tampered | Log; ongoing

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Log; ongoing

When; 7pm July 18th
Rating; PG-13 (for now?)
Characters; Anybody who is considered a friend of Toshiko Sato's
Summary; Tosh is being thrown a surprise party in Lux. Come and help her celebrate!
Log;

Lux was decorated and ready to go. It was just waiting a certain birthday girl and her friends.

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While it was probably a completely logical route for the conversation to take, Luke's question caught Tosh completely off-guard. She turned and stared at him for a moment, blinking, and then shook her head.

"Not in a long while. Once, when I was a lot younger, but things just didn't work out that way."

"I never really thought about it until I got involved in the war," he mused. "And now I realize I'd love kids. It's just one of those things, though. I'll be a solider and a Knight forever. Not exactly time for that sort of thing."

"I don't think that's true, though," Tosh said quietly, looking mostly down at her plate. "I mean, a lot of soldiers have families. My parents both were in the military, and they found time. If you want kids, you should, I think. You'd be really good with them, I bet."

"I love kids. I'm not even really sure why. When I was growing up I didn't have the patience at all."

He smiled, tilting his head, thinking about something for a moment.

"What's this season like, now, on Earth?"

"A lot of people don't I guess, when they're young. Probably too much going on for themselves. Ianto's wonderful with children, I hope he has some someday."

Tosh shook her head, bemused at Luke's hopping from subject to subject. "Depends on where you are. Earth has a variable climate, so in the northern hemisphere it would summer but in the southern it'd be winter. And the closer to the equator you get, the less that even matters." She looked over at Luke and smiled back. "But in Cardiff we'd be having probably the best weather of the year. Quite mild for what a lot of people think of as summer -- probably not much over 20 Celcius. It's always a bit on the rainy side, but less so in the summer. Everything would be already fully bloomed and growing, so it's quite green."

Topic surfing was a habit of his. He knew Tosh would notice - skipping place to place, trying to feel out something comfortable.

"Huh. I'm jealous. We had one season on Tatooine. Hot." He laughed.

She had an idea what he was doing, and felt a little bad that his previous attempt hadn't been what he'd hoped for. But it hit too close to things Tosh was still trying to reconcile herself with.

"So I hear," she replied, with a little grin. "I've never been to the desert. Been to the Himalayas, which is a huge snowy mountain chain. But I haven't really traveled all that much."

It was all just random things - he didn't feel particularly awkward. It was easy enough, and something he should probably use for diplomacy instead of chatting with friends, but oh well.

"I never thought I'd ever leave Tatooine, much less see the worlds I've seen. Or here, even! Maybe someday I'll have time to enjoy the different planets instead of... you know, running through shooting things, basically."

"Well, think of the running through shooting things as a sort of trial run. Better than a travel brochure, yeah?"

Tosh didn't mind having diplomatic tactics used on her, although mostly it was that she didn't really notice it. Leia did the same at times, and Tosh generally just chalked it up to her usual lack of finesse when it came to conversation.

"Where's someplace you've heard about that you'd like to go, but haven't had the chance?"

"There's a legend about a planet called Ossus, where the Great Jedi Library used to be," he said, "established in the glory days of the Old Order, before the reformation. Ossus has been wiped off all of the maps, though. I'd like to look for it, if I ever have the time..."

"Oh, that's sounds amazing. An ancient library? I hope you do, Luke." Tosh smiled, imagining the kind of place the Great Jedi Library would be. "You think it's still there, then? Like...hidden away or something?"

"I'm not sure. Legends say it was just... lost. I have a feeling it might have been attacked during the Old Sith Wars, because that's when the last records of it taper off. So maybe it's hidden, but it might have been destroyed, too."

[ooc: sorry for the slow tags, I've been having mass email fun, as you can see, lol.]

Tosh nodded, looking thoughtful. "Well, I hope that it's just hidden or lost track of. If anyone can find it, you can. Maybe someday you'll even be able to tell me about it, somehow."

[ooc: Pfft, no worries, take your time bb!]

"Maybe." He didn't mention that he knew he was going home.. eventually. That it was ticking closer, and he just didn't know when.

"It's been nice, working at the library. A really enriching experience, and break from police things. I wonder if it hasn't inspired me about Ossus."

It didn't need mentioning, the knowledge that sooner or later they'd all be going home was rarely very far from Tosh's mind.

"That could be, I suppose. It sounds like it would be a nice, peaceful sort of job. In contrast to what you usually do, I mean. I know Ianto really enjoys it."

"Ianto is turning out to be a great librarian - which I think says something, considering how this particular library is."

"Well, he was archivist before he came to Torchwood Three," Tosh pointed out. "He's in his element at the library. I honestly don't know how we managed to keep everything organized before Ianto. And he's been with us the shortest length of time, but I can't even imagine the team without him."

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