Office hours [all day]

[sith_happened]

Anakin arrived a little late to work today: traffic coming through town had been a mess, and he'd almost had to start fights with three different little old ladies aggravating shoppers.

He put down his bag of decorations--lights and tinsel (stupid tinsel), bows and greenery--and began decorating his office.

And then taking pictures to send to Rory's phone. He had a promise to keep, after all.

The door was open. Holiday music was definitely not playing.

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[intraspective]

A very glittery Ino peeked around the door to his office in the afternoon. "You're decorating!"

Very good, Ino. Full marks for observation.

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned a little sheepishly. "I promised my wife. Come in!"

[intraspective]

"Your wife sounds awesome," she said, grinning and bouncing inside in all her glittery glory. "Can I help?"

[sith_happened]

"My wife is awesome," Anakin replied with a matching smile. "Of course you can help." He tilted his head at her. "Is the tinsel still falling from the sky?"

[intraspective]

"I will take your word for it since I've never met her! And the showers are possessed by glitter demons," Ino said, laughing. "I was demonized good and sparkly. Isn't it awesome?" Complete with a little twirl.

[sith_happened]

"It's certainly bright," he replied. "Rory would love it. Glitter demons, huh? Weirdest I had as a student were very small bunnies that clung to things."

[intraspective]

"Well," Ino admitted sheepishly, "I don't know if the demons are metaphorical or not, but there is totally a lot of glitter happening in the showers, so demons work as well as anything."

A beat.

"Like the multi-coloured dust bunnies we had a while ago?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "I had a few who liked to hang from a braid in my hair. It was strange."

Another small smile as he waved garland to hang from a corner of the ceiling and swag across the room. "So we'll be able to tell people's hygiene routines by who's sparkling today?"

[intraspective]

"I like the small animals, and stuff. It's fun to take care of them. What did you want me to help with?" Ino asked, watching the garland hang itself. "And, exactly, now we can tell who showers first thing in the morning, or later, or at night, and that's stuff I'm not sure I really needed to know but is a bit entertaining."

[sith_happened]

"I've got a bunch of bows in the bag," Anakin replied. "Why don't you stick them up where you think I need a bit of color?"

His office was pretty stark, other than the blue walls. Everywhere needed a bit of color.

[intraspective]

Ino poked through the bag to find the bows and contemplated his office. "Maybe you should have bought more bows," she said impishly, as she put one up on the wall behind his desk. "Because, really..."

[sith_happened]

"I don't do flashy," Anakin explained. "I grew up in a temple. There wasn't a lot of...anything, really. Lots of statues of old, famous Jedi. Lots of space. Not a lot of things to dust."

[intraspective]

Ino made a face as she put up another bow. "Any flowers about, at least? Flowers make up for a lot of things."

Really, if you took away all her plants, then Ino's room was pretty empty here.

[solo_sword]

After class, Jaina made her way to Anakin's office as promised.

And upon looking inside, she greeted him with, "Seriously?"

[sith_happened]

"I promised Rory," he replied, blushing.

[solo_sword]

"That you'd..." She sort of wanted him just to say it. She could see what he was doing.

[sith_happened]

"Make my office shiny and full of holiday crap," Anakin muttered.

[solo_sword]

Jaina grinned. "Did she say it like that?"

[sith_happened]

"Not exactly like that, no," Anakin admitted.

[solo_sword]

"I like it better your way. Why does she care what your office looks like?" she wondered.

[sith_happened]

"She cares," he said with a little shrug, "and it makes her happy. It doesn't have to be up long."

Anakin was such a soft touch.

[solo_sword]

"Meaning good thing I came today 'cause tomorrow it's gone?" she guessed.

[sith_happened]

He smirked. "That would be wrong."

Didn't mean it hadn't crossed his mind.

[solo_sword]

"Saturday?"

[sith_happened]

"Probably," he said. "She didn't set a time limit on it..."