fandomhigh | Flight Club - Flight Shed, Monday (After Classes)

Your intrepid club leaders didn't look particularly cheerful today, after the weekend. And Tahiri, in particular, looked like she was ready to climb into an actual cockpit and not just a simulation -- crisp flight suit, boots (ugh), very compact travel bag.

"Hey, guys," she said, hands tucked behind her back. "After this weekend we could probably use a pretty easy day, huh?"

Ben kept sneaking glances at her outfit, looking unhappy. "Or possibly a chance to shoot things in a safe environment," he added. Which he really wanted to do. "So our land-based option today is speeder bikes," he said, then went through the basic controls of one.

"You'll like those," Tahiri added, going for cheerful and missing by a few centimeters. "If you think you're up for it, today's spaceflight option is one that isn't actually from our galaxy, even though the ship looks kind of similar to some of our snubfighters . . . it's a Viper Mark II." It was her turn to go over the controls there, which took a while; the Mark II wasn't known for having a technologically advanced instrument panel. "The tricky thing about these is they don't carry lasers. Those guns carry actual ammo. Well -- simulated actual ammo, anyway, so it'll have a different kind of kick. Just keep that in mind while you're shooting things, okay?"

Ben nodded. "Have fun, guys."

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How glad are you to be yourself again?

Unless you're not . . .

Because you can't all party in the simulator.

In your two subthread options . . .

There are several terrain options for you to choose from, but plenty of things to shoot no matter what.

Seriously, this thing is awfully primitive looking if you ask Tahiri, much less Ben . . .

They're there! If not in the best of moods . . .

And Force only knows what Anakin's mood is like.

Don't you just love the aftermath of AU weekend?

Leia Organa, not a Sith Lady

~~Presuming Ben had actually let her out,~~ Leia was there. She was fairly subdued, but she wasn't the type to hide her in room due to emo, so. Besides, if her father was going to be there, she really need to talk to him. And Tahiri.

If you wanted to talk to Tahiri, you'd better do it before the club meeting was over; she looked like she was taking off right after that.

Leia indeed wanted to talk to her. "Tahiri?" she said, approaching her slowly.

Well, he wasn't going to kriffing cry about anything today, but he was the very definition of Unhappy today.

Thank you for the voicemails, Ben.

Ben was there after he'd taken a turn shooting the hell out of fake things, looking a little more relaxed.

But not much.

And the subject of said voicemails wanted to speak to him. "Master Skywalker," Leia said. Calling him "father" still felt too weird. "Dad" was out of the question.

"You had a busy weekend," Anakin observed, keeping a throttle-hold on his temper, at least for the moment.

Tahiri had a good idea why he wasn't looking much more relaxed, or at least one of the reasons. She slipped over, silently, and gave his hand a quick squeeze.

Tahiri gave her a long, quiet, assessing look before nodding. "Hi, Leia."

"I still don't understand what happened," Leia said quietly. "I wasn't myself. I'm not sure who I was." Someone filled with anger and a lust for power, that much was certain. She tried to sort through the confusing memories. "I didn't even recognize Ben and Tahiri. I didn't know you at all, either."

"I'm sorry," Leia said. "I don't know what happened to me. I would never hurt you like that." She still didn't know how she'd had the ability to do what she'd done.

"No. I suppose you wouldn't." It was the only thing Tahiri could say, but she couldn't really put a lot of conviction into the words. She shrugged. "Anything's possible. But I know it wasn't really you."

Which was the only reason she hadn't taken off already.

"Do you really believe that, or are you just saying it?" Leia had to ask, not liking that lack of conviction. "I have no idea who I was or what I was doing. I don't even know how I did that. It doesn't make sense." Well, it did if she thought about it a little bit, but still.

Lying to Leia always had been pointless.

"It's always dangerous to rule out a possibility completely," she answered, glancing away. "It was a completely different version of you, but in some sense she still existed, and she still tried to hurt us. I don't hold it against you -- but I can't forget it, either."

"It's not possible," Leia said, shaking her head and scowling, not at Tahiri but at the idea that she could be so evil. "That's not who I am."

He knew it sounded petulant as soon as it came out: "Do you really have to leave?"

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