“Home” ~For @baenakinskywalker Happy RCValentine’s Day!
I wrote a little snippet to accompany:
(AU canon divergent cuz >_>)
To him, home wasn’t something necessarily tangible, or even a planet, place of origin, or celestial body. No, home was supposed to be a fond word, affectionate. Where he was from, the only word that came to mind was melancholy. Home was once a distant dream, better chased by those who still deserved it. He used to pretend home was the Rebellion, and in a sense it was, in the most perfunctory meaning of the word.
Someone had once told him he carried his prison with him; a burden, a cage. However, he had begun to have company in this cell. There was now a droid tinkering with the locks, pessimistic but loyal. A pilot giving encouragement and insight and so much hope. There was an assassin checking the walls and surfaces for weakness. And now a guardian, chanting a prayer with a confident smile. Then there was the rebel. She had somehow forced her way through the door, one hand holding a blaster, and the other with the keys.
The prison was no longer what he carried around with him. It was home… it was them. It was her.
She had never thought a home as a place. In a way, she couldn’t, for fear that it might be taken away from her, as so many “homes” had been before. Home was a feeling; a fleeting, slippery thing. A transient memory. Home had never been something that would be hers to possess.
Before, planets and cities were nothing more than a destination or an embarkment. Now, there was warmth in the crimson sunset of Yavin IV. Her eyes stung under the lavender painted sunrise of Hoth. Even Rendezvous Haven was stunning, the galaxy a spinning, billowy radiance through the windows of the ship. She wonders if perhaps it was here she finally realized the feelings she had at all these places were not so intangible after all.
Home was indeed something she could have. Home was his hand in hers.
Alt pic version under the cut….
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