Skywalker Apartment [Thursday evening]

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Anakin was sitting in the middle of the living room floor trying to untangle Vladdie from a string of blinking white lights.

"I leave you alone for three seconds," he muttered, not even turning around to point straight at Bertie. "Back to the closet," he scolded. "Eating the stockings is a terrible, terrible idea."

Ah, Christmas decorating.

[For she what lives there!]

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"The baby could go to Yale, too, and they could find out then," she decided.

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"Or when the baby gets married," he teased.

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"Exactly," she agreed, nodding. "See, that would have been the better plan."

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"I love you," he said, leaning in to kiss her nose, "and you are very, very sneaky, but I'm not sure that would've worked."

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"It would've been fine," she declared.

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"Would we have had to invest in cunning disguises and wigs to hide the child until it got married?" Anakin asked. "Perhaps mustaches?"

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"What if it's a girl? She might never get married if we make her wear a mustache," she replied.

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"And?" Anakin replied, smiling. "She's going to be forty before she can date."

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"Fair point," she agreed thoughtfully, resting her head on his shoulder. "You think they'll calm down eventually?"

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He kissed the top of her head. "I'm sure of it," he said. "How else will they be able to tell us everything we're doing is wrong?"

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"Good point," she sighed. "And really, it's probably best that we told them before I started really showing."

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Anakin's hand drifted down to rest on her stomach. "It probably lessened the volume and duration of the yelling a bit," he said.

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"Hopefully there won't be a repeat or anything," she said, resting her hand on top of his.

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He smiled down at her. "I only get yelled at once," he said.

Pause.

"Usually."

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"I'm pretty sure I've yelled at you more than once," she said, nodding.

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"I only let very special people yell at me more than once," he said. "And throw Zen gardens at me."

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"You deserved it," she replied, stretching her legs over his lap.

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"I'm not going to argue that," Anakin said, reaching out to massage one of her feet. "Glad it's not November any more. I felt like I was holding my breath the entire month."

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"I know," she said, smiling softly. "But we made it through okay."

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He leaned over to kiss the scar on her neck. "I'm very grateful for that," he murmured. "No clinic visits in November this year. I think that's a first for us."

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"Don't jinx it," she said softly.

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"I won't," he promised, leaning his forehead against hers and moving his hand back to her stomach. "There's a little too much going on now for me to get stupid."

Not that that had ever stopped him before...

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"For either of us to," she offered.

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Anakin leaned in to kiss her. "Yes, so no skiing or cliff jumping or making friends with vampires for you," he teased.

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"Well, there go all my plans," she sighed.