fandomhigh | Pay It Forward: Making a Big Difference in Little Ways

Class was back in the classroom this week, mostly because the crotchety orange droid that had taken it upon himself to make certain the teachers actually did their job today was not about to babysit a whole gaggle of tiny children on the mainland, so help him. At the front of the room, then, there was A) The aforementioned cranky droid, B) A tiny Twi'lek girl, C) An even tinier Jedi Youngling, and D) The itty-bitty roly-poly rainbow-spotted puppy that he was carrying around with him.

Why he had an itty-bitty roly-poly puppy was possibly the only thing Caleb hadn't questioned today.

The lecture began, unlike most lectures, with a rant, at length, from the astromech in question, bleeping and blatting away in binary, making gestures with his little arm to further illustrate his point.

The point he was making was rather rude, in case anybody was wondering.

"Oh! Um, hi, everybody. I'm Caleb, and this is Hera, and this is C1-10P and THIS is a wolf puppy that I'm calling Kyber." Poor Stance. "And C1-10P is saying we should talk to you about sharing or something."

Plus all of the rude words he'd used besides, but Caleb wasn't supposed to repeat those.

"He says his name is Chopper," Hera said overly patiently. "It's not just C1-10P, he's got a real name." Okay, so it was maybe a little less 'patient' and a little more 'stubborn'. She hugged him and got yelled at in binary for it. "You're grumpy," she told him, "but that's okay." She had a notable ~~French~~ Ryloth accent.

She bounced on her toes a little. "But we're gonna talk about sharing! Sharing is good. Some people have things and some people don't, and that makes people unhappy. But then you share, and it makes everybody happier!"

"So..." Caleb looked uncertainly at Chopper, and then down at the puppy in his arms, all chubby and small and round and wriggly. "So today we're all going to take turns sharing Kyber. But you have to be gentle, he's still really small, okay?" He glanced back at Chopper again. "Are you sure we can't share C1-- um. Chopper instead? He's less breakable."

But Stance didn't have a built-in stunner, Caleb.

"We can share Chopper too, sure!" Hera said, throwing out her arms. "Everybody share nice, and you too, Chopper!" Yeah, that'd work.

Chopper grumbled but stood still. Hera patted him on the head.

You really brought this one onto yourself, Chop.

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Sidon...still wasn't so sure about this little Guardian, no matter how much everyone in the class seemed to think it was okay. So he was glaring at it a little bit, trying to look very fierce and scary so that it knew not to mess with him, growling at it even, and then, at one point, in a burst of boldness, he ran up to the Guardian, each step accompanied with the end of his headtail flopping on the floor and a little gasp of breath from the effort of running.

And he poked it.

Really good and hard, too!

But before even waiting to see what the response would be, Sidon turned around to run away, already throwing up his arms in distress because he was sure the Guardian was going to laser him after all but maybe he wouldn't if he ran away (with little gasping breaths with each step, hup hup hup!) quickly enough and hid behind a desk.

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Chopper would not electrocute the small child.

He would, however, make a loud blatt sound and wave his arms menacingly at him.

"Chopper!" Hera cried. "Be nice!"

Chopper grumbled and rolled away a little to sulk.

Sidon had been planning to run away, sure, but that loud blatt practically made him jump out of his skin, letting out a staggering gasp before he decided running wouldn't be good enough and dove behind the desk, which was not as nice as diving into water, but he hadn't been eviscerated, so that was good! His handed patted all over his chest to make sure, blinking a few times, and then let out a little wondering gasp as he peeked out from behind the desk to see if the Guardian would pursue him or if it was now safe.

It seemed safe.

"Whew," Sidon breathed out, slouching slightly and wiping his brow with the back of his hand.

That was a close one!

....he wanted to do it again!

How this boy managed to ever make it to 75 was anyone's guess.

Hera clambered over to the littler boy and sat down by him. "Don't worry," she told him. "He's grumpy, but he's been okay so far. He's looking after us. I'm Hera. What's your name?"

"Mrrerm," Sidon grunted a little, lips pressed together a little sheepishly, because he honestly didn't really know how to tell her his name; he wasn't good at words yet, but he didn't want to see rude! Perish the thought! So he shrugged his shoulders apologetically, before smiling at her as nicely as he could, as big as he could, and giving a little pump of his fist.

He might not be able to tell her his name, but he could at least try to show her that he was okay, even if the little Guardian was a bit scary when he was grumpy.

"Oh! Sorry." Hera bit her lip. "You can understand me, though?" She smiled back at his smile.

"Ha!" Sidon said in a burst of eagerness, his head bobbing to match, and another assuring smile. He could understand just fine, he just had trouble responding in kind.

"Great!" Hera grinned wider and leaned in for a hug. "You wanna come meet Chopper? I'll thump him on the head if he's mean to you."

"Mmmmmm." Sidon sounded doubtful, but he'd take the hug, even if it was a little awkward for him to return it when he hadn't grown into his arms very well yet. Then he peeked back over around the desk, and thought about how he really would like to see Hera thump him on the head really good!

So he turned his head back, forgetting his headtail a little as it whipped around with him, and pumped his fist again, with a bright eager grin that sparkled a little at the end with the eagerness that, yes! Yes, they should go meet Chopper and thump him on the head if he's mean!

Hera dodged his lek and giggled. "Come on!" She held out a hand for his.

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