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Jaina Solo & Jyn Eros
17 August - Partum Park Under the stars

WARNINGS - None 🏕️ - 4 CHARACTERS have the urge to sleep under the stars, so head to Partum Park and camp out and look up at the stars.

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There was something relaxing about laying on her back and looking up into the sky. It was peaceful. Even if it wasn’t really a real sky from a planet, the park did a good job of making her feel like she was on a beautiful planet. Jaina wasn’t sure what drove her to grab a sleeping bag and head out into the park, but something did.

After hiking for a while, she found a comfortable place near a small waterfall leading into the lake. It was a small spot but quiet. Jaina put out her sleeping bag and spread out on top of it and looked up with a soft sigh.

Looking towards the sky, she let out a sigh, letting herself relax, that was until she felt a disturbance and heard a few leaves rustling. Turning her head, she turned to see someone come towards her.

“Decided to get out too?” She asked.

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Jyn hadn’t been sleeping well since her return from the mission. Part of it had to do with the strange dreams she’d had before she left, dreams about Atlantis, a place she’d never been yet it seemed so real and she felt safe there. She’d heard Cassian speak of it, others too, but she couldn’t understand why in this dream, she was there and somehow she knew that it wasn’t merely a dream. Then of course, there was Bodhi. He was gone and Jyn couldn’t help but wonder where he went. Some people said that you went back to the same place you came from but in Bodhi’s case, even if he came from before their mission, he’d still end up in the same place. He’d gone back to die and she wished there was a way to bring him back, to give him a second chance at life.

She hadn’t expected to find anyone else in the park at this time of night so she was surprised to hear a voice. “Couldn’t sleep,” she said with a shrug. “Coming out here seemed like a good idea.” Jyn sat down on a rock and looked up at the sky. “It looks so real, doesn’t it? Hard to believe that it’s not. I’m Jyn, by the way,” she looked at the other woman and smiled. “I’ve seen you around but I don’t know your name.” There were a lot of people on the ship and it wasn’t easy to keep track sometimes.

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Jaina looked over and recognized the other woman and nodded, she understood that it made sense to come up here when you couldn’t sleep.

“You’re friends with Bodhi right?” She asked before answering with her name. “Jaina Solo,” she smiled a bit before looking back up at the sky, it was kind of eerie how real it looked and felt it was almost as if she could forget that she was on a ship, even if none of the star patterns were one she’d seen before.

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Jyn nodded. “Yes. Cassian too, we were all on the Rogue One mission together.” Funny how they hadn’t known each other that long yet she considered them her friends and knew they felt the same way. In a way they’d become her family. They’d been through so much in such a short period of time so perhaps it made sense.

“Jaina Solo, you’re Jacen’s sister, right? I’ve spoken to him on the network a few times.”

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Nodding, part of her wanted to ask more questions about Cassian especially because of who he was here on the ship, not really his past but decided not to press it for the time being.

“Yeah, twin sister,” she answered. “He’s a little bit better at being social on the network than I am,” she admitted. “What have you two talked about?”

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“We talked about Scarif and the Death Star and all that,” she said, which made it sound simple when it was anything but. “He recognized my name from things he’d read about the Rogue One mission. I still find it hard to believe that I’m in a history book somewhere.” It was honestly a little overwhelming, knowing what had happened after she’d died on the beach. “I’m just glad that the information we found was put to good use.”

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“Ah, Jyn Erso,” She didn’t assume what someone's last name was anymore, especially not here. New Zealand taught that to her, as did being on this ship. “It was,” she agreed. “But yeah, it’s weird knowing that your life is written for someone else to read it,” Jaina was aware of the books vs movies for her parents and for herself but it didn’t make it easier.

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“It was really weird hearing about it. I’ve been told that you can find just about any book you could ever want in the library and movies too but I haven’t looked up anything. I lived it once, I don’t want to do it again.” Coming here was a second chance for her and even if she didn’t stay long, she was going to enjoy it while she was here. “This may seem like a strange question but how long before you were born did it happen?” Jyn could be wrong but she guessed they were somewhere around the same age which wasn’t possible but here it seemed anything was possible.

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“Yeah, you can read, watch pretty much whatever. It’s kind of weird, when Obi-Wan came to New Zealand explaining toys of him to him was amusing,” she admitted with a small laugh. She got it though, it was a lot. Jaina had to pause for a second to think. “9 years.” She answered looking over. “It’s not a weird question.”

