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[OOM: Mara has a surgery, then wakes up...looking crappy.]

The door opens, and a pale, sallow skinned Mara Jade Skywalker pads through the door in hospital garb, a robe held tightly around her. One sleeve of the robe is bloody, from a ripped out IV.

She looks disoriented, then worried, turning to make sure the door is still there.

She shakily heads to a table and sits. Maybe getting up so soon wasn't a good idea.

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"Yeah, well, it happened. And, well, I guess it was sorta my fault. I should have been taking better care of myself and all. Things move on." Val hugs Mara again, perhaps more for her own comfort this time.

"Valentine." Mara suddenly gets stronger in her words, and her body too. She hits her on the arm. "Don't be stupid. You didn't do a thing to make that happen."

She moves away from her, shaking her head. "Valentine. I'm sure you did all the right things. You weren't dying from disease, fighting wars or anything like that. It was the Force, or your body. The baby wouldn't have been right." Her eyes are welling up with tears. "Don't be stupid!"

"Mara, please. Calm down." Val puts her hands up, amost in a gesture of self-defence. "I don't know what happened. Someone seemed to think that it was my fault, and I guess I just went along with it. Doesn't matter. Starlight's still not here."

"No, it does matter. It's not your fault. Never think that." Mara shakes her head. "They wouldn't let me think that almost dying, almost killing Ben was my fault, so this isn't yours."

Val just shrugs. "f you say so, Mara." She pauses, then blinks a couple times. "Er, sorry. You really didn't need that random outburst."

Mara shakes her head. "Stop it. You're still...thinking the wrong way. You're not being Valentine." Mara's voice shakes. She really needs the real Valentine right now. Stop being Faux-Val!

There are a few things that Val sticks on. This, for some reason, is one of them. "Shhh. Mara. It's alright. Don't worry about me. See? I'm still Valentine. Nothing's changed."

Mara looks away, tucking her head under her arms, and starts to cry. "Valentine, I think I'm going to die. I don't see myself in the future anymore."

Oh -no-. This is not something Val needed. Buggercrap. "Shhh, Mara. I'm sure that you're wrong. Really, you can't go around thinking you're going to die, because then you won't be as alert for things." She reaches out and pulls the other woman towards her. "Shhhh."

"I think it's the drugs. I must be depressed or something." Mara sniffs, clinging to Valentine. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to randomly say that. I guess better to you than Luke. Or Ben."

Hoo. Mara saying that to Ben? Eep.

"Shhh. It's alright, Mara. Really. You can dump whatever on me. I'm here to help. Tell me anything. I don't have anything else to do."

Mara hiccups softly. "I just feel so helpless right now. I got hurt, Jacen was hurt because of me, and Luke froze when I got hurt. He couldn't move...he's gotten over that now...but...what if something really bad happens to me? Would he be able to move on...and take care of Ben?"

"Luke's strong, Mara. Stronger than we all realize. He'll freeze in a situation, perhaps, but he always learns from it and moves on, and becomes even stronger from it." What? Val knows her husband. Or thinks she does.

"He can't bear to freeze in that position again, Valentine. He could be killed too. And then what would Ben do?" Mara shakes her head, shaking softly. "I think I should go home."

Val bites her lip. "Is there anything I can do, Mara? Help you home, or get you something, or... whatever." Her eyes are concerned. Deeply so.

"...I wish you could come with me...but then I'd get yelled at for wandering around with random people, instead of just being yelled at for wandering." Mara sighs. "Make sure I don't pass out on the way to the door?"

"I'd bop anyone who tried to yell at you." Her eyes flash for a moment as she stands, and holds out a hand to Mara. "Come on, Mara. Lean on me. And I'll keep taking care of Ben here, and send him home when he's not Bound. You don't have to worry about him."

"Okay. I might be back tomorrow. Physical therapy starts...and I might slip out." Mara stands and shuffles foward. "So I can see Ben."

Val reaches an arm around Mara, holding her up. "I'll tell him that you're coming. I'm sure he'll be glad to see you." She pause,s leading Mara to the door. "Just take care of yourself, promise me?"

Mara grips the handle. "Yes'm. Thanks Val. You're like...my best friend. You mean a lot. Thanks for taking care of Ben."

Val cracks a huge smile, and hugs Mara tightly, clinging for a moment, and talking more to Mara's hair. "I wouldn't let him just wander around. Care too much about him and you. Don't you worry about anything here. Just get yourself better."

"I will. Goodnight." Mara squeezes her once last time, then her hand, then slips through the door, carefully. Where she's yelled at by Luke, the Doctor, Jacen and Leia for getting out of bed. And she cries at them or something. And they feel bad and buy her stuff.

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