Skywalker Apartment [Thursday afternoon]

[auroryborealis]

Rory's maternity leave didn't start for another month, but she was starting to wish she'd somehow arranged it earlier. For all that she loved her job, she hadn't really anticipated how much fun her commute would be near the end of her pregnancy. Or how much she'd love having to get up four times during a meeting. Or how hard it'd be to bring her

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[likesscoundrels]

Funny how Rory's feeling was absolutely correct. Leia had talked to Jaina and Ben the day before, and was still trying to work through her feelings about what she'd learned about her father. Talking to Rory was definitely on her agenda because she knew Rory had known Anakin when he was younger, before he'd been Vader, and then after, of course, and she'd still married him.

So she'd left the island to make her way to the apartment, knowing Anakin wouldn't be there since he'd be in Fandom teaching. Ethics. Oh irony.

She knocked on the door.

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"Door!" cried a little voice through...well, the door, followed by the sound of little feet running over. A moment later (Rory didn't exactly hop off the couch these days), Rory turned the knob, and the expression on her face wasn't exactly one of surprise, but resignation. It wasn't that she wasn't happy to see Leia. It was that she knew why she was here.

Juliet didn't, though. "Leia!" she shrieked happily, flinging herself at her alternate-universe-half-sister's legs in glee. Oh, to be two.

Rory was a bit more reserved. "I thought you might be stopping by," she offered with a small smile. "Come on in."

[likesscoundrels]

Leia bent down to scoop Juliet into her arms and hug her. "Hi, Juliet," she said, giving her a smile that wasn't entirely forced.

When she stood to look at Rory, she blurted out, "You're pregnant." She hadn't realized she had another alternate-universe-half-sibling on the way.

[auroryborealis]

"No one told you?" Rory asked, eyes widening as she winced. "Oops. Um, yeah, I'm due at the end of May-ish."

"Mommy's fat so big sister can find her," Juliet assured Leia.

"Little brother," Rory corrected in an undertone. "She's in for a surprise."