Room 317 [early afternoon]

[tatooine_doofus]

After spending some time removing onion dip from Artoo’s internal systems—Force know how that had gotten there—Luke finally reached for his comlink and made a long-delayed transmission.

Leia answered immediately, and Luke chattered happily on about his workshops—and Tori— and some of the new students he’d met, including Bigg’s cousin—and Tori—and why getting bit by a gremlin had been a terrible mistake.

Leia laughed for a solid minute once Luke explained who Siegfried and Roy were. “It sounds like you’re settling right back in,” she said.

Luke nodded, then took a deep breath. “There’s something I need to tell you,” he said quietly. “I shouldn’t have taken this long to do it.”

“What happened to the shuttle?” Leia asked immediately, eyebrows flying up.

“Nothing,” Luke said, “but when I came back to Fandom, I wasn’t alone.”

Then he told her who’d been with him.

Leia’s momentary silence was the dangerous calm of the Tatooine desert before a wind storm kicked up.

“He’s WHAT?! You WHAT?! You waited how long to tell me?!” she exploded, her voice loud enough to be heard down the hallway.

Artoo moaned and rolled into Luke’s closet.

Luke chewed on his lower lip. “I was wrong,” he said quietly.

“’Wrong’ doesn’t come close to describing this, Luke Skywalker,” Leia spat, her image going in and out of his view as she paced. “He stood there on the Death Star and did nothing as Ald…he put Han into…He’s alive?!”

Her eyes finally focused on Luke’s and the anger in them made him flinch backwards. “I’m coming to see him,” she said, every inch the icy royal. “I’ll be there on Friday. We’ll talk about this more when I arrive.”

Her image shut off abruptly and Luke let out a deep sigh.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” he muttered.

From the closet, Artoo wibbled his agreement.

[OOC: Leia was loud, ya'll. Feel free to knock on the door.]

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[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori was on her way to her room, her shift at Book Haven having just ended and decided to see if Luke was in. She didn't know for sure since she wasn't around to hear the whole Leia outburst but it was worth a shot.

She knocked on the door.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke jumped about a foot in the air.

"Come in, Tori!" he squeaked.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori frowned slightly and entered. "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. You okay?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

From his hiding place in the closet, Artoo let out a moan.

"My twin sister's coming to visit this weekend," Luke said.

He should've been thrilled. Instead, he looked a little green.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's great!" Tori grinned, then noted the not so happy look. "Or maybe not?" She was a little confused. "Would this not be considered a happy visit?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"She's not particularly happy with me at the moment," Luke said, understating things by almost a ridiculous margin. He patted to a spot next to him on the bed. "This is going to take a bit of explaining, if you're up for hearing it."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Tori understood a bit about unhappy siblings, especially sisters, given that she had a younger one. She took a seat next to Luke on the bed and nodded. "Sure, I'm up for it."

...and here's where we go NFB, please...

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Luke reached and took her hand, then blew out a breath. "Okay. Skywalkers set new standards for dysfunction, so I'll totally understand if you, you know, run screaming from the room. I grew up on Tatooine with my aunt and uncle believing that my father, who had been a great Jedi, had been exterminated with the rest of his Order right before the rise of the Empire."

He made a face. "The official story was that the Jedi had tried to take over the government and rule absolutely, but since that's, well, entirely what the Emperor did, I call banthashit. My uncle absolutely refused to talk about my father, or the Jedi, or anything about how life had been before the Empire. I grew up restless and bored."

Re: ...and here's where we go NFB, please...

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori listened intently, and gave Luke's hand a gentle squeeze. "I'm not going anywhere." She smiled at him reassuringly. "Go on."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn heard the yelling and, naturally, knocked on the door. Hey, there could be an invasion or something.

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Luke eeped. "Um, come in."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hey, we being invaded?" Dawn poked her head in.

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"By a pissed off princess in a few days, yeah," Luke said, nodding his head. "I'm pretty sure you'll be spared, though."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'll definitely be spared, since I'll be out of town," she told him. "Need to come? We'll be in a whole other dimension and country."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Artoo poked his dome out of the closet and gave a plaintive whistle. "Thanks, Dawn, but I think we have to pass," Luke said regretfully.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You sure? She sounded really mad." Not that Dawn knew who she was, other than a princess. "She can't behead you, can she?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"She is really mad," Luke said ruefully. "But she's my twin, so I think I'll survive it."

[multiplez]

Z waited until the yelling was over to open the door and poke her head in. "Is it safe to come in?"

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Luke gave her a rueful smile. "Leia says hello."

[multiplez]

"Leia yells hello, maybe. What's up?" Z asked.

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"She's coming for a visit," Luke said, wincing. "Friday."

[multiplez]

Z winced, too. "Wow, short notice. Hey, at least we haven't had much time to mess this place up, right?"

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Luke smiled wanly. "Exactly. Now I just have to make sure she doesn't run into her daughter in the hallway."

[multiplez]

Z blinked at Luke. "Her what?"

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"Daughter," Luke repeated, shaking his head. "Have you met Jaina Solo yet? I'm apparently in my forties in her version of my galaxy. It's a little...disconcerting."