BEACH BAD, BEACH BAD [OPEN]

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

To say Vader was out of his element was the understatement of the millennium. He'd taken refuge under a large umbrella and was seated in his his chair as though it were the Emperor's own throne. Under the pretense of meditating, he was keeping a three-foot radius of space around him sand-free.

His beach towel would stay immaculate until he got someone else's blood on it.

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I am a horrible person

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Well if it wasn't the homicidal psychotic angst machine her friend from medbay.

"Hello!" Sofia waved, smiling brightly as she drew near. Yes, her vacation had been eventful, not necessarily in a good way, but that didn't mean she couldn't have fun today. And just maybe, if she was lucky, she wouldn't be force choked.

nope lol THAT WOULD BE VADER

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader massaged his temples, ready for another verbal spar.

"You have managed to find me yet again."

Round Two

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"It's a small beach." It really wasn't, but the cloud of anger and disdain was like a beacon. A strobe light beacon. "But you don't seem to be enjoying yourself."

ding!

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"Your powers of perception are sharp," Vader replied. "I am once again trapped in a hostile environment with no methods of escape. I am not in my element."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"It's the prettiest hostile environment I have ever seen." Sofia said, taking a look at the waves and sighing appreciably.

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader pinned her with a sharp glare.

"Then you are wasting your time here. You should go enjoy it, elsewhere. Perhaps on the other side of this island."

Let's turn that frown upside down!

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I would not say it's a waste of time. What good is a beach without someone to enjoy it with?"

Wait-- What?

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[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

For Vader, it was more of a question of what good is a beach, fullstop.

"I do not enjoy this beach. It is far too strategic for an invasion-- should a fleet appear, there is no cover for us to take and we would be blasted into rubble."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"A fleet?" Sofia put her hands on her hips and gave Darth Vader a grin that could only be described as straight out of a bad 50s show. All that was missing was 'that darn kid.' "No fleet is going to appear. You just don't want to have fun."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader was actually speechless for a long minute. What was going on here?

"Of course I do not," he finally managed. "I am not a child. I have a purpose and a duty to my son to fulfill which I cannot do while I am here."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"You don't have a choice. You might as well enjoy it. Why aren't you with your son now?"

Vader, you may have faced many enemies, may have won many battles but you have at last met your match. There is only one course of option left to you.

You're just gonna have to choke a bi- Never mind that.

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader's lip curled unpleasantly.

"You are not my minder, and I will do whatever I please. As much as I long for my son to join me by my side, he has chosen to expose himself to the elements with his own family, and I will not burden him with my presence."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

And yet Sofia's smile didn't fade. "What makes you think you're a burden to him? I'm sure he would love you to be there with him. You don't seem like someone who would let the beach get in the way of what you want."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"He does not care for my presence the way I care for his," Vader said, perhaps a little too abruptly to hide the emotion beneath his words. "If he is happy with his wife and their...offspring in this hellish place then I would see him happy and not bothering me." He gave her a very pointed look.

"My suit has still not been returned to me. It makes mobility something of an issue."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Maybe if you spent time with him that will change. I know if my father had spent time with me things would be different. Even after all that he's done, I would forgive him if he came back and wanted to be with me. I think your son will be the same way." She paused, considering Vader for a moment. "I can take you places. It really isn't that hard."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"I should have been with my son every waking moment of his life but he was stolen from me and indoctrinated--" Vader cut himself off, knowing that revisiting the Jedi's treachery would only fuel his rage but leave him without an outlet to spend it.

Soon enough.

"You would have to take me. Forcibly," He replied.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I won't take you if you don't want to go." Yet. "You can't change what happened but you can choose what happens now. If all you do is think about what you lost then how will you get a chance to get to know your son now?"

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

He's knows she's right-- she's right, and he's getting out-parented by a teenager and it just makes him mad.

Well, madder than he already was.

"I have told you before that my son will come to me if he wishes to speak to me. Until then, he is welcome to keep his distance- you do not spook a nekk you hope to one day train. I will lure him until he is eating out of my hand rather than that of the Jedi's."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia crossed her arms over her chest. "It sounds like you are talking about a dog. Luke is a grown man and you should treat him like one."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"He is my son and he has been fed lies by the Jedi his entire life-- he has no idea how the Galaxy actually functions," Vader shot back, "he lives in a world of fantasy- I intend to save him from it."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Must resist urge to eyeroll. "If that is true then you're not going to change his mind by snapping at him. You need to act like a father if you want him to listen to you."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"I do not know what he wants! I do not know how to be what he wants!"

Vader shut his mouth with a snap. He's said too much.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"If he's anything like me," Sofia kicked at the sand as she thought over how to express this. "Then he wants you to love him no matter who or what he is and he wants you to understand and respect him."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"How could he not know? How could he not know just how badly I--"

Vader shook his head. "I will make him realize that I want him at my side at all costs."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia shrugged. "Sometimes we're not very good at telling people how we really feel." She thought about her father. If he really did love her and didn't know how to show her or tell her.