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“ I suppose this whole situation kind of makes nothing that weird,” Jyn observed. “I’m supposed to be dead but I’m in space looking up at a sky that isn’t real but looks a lot like the one I remember. Not entirely, the stars are different but it’s close.” She wondered if everyone saw the sky they were used to or something similar.

When Jaina mentioned New Zealand, Jyn raised her eyebrows. “New Zealand? Where is that? I don’t think I’ve heard of that planet.” She’d been on the run for most of her life and she was pretty familiar with their home galaxy but this was a new one.

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“It’s a second chance for a lot of people,” she offered with a shrug as a nag at the back of her thoughts threatened to come up, that hope to see her little brother again. She squashed it as quickly as she could instead focusing on Jyn’s next question.

“It’s on a planet called Earth, Jacen, Obi-Wan and I were stuck there before we all ended up on this ship,” she shrugged. “It’s a country, pretty small, funny accents, really boring, no real space travel.”

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“No space travel? I can’t imagine that,” Jyn said with a shake of her head. “It must take them forever to get anywhere.” Not that it didn’t take a while to get places in space sometimes but there was hyperspeed at least. “It does sound kind of boring. How long were you there?”

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“It was dull, it was really pretty but it was also really boring.” she admitted. “It was weird, not being able to leave the planet.” Hell, she’d barely left New Zealand while she’d been there. “About half a year, and poof found my way here, this is a much better place to be kidnapped to.”

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Jyn nodded. “At least it’s familiar. Being in space I mean. I wouldn’t like being tied down to one place.” When she was a child, she’d had a fairly stable life until her father had gone into hiding and then after that, she’d spent all her time on the run, never staying in one place very long. “And this ship is huge, I can’t believe how much stuff is here.” Cassian had shown her around and had she not known, she would have never guessed, they were in space.

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“Lando would love this place,” she smiled softly thinking about Lando Calrissian, she could see him being jealous of it but also trying to figure out how to steal it and turn it into a pleasure ship. She decided not to say that part. “It’s impressive how well they’re able to keep everything working, it’s complicated.”

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“It’s very impressive,” Jyn agreed. “Even people who’ve never been on a spaceship seem to know exactly what they’re doing. It’s definitely a team effort.” She could appreciate that. Their mission wouldn’t have succeeded if they hadn’t all worked together. Not one of them was more important than the other, it had taken them all to steal the plans and then of course it had taken the Rebellion to use those plans and destroy the Death Star.

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“I guess a lot of the people here spent time where this ship is from, that probably helps them figure it out some,” Jaina shrugged. “That place sounds a lot more interesting than New Zealand,” she added, laughing softly. “But yeah, people seem to be working well together.”

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Jyn nodded. “That’s true. Cassian is from my world but he’s been in Atlantis for a few years. Which is hard to wrap my head around since we were just together.” They had been holding on to one another, waiting to die so it had been a shock when she’d awakened in Medical to find him sitting beside her. “Not to mention that he’s married and has a kid. Which was also not the case when I knew him. Or last saw him or….I don’t even know how to put all this timeline stuff together.” She gave a little laugh.

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“Yeah, he’s married to my Aunt, it’s weird,” she admitted, she was glad Mara was happy but it still felt wrong that she wasn’t with Uncle Luke. Jaina accepted it, but it was still weird. “Guess when you get locked in a different world for years you form attachments.” She shrugged.

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“Mara is your aunt?” she hadn’t known that. Cassian had told her the story of how they’d met during the Rebellion and then came together in Atlantis but not the rest. “I’m still getting used to all the different timelines there are. It’s hard enough to understand one universe, much less multiple ones.”

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“Yeah, well, she is in my world, not from when she’s from, she isn’t, it’s complicated, but she’s still family, even if it is a little different here,” she shrugged. “And there are so many different timelines and universes here it’s hard to keep them straight.”

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“Family is important,” Jyn replied. “Even when they’re not your blood kin. I learned that on the mission even though we hadn’t known each other that long, they became my family.” She would always think of them as such, there was no question about that. Looking up at the sky, she sighed. “I think I’ll head back to my quarters now. I’m finally feeling sleepy. It was nice talking to you, Jaina. We should get together sometime.”

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Nodding, she agreed but she didn’t say it outload either.

“Yeah, we should,” she agreed. “See you later,” she offered as she watched Jyn leave before she relaxed back down looking up.