Gaston Jr was something of a practical joker, and there was no one he loved playing jokes on more than his best friend Eddie Locksley. The two of them had been friends since…forever, and to Gaston jr, it was always going to be that way no matter what. Or at least he hoped so, he really wasn’t looking forward to explaining to Eddie what had happened between him and his sister in the basketball court, he just didn’t know how the other boy would react. They had this connection, Eddie and Gaston, they had just always clicked and Gaston never wanted to be rid of that. His father never understood how he had so much time for the other boy, Eddie who was rubbish at everything and barely had two brain cells to knock together, which surprised Junior as he had met his fathers old friend LeFou.
However to Gaston Jr, Eddie was brilliant. Eddie understood him, Eddie was a good laugh intentionally and unintentionally, and he always knew how to make Junior feel a little better if he was feeling down. He liked to think he did the same for Eddie and would be devastated if the other boy thought he didn’t. However, whilst he had entered Eddie’s room to have a serious discussion with him, the opportunity to play a good joke had presented itself and he just couldn’t help himself.
Which was why he was now standing in Eddie’s closet making ‘woo’ noises as the other boy came in to the room, “…woooooo…..Edward Locksley…. You must use the force….”
Despite what everybody thought, and all evidence to the contrary, Eddie was not a complete idiot. He did, for example, find it slightly suspicious that the voice of Obi Wan (or other possible ghostly Jedi master) began with the word 'woo'. Unfortunately, while he was not a complete idiot, he still was quite a lot of one, so instead of immediately guessing that the Jedi master who sounded suspiciously like Gaston was, in fact, the friend in question, he looked around the room cautiously.
"Uh... use the force to do what?" He asked, trying to see if he could spot any ghostly figures. It made perfect sense, of course, that there may be a ghost - after all, it did happen a long, long time ago, most of the characters would be dead and ghosts, roaming the universe and looking for potential users of the Force. They were in a place where magic existed after all, it wasn't a great leap to imagine the Force did too.
He hadn’t really thought this far. He was just expecting Eddie to freak out and start shouting who are you and which point he would reveal himself and burst out laughing. However, clearly years of being indoctrinated with fantasy, supernatural and sci-fi had allowed Eddie to build an immunity of sorts to being scared should he be presented when any such thing as this. In fact, all things considered, this was probably one of his biggest dreams, to be contacted form beyond the grave and told to use the force.
“You…you want to use the force to make your dearest and bestest friends Gaston Junior a Sandwich,” he said still in the ‘spooky’ voice of the master jedI from the closet.
It was a gamble, including his own name, Eddie might still work it out but he had come this far he may as well give it a shot.
That actually gave Eddie pause. He still wasn't quite sure what was going on, and hadn't quite made the leap to realising just who was responsible for the mysterious voice that just happened to be coming from the direction of his wardrobe (probably best he didn't notice that, in case he thought it was Aslan), but he at least stopped to think about it, forehead wrinkled in concentration.
"That seems a bit of a silly reason to use the force." He said eventually "I mean, I'm sure Gaston would really like a sandwich and everything, but if I was going to make him one then why wouldn't I just do it normally? The force is a big and important power, you can't just go around using it to make sandwiches whenever you feel like it."
Yes, that was actually the main problem he had with this scenario.
Curses, of course Eddie would think about this logical, it was rather a waste of the great and awesome power that was the force. Gaston Junior quickly re-thought his plan and replied, “Why my young padawan you are correct, and you have past the first of many tests on your road to becoming a powerful Jedi master.”
If, in the extremely near future, Eddie did discover that this disembodied voice was in fact his best friend, he could at least guarantee that the other young man would not be too put out that his friend had played such a trick on him. Mainly due to the fact that its implication was that Eddie could be a Jedi Master which was more than he ever expected often being relegated to the hairy sidekick Chewie.
“As a reward for you triumph you have been given the opportunity, nay the privilege, to use your own two magnificent hands to make your dearest and bestest friend a sandwich,” Gaston said grinning, “and bring him a coke as well.”
Gaston was correct, Eddie wasn't all that bothered that there was a disembodied voice in his room that may or may not be somebody just playing a prank on him, but he was feeling pretty pleased with himself when the voice said he could be a jedi master. The fact that he'd passed anything was cause for celebration.
He didn't really understand why the ghostly jedi wanted him to make Gaston a sandwich so badly, but maybe it was some sort of exercise in charity, it was a nice thing to do to make sandwiches for your friends, maybe that's what it was all about. Shrugging his jacket off, he went to the wardrobe to hang it up before he got down to the sandwich making, and was surprised to see Gaston standing there when he opened the door.
"Gaston! What are you doing here? Were you looking for Narnia?"
Gaston stood, frozen despite the fact he knew that Eddie had been heading towards him and was a little surprised at the boys reaction to him being in his closet. Really, he should have expected it, this was Eddie after all, it wouldn’t be till about 6 minutes later that his brain would catch up with him and he would start asking the right questions. Gaston smiled and said, “Yes, yes I was and I said to myself, I said, ‘Gaston, if Narnia is going to be anywhere, it’s going to be in Eddie’s closet.’ So I went in, had a look, found Narnia, had a nice chat with Aslan and then I came back.’”
It was a terribly fabricated story, he didn’t actually meet Aslan although it would have been totally awesome if he did, but it was like the tooth fairy, or Santa. Eddie just wasn’t ready to find out these things weren’t real. He stepped out of the closet and said, “And then I heard this strange voice telling someone to make a sandwich and something to do with becoming a Jedi.”
Technically speaking, as with Eddie's theorising on the potential existance of Jedi in such a world as Tintagel, it would be no great leap to assume that Narnia existed - and, indeed, certain of its denizens or visiters were alumni of the school. With this is mind, it was not completely idiotic for Eddie to hold such strange beliefs - or at least, that's the argument he would give, were he actually capable of expressing it so eloquently. If anybody actually challenged those ideas, he'd probably go 'well... they could!'
He was truly amazed that his friend had apparently been to Narnia, and was about to ask if Gaston could show him the entrance, when something else caught his attention. "You heard it too!?" He asked in amazement, then confusion stole over his features as his true nerdery shone through "but when ghostly Jedi masters talk to their students nobody else can hear them..."