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Ethics [Tuesday, December 13, 2011]

Oh, silly ethics students. You didn't think Anakin would let you get away without an exam, did you? You've had two days to recover from the potential collapse of the multiverse: that's plenty of time.

"This wasn't an exam you could really study for anyway," he said as he passed the papers out. "There are no right or wrong answers--I just want you to answer honestly and explain your reasoning." He looked around the room. "You've all done extremely well this year and I'm proud of you. Enjoy your holidays."

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"John would be lucky if he went unbroken for that," she mused.

"Speaking of Rory," Anakin said, smiling, "we're having another baby in early summer."

Aeryn smiled on her end of the line. "Congratulations. You're braver than me there."

"How's Talyn?" Anakin asked. "Excited to see Santa? We need to find a mall again this year."

Since Anakin had been thrown out of the last one...

"I'm not sure about Santa this time. He's been asking for his own pulse pistol and that might not be the thing to explain..." At least there was no doubting who his mom was.

Anakin burst out laughing. "Of course he is. Deadpool's daughter Jan keeps practicing her sniping out on me. She's...four, I think."

"With a real gun?" She sounded more impressed than anything. Apparently you could take the girl out of the Peacekeepers, but...

"Not out in public yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if she's training," Anakin replied.

What? Normal children totally carried firearms this young, right?

"With Deadpool? Not at all," she said. "Is Juliet doing anything like that now?"

Totally normal conversation, really.

"We're mostly focused on blocking other people's emotions, not moving things with her mind during tantrums and, um, not sticking raisins up her nose," Anakin said.

She was still two, with all of the weirdness that went with that age.

"I've never had to deal with two out of three of those things," Aeryn said.

"It's a nose," Anakin said, exasperated. "What's so fascinating about it?"

"They can't not be used to them. They've had them for a few years now," Aeryn reasoned.

"And does my nose then become an acceptable second option?" Anakin demanded. "I don't even like raisins."

"But does your nose?" she asked matter-of-factly. "I think that's how they think."

"I've never asked it--" Anakin began, then sighed. "And now I've become part of the problem."

Sorry, Anakin, Aeryn was going to have to laugh at you now. "And to think, I've never gotten close to saying that sort of thing."

Which was probably a lie if she really thought about it. But she wasn't planning on doing that.

"Oh, you will," Anakin promised darkly. "One day you'll be all by yourself and find yourself humming the Dora theme song and then you'll just want to end it all."

"I do not allow Dora in my house," she said firmly. "I heard it once. That's enough. I'll deal with Smile Time and that's enough."

"I don't mind Smile Time," Anakin admitted. "We don't acknowledge the existence of the purple dinosaur thing."

At least three of the curses Aeryn let out at that weren't even words Anakin would be able to understand.

"If I ever see that thing in person, I'm shooting it."

"I'll provide an alibi," Anakin, sheriff of Fandom, declared immediately.

What a fine example of law enforcement he was.

"Considering I used to offer to help you hide the bodies on those list of yours, you'd better," Aeryn grinned.

They had weird conversations by normal people's standards.

Anakin laughed. "Oh, frell, I think I forgot to tell you the last time we talked. Madrox is teaching here now."

There was a good ten seconds of silence on Aeryn's end of the line. "Who the frell thought that was a good idea?"

And this was coming from someone who'd liked Jamie and talked to him this week.

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