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."

[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!"

[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]

"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?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

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

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

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

[momslilassassin]

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

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

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

[likes_scoundrels]

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

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke stood up and put his hand on Ben's shoulder. "I promise I don't bite."

[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."

[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.

[momslilassassin]

Ben closed his eyes and leaned into Luke, suddenly overwhelmed by a need to be hugged by someone who felt like his father.

[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]

Luke was happy to oblige. "Hey," he said quietly. "It's going to be okay."

Whatever it was that had Ben so off-kilter. He hoped, at least.

[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]

"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."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

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

[momslilassassin]

"I know," Ben said into Luke's shoulder before pulling back. "Sorry. You don't even know me that well."

[likes_scoundrels]

"I haven't told him a lot about what happened," Leia admitted. "I figured he'd never let me out of his sight if I did."

She didn't drink to excess but thinking of that place made downing the entire bottle of brandy seem appealing.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke's eyebrows quirked up. "But I do know enough members of this family to recognize when someone needs a hug," he said quietly. "You sure you don't want to talk about it?"