Headcannon on when han first called Leia min larel
Aw, an excellent question. This is making me think I need to write a fic about this (or at least partially about this, but including this detail specifically). For now, I will stick mostly to a headcanon. I think.
My general headcanon (unless I’m doing an AU where they get together earlier than this) is that being cooped up in the Falcon on the way to Bespin forces them to actually figure out what the hell is going on with their relationship, and that as early as the first week, they have some talks and start sleeping platonically together, and the resolve not to go beyond that lasts for about another day, and they’re sleeping with each other by the end of the first two weeks, maybe earlier. And it’s so heady and new and scary but it’s great, it’s what they’ve both wanted for so long. It’s not just about the sex, it’s about all the feelings and just being together.
So sometime in that early period – not after the first time, that feels a bit too new – but sometime in that flood of feelings and such, the afterglow has passed and they’re just lying there together, quiet, and Han looks at Leia as he’s stroking her hair back from her face, and the words just come out. He kind of murmurs them into her hair, but she hears them and he knows she’s heard them, and there’s really no going back now, as if there ever were. In fact, it all spills out in the same sentence: “Min larel, Leia. I love you.”
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