The gym, Friday morning

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Aeryn's in a much better mood than she should be, really. John can be really good for that sometimes. She heads down to the gym, starting in on the bag as a warmup, but she's not trying to kill it today.

Okay, just a little. But not too bad.


[For Luke. Also, I'm going to work soon, but feel free to use for all your gymly needs.]

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"Morning," Luke said with a small smile as he came into the gym.

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"Hi," Aeryn greets him, moving away from the bag. "Better week?"

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Luke nodded and smiled. "It was good to see friends from home."

He didn't realize he'd added a plural to the "friend."

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"Rory told me about your friend Leia," she says, because she did notice. "I didn't know you had more."

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Luke blushed. "Um, Ben was here too," he said. "Even though he's dead. He said it was a Jedi thing."

His eyes begged for Aeryn not to think he was insane.

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Aeryn raises her eyebrows, but knowing there are some things about that whole Jedi thing she's never going to get, and the fact that her boyfriend sees things that totally aren't there... "How's he been?"

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Luke smiled, relieved. "Fine, I guess. He didn't exactly stick around that long. Just gave me a quick lesson in Jedi techniques, said a few cryptic things and disappeared."

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"Good visit, though?"

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Luke nodded. "I wasn't expecting him, you know, ever again."

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Aeryn doesn't ask if all Jedi can do that, because that would just be mean to both of them. "Good. Rory seemed to like Leia a lot. And her hair."

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Luke was thinking along those same lines anyway and was glad not to address that issue. "Leia gave Rory instructions on how to do her hair like she does as a birthday gift," he said with a small smile. He held his hands up in fists over his ears. "It would look like this."

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Aeryn tilts her head a little, trying to picture it. "That's... interesting."

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Luke shrugged. "Leia said it was based off of some famous Senator from Naboo back when there was a Republic."

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She kind of can't believe anyone got taken seriously like that, but she's not going to say it. It has to be a cultural thing. "I'm sorry I didn't get to meet her."

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"Me too," Luke said, and meant it. "Do you need to kill the bag again this week?" he asked.

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"I can do that later. Do you need to?" she asks.

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Luke shook his head. "I think I'm not going to hurt anyone accidentally this week," he said.

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"That was a concern last week?" she asks.

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Luke bit his lip. "I don't like feeling out of control," he said, "and last week...was not great." The very act of admitting that put him about twenty years ahead of Anakin in emotional development.

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"Understandable," says Aeryn. "What do you do to get back in control?"

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"Figure out what the problem was and then try to fix it," Luke said with a small smile. "I talked to Rory."

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"I assume it went all right?" says Aeryn. Who should probably learn a thing or two from Luke.

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Luke shrugged. "As well as it could. I'm not going to like the guy, but I'm pretty sure I won't like anyone who kisses Rory."

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"I've still got the automatic mental association of 'Rory and Anakin'," she admits. "I like Bridge, it's just... Taking some getting used to."

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Luke shrugged again. "I didn't like him that much to begin with," he mumbled. "This isn't helping."

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Aeryn frowns a little and asks, "What did he do?" It's hard for her to think Luke would just dislike someone without a reason.

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"He makes machines do weird things," Luke said, and he still didn't know why this upsets him so much. "Computers shouldn't make food. It's not right."

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She opens her mouth to protest, then remembers the toaster. She closes her mouth again.

"Still, he did make the DRD," she points out.

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"What's a DRD?" Luke asked.

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"If you ever see a small yellow robot roaming around the halls, that's a DRD," she explains. "They're from my world. Seen on Leviathans to do repairs and maintenance and cleaning. I had one built for John for Christmas."

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"Oh, like the messanger droids on the Death Star!" Luke chirped. "But they were black." He smiled. "I'll keep an eye out for it."

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"It's not something I could have gotten myself, as I honestly thought that any trip I made home would have been a one-way trip, so I was able to improvise," Aeryn says. "I don't think it can make food, but it can fry things pretty well."

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Luke giggled. "So can Artoo. It doesn't mean I want him to cook."

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"Ar-too?" she asks slowly, not sure she's pronouncing it right.

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Luke nodded. "R2-D2," he said. "He's the astromech droid that normally helps to fly the X-Wing, but he can also crack comm equipment, break locks, and generally get into all kinds of trouble." He smiled. "He can't cook, though."

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"He can if you crack open an egg on his dome in Tunisia. You realize now I'm thinking of all the ways one of those would be good to have around here," she says.

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"That's why you shouldn't leave Ewan with time on his hands. Artoo is pretty handy," Luke admitted. "It's certainly a lot tougher to fly the X-Wing without him. He's the reason I survived the Death Star run at all, really."

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"Why couldn't you bring him?" Aeryn wonders.

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"Becuase running Artoo could be a fulltime jobThe techs back home wanted to run some diagnostics on it," Luke said. "He's pretty old for a droid and he got fried pretty good in the Death Star run."

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"Still in working condition, though?" she asks, a little hopefully.

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"Good as new," Luke said cheerfully. "Probably better. I'm sure he's home annoying the protocol droid. It's his favorite hobby."

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"You have protocol droids?" she asks, thinking the name itself is pretty self-explanatory.

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"Threepio understands more than 6 million forms of communciation," Luke said. "But he's a bit of a worrier." He frowned. "Which is unusual in a droid. Most of them don't really get personalities."

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"I think it just tends to happen somehow. Most of the time I think Bertram's being a brat on purpose," Aeryn admits, frowning at the thought. "I don't understand it myself."

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Luke finally set himself into his defensive sparring posture. "A memory wipe tends to get rid of the more...bizarre things they've picked up. Han thinks a hydropsanner to the head will clear up the rest of them." He laughed. "So now Threepio stays out of throwing distance."