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Chapter 8 – Experimentations
Leia and Han sat in the immense bed provided to them by the Fels. They had been sitting there for maybe fifteen minutes after they had made the bed and said good night to their hosts. Han had been completely quiet. Finally after growing tired of the silence Leia spoke. "Han? Are you alright?"
"She's getting married." The statement sounded so plain but to Leia, she knew Han was in heartbreak. "She's my little girl." Han always sounded tough and mean but Leia knew that deep down inside there was this little part of him that did have sensitivity. She loved that part of him.
Leia scooted over on the bed and wrapped her arms around his torso. "You're not loosing her, you know. You're just sharing some of the work of taking care of her with Jag. He's a good man. You like him, admit it." She looked up to find him smiling his famous lopsided grin. "Han, he's not going to take her away from you."
"I don't want Fel to be part of my family." Leia smacked him on the chest, "The older one."
"Han!"
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Syal got into bed followed by her husband. She lay down on her side snuggling up against the clean sheet and leaning back into her husband's embrace. "I can't believe my baby getting married. One day he's so small and sleeping in a crib and the next he has a fiancé and he'll be getting married soon." She rolled over in her husband's embrace.
"Yes time does fly."
"I wonder what they're doing for the wedding. Does Jaina need help is it small large whats Jag going to do?"
"I think they'll end up having, or trying to have, a small wedding. Much to their dismay the entire galaxy has been waiting for this. Two of the major families are joining together through the marriage of their son and daughter. Small isn't going to happen no matter how much they want it." Soontir said bluntly.
"I thought you didn't like the fact they were getting married." Syal said raising an eyebrow.
"Well," he paused for dramatic effect "I didn't but, I figured I'd give Jaina a chance. After all maybe she's not that much like her father." He smiled slighty. "Although I can't stand the thought of Solo being related to me."
"Soontir!"
"Not Jaina. Her old man!"
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Jaina woke up the next morning to a warm solid mass next to her and rolled over to find Jag next to her. She giggled into his chest. "I like waking up next to you. It's like having my own personally heater and pillow. It's nice."
"Well I'm glad you think so." Jag said kissing her forehead. "I'm surprised you didn't wake up when I came in and sat down on the bed. You're usually a very light sleeper."
"Yea well I was tired. Last night was busy." She lifted her head up and smiled. "So, how long do you think it will be until our moms come up and start planning?"
"I thought iwei were planning this." Jag asked with a puzzled face. "You're sick of me already?"
"Nah. It's just my mom probably felt me wake up and knowing her she's gonna come up and-" Just as she was in the middle of the sentence, Leia walked through the door closely followed by Syal. "Speak of the sith." She whispered in his ear. He only smiled which got a comment out of his mother.
"Jagged, I didn't know you knew what a smile was." Syal chuckled as she said the words earning a confused look from her son.
"He knows how to smile alright. I like it when he smiles." Jaina said sitting up and leaning against Jag. "So…"
"Oh! Yes!" Leia exclaimed going through the folders she had brought, "I almost forgot. We came up to see if you wanted to do some planning later. We both know how hard it is to plan-"
"Um mom?" getting Leia's attention she continued. "Jag and I really hoped to plan this together. We would love your and Syal's input but well…" she trailed off becoming interested in her hands.
"Jaina, that's fine. I remember everyone wanted to help your father and me at our wedding. I hated it but our father had this interesting taste… 'make it all blue it's simpler that way'. I think he said. Something like that." She seemed to daze off at the fond memory.
Syal took the opportunity to step in and say something. "You let us know if you need anything. We are going into the city and your fathers are out…somewhere and Wyn and Cem are showing you brother around." The two mothers walked out of the room carrying their folders.
Jaina buried her head in Jag's chest. "I feel horrible for saying that. They were so excited. Maybe I should go and see if they have any ideas or something."
"I think they would like that." Jag said thoughtfully, "You could go dress shopping. I'm not allowed to come for that."
Jaina laughed. "That iwilli be interesting – and something to remember."
"You in a dress store."
"Yea. It will defiantly be a laugh." She sat up and scooted to the end of the bed. "Well, I better get up. I'm gonna have breakfast and see if they want to go shopping or at least looking in the holo-mags for a dress." She stood up and wrapped her petite frame in Jag's oversized blue terry-clothe robe. "What are you looking at?" she asked at a smiling Jag.
"The prettiest woman in the galaxy." He watched in amusement as Jaina turned around pretending to look for this 'woman'. She then walked over slowly jumping and landing on his stomach. Jag emitted an 'omph' but it was silenced quickly by Jaina leaning down for a sweet kiss that quickly turned passionate. The two continued to kiss on the bed. Jaina, who thought she would lose all conscious thought, had enough time to close the door using the force. The two rapidly fell into a sweet bliss.
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Jaina and Jag emerged approximately one hour later, each slightly flushed. Jaina was wrapped in Jag's blue robe, Jag in his casual pants and an unbuttoned shirt. Jaina snuck into the bathroom while Jag walked down the hall quickly buttoning his shirt. Jaina brushed her teeth and hair and pulled her hair back into a ponytail. She walked downstairs to the kitchen finding Jag taking out cooking utensils and setting the frying pan on the of fashioned stove. "What are you making?"
