Room 313, Tuesday early afternoon

[solo_sword]

Jaina had decided that even on a break week, there simply wasn't enough time. She'd gotten up early today, started going through her messages and reports that had been sent overnight, and really wasn't happy with how long she'd been doing this when she finally looked at her chronometer. She sighed and put the datapad down for now, mainly because she was going to get eyestrain soon if she kept looking at it.

Ordinarily she would have just gone home till classes started up again, taken care of things, checked up on her squadron, maybe run a campaign or two while she was actually in the vicinity of the war. But if this was John's last week here, she really didn't want to do that now. Though she still wasn't sure how to tell him she was planning to go next week instead, as "I'm going back to where everything bad happens as soon as you leave" probably wouldn't go over well.

She waved her hand, opening the door, maybe for once actually hoping for some sort of distraction.

[Open door, open post.]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben was walking down the hall, heading back from the gym. "Hey," he said with a tiny smile.

[solo_sword]

Well this was certainly a distraction. "Hey," she said. "Didn't think I'd see you around here."

[momslilassassin]

He shrugged. "I have time on my hands without classes and clubs."

[solo_sword]

"So you came to... explain things?" By that answer, she was guessing he hadn't.

[momslilassassin]

"Which things?" Ben asked. "There have been a lot of...things."

[solo_sword]

"The four months of purposely not telling me things thing."

[momslilassassin]

Ben's mouth set into a very familiar stubborn line. "I don't have to tell you everything."

[solo_sword]

"Come on, Ben, you hardly tell me anything," Jaina said. "I can understand why Tahiri didn't want to say anything, though I still think it was dumb. You I don't get."

[momslilassassin]

Ben plucked at an invisible piece of lint on his sleeve. "Figured if I mentioned anything, you'd remember that the Ben you know is two or something."

[solo_sword]

"I don't really forget that. Look, I'm going to tell you the same thing I told her: I don't care that much about your love life," she said bluntly. "On the scale of weird, I rank it right up there, but that's the only say I get to have in it. And it's definitely not worth four months of not telling me while at the same time I'm being told how easy I am to tell things."

[momslilassassin]

"You're easy to tell things?" Ben said, raising an eyebrow. "Huh. Not really."

[solo_sword]

"Fine, then I can just take that as confirmation that I was getting nothing but lied to. Makes it much better."

[momslilassassin]

"You didn't ask, I didn't bring it up," Ben said, a little edge in his voice. "Where's the lie?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"You know your door's open," John said, making his way inside and falling on the bed, really not caring if she was in the middle of anything. "You should look into getting that fixed."

[solo_sword]

She moved enough to give him room, saying, "Sometimes you need fresh air." The liar. She lived on a ship when she wasn't here.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yes, sometimes I need fresh air," he confirmed, raising his eyebrow at her. "Should I be concerned that you're voluntarily opening your doors to people during the day? Isn't this peak work time?"

[solo_sword]

"Okay, so I was starting to think my eyes were crossing," she admitted. "Not that it stopped you from coming here during peak work time anyway." Not that she minded.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I like living on the edge," he teased.

[solo_sword]

"Or you just missed me," she teased back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"And you were just two floors away," he replied, not wanting to think about the difference when he was three thousand miles away.

[solo_sword]

"I like easy fixes," she smiled, even pushing the datapad a little further away for now. Every once in a while she could be selfish. This week she'd give herself a by.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"So what am I interrupting? Anything interesting?" See, he was really just bored, shh.

[solo_sword]

"Mission reports, Twins Suns training briefings, all sorts of fun stuff," Jaina told him. "While I page back to stuff I was only able to skim over before since the last oh, month of so has been insane."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John seemed to consider this information. "So...shouldn't you be headed out there to catch some things up?" Not that he wanted her to, but those were the breaks of dating her.

[solo_sword]

"I will," she admitted. "But not yet."