Office hours [all day]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was in his office with every light on, music playing, and his laptop going.

You know, just enjoying electricity.

The door was open.

[I AM BACK]

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[trigons_child]

Raven had been waiting outside his door all day like a lost puppy arrived at her usual time after her morning class. "Good morning, Professor Skywalker," she said. Do not mention the orgy, do not mention the orgy, do not mention the orgy....

[sith_happened]

"And to you," Anakin replied with a small smile. "Come in."

[trigons_child]

"I discovered what the source of my pain last week was," Raven said, taking her seat. "Though not exactly why. Pieces of my soul were missing, but they returned when those of Fandom did."

[sith_happened]

Anakin frowned. "So parts of your soul went with the students?"

[trigons_child]

Raven nodded. "Karla tried to look within me and see the source of my pain, and she saw my inner self as shattered," she said. "When I manifested my Soul-Self, pieces of it were gone. But once the rift opened in the dorm lobby, I knew I was hole again."

[sith_happened]

"That is one of the weirder things I've ever heard," Anakin admitted.

[trigons_child]

"I do not understand why," Raven said, "unless it was I somehow allowed pieces of my soul to be drawn away with my friends? It is not something I did consciously, however."

Soul-stalking seemed vaguely creepy.

[sith_happened]

"The rifts also took bits of machinery with them," Anakin said, "so maybe it was just happenstance. Perhaps there are dozens of alots and teal deer who disappeared and reappeared without us noticing."

[trigons_child]

"I am just relieved that it did not last," Raven said, "and the island is back to normal again. I am not certain that I would have been able to save Karla and help defeat the maenad if I had still been incomplete."

She was never ever going to start at the beginning of a story.

[sith_happened]

"What's a maenad?" Anakin replied.

[trigons_child]

"A creature that seems to thrive upon negative emotions," Raven explained. "There was one at Sookie's home in Louisiana, and she asked me for help in stopping it from enslaving the people of her town." There totally hadn't been an orgy, really.

[sith_happened]

"How did you help?" Anakin asked, looking a little concerned.

[trigons_child]

"I cut the maenad off from the source of her power," Raven said. "Which allowed Emma and Karla to defeat her." She wasn't lying, just leaving out pertinent facts!

[solo_sword]

Truth be told, Jaina had actually really been looking forward to today. This was probably at least in part because unlike the rest of her family, she had no idea just exactly what it was Artoo had been showing recordings of, and so she was able to greet him at the door with a smile. "Hi, Grandfather."

[sith_happened]

"Let me guess," he replied, grinning back, "it was slightly longer than two weeks for you."

[solo_sword]

"Yep. I'm a cougar now," she said, stepping inside.

Somewhere, Zekk would be so glad she'd gone singular for that one.

[sith_happened]

"Only if you plan on dating high school students, I think," Anakin said. "Welcome back."

[solo_sword]

"That's what I said, but apparently it changes nothing," she said. "Stand up, you're getting a hug."

She had never given out so many hugs in her life as she had this week, which was saying something when your mother was a post-Anakin Leia.

[sith_happened]

"Was it that bad?" he asked, hugging her back.

[solo_sword]

"Parts. It's just been five years, that deserves a hug," she said, releasing him.

[sith_happened]

Anakin smiled a little ruefully. "Try being gone for twenty years. On second thought, don't. The whiplash is something insane."

[solo_sword]

"At twenty years, we might have given up," Jaina admitted. "I didn't think anyone would still be here as it was. Maybe you, but that was it."

[sith_happened]

"We?" Anakin repeated. "Did you get married in five years?"

[solo_sword]

"No," she said quickly. "Definitely not. It's a long story. That in no way involves marriage." Especially since she was officially done there.

[sith_happened]

"Just checking," Anakin said. "I got married less than five years out of high school."

And look how well that had worked out!