Wee small secluded clearing [yay NFB]

[auroryborealis]

After spending the night in Flamingo, Rory went back to MeerkatIt was still invisible. Rory was sad

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[emo_padawan]

Anakin wandered past shortly after Rory arrived. He noticed what she was wearing. "The cabin's still cloaked, huh?" he said, taking his robe off and dropping it around Rory's shoulders.

[auroryborealis]

"Yes," she grumbled, pulling the robe around herself. "As are all my clothes. And sorry, no, I'm not walking around with invisible clothes on."

[emo_padawan]

"I'm definitely okay with that," Anakin said with a smile, then sprawling down on the grass near Rory's rock.

"You sleep okay last night?"

[auroryborealis]

"Mm. How was the couch?" Rory asked, looking down at him.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin was silent for a while. "I don't want this turning into a big thing," he said. "But I don't want Angel coming after me with a beating stick because Parker doesn't know poo-doo about Jedi, either."

[auroryborealis]

"He won't," Rory sighed, sliding off the rock to sit by him. "Angel trusts me to make my own decisions, I think. Want some coffee?" She held out her cup. "It's really, really good."

[emo_padawan]

"What's in it?" he asked, looking at the cup. "And did I see a J,GoB box?"

[auroryborealis]

"Caramel and whipped cream and espresso," she told him. "And yes you did."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin took another bite of pie before speaking again.

"Enough," he said finally. "New subject. Have you come up with something to pay the Stickbugs back for making the cabin invisible?"

[auroryborealis]

"No," Rory pouted. "That was mean of them. And the gnomes totally weren't that bad."

[emo_padawan]

"Just a little, um, clingy," Anakin said, snagging more pie. He smiled. "And Cam's wasn't a fan of flying."

[auroryborealis]

"Well, that's hardly my fault," Rory said primly, helping herself to more pie.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin closed his eyes and squeezed her hand for a second. "It really, really is."

[auroryborealis]

"I'm sorry," she said softly.

[emo_padawan]

"I know," he replied just as quietly, leaning his head against hers.

[auroryborealis]

"I mean, I'm sorry I let her get to me," Rory corrected. "I'm not at all sorry for standing up to her."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin smiled. "You'll have to tell that story sometime anyway," he said. "Okay, so Obi-Wan and Master Vos have had, like, five giant blue smoking things a piece. So they start telling stories about pranks they had pulled and Master Vos points out that Obi-Wan had once gotten them out of paying their bar tab at a tapcafe in the midlevels of Coruscant by doing this dance on a table wearing a skirt and singing this incredibly rude song about a Rodian and her..." he coughed. "But that's not important. Master Vos says that Obi-Wan was too old and dignified to do that sort of thing, then shook his head like Obi-Wan was about 350 years old."

[auroryborealis]

"Oh no..." Rory said, laughing. "Though I have no idea what a Rodian is or what you're referencing. But that's okay because I'm mentally filling in a very dirty song I actually know, instead."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin grinned back. "So Obi-Wan gets this hugely insulted look on his face, finishes off his smoking blue thing and walks out of the room. Three minutes later he comes back in wearing a skirt he had picked up from Force knows where, a kerchief on his head and answering only to the name Lola. He jumps up on this table, recreates the bar scene Master Vos was talking about complete with gestures Master Vos had never mentioned, then passed out in the punch bowl."

[auroryborealis]

"He didn't remember the next day and denies he ever did such a thing, right?" Rory guessed, giggling.