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sticksofthejedi) wrote2011-12-11 02:47 am
sticksofthejedi) wrote2011-12-11 02:47 am
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Memory 22
Memory: Han and Leia won't believe Jaina that her "burns" are actually bloodstains from Caedus.
Received: Day 105, afternoon
Form: Teabag; steep and drink the full cup of tea to view memory. 3/3 uses.
Summary: Jaina, recovering from her injuries in a Hapan battleship's infirmary, obsesses over stains that she's certain were picked up from the bloodsplatter when she cut off Caedus' arm. Han and Leia think Jaina's gone kind of crazy with the guilt of trying to kill her twin. Also they tease her and Jaina may or may not have asked Zekk and Jagged Fel to share her.
Jaina's in a Hapan infirmary, contemplating a series of crimson ovals running across her jaw and neck, down to her shoulder -- stains where she had been splattered by Jacen's blood when she cut off his arm. She's tried scrubbing it out with soap and water, with surgical sanitizer, with strong bleach the Hapans use to sterilize medical bays, and is currently trying to use a Relephonian sarsestone to scour the stains out. Nothing works.
Leia slips in through the privacy partition to see Jaina, and gives her a look of reproach for what she's caught Jaina doing -- up and about scraping furiously at her neck instead of resting -- but also relief in that Jaina's CAPABLE of doing it. Leia insists Jaina should be in a healing trance; Jaina sets the sarsestone down and starts rinsing grit off her hands. She reminds Leia that she's been in healing trance for a week. She thinks. It's hard to keep track when you're putting yourself in a self-induced Force coma.
Han makes his entrance, suggesting that she needs another healing trance -- and a lot more. He claims she looks worse than the time the wampa tried to eat Luke. THANKS DAD, no serious Jaina sarcastically thanks him. "That's just what a woman standing in front of a mirror wants to hear." Han's looking haggard from worrying about her; he claims that as her father, it's his job to be honest.
Jaina offers him a smile, and goes back to finishing washing grit off her neck. She contemplates what she does and doesn't remember of her extraction from trying to kill Jacen, and blames an ugly split in the flesh over her right eye as the culprit for the hazy memories. She knows her legs hurt from shrapnel and she'd suffered four broken ribs. That when she rendezvoused with her extraction, Jag, Zekk, Leia, Luke, and five other Jedi had been there. That Luke had seemed to know every blow she'd taken despite not being there for the Jacen/Jaina fight and not actually looking her over. That Han kept doing an owl's impression from the pilot's chair and looking fearfully at his mangled daughter.
Leia calls her thoughts back to the present: "Sweetheart, you can't wash them off. They're burns." Jaina sees the resemblance to burns, but insists they're his blood. It'll come off!
Jaina feels through the Force as Leia kind of despairs for Jaina, and the mom pulls the cloth Jaina's using to wash up away. Leia has concluded that Jaina has gone kind of insane from trying to kill her twin. She insists the stains are burns that will fade with bacta treatment, and if not, the skin can be repaired later. Jaina protests that she's not in battleshock: she got splattered when she cut off "Ja -- er, Caedus' arm."
Han tries diplomacy. "Okay, take it easy -- we believe you. But it's not coming off. I'll ask Luke if he's got any special Sith-blood solvent." He tries guiding her back to bed. Jaina lets him, but protests his suggestion. She remembers getting splashed! Leia reminds her that Jaina's memory of things toward the end of the fight seemed pretty scrambled. Is Leia suggesting Jacen altered her memories? No, but maybe Jaina isn't remembering things exactly the way things happened.
Leia tosses out an example: does she remember what happened with Jag and Zekk? Han is trying not to smile. Jaina recalls that they both fought very well in the extraction. Han asks her about when they were loading her into the ship. She can remember Zekk smiling at her and Jag's steely eyes widening in surprise over something. She suggests that she thanked them.
"I guess you can call it that. You asked them to bunk with you." Leia corrects Han; what she specifically proposed was all three of them moving in together. Jaina sees how amused they are and concludes they're pulling her leg. Yes yes mom and dad, very funny, but her point stands: the stains aren't burns. "You're running a classic Zeltron Shift -- embarrass the spoilsport."
Leia laughs, and says they could be, but aren't; she claims See-Threepio has the whole conversation recorded if she wants to hear it. Jaina declines, thinking that her parents are both pretty good at bluffing. Surely that's what they're doing here.
As an afterthought, she asks if her boys accepted the proposal. Han tells her Jaina's not ready for that -- she doesn't have the patience.
