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Part 4 of Luthen, Through Kleya's Eyes
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2025-09-10
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2026-05-16
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Luthen, Kleya, and Their Terrible, Horrible, (Occasionally) Good, and (Usually) Very Bad Days

Chapter 7: Epilogue - It’s A Bean, It’s A Void, It’s A Hunch, It’s A Hope

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Sunday afternoon and chaos. A stray dog is terrorising Upper Coruscant and has entered their gallery. Fierce and scheduled for euthanasia, says Animal Control. Stay away.

But the pieces in their gallery are at stake. So they seal the gallery, review their security footage and hunt it.

A whine. Luthen plunges his hands into the bottom of the shelf. Kleya sets her blaster to stun. What emerges is a ball of fur. Black, white, orange, blue. Bluer eyes. Luthen holds it up. All its paws paddle the air, as if it were swimming.

A runt.

They should hand it to Animal Control. But it takes on a life of its own and latches on to them. It noses the crook of Luthen’s elbow. It licks Kleya’s face. They end up on the floor, feeding it and playing with it all afternoon.

“We can’t keep it, Kleya. Not in an establishment like this.”

“I know.”

So they quietly release the runt come nightfall. Yet the security footage inexplicably remains in their gallery’s archives. Their smiles and laughter melding together like sunshine.

It is what the ISB finds years later and uses to pronounce her his daughter. It is what the ISB sees instantly, that they could not.

Notes:

Jaqi Oaklin requested for a runt to be included in the stories of Luthen and Kleya. So I did. :D

Written in Guildhall (Ghorman), the Barbican Centre (Coruscant) and a cafe between Guildhall and the Barbican Centre.

This started off as an attempt at a drabble, but those are exceedingly hard to write and I wasn’t willing to trim the story and remove the emotional core of the both of them. (You can probably see the point where I gave up.) I’ve transformed it into a little epilogue for this series of one-shots.

All chapter headings taken from the lyrics of Waters of March by Art Garfunkel.

And if you have made it to the end, thanks for reading, as always!

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Did you like what you read? I've actually written more! It's an informal trilogy, but each chapter of each story is a short story which builds towards an emotional thoroughline and callbacks.

(A) I Have Always (Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67183576/chapters/173502856) – Her first year with Luthen, told through Baby Kleya’s eyes. He does not know what to do with her. She does not know if she can trust him. A Rebellion will unite them. Canon compliant.

(B) Something Real (Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68530476/chapters/177411586) – Luthen’s first three years on Coruscant, told through Teenage Kleya’s eyes. They laugh at each other. They lie to each other. They open an antiquities gallery on Coruscant and build something real. Charts the meteoric rise of Rebellion, Kleya’s first radio and a bond which grows in the dark. Canon compliant.

(C) Questionable Provenance (Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66733726/chapters/172185715) – An AU of what might have happened if Luthen survives the events of Andor, through Kleya’s eyes. There's an emotionally unavailable father-daughter who do not know what to do with each other, and a Rebel Alliance which doesn't know what to do with either of them. Set against the backdrops of Rogue One until Return of the Jedi.

If you do click through, thank you!

Notes:

I am currently on holiday. I am also in London. It seemed like a waste not to write a little Andor while visiting the shooting sites. Especially when I’m currently staying opposite the Brunswick Centre (where they shot the exterior shots of Syril and Eedy’s apartment)!

Chapter titles are from Waters of March by Art Garfunkel.

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