the doors opened and 
Leia stepped in. She looked 
stunning in a long white dress with 
red and silver trim, her hair piled on 
top of her head. Then she noticed 
them and walked over. "Oh, hello 
Luke, Lando, kids, Han." The last 
name was spoken with cold disdain. 
Nonetheless, she joined the little 
'group' and talked with them for a 
while, then crossed the room to 
greet dignitaries. After about an 
hour, the Correlian band began to 
play a song with a slow, romantic 
tune. Luke glanced at Han, then at 
Leia, who was now free, and 
decided that it was now or never. 
"Cross your fingers," he muttered to 
his four accomplices, and with that 
used the Force first to prod them 
out onto the terrace, and then to 
shut the door behind them. He 
looked back at the others. Their 
fingers were crossed.

Han walked out onto the terrace, 
although not quite sure why, and 
saw Leia standing at the railing, 
gazing at the stars. He stood there 
until she  whipped around and 
exclaimed,"Han!!!" They stood for a 
moment, each staring at the other 
silently until  Han finally asked, 
"So, you wanna dance?" Leia, a bit 
taken aback, thought for a moment 
and then said, "All right." As they 
began to dance, each held a scowl 
on their face. Then they looked at 
each other, and all their pride and 
indignance melted away.

"Han, look.."
"Leia, look.."

"You first."
"You first."

"OK," Leia said. "Han, look, I'm 
sorry. I really don't care who started 
that fight anymore, I just want it to 
end. I love you, and I'm not going to 
let a dumb fight get in our way!"

Han really dreaded this. He was 
terrible at expressing his feelings. 
He looked down at her, however, 
and knew that the only way to fix 
this was to apologize, or not except 
her apology, and he had no 
intention of doing that! "Yeah, well, 
I'm sorry too. I missed you, 
sweetheart."

"Really?" Leia laughed.

"Really," Han agreed.

"I...," Leia began. But she was 
silenced when Han bent down and 
gave her a long, slow kiss that 
seemed to erase the past few days' 
anger. Suddenly, Leia pulled away.

"So that's it!" she exclaimed.

"What's it?" her husband asked.

"Don't you see, Laserbrain? All the 
prodding to come, the inexplicable 
urge to walk onto the terrace, the 
way our kids hung around Luke and 
Lando, that was all part of a plan to 
get us back together! When I see 
them, I'm going to..."

"Later, you can kill them." Han 
smiled. "For now..." He bent down 
and resumed kissing Leia as snow 
began to fall around them.

THE END