Room 424 [late morning]

[momslilassassin]

After running his errands in town, Ben was sitting on his bed trying to figure out how fit both his clothes and all of the chocolate he'd bought for Aravis into the small bag he'd planned on taking with him.

The door was open.

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"You going somewhere, too?" John asked, leaning in the doorway as he liked to do in these situations.

He would not talk about how his bags were packed and he was ready to go and there was totally a jet plane waiting on him to leave. Even if all that was true, this was not that movie, thank god.

[momslilassassin]

"I'm going to visit Aravis for a week," he said, then what John said sank in. "Too. You're leaving."

His shoulders slumped.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," he hated goodbyes, but it said something that he was willing to seek certain people out to say them. "I'd promote the part where I'm taking your cousin with me for a week, but that won't help you if you're off with Aravis."

[momslilassassin]

"I needed somewhere without any relatives," Ben said a little vehemently.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"It's getting to be a little much, huh?" John asked.

[momslilassassin]

"Two Jainas, two Dads, an infant aunt and Granddad. Yeah," Ben said. "And that's not counting Tahiri."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

That was a lot of family. "Well, if you need another getaway, I've got golf passes and access to the bay. You don't even have to call ahead."

[momslilassassin]

"Would you tell Jaina?" Ben asked, sounding a little wary.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John paused because he knew he'd messed that up. "See, I sort of have to tell Jaina some things," he said. "Not the how or the why, but she freaks out when she thinks I'm lying to her."

[weetuskenraider]

"Remember, you have to come back in one piece," Tahiri said from the doorway.

These sorts of disclaimers were necessary, okay?

[OOC: Soooo gonna be slow until later . . .]

[momslilassassin]

Ben smiled. "The worst thing that could happen is Aravis deciding she doesn't like chocolate any more," he said, "or I fall off a horse."

[weetuskenraider]

"In that case, all the advice I can give you is to have fun," she replied with a grin of her own. "Want anything from Arrakis?"

[momslilassassin]

"Sand?" Ben teased.

[weetuskenraider]

"Just for that, that's exactly what you're going to get," Tahiri told him.

[momslilassassin]

"Sand cookies?" he tried.

[weetuskenraider]

"Keep pushing it, Skywalker." Tahiri let herself in and headed toward him. "You'll get one grain of sand . . . if I don't lose it."

[momslilassassin]

"That's just cruel, Veila," Ben replied. "And here I was going to find you something nice."

[glacial_queen]

"Kiss kiss," Karla called, popping her head in. "You going on the trip?" They hadn't gotten around to discussing Ben's plans for the upcoming break. She eyed his pile curiously. "That's a lot of stuff."



[Feel free to be ignoring this thread if you like. Just wanted to establish Karla's nosy around]

[momslilassassin]

"I'm visiting one of my best friends this week while my mun attends a family reunion," Ben said with a grin. "Her name's Aravis. I think you two would really get along."

[glacial_queen]

"Both a good friend of yours and a female? We probably would. Though I'm intrigued to know just what you were thinking when you said it." She gave him a dark look from his doorway. "Smart-ass."

[momslilassassin]

"Yes, I am," Ben said with a grin. "I got that from my mother."

[glacial_queen]

"She sounds like a most proper witch, then," Karla said, unconsciously referring to Mara Jade as if she were Kaeleeran. "She must have been, though, to steal Luke away from me. What we had was magical."

[momslilassassin]

Ben laughed. "I'm sure it was," he said. "Want to see a picture of what he looks like now? I promise he didn't get fat and bald."

[glacial_queen]

"Sure," she said. "May I enter, then?"

[momslilassassin]

"Please," Ben said, waving her inside and reaching for the mini holoprojector on his desk.