Combat- Tuesday- 2nd period- Class #13

[solo_sword]

At thirty-two, Jaina had participated in four wars, had ended a fifteen-year military career as a colonel leading the same squadron she'd first started out in, had led multiple squadrons that she'd had to break down and build up again, led weeks-long ground campaigns, had killed a Sith lord and was basically a Master level fighter. Teaching a class on combat was pretty far beneath her if we're being honest.

At sixteen, Jaina had only just, had battle experience that mostly consisted of "Uh oh, we're in trouble again, I hope this plan I just came up with right this second works," and only knew she was supposed to be here because it was on the calendar in her phone. Because of course the first thing Jaina did after she woke up in a strange apartment was to find the nearest gadget and find out what she could from it.

But being Jaina, she wasn't going to show that she had no idea what she was doing, especially when she thought this was all probably a Fandom thing, and tried to look cool about this. "Hi," she said, when everyone'd gotten to the Danger Shop. Because you better believe she'd figured that out already, too, and had jumped at the chance to use it. "Apparently I'm supposed to be here teaching Combat. I don't have any details on what I'm supposed to teach you-" And from now on adult Jaina would be giving herself more detailed notes just in case. "-so how about you find the thing you think you're best at and show me what you've got."

Look, you wake up and find out you had to deal with a class, okay?

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Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

So weird. So, so weird.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Why are you so karking short?" Cade demanded. "Well, shorter."

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"I'm always this height," Jaina shot back. No, seriously, she was barely taller as an adult and had learned by then that a little bit of a heel on your boot made you feel better helped. "Who are you, anyway?"

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"You're the teacher, shouldn't you know?"

Cade was so helpful.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"I'm not usually," Jaina said. "I have my own classes to go to. I think." Not that she knew what Combat was doing on the schedule when she wasn't taking it.

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Not that I know of," Cade said, then paused. "I don't follow you around or anything and keep track. That would be creepy."

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"Good," she said, eyeing him. "You still haven't told me who you are."

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade pondered his options and decided to go for the one that would make him be a pain in the ass.

"Luke Skywalker."

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

Jaina sighed. "So you're gonna be like that, huh?"

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I don't look like him?" Cade asked.

Yes, he's going to be like that.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"I'm telling him you're doing this. It sounds a lot like getting throttled might be a hobby of yours," Jaina said dryly.

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Oh, he can't hurt me," Cade said with a laugh.

The deathsticks saw to that.

"He doesn't even know me."

Well, hers wouldn't, at least.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"Then how do you know him?"

...Maybe this was a Tiger! thing.

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

It was Anakin's sacred duty as a little brother, even if he was currently the same age as Jaina, to be as much of a brat as possible.

"Bet you're not going to get any taller," he announced. He'd just hit his growth spurt. He was allowed.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"How is that any way to say hi?" Jaina groused. "...Not that I'm not glad to see you, but what are you doing here?"

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"I'm in your class," Anakin informed her Very Seriously. "At least bossing me around is familiar, if the rest is weird."

Anakin. Be nice.

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

Well, she was the big sister. Bossing around your little brother was part of the job description. "I don't get it. How do I even have a class?"

Re: Talk to Jaina

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"That's a really good question." He'd thought it was weird at first, too. "Why, did someone tell you you're too young? Since when has that ever stopped any of us?"

Anakin had decided it was kinder not to break her brain about being older, normally. He was entitled to change his mind about that later.

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[solo_sword]

"I'd like to see someone try to tell me that," Jaina scoffed. She wasn't too young to be a Rogue, so there. "But I mean... I'm a student here. This is so weird."

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Well, hello there, logic opportunity.

"Okay, you're a student here. You know how this place can get, right?" asked Anakin. "It's doing that again, sort of like when people turn into little kids."

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[solo_sword]

"Okay, then what's it doing?" Jaina asked. "Because it looks a lot like I woke up in the wrong version of the school."

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"More like the wrong time," Anakin told her. "And it's not just you, either. Grandfather looks like he's barely older than you are."

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[solo_sword]

"I have a bad feeling about this," Jaina sighed. "What do you mean the wrong time?"

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"Well," Anakin said (reasonably, he thought), "do you remember seeing anyone here around the dorms all the time? I go here, too, but you weren't a student any more by the time I arrived."

Re: Talk to Jaina

[solo_sword]

"...So you're saying I'm stuck in the future?"

See, it was things like having to say that that would make her hate this place in about a year's time.