Room 315, Monday Afternoon

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Leia had somehow managed not to have any wee visitors this weekend, which was actually a good thing since she'd been buried in work.

But she was finally taking a break (mainly so she didn't try to throttle one of the other senators she was opposing, which would've been impressive if she could've done it through a holograph) (then again, she was her father's daughter). The door was open.


[Open, particularly for wee GFFAers, since I was made of fail in getting Leia out this weekend.]

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King had sensed his Aunt Leia on the island, of course, and despite any earlier objections about not wanting to get kidnapped he wouldn't take no as an answer when it came to wanting to visit her.

So there was a small, eager little blond boy bouncing up and down beside Tahiri as she knocked on Leia's door that afternoon.

"Someone here wanted to see you," she called.

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"Come on in," Leia said, arching an eyebrow at the boy. "And who might this be?"

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"Aunt Leia!" King didn't waste any time hurling himself through the door and at her knees. "Wow, you're all little! Astral!"

Tahiri shook her head. "Leia, this is King Skywalker. Technically he's your great-nephew."

"Don't make her sound old, Mom," King chided.

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Great aunt was much better than grandmother, at least. Which meant he was Ben's son, not Anakin's.

She crouched down to give him a hug. "It's very nice to meet you, King," she said. "Have you been having fun here?"

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"I got ice cream!" King crowed, which was pretty much a yes. "An' lotsa chocolate, and I got to go to classes with Mom and Dad and it was astral."

He squirmed happily into the hug, reaching up to throw his arms around Leia's neck. "Dad tried to tell me to let you take me to the zoo."

Um, bad things happened when people let her do that. Sorry, Leia.

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"Why would he say that?" Leia had to ask. "Do you like zoos? I could take you to one on the mainland if you want."

RUN, KING. RUN.

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King's eyes widened. "No, that's okay! I have to go home tonight!" he blurted out, rapidfire.

Tahiri groaned. "King, that's not nice."

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Leia straightened up and looked at Tahiri. "What's what supposed to mean?" she said.

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Tahiri looked incredibly sheepish, and the tips of her ears were red. (She could face down eight Yuuzhan Vong warriors by herself just fine, but Leia would always intimidate her.)

"He says," she began then faltered, "that things always get . . . interesting when you watch him."

"It's not always getting kidnapped," King clarified. There had been a few high-speed chases around Coruscant. Those were fun!

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"I'd never let a child get kidnapped!" Leia protested.

Yes, yes she would.

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"You don't do it on purpose!" King felt compelled to defend her. Sort of. "Sometimes it just happens though."

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Leia decided the only way to deal with this little revelation would be to laugh because freaking out over it would just be pointless. "Well," she said, "consider it a family tradition. I used to sneak out of the Alderaan palace all the time, and there were a couple times someone tried to grab me when I didn't have any palace guards with me."

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Plus King was taking it completely in stride; he'd said it the way most kids would relate that every time they visited a particular aunt they got a pat on the head and asked how old they were again.

He giggled. "Well, it is. It's 'specially ours."

. . . only the Skywalker-Solo family. Seriously.

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"Are you a Jedi like your parents?" Leia asked. Hopefully they were teaching the kids young if getting kidnapped was such a possibility. (It was clearly someone else's fault, however.)

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"'course I am," King declared, and beside him Tahiri beamed with pride. "I'm a Jedi like Dad, and Mom, and Granddad and Aunt Jaina and . . ."

He took a breath.

"Lots of people."

Including her, but as the offspring of timeline-defying parents, he was perfectly aware that she probably shouldn't know that yet.

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"And me," Leia said with a smile. "I know it's going to be awhile before I can learn though. I have to do all sorts of boring political stuff first, don't I?"

She also figured he'd stopped himself from naming her son Anakin, but she wasn't going to bring him up. That was still too weird and painful to contemplate.

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King had stopped himself from naming Anakin, and Jacen, too; it was the latter more than the former that was complicated and painful, and he'd inherited enough of Ben's powerful empathy to know it was bad whenever the grownups mentioned his name.

"Lots of it," he said, though his eyes widened when he realized she knew about all that. "I don't like the political stuff."

He got that from both his parents, really.

"But that's okay. You're really really good at it," he added with the certainty of a boy who was convinced she could take on all the contentious governments in the galaxy and win. Just as long as she didn't take him to the zoo.

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Jaenelle had been out exploring and had gotten a little bit spun around, so she headed toward the first familiar Force-presence.

"Aunt Leia? I'm lost," she said plaintively.

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Still aunt, not mother or grandmother, yay! Leia couldn't help but smirk a little to think of her poor father, though.

Now this one definitely had to be Ben's as well, judging by the hair. "It's all right, I'll help you find your mommy and daddy," she said, going to the door and sinking down to the girl's level.

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"Thank you," Jaenelle said with a little smile. "There are so many people around right now. I don't always get lost!"

Because Jedi Queens should be compe...something. It was a big word that Daddy used.

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"Well, you're not used to this place," Leia said. "It's easy to get lost then -- I did when I first started school here. Now where was the last place you saw your parents?"

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"I saw Daddy in Jaina's class," Jaenelle replied promptly, "and Mommy at breakfast."

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"Did you have lunch yet?" Leia asked.

She could make spice loaf. RUN JAENELLE RUN.

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"Yeeeees," Jaenelle admitted, "but I like snacks?"