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The Park, Friday Afternoon

Well... that whole week could have gone worse, Kanan supposed. The itching feeling of dread had more or less faded, which left just the lingering bouts of free-floating trauma around the island that was usual in the wake of this sort of thing.

Which meant it was a Friday as usual for training and the like, though today he'd brought Stance, and he'd made his way to the park rather than the warehouse, letting the pup run free to harangue the ducks while he sat himself down under a tree in the shade, and he read more of that book that the moose had foisted off on him.

He didn't necessarily agree with it all, but he could see some of the wisdom behind it all the same.

There were a few practice swords propped up against the tree, in case anybody was feeling up to training or sparring today, but otherwise... eh. He was more or less just taking it easy this afternoon.

With a book.

About a stuffed bear.

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Kaidan headed to the park. He wasn't really in the mood for sword practice today, but he was in the mood for company. Spotting Kanan sitting under a tree, he headed over and plopped down next to him, bumping his shoulder. "You look like you're really into that book," he said - all he had time for since Stance had noticed him and taken a break from the ducks to come over and attempt to lick Kaidan's face off.

"Pfleh! Puppy breath!" Kaidan accused, eventually catching Stance's head and plopping a kiss between his ears. "Hi, buddy. You're having some fun with the ducks, huh?"

Kanan gave a little chuckle at that.

"You get 'im, buddy," he told Stance, before shooting Kaidan a smirk. "He's been having fun with every duck today. But I haven't had to rescue him or them yet, so I'm calling it a win."

He closed his book, dog-earing the page he was on as he did so, and held it up for Kaidan to see.

"Apparently I'm teaching this, this summer. I suppose if anyone's going to teach the class on inner nature, it's going to be the island's most twitchy Jedi, right?"

Kaidan scritched Stance and looked at the book. His eyebrows both went up. "They're having you teach a book about the willy nilly silly old bear?" After he read the title, he guffawed loudly. "Oh man. What are the rules about sitting in on someone's class?"

"Pretty sure so long as I'm okay with it, you're welcome to," Kanan replied, smirking crookedly. "How much do you enjoy 'hunny?'"

"I prefer 'sweetie'," Kaidan said without missing a beat.

"Sorry, darling," Kanan replied. "The book says honey, and so honey it's going to be."

Kaidan shot him a grin. They were terrible and he kind of loved it. "As long as it doesn't elect me for the person to stick their hand in the tree, I suppose I can live with it."

"Oh, no," Kanan laughed, "extracting honey from the tree is going to be my job. I have a certain sort of way with bees."

A pause.

"And a credit card. And a friend who runs a convenience store."

Thank the Force for capitalism.

Kaidan laughed at that, "And here I was, hoping to watch you do some sort of bee-charming.."

He wouldn't put it past Kanan to do exactly that.

"Less risk of getting stung the other way, though."

"Much less. Anyway, I wouldn't want to risk traumatizing anybody with swarming insects so early into the summer. I'll save trauma for maybe the next term, with a rancor or three."

Kanan never claimed to be a nice guy.

"Didn't you do that last term?" Kaidan asked. He thought he'd heard something on the radio about his last class.

"And it was great."

Kanan, stop grinning like that, you ass.

Kaidan wasn't any better, grinning right back at him. "Was the objective to kill the rancor or herd them somewhere? Or did you just want the students chased around by a really big carnivore?"

"In hindsight, I'm not entirely certain myself," Kanan admitted. "I think we were talking about animals from home. Summer had her cat. I probably should have gone with something slightly less murderous, like a Kowakian monkey-lizard or a womp-rat."

Womp rats were not that much less murderous, admittedly.

"Could've gone with tooka or nexu," Kaidan offered, "Keep with the 'cat' theme. Rancors aren't so much like cats, buddy."

Except in adorable children's books.

Kanan chuckled a little at that.

"I don't know that a pack of nexu would've been much better," he replied, amused. "They're faster and smarter than rancors, and you don't know they're coming until you're dead, generally."

A beat.

"But I suppose I could have shoved a cub or two at them."

Kaidan reached over and smacked him on the bicep. "Ass," he said good-naturedly. "How many of them would have wanted to take a nexu cub home as a pet?"

All of them? Probably.

"The island would be overrun with nexu by now," Kanan decided. "Who doesn't want a little razor-quilled murderbeast with a bear trap for a mouth?"

"That'd be me," Kaidan said immediately, "I'm the person who doesn't want a nexu for a pet. My experience with Murderbritches was enough nexu time for me. They can stay in their proper environments, in a galaxy far from here. If I'm going to have anything with a bear trap for a mouth, I'd take a tooka. They're adorable and fluffy and their ickle chicken feets couldn't accidentally disembowel a guy."

"Hey, those mouths are way less bear-trappy," Kanan protested lightly. "... But that doesn't stop them from trying."

"They're cute," Kaidan said with a grin. You walked right into that, Kanan. "I can handle less bear-trappy. They're also sized better to be a lap cat. Kind of hard to cuddle up to an animal with razor-barbed quills."

"You do get a point for that one," Kanan allowed, laughing and shaking his head. "I haven't met many people who want to snuggle a nexu."

... He had kind of wanted to cuddle ~~Murderbritches~~ Cliff.

"Jack," Kaidan said without missing a beat, "She'd find a way to do it if she had to wrap in an armored bodysuit."

To be fair, he'd also wanted to cuddle Murderbritches after the cub had stopped trying to bite his face off. The sleeping cub had been awfully cute.

"I guess even nexu need to be cuddled sometimes," Kanan noted. "I don't much blame her for it, if she does end up wanting to try."

A pause.

"Hell, it might be one of the few things that could hold its own against those creatures she's got back home."

"If she ever hears you calling her precious babies 'those creatures, she will give you a bruise to remember," Kaidan said with a small laugh. Scrubbed a hand through his hair, "Varren. The domesticated ones do make pretty good pets and guards. Eezo's as stubborn and prickly as his owner to everyone else but for Jack? He's a big puddle of wriggling happy dog. She doesn't need to add another scary oversized predator just to have one on the cat side of the spectrum."

And she'd try, too. He'd met her.

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