“If you’re going to pilot the hopper, I’m going to make sure you know how it works. But you have to make sure all your homework gets done as soon as you get home from school.” He turned to look at Luke. I’ll drop you off on Zhellday afternoon, and one of us will pick you up on Benduday after breakfast. “Alright, kids,” Ander said as he came back. “He knows it’s a lot less hassle than letting me get bored.” “My dad’ll say yes to anything that keeps me busy,” Biggs told her.
“I hope he says yes! I hope he says yes!” “And we’ll see.”Įlzie was just about dancing in place as her dad went over to where Mr. “Let me talk to Biggs’s father,” Ander offered. “I won’t even pilot it if you don’t want me to. “We’ll be really careful,” Luke promised earnestly. There’s enough room for us to do laps around the whole farm.” “She can fly her little kiddie-hopper around while I watch her from my speeder bike. “There’s a lot of open space out there,” Biggs added. “I’ll follow all the rules and I’ll be really safe. “Dad?” Elzie asked, her wide eyes pleading. “But we have about a dozen droids that are programmed to keep an eye on me. She seemed delighted by the idea of a sleepover, though Ander raised a concerned eyebrow. “I’ll ask Aunt Beru when she comes to pick me up.”Īfter a few minutes of conversation, Ander appeared in his landspeeder with Elzie in tow. You guys can coast the kiddie-hopper all over the property, and I can ride my speeder bike.” Why don’t you and the kid come spend the night this weekend? Mom’s going to visit her sister in Bestine Point and Dad’ll be at the cantina when he’s not working, so it’ll be pretty boring all by myself. He may not have overly concerned parents himself, but he’d gotten an eyeful of what they were like from Luke’s aunt and uncle. He acted casual, but Luke knew he’d follow through. “Don’t joke like that in front of Elzie’s dads,” Luke advised him. “Assuming you don’t actually crash the kiddie-hopper this time,” Biggs said with a sly grin. We can hang out this weekend if you want.” “Anyway,” Luke continued, “it was only for two days. Neither of Biggs’s parents ever seemed to notice their son unless he was doing something rowdy. Biggs obeyed, and his father went right back to ignoring him in favor of something on a datapad. “Hey, shut up!” Luke laughed, shoving the older boy.īiggs tackled him in an actual headlock, and the two roughhoused and giggled until Biggs’s father yelled at him to break it up. “Wow, little Wormie causing trouble all by himself,” Biggs said, pretending to wipe away a tear. He was almost grateful to his uncle for punishing him.
But he’d been excited and gotten carried away. You couldn’t do them in a landspeeder without putting serious strain on the engines, and that was before you scaled it down to that size. When everything had settled down and he’d just thought for five seconds, it had made perfect sense that the tiny ship wouldn’t be able to handle those kinds of maneuvers. He was still mad at himself over the whole thing. Luke explained about the visit to Banix Bunker, and Elzie’s miniature Skyhopper and how he’d misused it. “How did you manage to get grounded without me?” “I was grounded,” Luke admitted reluctantly.īiggs laughed. “I must have called your house twenty times.” Some alone, like Luke, others with parents and guardians who could afford to be idle. The rest of the kids were milling around in the dwindling shade. They’d be inside now, except for some reason, the door was still locked. “Hey, bud, where the heck were you all weekend?” Biggs grabbed Luke in a hold that was halfway to a headlock as the two boys met outside the schoolhouse.
Part 1 of the Binary Blues series Next Work →, Part 1 of the Star Wars: Banix AU series Next Work → Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 27619 Chapters: 9/? Comments: 14 Kudos: 21 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 476 HONEST TO GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!!.but I've been writing her for 20 years now so she just does her own thing.Did Elzie begin life as a self-insert? Maybe.