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Ethics, Tuesday, April 21, 2015

If you thought a little thing like weeks of unrelenting trauma was going to stop your final exam, you didn't know Anakin very well. He at least look vaguely sorry about it between texts on his comlink (that was only half to avoid talking to Obi-Wan).

Smooth, Anakin. Very smooth.

It was Obi-Wan who cleared his throat and began speaking after the exams had been distributed. "It is traditional for this class to end in a written exam," he said. "No choice listed on these sheets is wrong--" though he and Anakin might disagree about which ones were least wrong, ahem, "--as we are primarily interested in your reasoning. Please be thorough."

"And legible," Anakin added. He coughed. "And if anyone feels the need to talk about this weekend, or last, for that matter, we're around after class."

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"I'm not saying it's a habitable moon in a good school district," Anakin said with a small smirk, "but I could get a moon."

"Then what's the point of getting one, I wonder, if it can't even offer a decent education?"

Blast. Now he was smiling. A little.

"Bed and breakfast where you can get away from it all?" Anakin offered, smiling back.

"Quite literally, if it's not a habitable moon," Obi-Wan returned.

"Get those secret hermits," Anakin said. "An untapped market, really."

Obi-Wan let out a snort. "I believe Tatooine is quite enough for this hermit," he said, "But perhaps there's a few of them out there."

"Do you all have a club over the Holonet?" Anakin asked.

"I believe that would defeat the point of secluding one's self, wouldn't it?" Obi-Wan asked him wryly.

He slid his hands into the sleeves of his robe.

"Maybe," Anakin said, "but too much isolation can't be that healthy."

"It's livable," Obi-Wan said simply.

Just a little rough on someone as accustomed to people as he was.

"It's my fault," Anakin countered softly.

"You certainly didn't help," Obi-Wan said. He could hardly disagree with it. "But I am partially to blame for that, which brings us back around again."

"But you're talking," Anakin said softly, "so that's better than just sitting on it all, right?"

"I'm not certain how helpful it is," Obi-Wan muttered.

If he had at all figured out how to let this go into the Force, as he by all rights should, they wouldn't even have to have any conversations.

"Me either," Anakin said. "It's a thing around here--they always want to discuss everything to death. Not like how we ever were."

And they had been the pinnacles of emotional health.

Ahem.

"Your granddaughter was rather insistent about it as well," Obi-Wan said. "I felt we'd already discussed the important parts."

Which is how things like Satine wound up blindsiding Anakin, Obi-Wan: your communication skills.

"With her or with each other?" Anakin asked.

"With you, yes."

He'd more or less said what his trouble was, there'd been some crying in the early days... for him, that was a lot.

Anakin gave him a tiny smile. "And we're fine."

Or something.

"Better, at least," Obi-Wan said.

Vaguely.

Anakin chewed on his lower lip, prevented from doing anything too demonstrative or ridiculous by a classroom full of students.

"Oh."

Anakin still had absolutely no idea how hard it was to juggle the parts of him that badly wanted their old friendship back, and the parts of him that were obsessed with what tragedy that friendship had led to in the first place, did he?

... And he'd act like he hadn't seen what Anakin's expression was doing right now, before it got to him.

"I told her these matters take time," he said.

Anakin nodded. "Yeah, I get that."

Well, he sort of got that.

"Good," Obi-Wan said.

He exhaled.

"I am sorry that the weekend caused you pain," Anakin said softly.

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