fandomhigh | Combat- Tuesday- 2nd period- Class #13

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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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.

"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?"

"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.

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?"

"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.

"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."

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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"...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.

"No, I think it's closer to what happens when half the school turns into little kids for a few days," Anakin decided. "Unless the you who's supposed to be teaching this class somehow switched places with you; I can only sense one of you in the Force."

"Wait. Wait wait wait, the school turns us into what?"

Someone hadn't found out about how she'd turn seven one day yet.

"You --" Anakin blinked. "You mean that hasn't even happened to you yet?"

You know what, Anakin? Just enjoy the one and only time, probably, that you're going to know stuff other people don't know yet.

"No yet," Jaina insisted. "If I have to have this happen, I should get an out on that."

Oh, Jaina, like you'd ever get an out on any of this stuff, ever.

Anakin crossed his arms and gave her a very Solo kind of stubborn look. "If I had to turn into a tiny kitten, you should at least have to be a little kid for a weekend. Otherwise it's not fair."

Well that changed everything, Anakin.

Actually it didn't, but it did get her to drop the attitude. "You turned into a kitten?"

Again, Jaina, just wait.

Anakin scowled a little harder. Just ignore the tiny, tiny hint of a smile at one corner of his mouth.

"Do you know how hard it is to hold a hydrospanner with paws?" he whined, and that was only half joking. Maybe half. Probably less.

"Probably can't hold it in your mouth that way, either." Said she who was going to be placed into cups for funsies at some point.

"I know," Anakin mumbled. "I tried. Stop enjoying this so much."

It'd just be karma later.

"Hey, I'm the one in the wrong time or whatever here," Jaina pointed out. "I should get to enjoy something."

"That's not the part that worries me," Anakin countered. "It's the part where you'll never let me forget it."

"Sure I will," she totally lied.

"You're my big sister." Anakin thought that argument stood on its own.

"Except not that much bigger at the moment."

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