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 let himself into Rory's room in the very early hours. He'd seen the cabins set up around campus, but his super stalking powers Jedi senses had told him she was still in her room.

Hiding his right arm self-consciously behind his back, he walked towards the bed and knelt down beside it.

"Morning," he whispered.

[auroryborealis]

"Mmm." Rory stirred slightly in her sleep, starting to blink awake.

When her brain caught up with her eyes, she jerked up, grinning.

"I knew you'd be back," she practically squealed. The smile faded slightly, and she seemed to hesitate. "Are you okay? Is everything okay? They are letting you stay, and you're not just here to pick up Yoda or something?"

[emo_padawan]

"I'm here for the summer," he confirmed with a grin.

He kind of skipped over the part where he might or might not be okay.

[auroryborealis]

That would be more squealing.

Rory pounced at him in glee, intending to hug but kind of forgetting the part where she had just woken up and she was in bed.

Which she soon wasn't anymore, since in her glee, she had sort of toppled out of bed and onto Anakin.

"Oops."

[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 gave her a fond smile, then covered up a yawn. "It's been a long couple of days," he admitted.

[auroryborealis]

"Yay, sleep?" Rory asked, sounding a bit drowsy herself.

[emo_padawan]

"Yay, sleep," Anakin echoed, yanking off his boots, then looking down at his glove with a deeply unhappy expression.

[auroryborealis]

"...are you going to sleep with that on?" Rory asked softly. "I mean, I could, um, look away from whatever you're hiding, if you don't want me to see."