Skywalker Apartment [Friday evening]

[auroryborealis]

Rory had wanted to think that Anakin was being paranoid, as usual, about insisting she and Juliet move to the island. She had to work, they had a home here, and moving Vladdie and Bertie would be nothing short of a pain. Especially given how she was feeling these days

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[sith_happened]

Anakin had come home with the car and his lightsaber out on his hip. He was beyond caring if the neighbors thought he was a weird cosplayer tonight. His eyes nervously scanned the horizon, searching for some kind of...darkness that wasn't.

"Rory, you ready?" he called, opening the door.

[auroryborealis]

"I'm getting there!" she called, trying to zip the suitcase shut. "Can you make sure Juliet's actually not unpacking her stuff?"

[sith_happened]

"Making piles!" Juliet told him happily from a mess of toys.

"Let's pick two," Anakin tried, using the Force to repack the suitcase.

"It took me a half dozen tries to get across the causeway," he warned, glancing back at Rory, "so don't get too worried about that. It's just how things are right now."

[auroryborealis]

Rory nodded quietly, her hand resting on her stomach for a moment of unconscious worry. She wasn't going to voice it, but it was there.

"We just lost Jaye," she said instead, softly, because that was something she was sure of. And now was so not the time to cry about it, but he needed to know.

[sith_happened]

"Frell," Anakin said softly. Ever since Aeryn and John had gone, Aeryn's slang had snuck back into his vocabulary. He walked over to Rory and wrapped his arms around her.

"We'll talk more when we get to hotel, okay?" he murmured in her ear. "Maybe set up a play thing with Grace. John's gone too."

[auroryborealis]

"Can you keep Juliet from feeling stuff from me?" Rory asked quietly, muffling her voice against his shoulder. "And everyone, I mean, when we get there. I don't want her getting headaches."

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "Yeah, it's pretty grim on the island these days. I can do that. How's the little one doing?"

[auroryborealis]

"Seems fine," she said, biting her lower lip. "But -- I mean, I worry about standing too close to a microwave. What's a weird causeway going to do to them?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin looked troubled. "I think it's better than the alternative," he said finally. "We can't stay here."

[auroryborealis]

"We can't," Rory agreed, looking over at Juliet. "Okay. Let's go."

[sith_happened]

Anakin reached down to pick Juliet over her protests that she was a big girl and could walk herself, then waved the door open and the bags out into the hallway.

Guess who didn't care what the neighbors thought?