The beach- Thursday evening

[solo_sword]

Jaina's portal was delayed. She had no idea how a portal could be delayed, but here she was. After a while of waiting at the causeway, she'd come to the beach, figuring that if she was going to be stuck waiting, she should at least get a change of scenery.

Watching the waves made her think too much, though. About her grandfather and Tiny Mom,

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[auroryborealis]

After Leia left, Rory had spent the afternoon with the television turned off and playing with her daughter. And when Anakin had come home, she'd surrendered Juliet to him, because she knew him well, now. There was one daughter who unconditionally loved him now, at least, and he needed to remember that.

And she needed to make a phone call, anyway. So she'd escaped into their bedroom, searching through her contacts before she found the name she was looking for, and waited for Jaina to pick up.

[auroryborealis]

"In terms of them having some kind of reconciliation, and his getting out of this alive," Rory amended. "But then I didn't think our Vader would live, either and that ended up working out funny, so maybe I'm wrong."

[solo_sword]

"Things do happen differently sometimes," Jaina said. "She knows so much of what the Luke and Leia of my time found out a lot later that I'm not sure how that'll change anything, if it does."

[auroryborealis]

"I mostly hope she can still look at Anakin and talk to him," Rory replied. "Her Vader is something she'll have to deal with on her own, knowing what she does now. But Anakin's not going anywhere, and I'd hate to have this Leia alienate herself from him, too, like Luke's has."

[solo_sword]

"If she's anything like my mom, I think Luke's Leia just hasn't gotten there yet," she said. "It took years for her to come to grips with it, from what I've heard."

[auroryborealis]

"She sent a gift with Luke when Juliet was born," Rory conceded. "But yeah. And I can't blame her. I mean, my dad just kind of skipped out on us and was a flake, and I'm still getting over that. Leia gets all the time she needs. I just worry."

[solo_sword]

"Don't worry too much. She'll figure things out. It might not be right away, but she will." Jaina totally used the same logic her own mom did about herself, yes. What, it'd worked.