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sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-04-21 03:30 am
sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-04-21 03:30 am
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Memory 62
Memory: Early temple reconstruction and reminiscing with Zekk.
Received: Day 240, after "tea time."
Form: Tea cookies. 3/4
Summary: Jaina and Zekk bond again as recovery and repair from them being on opposite sides of a conflict gets well under way. And they do so by revisiting a mutual love of impromptu skinnydipping possibly in inappropriate places.
Shards of Alderaan opens with Jaina sore and sweaty from heavy labor. Narrative specifies that she's been at it for hours even though it's so early in the morning the entire place is foggy with mist. The Jedi Academy's ancient temple on Yavin 4 was blown up, and she's helping with reconstructing it. People are working on improvised scaffolding she designed out of saplings. She climbs to the top of the rubble and surveys how things proceeding, others are gathering and cataloguing debris for proper assembly. She's pretty sure the damage isn't as bad as it looks. After all, the temple was really well-built, and survived thousands of years of jungle deterioration.
She watches Tenel Ka, Raynar Thul and wookie Lowbacca work for a little while, and thinks that reconstruction is a good sign for the future. With the Imperial Remnant defeated, the New Republic can focus on building a brighter future.
There's an accident: a reptilian beat of burden gets confused, runs into a wall and knocks a bunch of stuff down. It's frightened, so charges off into the woods. Jacen goes to get it while Jaina and the others restore order back at the temple.
Finally at night, when she's not working on the temple or helping Lowie repair his sky hopper, she finds himself drawn outside. Jaina can't sleep; she goes by Zekk's room three times and he's asleep each time before deciding to just go walk alone outside.
She sits by a river, dipping the soles of her boots in the water and watching mud wash off. There's a teenage moment of worrying about change: how the academy feels different, her classes, the other students, the very landscape. It can't be bad, in light of what she was thinking about earlier. But she's not ready for so many changes all at once. She throws a few rocks into the water and contemplates how complicated things seem after her first light/dark side conflict.
A stone skips by, thrown by Zekk. He's in bad shape, seems like he can barely stand, and they joke that he looks. . . alive. Just barely. She invites him to sit next to her, and he awkwardly asks her to walk with him instead. They wade a bit to cross the river, and Jaina jokes, "Well, then, what are we wading for?" He accuses her of letting Jacen be a bad influence on her.
They wander across the river and onto land, eventually coming across the demolished shield generator site. Zekk observes that the Imperial commandos were thorough, and Jaina actually stops to turn over whether or not he sounds proud before concluding he just sounds disappointed. She explains Leia is sending new equipment and assigning a military guardian force that will stay in orbit. (It's not noted here, but. It is the second time the Imperial Remnant has nearly destroyed the academy, and both times no one was in position to defend against the fleet in space.)
Zekk comments that he and Master Brakiss thought their defenses were pitiful and it was stupidly naive to leave the academy so unprotected. Jaina says Luke was confident in his students, and they stand awkwardly for a while. She voices her concern about how all the changes feel strange.
Jaina: Zekk, do you remember the time on Coruscant when we slipped out in the middle of the night and went swimming in the fountain in Dhalbreth Square?
Zekk: And the glowfish we disturbed made so much light that the New Republic security forces came running after us. Of course I remember.
Jaina: I wish we could be like that again, back in those days, without everything that happened... afterward. Zekk, if you stay here at the Jedi academy, Uncle Luke can teach you the right way to use the Force. We could have adventures together again, you and I-and Jacen and Lowie and Tenel Ka. We're thinking about going to the Alderaan system to get a gift for my mother's birthday. A memento of her home from the asteroid field there. You could come with us.
Zekk: [murmuring] I wish I could just go home.
Jaina: When we get back from Alderaan you could start your training. A fresh start.
Zekk: [bringing his voice back up] Jaina --
Jaina: Of course, you might not want to build a new lightsaber at first. It might be too painful. You could wait a couple of years for that. I'm sure Uncle Luke would-
Zekk: Jaina. Jaina, look at me.
He takes her shoulders and gives her a "gentle shake." They look each other in the eyes.
Zekk: I'm not the same person I was when you knew me before, Jaina. I can't be. Not anymore. And you're not the same person either.
Jaina: But you're back now. We can start over.
Zekk: Maybe you can't understand where I've been... or what I've been. I'm not an innocent anymore. I've known real power and used it. I've killed face-to-face and been proud of it. That's not something I can forget. I can't erase everything and go back to what I was. ven if it were possible, I m not sure I'd do it. I can't just pretend that nothing's changed. You're right about one thing, though. This is a new start. For me, and for all of us. I can't go back, but I can go forward.
Jaina: What will you do?
Zekk: I don't know yet, but I can't stay here. Not at the Jedi Academy.
Tense pause.
Jaina: Wherever you go, whatever you decide to do... I'll still be your friend, Zekk.
Zekk: I'd like that. . . . You know, it's been a long time since we went for a swim together. Of course, there aren't any fountains handy, and no glowfish in the river, but...
