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Luke's, Monday

So apparently the kitchen staff's alternate selves had had . . . some kind of drama, over the weekend, and now none of them were talking to each other. So when Eliot got to the diner after doing a circuit on the island looking for his partners -- he hadn't managed to keep track of either of them all weekend, so, you know, that was just great -- they hadn't gotten anything put together for the day's menu.

"Big greasy breakfast," Eliot suggested.

The staff blinked at him.

"You know, comfort foods?"

They stared more. Eliot growled.

"Get to work."

Today's specials
Beautiful cinnamon rolls, too good for this world, too pure

Luke's was open.

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Only one person is allowed to order "all the bacon and eggs that you have" a day.

He may have already claimed all the bacon and eggs. Also, all the chocolate chip pancakes.

He might be making hot pocket looking things out of bacon and eggs and chocolate chip pancakes.

I had to get up early today for a dentist appointment.

Happy Monday.

It was somewhere around midday that Kanan sidled into the store, found himself a seat near the counter, and threw Eliot a wave.

"Hey. I figure you probably get it already, but I thought I should stop in to apologize for missing my shift yesterday."

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"Don't worry about it. You're in the one place I know of that callin' out 'bein' a cat' is legit." Eliot flashed him a wan smile. "Now let me apologize: all I said was I had an employee from a galactic empire, but I shouldn'ta said even that much. I ain't lookin' to air your business all over."

Kanan returned Eliot's wan smile with a wry one of his own.

"Really, at this point, I don't know if it matters all that much except for on weekends like that," he admitted. "Where I come from isn't exactly the island's biggest secret, these days."

Training with a lightsaber in the park tended to do that, yes.

"But if you're chatting up folks who haven't been around a while, I'd appreciate a little less airing, yeah. I've already had one run-in with one of the Empire's higher-ups while working a shift here, I'd like that... never to happen again, honestly."

"Fair enough. Though I'd argue there's gotta be more'n one galactic empire in the multiverse. . . ." Eliot shook his head. "All told, sounds like you had a better weekend than some."

"Sure there's more than one," Kanan agreed with a shrug. "But with the number of people around here who are familiar with the one I'm trying to avoid, I'd rather not risk it."

Not counting Hera, he was already aware of two... three... at least a few students. Several teachers. A bartender. Every trooper at the station...

He shrugged.

"My weekend didn't go too badly otherwise, though, no. Got my morning cardio in yesterday. There was a nice breeze..."

That just meant that Eliot's employee could be almost anyone.

"The island does like to enforce the occasional nude scene," he said. "I was probably lucky I turned back from bein' a wolverine here, where spare clothes weren't hard to find."

After the alien abduction, though, he and his team just happily wandered home from the park naked.

"I'm jealous," Kanan replied. "I had to borrow Master Kiwiiks' cloak. And that was after I almost ran into her. Not that I can blame her for deciding that her need for answers was more important that my need to pretend to have some sense of modesty, but, hell, Master Kiwiiks."

A pause.

"Not that... that would mean anything to most people here," he allowed.

"Not a bit," Eliot agreed. "But by all means, keep going."

"It would be like..." Kanan paused, and frowned, and then sighed and shook his head. "I don't know Earth history well enough to even come up with a good parallel, here. Is there anyone who lived three and a half thousand years ago on Earth who played a huge part in the history of something that encompasses your way of life today?"

Sure, she was no Satele Shan, but she sat on the same council. This was about as mind-blowing to Kanan as first running into Master Rand had been, about a year back.

"Is she venerated as a god?" Eliot asked. "'Cause then you could go with Jesus. If not . . . I dunno, maybe an Arthurian knight or something. . . ."

"We didn't really do deities in the order, unless you count the Force," Kanan replied, shrugging. "What are Arthurian knights?"

The Jedi had knights. He probably would have been one himself by now, if the Empire hadn't destroyed everything. That parallel seemed like it had some potential, at least.

"Legendary figures of early Britain -- which is a culture that's gone on to conquer and occupy most parts of the Earth at some point or another. Arthur was a ruler who made himself famous by deciding to treat all his knights like equals, which was totally revolutionary at the time. Fair number of the knights were bastards and commoners, too, I think. There were a whole ton of 'em, going around upholding chivalric order and fighting for, like, glory and crap." He shook his head. "Honestly, I always preferred Robin Hood, but he doesn't have quite the same 'ancient' rap."

"That seems... like it could be about right," Kanan said, if a touch dubiously. "So, pretend you met one of them, but instead of 'upholding chivalric order' they were responsible for keeping an entire galaxy safe. And you were meeting one of the best of the best of them."

Because... the Council.

"So, who is Robin Hood?"

There was so much Earth for him to learn, here.

Eliot nodded, then smiled. "Robin Hood was an outlaw back in 12th century England. Uh, for reference, it's considered the 21st century now. We ain't got the kind of historical records I gather you've got back home, so who he may or may not have been for real is up for debate, but the legend has it that he fought the king's unjust taxes and policies by robbing the rich and giving the money to the poor and destitute."

Really, was there any wonder why this story was one of Eliot's favorites?

"He's been kind of a personal hero to thieves in my world ever since."

Kanan smiled faintly. Yeah, they'd had space travel in his galaxy since well before even Master Kiwiiks' time, their record-keeping had been pretty functional by then. Less now that the Empire had swept through purging their entire history, but that was a different matter entirely.

"Sounds like he'd be a bit of a hero to the victims of the king, too. There's something my galaxy could use, right there."

Ignoring that he and Hera were sort of already doing that. He was still pretending that he was just 'crew,' at this point.

"It's nice work if you can get it," Eliot said. "It's about what my crew's been doin' since we hooked up. Even got ourselves a bonafide 'good guy' corrupted so he'd lead the way." Ah, Nate. Eliot should give him a call, check up on how married life was treating him. Where were he and Sophie hanging out, these days? "Still, it ain't gonna get you off your empire's hit-list if you do. There're more'n a few places in my world I can't go back to without risking gettin' my ass locked up, at best."

"Honestly, Eliot, it doesn't matter what I do, I'm always going to be on that hit list. Might as well be making somebody's life easier in the process."

... Okay, so now he was entertaining the thought.

"It isn't like I don't have a fast ship and a damn good shot already."

"More power to ya, then." Eliot poured himself a cup of coffee and saluted Kanan with it. "Just need your band of merry men and women."

Merry people?

"That's a big one," he said seriously. "You wanna be a mercenary, goin' it alone is fine. But if you wanna be a hero? That's when you need yourself a damn good team."

Kanan gave a small huff at that. Something not quite a laugh.

"I wanted to be a hero when I was younger," he replied. "Now I'm mostly just working on sorting myself out. But Hera's big on this whole 'helping people' thing, and I..." He gave Eliot a wry smile. "I don't know. I guess I'm warming up to the idea a little."

"Yeah, took me a bit to get used to the idea, too."

Kanan paused for a moment at that, and then tilted his head a little.

"So, what brought you around, then?"

Eliot shrugged. "My team."

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