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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!]

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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.

Anakin looked confused. "Why are you....ohhhhh."

Cue the creative use of Huttese profanity.

And the gigglefit.

Not that he'd admit to the latter.

"You said something bad!" she scolded, still laughing. "Between you and Luke I'm picking up all kinds of bad alien language."

"Luke shouldn't curse," said Anakin Skywalker, King of Hypocrisy.

"See, I told him that, but he insists that he's eighteen and I can't boss him around," Rory replied.

Anakin raised an eyebrow. "That's never stopped you before," he commented.

"It still doesn't," she said. "But I can't exactly lecture him on swearing when he's heard me in a bad mood."

"But I only heard you actually curse once," Anakin said, looking confused. "Not Aeryn's word, I mean."

"'Frell' doesn't count in my book, right," Rory replied. "But I've said other things in front of you. Yelled things at you, actually."

Rory was a little hard on herself when it came to her language.

"I deserved them," Anakin replied, "but they weren't curses."

"Depends on who you talk to. From someone like me, yes they are."

Anakin shrugged. "They're just words," he said. "As long as you're not Rita Skeeter. Then they turn you into a kitten."

"I still have to show Luke those pictures," she remembered. "I gave him a big box of pictures and things of yours back in September."

"You did?" Anakin bit his lip. "This would be me apologizing again. For all of it."

She shrugged, quiet for a moment. "I was in a lot of pain those days," she finally said. "I don't like to talk about it. Grief is different on everyone, and mine hit me like a brick to the face. Telling Luke everything he wanted to know about the man his father had been made it easier."

Anakin looked stricken as he wrapped his arms around his chest to stop himself from reaching out.

"I remember the pain," he whispered in a choked little voice.

It still radiated off of her. He took at as part of his penance.

"And it resulted in me making a few choices that weren't the best ones for anyone involved." Such as one named Bridge. "I just wanted to make it go away."

She shook her head. "Anyway. Luke has all the pictures of us except for one."

Anakin blinked at the thought he could've sworn he'd heard.

He shook his head, trying to get rid of it. "Which one doesn't he have?" he asked. "Please tell me it's the cross-dressing one."

She laughed. "No, Parker helped supply him with that one."

She reached into her bag and shyly brought out a photo from her wallet.

"This one."

Anakin let out a soft "oh" before he could stop himself, then leaned in to touch the picture.

Well, the Rory side of the picture if you wanted to be specific.

"I haven't seen this in years," he said. "All of those pictures were destroyed when the Temple was razed."

"Oh," she replied. "This is the one from right before your birthday."

Like he wouldn't know.

"I remember," he said softly. "You made me wear a hat that night," he said.

Then he thought of something. "You keep that picture with you?"

She shrugged. "I have since last year."

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