Jaina: Race you to the water.
Received: Day 240, after "tea time."
Form: Tea cookies. 3/4
Summary: Jaina and Zekk bond again as recovery and repair from them being on opposite sides of a conflict gets well under way. And they do so by revisiting a mutual love of impromptu skinnydipping possibly in inappropriate places.
Shards of Alderaan opens with Jaina sore and sweaty from heavy labor. Narrative specifies that she's been at it for hours even though it's so early in the morning the entire place is foggy with mist. The Jedi Academy's ancient temple on Yavin 4 was blown up, and she's helping with reconstructing it. People are working on improvised scaffolding she designed out of saplings. She climbs to the top of the rubble and surveys how things proceeding, others are gathering and cataloguing debris for proper assembly. She's pretty sure the damage isn't as bad as it looks. After all, the temple was really well-built, and survived thousands of years of jungle deterioration.
She watches Tenel Ka, Raynar Thul and wookie Lowbacca work for a little while, and thinks that reconstruction is a good sign for the future. With the Imperial Remnant defeated, the New Republic can focus on building a brighter future.
There's an accident: a reptilian beat of burden gets confused, runs into a wall and knocks a bunch of stuff down. It's frightened, so charges off into the woods. Jacen goes to get it while Jaina and the others restore order back at the temple.
Finally at night, when she's not working on the temple or helping Lowie repair his sky hopper, she finds himself drawn outside. Jaina can't sleep; she goes by Zekk's room three times and he's asleep each time before deciding to just go walk alone outside.
She sits by a river, dipping the soles of her boots in the water and watching mud wash off. There's a teenage moment of worrying about change: how the academy feels different, her classes, the other students, the very landscape. It can't be bad, in light of what she was thinking about earlier. But she's not ready for so many changes all at once. She throws a few rocks into the water and contemplates how complicated things seem after her first light/dark side conflict.
A stone skips by, thrown by Zekk. He's in bad shape, seems like he can barely stand, and they joke that he looks. . . alive. Just barely. She invites him to sit next to her, and he awkwardly asks her to walk with him instead. They wade a bit to cross the river, and Jaina jokes, "Well, then, what are we wading for?" He accuses her of letting Jacen be a bad influence on her.
They wander across the river and onto land, eventually coming across the demolished shield generator site. Zekk observes that the Imperial commandos were thorough, and Jaina actually stops to turn over whether or not he sounds proud before concluding he just sounds disappointed. She explains Leia is sending new equipment and assigning a military guardian force that will stay in orbit. (It's not noted here, but. It is the second time the Imperial Remnant has nearly destroyed the academy, and both times no one was in position to defend against the fleet in space.)
Zekk comments that he and Master Brakiss thought their defenses were pitiful and it was stupidly naive to leave the academy so unprotected. Jaina says Luke was confident in his students, and they stand awkwardly for a while. She voices her concern about how all the changes feel strange.
Jaina: Zekk, do you remember the time on Coruscant when we slipped out in the middle of the night and went swimming in the fountain in Dhalbreth Square?
Zekk: And the glowfish we disturbed made so much light that the New Republic security forces came running after us. Of course I remember.
Jaina: I wish we could be like that again, back in those days, without everything that happened... afterward. Zekk, if you stay here at the Jedi academy, Uncle Luke can teach you the right way to use the Force. We could have adventures together again, you and I-and Jacen and Lowie and Tenel Ka. We're thinking about going to the Alderaan system to get a gift for my mother's birthday. A memento of her home from the asteroid field there. You could come with us.
Zekk: [murmuring] I wish I could just go home.
Jaina: When we get back from Alderaan you could start your training. A fresh start.
Zekk: [bringing his voice back up] Jaina --
Jaina: Of course, you might not want to build a new lightsaber at first. It might be too painful. You could wait a couple of years for that. I'm sure Uncle Luke would-
Zekk: Jaina. Jaina, look at me.
He takes her shoulders and gives her a "gentle shake." They look each other in the eyes.
Zekk: I'm not the same person I was when you knew me before, Jaina. I can't be. Not anymore. And you're not the same person either.
Jaina: But you're back now. We can start over.
Zekk: Maybe you can't understand where I've been... or what I've been. I'm not an innocent anymore. I've known real power and used it. I've killed face-to-face and been proud of it. That's not something I can forget. I can't erase everything and go back to what I was. ven if it were possible, I m not sure I'd do it. I can't just pretend that nothing's changed. You're right about one thing, though. This is a new start. For me, and for all of us. I can't go back, but I can go forward.
Jaina: What will you do?
Zekk: I don't know yet, but I can't stay here. Not at the Jedi Academy.
Tense pause.
Jaina: Wherever you go, whatever you decide to do... I'll still be your friend, Zekk.
Zekk: I'd like that. . . . You know, it's been a long time since we went for a swim together. Of course, there aren't any fountains handy, and no glowfish in the river, but...
Jaina: Race you to the water.