Room 317 [early afternoon]
Jun. 5th, 2007 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.]
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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Date: 2007-06-06 01:48 am (UTC)Re: ...and here's where we go NFB, please...
Date: 2007-06-06 01:58 am (UTC)He ran his free hand through his hair. "Ben--that's how I knew him--had been on Tatooine watching over me because he and my father had been best friends, though I never knew that because my uncle wouldn't let him within a klick of the farm. Artoo found him, Ben recognized Leia on the tape, the farm was destroyed anyway, so off we went to return the droid to the girl on the message."
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:32 am (UTC)It was about as hopeless as it sounded. Luke gave her a shy smile. "I hit the right mark and the whole thing exploded. That...didn't make Vader and his Emperor particularly pleased, so the Rebellion sent me here."
He paused for breath. "And Vader followed me for his own reasons."
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:39 am (UTC)"I can see why it wouldn't, but that's great that you succeeded there." She admitted.
Her eyes widened slightly at Luke's last statement. "He didn't try anything, did he?"
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Date: 2007-06-06 03:44 am (UTC)Deep breath. "Because he was my father."
Which was why Leia was a little pissed.
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Date: 2007-06-06 10:59 pm (UTC)But Tori did put two and two together, and could see that this might be why Leia was indeed mad.
[OOC: Was in NYC for a show, am back now, yay!]
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Date: 2007-06-07 12:13 am (UTC)And to yell at the ghost of a Jedi, but that didn't seem all that important. "I needed to know more about the Force, and becoming a Jedi...and seeing if there was a way to bring my father back."
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Date: 2007-06-07 12:31 am (UTC)"There was, right?" Tori hoped that there was. After all, Anakin was here... and Darth Vader had been.
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:16 am (UTC)He paused. "Oh, she'd hate hearing that."
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:35 am (UTC)She raised an eyebrow, slightly amused. "I won't say anything. Promise." Tori gave his hand a small squeeze.
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:40 am (UTC)Well, no, not really. He'd left out kind of an important part.
Like why his father was not in the Vader suit.
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Date: 2007-06-07 03:08 am (UTC)"So aside from feeling endless guilt, your dad's okay, right?"
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Date: 2007-06-07 03:11 am (UTC)He really thought that would count as "okay."
His world had been a little warped over the year.
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