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Office hours [all day]

Anakin opened his office door.

And stared.

Someone had redecorated.

Anakin stomped around the office examining streamers on the ceiling and paint on the wall, then the glitter-bestrewned Farrah Fawcett poster, and finally flounced over to sit in his chair.

With its pink boa.

He waved a hand and started up his little galaxy of stars, then picked up a pen that had been decorated with feathers--all of his pens had been decorated with feathers, what the hell?--and hoped no one visited today.

Though that didn't seem very likely.

[OOC: Door's closed, post is open!]

I Am What I Am - John Barrowman

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"You'll have help," she promised quietly, giving him a little smile. "Not that I can help...be a dad, but if he comes to you with something that makes you flaily, you can always call me. Not that I know what a normal upbringing is like either, but still."

"There won't be any more chats by cliffs, for one," Anakin said ruefully.

"Well, no," she agreed. "And maybe everyone can keep their hands."

Anakin pretended to mull that over. "Maaaybe..." he said, sounding uncertain.

"Only people we don't like can lose limbs," Rory suggested.

"I used to have a list," Anakin admitted.

"I have one," she said quietly.

Anakin's eyebrows rose. "Really?" he asked.

Pause.

"Am I on it?"

"Not anymore," she said, looking down.

Anakin went red to his ears.

"Oh," he said softly.

"Have you already forgotten how I was with you before I knew you were...you?" she asked, working out the wording. "When I thought you'd killed, um, you."

Anakin blushed harder. "No, no I knew that part," he said, focusing intently on his boots. "I didn't know I'd moved off of the list."

"You moved off the list awhile ago. Right now you're on a slightly less ragey one," she said, raising her brows.

Anakin gave her a mischievous smile, looking as young as his body suggested. "I know better than to ask how many highlighted and alphabetized lists you have."

She grinned. "Someday maybe you'll move back onto the prettiest and least highlighted list," she said playfully.

For just a heartbeat, there was nothing playful in Anakin's expression.

"Something to aim for," he said quietly.

Rory's smile faltered. "It's a pretty lofty goal from where you're sitting," she murmured.

"I have very little else to occupy my time," he replied, deliberately ignoring the part of his brain that was screaming at him to stop this right the hell now.

"You need hobbies, then," she replied, actually listening to the portion of her brain devoted to moving on. At least for the moment. "I'm not that interesting."

Anakin finally had the good sense to drop his eye contact. "Maybe I'll take up knitting, then," he said.

"Didn't work for me," she said, shrugging a little. "I, of course, would wear something if someone constructed it for me."

That? Was the definite expression of Anakin Plotting Something.

"I'll remember that," he said.

Rory raised her eyebrows further. "That sounds...ominous."

Anakin shook his head, chuckling. "I don't do ominous anymore," he teased. "Didn't you get the memo?"

He was laughing about being Darth Vader. Who knew that day would ever come?

He frowned. "You can get up now," he said quietly. "That can't be comfortable."

Rory had sort of forgotten she was on her knees. "Thanks for the permission."

As she rose, she was struck by what anyone who might have entered the room would have seen. Thus began the horrifically inappropriate giggles.

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