The gym [Sunday afternoon]

[momslilassassin]

After calling Jaina to let her know that her great-grandkid or something had just showed up, Ben decided that his normally insane workout routine on the weekends hadn't been enough to get all of his repression energy out.

So he was back in the gym, hitting a punching bag like it had personally offended him.

It hadn't--no sentient gym equipment here today!--but he was giving it a good whalloping anyway.

[OOC: So very interruptable.]

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[suitably_heroic]

Okay, so Atton was still lying low. He had been lying low since he'd gotten to Nar Shaddaa, in fact.

But see, the thing about the refugee sector was that it didn't exactly come packed with anything resembling a gym, and he'd fallen into the habit of regular exercise back during the Mandalorian Wars.

So yeah, he was absolutely going to swagger in here and take a look around. Including at the kid who was laying it into that punching bag like it had killed his mother or something.

"Hey, don't break that."

[momslilassassin]

"Oh, they build the equipment around here to last," Ben said with a little smile, stepping back from the bag. "I have to work pretty hard to break it."

[suitably_heroic]

"Then do me a favor and don't work pretty hard," Atton retorted. "Haven't seen a decent gym in months."

[momslilassassin]

"Long trip here?" Ben asked, moving over to a mat to start on his sit-ups.

[suitably_heroic]

"No, where I used to be didn't exactly put 'personal exercise programs' high up on its priority list," Atton said. He took off his jacket, hanging it off the nearest piece of equipment that looked like it wasn't being used.

[momslilassassin]

"And where was that?" Ben asked between sit-ups, looking interested.

[suitably_heroic]

"A lovely little slumhole called Nar Shaddaa, don't know if you've ever heard of it," he said.

Okay, the machines were a little unfamiliar, but he could figure this out. Weights were weights, right?

[momslilassassin]

Ben made a face. "With the Hutts? Eww."

[suitably_heroic]

"Yeah, if I never see a Hutt again in my life, it won't be long enough," Atton said, sitting down by the weights.

[momslilassassin]

"Can't fault you there," Ben said. "You've found the showers, right? After time with the Hutts, I'd be using up all the hot water."

[suitably_heroic]

"I found them."

He'd use them. Some time.

Atton reached over to pick through the available weights. "What corner of the galaxy are you from?" he said conversationally.

Kind of hoping he wasn't running into one of Glowery Bantha-breath Skywalker's Jedi relatives here.

[momslilassassin]

"Coruscant," Ben replied, "but I don't spend much time there. Too many other places to see, you know?"

[suitably_heroic]

"I wouldn't know, I've been stuck on the old home planet for most of my life," Atton lied, counting weights in his head. "Wouldn't be out here at all if it wasn't for the war."

[momslilassassin]

"This is a depressing thing to ask," Ben said, "but which war?"

[suitably_heroic]

"The one that started it or the one that came right afterwards?" Atton asked. "Because we've been having a couple."

[momslilassassin]

Ben stared. "So have we," he said. "What were you doing with the Hutts?"

[suitably_heroic]

"My planet got bombed, and I didn't feel like sticking around," he said. "I think I liked the Mandalorians better."

[momslilassassin]

Ben made another face. "Who the kriff likes Mandos? Other than fanboys and Karen Traviss, obviously."

NFB

[suitably_heroic]

"Well, the Mandos didn't blow up my planet," Atton said.

Considering he'd fought them for several years, he was putting on a real good show.

"The Jedi did."

Re: NFB

[momslilassassin]

Ben's jaw dropped. He'd never heard anything about that.

Well, other than Kyp. And Alderaan didn't really count as a Jedi thing. And Centerpoint wasn't really a planet.

It occurred to Ben then that his galaxy was really screwed up.

"What?"

Re: NFB

[suitably_heroic]

"Or whatever they're calling themselves these days," Atton continued on. He picked up one of the weights, having decided. "Jedi Civil War's turning out to be even worse than what came before it."

Re: NFB

[momslilassassin]

"We never kriffing learn, do we," Ben groaned, slinging his arm over his eyes and wondering where Zayne was.

Re: NFB

[suitably_heroic]

"So you're one of Skywalker's kids, or close enough," Atton deduced. "Great. I walked straight from the Hutt den into Jedi breeding central."

Re: NFB

[momslilassassin]

"Hey now," Ben said, peering out from under his arm. "First, grandkid. Second, not that many of us around. Third, I'm way more astral than he is."

Re: NFB

[suitably_heroic]

"You sound like a real Jedi," Atton commented. He was starting with the smaller weights to get his muscles going again, but that didn't keep him from sending mildly wary looks in Ben's direction. "So no, you don't learn."