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[sith_happened]

It was days like today where Anakin stopped being a Jedi, used to ignoring weather situations, and became the whiny kid from the desert who didn't like being cold. Rory, who grew up in Connecticut, would have been ashamed of the mostly one-sided conversation he was having with their daughter about the evils of cold, snow, ice, and the drivers in Washington, DC forced to deal with them.

He put Juliet down on the floor with a couple of toys he'd designed for Force-sensitive children (though she seemed more interested in picking up the dirt she was finding there), turned on some soothing music, and closed his door.

He didn't want to spend the entire day playing "chase Juliet down the hallway" if he could avoid it.

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[trigons_child]

Raven was feeling much better than her last visit. Of course, she felt guilty about how she'd behaved between then, but that was beside the point. She was fine now. Absolutely fine! Really! And if she told herself that enough times maybe she'd believe it.

She knocked on the door and waited for permission to enter.

[sith_happened]

"Door!" came an excited little voice, followed by Anakin's deeper one. "Come in, Raven. Don't let Juliet out, please."

[trigons_child]

She could cheat and teleport so she didn't have to open the door, but Raven didn't want to scare Juliet at all, so she opened the door and quickly stepped inside to prevent any toddler escape. "Good morning, Professor Skywalker," she said, then crouched down with a smile. "Hello, Juliet, how are you today?"

[sith_happened]

Juliet stared up at her solemnly with big blue eyes before bolting to cling to Anakin's leg.

"She's still not great with people who are new," Anakin said apologetically. "Have a seat!"

[trigons_child]

Raven settled into a chair, folding her hands in her lap and trying to look as non-threatening as possible to Juliet. On the plus side? Anakin wouldn't push her about her Issues with his daughter there, right?

"You must have missed her while you were stranded on the island last week," she said.

[sith_happened]

"Very much," Anakin said. "I'm giving Rory a break today so she can get things done without having to chase Juliet at the same time."

[trigons_child]

"I hope you were not intending to accomplish much work today then," Raven said teasingly, giving another smile to Juliet. "I suspect she will keep you very occupied."

[sith_happened]

"If she gets to be too much, I'll send her out to find Deadpool," Anakin decided.

[trigons_child]

"Do you think he will be able to handle her?" Raven asked.

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa worked at the library on Tuesdays, but she had a lunch break. One she was going to use to head over to Professor Skywalker's office, to thank him for last week and maybe -- maybe, if he was still okay with it -- ask for his help with the rest of it.

She knocked on the door, only realizing after she had that he might very well be out of the office on his lunch break. She'd have to hope she hadn't missed him.

[sith_happened]

"Door!" chirped a little voice. "It's open," Anakin's deeper one added.

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa peered around the door, careful not to open it into the source of the chirpier voice.

She had to lean over and greet the little one first, naturally. "Hi, you," she said. "Are you helping today?"

Oh, she was adorable.

"Is ... it a bad time?" she asked, glancing up at her teacher. "I don't want to interrupt."

[sith_happened]

"Not at all," Anakin assured her. "Juliet is visiting me to give her mom a break today. I was stuck on the island for a week, so I have a lot of groveling to do."

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa closed the door behind herself, carefully, before crouching down again.

"Hi, Juliet," she said. "You have a very pretty name."

She tried to process the rest of that, and frowned. "So when we couldn't even call off-island ... you were stuck here? And couldn't reach her?"

That sounded awful. Everything in danger, and you couldn't even tell your spouse you were okay.

[sith_happened]

"Tank oo," Juliet lisped before going back to her toy.

"I couldn't," Anakin said, "and then I turned into a cat," yes, he sounded annoyed, "and texting wasn't high on my list of skills. My wife graduated from here and knows the island's rhythms. I'm just in trouble because it was during her last final exam period."

[angelo_wings]

"Oh, no," she said, straightening up and leaving Juliet to her toy. "So she was left juggling everything while you were stuck here."

It wouldn't be his fault, obviously, but wow, how frustrating for her.

She hesitated before carefully taking a seat. "I won't keep you," she said. "I just wanted to thank you. For last week. I slept."

[sith_happened]

"I'm glad to hear it," Anakin said with a smile. "So the shielding helped."

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

It was the last week of school and someone was possibly just as paranoid as Nate about certain things involving certain small red head children. So, this somehow meant said red head child was to be allowed to run about with a toy gun.

So, using her mad stealth skills, she was slowly opening the door so an attack could be implemented.

...look, Deadpool wasn't the best influence. But everyone knew that.

[sith_happened]

"Bush!" Juliet shrieked, throwing her toy at the door.

Ambush, something...

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

HEY. HEY, NOW. No ruining the surprise, Juliet.

Jan shushed her a little too loud for this attack to go off without Anakin being any wiser as to what happened. Because, as we all know, Anakin Skywalker needed a small child to keep him in the know.

[sith_happened]

"Hello, Jan," Anakin said with a smile. "Here to play?"

Launch a sneaky ambush, play, it was hard to tell with these kids.

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

It was the same thing, really. With those parents at least.

Jan grinned in that too wide manner that threatened to break her face before pulling out the toy gun and aiming at at him. "Hi, mister Skywalker," she said, trying to be careful at pronouncing things.

[sith_happened]

"It's nice to see you," he said. "Does Deadpool know you've escaped?"

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Well, duh.

She giggled and fired at his head. "BOOM! Headshot!" And then promptly fled the room.

[sith_happened]

"BOOM!" Juliet echoed, laughing and clapping her hands.