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Ethics [Monday, March 11, 5th period]

Anakin was leaning against the desk as the Ethics class walked in. A crumpled version the syllabus was in his hand.

"I hope you all stayed dry this weekend and kept your fish throwing to a minimum," he said. "The syllabus says that we're supposed to begin a discussion of the seven deadly sins today, but I want to get to know you a little bit first."

He was supposed to be a new instructor, after all.

"What manner of action do you find unforgivable?" he asked, his voice and manner completely unreadable. "Treason against your country or homeworld? Stealing from the defenseless? Slavery? Murder? Let's not worry about extenuating circumstances for the moment. If I were to tell you I killed children, most of you would recoil, correct? Where do you draw that line in your head? How far does someone have to go before you say 'that's wrong and there's no getting past it'?"

He avoided John's eyes as he paced around the room, finally pointing at a student. "Go ahead."

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"Katara made a good point earlier," Anakin said, "about the difference between perception and deception. Were their reasons actual reasons, or stories they were telling themselves to try to excuse inexcusable behavior?"

"My parents helped kill girls to give power to these ancient giants so that they could wipe out all of the humans on Earth," Molly said with a wry grin. "I saw the Giborrim-- the giants. My parents weren't lying about that."

Force, Molly would need to talk with Luke later. She seemed pretty...okay...with that entire idea.

"Because they could?" Anakin asked carefully. "Or did they have some kind of overarching plan?"

"The Gibborim? They wanted to turn the Earth back into a paradise. To them, that meant no humans."

"Which would have included your parents, correct? Or had they worked out some kind of other arrangements?"

"The Gibborim offered my parents and five other couples power enough to control Los Angeles for 25 years if they brought them sacrifices once a year," Molly explained. "At the end of it, six of them would get to live on in the Gibborim's paradise. But, our parents, meaning mine and my five friends' parents, decided that they would give up their spots to us so that we could survive after humanity got wiped out."

"So they realized they'd made a poor choice, then?" Anakin asked.

Molly tilted her head as she recalled that day in the Gibborim's lair. "No. They were going to give up their chance at a spot in paradise because they loved us. Because they knew that none of them had a guarantee. By giving the six spots to us, they knew that we would live. As far as I know, none of them ever regretted agreeing to work for the Gibborim."

"Did the Gibborim succeed in their goal of taking over the Earth?" Anakin asked.

"Heh. No," Molly said with a mixture of pride and sadness. "I crushed the container that was holding the last girl's soul. The Gibborim got mad and tried to kill all of us. Our parents fought them long enough for us to escape."

Molly absently rubbed her fingers against her palms, almost as if she were trying to rub away the sensation of the canister breaking between her hands.

Anakin gave her a sympathetic look, momentarily hating being a teacher instead of a friend.

"I can see why these questions might be hard for you to answer," he said quietly.

Molly nodded. By now, she had kind of forgotten that she was in the middle of class talking about all this.

"If they somehow came back to life and said they were sorry for what they did... If they asked me to forgive them... I can't say that I would say no."

For some reason, Anakin's eyes filled with relief. He shook his head quickly.

"At the end of it, they're still your parents," he said.

Molly just nodded, a slightly sad look in her eyes.

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