Room 313- Monday evening

[solo_sword]

After that last visit with John, Jaina had stopped counting down to graduation. Today, once again normal, she was glad to say there were only 54 days till graduation, and then after that she would never have to deal with being someone she wasn't again. Because she hadn't really considered yet that that stuff tended to follow you. Oops.

And of course this weekend was the weekend she actually had messages from home, so tonight she was sitting at her desk, catching up on them and sending messages back and doing what research she could from here. While eating a burger from Mooby Land. Apparently she was not a huge fan of vegan food.


[Some SP while I work, but door and post are open!]

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[likes_scoundrels]

Leia was utterly drained by the time she returned to her room after Flight Club, but she needed to find Jaina and make sure she was all right and/or not freaking out because of hearing about her mother going to the Dark Side. "Jaina?" she said, moving into the doorway of the room so conveniently next door.

[solo_sword]

Jaina hadn't had time to listen to the radio yet, but upon seeing Leia there remembered that this would be her first time with one of these weekends. Eek. "Hey," she said, putting her datapad down and waving her inside. "Come on in."

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia slipped into the room. She was relieved that Jaina seemed all right, but that also probably meant she hadn't heard about what had happened to her. "How was your weekend?" she asked casually.

[solo_sword]

"Bizarre," Jaina answered, figuring that was the best way to put it. "How was yours? You clearly survived it." And good, by the way.

[likes_scoundrels]

"Not so good," Leia said, trying to figure out exactly how to put it. "I wasn't a good person. I...hurt Ben and Tahiri."

[solo_sword]

Hadn't exactly been expecting that, no. "Okay... what happened?" Something told her explanation was needed.

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia shook her head. "Take the worst thing you can imagine," she said, "and make it worse. I was...." Spit it out, Leia. "Darth Vader's apprentice."

[solo_sword]

Um some more. Apparently at least in some reality, it really was genetic. "You were a Sith?"

[likes_scoundrels]

"I know it's ridiculous," Leia said. Because this was her. "But I didn't want you to hear about it from someone else."

[solo_sword]

Jaina had to rack this around in her brain for a moment. There was just something about her mom and Sith that didn't mesh together, and maybe it was just that she wouldn't even consider Leia a true Jedi in her time, but.

"The island loves to mess with us sometimes," she said after a moment. "I think I can say pretty definitively that it wasn't really you."

[likes_scoundrels]

"And it's not going to be me," Leia said firmly. "Ever. But Ben and Tahiri can barely look at me now." She couldn't help but wonder if Jaina would look at her the same way if she'd encountered Tiny Sith Mom.

[solo_sword]

Yeah, of all the people who could have dealt with any Sith this weekend, especially the family kind, they were probably not the best. "They'll get over it. They've got years of experience with their own yous, as opposed to one weekend where everything was crazy. It just might take a little time."

Hopefully. She couldn't say that for sure, given that her Jacen had gotten punched for something he'd done in an alternate future.

[likes_scoundrels]

"Who were you this weekend?" Leia asked. She felt a little better that she hadn't been the only one. Pity she didn't know about her father's crying fits in the park.

[solo_sword]

"A vegan slu-" Hm, calling herself a slut to her mother probably was bad, even if she hadn't done anything. "Activist."

She picked up the takeout bag, offering, "Fries?"

[likes_scoundrels]

No, Leia would've given her a stern look. "Thank you," she said instead, helping herself to a fry. She idly munched at it, then asked, "How often do things like this happen here?"

[solo_sword]

"Different stuff happens a few times a year. I've flat-out turned into someone else three times now," Jaina said, thinking back. "And then there've been a couple times I was still me, but everything was really dramatic and John almost married me for the Skywalker family diamond mine? I don't even pretend to know." Let's not talk about the apparent epic romance with Chuck Bass or whatever. "The kid stuff is kind of fun, though, I will say that."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Skywalker family diamond mine?" Leia repeated. She was actually sort of looking forward to the children showing up, because though the possibility of suddenly being a grandmother was beyond strange, she was hoping to see a wee tiny Jaina.

[solo_sword]

"It's a bizarre little world over there." One wherein she was again a ho. "We also have some feud with the Winchesters, and Uncle Luke kisses babies and it's actually so weird I can't take any of it seriously when things get back to normal."