The Perk, Wednesday Morning

[likesscoundrels]

Leia had stayed on the island after confronting her father. She was still too wound up to go home, and she wanted to talk to Ben, and Jaina as well if Anakin had called her like he offered. And Anakin (the younger one) again. And maybe Rory, too

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[solo_sword]

Jaina had run through this conversation a hundred times in her head on the way here, but she knew that when it came down to it, she had no idea what kind of reaction she'd be facing when she actually got here. So she found Leia in the Force, ended up here, and reminded herself that she deserved any yelling she heard.

So into the Perk it was, greeting her with a quiet "Hey," and trying to gauge how this was going to go.

[likesscoundrels]

"He said he was going to call you," Leia said neutrally, though her voice was tired.

She couldn't resist a "At least that's one thing he didn't lie about."

[solo_sword]

"I guess that gives me some sense of how you're doing," Jaina said, taking a seat. She'd had a much easier version of this after they found the recordings on Artoo, but she really couldn't imagine what it had to be like to find that out without some idea of the story right off the bat...

[likesscoundrels]

"Why didn't you tell me?" Leia said flatly. She didn't want to lash out at Jaina, but she was having a hard time keeping her emotions under control. On some level she understood, though she still wanted to hear the reasons.

[momslilassassin]

Ben had felt Leia's presence on the island, then her, Anakin and his grandfather together and had drawn the wrong conclusion: that she'd been angry because no one had told her about Anakin Solo being here.

"I should have said something about him," he announced, walking into the coffee shop. "I'm sorry."

[likesscoundrels]

Leia, of course, totally mistook his meaning as well.

At last, someone who admits it," she said. "Why didn't you?"

[momslilassassin]

"It slipped my mind," Ben admitted.

[likesscoundrels]

"Slipped your mind?" Leia said incredulously. "How could something as important as that just slip your mind?"