Super Lumpy Bed, Fandom Clinic [Sunday morning]

[sith_happened]

Anakin woke up with a groan. It took him a good few minutes to even open his eyes, and he regretting it almost immediately once he did: the lights gave him a pounding migraine. Rory called for the clinic staff, and they gave him a brief rundown of what had happened (he was suddenly and intensely grateful for not being treated with a Fisher Price plastic doctor's kit) and how he'd once again been used like a battery to abet the Toymaker's schemes.

Jedi didn't hate but Anakin was prepared to make an exception for this guy.

When Rory and the kids had gotten enough hugs and reassurances that he'd be okay and had headed back home to leave him to rest up, he grabbed his comm and sent an island-wide email:

Not as dead as rumored. Classes will proceed as normal next week. -A. Skywalker

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[sith_happened]

"Mmm," Anakin said, cracking his eyes back open. "Did you kill that guy?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Never got the chance to get close," Kanan replied, grimacing faintly. "Did a pretty good number on that droid they had you plugged into, though."

Like the world's most dramatic AA battery.

"Who the hell was that, anyway?"

[sith_happened]

"I call him 'That Frelling Asshole' but he goes by the Toymaker," Anakin said. "He likes to show up here every few years and mess with me. This is not the first time I've been a battery for his ridiculousness. At least this time I was unconscious."

[uncertain_dume]

"Somebody with the power to transform the entire island and everybody on it into mindwashed toys needs you as a battery?" Kanan raised an eyebrow slightly. "Did you tick him off or something?"

[sith_happened]

"I'm sure it'll come as a surprise to you that I've lost track of the number of people I've ticked off over the years," Anakin said, closing his eyes again.

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan said, with a soft huff that was almost a laugh, except so help him, he was
a little too tired for even that, "I'm shocked."

He made his way over and set the pancakes down within Anakin's reach.

"Brought food. Figured you'd need something that isn't clinic gelatin at some point." He fell silent a moment. "Glad you're not dead."

He had a lot of weird and complicated Jedi feelings, and they'd been stirred up in new and interesting ways back when they'd televised Anakin's walk to the junkyard.

[sith_happened]

"Glad not to be dead," Anakin said, smiling down at the pancakes. "Thank you for this. And for--" he gestured vaguely, "--un-batterying me and so on."

[uncertain_dume]

"Human battery would be a terrible way to go after surviving so much other poodoo," Kanan replied, giving a vague gesture of his own in reply. "But... yeah. I wasn't about to leave you there, either."

[sith_happened]

"Appreciate it," he said, digging into the pancakes. "I feel like I haven't eaten in a week."

[uncertain_dume]

"You and everyone else," Kanan replied, smiling wryly. "Plastic isn't great for the appetite." A pause. "And if there's anything else you need, let me know."

[sith_happened]

"Thanks," Anakin said. "I think I should be okay. Just need to recharge."

Anakin was under the impression he was secretly hilarious.

[uncertain_dume]

Well, it got a faintly amused snort out of Kanan, at least.

... He'd needed it. 'Jedi battery' was a new and exciting horror show that was going to feed his nightmares for months to come.

"Fair enough. I'll leave you to it, then?"

[sith_happened]

"Napping on doctor's orders," Anakin said. "Livin' the dream."

[uncertain_dume]

"Could be worse," Kanan mused. "They could be stuffing you full of enough coffee to ruin it for you for life."

That was Kanan's last clinic stay. He was all set for coffee forever now, thanks.

[sith_happened]

Anakin looked horrified. "They've ruined coffee for you? Rory would throw you a funeral of some kind for that kind of loss."

[uncertain_dume]

"I cope by telling myself that caf is entirely different."

Insisting on it. Up and down.

Stubborn denial was a wonderful thing.

[sith_happened]

"It's not that different."

Anakin, don't be like that.

[uncertain_dume]

"Let me have my small delusions, Skywalker."

Because otherwise all he had left was tea, and that was just cruel.

[sith_happened]

Anakin smiled. "Very well. Delude away."