fh_trips | Kellerman's Resort, Saturday Evening, October 17th

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Kellerman's Resort, Saturday Evening, October 17th

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"Oh, I'll start you with good stuff, then make you listen to droid spoken word when I get upset," Ben said, laughing.

//Bring me something good, and something well and truly awful,// Jono replied, giving his head an amused shake. //We'll see how I like th'first, and if there's anything under th'sun that can be done to salvage the other.//

And if it was absolutely horrible enough, they could just play it alongside a track of bagpipes, and it would be like the worst of both worlds!

"If you can salvage droid spoken word, you might get a holiday named after you at home," Ben said.

//I think Starsmore Day has a nice ring to it, don't yer?//

Why yes, Jonothon was indeed that confident in his ability to make music out of the worst of it.

"I think it'd fit right in at home," said the Skywalker.

//There's my problem,// Jono decided. //I clearly just grew up on the wrong planet.//

Which was a more common problem in Jono's universe than one might think.

"You can go visit other ones," Ben said with an easy smile. "I go home fairly frequently. My dad misses me."

//Yer figure I'd get along any differently out there than I do here?//

By way of demonstrating what he was talking about, Jono was nodding in the direction that Hurley had been sitting in, now.

"I think no one would even look at you twice," Ben said honestly. "There are thousands of species at home. It's incredibly rude to stare."

//I wish starin' was th'worst of it.// Jono's gaze flicked upward momentarily, almost wistfully, then. //That might be why I decided to stay, when I found myself on the island. The staring, I can handle, mate. And the stupid questions.//

Once again with the pointed glower at where Hurley had been sitting. Plonker.

//I'd like to see where yer from sometime, perhaps. I'd even do my best to not look too obviously like a dazed interplanetary tourist.//

"And I'm sure my dad would love to meet you," Ben replied with a smile. "Things were crazy last weekend or I would've found you."

//I think it was a crazy weekend all around, mate. I spent it babysitting a classmate from my last school, myself.// Jono looked vaguely amused at that. //I'm sure there'll be other chances. Less hectic ones, at least.//

Ben nodded. "Once my cousin graduates, the drama of the weekend should go down by a factor of ten."

//That bad, is it?// Jono gave Ben a sympathetic look. //There's never anything like extended family to complicate things entirely too much for comfort, is there?//

"She's from fifteen years behind me," Ben said, "and some fairly important things have changed."

//Ah,// Jono mused, nodding slightly. //Time differences, again. This island seems like it's been infested with people from every corner of my own world's timeline, so I can at least appreciate that much, mate.//

Ben nodded, then ran his hand through his hair. "Any of 'em turn evil?"

//None that I'm painfully aware of, yet, but there are a few who are from my own future.//

Jono would be very, very upset when he learned that Iron Man was responsible for passing the act that required the systematic registration of every super-powered individual, with severe reciprocations for those who resisted.

//The headmistress of my last school is a student here, though. And at least a year youger'n I am. Bloody weird, that.//

Ben laughed. "That is," he agreed. "My grandfather's here, and he's supposed to be dead."

Jono shook his head, amused.

//Yer know, I haven't been a member of the 'entirely too bloody weird' club for long, but if there's one thing I've learned since joining, it's that they're never dead when yer bloody near positive that they are. Unless they are.//

Which made no sense at all, but then, neither did most things.

"Oh, he's totally dead at home," Ben said. "For, like, a hundred years. He just didn't follow the rules in his reality. Which, knowing Granddad now, makes a lot of sense. He's not exactly a rule follower if it doesn't suit him."

//Oh, this is an alternate reality thing, on top of all of that.// Jono nodded faintly. //I've seen a bit of that, as well. People from my world, who are just... different, in one way or another.//

"More heads different or other memories different?" Ben asked.

//Other memories,// Jono replied, chuckling faintly as he gave his head a shake. //Trust me, mate, if it was a matter of more heads, I probably wouldn't look twice, either.//

Well, maybe twice.

"Sounds like home, then," Ben said with a grin. "Well, not that we grow heads, but evil clones aren't completely out of the realm of possibility."

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