JGOB [afternoon]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke had promised his father that he'd visit--especially after hearing the admittedly sketchy details of what had happened on the island a few weeks ago--so there he was, eating pastries and waiting for Anakin to finish up some errands.

It had been a long time since Luke had gotten a chance to just sit and eat something that tasted good (the last system he'd visited had been heavy on the reconstituted glow-in-the-dark tree lichen and no), so as far as Luke was concerned, his dad could take his time.

[OOC: Open for all your Luke or pastry needs!]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben was totally fine--all right, he wasn't fine, but he was much less ridiculous than he had been this time last week--but when he'd felt the familiar Force-presence arrive on the island he'd made a beeline for it. Maybe his dad had felt him...

"Oh."

Wrong dad.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke glanced up as Ben's feeling of disappointment shot through the Force towards him.

"Hi, Ben," he said, smiling. "Can I help you with something?"

[momslilassassin]

It was his dad's smile, too, which made things both better and worse.

"No, I'm okay," Ben demurred. "I just thought you were...well, not exactly someone else, but..."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke's forehead furrowed. "You thought I was your dad," he said. "Did you call him?"

He glanced around. "Are we going to make something explode by being here at the same time?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben shook his head. "No, I didn't call him. Sometimes he knows when I'm...it's not that important. Never mind." He smiled a bit unconvincingly. "Sorry to have bothered you."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"You're never a bother," Luke said.

Ben had also never really sought him out.

"Do you want to sit down and grab a bear claw or a cookie or something? Talk?"

[momslilassassin]

He shuffled from one booted foot to the other. "I don't know."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory, honestly, missed school kind of horribly at this point. She loved her daughter, of course, but spending all her time with a fourteen month-old was driving her a little batty.

But that just meant that when she got Luke's call, she already had Juliet strapped into her car seat. So it was a beaming Rory who wandered in, with a curious-looking wee child pushed in the stroller in front of her. (Juliet, you see, might have recognized this as Where Cookies Come From.) "Hey, you!"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Rory!" Luke said, standing up to hug her. "It's so good to see you!"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory clung a little tightly. "It's good to see you. In one piece and everything. I worry."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

He smiled as he pulled back after a minute. "It's pretty quiet right now, all things considered. No one's taken a shot at me in months."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Always good to hear," Rory said, grinning. "I mean, me neither, but that doesn't normally happen to me. Though Mom did shoot me with a Nerf gun that someone stupidly got Bucky."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke burst out laughing. "Who armed your brother?"

[likes_scoundrels]

He was going to have to deal with his alternate universe sister flinging herself at him first for a hug. "Luke!"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Hey, little sister," Luke said, hugging her in return.

[likes_scoundrels]

"I still think I'm older," Leia laughed, suddenly regretting not asking her mother who was born first.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Nope," Luke said smugly. "Oh, I brought you a belated birthday gift. I cheated and got the other you to help me."

He held out a bottle of Alderaanian brandy. "Don't tell Dad I'm corrupting you," he said with a little wink.

Anakin would probably be more concerned with the ridiculous amount of credits Luke had shelled out for the booze.

[likes_scoundrels]

"What he doesn't know won't hurt him," Leia grinned. "Thank you." It was like a small piece of home. Little did she know how rare it would become in the future.

"I hope your birthday was better than mine," she said. "Worst birthday ever."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I heard a little bit about it," Luke said. "Dad wasn't big on details, but I figured you might need the brandy more than sweets." He waved a hand around them. "And this way you can have both."

[solo_sword]

Jaina had gone out to run errands after her time at the gym, and hadn't planned to stop in here till she was pretty sure she sensed Luke. And then she figured she could stop in for a little while and say hi and make the player sick of me, la.

"So how old are you now?" she wondered when she stopped by. It was like hi.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke had to stop to think about it. "Twenty-seven," he said finally. "You?"

[solo_sword]

She swore. "Same. Now I have a problem with this."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

He burst out laughing. "I thought you said your timeline had stopped moving!"

[solo_sword]

"It had stopped! I got stuck at home and five years went by. I've been assured it's completely normal again," she said, not without a sigh.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Or maybe your father just wants to keep all of his retirement benefits for himself," Luke teased.