Room 529 [early morning]

[momslilassassin]

Well, Tahiri and Ben had made it home from the dance last night without any embarrassing detours into the stables (don't ask. Just don't), and Ben was taking advantage of the warmth of sharing a bed to not get up for his early, early morning run.

In fact, he was currently pressing his luck and was trying to take more than his fair share of the covers.

[OOC: For Tahiri, then a small one, and great SP justice.]

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"Oh, please don't tell me I actually have to explain to you," Tahiri laughed. "Honestly, Ben, I couldn't spell it out any more clearly than I am right now."

Or, well, she could, but saying things like that seemed to be inviting trouble.

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Trouble like the kind knocking on the door, maybe?

If either of them thought to reach out in the Force, they'd recognize that presence.

"Mom! Dad!" King yelled from the hallway. "Wake up wake up it's not too early for ice cream!"

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Ben froze. "Stang."

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"It's not prom yet!" Tahiri blurted out, because she definitely recognized King's Force presence.

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"I don't have pants," Ben hissed. "Give us a second, King!"

Belatedly he remembered how literal he'd been as a child.

"I mean count to fifteen!" he amended. "Slowly!"

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Tahiri -- growling frantic-sounding things in Tusken -- desperately waved a hand at her dresser, sending several tunics and a pair of pants flying across the room at them.

"Really slowly," she added, almost falling out of bed as she scrambled off of Ben (and she'd just worked up the nerve to do some interesting new things) and up to get dressed.

"One, two, six," King was yelling from outside the door.

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"Count right or it doesn't count!" Ben yelled back, pulling on a pair of Tahiri's pants--not a good look--before reaching for his own.

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King's sigh was practically audible from the hallway, but he also wasn't above projecting his impatience at his parents in the Force.

"Three, four, five," he resumed, sounding more than a little sulky about it. "Daaaaaaaaaaddy, c'mon, I want ice cream!"

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"Not until there are two digits in the time," Ben made up.

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There was a long pause in the counting -- so good work there, Ben -- then:

"You've never made that rule up before, Daddy. Six-seven-eight . . .!"

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"Faster!" Ben hissed at Tahiri, "before he leaps on us."

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"That's a really interesting look," Tahiri had to comment about her pants, but she'd struggled into a clean tunic and was really not making a good accounting of herself, coordination-wise, trying to get her pants on. (They fit her better than they would Ben, of course.) "Hang on, King, we'll be right there!"

"Nine-ten-eleven-twelve . . ." Luckily he had to stop for breath there, but he was rattling at the doorknob.

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Ben was still trying to wrestle his dress pants into submission and had completely given up on getting a shirt on as well.

"This island," he whined. "Like the monkeys weren't bad enough."

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"There's monkeys?" King squealed, and it was a good thing he hadn't learned how to pick locks yet. "I wanna see the monkeys!"

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"The monkeys left," Ben said quickly. "Ask Aunt Leia to take you to the zoo instead."

Mean, Ben. Mean.

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That bought them a few more seconds to get dressed, at least.

"But I don't wanna get kidnapped, Daddy."

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Ben facepalmed. "That's not what I meant, kiddo."

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"Do you think we let her babysit for him before?" Tahiri had to ask as she opened the door, only to be promptly tacklehugged at the knees by a wee hyper boy.

. . . Leia had a track record. Sorry, Leia.

"Mommy hi!" King bawled gleefully. "Hi, Daddy!"

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"Welcome back," Ben said. "You got big!"

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"I did!" King detached himself from Tahiri and bounced over to Ben, reaching up in a silent but obvious plea for a hug. "I'mma get my first lightsaber soon. Right?"

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Ben reached down to hug him. "You know we have to make sure Granddad is okay with it," he said, trying to hide a grin at how his father would react to that title.

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Tahiri glanced at Ben and didn't even try to hide her own grin at the thought.

"He'll probably make you listen to all the stories about Tenel Ka's first lightsaber a million times, first," she told King, wondering if certain details of that story got left out in King's timeline. Or . . . timelines.

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"If I had a credit for every time I've heard it," Ben said, smiling, "I could buy a moon."

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". . . can you buy a moon, Daddy?" King asked. He did believe his dad could do anything, after all. "Like Uncle Lando?"

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"Probably smaller than what Uncle Lando would get," Ben admitted, "but Uncle Lando has all of those credits from his autobiography."