fandomhigh | Ethics Class [Thursday, January 6, 1st period]

Anakin stalked through the classroom doorway precisely on time, his cloak swooping ~~overdramatically~~ in his wake. "I am Master Anakin Skywalker," he said as his eyes made contact with every student in the room, "and this is Ethics. Most teachers are spending this week making introductions. I do things slightly differently."

He began passing out a short story. "There's a very famous story on this world of the lady or the tiger. For those of you not from here, the short version is that there was a fictional king with his own sense of justice: instead of a court system, he had an arena with two doors. Behind one door was a beautiful woman, handpicked by the king. Behind the other was a tiger. If you chose the tiger, you were eaten and declared guilty. If you chose the lady, you were considered innocent and immediately married to the lady. The king didn't care about your previous marital status or sexual orientation, apparently."

He leaned back against his desk, though the posture of his back showed that he wasn't very comfortable with the idea of relaxing. "One day the king discovered that his daughter had been having an affair with someone far below her station, so the man was arrested and tossed into the arena. Now the princess knew which door had what behind it, and her lover looked up to her for advice. She had two choices: watch her love die, or watch him marry another woman. The story ends with the princess telling him which door to open, but leaves us hanging as to what waited behind it."

Anakin smiled. "Your task today is two-fold. First, pair up with a classmate--pick someone you haven't met yet--and decide what the princess did. Then tell me what you would have done in the princess's place."

He glanced around the room. "And I am looking for a teacher's aid or two if any of you are interested."

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Not yet you don't, a little self-loathing voice piped up in Anakin's mind. He told it to shut up and smiled infuriatingly at Leia instead.

"Maybe," he agreed.

"Don't make me find out who else in this school you've made out with when you were drunk," Leia threatened sweetly.

Anakin choked and sputtered. "WHAT?"

Well, that reply was screechy.

He'd made her flail, now she'd repaid him in kind. "Surely you can't think I believe Sam is the only one," she grinned.

It was just embarrassing to watch a grown man blush like that. "I was very young."

"I could just ask Rory, I suppose," Leia said thoughtfully. "I'm sure she has a lot of interesting stories."

Anakin sputtered. "Please don't," he said, rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"You deserve it for that image of Palpatine you put in my head," Leia said. "You're evil."

"Only middlingly evil!" Anakin protested.

"At least I'm not imagining him with one of my mother's famous hair styles," Leia said.

Take THAT.

Anakin shuddered. "The one that looked like she had a basket on her head or the one that looked like a TIE Fighter?"

"TIE fighter," Leia grinned. Hey, it was better than the cinnamon buns.

"I always like the one that looked like a tiny satellite dish," Anakin said with a laugh. "She wore it for special addresses to the Senate."

"Did she ever have trouble fitting through doorways?" Leia said. Honestly, she didn't know how Padme walked with some of those hairstyles.

"Once or twice," Anakin admitted, eyes sparkling. "The look she shot me when I started laughing! It's one I've seen on your face a few times."

"And Jaina?" Leia said. "Does it continue to run in the family?"

Anakin nodded. "It does."

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