En route to Bastion- Monday

[solo_sword]

If she was being really fair about it, Jaina knew that she'd had it surprisingly easy, considering everything she was juggling, and she'd taken it all on in a relatively short amount of time. It also had to be said that she had a lot of help and didn't do any of it alone.

Except when it came to her headstrong teenage padawan who didn't really have a sense of his own mortality yet. Since leaving Coruscant they'd been on the trail of at least some of the One Sith, had a couple skirmishes before they vanished, and there had been a few fights about how to handle oneself in a situation like this when your Master was terrifying in a fight and you were just still learning. At the moment he was probably sulking in the cabin he'd claimed on the ship they'd borrowed, and Jaina was in the pilot's seat, wondering if it'd be wrong to make the Imperial-based Darkmeld Jedi go drinking with her just to commiserate once she got home.

At least for now, she just sent a text. Sometimes I want to apologize for my teen years.

Which was not actually an apology.


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Comments

[solo_sword]

He's really good. But he thinks he's good enough to face off against Sith already, and he is not.

[weetuskenraider]

Boy, bet that's fun to see from the other side, huh? I'm sorry.

Tahiri was wincing a bit at that; she remembered what it was like when they'd been young and convinced they could handle anything.

At least it's not a really high pressure situation all the time, right?

[solo_sword]

It has been lately. I came back from Fandom and he'd run off chasing them.

You know, like they used to do!

[weetuskenraider]

Oh. Yikes. Yeah, that's bad. Did you find him at least?

And then a few seconds later:

The ONE Sith thing makes no sense by the way.

[solo_sword]

I did. And then I had to get him to a bacta tank, that was fun.

And, I have so many reasons to not like the One Sith thing. I hate it.

[weetuskenraider]

Is he sulking right now? I bet he's sulking.

Look, Tahiri had done plenty of that herself in the same situation. She could make a pretty educated guess.

[solo_sword]

Totally sulking. I'm not letting him prove himself, etc.

[weetuskenraider]

Just think of it this way: someday he'll be wondering if he should send a million apology presents to you, too.

Assuming he survived of course, but what was the point in mentioning that? The assumption came with the job.

[solo_sword]

Not if he gets himself killed first!

Jaina was thinking that constantly!

[weetuskenraider]

Well, yeah, but I didn't want to say it.

She figured Jaina thought it often enough.

[solo_sword]

Might as well. It's the point I'm trying to drive home to him.

And it wasn't like Jaina was shy with her words.

[weetuskenraider]

Which Tahiri knew very well about her, so . . .

Ouch. I'm not sure there's any way to really drive that home for someone except hands on experience. I mean, that's what it took with us, right?</>

Multiple times, yes.

[solo_sword]

Yeah. But I listened to that

Then, ...and then I did stupid stuff anyway.

[weetuskenraider]

Uh huh.

It wasn't like that answer surprised Tahiri in the least.

I don't like that we can say "when we were that age" about this now.

[solo_sword]

I feel like my parents.

[weetuskenraider]

But are you going to tell them that?

[solo_sword]

There was a pause.

Maybe Mom. When the boys have me really sleep-deprived and honest

[weetuskenraider]

At least you have some time to prepare before you have to deal with this from them?

Probably not helping, Tahiri.

[solo_sword]

Obviously my you is going to have to train them or something because I would be insane.

She knew this. Because she thought about it a lot lately.

[weetuskenraider]

Can I be honored on her behalf that you'd trust me with that?

Between her own history and what she knew about other future versions of herself, Tahiri might have spent some time thinking about whether the Order would ever trust her enough for that.

[solo_sword]

Of course I would trust you with that. She'd never seriously considered who would train either or both of them, but this really did feel like an obvious answer. You're you.

Tahiri was family.

[weetuskenraider]

That means a lot. Everything.

Tahiri might have been tearing up a little bit.

[solo_sword]

I mean, there's a decent shot you're taking care of them right now, she pointed out.

[weetuskenraider]

This is true. Any fun new pictures of them to send me?

[solo_sword]

A moment later came a picture of one of the boys- hard to tell which- in just a diaper with a toy basket over his head.

There's that.