[ her brows knit together. that first name means nothing to her, but it would be expecting too much to be able to place the name of a woman who got involved (romantically or otherwise, briefly or long term) with a jedi knight. she was probably nobody. barely worth a footnote in history's pages. but then he provides her with her woman's last name, and the bottle slips from her fingers. it rolls off the couch and falls to the floor as her jaw goes slack in open, unbridled surprise.
she knows that name. queen and senator, a great pioneer of some of the ideals that bail organa had gone out of his way to impress upon his adoptive daughter. how often had he spoken of her, mentioned her, included something in her lessons about the things that she did? leia knew that her father had been a dear friend of the late senator's and that she'd been unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire that brought down the jedi order (and that the empire, officially, blamed the jedi for her death), but not once did she stop and consider that the woman could be her biological mother. ]