It took an excruciatingly long time for the air lock between the two ships to stabilize. Leia wrung her hands a bit as she stepped towards the door. This had been a very trying day, to say the least. She had a slim hope of finding survivors here, long lost relatives who may have just missed the destruction. She was without hope now, but on the other side of this metal airlock there was something. In that beaten down old junk of a freighter was something she could hang on to. It was the closest thing to a family she had left.

The door sprung open and she was the first to step through. She entered the cabin of the Falcon and the warm air of her ship rushed in with her. Luke was about to speak when she ran over to Han and hugged him tightly. Han was thrown back a bit, but hugged her back in kind.

"Nice to see you too," Han said as they backed away from each other.

She turned to Luke, "Good to see you, Luke." She approached him and hugged him as well, though not as tight as he would have liked.

"It's great to finally see you again," Luke said quickly as Leia leaned back.

Chewbacca growled hello, and Leia took that as a warning not to try a hug with him, so she nodded and smiled at the wookie.

"I see you relayed my message, well done," she said to C3-PO, who promptly bowed slightly.

"It took a little while- you know him," Han said. "Listen, sorry about- well-" Han paused awkwardly and motioned out beyond the ship's walls towards the planetary remains that were present all around them. He was caught on what to say next.

"Yes- thank you," Leia said slowly as she took a breath. She realized her immersion in self-pity was at an end when it started to come from him as well. "Well, we are running late. The fleet does have a new destination, and they are probably there already."

"Oh yeah? Where is it?" Luke asked Leia as she turned and started to walk back to her ship.

"Wait a minute," Han said as he walked quickly next to her. "Don't you want to know why we missed the rendezvous?"

"I'm sure you have a good explanation. I'm guessing your reward money is no longer on board," she answered tersely as she walked, then turned back to Luke.

"It's called Hoth. It's an ice planet, far out of Imperial space. One of the generals used to train there. It has an old existing base, ready to use."

"As a matter of fact it isn't on the ship," Han continued, walking past Luke to keep up with her. He continued louder, and with a small smirk. "It's probably blown up in a million pieces, which is what we came pretty close to being too, from the Empire - just in case you care!"

"And pirates too!" Luke blurted out, walking faster to keep up with Han and Leia.

"Really," Leia stopped just before crossing the hatchway. "Pirates? What a surprise!" Leia said with a calm smile. Then she shot Han a cold look before she turned and walked back into her ship.

Han looked back at Luke. "Why were we rushing to get back here?" he asked him.

Luke shrugged and both men stepped into Leia's ship.

Chewbacca slowly bent down and entered as well with Threepio following him.

"Did you hear that?" C3-PO motioned down to R2-D2. "An ice planet? How typical. Do you think they would have asked us before choosing such a dreadfully sounding place?"

R2-D2 beeped and blurted various tones to answer as they both followed the rest out of the Falcon.