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[sith_happened]

After his spar with Ben (the boy really was getting better. Not that he'd mention it--no reason to inflate his ego), Anakin made his way to the office and began uploading new holos of Juliet onto his computer to send to Luke.

It had been a few weeks since he'd sent new pictures, after all. She'd grown!

The door was open.

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[trigons_child]

After Aeryn's class, Raven made her usual visit to Anakin's office. She hoped he wasn't allergic to cats because she was covered in cat fur, though black fur on black clothing thankfully didn't show up. Much.

"Good morning, Professor Skywalker," she greeted him.

[sith_happened]

Anakin glanced up from his keyboard and smiled. "Good morning, Raven. No shooting in class today?"

[trigons_child]

"No, no shooting," Raven said. "But there were kittens, and Professor Sun showed us pictures of all the animals her husband has turned into." And, because she had to ask, "Have you ever been turned into an animal here?"

She imagined if the answer was yes, it would have had to have been a very impressive creature, fierce like Tyra.

[sith_happened]

"Yes," Anakin said with a sigh. "I turn into a kitten."

A fluffy, adorable, very pissed off kitten.

He laughed. "John used to poke at a witch with no sense of humor. Don't do that."

[trigons_child]

Raven's lips twitched as she imagined Anakin as a fluffy little kitten. "That is what Professor Sun said," she managed to say. "I have no intention of ever doing so, but I understand sometimes such transformations are unexplained and random."

[sith_happened]

"It's part of the reason I have a spare robe in the office," he said. "Your clothing tends to be forfeit when you transform."

[trigons_child]

Raven nodded. "We were warned of that as well," she said. "I hope that will never happen to me, but at least I can transport myself to my room if it does. I do not know what I would do if I did not have that advantage." Die of embarrassment, most likely.

[sith_happened]

"I always managed to transform back at the most ridiculous possible moment," Anakin griped. "The island has a sense of humor."

[trigons_child]

If it happened to Raven, there would be oh-so-frantic teleportation to her room, and hiding for a week.

"It must have a perverse sense of humor," Raven agreed. "That is what the gremlins are for, are they not?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin scowled. "I certainly think so. They have some kind of obsession with my family, too."

[trigons_child]

"Is there no way to discourage them from attacking?" Raven asked, troubled by this. "I wonder if perhaps I could use my gifts to relieve them of this obsession."

[sith_happened]

"The school has tried everything--including hiring exterminators--to get them to go away," Anakin replied. "We formed a truce with them a few invasions ago to stop the zombies."

[trigons_child]

"A truce?" Raven repeated hopefully. "So they do not bite anymore? I have been worried about that happening since I learned of their existence."

[glacial_queen]

Karla had some time to kill before Reserves meeting and auditions at the Boards, so she was wandering through the school, her nose buried in her copy of The Midsummer Night's Dream, debating who she should try out for and what monologue she should use.

In retrospect, she shouldn't have walked past Professor Skywalker's office (or anywhere Professor Skywalker would be) after last week's discussion, but she was a little too busy hating Oberon's very existence to pay attention to where she was going.

[sith_happened]

Anakin glanced up from his typing. "Were you looking for me?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla glanced up from her book, brain still mostly focused on how much of a jackass Oberon was (When thou wakest, it is thy dear: / Wake when some vile thing is nea), so it took a moment of peering into the office and remembering that most people didn't speak in iambic pentameter to process just who was talking to her and why.

Anakin's first clue the answer was probably 'no' was when she dropped the book. "Uhhh, no, sir," she squeaked. "Just passing by?"

[sith_happened]

"Down the hallway full of faculty offices," Anakin said dryly. "Really. Step inside, please."

...at least he said please?

[glacial_queen]

"I really was just walking..." Karla tried to explain.

That didn't stop her from coming inside. She wasn't stupid.
She also raised her inner barriers as high as they could go. Again, she wasn't stupid.

"Umm, is this about class, sir?" Had Ben mentioned their mental chat during their spar today?

[sith_happened]

"Should it not be?" Anakin asked. He'd spent a decade following Obi-Wan Kenobi around. When it suited him, he could be be as vague as the next Jedi Master.

[glacial_queen]

"Maybe you were interested in my book?" Karla tried.

She slumped back into her chair. She hadn't actually thought that would work, but it had been worth a shot. "Was there a specific part of class you wished to discuss, Professor Skywalker?"

So asked the girl who had rambled her way into trouble more than once.

[sith_happened]

Anakin steepled his fingers together and peered at her over them. "Which part do you think I would be most interested in?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla hated questions like that. Loathed. They were the kind of questions specifically designed to get you into far more trouble than you would have gotten if they'd just told you what they'd already caught you doing.

Which got Karla's back up and made her far less helpful than she would have been normally. Which wasn't very. "You want to know if I really can poison people with a touch?" she asked blandly. "The answer is yes. May I go?"

[sith_happened]

"No," Anakin decided, waving his hand and shutting his door. "I was more interested in your answers to my answers."

[glacial_queen]

"I hadn't noticed," Karla muttered, not rolling her eyes by strength of will alone. "And what did they tell you?"

[sith_happened]

"That I needed more information if I was going to be able to adequately understand your perspective on the world."

He gave her a slightly maddening smile. "So it's quite handy that you stopped by."