Not certain where this scene came from, or where it would ever go. It seems to work on its own.

Notes: established relationship; set well after ROTJ. Ben's behavior is being heavily influenced by Snoke.

Other Notes: I don't know why but Boba either calls Luke: Skywalker or Love. He seems to find the name Luke inherently silly sounding.


Takadana

Luke found Boba sitting on one of the walls of Maz Kanata's fortress watching their six year old son Owen playing space battle with ancient Weequay Hondo Ohnaka; the old 'I'm only taking a rest, I'm not retired!' pirate being the closest any of the Skywalker-Fett or Solo-Organa children had to a grandparent. He sat down beside Boba on the stone, waiting in silence. Boba had taken their youngest child and left suddenly during a particularly tense senate session/negotiation with several Outer Rims Worlds still wary of joining the New Republic. Jaster and Shmi had interrupted an important meeting when they burst in panicking after they had returned home from lessons and found no one there and no information as to why no one was there. And Boba was always there when they came home, or at least left a message on where he was and when he would be back. Unfortunately that had thrown everything into chaos. Leia, and the many diplomats involved, had been understandably furious, but Luke knew that if he didn't go and find Boba now, it would only steadily get worse. The only people in the Galaxy who would want the Head of the new Jedi Order and the current Mand'alor, his husband, to be on anything less than speaking terms was the worryingly growing First Order, and possibly the Duke of Mandalore. But Duke Koracan was mostly relieved that Boba had no interest in the planet Mandalore.

"Owen thinks you're ashamed of him," Boba finally said flatly, not even looking at Luke.

"What?" Luke's yelp would have been comical coming from the respect Jedi Master if it didn't indicate just how blindsided the statement had taken him.

"Because he's not Force sensitive like Jaster and Shmi," Boba turned a smile at Luke that had no smile in it at all, "because, let me get this correct as I can, he was crying when he repeated it to me, big cousin Ben told him he was 'worthless, frizzy-haired mandope,'" Boba's own hand unconsciously went to up to touch his own curly hair; all three children had Boba's dark tan skin and dark eyes, but Jaster and Shmi has somehow ended up with hair much like Luke's albeit a slightly darker blonde, "and to be honest, Skywalker, you haven't been paying as much attention to him as you do to his brother and sister," the quiet anger bled out of his voice into bleakness. He turned back to watching Owen and Hondo.

Hondo, evidently tired out, now regaling the boy with adventurous tales of when he had been in his prime and even Jedi Masters and Sith Lords trembled before him! Owen was enjoying hearing how his Honk-Honk had once capture his grandfather Anakin and was giggling like mad.

It hit Luke that this was first time in a long time he had heard his youngest laugh. He tentatively reached out a hand to touch Boba's. Boba shifted his hand to hook his pinkie finger around Luke's.