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"V wrote me a note," he said, handing it to her. "I can study the Jedi!"

"You got a note from Veronica?" Rory asked, confused. "Oh, wait. Masked guy. Okay, good, yay! Are you ready?"

"Very," Luke said, bouncing on his toes.

"Okay," Rory said, getting up and fetching two pairs of gloves from behind the desk. "Put these on. Do not - I repeat, do not touch the books unless I say you can, and don't wander off by yourself. Special Collections is whoa dangerous."

Luke's eyes widened as he put on the gloves. "Got it," he said.

"Okay, and stick close," Rory said as they headed back to the doors. "The books are kind of near the entrance, and we're not going into the scary parts, but last time I took your dad back here a book bit me."

"It bit you?" Luke squeaked, trailing along closely behind.

"Right on the hand," she said, nodding and leading him to the books. "But I made it mad, so it was kind of justified."

"How did you..." Luke stopped talking, mouth falling open. "These are all on the Jedi?"

"I didn't put it away. And yes."

Rory's eyes flicked to a box on a shelf for a moment before gesturing to the books. "These are the ones Anakin was looking at. Most of them are in Basic, I think."

Luke nodded, still forgetting to close his mouth. "I barely know where to start..."

"I can't read most of the titles very well," she said apologetically. "Maybe start with history? I know that there are a few that have your father in them."

"Can I touch them?" Luke asked, hand reaching for the conveniently titled "History of the Jedi Order."

"Keep the gloves on," Rory said, watching him carefully.

Luke bit his lip and carefully removed the book from the shelf as well as one on Jedi powers and a third on famous Knights.

He walked over to a nearby table and smiled at Rory. "I suppose this can be a lesson for you in Basic," he said, flipping to the back of the first book and running his finger down the index until he found the name he was looking for. "Can you read this?"

Rory smiled. "First two words I learned in Basic, yes."

"And this one," Luke said, pointing to a different name, "is Obi-Wan Kenobi." He laughed. "And there's an entire section devoted to the work of Kenobi and Skywalker."

Rory grinned. "They were famous, even when they were really kind of young."

Luke flipped eagerly to that section and began reading, pointing highlights out to Rory as he went along.

"They helped to stop an assassination attempt against a Senator from Naboo," he said, "which...oh, uncovered an apparent Seperatist plot and led to the beginning of the Clone Wars."

He bit his lip and flipped through the next ten pages. "They were very, very busy after that."

Rory suddenly tensed at the words 'Senator from Naboo,' and if she had been a cartoon character, a lightbulb may have begun to flicker over her head. She didn't say anything, though, and repressed all those thoughts as she looked over Luke's shoulder.

"Were they okay?" she asked softly. "I mean, before Vader. Does it say anything about whether they suffered any major injuries or anything?"

Luke began to read more carefully. "Ben got a...oww, lightsaber through the leg on Geonosis--the start of the Clone Wars--and Anakin..." he hissed, "lost his right arm at the same time."

He flipped through pages. "Ben seemed to get through the rest of the war unscathed until he disappeared. Anakin...ran into a dark Jedi and got a lightsaber scar across his eye before dying in the Temple--" Luke held up his hands to make sarcastic air quotes, "in the 'rebellion against the rightful government.' Something about an Order 66."

"Lost his right arm?" Rory repeated hoarsely. "Lightsaber over the eye?"

She sat straight down on the floor where she was.

Luke raced over and sat down next to her. "I'm an idiot," he said, flailing and reaching a hand out. "I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay. I asked," Rory replied hollowly. "It's just kind of more real now."

Luke put a tentative hand on Rory's shoulder. "I'm still sorry," he repeated.

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