She laughs, and runs a finger over the stains on her neck, questioning why they don't exhibit other features of burn wounds -- they're not sore or anything. Han's exasperated that she keeps coming back to that; Leia reminds her that she's been in a healing trance. Jaina points out that if they were burns, then they'd be healed by now in the trance. Han takes her hand, says it was a tough fight and Luke told him he's sure Jaina did actually cut off Jacen's arm. It's natural to feel a little guilty.
Jaina objects. She doesn't feel guilty! ...Leia gives her a motherly Look, and admits that okay yes, she feels guilty, but not enough to imagine things. Leia concedes that there could be another explanation. Jaina can tell her mom doesn't believe another explanation is needed; she goes ahead and suggests that maybe the Force is trying to tell her something. Han looks distinctly uncomfortable. Leia just diplomatically nods, sits on the foot of Jaina's bed, and asks what. Jaina says she wasn't the only one rattled by the end of the twin's fight -- after Caedus lost his arm, he seemed surprised that it was Jaina that he was fighting, and when he did realize it was her, he stopped attacking -- in fact, he took a couple stormtroopers and started looking for a target elsewhere.
Jaina suggests that maybe she ended up with these stains because Jacen's still in there somewhere -- he let her go even, maybe she should be redeeming him.
Han refuses the idea that Jacen's still somewhere in Caedus, and Leia suggests Caedus was just in shock after losing his arm. Han says if the stains aren't burns, they could mean anything, but if Caedus let her go, it wasn't because he felt bad about fighting his sister. Leia agrees; Jaina's the only one in the Skywalker-Solo family that Caedus hasn't been trying to kill, but it's a mistake to assume that's anything more than an accident of circumstance.
Jaina stops and thinks about that, concluding that it's just. Part of her still wants to believe there's hope of redeeming Jacen. But the other part of her agrees with her parents -- it makes sense that Caedus turning his attention elsewhere could have been his attempt at a tactical response to a shock-induced hallucination. She finally agrees, but reiterates that the stains aren't burns. Leia concedes that they should have Jedi healer Cilghal take a look once they're back at the Jedi hideout of Shedu Maad. Jaina's surprised; she thinks they should be heading back to the system Jacen's in, what with the need to kill him. Han explains that while Jaina's been out, the starsystem has turned into a firestorm between seven different starfleets, so the Jedi had to pull out. Leia says Luke has predicted the Jedi's fight with Caedus is going to move away from that star system, and adds that Jaina needs time to heal before she can fight him again anyway.
Threepio opens the privacy partition, apologizes for interrupting, and announces that Mand'alor Fett wishes to speak with Jaina.
Received: Day 105, afternoon
Form: Teabag; steep and drink the full cup of tea to view memory. 3/3 uses.
Summary: Jaina, recovering from her injuries in a Hapan battleship's infirmary, obsesses over stains that she's certain were picked up from the bloodsplatter when she cut off Caedus' arm. Han and Leia think Jaina's gone kind of crazy with the guilt of trying to kill her twin. Also they tease her and Jaina may or may not have asked Zekk and Jagged Fel to share her.
Jaina's in a Hapan infirmary, contemplating a series of crimson ovals running across her jaw and neck, down to her shoulder -- stains where she had been splattered by Jacen's blood when she cut off his arm. She's tried scrubbing it out with soap and water, with surgical sanitizer, with strong bleach the Hapans use to sterilize medical bays, and is currently trying to use a Relephonian sarsestone to scour the stains out. Nothing works.
Leia slips in through the privacy partition to see Jaina, and gives her a look of reproach for what she's caught Jaina doing -- up and about scraping furiously at her neck instead of resting -- but also relief in that Jaina's CAPABLE of doing it. Leia insists Jaina should be in a healing trance; Jaina sets the sarsestone down and starts rinsing grit off her hands. She reminds Leia that she's been in healing trance for a week. She thinks. It's hard to keep track when you're putting yourself in a self-induced Force coma.
Han makes his entrance, suggesting that she needs another healing trance -- and a lot more. He claims she looks worse than the time the wampa tried to eat Luke. THANKS DAD, no serious Jaina sarcastically thanks him. "That's just what a woman standing in front of a mirror wants to hear." Han's looking haggard from worrying about her; he claims that as her father, it's his job to be honest.
Jaina offers him a smile, and goes back to finishing washing grit off her neck. She contemplates what she does and doesn't remember of her extraction from trying to kill Jacen, and blames an ugly split in the flesh over her right eye as the culprit for the hazy memories. She knows her legs hurt from shrapnel and she'd suffered four broken ribs. That when she rendezvoused with her extraction, Jag, Zekk, Leia, Luke, and five other Jedi had been there. That Luke had seemed to know every blow she'd taken despite not being there for the Jacen/Jaina fight and not actually looking her over. That Han kept doing an owl's impression from the pilot's chair and looking fearfully at his mangled daughter.
