Office hours [all day]

[sith_happened]

After a quick trip to the Isle of Ikea to replace all of the broken glassware, Anakin's office was back to its normal state of cleanliness.

He turned on some soothing music from Ithor and waited to see how many students came in to see what he'd told their guardians.

The door was open.

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[solo_sword]

Jaina hadn't been at the fight because she really didn't want to encourage that kind of thing, but at the same time, she was massively curious. So when she leaning the doorway today, she began with, "So who won?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned. "I did. How was your weekend?"

[solo_sword]

That genuinely surprised her, sorry, and her first thought was that Luke must have thrown the fight. "Congratulations," she said, immediately glad for the subject change. "It was good. I'm sorry it's over and glad it did. Which is probably about normal for these weekends."

[sith_happened]

"Who did you see?" Anakin asked. "I haven't had a chance to catch up on radio broadcasts."

[solo_sword]

"Zekk," said answered. "First time we saw each other since Coruscant. It was interesting, to say the least." She was maybe a little worried he'd be worried she'd be dropping plurals all over the place.

[sith_happened]

"Did you speak aloud?" Anakin replied, trying to seem casual.

[solo_sword]

"Most of the time," Jaina said, totally casually. "It's handy when you don't want the squirrels to overhear you."

[glacial_queen]

After the heart debacle on Wednesday, Genesis had told her to go talk to someone. And since 2 out of 2 fangirls agreed that Professor Skywalker was the go-to guy for emotional crises, well, here she was.

She might have been praying to the Darkness that Anakin was going to be as understanding as Ben. Somehow, she was pretty sure that the 'ripped out a maenad's heart at an orgy' wasn't going to go over well.

"Ki--Excuse me?" she called, poking her head into Anakin's office door.

[sith_happened]

Anakin glanced up. "Hello, Karla. Come in."

[glacial_queen]

"Hi Professor," Karla said with a smile. She slipped inside his office, closing the door most of the way closed behind her. "Congratulations on your win, by the way," she said, taking a seat. "I'm getting a trip to Chilly Boulder out of it."

Karla had bet on Anakin mostly so that, if asked, she could honestly say she bet on Anakin.

[sith_happened]

Anakin flashed her a quick smile. "Excellent choice, then."

[glacial_queen]

She was friends with Raven. The question was almost an inevitability.

"Glad you approve," Karla said, returning the quick smile. Mostly because then there would be something he'd approved of in their conversation.

She was tempted to try to dance around the topic for awhile, but then she'd be making small talk with a small pool of dread in her lower belly and that was almost as unappealing as just talking about it in the first place. "So, I know you're not my teacher right now, but I was told that I really should talk to someone. I kind of had a weird reaction at the theater last week."

She began wringing her hands a little, really uncomfortable with talking about this. "I play the Wicked Queen in Snow White. At one point in the play, she asks her Hunstman to fetch her Snow White's...heart. In a box."

[sith_happened]

"Earth-based fairy tales are a little disturbing," Anakin agreed, "at least in their original, non-animated form. What bothers you so much about particular request?"

[trigons_child]

Raven had not had any visitors, thank Azar, but where there were Anakin office hours, there was a Raven.

"Good morning, Professor Skywalker," she greeted him. "I hope your weekend was not entirely unpleasant." She'd heard on the radio about someone making him unhappy.

[sith_happened]

"It had its moments," Anakin said a little wryly, "but they've all left now."

Oh yes, he'd done a very thorough check in the Force to make sure Ferus had gone home.

[trigons_child]

"I did not receive any guests this year," Raven said. Which was a good thing considering last year Sebastian had shown up for the first time.

[sith_happened]

"I didn't either, yet it didn't seem to stop me from being annoyed by other people's guests," Anakin replied.

[trigons_child]

Raven nodded. "I had heard on the radio that some of the visitors were causing you some distress," she said. She totally paid attention any time Anakin's name was mentioned, of course, like a proper fangirl. "And that your son was here as well, but not the one I met? Ben's father?"

[sith_happened]

"Right," Anakin said. "The version of my son who is decades older than I am." He smiled. "He didn't cause me distress."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Did you punch Bail?" Leia demanded as she swept into the office. She wasn't buying the "rough trip" excuse but didn't want to cause a scene during the sparring Sunday night. Causing a scene in his office was fine, though!

[sith_happened]

"Only the once," Anakin replied. "He deserved it a few times."

[likes_scoundrels]

"Somehow, I doubt that," Leia said. Little did she know. "What did he do that warranted that reaction?"

[sith_happened]

"He said something about Rory I took exception to," Anakin said.

[likes_scoundrels]

"He was a close friend of my mother," Leia said, trying to figure out what he possibly could have said about Rory. "But I hardly think he'd insult Rory for no reason."

[sith_happened]

"The specifics aren't important," Anakin replied. "Organa and I never really got passed friendly acquaintance at best."