Room 313, after classes

[solo_sword]

Between the end of Parents Weekend (including the meeting she was glad went as well as it did), Fandom finding even more ways to scar her, and other things, Jaina was having a pretty interesting week so far.

Some parts of it (okay, the Parents Weekend parts only), she knew she had to actually update people about, especially since it was official that she wouldn't be going home permanently for a while. Which was why she'd started recording a transmission to her mother before realizing talking about how great her weekend with her dad was might not be such a great idea, and had resumed sitting there and trying to figure out what to say.

[For Karal, but open, much like the door. SP for workishness and time zones yay.]

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[solo_sword]

"Hey, Uncle Luke," she greeted him, waving him in. "All better?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"It would be a lot easier to forget if Artoo didn't keep whistling 'Come On, Get Happy' at me," Luke said with a sheepish smile.

[solo_sword]

"He's got an evil streak to him," she said, shaking her head. "At least it could have been worse."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"It's kind of hard to see how," Luke said, grinning, "unless he sent copies back to Mara and Han."

Interesting name order.

[solo_sword]

"I doubt he'd have had time," she said, amused. "Did your brain break from this weekend?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"A little. Yoda was here too."

He bit his lip. "What's the matter with Han?" he asked quietly.

[solo_sword]

"And I missed him? I could have quoted at him," Jaina said.

Turning more serious, she shrugged. "It's been a rough time back there."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke closed the door behind him. "How rough? I've seen him come out of carbonite and look better."

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"Rough," she repeated. "Honestly, he seemed better this weekend than I've seen him in a while."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

That was not at all what Luke wanted to hear.

"Did someone d--"

It clicked for him.

"Oh no."

[solo_sword]

"Don't ask, I'm not telling," she said simply.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't going to," Luke said, looking a little shattered. He could kind of guess who it was, anyway. Han never flew the Falcon without him.

"He's not talking to Leia about it either, huh."

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"He's Dad," she said, though the truth was that he had talked about it, it just wasn't apparently very nice. "He's not exactly a guy who shares his feelings."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"He shares them," Luke said loyally, "just...not like other people do."

Affectionate teasing was sharing feelings, right?

[solo_sword]

"In any case, he seems to be doing better," she said. "I wasn't able to get him to tell me much about why, but apparently Mara didn't threaten to space him on his own ship once, so I'm taking that as a good sign."

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Luke nodded. "If you think it'll help, I'll get Artoo to make a copy..."

Luke was a ridiculously good friend.

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Jaina laughed and said, "You know my version of you would never live it down."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Family-only viewing?" Luke suggested with a grin.

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She almost said that Mara would never let her version of Luke live it down, but bit that back. "Next time we're all in the same room, I'll make the suggestion."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Happy to help," Luke said with another smile before locking eyes with Jaina and getting more serious. "And you're okay?"

[solo_sword]

"Completely," she assured him. "You'd know if I wasn't."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I would," Luke said, nodding, "but I wanted to check anyway. Our family...can be a little much to deal with."

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"I think I'm too used to it, really," Jaina said. "But then I tell John some of what it's like and I kind of realize it's not the most normal."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Which parts?" Luke asked, aiming for casual.

And missing by a long, long way.

[solo_sword]

"You're so bad at subtle, Uncle Luke," she said honestly. "Parts." She figured he'd know.