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Ethics [Thursday, April 25, 2013, 2nd period]

"Welcome to our final class together," Anakin said as he passed out the exams. "I hope you've learned something about yourselves in our time together so that when you're faced with a tough situation, you can make a choice you can live with."

That's what passed for as touchy-feely from Anakin, folks. Sorry. "There are no right and wrong answers on this exam, but I do want you to explain your answer. Don't answer what you think I want to hear--answer how you'd honestly react."

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"While you were home?" Anakin asked softly.

Anakin nodded. "He used the Force to push several ships out of the way to clear a path for us . . . then Tahiri jumped out of the ship to go after him when he was shot."

He still looked frustrated with himself when he admitted, "We crashed anyway."

"That doesn't mean his sacrifice was in vain," Anakin said quietly. "My first master died as well. Obi-Wan only took me as a student because he felt so guilty about it."

"It wasn't. I won't let it be," Anakin said -- a little too fiercely, it had to be admitted.

He hesitated, then, because he figured he might never get the opportunity otherwise:

"If I could ask -- what happened to your first Master?"

"He was killed by a Sith," Anakin replied. "Back then, the Sith followed the Rule of Two: one master, one apprentice. He was the apprentice, though it took us years to figure out that Palpatine was the master. And by then, well, I was the apprentice. Qui-Gon would have hated learning that."

"I didn't realize there was a rule," Anakin said half-absently. "The Sith who killed him -- what happened to him? Was that Obi-Wan's doing?"

Anakin nodded. "He was still a Padawan at the time. You should have seen his haircut--just terrible."

Anakin smirked, even though he really shouldn't laugh at anyone else's hair given the constant state of his own. "It's really hard for me to picture him any younger than the way Uncle Luke describes him," he admitted. "You know, Tahiri and I found his lightsaber when we were kids?"

"Really?" Anakin said, smiling. "Where?"

"On Vjun, actually," Anakin answered slowly.

. . . in Vader's private fortress. Um.

Anakin's eyebrows arched up. "Really. What were you doing on Vjun?"

Oh, right.

"Master Tionne took us there," Anakin explained, suddenly realizing (belatedly, of course, as always) that this had potential to be awkward. "She tries to recover as much of the old Order's history and records as she can, and . . ."

He trailed off, then shook his head and continued. "When she discovered it was there, she took me and Tahiri with her to look for it."

"Worst field trip idea ever," Anakin decided.

So . . . basically just like every other trip Anakin took when he first started at the academy ~~WTF JJK~~.

"Not really." Anakin rubbed at the back of his neck. "I thought it was pretty interesting."

Anakin blinked. "Really?"

"Well, it turned out to be pretty exciting," Anakin explained. 'Exciting,' of course, came with a default 90% chance of including 'getting shot at.'

Anakin, having spent a number of years as a Skywalker, guessed, "You got shot at?"

A very clear 'oops, busted' look crossed Anakin's face, but he grinned sheepishly. "When don't we?"

"Good point," Anakin admitted. "It's really not fair. We're such charming people if they'd stop shooting at us first."

Which got a genuine laugh out of Anakin. "And then they have to ruin their chance to find that out."

"And then they're all 'ow, I don't have an arm now' and it's so awkward to try to start being friends after that," Anakin said.

Your grandfather is a dork, Anakin. Sorry.

Yeah, excuse Anakin while he stared with his mouth hanging open for a little while.

"Wow," he finally said, "I wouldn't have guessed, but now I know where the family sense of humor comes from."

"You're welcome," Anakin said with a tiny smile.

Anakin grinned back at him. "Thanks, actually."

Anakin looked surprised. "Really?"

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