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"So I heard," Rory said, blinking. She stood. "Wow."

Anakin watched her eyes. "Did this totally scare you?" He pointed to where Yoda used to be. "Seeing the prophecy?"

Rory's brow creased. "Of course not. Why would it?"

"I don't know," Anakin said, running a hand through his hair. "It's one thing for me to tell you about the prophecy. But Yoda saying it, I don't know, might've made it more real. Besides, re-shaping the galaxy? Kind of a big thing."

"Well, yeah," Rory said. "But I'm not scared. I'm...."

She searched for the right word. "I'm...awed."

Anakin pushed the ever-present fear that came with thinking about how he could possibly live up to the prophecy firmly to the back of his head at her response.

He carefully closed the lid on the Holocron. "I'm still me, though. Just with a life plan that's a little more unique than most of the students here."

He looked down at the box. "Do you need to put that back? I'd hate to have it damaged."

"Yeah, winning the Pulitzer by the time I'm thirty isn't quite the same," Rory said softly. "And I know you're still you. I didn't hear anything I didn't already know. Except about the midi whatevers and you cleared that up. So, um, I'm impressed. But I always have been, so...yes."

Rory also looked at the box. "I'm pretty sure you can't check it out, so yeah, we need to put it back." She didn't make a move to do so, though. She would probably drop it.

Anakin was watching her expression. "Want me to move it?"

He gave her a small smile. "And thank you," he said softly. "A lot of people don't take this sort of thing very well."

"I'll probably drop it," Rory nodded.

She returned the smile. "Well, yeah. Did you think I was going to suddenly change how I feel about you because I heard your story from the little green guy? By the way, I totally see the turtle thing."

Anakin wasn't sure how the library would react to Force powers, so he picked it up and placed it carefully on the shelf it had come from.

"It's been known to happen," he said sadly. "Hell, the whole thing changed my life."

He shook his head. "And yeah, Yoda is a little turtle-y, isn't he? Incredibly powerful, though." He smiled. "And that wasn't his actual size, by the way. He's little, but he's not that little."

"He's adorable. And I mean that with the utmost respect," Rory said.

She crossed over to him, and decided that if the library was going to tell Zero anything, they were already pretty much incriminated. So she took his hand. "Well, it didn't happen with me. And it won't ever."

Anakin squeezed her hand. "Thank you," he said. "You don't know how much that means to me."

He looked around. "I suppose we should head out before Zero comes in here with her mallet, huh?" He went back and picked up his book and pointed in the correct direction. "That way, right?"

"I think so, yeah," Rory nodded, starting to walk that way. She didn't plan on letting go of his hand until she caught sight of the doors, as she was enjoying the familiarity of walking along hand-in-hand with someone.

"So. Special Collections never fails to be interesting. Though, nice to have no dragons, no randomly stranded porn-seeking boys, no monks calling me a prostitute...." Rory said with a slight smile.

"There's porn in here, too?" Anakin waggled his eyebrows. "Kidding."

He reluctantly let her hand drop as they walked through the doors back into the library.

"Thank you very much," he said, smiling. "I guess I get to check this out, right?"

Rory sighed, facepalming.

"Why? Why do I always mention that? No porn-investigating for you. I'm just going to be bossy and say that."

She moved her hand and smiled. "You get to check it out, yes. And I can do that, if you don't want to bug Ange or whatever." She grinned. "I feel very helpful today."

Anakin faked a pout. "No one ever lets me get to the good porn. Rumor has it that one of the Bothan Masters has this enormous..." he broke off, coughing.

"Um. Anyway. Yeah." He handed her the book. "Since you've already been so helpful, you might as well finish the process, right?"

"Enormous what?" Rory asked curiously, taking the book and going to resume her place behind the desk.

"Collection of...historical artifacts?" Anakin tried, leaning against the desk.

Rory frowned thoughtfully. "What does that have to do with porn, though? Or did you just decide you're too cool for segues?"

Anakin sighed. "Fine. Rumor among the Padawans was that this Master had thousands of datapads full of porn. Some of it stuff that was banned on different worlds for its, um, content." He grinned. "None of us were crazy enough to try to sneak past his security system to find out."

Rory stared, confused.

"But you guys aren't sup - oh, I guess you could...oh."

She blushed harder than she remembered ever blushing before. Ever. Seriously.

"So anyway. Yes, there is porn in SC. There might even be some like the stuff you're talking about. But you're not allowed to go look at it. I've just decided that."

Anakin suddenly found the carpet in the library absolutely fascinating.

He stared at it for a long time.

"Got it. No asking Professor Skeeter for a note to look at porn." He shuddered. "Why did I have to give myself that mental image?"

He finally looked up. "So, the book checked out yet?"

"It's better than last week, when whatsherface British girl on the radio gave us a worse image," Rory said, making a face. She peered at him. "No protesting on me being bossy? Seriously? That's kind of awesome."

She smiled. "And no, it's not checked out yet. I still need your card."

Anakin grimaced. "Yeah, that was an image that's gonna haunt me for a while." He reached into one of the compartments on his belt and pulled out his library card.

He handed it to Rory with a smile. "Here you go. And you can boss me around, but only on, um, every other Tuesday."

"Woe. What happens if I do it outside that restriction?" Rory asked with a grin as she took down the info.

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