[ooc: a long time ago in a state far away,
shadowed_kat's mun and I created an alternate universe that we dragged into wherein somehow Kitty Pryde and Anakin Skywalker meet and fall for each other and...er, the rest is history. Some of that history can be found at
au_eats_brains. Anyway, that was years ago, literally. We wanted to resurrect it. So we're starting anew with
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"Not...exactly." And, since she's willing to bet she'd just be asked what that meant, "I know where I'm eventually ending up. And I know how to get there. It's the interim that's become a bit...extended."
Go go ninja lying skills! ...I'm going to kill Bobby for watching cartoons so often. Besides, it was true.
It was just...a heavily-edited and under-detailed version of the truth.
Which is still totally true, which she has reason to thank from a particularly uncomfortable lie-detector experience.
He doesn't look terribly dangerous or aggressive at the moment, and so she shifts enough to be (mostly) visible.
(Double note to self: pack more clothing that's as durable as your uniform, or you're going to end up unable to wear anything else.) One of her...borrowings, at least, over the past few days included something that's vaguely related to a robe, if one designed for someone far bigger and possibly of a different race than she; it hides the yellow and blue uniform, though--even has a hood--and that's what matters at the moment. Far more than it being fashionably questionable.
She reminds herself of that, again, feeling oddly like showing up at a ball in a potato sack.
With my life, that would probably actually happen.
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"Right. So do you need help then?" Getting where you're going.
And no, he couldn't precisely say why he'd offered. It seemed the thing to do.
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"Possibly," she sighs instead after a moment's pause. "Sorry, I'm used to people trying to kill me, not helping me."
And also stubborn as hell, a voice that sounds remarkably like Logan's adds in her head. And not at all sure yet you're someone I want or need the help of.
The last part was her own voice, though Logan would probably agree.
"Uh. Sorry, let's try again: Hi. I'm Kitty."
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There was likely something wrong with that. Normal people didn't know that feeling, anyway.
"And I'm Anakin. So...what's the problem?"
Hopefully it wasn't anything big. How much time did he still have?
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That...could potentially not be a good thing, that he knows the feeling, though Kitty is very aware that the same potential applies to her.
For the moment, she decides, it's best to continue with at least enough caution to escape if needed.
Hopefully not needed. It would be so nice if, for once, she didn't get attacked and actually got help.
She thinks for a minute and shrugs. "I'm trying to make technology from approximately three different galaxies mesh so I can make the damned ship I was sent out with actually function like it's supposed to and thus get be to the far side of the universe." It's said matter-of-factly, and she shrugs. "Shockingly, no one thought about making the engine compatible with unknown technology. Don't you hate it when that happens?"
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That...was going to take a while. Assuming it was the truth. Because it really sounded out there.
Of course, it also sounded like just the sort of challenge he loved. Which...might make this a cleverly devised trap or something. But that would mean someone would have to have known he, himself was going to be there, going to be early, and happen to stumble across this girl and-
Okay, thinking way too hard about this.
All he says is, with a crooked grin, "you don't look like you're from another galaxy."
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Kitty freely admits that she was shocked to see what appeared to be humans about, but she's only interested in freely admitting it in her head.
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There were, after all, how many species in this galaxy alone?
He waved in the direction that was out of the alley, "where's your ship?"
He could at least glance at it before going to be diplomatic.
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"I left it in the forest out of town. I didn't really want anyone noticing the unfamiliar ship."
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Here though? Here was different. Talk about backwater planets...
And yet again he was wondering why the Council had bothered to send a Jedi, even a padawn, here.
"How far out of town?"
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Kitty looks blank for a moment; she knows how far it is if you go straight through and don't worry about things like "path" or "following one" or "being unable to walk around obstacles and how that increases distance".
"I'm not...sure. It took me about..." Fifteen minutes. "A half hour to get here."
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"Uhm. How would you feel about sitting on that for a few hours?"
He should know better. The simple ones never are. The likelihood of him getting done today that soon? About nil.
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"Okay. Why?"
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"Well. I've got a job I actually came here to do first. I'm supposed to be meeting someone soon."
And mission does, actually, outrank cute girls in need of mechanical assistance. Barely.
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Kitty winces and pinches the bridge of her nose. "That...was not supposed to sound that skeptical."
Think before speaking. Think before speaking. You are supposedly a genius, though you apparently want to prove all those IQ tests wrong.
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But probably true.
"Should be. If nothing else, I'm probably your best bet."
Wow, all those tact lessons from Obi-Wan sunk in somewhere. For once.
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