So, it is the same bunker in the forest on the Endor moon, on the night before the catastrophe with the second Death Star. The dark corridor in the bunker is very quiet, and there is a little light coming from the control room at the distant end of the corridor.

Princess Leia crept like a shadow in the darkness. She stopped near one door, spent a few moments and opened the door. She entered a small, very dark room. The warm air was pleasant on her face and arms. The mysterious slack green light snatched from the darkness part of a big bed. A man was on the bed. Leia came closer. Her eyes shone with green and gold fire. She looked at the man on the bed-- it was General Veers. He was asleep-- or at least appeared to be. She undressed without any noise and climbed on the bed near him. He lay on his back, his wide bare chest rising up and down. His breathing was very quiet and rhythmical. Leia sat as if enthralled, looking at him. She was astonished by his beauty-- the beauty of a mature man, who has fully experienced life and death itself. He shone with a strange illusory phosphorescing light, as if a weightless radiant substance from the depth of the Galaxy had taken on density and the form of a human male body. His face, usually icy-cold and inscrutable, was smoothed out by deep sleep. He looked amazingly beautiful and young, with his proud face, curve of strong neck, wide chest covered with slabs of muscles, flat iron-hard stomach, narrow strong hips, long muscular legs. His body looked well-built and very flexible, but when Leia touched him with her palm, she felt a terrible, destructive hidden force, asleep deep inside that hot male body. That was the force of a sleeping volcano. Leia bent down to him and kissed him very tenderly on his lips. His long eyelashes shuddered. A soft smile appeared on his fine haughty lips, but he didn't open his eyes. He said in friendly voice, "Have you come to visit me? I must admit-- I was waiting for you, young lady. You really are a very persistent girl."

Leia only kissed him more and more, keeping silent.

"So, do you want to make love with the ruthless Imperial executioner now? It looks like the smuggler is not enough good for you, your Royal Highness? Do you wish to hug and kiss the murderer in Imperial uniform?" With a hateful smile he added, "Do you like monsters?"

Leia closed her ears to his words. "Yes. I want you. I don't need anybody else. Let's forget about the war at least till tomorrow." She looked fixedly at him.

Now he looked at her too-- his eyes becoming very dark and deep, pupils dilating. Very quietly he said, "Maybe there will be no 'tomorrow' for us, Miss Vader."

"So, you know!"

"Yes."

Leia firmly kissed him again. "I don't care. I am here and I want you." She put her palms on his chest and hip, and a convulsive shiver shook his body.

He stroked her cheeks and hair with tenderness and passion. "Do you understand what you are doing? This cannot be indifferent to you! And when you will understand that, it will be too late."

Leia said in a very firm voice, "I want you. And that's all."

He heard well-known notes in her voice, making him shake. He placed his hands on her shoulders and softly pressed down. His eyelashes rose and his eyes shone with desire for her. In the quiet voice of a doomed man he said, "So be it," and pulled her to himself, hugging her with force.

Close-up he saw her eyes--big, dark and motionless. For one moment , for incredible small moment he saw in these lifeless eyes an awful expression, sharp like the blade of a razor, with hatred and cold horror, some premonition of threatening and inescapable tragedy flew to his brain. To get rid of that chilling horror he strongly pressed her to himself... He entered inside her with all his power, imperious and relentless.

It really frightened her. She almost lost consciousness for moment-the pain was sudden and unbearable. But his movements were so passionate and tender, that the dark terror disappeared without any trace and gave the place to indescribable enjoyment. She allowed to him to do as he wished with her, and she was astonished and delighted by his incredible experience and absolutely frank sensual lust. Though there was no love, neither was it just a desire for sex. It was clear, impertinent, absolutely primordial sensual lust. But it gave her an improbable enjoyment--just what she had wanted and never had with others. It was the sharp and all-consuming merger of two ancient foundations in the Universe--the Light and the Darkness themselves. He awoke her amazement and anxiety. She felt a strange, frightening man's strength of his bare body, hot as lava against hers. He didn't say to her any words of love, but silently placed her under his control with every movement. He was placing her body and her soul under his power, just as he had done with all other people in his life before.

He wrapped her in his arms and kept the silence. And she fully obeyed to him, to his desire, to his rhythm, to his force. He was puzzled, amazed, even anxious. He never thought that he would be with her. He never wanted to love her at all. She was a princess, the daughter of Lord Vader.

Now it was all for him. Now he wished only one thing-to hold her in his arms and to give her no opportunity to leave. To let it last eternally. He had already stepped over the precipice which separated them, and he found that there was no way back. He clung to her lips and kissed her, put all the pain of his heart in that kiss.

Indescribable enjoyment rolled up over her with every thrust of his agitated flesh inside her body, till at last his body shuddered in sudden convulsion. A passionate and frightening groan escaped his throat. Yet he continued to caress her with even more passion and tenderness. She stroked him with her palms and physically felt the beautiful, irreproachable and perfect lines of his body, the elasticity of steel muscles, almost porcelain whiteness and smoothness of his skin.

He lay quietly and kept the strange silence. They were so shocked by what had happened between them, that the enmity had disappeared. They no longer had hatred for each other. But they didn't have love either...

He sat on the edge of the bed, naked and motionless. It was as if his soul had left his body. Only the tangible physical shell still was there. His eyes were dark and cold again, as before. Leia carefully, lightly touched his steel-hard shoulder. He looked at her with a gloomy dark glance. He was a stranger again for her.

"Do not ask me about anything now. Give me some time. Don't demand me to say something to you. Let's keep it like this, till it will be possible. Maybe I will tell you something later. But now, please, no words. Just let's keep silent." He rose to his feet and started to dress .

Leia followed with her eyes his quiet and confident movements.

He wasn't looking at her. "I have to go. It's already that time. You can stay here, if you wish, your Royal Highness. I'll see you again soon enough." He went out of the room.

She hid her face into the pillow. The nice dream was finished. The night was gone. And she was not a victor at all. Life is life.

What came next...

Setting: Executor, Vader's meditation chamber.

Vader and General Veers have a tête-à-tête. Vader is sitting, Veers stands in front of him.

Vader: General, did you sleep with my daughter?

Veers: Yes, my lord. and I am ready--

Vader: --to marry her immediately, am I correct?

Veers: Yes, my lord.

Vader: General, you are one of the noblest and most decent men in our galaxy, but do you have some idea about her-- personality? Oh. I think you have it.

Veers: I-- yes, my lord. Last night--

Vader: She wanted you, she came to you, she took you and finally got what she wanted. That is correct, General?

Veers: Yes, my lord. You are absolutely correct. But--

Vader: She has left purple marks on your neck.

Veers: Yes, my lord. Milady was very-- mmm-- persistent.

Vader (aside): That is really my girl! (to Veers) Very well, General. Welcome to our family!

Veers: My lord?!

Vader: Maximilian, get used it. Leia Veers-- it sounds good to me!

(And to me, too!)

LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE!!!