The beach- Thursday evening

[solo_sword]

Jaina's portal was delayed. She had no idea how a portal could be delayed, but here she was. After a while of waiting at the causeway, she'd come to the beach, figuring that if she was going to be stuck waiting, she should at least get a change of scenery.

Watching the waves made her think too much, though. About her grandfather and Tiny Mom, about how certain things just kept popping up through the years, even about how much her thinking had changed since she was sixteen. That was when she'd check her datapad to read up on what was going on on Corellia, because potential conflict was a happier subject.

Or she'd check on her portal's ETA and curse at the very idea of gnomes when she saw it was delayed again. How?


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Aaaaand since I'm popular today: Zayne | Anakin | Ben | Luke | Rory | Eric]

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[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

There were countless reasons Zayne could have been walking by the beach, but blaming it on the Force was a convenient excuse, so let's go with that.

"Hey Jaina. Back in town already?" Zayne asked as he made his way over.

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Anakin had kept to himself a bit since the conversation with Leia and his grandfather the other day, but he'd been keenly aware of Jaina's presence on the island.

So he made his way down the beach toward her this evening, face set in a thoughtful (if not scowling) expression.

"Had a fun trip?"

The deadpan expression hinted at how he suspected the answer was no.

[solo_sword]

"Hey," she greeted him with a little smile. "Some family stuff popped up I had to deal with. I'm on my way back out tonight."

She glared at her phone.

"Assuming I don't have to murder a gnome."

[solo_sword]

"You know I've had better?" she said, but smiled a little and patted the sand next to her. "Heard what's going on?"

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Try not to do that. It's not really very Jedi," Zayne noted.

He didn't realize how serious she may have been.

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Anakin dropped easily into the sand and tucked his knees up to his chest. "You mean with our family on island?" He grimaced. "Yeah. I barged in on that conversation."

[solo_sword]

She had very seriously given a thousand-year-old vampire permission to go to town on the Portalocity gnome. Never underestimate her hatred for that gnome.

"What if I said I was doing the multiverse a favor?"

[solo_sword]

"That part I didn't know," she said, wincing. "This is what happens when timelines collide really badly."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Well, in that case..." Zayne said. "Yeah, I guess you could at least scare it."

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"You'd probably have been able to tell if you'd been on the island at the time." Anakin glanced up at her through the hair falling into his eyes, looking sheepish. "I just felt how mad she was, and realized where she was going, and --"

He'd charged headlong into it, but she knew him well enough to figure that out.

[momslilassassin]

"I'd ask what you were doing here, but I know better," Ben announced, flopping down next to her in the sand.

[solo_sword]

Oh, she'd make sure it was scared first.

Portalocity was so going to turn her to the dark side someday.

"So how are you doing?" she asked, wisely not saying what she was thinking.

[solo_sword]

Anakin? Charge headlong into anything? Psh.

"Sorry you had to see that," she told him. "I haven't heard much about it, but what I did hear didn't sound great."

[solo_sword]

"It's been a while since we've had something like this happen," Jaina said. "So I guess there's that?"

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

It was about as unrealistic as Jaina ending up in a life-threatening situation.

"It wasn't pretty," Anakin agreed. To understate massively. "As far as Mom being really mad goes, that one was definitely up there."

A beat.

"It isn't surprising, given the circumstances. The weird part was, I didn't know who to stick up for."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Pretty well, aside from the fact that most of my class is way too good at making threats," Zayne said. "I was happier before that lesson.... But hey, if that's the worst I have to complain about, I must be doing pretty well."

[solo_sword]

Jaina had to smile. "You had your class threaten people?"

[solo_sword]

"That sort of thing gets complicated kind of fast here. Who did you stick up for?" she wondered.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Do it right and it can buy you some extra time on the run," Zayne said. "Apparently I didn't need to teach that lesson."

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"Both of them, in the end," Anakin admitted. "Mom for having a right to be mad, and Grandfather for -- well, I told her he deserved another chance."

It was a surprise to him, too, if the look on his face was any indication.

[solo_sword]

"Well, they do get way too easy when you've used them once or twice," she conceded.

[solo_sword]

"I know, that last part takes some getting used to," she told him reassuringly. "But I'd say that was the right call."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"You see, I still need someone to write them out for me. Or I can just let my reputation do all the threatening I need. One or the other," Zayne said.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"If it isn't my favorite niece," Luke said, smiling at her as he walked closer.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

After Leia left, Rory had spent the afternoon with the television turned off and playing with her daughter. And when Anakin had come home, she'd surrendered Juliet to him, because she knew him well, now. There was one daughter who unconditionally loved him now, at least, and he needed to remember that.

And she needed to make a phone call, anyway. So she'd escaped into their bedroom, searching through her contacts before she found the name she was looking for, and waited for Jaina to pick up.