Then we'll work on making them different. [Because what mama wants, mama gets. Even if it's difficult or awkward. That's not about to stop Luke. The alternative is what? Disappointing her? Never!]
Wouldn't know how to be anything else. [Though maybe he could have handled being an Amidala, but... no, even thinking about it feels weird. Wrong.]
You're right.
[Hearing her say that makes his throat catch and he buries his face for a moment. Letting himself feel. Not only for himself, but for his father and their family as a whole. So much that's been taken for them. And for what?]
I know. I think... in his own way, he still does.
[It's awkward, maybe a bit jilted, but that doesn't make it any less real.]
no subject
Wouldn't know how to be anything else. [Though maybe he could have handled being an Amidala, but... no, even thinking about it feels weird. Wrong.]
You're right.
[Hearing her say that makes his throat catch and he buries his face for a moment. Letting himself feel. Not only for himself, but for his father and their family as a whole. So much that's been taken for them. And for what?]
I know. I think... in his own way, he still does.
[It's awkward, maybe a bit jilted, but that doesn't make it any less real.]