The playground corner of the park [Saturday afternoon]

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Anakin was on a bench by the playground equipment watching his two children as they played.

Christopher ate sand. Anakin smiled.

Juliet jumped off the step side of the slide--Anakin caught her with the Force and smiled. Juliet blinked: that was not the expression she'd expected from her daddy when she did something that reckless. Being half Skywalker, she immediately beelined for a tree twice as tall as the slide to climb up and jump from.

...and Anakin smiled.

Mellow Anakin might be creepier than scary Anakin.

[OOC: Open!]

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Raise free range children, Rory! Filthy, occasionally broken, gonna regret that sand when it passes through your system, children!

"Edgy is so...work," Anakin complained. "I'd rather just relax in the moment. Meditate. Drink tea."

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"Tea?" Rory stared at him. "Did you seriously just say 'tea'?"

To Rory, this was nigh-criminal.

"We are coffee people, Anakin."

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"Can't we expand our palate, Rory?" Anakin asked. "We don't want our children to inherit our food prejudices!"

What.

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"What."

Rory was staring at him, almost in horror.

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"We could start slow, with chai teas with espresso shots in them," Anakin wheedled.

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"Chai is a gateway drug and you know it," Rory accused, narrowing her eyes. "One day it's chai lattes, the next day you're joining Oprah's chai tea club."

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"She has a club?! I should join it, meet new people. I love new people!"

No, not really, Anakin.

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"Oprah has like fifteen different clubs," Rory said, still staring at him. "And no, you don't. You hate new people."

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"I hated everyone two days ago, which is practically a lifetime," Anakin argued. "Today hating people seems like way too much effort."

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"Making new friends takes effort, too," Rory pointed out.

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"Oh. Maybe not today, then," Anakin decided. "Today feels like a lazy day for doing nothing--Juliet, that's probably high enough, but you do you, honey."

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"No, Juliet, that is too high, and if you don't climb down then you're spending the rest of the afternoon in your room."

Rory hated being the bad cop, ugh. Juliet, meanwhile, was looking between her parents and trying to decide who to listen to. Daddy seemed more fun, but Mom would actually stick to the whole 'grounded' thing, hmm.

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"Chris is eating sand again!" Juliet declared, deciding that selling her brother out would make up for climbing down like Mom had told her to.

Anakin chuckled. "Chris, we should send you to Tatooine to get your fill."

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"Or we don't send you anywhere, and you stop eating sand," Rory said, taking Chris' hand to shake out his sand. "Anakin, come on, you know he shouldn't eat sand. All the books say it's bad for them!"

And, you know, common sense.

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And normally Anakin could quote her the author and page number (because he lived for parenting books), but today he just chuckled again, which was getting more than a little annoying. "Come over to the slide, Chris," he said. "I can push you down."