Room 405 [Afternoon]

[emo_padawan]

After spending most of yesterday putting the flight simulator together for he and Rory's just-friends-spending-time-together evening tonight, Anakin looked at the gifts he had bought for people using the money he'd won in Vegas and had never quite gotten around to telling the Council about

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[whitedeathpod]

Deciding to head to Anakin's room first, John juggles a heavy box wrapped in blue paper and a smaller box wrapped in gold paper.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin looked up from where he was putting the final piece of tape on a large box.

"Hey!" he said. "Need a hand?"

[whitedeathpod]

"Well, these are actually for you," he says and finally drops the boxes on the floor. He glares at the boxes. "I sure hope I didn't break them. Anyway, yeah. Those are for you, man. Saw them and couldn't resist."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin floated the gifts across the room like a giant lazy Jedi, then tore open the wrappings with rather unseemly haste.

Presents weren't something he was used to. At all. This was a pretty big deal.

He snickered at the gremlins and smiled at the clock. "Thank you. This is very cool," he said. He pointed at the tights. "Is this a friend of Professor Tick's?"

He pointed to the large package he had been wrapping. "And that's for you. Looked like something you might appreciate."

[sogothcally]

Cally, apparently having present radar, wanders up to Anakin's door and knocks.

Amazingly, she's on her own. There is no Anders in sight. Crazy!

[emo_padawan]

Anakin totally didn't check behind her for "'nAnders." Really.

"Hi!" he said, rustling around among the stack of presents until he found a red-wrapped package with her name on it.

"This is for you to get into the spirit of this holiday that neither of us celebrate." He gave her a smile.

[sogothcally]

"Thanks! I totally have stuff for you too. It just hasn't come in yet. I had to order from the internety-thing. Crazy, huh?" Cally smiles and takes the package and rips the wrapping to shreds. She beams happily at it.

"Frakking Sweet! This is awesome!" Cally quickly hugs Anakin. "Thank you so much!" And with that, she suddenly scampers down the hall. "Gotta run! Sorry!"

[emo_padawan]

"Bye!" Anakin called after her, terribly amused by the entire thing.

[leeadama]

Lee passes the open door and then comes back, peering in and sekritly wondering if he can CATCH OMFGJUSTFRIENDS IN THE ACT. Alas, no Rory. "Hey, Anakin!"

[emo_padawan]

"Hey, Lee!" Anakin replied, in no way disappointed that it wasn't his OMGJUSTAFRIEND. Because OMG, just friends.

"Got something for you," he said, pointing to a heavy, heavy-looking box covered in gold paper.

[leeadama]

Lee just stares at it. "Whoa, that better be some coal in a very large box, Skywalker," he says, blushing.

"I'll be right back," he says suddenly and sprints back to his room to get Anakin's gifties.

Returning, a bit more pink, he mock-ceremoniously hands Anakin a smaller package, neatly wrapped.

[emo_padawan]

Anakin unwrapped the packages with unseemly haste. He was really getting into the holidays at this point. He stared at the two movies in his hands. "That's the weirdest thing..." he muttered. "Those people look just like..." he shook his head. With Cam and John running around looking exactly alike, he should be more used to this sort of thing. "Thanks, Lee. These are great!"

[psycho_barbie]

Hauling around a large bag, Callisto knocked on Anakin's doorframe. "Hey Anakin."

[emo_padawan]

"Hi, Callisto," Anakin replied. "You playing Bristow Claus?"

He reached for a small package wrapped in silver paper on his bed. "This is for you," he said, handing it over.

[psycho_barbie]

"A little," Callisto handed over two cloth warpped bundles, before ripping off the wrapping paper off her own present. "Thanks Anakin."

[emo_padawan]

"With this stuff we'd learned in Fencing Club, thought you might like to learn about the way I sword-fight back home," he said with a shrug.

He unwrapped his own presents, and looked with delight at the bells that Callisto had given him. "These are fantastic," he said, giving them a few test rings. "I could do 'Carol of the Bells' now." He smiled. "Thank you."

[can_be_more]

Next on the present delivery rounds would be Anakin since his is the next post. Aeryn greets him with a package and a "I'm assuming everyone's doing the gift thing now, so."

[emo_padawan]

Anakin nodded. "Seems like," he said. He took the package and opened it. "Thank you! This is great!" he said with a smile. "Wonder if I can terrify gremlins with it?" He handed her a large, flat package. "This is for you," he said.

[can_be_more]

"Terrorizing gremlins? It's worth a shot," she says, opening the package. "This is beautiful. Thank you."

[emo_padawan]

"I know I get homesick for space sometimes," he said, scuffing his boots on the carpet. "That nebulae might not be home for either of us, but I thought it was pretty."