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Meeting the Mother-In-Law (Han and Padme)
WHO: Han and Padme
WHEN: 226405.7
WHERE: The lounge where they agreed to meet
SUMMARY: Han meets Padme for the first time in person
WARNINGS: There shouldn't be any

Han couldn't help being nervous as he waited for Padme to arrive at the place where they'd agreed a few days ago to meet. He'd been happy to give her the time to talk to Leia and whoever else she needed to and to get settled in before doing this meeting. He tried telling himself that he didn't need to be afraid, but knowing she'd been a queen and being unable to escape the fact that he was just a nobody smuggler didn't exactly make him feel the best about it.

He was doing his best not to let out that he wasn't always doing legal things for a living, that was why he'd said he was a cargo pilot. It wasn't entirely untrue, it just wasn't always legal things he'd been running. Nowdays, he was more respectable, but still worked at times with the smugglers' guild when he wasn't busy with Leia and the kids.

Vader was also on his mind. He didn't know anything at all about what had happened back then. Would Vader try to harm her? What kind of guy had Vader been before he'd needed the suit, when he'd presumably gotten Padme to fall in love with him? There had to be more to him than just the homicidal monster he, Luke and Leia had met, although Han was mostly just worried about the Sith's current state of mind these days. It might be wise to warn her while they were talking.

He just hoped that, by the time it was over, she'd see that there was more to him than the brash, cocky attitude he usually projected and that she'd recognize whatever it was that had made Leia fall for him, even though she had pretty much hated him in the beginning. That she'd see that he was ok, even if he wasn't some high and mighty aristocrat.