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Which is why she has a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, no-crust, with a side of two chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. It's also why she sets it in front of that Force-be-damned brother of hers, a look of resignation on her face. "Look, I'm sorry for what I did," she says. "I suppose I'm a little too used to getting the things I want. I don't know. But consider this a peace offering. Me and the brother I knew in this place used to share them all the time. I thought you might like them." :
"People get that way." He shrugs and picks up a cookie and bites into it. Nope, he hasn't lost the love for the cookies. "I've had so many people try to tear my mind in two. Like it was their own personal playground. So I prefer it only being me there." It's the best explaination she's going to get. :
She won't sit until he ivites her. So she stands. She fidgets a little. Yay for awkwardness! "Um, right. Anyway, I should probably go." She may be giving the plate an empty stare.
"Or you could sit and have the other cookie and half the sandwich." He's trying. Give him a bit.
She takes half the sandwich tentatively and then takes a bite.
"He told me the same thing you did but I'm not inclined to believe him. And you're still a stranger to me." He sighs. "I'm not sure I know what to believe."
"Yes, well. It's unfortunate, because the only way to prove, without a doubt is for us to reconnect on a Force-givin level. But, seeing as how you have issues with that whole mind-touching thing, it's safe to say that we're screwed and you'll just have to learn how to trust people again and take them at their word."
The cookie is gone so he takes a bit out of his half of the sandwich. "I just don't take well to people invading my mind without so much as asking. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want someone just going into your mind without your say so."
"Um...yeah. Sure." She finshes the rest of the PBJ in silence.
"Invading someone's mind without permission is worse than being nearly killed." It's how he sees it. And yet he's invaded people's minds before that had the audacity to cross him.
Notice... neither of them have touched the milk.
"I was told it was an honour. Emperor's Hand, they called me. Able to hear his exalted voice from anywhere in the galaxy."
It's as simple as that. If some ignorant being told her that it was an honor then they lied. And he's not going to stop her from reaching for the milk.
She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and gives Luke a searching look. "Can I show you something? In here?" she asks, tapping her temple. "Maybe it will help you understand everyone's confusion at your presence?"
Which means the shields he'd thrown up the first time around come down.
Where he will see her memories of Lukey, of how he had greeted her when she first arrived and the time they had spent together in this place. And it's followed by the memory of finding out what had happened to her baby brother, how he had disappeared. Tears are falling from her eyes by this point.
There's no telling when in the world it happened but he's suddenly beside Leia and wrapping his arms around his sister. He wants to cry but there's no way he can. He's locked so much stuff up that its almost not possible.
"No one abandoned you, my brother," she says softly. "You were taken from us and no one could get out to find you." And she lets him in deeper, seeing how her life had been and how she had been at odds with the brother from her time and place only to find a loving, affectionate little boy who loved her very, very much.
Now he feels bad for accusing his dad of abandoning him. It's what he'd thought. It's the only thing he'd known. All he'd known. And those aren't tears... really they're not. Okay... maybe they are.
"Father really pulled a number when you disappeared. Mother and I, we had to stop him from doing something stupid. He was ready to cut a hole in the wall."
He's not moving away from his sister though. He shakes his head. "I accused him of abandoning me. I didn't know. I think I made him hate me." Which is a whole lot worse than Leia's mistake from earlier or rather it hurts a lot worse.
Luke sighs and just lays his head on his sister's shoulder. "Shouldn't of said what I did to him." He whispers. Now see... things would've been fine had he allowed Leia to do the mind thing earlier.
Only thing left to do is pray that bridges have not been burned down. "Oh, and be weary of mother. She's...hormonal."
"I'm sorry, I got in trouble the last time I told, and I really, really want to tell you. But Mother would kill me." She pouts.
Right...? Wait... oh, confused boy now. He didn't know Padme was mommy to begin with.
"She was over by the fireplace, where I left her. I don't think she's moved since."
He's making a slight face at that. "Who exactly are you calling mom?" Yeah... might need to help him with that one.
She gives him a curious glance. "But before you do that, I should show you how things work around here. Because if there isn't a bartender to ask, you have to get it yourself."
"Okay... how do things work around here?"
She motions Luke closer. "You just ask her for what you want and she'll get it for you. But!" she says, holding up a cautionary finger. "Although incidents of poisoning have gone down drastically since the new Head Bartender came in, she's apt to bite and sting if you aren't nice to her, or if she feels like it." She pats Bar again. "Isn't that right, Bar?" In response, Bar burps up a lovely flower blossom.
"So you just ask and be nice about it?"
"Could I have a glass of milk, please." He blinks a bit when a glass of milk doesn't appear. Though in the place of the glass of milk a sippy cup of milk appears instead.
"You are Lukey," she breathes. "Bar remembers you."
But he pats Bar's anyways. Besides, it'd look a bit weird for a grown man to be drinking out of a sippy cup.
There's that frown again. He'd hurt his daddy's feelings and the fact that he didn't think he was Luke. "I think I'm at a loss."
"Then I don't know. I've never had to deal with him like that before."
"If I'd of let you explain all this earlier I probably wouldn't of told him what I did."
She pauses. "If I had know, I would have approached it differently. As it was, I merely assumed you were someone completely different."
He's a bit more relaxed now that he does know who she is though.
This mun thinks they've made progress. She just smiles wryly.
This mun thinks they've made definite progress which means this thing can finally go up. He finishes off his milk and just gives his twin a smile.
Leia rubs Bar again and a key materializes. "This is yours. For your room. It'll fit into one of the doors upstairs. And you won't be able to go back to wherever you came from until Bar shows you your out-door again."
He shakes his head a bit at the mention of going back. Going back may not be such a good idea. After all... its a place where he'd had blood on his hands. Literally.
"I'll be around." And then she's heading off to somewhere...
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