Leia calls her thoughts back to the present: "Sweetheart, you can't wash them off. They're burns." Jaina sees the resemblance to burns, but insists they're his blood. It'll come off!
Jaina feels through the Force as Leia kind of despairs for Jaina, and the mom pulls the cloth Jaina's using to wash up away. Leia has concluded that Jaina has gone kind of insane from trying to kill her twin. She insists the stains are burns that will fade with bacta treatment, and if not, the skin can be repaired later. Jaina protests that she's not in battleshock: she got splattered when she cut off "Ja -- er, Caedus' arm."
Han tries diplomacy. "Okay, take it easy -- we believe you. But it's not coming off. I'll ask Luke if he's got any special Sith-blood solvent." He tries guiding her back to bed. Jaina lets him, but protests his suggestion. She remembers getting splashed! Leia reminds her that Jaina's memory of things toward the end of the fight seemed pretty scrambled. Is Leia suggesting Jacen altered her memories? No, but maybe Jaina isn't remembering things exactly the way things happened.
Leia tosses out an example: does she remember what happened with Jag and Zekk? Han is trying not to smile. Jaina recalls that they both fought very well in the extraction. Han asks her about when they were loading her into the ship. She can remember Zekk smiling at her and Jag's steely eyes widening in surprise over something. She suggests that she thanked them.
"I guess you can call it that. You asked them to bunk with you." Leia corrects Han; what she specifically proposed was all three of them moving in together. Jaina sees how amused they are and concludes they're pulling her leg. Yes yes mom and dad, very funny, but her point stands: the stains aren't burns. "You're running a classic Zeltron Shift -- embarrass the spoilsport."
Leia laughs, and says they could be, but aren't; she claims See-Threepio has the whole conversation recorded if she wants to hear it. Jaina declines, thinking that her parents are both pretty good at bluffing. Surely that's what they're doing here.
As an afterthought, she asks if her boys accepted the proposal. Han tells her Jaina's not ready for that -- she doesn't have the patience.
She laughs, and runs a finger over the stains on her neck, questioning why they don't exhibit other features of burn wounds -- they're not sore or anything. Han's exasperated that she keeps coming back to that; Leia reminds her that she's been in a healing trance. Jaina points out that if they were burns, then they'd be healed by now in the trance. Han takes her hand, says it was a tough fight and Luke told him he's sure Jaina did actually cut off Jacen's arm. It's natural to feel a little guilty.
Jaina objects. She doesn't feel guilty! ...Leia gives her a motherly Look, and admits that okay yes, she feels guilty, but not enough to imagine things. Leia concedes that there could be another explanation. Jaina can tell her mom doesn't believe another explanation is needed; she goes ahead and suggests that maybe the Force is trying to tell her something. Han looks distinctly uncomfortable. Leia just diplomatically nods, sits on the foot of Jaina's bed, and asks what. Jaina says she wasn't the only one rattled by the end of the twin's fight -- after Caedus lost his arm, he seemed surprised that it was Jaina that he was fighting, and when he did realize it was her, he stopped attacking -- in fact, he took a couple stormtroopers and started looking for a target elsewhere.
Jaina suggests that maybe she ended up with these stains because Jacen's still in there somewhere -- he let her go even, maybe she should be redeeming him.
Han refuses the idea that Jacen's still somewhere in Caedus, and Leia suggests Caedus was just in shock after losing his arm. Han says if the stains aren't burns, they could mean anything, but if Caedus let her go, it wasn't because he felt bad about fighting his sister. Leia agrees; Jaina's the only one in the Skywalker-Solo family that Caedus hasn't been trying to kill, but it's a mistake to assume that's anything more than an accident of circumstance.
Jaina stops and thinks about that, concluding that it's just. Part of her still wants to believe there's hope of redeeming Jacen. But the other part of her agrees with her parents -- it makes sense that Caedus turning his attention elsewhere could have been his attempt at a tactical response to a shock-induced hallucination. She finally agrees, but reiterates that the stains aren't burns. Leia concedes that they should have Jedi healer Cilghal take a look once they're back at the Jedi hideout of Shedu Maad. Jaina's surprised; she thinks they should be heading back to the system Jacen's in, what with the need to kill him. Han explains that while Jaina's been out, the starsystem has turned into a firestorm between seven different starfleets, so the Jedi had to pull out. Leia says Luke has predicted the Jedi's fight with Caedus is going to move away from that star system, and adds that Jaina needs time to heal before she can fight him again anyway.
Threepio opens the privacy partition, apologizes for interrupting, and announces that Mand'alor Fett wishes to speak with Jaina.