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The Beach [late afternoon]

The sun was beginning to go down and Anakin was finished with his office hours. It was time for a friendly spar with his alternate-universe son.

You know, as so many families do.

Ben had found a rock to sit on and observe, looking faintly embarrassed by the entire proceeding.

The Second Annual Skywalker Family Lightsaber Duel and Sulking Contest was about to begin.

Come on down.
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Re: Ben Facepalms!

[identity profile] legacyofpain.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ferus acknowledged the look with a nod of acknowledgement. "Our last conversation ended more abruptly than I would have liked," he admitted. Which... was about typical for conversations with Anakin Skywalker, but he felt that part went without saying.
sith_happened: (Anakin: cranky)

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[personal profile] sith_happened 2010-10-04 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Because you were being unreasonable," Anakin decided.

Anakin had a very special kind of memory and something about Ferus turned him back into being an unsure Padawan again.

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[identity profile] legacyofpain.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unreasonable," Ferus echoed. "You were responsible for a lot of pain in my life," something of an understatement, the raw, aching grief he'd carried since Roan's death hadn't faded in sixteen years. "I was surprised to see you here... doing so well."
sith_happened: (Anakin: b&w intense)

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[personal profile] sith_happened 2010-10-04 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm very good at compartmentalizing," Anakin replied quietly. "No one needs to know what I'm feeling but me."

Which was kind of an apology. Maybe. If you squinted and turned your head.

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[identity profile] legacyofpain.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
They'd been rivals forced to work together multiple times as teenagers; Ferus knew how to recognize an Anakin Skywalker version of an apology when he saw one.

"I don't pretend to understand how this 'timeline weirdness' works," he said. "But if you are- were- him- then you ought to know better than anyone why I need to protect her."
sith_happened: (Anakin: atmospheric on Mustafar)

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[personal profile] sith_happened 2010-10-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do," Anakin said, nodding and looking absolutely serious. "She has a tendency to leap before she looks--" not that she'd gotten that from him at all, nope, "--that I am trying to temper."

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[identity profile] legacyofpain.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hate to tell you this," Ferus said, with something that came dangerously close to a smile twitching at the edge of his mouth, "but I think that might be genetic."
sith_happened: (Anakin: doofy smile)

Re: Ben Facepalms!

[personal profile] sith_happened 2010-10-04 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I blame her mother," Anakin said solemnly.
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