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   The Opening by onwardintolight

   Fandoms: Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   20 Jan 2020

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Leia Organa/Han Solo
   • Leia Organa
   • Han Solo
   • Luke Skywalker
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • there will be fluff thrown in too
   • This is a story about hope
   • and vulnerability
   • And love
   • in the midst of trauma and defeat
   • light and victory in the midst of darkness
   • it's about a blossoming
   • an opening into healing

   Summary

   When the hangar bay doors clanged shut with Han and Luke still missing out in Hoth’s deadly cold, Leia had a strange feeling that she was watching the doors close not only on her friends’ lives, but on her own too. Haunted by trauma and loss, she was tired of running.

   But out of the frozen darkness, they returned.

   And later during the battle, when she was ready to give up, Han came back for her. She’d gotten a glimpse, then, of possibilities, of a beautiful future, if only she was willing to dismantle her carefully-built walls. Could she risk losing everything again? Could she open herself to hope? To love?

   ESB from Leia's POV. A journey from despair to hope.

   ~COMPLETE~

   Language:

   English

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   63,507

   Chapters:

   25/25

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