Obi-Wan Kenobi felt vaguely guilty over wandering around Senator Amidala's ship so soon after she had "Lost the will to live". "Lost the will to live." being code for the Medical Droids effed up and weren't saying anything in order to avoid the lawsuit, and if anyone asked, it was the patient's fault that they died. The reason that he was poking around the ship so soon after the late Senator's death though was to see if Senator Amidala had left behind any information that could be of use to anyone but the Sith Lord who had just taken over the galaxy and those that supported him.

When he looked through the recently deceased senator's quarters, he found a rather ornate sewing basket with a few projects stashed in it. On the top of the pile of projects that awaited completion were a pair of beautifully embroidered baby blankets, one in duck hatchling yellow, and the other in a rather fetching shade of spring green. The yellow one was still in an embroidery hoop with a half completed name stitched into it. The rather beautifully embroidered green one looked to have been recently completed however. He took the green blanket, since it was much nicer, softer, and warmer looking than the one issued by the hospital and of far better quality than anything Anakin's step-brother would be able to purchase for his nephew.

Senator Amidala had meant for the blanket to go to her child, and it would go to her child. The fact that it was meant for Luke's sister rather than Luke was immaterial at this point.

Finding nothing else of use, he left the ship and made his way back to Luke and the transport that would take the both of them to Tatooine where he would be living for an indefinite period while he watched over the boy to make sure nothing happened to him after he gave him to Owen and Beru Lars.

It was understandable that as he rode through the desert a few days later Kenobi didn't sense the presence until it was far too late. He'd been awake and tending to a premature newborn for 72 hours straight, and had been intent on getting to the Lars family farm which was only a few miles away at that point. By the time he realized that he wasn't alone, the slug had hit his head, and he didn't have time to realize anything else...

As he watched Obi-Wan Kenobi's corpse topple off the eopie, Boba Fett still couldn't believe his luck. He'd been wandering around Mos Eisley looking for some sort of entertainment that didn't involve things he didn't think he was mature enough to indulge in before he headed out to Jabba's palace in hopes of getting some work when an extremely valuable bounty practically landed in his lap. He had spotted the Jedi who had looked dead on his feet buying an eopie while he had been playing some sort of ball game that involved kicking a ball at several buildings and making a great deal of racket with a few of the local urchins.

Renting an eopie for himself since a landspeeder or a swoop bike would make too much noise, he had set off in pursuit. While Kenobi was nodding off in the saddle, he had spotted the perfect ambush point, looped around ahead of the slowly moving man and set everything up, choosing to use a slugthrower with a silencer that he'd recently acquired and had wanted to try out rather than a blaster. With his current skill level, bringing a Jedi, especially one of Kenobi's caliber, in alive was not an option. So, he was forced to accept the lower but still rather considerable bounty for "Dead".

As he approached the now deceased Jedi and the eopie who was snacking on a plant of some sort that was growing out of one of the nearby dunes, he was startled by a loud and strangely familiar noise. Changing course and approaching the eopie from which the noise was coming instead, he found the source of the noise in one of the saddle-bags that the beast was laden down with.

It was a baby. A human or near-human infant who was wrapped in a rather pretty green blanket that had white flowers embroidered on it.

Wondering why Kenobi had a baby with him, considering the fact that the man had had a reputation for being one of the most straight-laced Jedi in existence, he carefully picked the infant up and started examining it to see why it was crying. Having heard that babies could get injured or even die if you held them wrong, he did his best to hold it the way he saw the ladies on the holonet hold babies in some of the shows and advertisements he'd seen. This didn't stop the crying which grew - if possible - even louder, and he nearly dropped the baby whose name was Leia according to the blanket it was wrapped in twice as he tried to unwrap said blanket with only one hand to see if it was crying because it had somehow gotten injured when he'd killed Kenobi. It didn't appear to be, which meant that it was probably hungry or something.

A hasty search through the saddle bags turned up some baby formula, a few diapers, and some baby clothes as well as some supplies that had apparently been intended for Kenobi. He set the baby back in its carrier and mixed some of the formula he found in order to get it to stop crying, because it could attract predators and he still had the task of hauling Kenobi's exceedingly heavy corpse over the back of what had been his eopie and riding back to Mos Eisley in order to get his ship so he could collect his bounty from someone more reputable than any of the intermediaries he would be able to find here on Tatooine.

He would be bringing the baby off-planet with him as well, since he couldn't just leave it here to get eaten, and because it would have a better chance at life somewhere other than Tatooine where the people who staffed the orphanages had a bad habit of occasionally selling the children that were brought to them.

Eventually, after several attempts at feeding the baby, and a great deal of rocking, it stopped crying and went to sleep. As soon as it did so, the thirteen year-old bounty hunter who wasn't large by any stretch of the imagination dealt with the onerous task of hauling Obi-Wan Kenobi's rapidly cooling corpse which was larger and much heavier than he was onto the back of an eopie and tying said eopie to his own before leading both animals back towards the nearest town - which was Ancorhead - since it was getting close to dark, and staying out on the desert at night was never a good idea.

Later that evening, when he was dealing with the rather unpleasant task of changing the baby's diaper, Boba Fett found himself wondering if there was a world out there where Leia wasn't a girl's name.

Edited 11-18-13