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]

Ben knew he shouldn't, but he giggled anyway. "He bit you?"

[solo_sword]

"How do you think you pierce someone with a fang?" she asked. "It was huge, by the way, I'm not losing cred for this."

[momslilassassin]

"I don't know," Ben said, still giggling. "He tripped and fell or something? Was he trying to be a vampire?"

[solo_sword]

"I think traditionally vampires don't go for the arms," Jaina pointed out. "I got injected with some venom. You know Professor Atreides' class where we got paralyzed and painted blue? It was sort of like that."

[momslilassassin]

"But with teeth," Ben said. "The Yuuzhan Vong were strange."

[solo_sword]

"He was so toxic he ended up dissolving in his own fluids," Jaina said, pretty obviously grossed out. "You're lucky you missed most of that."

[momslilassassin]

"Ewwwwwwwwwww," Ben said, looking grossed out too.

[solo_sword]

"I'm glad that's over," she admitted. Seeing that wasn't even the grossest thing she'd seen or done. Maybe it was crawling through the ashes of thousands of cremated Vong in order to get to Anakin's body, or walking in on an entire platoon of Vong dead on Ebaq 9, or the voxyn alone...

Yeah, the Vong were weird.

[momslilassassin]

"Ew," Ben added again. "Let's stick with nice normal beings who shoot at us."

Beat.

"That's only normal for us, huh."

[solo_sword]

"Not here. Look at it that way," she suggested.

[momslilassassin]

"I wonder if I'm losing my touch by being here so long," Ben admitted. "Is that why you go home so often?"

[solo_sword]

"Partly," Jaina said honestly. "I start feeling detached if I don't go back every so often. Plus, I'm the Sword of the Jedi. I'm not needed here. Back home, that's another story. It keeps things in perspective."

[momslilassassin]

"I need you here," Ben said to his shoes, looking completely embarrassed.

[solo_sword]

Aww. "I'm here," she assured him. "Just multitasking."

[momslilassassin]

Still blushing, he leaned in to give her a quick hug. "Good. I like having you around."

[solo_sword]

She hugged him back just as quickly. "And even when I'm not here, I'm never without my comlink. Just so you know." Unless she was unconscious.

[momslilassassin]

"I don't want to bug you when you're busy," he demurred.

[solo_sword]

"Don't do that. Bug me when you feel like bugging me. If I can't talk, you can leave a message and I'll call you back," said she who has at one point carried on a relationship in large part via phone. "It's not complicated."

[momslilassassin]

"I'll remember," Ben said, nodding. "But I'm fine right now."

[solo_sword]

"Good. Let's keep it that way," she said. She knew it wouldn't last, but at least for a while...

[momslilassassin]

He smiled. "Think we should get a little countdown clock? '23 days without a personal crisis!'"