Trouble in Twos

[Reid Zambrano-Ticon]

Voss​

Silver Temple​

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Mom and Dad had dropped them off. They were going to spend the day together, and so Reid and his sister had been left to their own devices on Voss. Or, well, almost. In reality they were supposed to spend the day with [member="Connor Harrison"], a close friend of their mother. It was a guess as to whether the man knew they were arriving in the first place, but it wasn't as if the pair were going to go exactly where they were told right away. That simply wasn't in their genes. One only had to glance at who their parents happened to be to get an answer for their disobedience, not that anyone should have been surprised. They were a cocktail of arguably one of the worst gene pools in the galaxy, after all.

The first order of business had been food. And so he had led them to the cafeteria, having memorized the route. It wasn't as if their parents didn't feed them, but they were children, and besides, it was all more or less free. This was their home, after all. After that had come a walk about the expansive gardens, the sunlight that cascaded down across the endless green making for a more than serene sight. Suitably ironic, given their bloodline, but he didn't pay much mind to that. After all, he was a child, and this was just another playground. Of course, it would have been better had there been more to do than simply wander.

Scuffing his feet slightly as he walked, his dark eyes turned to his twin, the corners of his mouth turning up in a mischievous smile. "Wanna race?" He pointed ahead, roughly to where Connor's quarters were located, and where they were supposed to meet with him, "We'll make it fair and start at the same time and everything. On three. One, two..." Before he could reach 'three' he took off, looking back with a grin towards his sister. Whether she followed after or not was of no concern. This was just his way of having fun. It just so happened that with all of his concentration on the race that he didn't entirely realize his proximity to others. Namely the tall, dark-haired man he collided with in the halls.

Looking up, he blinked once, smiling sheepishly, "Mr. Harrison?"

[member="Kaya Zambrano-Ticon"]

 

[Kaya Zambrano-Ticon]

Kaya audibly sighed at her brothers juvenile antics, they were beyond her and proper lady did not run in halls, especially after immature children. No matter how much fun it looked like, or how restless their legs were. So Kaya simply walked forward at a casual rate until she caught up with her brother who had run Connor. It was almost cartoonish but she contained her smile in place for the firm line that was set on her face and lips.

"Harrison" The child said with stern voice.

Looking the man up and down she raised a single eyebrow and spoke once more.

"You're looking well today." Her eyes then snapped over to her technically younger brother and focused on him.

"Reid, apologize to Mister Harrison for running into him. I don't intend to have any unpleasantries today." Kaya said mostly unsure of what she just said, it was just something her dad told her to say so people could take her seriously.

After she spoke to Reid the young girl would wait and see what the adult had planned for them. He was indeed the weird guy who hung around so she was sure he had a bunch of weird stuff for them to do.

[member="Reid Zambrano-Ticon"] [member="Connor Harrison"]

 

[Connor Harrison]

It wasn’t usually dangerous to be walking through the temple corridors and not have your find totally focussed on the route you’d taken for years. Connor was thinking about the case of Setzi Lunelle when he had been brought back to reality with a crunch.

A youth barrelled straight into him, doubling him over with a grunt as he absorbed the blow. An over eager Padawan no doubt. Well, they all did it at times. It was nobody’s…

”You?” It was one of the Ticon children. They were early. ”What are you doing running around inside here?”

And another problem – he forgot their names. He’d only ever met them twice before, once in their younger years when Keira had been taken by the Sith Lord Dredge, and another in passing through the temple itself. Within seconds, the other, the girl, appeared with a stern telling off for the brother.

She certainly was her mother’s daughter, that was for sure.

What was it – Taya? Kyra? Drat…and the boy – Milton? Zed? Children…who needed them.

”It’s fine, and you,” he looked at the girl, ”very comfortable around here aren’t you.”

Why he agreed to take them for the day with Keira away – less said of the father the better – Connor didn’t know, but already it dawned on him he was here with two Zambrano-cum-Ticon children who had the most dangerous and volatile genetics you could get in an untamed youth.

”So what are you both doing here? Didn’t your mother wait with you?”

[member="Reid Zambrano-Ticon"] | [member="Kaya Zambrano-Ticon"]

 

[Reid Zambrano-Ticon]

When his sister spoke up Reid instantly looked to her, rolling his eyes and mustering the hardest telekinetic shove he could manage in her direction. It wasn't much, given his age and general lack of training, but it demonstrated the combination of the bloodlines he was the product of just fine. "Who put you in charge? I can take care of myself, Kaya. Besides, you sound too much like Dad. Loosen up." Two could play at this game of back-and-forth, and he wasn't about to lose to someone with an overdeveloped sense of authority just because she was a few minutes older. That was most certainly not the way either of them worked, especially when they both wanted the last word.

Seeming to ignore his sibling for the moment he looked to Connor, addressing the Jedi Master with an ease one wouldn't expect from a child. Then again, he hadn't had much of a chance to interact with others his age, barring his sister. And right now, she most certainly didn't count. "She and Dad had to go. It's not like we don't live here anyway. Didn't they tell you we were coming?" It wouldn't surprise him if Connor hadn't known, given the unique friendship he was at least partially aware of between the man and her mother, but he liked to think hindsight was 20/20 at least fifty percent of the time. But maybe that was hoping for a little too much.

"So, are we doing anything today? I'm tired of just sitting around for lessons with the younglings. The classroom is boring." As with most peers his age, he found that the more active he was during any kind of experience, the better things ended up for everyone. Besides, there had to be interesting things to be done that didn't involve listening to this or that Jedi go on for what seemed like hours on end. "Can we go outside? And can you teach us something?" Two simple enough questions in his eyes, but he knew already that his sister would have something to say. Like clockwork he looked to her, the glint in his eyes daring her to make a comment.

[member="Connor Harrison"], [member="Kaya Zambrano-Ticon"]

 

[Kaya Zambrano-Ticon]

Kaya was not amused, not the slightest bit. As her little brother mustered a force push at her the girl knew it wasn't at all powerful enough to really do anything besides rustle some leaves. So as the girl stood there the blast of wind made her hair flow backwards a bit as she stood there with a firm and unamused line set in her deadpan face. She was going to murder Reid now, how dare he raise his hand to her, the first born and eldest of their name.

"How I choose to carry the cadence of my voice is of no concern to you, Reid. And I'll have you know that the force put me in charge when I was born first, so this is not a democracy brother. This is a dictatorship and I'm Emperor Palpatine, so do as I say or I will strike you down." The little girl said with some fire in her voice.

But all of that seemed to fall on deaf ears as Reid proceeded to ignore her and act like a puppy who wanted to go outside. He ignored her? He ignored his commander? His keeper and lord and master?! How could he!? No, HOW DARE HE!

Slade was her father, and she was to some point a daddy's girl who emulated him. Suave, composed, someone who could convince the scorpion not to sting the frog despite it being in their nature. But there was another thing that Kaya had going that she tried to repress, and that was her mother's blood. Hot headed Ticon antics sewed right into her DNA, and we all know how that went.

"REID!!" She shouted out as charged forward.

With a running start the tiny child speared her twin brother to the ground where they would proceed to roll around in a flurry of tiny arms and legs flailing every which way.

"I'm going to give you the biggest wedgie ever!!" She yelled as they rolled around in a tiny adorable fight for their lives.

[member="Connor Harrison"] [member="Reid Zambrano-Ticon"]