Room 313- Wednesday night

[solo_sword]

There was a system to how Jaina got back from trips home. First thing she did after getting in the door was to drop her bag and find the little clock on her desk that told her what day it was. For two weeks at home, she'd only missed two days here, which wouldn't be a bad thing if she wasn't counting down to graduation. Normally then she'd start unpacking, but today she was bucking tradition and checking her phone again. Still no message from John. She expected to be hearing from him any day now, but talking to Ronon had told her that maybe it'd take a little bit longer than the ETA she'd been given to begin with.

Leaving her bag where it was for now, Jaina instead went to lay down for a minute. She was healing up after her concussion and felt fine, but unpacking, meh.


[Omg my computer works and I can plaaaaay! Come visit! Door and post open.]

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[momslilassassin]

"Did Kyp get hurt too?" Ben asked, leaning against the doorjamb.

[solo_sword]

"Of course not. Which he was all too quick to remind me of, by the way." Someone was still bitter.

[momslilassassin]

"What happened?" Ben asked.

[solo_sword]

"I told you about the guy with the droid replica facility?" she began. "We tracked him down to his new hideout, and then the real hideout since the first was a decoy, which meant we got to face off against a bunch of his droids. He pulled that on me before. I got thrown into a wall, let Kyp handle more of the droids, and I went after the bad guy and managed to bring him down even with a concussion. He's now being held for trial, so I have to go back when they give word and testify and all that."

[momslilassassin]

Ben nodded. "What kind of droids? Were they like what Lando put out?"

[solo_sword]

"Guard droids. He'd stepped up some since last time, probably figuring I knew how to take those out by now. They weren't going to do any killing, but they were definitely meant to keep us busy so he could get away again," she said. "I don't like those things."

[momslilassassin]

"I don't like them either," Ben said, making a face, "since they thumped you around like that. I'm glad you've shut him down."

[solo_sword]

"Me, too. And now that I managed to do that, we'll see what the Council has me doing next. I don't think I get to choose again," she said, making a face. She liked making her own assignments.

[momslilassassin]

Ben smiled. "At least you got to choose once?"

[solo_sword]

"I walked up to Uncle Luke with a plan already in mind," Jaina admitted. "This is what happens when I have time on my hands." And that was with John around. Imagine what her brain was doing now.

[momslilassassin]

"You plan assaults on criminals?" Ben laughed. "You need to learn to relax."

Like he did, with the insomnia and the tiny army of droids. Yes. Very healthy.

[solo_sword]

"I've been wanting to go after this guy for months. And I had to start doing something, so I took the initiative." That's what she was calling it, sure.

[momslilassassin]

"Anyone else on your list?" Ben asked.

[solo_sword]

"Not specifically. I've been researching some of the bigger crime syndicates and wannabe warlords, so I'd like to go after some of them if possible, but I need more intel first." Not that she'd thought about this or anything.

[momslilassassin]

"What are the rest of the Jedi focused on right now?" Ben replied, then smiled. "I don't exactly remember much."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, I doubt you're getting invited to meetings yet," she said dryly. "Same basic idea. There are only about fifty of us right now, so those that are around, aren't serving on the Council or helping with the reconstruction of the Academy are pairing off to do the sort of thing I've been doing. Do what good we can, reassert ourselves, then it's off to somewhere else to do the same thing."

[momslilassassin]

"Weren't you wielding a lightsaber as a toddler?" he teased. "But tell Dad that I'd appreciate you getting to go on missions where you don't get shot at."

He was pretty sure those didn't exist for Jedi.

[solo_sword]

That was Jacen, but she wasn't going to point that out to him. "Take away my fun."

[momslilassassin]

"You want more really interesting scars to explain?" Ben replied. "I can give you some of mine."

Because it worked like that.

[solo_sword]

"If it worked like that, I'd be up for it." Because he needed less, seriously. "But as it doesn't, I'll stick to not explaining the ones no one gets to see."

[momslilassassin]

"Did you add any new ones recently?" Ben said, straining for casual.

[solo_sword]

She stuck out her arm and rolled up her sleeve just enough to see the little circular scar on her forearm. "That's where I had the Supreme Overlord jab me with his fang."

And that was it. For as much as she did, she didn't rack up a lot of scars. Even the cut on her forehead was easily hidden by her hair, and was healing up so she doubted there'd even be a mark within a week.

[momslilassassin]

Ben examined it closely and nodded. "I recognize it," he said quietly, "but my Jaina never told me where it came from."

[solo_sword]

"It's not a huge deal, and no one really notices it," she said, shrugging. "I've been lucky on that front."

[momslilassassin]

"It came from the Supreme Overlord," Ben said, giving her a look. "It's kind of a big deal if you know who that is."