Starks [at least for now], Friday, September 24

[momslilassassin]

Ben was hardly a stranger to how Stark's was set up, but it was the first time he'd been in the shop unsupervised, which was why he might look like most kids would in a candy store.

...no one ever accused him of being all that normal.

He was behind the counter bright and early that morning, fiddling around with a mouse droid and eager to earn his paycheck so he could get rid of that damn arm tattoo help the community with their technology woes.

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[momslilassassin]

Ben had a sudden, terrible vision of Lando let loose on eBay and shuddered. "He'd be selling slightly used planets in a neighborhood due for an upswing in three hours," he declared, "and then the Hutts would have nowhere to live."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri's eyes widened, and she looked like she was torn between shuddering and laughing; she opted for laughing with a slightly hysterical tinge to the sound.

"Oh, Force, he would. That settles it, I'm never mentioning eBay to him ever, next time I go home."

[momslilassassin]

"Give him a week and we'd be returning to live on planet Lando," Ben said with a slightly strained grin. "He'd detail how you too could be this successful in his next book."

[weetuskenraider]

"Would it involve effective use of a cape?" Tahiri asked, as if there was any answer to the question other than yes.

[momslilassassin]

Ben scoffed at her. "Are you new? Of course it would!"

[weetuskenraider]

"I am not!" Tahiri exclaimed, laughing and reaching out to poke at him. "It was a rhetorical question and you know it perfectly well, Ben Skywalker."

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe," Ben drawled. "I like to get you flustered."

[weetuskenraider]

"Oh, really?" Tahiri asked, raising both eyebrows. "Boy, you really do know how to get a girl interested, don't you?"

By bringing Lando Calrissian into it. Best plan ever.

[momslilassassin]

You should hear his Lando impression! Gets them every time!

"I'm quite the ladykiller," he drawled in, yes, his best Lando impression. "Poor the wine and you can tell me more things you like about me."

Sorry, Tahiri.

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri had to stare at him for several moments. Just stare.

"You know," she finally said in a voice strained from the urge to giggle, "it's a good thing you're at work right now anyway, because somehow any ideas I had about making out with you just disappeared."

[momslilassassin]

Ben tried to hold a straight face and failed rather spectacularly. "Sorry," he said between giggles. "It's always worked before."

Liar.

[weetuskenraider]

"And how many girls exactly have you tried it on?" Tahiri inquired sweetly. More importantly, were any of them Sith?

[momslilassassin]

He blushed. "Two?" he said. "And you laughed at it."

So had the other girl, who had been far more interested in sighing over Jacen.

[weetuskenraider]

"Well, it was cute," Tahiri tried. "But not terribly effective coming from you, I have to say."

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe I need a cape," Ben mused. "Or a mustache."

[weetuskenraider]

"I'm not kissing you if you go around wearing a large fuzzy caterpillar on your upper lip," Tahiri declared. "And I like you just fine without the cape."

[momslilassassin]

"Yeah, I really never saw the appeal," Ben admitted. "I'd be like kissing a Wookiee."

Pause.

"...which I have not done."

[weetuskenraider]

"Are you sure?" Tahiri teased. "There's got to be a chapter of your fan club on Kashyyyk. I'm sure one of them would be happy to volunteer."

[momslilassassin]

"No, you're confusing me with Face," Ben told her. "Who, I'm sure, has kissed a Wookiee."

[weetuskenraider]

"It's probably on holo," Tahiri replied. "Do me a favor, please, and don't ever be Face?"

[momslilassassin]

"I can guarantee it," Ben said, making a face.

[weetuskenraider]

Narrative pun not intended, hopefully.

"Deal," Tahiri said, hopping down off the counter to give him a kiss.

[momslilassassin]

Well it was Ben, so let's give the odds at about fifty-fifty.

"Deal," he replied when he finally pulled back.