Streets of town- Saturday morning

[solo_sword]

Jaina knew full well what weekend it was. After the past two years, she expected it, even kind of looked forward to it. She was hoping John would be okay with it, though, because she understood kids you had in high school coming back all "Daddy!" a decade later might be a tiny bit weird.

It didn't stop her from dragging him out to get breakfast that morning, as was tradition. And as she led towards JGOB, she couldn't help looking around every so often in case of wee children throwing themselves in their direction.


[For that guy and those kids.]

Comments

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Shouldn't I be the one freaked out by this?" John asked, keeping a steady grip on her hand as they walked. He had appreciated the warning, if only because it had seemed like she was trying to break him in the awesome of after-prom, but yeah, kids.

[solo_sword]

Hey, he was only here for a while and a lot of that time would be taken up with kids. Take what you could get while you could get it, right? "I'm not freaked out, just trying to prepare myself," Jaina said with a tiny smile. "It might give us an extra second or two before we're potentially bowled over."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Don't you have that mental link thing?" John asked like the jealous brat he was. "Seriously, what I would give for a life signs detector right now."

[solo_sword]

"I can sense them, but with all the kids running around, picking them out specifically would be harder. I'd like your life signs detector too," she admitted.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Eh, I'd let you carry it," he told her. "But the little dots aren't all that impressive given your tech."

[solo_sword]

"There are times I will take unimpressive tech if it means it works," she replied, and paused. "I wonder if there's an app for my phone to detect life signs."

Don't think she wouldn't be trying this later.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"An app?" Oh John, get with the times. "Maybe focus on your phone calling people, yeah?"

[solo_sword]

"You know how I've complained about being bored here?" Jaina said, a little amused. "My phone makes noises from Space Battles now. It has to do something between calls."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"It's not supposed to just sit there and wait?" He was very separated from this sort of technology. But show him the golf apps and he'd be right on board.

[solo_sword]

"I'll show you," she promised. "You'll see what there is and you'll understand."

She reached out with the Force to see if she could get a better sense of where the kids were, and said, "They're on their way."

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"Who's on their way?" Jaryd asked, licking a lollipop that he had totally not stolen, shut your kriffin' mouth Jordin.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"Maybe there are more people coming," Jordin said knowledgeably, wishing he'd stolen a lollipop for her too.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we were waiting for you guys," John said, amazed that they looked the same after so long.

And ow, wasn't that just a punch in the gut. Kids he was never going to have.

[solo_sword]

Meanwhile Jaina was realizing that if these kids had split off from the timeline when she suspected they'd had, they'd be at the very least crawling by now.

Not that she was going to show them if that made her a little sad. "Are we waiting for anyone else?' she asked, a little hopefully as she knelt down to put herself on better hugging level.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

Please, like Jaryd was a baby and in need of hugs. "No way we were that slow this year."

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"Jonathyn didn't even get away from Grandma this time!" Jordin said proudly.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"But you guys didn't have that problem, huh?" John verified, giving Jaina a wary look.

He liked the quiet one, okay?

[solo_sword]

"...Why do we keep letting your grandparents babysit you?" Jaina wondered.

And she might have already been missing Jonathyn.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"'Cause granpa says there's nothin' he could do worse than all the bug stuff." Very honest, this child.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"And they like t' spoil us and tell you they don't," Jordin said, then bit her lip like she realized she shouldn't have given away that secret.

"Jaryd stole his lollipop," she said, deflecting.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, they're selling each other out this year. Must be getting older."

[solo_sword]

"Seven now, right?" Jaina checked. Note that she had no problem with the stealing. She'd done it with ships. Hell, she might have taught them that kind of thing.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"If I said eight would you believe me?" Jaryd wondered.

[solo_sword]

Jaina looked him over, pretending to consider this. "You look eight," she lied. "But I know better."

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"See, Jordin? I so look older." He didn't care if she was really.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah? I bet I look eight and a half," she challenged, looking at her daddy cutely.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John laughed, "Only if we're talking really short eight year olds, here." They were cute, but he was so not encouraging the insane. He knew this led to things like tigers in the bathroom.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"I grew!" Jordin insisted. "Next I'll be taller than Momma!" She firmly believed this.

[solo_sword]

"You've probably got a few years till that happens," Jaina said dryly, shooting a (mostly) amused look at John. "Why do I think that idea was all your dad's influence?"