Room 315, Monday Afternoon

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia had managed to finish unpacking, if by unpacking one meant shoving most of the gowns her aunts had sent with her under the bed. The more practical clothing was stowed in the closet, along with a few nicer outfits for when she actually wanted to dress up a little. Such as for dates. Of which she had two this week. She'd wasted no time in giving her relatives reasons flail.

At the moment, she was sprawled on her bed, wondering just what she was going to tell her father and Winter (the two totally got different levels of information -- Winter got to hear about the boy roommate and the shirtless boys, for instance) about this place and supposedly long dead Jedi Knights and daughters and nephews from the future. She really needed to get a hold of a student directory and see if she could track down Ben and find out exactly how he was supposed to be her nephew when she didn't have any siblings.

The door was open.

[ooc: door and post are open. Any OCD is under the bed trying to draw the Skywalker family tree.]
 

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[likes_scoundrels]

"A Jedi?" Leia said, surprised. Jedi in the future was a good sign, but one being related to her was unexpected. "Whose side of the family did you get that from?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben was quiet for a second, weighing options. "Both," he finally admitted.

[likes_scoundrels]

Just when she thought things couldn't get more interesting. For a minute she was almost speechless. "My brother or sister is a Jedi?" she finally said.

[momslilassassin]

"Eventually," Ben said. "Not when you are, I'd imagine. The Empire sort of frowns on that kind of training."

[likes_scoundrels]

Somehow it had been easier to accept that she had a daughter when Jaina had been standing in front of her than it was believing that her parents had hidden the truth of a sibling from her all these years. Unless they didn't know, either? "Brother or sister?" she asked quietly.

[momslilassassin]

And it was hard keeping things from her. "Brother," he said finally. "Twin brother."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Twin?" Leia exclaimed. "Why didn't my parents tell me?" They had to have known that.

[momslilassassin]

"You can figure it out," Ben said quietly. "Think it through."

And that way his grandfather couldn't kick his ass for explaining it. Win-win!

[likes_scoundrels]

He expected her to be able to think at a time like this? But she tried.

"Because he is a Jedi," she said slowly. "He had to be hidden or else he'd be killed. But I'm his sister! I deserved to know." She looked Ben straight in the eyes. "Were our parents Jedi? Is that what happened to them?" The timing made total sense; she'd been born right at the time Palpatine had declared them traitors of the former Republic.

[momslilassassin]

Ben had been trained to lie with a straight face, and he was treading into some serious quicksand here.

He nodded. There was no point in denying it, after all. She'd hear his last name eventually.

[likes_scoundrels]

As if she didn't hate the Empire enough already; now she was adding killing her birth parents to the list. "Your father -- my brother -- obviously he was kept safe," she said, head spinning. "He's still all right? In your time? And I know him?"

[momslilassassin]

"You finish each other's sentences," Ben said, smiling softly. "You're best friends. That's why I don't want to mess this up. If I say something and you don't meet up like you should, or don't get along..."

[likes_scoundrels]

Now she knew why it always felt like there'd been a piece of herself missing. "He's my brother," she said. "Even if he didn't grow up pulling my hair. It doesn't matter when we finally meet. That would never change."

[momslilassassin]

"Well, he doesn't try it now," Ben said. "He's all old and mature and stuff."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Which would make me just as old," Leia said with a soft smile. "And a mother."

She'd totally be flailing later. When she was alone and no one else could see.

[momslilassassin]

"Really old," Ben teased. "Jaina's thirty there."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Wait -- the Jaina here isn't your Jaina?" Leia said. "Just how many different timelines are we talking about here?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben paused to count. "Six," he said finally. "Seven with you."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Six?" Leia repeated. "You, Jaina, Tahiri, Anakin Skywalker, Zayne...who else?"

[momslilassassin]

"And a Jedi named Kyle Katarn," Ben said. "He's from a few years ahead of you."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Another Jedi?" Leia said. None to be found in her time, and they were coming out of the woodwork here. "What's my brother's name?" She dropped that in all casual-like.

[momslilassassin]

"You'll find out when you meet him," Ben replied with a smile. "But it's not Ben. I was named for his teacher."

[likes_scoundrels]

"How will I know when I meet him?" Leia bitched complained. "Does he know who I am?"

[momslilassassin]

"No," Ben said, having heard this story entirely too many times as a child.

[likes_scoundrels]

"You're maddening," Leia said, glaring just a little. "You know that, right?"