Coruscant- Tuesday

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Due to getting twitchy in the levitating cabinet, Jaina had complained herself into a normal infirmary bed pretty quickly, though she was going to be here for a while longer for treatment until they released her. And once he found out she'd been moved, Jag earned himself massive points when he brought her phone unasked- fully charged, by the way. They may not have had a chance to talk about things yet, but the man was a keeper. He knew she needed both the distraction, and to tell people in Fandom what had happened.

"And you want me to do this why?" he asked, phone in hand.

Because she couldn't say it. She couldn't handle calling people individually and telling them what happened and reassuring them that she was all right over and over again yet. But she could have Jag send a text, which might seem really crass, but frankly everyone should be glad she wasn't curled up hysterically crying under her bed now that she had one. "Because I think seeing you texting might be hilarious?" she tried.

Jag frowned at her, but said, "Very well. I can be your entertainment for thirty seconds. What do you want to say?"

Jaina thought about it. It took longer than she would have thought to come up with something that didn't feel horrible. "It's all over, and I'm going to be okay, and I'll get into more detail when I can." That seemed vague but reassuring, right?

Once he'd finished tapping the message out, she decided she should probably suck it up and at least look, saying, "Let me see." Followed by, "I use contractions." And then followed by, "Honey, how are your texts stuffy?" which was followed by him frowning at her more.

Once he'd edited to her liking (which involved removing all offending apostrophes, too) and hit send, he asked, "And what if someone calls back?"

"Then you might get shooed out of the room."

"Heads of State don't get shooed."

"You say that now."


[If you want to have gotten the message, you totally did. Open for return texts and calls, with a possible SP warning while at work.]

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[texted3times]

Eric replied to the text as soon as he woke up.

???!!!???

Eloquent, huh?

At least he typed it really fast.

[solo_sword]

Was there a sentence in there?

[texted3times]

HOW OKAY IS OKAY

Look, a sentence! Not a really useful one, but still.

[solo_sword]

Okay enough to be calling now, figuring hearing her voice might be a good thing.

[texted3times]

"Jaina?" Eric sounded like himself except for how he'd answered on the very first ring.

[solo_sword]

"I'm okay enough to be able to talk," she greeted him. Plus her formerly-broken arm still got a little sore so let's not use it to text.

[texted3times]

"That's not entirely reassuring," Eric told her. "All arms and legs accounted for?"

[solo_sword]

"Yes, and still all the original parts." Which felt sort of amazing now, considering how many close calls there'd been. "I'll still be in the hospital a while but I'll recover just fine."

[texted3times]

"How long have you been there until now?" Eric asked immediately.

Watch out, Jaina. He'd have Jack sending you the galaxy's biggest fruit basket.

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"Um... A week or so?" she said, looking over at Jag, who was nodding a yes as he looked over a datapad and pretended he wasn't listening. "I was in bacta for a while so a few days blend together." And wasn't that a shame.

[texted3times]

Yeah. Expect the fruit basket tomorrow.

"Your brother?"

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She paused, and her voice went just a little hollow when she said, "He's dead."

Nope, still not easy to say.

[texted3times]

And flowers.

"I'm sorry to hear that."

[solo_sword]

There was still a part of her that wanted to answer 'I'm sorry' with 'You know I killed him, right?' like she hadn't quite reconciled everything yet.

"Thanks," she said. "Kind of figured that it was about time to let everyone know what happened, that I'm not dead in a ditch somewhere."

[texted3times]

"I'd wondered," Eric said after a moment.

Which meant he'd worried and didn't want to admit to it.

[solo_sword]

"Sorry," Jaina said. "I wasn't really able to give the information to have Jag do it, and I didn't get moved to a real room until today."

[texted3times]

"I'm sure you got the word out as soon as you could," Eric said. "Jag's serving as your assistant now?"

[solo_sword]

She actually almost sort of laughed at that. "Nooo, he's not my assistant. But he did find me. And now he does things like bring me my phone without me having to ask."

[texted3times]

"Tell him thank you from me," Eric said.

Jag would know how much it cost him to say that.

[solo_sword]

"I will," she said, and figured she probably shouldn't tell that to Jag exactly right now. "Am I missing a lot there?"

[texted3times]

"Why would you think that?" Eric asked blandly.

[solo_sword]

"Experience," she replied.

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"Maybe you're not that important," Eric bluffed.

[solo_sword]

For some crazy reason, Jaina hadn't found a ton to smile about the last couple days, but that got one out of her. "Missing," she said. "Not missed."

[texted3times]

"I got you to smile, didn't I?" Eric asked, sounding pleased.