Alone Once More - Chapter 7

Chapter 7
Han slammed the front door and walked into the kitchen, only to find Luke holding a mug of sludge, washing his mouth out and Leia innocently making a cheese sandwich.
“I hate to interrupt your tea party, but your speeder is ready, Master Jedi.” The words were spat with such emphasis that Luke again sprayed water all over the kitchen.
“What’d you do to my speeder?” Luke stared suspiciously at his brother-in-law. “Did you cut the brakes? I sense foul play.”
“Hey, hey, don’t jump to conclusions, kid.” Luke hated it when Han called him ‘kid’, and Han knew it. “I just walked past and it said to me ‘Hey, why don’t you go get Luke and he can drive me home now?’”
“Han,” Luke sighed, “My speeder doesn’t talk like that.”
“Um,” Leia was trying to speak, her mouth full of cheese. “I actually heard her talk once, she was like ‘Ooh, hello, I’m Sandy Speedster,’” Leia mimicked in an incredibly high voice, “’I can take you to wherever you want to go, Luke.’”
“Aw, come on Leia, my speeder can’t talk.””Yeah, and Jedi Grand Master’s can’t cheat on their wives. Can your brain register this? Get out, Luke. Out of my house. Now.”
“Hey, can’t I at least see Ben for a minute? I want to talk to him!”
“Sorry, but your son is busy, he has a life, you know. Just leave, okay? I’m not gonna sit around all day trying to spell it out, get out of my house this minute.”
“Fine. You want war? You’ll get war. This isn’t the last you’ll see of me, Leia.”
As the door rolled shut behind Luke, Leia turned to her husband, smiled and said, “What did you do to his speeder, Han? You didn’t cut the brakes, did you? He may be a lying, conniving cheat but murder isn’t the way to go.”
“I told you, I didn’t do anything to the damn speeder. Ahem, except for disabling the comlink system and inbuilt navigator, emptying most of the fuel and putting stink bombs under the seat.”
“Fabulous.”
“And where’d a nice girl like you learn how to speak to people like you talked to Luke?”
Leia stood up and put the bread back in the cooler. “You taught me,” she said dryly.
“Absolutely unbelievable. That is so unlike me, huh?”