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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[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.

[weetuskenraider]

Okay, I kind of love that.

Because it was perfectly mundane and normal, and she was really glad they had that.

[solo_sword]

Thats what I was sent last night. When they should have been in bed.

[weetuskenraider]

... of course. They are, after all, your kids.

If they had been perfectly well behaved, Tahiri might have been concerned.

[solo_sword]

I'm also a little glad the strict parent dropped the ball on this one.

It was the little things.

[weetuskenraider]

Me too. Tell him hi from me when you get a chance?

[solo_sword]

I will. I have to check in later so he doesn't worry.

They had a system.

...It was mainly about her activities.

[weetuskenraider]

Of course it was. Tahiri would be totally unsurprised to hear that.

The glamorous life of an Empress Jedi Master, huh?

[solo_sword]

Pretty sure people don't think an Empress Jedi Master would have checking with the question 'is that your blood on you or someone else's?" But here we are.

NBD.

[weetuskenraider]

And yet it makes so much sense. Either that or I've just known you too long.

It was absolutely the kind of question she would think to ask too, so.

[solo_sword]

No such thing, I'm great.

She'd definitely known her long enough to tease.

[weetuskenraider]

Obviously, but I consider it my responsibility to keep you from getting a big head.

She actually meant that, too.

[solo_sword]

Oh good, I have two of you for that.

She was cool with it.

[weetuskenraider]

Well, it's a big job. One of me can't handle it alone.

She didn't even bat an eye at that sentence any more. That was just how it was.

[solo_sword]

okay, I will give you that.

Said the scary Chosen One-type person and onetime goddess.

[weetuskenraider]

Yes, see.

It's a labor of love, really.