Dueling Daughters and a Nervous Uncle

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"That's not fair!" Tiji growled, throwing herself to the side, but still unable to dislodge the warrior girl off her back. Both girl stumbled through the Cantina doorway, tumbling to the floor in a heap, nly to freeze and look up.

"Huh?" Tiji said, looking around as Laka let go and got to her own feet, helping her cousin up as they looked around.

"Girls!" Atton stumbled in right after them, looking both ashen and red with breath shortness. He blinked, then sighed. "Great. Now what?"

"It's a cantina, like the other one, but different," Tiji looked around.

"Oh... well, alright. Don't wrestle in here," Atton said, taking a deep breath and nearly sprinting fr the bar.

Laka rolled her eyes, and Tiji smirked.

"Let's find some boys," she said eagerly. Laka gave her a look of utter contempt, but allowed herself to be dragged out of her uncle's eyesight.

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"C'mon, Frank! If we stay at Crash long enough the Old'll have to come looking for us." Earnest dragged his twin brother through the door and then stopped short, his green eyes wide. "Uh... this isn't Crash."

Frank frowned and looked around with identical green eyes, his mind whirring as he tried to figure out what had happened. "Another gas attack? Hallucinogenic?"

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"Nope, this is not the Lunatic Cafe," Tiji grinned, looking over at the two newcomers.

Laka sighed, then glanced over as Atton's back went stiff as a board and he watched the newcomers with the intensity of a man who's life was n danger.

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Both boys turned toward her, brows drawing together in slight confusion even as the green eyes lit up.

"What's the...."

"...Lunatic Cafe? And where...."

"...Have you been all our lives?"

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"I like these guys," Tiji grinned, looking at Laka, who snorted impatiently and looked at her comlink.

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"Mandalorian...." The twins exchanged a glance. "Like... wait... Onasi? Ordo? Oh snap!"

"We took our meds this morning, right?"

"Yeah. Remember, I hit you in the head with the bottle."

"Right, and the ____ melted before I swallowed it."

"But, dude... that's stuff from a really old game." Frank's face creased with confusion and concern.

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"Star Wars thingie," Tiji nodded, rolling her eyes. "Heard the story. My dad's a game character, blah blah. I'm real, though. We all are."

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"Uh...." Both boys bore identical expressions of confusion. "But... how?"

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"Interdimensional nexus," Jubes skated by. "Any universe, and time, anything's possible, kiddies. You've got X Men, angels, Jedi, sci-fi, anything else you can think of."

"Yeah, that," Tiji smirked, then winced as Laka hurled a glass at Atton, who caught it quickly but fell off his stool in a spectacular crash.

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"Oooo! Sword!" Earnest was suddenly gone, his eyes agleam.

Frank shook his head and gave Tiji an apologetic look. "His brain's a little busted."

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"Erm, don't go neart the sword," she winced. "Laka's real protective of it. Only people who get to touch it are her, Uncle Canderous, and whoever it gets stuck through."

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Frank covered his eyes with his hands as Earnest flopped down at Laka's feet and grinned up at her adoringly, then blinked and looked around as he heard the beep of the replicator. "Is that what I think it is?"

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"No idea. What do you think it is?" she asked, looking over as Laka blinked and leaned forward, looking down at the boy in amazement and confusion.

Then she poked his stomach with her foot.

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"It looks like something out of the Lord of The Rings," said Frank, absently pushing a coke toward her and taking his own diet soda as he continued to look at the face of the massive statue across the way.

Meanwhile, Earnest had managed to tie Laka's foot to her stool with a bootlace he'd had in his pocket without ever leaving his turtle position.

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She sipped the soda, wondering about the name he's mentioned.

Laka blinked as she tried to move, then looked down and kicked the stool leg so hard it snapped, and suddenly she found herself lying across the young man, the stool on top of her.

She blinked, then looked at him before poking his side.

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Earnest gave a muffled squeak, then sniggered.

"Here, I'll show you." Frank pulled his personal computer out of his pocket and flipped it open before laying it on the table. Then he took a rolled piece of what looked like plastic from the cargo pocket of his pants and lay it flat before attaching the cord on it to the pc. This done, he found the movie that he wanted and the part that showed the statues of the kings and held the portable screen up for her to see.

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"Whoa," she said, looking at it. "That is so cool!"

Laka grinned evily, poking him again and again, attempting to earn more of those strange sounds this boy seemed to create on a regular basis.

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Frank gulped and blinked rapidly, then hugged her gently. "That makes..." he had to think to remember the word for only one guy, "...me happy. I... I like you too."

Yes, so not used to being an individual.

"We should probably go play outside." Earnest looked around at all the breakables and thought of what Max would have said to him for even thinking of Indian wrestling indoors.

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She shrugged and dragged him out to the terrace.

Tiji laughed softly, then paused, listening to the other two. "I think he's actually got through to her. Wow."

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"We lived on the street for a long time before our Olds found us," said Frank. "We know the walls. Besides, having a girl actually pay attention to us instead of walking away...." His eyes twinkled and she could feel his amusement at self.

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"...Wow," he said wistfully, keeping his sadness from showing on his face.

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"Hey," she said softly, sitting up and touching his cheek and looking at him, giving him another kiss. "Don't be sad. If dad makes you marry me they'll all be your family, too."

Then she winced and looked chagrined. "Bad joke?"

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He blinked at her, eyes searching her face, then thought he understood how she knew how he was feeling. "You've got that Jedi thing."

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He glanced through the window automatically to see where his brother was and quirked an eyebrow at the sight of Earnest out on the terrace seeing just how much of himself he could get through the forcefeild designed to keep people from falling over the rail.

Then he turned back and kissed Tiji gently on the forehead before once more resting his cheek on her hair, his eyes absently taking in the scene of Frodo meeting Strider for the first time as he said huskily, "Yeah, maybe."

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She laced his fingers with her own, and settled in.

"Yeah," she said softly, eyes glazing in thought as she also returned to the movie.

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And he was content to sit like that, his mind at peace for once as he rocked very slightly and watched the animations that he and his brother had done what seemed so long ago.