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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.

"Then, um, I don't have to listen to you." He wondered if maybe this could work with Obi-Wan, too.

He had a feeling that he was not going to have much luck with eitehr one of them.

"Uh huh," Rory said skeptically. "I'm going to test this out at the next opportunity. I mean, what if I tell you to do something fun?"

She kept her tone carefully innocent, and handed the book and his card back to Anakin with a sweet smile.

Her eyes were a bit mischievous, though.

"Well, if it's something I want to do, that's different," he said, his eyes twinkling back at her.

"Thanks for the tour," he said, putting his library card away. "Due back in two weeks, or are there different rules for Special Collections?"

"Two weeks, though since it's SC, try to have it back tomorrow maybe?" Rory guessed. "That's when the class is, right?"

"Yeah, I know everything that's in the book," he said with a cocky grin. "It's just to prove a point, really." He took the book. "See you tomorrow then?"

"Count on it," Rory said, returning the grin.

Anakin gave the library aides a friendly wave, then headed back to his room.

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