Third floor common room [afternoon]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke had been cooped up entirely too long as he'd recovered from the effects of last weekend.

It was time to be social.

Or--as he was currently doing--catching up on his Food Network shows.

Alton Brown ruled.

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[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori didn't want to be in her room any longer, so she figured the common room would be a good place to hang out for a little while.

She was still thinking about the meeting Billy had yesterday, and hoped whatever they had planned would work against the aliens.

Walking into the common room, Tori saw the Food Network was on and grinned. She loved that channel.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke waved from where he was sprawled out on a couch. "Hi, Tori! Alton's making cinnamon rolls."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Hey Luke." Tori smiled and waved back at him. "Alton's awesome." It was probably all Kelly's fault, ever since Tori had taking that cooking class at Storm Chargers, she couldn't get enough of the Food Network.

"I should say, welcome back. How was your trip home?" She asked as she made her way over to the couch.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke opened his mouth to tell her, then looked confused.

There was a lot of story to tell.

"We won," he finally decided on. "The Emperor is dead."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori noticed the confusion but then it passed. She smiled brightly, "Oh, that's great Luke! I'm really happy for you."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke's smile broadened. "My father came back with me."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"You seem really happy about that." Tori grinned. "That's wonderful."

[OOC: I'm trying to remember past conversations between them, I don't think Tori knows Vader is his father, right?]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke was beaming. "People are excited to see him again. They thought he was dead."

Occasionally Luke could be willfully oblivious to certain...truths.

[OOC: Nope, he never mentioned it :).]

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Oh wow, well then I'm really glad he's back here, with you." Tori smiled sincerely.

[OOC: Okay, I didn't think so. :D]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"He's going to teach Ethics now," Luke told her, "since Vader's never coming back."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco stumbled into the common room, looking like had been run over by a small truck. Or elephant.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Very cool." Tori remarked, with a smile. "I guess that's good, that he's not coming back, right?" She knew a little bit about Vader, from what Luke had told her.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke raised an eyebrow. "What happened to you?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Definitely," Luke said. "He helped to kill the Emperor, but my galaxy is a better place without either of them."

Luke was very good at compartmentalizing.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori nodded, knowing exactly what Luke meant. "At least in the end, he did something right." Always optimistic.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy looking like he was tryng not to look frantic, came in, as if he was looking for someone.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke grinned. "Exactly. There's good in almost everyone."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori smiled, glad to see someone else believed that. "Sometimes, you just have to look for it."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"What's the matter?" Luke asked immediately.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Twelve hours of video games. Not my brightest moment. But I beat the entire game!"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Billy?" Tori became concerned when she saw him. "What's wrong?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Really, really hard," Luke admitted.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"What kind of game?" Luke asked. "Shooting or flying?"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori chuckled. "Yeah."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"How have you been?" Luke asked, turning his attention to her.