In a conveniently secluded (and thus NFB) weetiny clearing in the woods [late afternoon]

[auroryborealis]

Rory sat on a rock, reading New Poems of Emily Dickinson and waiting for Anakin, who she had handwavily asked to meet her.

Okay, yes, she gave terrible directions. But he could probably find her, right?

Every so often, she'd lightly touch the slightly warm necklace she had been given, and smile.

[Locked to these two, yo. Also, getting kind of

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[emo_padawan]

Anakin was way happier kissing Rory than figuring out what the sticky stuff was.

He tossed his head, sending the beetle that had been hanging onto his braid flying off into the grass.

"How long are we in the cabins?" he murmured against her ear.

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"Week," Rory replied with a slight groan. "Then back to the dorms."

[emo_padawan]

"Good," Anakin said, kissing her collarbone. "Love you, not really loving nature."

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"Hate nature," Rory agreed, kissing along his jaw and nipping at his lower lip. "Miss my room."

[emo_padawan]

"I do, too," Anakin said, rapidly losing coherency, "but not enough not to do this. Waiting another whole week?" He nibbled at her ear. "Wasn't going to happen."

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"Nuh uh," Rory agreed, hooking a leg around his waist. "Missed you. Missed this. Missed everything."

No, that didn't exactly make sense.

No, she didn't care.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin smiled against her mouth and pulled her closer. Way close. Impossible-to-get-closer close.

Force, but he'd missed this.

[auroryborealis]

Rory sighed happily, raking her hands over his back.

She was very slightly aware that her skin was starting to sting in very inconvenient areas, though she couldn't bring herself to care just yet.

"Love you," she told his shoulder.

[emo_padawan]

"Love you, too," he mumbled.

And that was pretty much it for coherency from Anakin for a while.

[auroryborealis]

Coherency, Rory decided, was overrated.

So was having tidy hair, apparently, as the way she was moving was really just ensuring that more sap and twigs - not to mention God knows what kinds of weetiny animals - were getting embedded in it.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin was a little distracted--he didn't notice that his little beetle-y friend had crawled back into his hair.

Or that he had flung his pants onto an anthill.

All he could see was Rory.

At least for the next half hour or so...

[auroryborealis]

As time passed, there were several other little creatures with Rory and Anakin on the robe. They were a bit too preoccupied to notice the little spider scurrying into Rory's hair, or the ants approaching her shoulder.

And as things wrapped up, Rory began to kind of notice things, but she was still just a little too warm and glowy and tingly to be aware of, say, her increasingly bad sunburn.

"Wow," she murmured, lightly kissing Anakin.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin returned her kiss, then slowly began to notice the redness of Rory's back.

"Uh-oh," he said quietly.

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"...what?"

[emo_padawan]

He reached his hand around and pressed it gently on Rory's back. "Does that hurt?" he asked.

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"Kind of stings...crap. I'm burned aren't I?" Rory sighed and leaned her forehead against his shoulder.

That would be when she noticed the beetle in his hair and gave a little shriek.