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[sith_happened]

Anakin had been quite excited to start in on one of the new books he'd picked up at the Georgetown Barnes and Noble the other day (he knew his wife very well and had gone there for a jumpstart on a Valentine's Day gift). Books about military strategy and politicians getting their comeuppance were his favorite.

Which was why he was a little nonplussed to discover his military history book now had a half-clothed man on the front, holding up a woman who was wearing far too little clothing to escape unsunburnt. He was not reading Taming the Desert Sun, thank you very much.

The door was open. The book was not.

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[solo_sword]

Yeah, Jaina had discovered that even her datapads had been replaced by something she know for a fact she hadn't gotten on purpose, and after two days of little things like this, she was getting annoyed.

"I haven't said it lately, but I hate this town," she announced casually from the doorway.

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave her a bemused look. "I was listening to the radio. I hear I missed flower petals everywhere?"

[solo_sword]

"Everywhere," she confirmed, frowning as she took a seat. "You know what's not fun to do after hours of training? Clear petals out of your shower before you can get clean."

[sith_happened]

"Did they come out of the faucet too?" Anakin asked, wrinkling his nose. "I'm not really interested in smelling pretty."

Except when he ran out of soap and used Rory's vanilla-scented body wash. But that was only in emergencies.

[solo_sword]

She who used vanilla-scented shampoo because her ex-boyfriend had gotten her started on it could not judge.

"No," she said, a little alarmed because she hadn't even thought about that. "Which is good, because I would have probably thrown something and gotten a hotel on the mainland."

[sith_happened]

"And the pipes probably would have been ruined," Anakin agreed.

[solo_sword]

"Probably. You know, that hotel room on the mainland is seeming like a really good idea now that I've said it," she said.

[sith_happened]

"You're going to let the whimsy win?" Anakin teased.

He could tease. He didn't live there.

[solo_sword]

"The whimsy can suck it," said Jaina, and if you didn't think television influenced her speech at all, that sentence should pretty much do it. "It's been two days of whimsy now, I can see where the trend is going. And the trend has bad timing."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Juliet was getting cookie crumbs all over Rory's shirt as she was carried into Anakin's office. "Your daughter," Rory told him, "has discovered action figures."

[sith_happened]

"Has she?" Anakin replied, smiling as he looked up. "From who?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Talyn," Rory said with a little smile as Juliet squealed, through a mouthful of cookie, "JEDI!!!!"

"They were little soldiers, and Juliet put a Skywalker spin on it," Rory added.

[sith_happened]

"Good girl!" Anakin said to Juliet. "And Jedi always win, right?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Fly," Juliet told him seriously, as that had been a key point in the Jedi defense strategy.

[sith_happened]

"Jedi are excellent at flying," Anakin agreed. He glanced at Rory. "Talyn? Or did one of my colleagues get gremlin bit and think they're small?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"John has Talyn with him, yes," Rory agreed, as Juliet flew her cookie around like one of those action figures. Thankfully, she did not throw it, but only because it was a cookie and thus should be cherished.

[sith_happened]

Anakin got up to give his wife a kiss. "Delayed hello," he said.

[angelo_wings]

Some time during what was supposed to be Rinoa's lunch break, she poked her head in.

"Hi," she said. "Can I come in?"

She was tired, but there was a low thrum of excitement underneath. This weekend had opened some doors; she wasn't sure how safe any of them were, but she wanted to know.

[sith_happened]

"Of course, Rinoa," Anakin replied, nodding. "Have a seat."

[angelo_wings]

She seated herself in the chair closest to his desk, hardly waiting to sit down before she started talking.

"I was using magic this weekend," she said. "Safely, not anything where it would be dangerous. Just some counterspells. But there were three of us, and that ... that felt safer, to me. To use more of it."

This was helpful exposition that was going to totally let Anakin know what was going on. Seriously.

[sith_happened]

Anakin blinked. "What were you using magic to do?"

[angelo_wings]

Oh, yes, starting at the beginning. That might be logical.

"We were somewhere called Louisiana," she said. "A vampire lost his memory, because some witch was putting a spell on him. So there were three of us, trying to dispel that magic and disrupt it."

She bit her lip before adding, "I can ... use some without it being dangerous. There's so much that it's just ... part of me. Right there where I can call it up, without ... you know."

In case he thought she'd been flirting with disaster. She might have been, but if so, that part came later in the story, anyway.

[sith_happened]

"Causing everything to go very, very bad?" Anakin replied, arching an eyebrow.

[angelo_wings]

"That," she said, calmly.

Some magic seemed to crackle whenever she flexed her fingers.

[sith_happened]

Anakin's eyes focused on her hands. "Is that normal? The residual power?"