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[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

[OOM: Upstairs in Zekk's room, Jaina goes to tell him she's leaving Milliways and the two realize that even with the mindmeld gone, they're still connected.]

There was a door there on the wall some minutes earlier and now, when Jaina rushes back downstairs after talking to Zekk, it's still there. It's there and this means she and Jag can leave and finally go home.

Which explains the big smile on her face and the impatient foot tapping as she waits by the bar for her husband to come downstairs with their belongings.

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[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"I've already seen Zekk." Jaina smiles softly, still able to sense him clearly in the Force. "He'll be fine."

She pauses, moving awkwardly away from her leaning position against the bar and shoving her hands into her pockets. "Thanks. You'll be okay without me here, eh?"

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"I won't destroy the Bar or go off fighting Scarrans if that's what you're asking."

Aeryns face became serious, not unhappy, just thoughtful.

"I might go back myself. But likely you'll be back by then."

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

She chuckles and gives Aeryn a look that clearly says 'yeah kriffing right.'

"I hope so. As sick as I am of this place, I don't think I'd want to stay away too long."

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"If you aren't back in a few monens, I will personally hunt you down."

It's supposed to be reassuring.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"If it means adventure, I'll take you up on that offer. By then, I'll probably have succumbed from a domestic teaching life."

She's joking. Mostly.

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure all it would take to perk you up would be the threat of an old friend visiting."

And a couple of high-grade explosives.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"You visiting would be more of a threat to Jag than to me."

Jaina grins and at the mention of her husband's name, automatically looks towards the stairs to see if he's down yet.

"Remind me to take you there sometime after Jag and I figure things out."

Like, where to live.

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"Just make sure there's something to do."

The thought of utter boredom while tiny Fels ran about underfoot. Yuck.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

Hey, Jaina wants those tiny Fels running about underfoot!

"What? The idea of a domestic life not exactly appeal to you?"

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

Well, they'd be able to help their mother reach the high shelves in the kitchen :P

"In the right place, maybe."

With the right person.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

:O! ...that's what the housekeeping droid's for.

"It'll be astral. I guarentee it."

Jaina nods, almost as if she's reassuring herself of this choice. Like it or not, the honeymoon's officially over.

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"Guarantee it with a lot of whisky-" Aeryn smirked, sliding her fingers through the loops on her trousers.

"-and I'm there."

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

Jaina grins and rolls her eyes. "Aeryn, you'll be visiting the household of a couple of Corellians."

Jag's Chiss upbringing non-withstanding, of course.

"You won't need to worry about a supply of whisky."

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"And don't invite Wes, he'll drink it all."

She was operating under the illusion that Jaina would invite more than just her.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't exactly planning on it," Jaina replies dryly.

Not even to babysit someday in the future. Jaina remembers what Wes babysitting was like.

Not good. Or astral. Depending on a certain point of view.

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"Some other pilots would be fine to invite." Aeryn shifted again, turning to look at the door.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"Like?" Jaina flashes Aeryn a doubtful look. "I don't know if you've realized this yet or not, but I don't exactly have a lot of friends back home. There aren't a lot of people to invite."

Unless you count everyone she knows in Milliways.

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

Aeryn was.

"People here. Plenty of people here."

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't necessarily mean I want them in my house."

Her house. That sounds a little weird. Hers and Jag's.

"'sides, half of the ones I know here are back home anyway."

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"Just me, then?" She sounded surprised, the slight lowering of her voice could have conveyed gratefulness or delayed shock.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" Jaina asks with a shrug. "Might bring Sam by at somepoint, too. But I don't think Jag would appreciate our home overflowing with guests."

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"That's because he's a nerfer."

Learn alien swearing with Aeryn! Really, she adores Jag. Can't you tell?

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"Nerfherder," Jaina corrects, although the mun doubts her spelling of the word. "If you're going to insult my husband, at least get the word right."

[just-a-soldier.livejournal.com]

"It is right." At least for her world. "I have no idea what a nerfherder is."

Someone who herds Nerfs, the mun would think.

[jedipilot.livejournal.com]

"Someone who herds nerfs," she says matter-of-factly, rolling her eyes. "Please, Aeryn. Don't make me bring you to a nerf ranch when you visit."

They smell. Badly.