Room 317 [afternoon]

[tatooine_doofus]

After a few hours poking around on the X-Wing with Artoo and a quick check to see if Leia had written--she had, and there was still no sign of Han--Luke flung himself onto his bed and began to practice with the Force.

Yoda was not excited to be one of the things chosen to be juggled.

Seeing Luke distracted, Artoo made his way stealthily towards the door.

"Don't even think about it," Luke said sternly. "Last time you got out, you came back covered in cake."

Artoo whistled innocently. "No," Luke replied.

Artoo made sulky noises and rolled back towards the corner.

[OOC: Door is closed, post is open! Oh, and contents of the conversation with Rory are NFB, please.]

Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Good idea!" Molly said. "There has to be one within a few hours of here. We'll get a lot of people to go. It'll be so much fun!"

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Luke bounced a little. "Sounds like a plan to me! When it's not so cold, maybe?"

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"Definitely," Molly said with a nod. "If there are water rides, it's no fun to go when it's cold because you either freeze to death or can't go on them at all."

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"Rides with water?" Luke's eyes were huge. "Really?"

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Molly giggled at his reaction. "Uh huh. Lots of water. Some of them, you can get totally soaked."

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Artoo let out a worried whistle from his place in the corner.

"I'm sure you'd be perfectly safe," Luke assured him.

Artoo rolled over to Molly and beeped a polite greeting.

Luke smiled. "Molly, this R2-D2. Artoo, this is my friend Molly."

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"EEEEEE! You have a robot! He's so cute!" Molly said and knelt down in front of Artoo. "Hello, Artoo. It's nice to meet you."

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Artoo burbled in glee, complimenting Molly on her excellent taste in droids.

Luke laughed. "He says hello, too. Artoo is an astromech. He helps me fly the X-Wing."

Artoo beeped something very uncomplimentary about Luke's recent flying trips. "That's not very nice," Luke said, scowling.

Artoo ignored him.

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Molly frowned, not knowing who Artoo had been talking about. "What did he say?" she asked curiously.

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Luke rolled his eyes. "He was pointing out that one of the last times we flew together we crashed into a swamp." He pointed a finger at Artoo. "That wasn't my fault."

Artoo let out a deeply unconvinced whistle.

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Molly giggled. "That's cool that you help fly his ship, Artoo. What else do you do?"

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In response, Artoo opened most of the panels on his frame. A small satellite, a dinner plate, more arms than should be possible and a barbecue fork burst out of various holes.

"What doesn't he do?" Luke replied with a laugh.

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Molly sat down cross-legged in front of Artoo now and started to check out all of his attachments. "You are so cool, Artoo. I have a friend who is a robot, but he can only do stuff with computers and electronics. Although," she chuckled, "I will admit that he would look kind of silly with cool stuff like you have here because he looks like a human and doesn't have anywhere to store it all."

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Artoo burbled a comment about where he thought Threepio probably stored all of his attachments.

Luke choked.

"Um, Artoo says he has a counterpart named C-3P0 who's a protocol droid. He looks humanoid."

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Molly looked between Luke and Artoo, suspecting she was missing something.

"Victor-- that's my friend-- he looks completely human," Molly told Artoo. "He didn't even know he was a robot at first."

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"Threepio's pretty droid-like," Luke admitted. "How did your friend handle that kind of news?"

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"He was more worried about the fact that he had been programmed by his 'father' to kill all of the superheroes when he got older," Molly told Luke.

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Some of the color drained out of Luke's cheeks. "That was fixed, right?" he asked.

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"Oh, yeah," Molly said, not noticing Luke's reaction since she was still playing with Artoo. "He broke his programming when he found out that his father killed his mother. Then he rewrote it all to make sure that it would never happen."

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More of the color drained from Luke's cheeks. He hadn't even thought of that possibility.

"Did it work?" he asked, sounding a little anxious.

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Molly grinned up at him, but there was a sadness in her eyes too. "We know we definitely changed what will happen in our future," she told him before looking back at Artoo. "Victor is one of our team now."

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Luke smiled. "It's good to know you can change the way things were going to work out," he said quietly.

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Molly nodded. "I wish some things would have stayed the same, but I'm glad that Victor won't be a bad guys now. Especially since it wouldn't have been by his own choice."

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Luke nodded, looking thoughtful. "Now he can make his own choices like the rest of us. When nothing is certain. Destiny can be a heavy burden."

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Molly grinned up at Luke again. "Exactly. And we'll be there to help him if he needs it."