Outside the dorms, Sunday morning

[likes_scoundrels]

Former princess and senator of Alderaan and rebel leader Leia Organa, now Sith Lady and representative of Coruscant in the newly reformed Imperial Senate, hadn't found any more answers about this place or a way to contact Lord Vader or the Emperor. She was determined to do so, however, and she fully intended to bring Skywalker's son with her as a present for her master.

In the meantime, at least, she'd found some cookies to nibble on. Chocolate, with dark chocolate chunks. Because when you embraced the Dark Side of the Force as she had, you always had cookies. It was one of the many, many perks.


[Err, mostly establishly because (a) I'm a GIANT DORK and (b) I'm about to head out of work and go home, where I may pass out for a nap because I was up 'til 3 AM coding the radio for all you crazy peoples. But if you're looking for Leia, feel free to ping and I'll get back to you. :)

ETA: Timing wise, the thread with Tahiri and Ben takes place last. Probably for soon to be obvious reasons.]

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[likes_scoundrels]

Leia tightened her fist. "I don't need them to deal with someone like you," she said.

[weetuskenraider]

Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber. She recognized it, because years ago she'd gone with Tionne Solusar and Anakin and Uldir to Vjun to retrieve it. Anakin had used that lightsaber at the time, and now . . .

Tahiri knew her history. Well, if this didn't just confirm everything she didn't want to know.

"Isn't that," she asked, her voice taut but not quite to the breaking point, "the wrong color blade for you?"

[weetuskenraider]

And she didn't know he was there, if he was hiding his Force presence, so she couldn't exactly reassure him, either.

Of course, she hadn't been expecting this, so she didn't exactly have a plan . . .

[likes_scoundrels]

"It should be red," Leia agreed, casually raising the blade. "But I appreciate the symbolism of using it. A reminder of the fall of the last of the Jedi."

[wannabehunter]

"I'm so telling Professor Skywalker on you," Jo gasped.

Look, razor-wit was hard to come by when you couldn't breathe.

[likes_scoundrels]

"....Professor Skywalker?" Leia repeated. She relaxed her grip, not wanting Jo to lose her ability to speak.

[wannabehunter]

"Detention until graduation, at the very least."

Again, lack of oxygen = diminished repartee.

[likes_scoundrels]

"Where is this Professor Skywalker?" Leia demanded. "Take me to him."

[weetuskenraider]

Not the last, Tahiri thought grimly, clamping her jaw shut around the actual words.

"Better people than you have handled that lightsaber." It killed her a little to say that to Leia of all people.

But if Leia didn't know who she was, would she be expecting a hard Force tug on the hilt of said lightsaber?

[wannabehunter]

"He's probably in Caritas," Jo said, since the psycho-bitch couldn't hurt anyone there. "He's got this drinking problem, very tragic. It's what led to that haircut."

[likes_scoundrels]

No, she wasn't, and the lightsaber flew out of her hand. "What the..." Leia started to mutter, then finished up her statement with a vicious backhand to Tahiri's face.

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia laughed. "So is that where Luke Skywalker has been hiding all these years?" she said. "In a bottle?" Yes, she totally had the wrong Skywalker.

[wannabehunter]

And now Jo was gasping for an entirely different reason, because despite the imminent peril, the mental image of a drunk Luke with Anakin's hair was too much to take.

"You could say that," she managed eventually. It wouldn't be true, but that didn't prevent anyone from saying it.

[weetuskenraider]

She could have dodged the backhand easily if she hadn't been just a little too attached, still, to the idea that Leia would never hit her unless she turned evil and apprenticed herself to a Sith Lord and tried to take Leia and Han into custody in which case she'd find herself completely pwned by someone more than twice her age.

The lightsaber hilt had flown solidly into Tahiri's hand, but it dropped and rolled away again when Leia's blow connected with her jaw.

Not even her lightsaber, and she'd already lost it too. Great.

At least she wasn't unconscious -- just reeling back, flinging a hand out with a hard Force shove, and looking completely betrayed.

[likes_scoundrels]

"Where is this Caritas?" Leia said. If she brought the pathetic remains of Luke Skywalker and his son back to her Master, he and the Emperor would be pleased indeed.

[momslilassassin]

And that was enough to get Ben out of his hiding spot. He reached into the Force to yank Leia's lightsaber to his hand.

"Hey!" he called, trying to catch her attention (either her) and racing toward them.

[wannabehunter]

"In town, look for the drunken talking horse."

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia staggered back at Tahiri's Force shove, but quickly regained her balance as she spotted Ben. "There you are, little Jedi," she said. "This time you're not getting away from me." She reached out with the Force to choke him. Daddy Vader had taught her well.

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia released Jo. "If you are lying," she warned, "I will find you."

[weetuskenraider]

Not if Tahiri could do anything about it.

"Yuth ugg," she snapped, reaching out with the Force to use the nearest possible thing as a weapon.

. . . it just happened to be the cookies. All of them, flying at Leia.

[wannabehunter]

Jo wasted very little time backing away from the crazy person.

"Don't worry, the horse will be with you, always."

[momslilassassin]

Ben had hit the ground--not that he, rightfully, thought that would save him from a good Force-choke--grateful that it wasn't Force-lightning.

That stuff really hurt.

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia caught something flying at her out of the corner of her eye and instinctively spun around to deflect...cookies. "Two Jedi," she said. "My Master will be very pleased." Yeah, she was pretty overconfident and without a lightsaber at the moment, but.

It hadn't passed her notice that Ben had appeared the minute she'd struck Tahiri, and she was going to try to use that to her advantage. So that Force-lightning Ben was worried about? It was currently arcing from Leia's hand toward Tahiri.

[weetuskenraider]

"Hu carjen-tok!" Tahiri hadn't been in any condition to remember what it looked like those times Jaina had used Force lightning on anyone; she really wasn't prepared for what it felt like. The closest comparison was what Nyax had done to her, Luke, and Mara in the ruins of the old Temple on Coruscant, and that was a completely different kind of pain.

She was trying to deal with it the same way, focusing on the pain to draw it into her as strength, but she wasn't entirely succeeding.

[momslilassassin]

"Stop it!" Ben cried, giving Leia a Force-push of his own and igniting his lightsaber.