Summer Games: Wednesday, The Park [morning]

[sith_happened]

"Good morning!" Anakin yelled into the megaphone from the small platform he had erected in the park. "Students, please listen for your names and find your partner or partners as your name is called: Sidon and Aloy; Jason and Rey; Bobby and Paris; Ahsoka and Uma; Theron and Peridot; Astrid and Norman; Tip, Sabine and Beaker."

Once the students were in place, Anakin held up a sheaf of paper in his hand. "Today, with the help of the proprietors in town, we're conducting a Scavenger Hunt. You have a very long list: You must find 15 of the items from that list and either take a picture or video of yourselves completing the tasks. Whoever completes their 15 in the shortest amount of time will win the coveted, terrifying, singing fish," he said, holding his hand out for it to fly to him. It was still shrieking Sabotage as it flew, but now it also rained confetti on anyone close enough to be in its flight path. As Anakin held it, it treated the entire group to holographic footage of Theron being chased by a Roomba.

You're welcome, Theron.

"Right," Anakin said slowly. "Someone come take this thing from me as quickly as possible. On your marks, get set, go."

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[uncertain_dume]

"He'll get treats for behaving himself later," Kanan replied, smiling a little at the awkwardness. "Not really a dog person, I'm guessing?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deaddadsclub]

"I don't really have time for pets," Cristina said, then stopped and heaved a large sigh. "I didn't have time for pets."

The residents of this island were unreasonably healthy.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, this place isn't terribly great if you want to fill time," Kanan said, not without sympathy. "Next thing you know, you'll be picking up hobbies. Coming to the Thursday evening movie club, or to watch a bunch of idiots swinging swords around in the park on Fridays."

There weren't many other ways to pass the time that he could think of.

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[deaddadsclub]

"Idiots swinging swords?" Cristina perked up at that. "Tell me there's at least some blunt force trauma involved in that."

Blunt force wasn't as good as, say, getting stabbed in the heart, but it'd do in a pinch.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Not often?" Kanan winced in sympathy. "I suppose when Peter shows up there's always a chance that he'll get the better of me. It's that slow at the clinic, huh?"

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[deaddadsclub]

Cristina had spent the vast majority of her professional career at a hospital once dubbed "Seattle Grace Mercy Death". Anything would be "that slow" at this point.

"You're one of the idiots with a sword?" She looked him up and down appraisingly. "So much for being one of the normal ones."

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[uncertain_dume]

"It passes the time," Kanan said, shrugging it off. "Still adjusting to life on the island, hm?"

Yeah, he wasn't going to deny not being normal. He'd be lying.

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[deaddadsclub]

"I've been here a week and a half," Cristina said. "I'm still hoping I'll wake up any minute."

It was a fading hope. It'd been a week and a half.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, it took me months to give up on that one," Kanan admitted. "Of course, once I was good and over it, that's when it finally let me leave."

Kanan didn't know the meaning of 'Stockholm syndrome,' but there you go.

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[deaddadsclub]

"So if I want to stay, it'll let me leave, but as long as I want to leave it'll make me stay." Cristina sighed. "Yeah, that's not suspicious at all."

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[uncertain_dume]

"You've been here a week and you're already calling an island suspicious," Kanan noted. "See, you're picking up quickly already."

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[deaddadsclub]

"The hospital I used to work at was cursed," Cristina said by way of explanation. She mostly meant it metaphorically.

Mostly.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Cursed?"

Yeah, you couldn't say a line like that to Kanan and expect him not to want to follow up on that one.

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[deaddadsclub]

"I worked at Seattle Grace," Cristina said, by way of explanation. "We had that shooter awhile back? 11 people died. Plus there was the plane crash -- a bunch of us got stranded in rural Idaho. And died. Oh, and last year there was the hurricane, though that hit all of Seattle, not just the hospital. But we still managed to lose a doctor." Poor Brooks. "And that's not even getting to people getting cancer or hit by buses or that time we had to pull a live bomb out of a guy's chest. . . ."

She could sound blase about this now because she'd broken down about it so many times in the past. But she'd probably end up crying in the shower later.

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[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was going to skip mentioning that he'd never heard any of this in favor of wincing and offering a very sympathetic, "Crap."

It summed up a lot.

"So you traded off hellish for absurd. Sorry if I crossed a line in asking, there."

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[deaddadsclub]

Cristina shrugged. "I'm used to people who already know, so." The hospital was pretty notorious where she was from. If it didn't have so many ground-breaking surgeons on staff, it would have gone under years ago. It nearly had more than a few times, in fact. "I guess brightly colored dogs and people just casually on fire seems like an easy trade-in, but. . . . I like surgery. And things that follow the actual laws of the natural world."

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[uncertain_dume]

Yeaaah, Kanan wasn't going to be telling her about the Force any time soon, then.

"I mean, you know what you know," Kanan noted. "A complete change from everything you've come to understand as truth... that's jarring. Especially when it comes suddenly, without warning."

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[deaddadsclub]

"Oh lord, you do something that completely ignores physics, too, don't you."

It served her right. Kitty looked completely normal, and yet had molecules that didn't actually work like molecules.

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[uncertain_dume]

"... Only rarely," Kanan offered. Because that seemed like the best direction to head, here. And better admit it now than have her stumble over him doing a Force leap in the park.

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[deaddadsclub]

"Well, it's just rude," Cristina said. "A person spends more than half her life studying the rules and then you all just go around breaking them willy-nilly. I have multiple advanced degrees! And some of you don't even have organs!"

Jono was going to be a sticking point for her for, like, ever.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Okay, my organs are all where organs are meant to be," Kanan replied, giving her a wary side-eye. "And I intend for them to remain that way."

And they would! For at least another six years or so. But she probably didn't deal in eye trauma.

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[deaddadsclub]

Not unless his eyes were in his chest! And then she'd probably yell about how they weren't supposed to be down there.

". . . How's your diet? Do you eat a lot of cholesterol?"

Lord help her, she'd do an angioplasty in a heartbeat right now.

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[uncertain_dume]

Starting to get a little creepy there, Cristina.

"... I'm a bigger fan of fruit. I drink a lot of ca-- coffee. Coffee. Working on putting down alcohol."

Aside from the caffeine, his diet was fine.

"I get shot at more often than I care to be?"

That was the weirdest olive branch he'd ever extended to anybody in his life.

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[deaddadsclub]

Creepy was what happened when you were used to associating solely with other surgeons.

"Well, as long as no one's going to shoot at me, I'll be happy to help you out with that afterwards."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[uncertain_dume]

"Nobody's going to shoot at you," Kanan replied, shaking his head. "The shooting mostly happens whenever I go back home. I intend for it to stay that way."

Not that he had any say in that, but...

"If I can't find proper medical assistance back there, I'll be sure to remember to head to the clinic as soon as I can."

Take it or leave it, Doc.