Oh So Sekrit Rebel Outpost [Wednesday]

[tatooine_doofus]

Fresh from his mission to Hanoon (and really, getting instructions from random dead Jedi Masters was never going to be less strange), Luke took a very long shower and decided to check his email.

It had, after all, been a few months. He hoped it wasn't all spam and fanmail based on that stupid holothriller about the battle of Mindor.

[OOC: So very open. Communication from Jaina comes first chronologically!]

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"Wooooow," Luke said slowly. "You'd think killing a goddess would only increase the number of problems he'd have."

[solo_sword]

"In reality, it probably would have. But he thought he was just getting one up on the gods. This one specifically," she said. "He was just so determined, and I'm not sorry that ended up being his downfall."

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"Crazy is seldom a good look on people," Luke replied. "I'm glad your war is over."

[solo_sword]

"Me too. And I hope your mop up action gets to stop soon." Even though she was fairly sure it had gone on for a whiiile in her time.

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Luke laughed. "We don't even have Coruscant yet," he said. "I think the mopping up is going to last longer than the Rebellion itself. What's little Leia like?"

[solo_sword]

"A little different than I would have expected," Jaina admitted. "She's a little rebel, apparently doesn't think she's a proper princess, and every once in a while she'll sound like me, which is weird. But it's still very much Mom."

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"And dates inappropriate guys," Luke added. "Well, Han has some rough edges, too. I just never thought it was a type."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, it makes a little more sense now," she said. "Though my dad wouldn't even bother to wipe the floor with these guys." No, Han'd probably just shoot them and leave someone else to clean up the mess. Her dad was awesome.

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Luke had a mental image of Han meeting Chuck Bass and snickered. "Be a little like Mos Eisley all over again, huh?"

[solo_sword]

"I'll assume so." Han probably didn't walk around the house claiming how he shot first or anything, after all. "Are you in a rush to get back here, knowing she's here now?"

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"Well, it's Leia, so of course I'd love to meet her," Luke said. "Would she know who I am?"

[solo_sword]

"No. At least, not that I know of. She knows you exist, but nothing more than that. I got the okay to give her your name without an argument, but I haven't seen her to do so. Long story," she said, knowing that had to sound weird. "So you might want to put off visiting till that conversation happens."

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"Oh, absolutely," Luke said. "When I was sixteen, I was watching Biggs read through academy material and wanting to be anywhere but where I was. Things changed in a few years."

Luke had a gift for understatement.

[solo_sword]

Jaina smiled at that. "I think the hardest part will be convincing her not to go looking for you, but she's not dumb. I trust her there," she explained.

And part of her was really curious. "Do you ever wish you could go back to when things were simple and easy?"

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"No," Luke said after a bit of a pause. "If I'd been home when the Stormtroopers came looking for Artoo and Threepio, I'd've met the same fate as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, and your mom would've died on the Death Star. This is where I'm supposed to be, what I'm supposed to be doing."

[solo_sword]

"But you don't miss hanging around and doing nothing, when your only worry was getting somewhere else?" There wasn't really a reason she was asking, just curiosity after her last talk with John of how other people thought when they looked back.

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Luke laughed. "You haven't spent much time on Tatooine, huh?" he teased. "I was desperate to get offworld."

[solo_sword]

"I've heard enough to feel like I've spent a lot of time there," Jaina grinned. "You know, I've tried to figure out where Dad is right now in Mom's time, and I'm pretty sure he should be getting the Falcon right about now."

There were aspects of Leia being here, the ones that led to thoughts like that, that were really sort of astral.

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"I'll have to tease my Lando about that," Luke decided. "I needed something new to bug him about anyway."

Pause.

"I should probably not mention there's another Leia to him, huh?"

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"Please don't," Jaina said, quickly, with no small amount of horror. That would go bad. No. No bad wrong no no no. "Never, ever."

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"But you're okay with her dating Chuck Bass?" he teased.

[solo_sword]

"I'm not okay with it, I'm just trying to handle it as a mature woman who was told that he's not planning on seeing her again," she clarified quickly. "Besides, he's trying to turn over a new leaf and he hasn't hit on me lately. It does make that easier."

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And since Luke believed that everyone could turn over a new leaf, he took it at her word. "Oh, okay. Who's the other one you don't trust as much?"

[solo_sword]

"Mat. The guy who hit on me on my birthday less than a week after my breakup and then made out with my mom. He did have the best reaction ever to me calling him 'Daddy' though." Sometimes you had to make your own fun.

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"Wait, you had a breakup?" Luke replied. "I've missed everything!"