"Well…." Jag walked over to the pantry and opened it scanning the shelves. "We have, eggs, griddlecake mix, flakes, bread for toast and… fruit if you're gonna go all health fanatic on me. Take you pick." He leaned against the doorframe.
"You spoil me." She paused to consider her options. "I know how to make these really good eggs. If you want to make the toast or griddlecakes or something." Jag looked at her in mock disbelief. "Yea. That's right I know how to cook. My dad taught me. The only things I was ever good at making were eggs, and… eggs."
"Ok. I'll get you a frying pan. What do you need?"
"Well how many eggs do you want?"
"I usually have two but I'm hungry today so-"
"Ok get me two eggs." Jaina said going through the draws trying to find a fork and a bowl.
"Wait but aren't you going to have any? And I was going to have three." Jag said with a confused look on his face.
Jaina turned around giving him her Solo grin. "Trust me."
"Ohhhkaaaay." He got her the eggs and found what she was looking for. He gave her some butter and started the stove burner.
He had just come out of the pantry with the things he need to make the griddlecakes when Jaina asked, "Jag, do you have any blue milk?"
"Blue milk?"
"Yea I need it." She watched as Jag turned around and got the milk. Halfway back to the stove she took it out of his grasp using the force and brought it to the bowl where she was mixing the eggs. She poured it in while out of the corner of her eye, watching Jag as he took interest in her cooking. She stirred the blue milk and eggs together and poured it into the pan stirring them to make scrambled eggs. At this time, Jag had returned to his own task of cooking the griddlecakes, which surprisingly took a short amount of time to cook. The two finished at the same time, putting some of their own culinary creation onto the other's plate. They walked over to the kitchen counter and sat on the stools protruding from under the counter. Jag cut the griddlecakes into pieces then eating them while Jaina cut one piece, ate it and another piece continuing in this fashion. Jag started on the eggs, which he had been curious about. He took a small bite, swallowed and turned to Jaina. " I don't know what you did to these but they are really, really good. And how did you get so much? Did you go and get another egg or two while I was cooking?"
"Nope. These is the two eggs you gave me. The blue milk makes the eggs expand it guess you could say. You can make a lot with just two eggs if you add blue milk. It also takes less to make you full. I don't really know. I just know that my dad used to make these for Jacen and Anakin when we were little. He could make all of our breakfasts from just one egg." Jaina smiled at the memory.
"Hmm. I'll have to remember that." The two continued on through the rest of the breakfast in silence concentrating on eating the good food in front of them. They finished mere mintues later and brought their dishes to the dish washing machine.
"You know what I want to do that I haven't done since I was maybe 7?"
"What?"
"Watch cartoons on the holo." She looked at Jags shocked face.
"Cartoons?"
"Yea ever heard of them? No nevermind. You iarei in fact Mr. Grim." She turned around smirking.
"Oh I watched my fair share of cartoons when I was younger. My mother would say I had my eyes glued to those programs sometimes. Of course when Davin entered the academy, I started playing with his old models pretending I was a pilot. I haven't seen them in years. Maybe over 15 years." He turned to her "That would be fun." He said putting emphasis one the word 'fun'.
"Oh sweet force! Jag said the 'f' word." Jag raised an eyebrow and quickly chased her around the house running up and down the stairs after her. She never grew tired and when she was close to being caught she would shriek in laughter and used some Jedi trick to get out of his clutches. The couple ran down the stairs passing Syal and Leia, who had just walked in, laughing hysterically. The ended up on the couch in the den and Jaina brought the remote over and flipped on the Holo-net searching for the cartoon channel.
Syal and Leia walked in on the scene clearing their throats. "Do we iwant/i to know?" Jaina and Jag both turned to face their mothers shaking their heads. "I didn't think so." The mothers walked into the room. "You two are like a bunch of 10 year olds and…are you watching iholo-cartoons?i"
"Yes." Jaina said dragging out the answer.
Syal, turning to Leia, said with heavy sarcasm in her voice, 'We're are never leaving them in the house alone again." They walked out into the hall where they had put their packages.
"Oh! I need to ask them about dresses." She got up and ran into the kitchen where her mother and Syal were. "Um I wanted to ask you guys something. My mom knows when I was little, I never liked dresses let alone shopping. An I think I've only worn maybe 3 dresses to date, give or take. I wanted to know if you would come with me. You obviously know more about dresses more specifically wedding dresses and me trying to find a dress is like giving a blaster to a two year old and telling them to shoot at the bed guys." Syal and Leia had a good chuckle at her simile "So will you help me?"
"Of course." Syal said turning to Jaina. "I know a few good places on Mon Cal." She then turned to Leia "Do you know anywhere?"
"Actually I know this little store on Mon Cal as well." Leia said "It was where I got my wedding dress. When do you want to leave?"
Jaina thought for a moment, "Is tomorrow ok? I know Jacen and Dad have stuff to do back on Osseus. We could go with them on the iFalconi on the way to Osseus. Then I could get my x-wing, dock it on your ship mom and we could go to Mon Cal." She paused. "If that's ok."
"That sounds good to me." Syal said. "Jag and Soontir and Cem should be ok for a ifewi days."
"And me too." Leia said.
"Great! So we'll leave tomorrow morning."
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End chapter 8