Disclaimer: I apologize by GL for this scrap...
Author´s Notes: I hope somebody´s still reading this...
No more trouble - part deux
Skywalker´s appartement
"Your mother just called me, she´ll arrive in about two hours..." - "MOMMA´s coming home??" Ben cried. "No, dork, Mother Theresa!" Luke answered. "Oh...who exactly is that?" - "Forget it..."
Two hours later Luke and Ben were waiting for the shuttle in which Mara Jade would arrive soon. "Um, where was Mommy actually the last days?" Ben asked his father. "I just told you...she had some business in the Outer Rim." - "What kind of business?" Evading the question Luke answered, "I don´t know, but I doubt you´d understand it anyway." - "Dada!! You always treat me like I was dumb! I AM NOT DUMB!" - "For sure you´re not", somebody suddenly said behind them, they turned around and Ben cried out, "MOMMAAAA!!" and fell into Mara´s arms. "I´ve missed you so much, Mommy" , he went on, "Daddy was so cruel to me all the time, I´m so glad you´re back again!" - "He´s exaggerating", Luke defended himself, pushed Ben aside and gave Mara a kiss on the cheek. "See?" Ben said a bit angrily, but Mara ignored him and just took his and Luke´s arm and went home with them claiming all the time how much she had missed them both.
Later that day, Ben was on a party with some friends, Luke and Mara had a little talk:
"So...how´s Chucky?" Luke asked politely. "Well, he´s doing fine as always. But Luke, he has a lot of force potential, he needs to be trained..." Mara told him. "Yes, I thought so. Maybe you could send him to the academy, Kyp will be glad to have a new student." - "Um, Luke, actually I thought...maybe you could train him...?" - "ME?? Why me?" - "You know I had a lot of time to think many things over when I was on Kashyyyk and I came to the conclusion we should finally tell Ben about his brother." Mara said carefully. "First of all he´s just his half brother and secondly NO! Simply NO!" Luke answered, but Mara went on, "But it would be great! You could train them together, it would be a great experience for both of them considering the fact that they both will have a brother then, someone to share many things!" - "Have you gone insane, Jade? Didn´t you see...they had already been quarreling when they still were babies! And besides...Ben - a force trainee? I´ve given up that idea a long time ago...and so should you! Everything he has in his less well-off mind are his dumb friends, make-up..." Mara interrupted him again, "And that´s exactly why I want him to be trained. He´d see that there are much more important things in the universe and maybe Chucky could have a good influence on him too as he´s already really mature. Can´t you see that, great Master Skywalker?" And so Luke could no longer oppose and promised to test Ben´s force potential the next day to see if he actually had some.
Next day...
Luke and Ben were standing in the one of Coruscant´s biggest training halls.
"Alright, Ben, all you have to do is concentrating on that lightsaber before you. When you see it in your mind imagine it flying to your hand and turning on." Ben did what his father had told him and the lightsaber really floated in the air. "Good", Luke said dumbfounded, "now...switch it on." And suddenly the lightsaber revealed a green blade. "Alright, now..." But Luke was interrupted as Ben cried out, "Oh no!! I forgot to call Jolanda today!!" He lost control of the lightsaber and it nearly cut Luke into two pieces. "Um, sorry, Dad!" Ben apologized and when he saw how red his father´s face turned, he even feared that he´d slap his face, he quickly added, "Guess, I can call her later..." Luke didn´t answer, but his anger seemed to flow away slowly. After all he was still a calm and understanding Jedi Master...
It was unbelievable...his son really had some force potential, but training him would nevertheless be a hard nut to crack!