Room 213 - NFB [Sunday night and spanning into the weetiny hours of Monday morning]

[auroryborealis]

Rory decided, as she crawled into bed, that life was, if not good, at least not entirely sucky in all respects.

There were lots of friend- type people to distract her from any and all anxiety or woe.

And there was Jaye, who not only got to live with a billion cute boys, but who had invited Rory over. So she had gone, because duh

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[emo_padawan]

Anakin nodded. "That makes sense. I saw the cabins when we were flying in--Obi-Wan says hello, by the way--but I didn't know what they were."

He stroked her hair. "It's good to be back," he said quietly. "I missed you."

[auroryborealis]

"And hi to Obi-Wan," Rory said quietly. "I missed you. Thought you weren't coming back."

She studied her right hand, the wrist of which was still a little swollen. "I wrote to you," she said, so quietly that he might have missed it.

[emo_padawan]

"You wrote me?" Anakin echoed. He frowned. "I didn't get anything."

He paused. "Or leave you an address, for that matter."

[auroryborealis]

"Yes, I know," Rory said, still looking at her hands, embarrassed. "But it helped, anyway."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin dropped a quick kiss on the top of her head. "I'm glad it helped."

"Do I get to read them, or were they not really for me?"

[auroryborealis]

"You can read them. You have to promise to not make fun of me for writing them, though," she mumbled.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin nudged his nose against hers. "I won't make fun of you," he promised.

[auroryborealis]

"Okay," Rory agreed slowly, crawling over to her desk and pulling a stack of folded papers from a drawer.

She handed them to Anakin, and moved to sit on her bed because it's rude to sit there and read over people's shoulders.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin read through the letters, biting his lower lip. He frowned when he read about Xander and Molly, frowned more when when he learned about Cam and Molly and looked terribly guilty when he read the letter Rory had written when Angel and Logan left.

He looked more and more unhappy as he finished up.

"I'm sorry," he said finally, staring at the floor. "I didn't mean to worry you so much."

[auroryborealis]

"Not your fault," Rory said from where she had hidden under the covers.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin blew out a breath. "I never wanted to make you unhappy," he whispered, curling his arms around his knees and making no move to join Rory on the bed.

[auroryborealis]

"It's not your fault," Rory repeated, voice muffled. "It's not like you were trying to worry me."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin nodded. "I really wasn't," he said.

He reached into his pouch. "I brought something for you," he said softly, glancing up at the Rory-shaped lump on the bed. "If you still want it."

[auroryborealis]

Rory poked her head out.

"You brought me a present?"

[emo_padawan]

Anakin nodded again, putting something small carefully into his left hand.

"When I was home," he said quietly, "I had to build another lightsaber--my old one got, um, damaged. So the crystal in it wasn't any good."

He put a necklace into Rory's hand. The blue crystal still pulsed with its own warmth. "But it matches your eyes," he said, a little inanely.

[auroryborealis]

Rory stared at the necklace in her hand, slightly open-mouthed.

"Oh my God," she breathed, turning it over in her fingers. "It's...it's beautiful. Thank you."

It possibly her vision had gone a little blurry. It had been a kind of emotional morning so far.