This is sweet and sad at the same time. Very interesting idea with the meaning of Leia's hairstyles. Funnily enough I would've always thought of open hair as more sensual, meaning 'Han I'm in the mood'. But you're right...it isn't very practical. :-D

Nice!

Sweet and a little sad.

It reads like the title, just dreamy, bittersweet, full of longing and sorrow. Really nice. Thank you!

Oh...the last few lines just melted me. I love how he wondered if she could love him, and he told himself no, not the old him, he needs to start fresh. Then, “I love you too”? (Slithers to the floor) Wow. Love it.
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Aaah I remember loving this one so much when you first posted it; you pack so much in a short piece. I love you how set the tone with the beautiful and eerie visual of Leia sleeping next to him in the moonlight, and the angst of their quiet dinner on Cloud City. So Much Angst here - I can just picture her isolating herself in the shower to get some space, then going to bed without a word.

The suddenly you bring in all the intimacy and complicity that’s developed between them during the trip, especially with Leia knowing he’s staring at her, then her initiating the kiss. It’s tender and loving, and so sexy when it moves from his lips to his chin then throat (and her hands gripping his upper arm in encouragement eeeep!).

The ending is perfectly heartbreaking with ‘This is it’, then his inner monologue that reveals so much about him and eventually the final line. SO MUCH ANGST SO GOOD.

Yes...I agree with Sophie. Everything she said.

I especially like the bittersweet, hesitant quality to this story: Han’s uncertain whether or not to leave her, Leia’s uncertain whether to push him away or embrace him, and of course the reader knows this night will be their last together.
Thanks for sharing.

This is darling. I really like how he took her body language to mean "No, don't touch me," (and respected that, no matter how much he *wanted* to touch her) and how she explicitly used body language to tell him otherwise. It's really a sign of where they are as a couple that they don't need to have a big discussion at this point, that they're able to follow each other's cues.
This was sweet and sexy and well done.

Lovely, sad story!

Whenever I read a story which touches me right to the core, like this one, the line "Did I tell you that I love you today..." comes to my mind. Because that is just the immediate feeling I have then, to tell the writer, I love her for giving us, me this ... (to do justice to everyerone, the line is from the song "Did I Tell You" by Rebecca Lavelle, an Australian singer).

I think "Dreamscape" is the appropriate title for this one, just as the quote which inspired it, gives the perfect background for it. I did not know the song before, but I do now and I think the lyrics are truly and perfectly matching Han/Leia.

I love everything about "Dreamscape":
The way you have impregnated it with dreamlike and softly painted, haunting beautiful images, when you wrote down lines like "...a set of ample windows ... half-open,letting the moonbeams in," and Han recognizing Leia "like something out of his wildest dreams ..., bathed in pale light, sleeping peacefully."

The way you are able to portray their relation at this point as something, which makes it plain they care for each other and love each other - even if they words have not been said aloud - but also shows there are so many things are left unsaid and it is still so new and so very very fragile, leaving them happy
but also vulnerable, because their "blissful interlude" is nearing its end and they both know he is going to leave, because he has do. Or does he not? And both of them do have their uncertainties ("... a man like him?")

I also appreciate the wordless code of Leias body language and how Han is able to read her and respect the signs, because he deeply respects Leia. But he he knows it is their last night and he longs to hold her, so he secretly plots how to achieve that, only to get surprised by her "smoky voice" (this reminds me so much of Carrie) and her laugh, "a wry sound that somehow managed to simultaneously break and increase the tension between them". This is a wonderful and very meaningful line, because to me this is what happened a lot between them; doing, saying things which simultaneously broke and increased the tension between them.

And to see Leia like this feels good and true to me, because I think she is well aware of the general mood both of them are in, because IT is nearing its end because she longs to be near(er) to Han too, despite any need to keep her distance in order to make it less painful and to guard herself. But I guess she senses, she will be hurt anyway, so why not act on her real feelings/needs and initiate their physical union, which gives a perfect and blissful display of their emotions and feelings.
Having this happening in this setting and in this atmosphere makes it feel somewhat dreamlike too, especially, when you have Leia moaning "softly into his neck, not unlike she would were she asleep".

But then, having had fate granting them a chance to explore and embrace their feelings for each other by making the Falcons hyperdrive fail, does somehow feel like a dream too, does it not?

So to me "Dreamscape" fits perfectly well into my Bespin head cannon and to me it will be cannon now, that they had THIS, this beautiful albeit bittersweet night together on Bespin. In fact, I am happy, they had this, before things got even more worse than any "And then you are as good as gone, arent you?" could ever have been.
Plus I also think, the memory of this might be something to sustain Leia through their long separation after everything has gone to hell and Han is lost to her for quite some time.

" *I love you, too,* he mumbled before drifting off, dimly aware of the arms that wrapped him tighter in their embrace," a line which gives a wonderful ending to this and stresses the dreamlike setting once more in a beautiful and also somewhat haunting manner. I especially like the idea of this being a meaningful counterpart to the moment when Han is literally ripped away from Leias arms in the carbonate freezing chamber.

Afterthoughts:
Honestly, "Dreamscape" does fit perfectly well in with the deleted Bespin kiss, does it not?
I am also reminded me of the lines "Here I am/And within the reach of my hands/She s sound asleep and she s sweeter now/Than the wildest dream could have seen her ..." and "Through the dark I sense the pounding of her heart next to mine ..." from a-ha s "Hunting High And Low".

A wonderful story, which surely will stay with me and which is definitely worth several rereads. Also it gives proof of your wonderful writing skills and your thoughtful perception and understanding of Han/Leia. Thank you for sharing!

Enjoyed your story.