The Perk, Wednesday Morning

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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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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."

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

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

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"It slipped my mind," Ben admitted.

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

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Because his galaxy had been going through two four seventeen years of almost non-stop things?

He dropped his gaze. "I told Tahiri and Jaina instead," he said.

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Now that statement confused Leia. "I thought Jaina already knew," she said. She'd told Leia she'd known all her life.

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"Well, she saw him when she was here a few weeks back," Ben mused, "but I didn't want Tahiri to run into him without realizing he was here. They kind of dated for a while, you know."

Either Leia would tune in that they were talking past each other or think her father was Really Odd.

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That definitely clued her in that they were talking about entirely different things.

"You're talking about Anakin," she said. Wait, that didn't narrow it down. "My son. I'm talking about your grandfather. Who he really is."

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Ben took one look around and gave a Force-shove to any lingering squirrels. "Kind of asthmatic?" he replied.

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"With a tendency to dismember his son?" Leia confirmed.

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"Only the once!" Ben protested. "...per timeline," he tacked on.

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"That's good to know at least," Leia said. "I prefer your father in one piece. Your grandfather I'm not so sure about right now."

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"I bet," Ben replied. "I wasn't really thrilled to meet him myself."

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"How did you reconcile it?" Leia had to know. "What you knew he'd done and coming to know him here?"

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Ben was quiet for a moment. "How much do you remember of that weekend when you went evil?" he finally asked.

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Leia closed her eyes, trying not to flinch. "I try not to think about it much," she said. "It's not all clear. But I don't like what I remember."