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Leia wasn't sure where she was, but she wanted answers.

If she'd still been on Dagobah, if Yoda had still been alive, she might've thought this was one of his tests. But she wasn't and he wasn't and this certainly wasn't where she'd gone to sleep the night before.

But through the Force she could sense...something. She couldn't put a name to it, but it was like when she'd first met Luke and when she'd come to Dagobah. Some strange connection -- other potential Jedi? With his dying words Yoda had charged her to find others and train them. Maybe that was why she'd been brought here.

Regardless, she wanted to know where here was. And how to get back to Han and the Rebellion.


[Leia is Leia from The Empire Strikes Back: Infinities. Luke died on Hoth, she got trained by Yoda to be a Jedi Knight, and Han killed Vader when he came for her in the most improbable death ever. Really. He shot him twice. And Vader died all giddy that he had a little girl.]

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"Leia," Anakin said, looking happy to see her. "I've missed you!"

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Leia didn't sense any danger -- in fact, she felt just the opposite, some strange familiarity. "Who are you?" she said. "You know who I am?"

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Anakin's eyebrows drew together. "Of course I know you," he said. "I'm your father."

This'll end well.

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Leia took a step back, her hand going to the lightsaber on her belt. "My father's dead," she said. Twice over, as both Anakin and Vader.

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"Where did you get a lightsaber?" Anakin asked.

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"I made it," Leia said. The last thing Yoda had taught her to do, and what she'd been doing right before her father's death.

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"When did you learn how to make a lightsaber?" Anakin replied, looking even more confused.

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"Master Yoda taught me," Leia said warily. She wasn't certain if this was some trick of the Emperor's or not, but she still had no sense of danger.

[sith_happened]

"You met YODA?"

Well that was pretty screechy, Anakin.

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"He trained me to be a Jedi," Leia said, "like my father before me." And like Luke would have been if he hadn't died on Hoth.

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Anakin rolled his eyes. "Yoda didn't even want me to be a Jedi. He had very little to do with my training."

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"You're not still claiming to be my father, are you?" Leia said, eyes narrowing. "He died in Dagobah. I burned his body."

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"I certainly didn't die on Dagobah," Anakin scoffed. "Like I'd voluntarily set foot on that slimy mudhole again."

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Jaina was going from the gym back to the hotel (like her habits had changed in a month) when she sensed Leia nearby, and changed direction to find her. "Hey there," she smiled. "I was hoping I'd see you while I'm here."

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Leia's head was still spinning from running into Anakin. Her father was alive here, and not as Vader? And now Jaina was giving her the same sense of connection. "I don't think I'm the person you think I am," she said cautiously.

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"You're not Leia?" Jaina asked, tilting her head. It definitely felt like Leia...

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"I am," Leia said, still trying to understand alternate worlds. "But not the Leia you know from here. And I don't know you, but you feel familiar to me somehow."

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Jaina sighed. Figured she'd be here when something weird was going on. "Yeah, that's no shock. When are you from?"

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"Four years after the Battle of Yavin," Leia said. "We're still fighting the Empire, but we're gaining ground." She'd been dividing her attention between the Rebellion and trying to find other Jedi. One had been going better than the other.

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Okay, so farther than this Leia. Fandom's Leia. However you wanted to put it. "Uh, there wouldn't happen to be another you around here that you know of, would there?"

Just checking.

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Running into herself here would just be too strange. "No," she said. "Not that I know of. Now who are you and when are you from?"

That had to be the weirdest question she'd ever asked.

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"Jaina," she answered. "I'm from about thirty years down the line." Yep, she was still vague.

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"And you know me in thirty years?" Leia said. Good to know she was still alive then. "Are you a Jedi?"

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Jaina tapped the lightsaber at her belt. "My whole life." She paused. "Do you know a lot of Jedi now?"

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"I am a Jedi," Leia said, tapping her own lightsaber. "The last until I find more to train."

Not counting any who were retconned into existence.