63 Serendipity Place, Saturday morning

[sith_happened]

The Skywalkers had finally outgrown their townhouse in Georgetown, and Anakin was already discovering one advantage of life in Fandom: no one looked twice when the sofa moved itself through the doorway and into the living room.

Juliet and Christopher were playing among the boxes, Vladdie, their forever (because vampire) Papillion puppy had flown to the top of the bookcase and was refusing to come down, and Rory was sneakily trying to fill the new, larger pantry with every flavor of Pop Tart.

That left Anakin supervising the movers and reminding them to stop muttering under their breath about all of the stairs in this town.

[OOC: Anakin is finally back on the island with his NPC family. Come say hi :)]

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Hey, mover dudes, Prompto still complained about all the stairs in this town and he ran them almost every other day, so, you know, there was at least one person who couldn't blame them for all their mutterings, as he jogged by on one of his tours around the place, making his way on the leg that involved a quick pit-stop for puppies at the animal shelter.

And then doing a slight jog backwards once all the commotion processed in his head.

"S'up, Bus Deaaaaa----" he started, and then backed that up, too, to amend, clearing his throat, "err, Mr. Skywalker. You moving in?"

No, Prompto, there was furniture and boxes being moved inside a building for an entirely different reason.

[sith_happened]

"I am," Anakin said, smiling. "My daughter is thrilled to be so close to the animals. Expect an eager 10 year old volunteer."

[hashtag_chocobro]

Anakin! Prompto had just been running around the whole island, and you think his heart could take that kind of cuteness?

"Always glad to have some helping hands around the place!" he said brightly. "As much as I wish I could handle them all at once, they are a big furry, fluffy, feathery handful over there! I gotta wonder, though, how she feels about cleaning fishtanks, because she might want to avoid Fridays, if it's anything less than positive."

Although that did mean Sidon, which could make cleaning fishtanks a little more worth it, in the long run.

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"I don't know if she's ever cleaned a fish tank," Anakin said. "It might be good for her."

[hashtag_chocobro]

"I mean, hey," Prompto had to chuckle a little, "if that's the case, then I'll bet Sidon would love to have a little helper."

It did, after all, feel like he and the big guy practically shared a brain, or something!

"Or, how about...she helps with the fishtanks, she gets unlimited access to puppy play time."

As if she wouldn't get that already.

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"That's a deal," Anakin said, grinning. "I'll bring her by on Friday."

[hashtag_chocobro]

And so now the real question was whether or not Prompto was going to tell Sidon...or whether he'd just let it be a surprise.

Sidon did like surprises, though, so he was definitely leaning that way, for sure!

"Cool," he said, grinning brightly. "And I'm on Thursdays. I always have the best games and stuff for the puppies, if you think she'd be into that, too. Sooooo...."

He took a moment to look around.

"You guys need any help, or anything?"

He asked, to the dude who had actually physically levitated him before with his mind.

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"How are you with re-assembling furniture?" Anakin asked.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"We can totally find out!" said Prompto, cheerfully, but not at all convincingly.

Not even with finger guns.

But fine. He would do fine he was actually stupid good at putting things together.

As Anakin should know. It took mad skills to get that shit to stay on those shuttles, dude.

[bookbeltof_love]

How did Nina know this?

It was probably best not to ask how Nina had known to show up here, at this time.

"I brought coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she announced.

She also had cookies, too, but she wasn't going to holler that in case Bus Dean didn't want the kids to have them right now.

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"Thank you!" Anakin said, taking it gratefully. "Rory stole mine an hour ago."

[bookbeltof_love]

She grinned up at him.

"That's, like, a wife's prerogative," Nina said earnestly. "But luckily, now you can resume caffeineation!!!!!!!!!!!! I also have cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"Cookies would be very welcome," Anakin said. "It's going to be a few days before we have a real working kitchen."

From which they would eat takeout.

[bookbeltof_love]

That made Nina sad. Cooking was fun and easy, Anakin!

"I feel like, like, you guys are going to want something more substantial than cookies in that case.................."

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"Oh, Rory went to school here, too," Anakin said, smiling. "She's already got her Thai order ready."

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Nina laughed.

"I won't worry about it then," she said, looking at what the movers were doing. "Do you guys need help???????????????"

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"We would love help," Anakin said. "Rory owns about five million books."

Not quite that many.

[firstofitskind]

You know that feeling that something was happening and you didn't quite know what, only that it wasn't good?

Anakin was probably intimately familiar with that feeling, all things considered, which could be part of why Liam's restless wandering brought him by. Or it could just be coincidence, because the island was small and there were only so many places to broodily wander past.

"... Where were you when I was moving last year?" Liam complained good-naturedly as he watched that couch move itself through the doorway.

In Georgetown, Liam. Couldn't you read the narrative?

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"On the mainland," Anakin said, "but rents are insane there."

[firstofitskind]

“I grew up in the area,” Liam said, and that was... more or less true. Except for the fact that his childhood had lasted minutes, hence the slight hesitation when he said ‘grew up’. “So, yeah. I’m familiar.”

Not that he’d paid rent for his ‘apartment’ in the back of the Flat Planet, but it was something he’d heard others complain about.

Prices in Fandom, meanwhile, were almost absurdly low.

[sith_happened]

Probably due to the three-times-a-year invasions.

"And so we decided to move back, so Rory knows when I've disappeared, it's because I'm dangling over a volcano," Anakin said dryly.

[firstofitskind]

Did Liam flinch just the tiniest bit at the mention of volcanoes?

... Dying in one will kind of do that to a guy. But hopefully if Anakin noticed, he’d just attribute it to the aforementioned recent trauma. His wife had been among the kidnapped, after all.

“Least she knows what she’s getting into?” Liam hazarded, because he had said ‘move back’, after all. “As much as anyone does with this place.”

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "We met when we were in high school year, roughly a hundred years ago."

[firstofitskind]

“You’re looking remarkably well-preserved for someone in their second century.”

Said the seven year old.

(That Anakin actually was older than he looked, albeit not quite in the hundreds, was of course something Liam was totally unaware of.)

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Anakin grinned. "Thank you. It hasn't been quite that long, but sometimes it feels like it."