Rey's warehouse (even if she won't say it out loud)- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

While Rey was worried about Duke, thanks to relentless optimism and reasons to keep herself distracted, she was doing okay. She didn't know if she just knew things would be okay or if she was leaning on repression and as it turned out, she didn't really care. It'd all be fine.

However, the need for distraction had also meant that she'd almost entirely missed the fact that she'd officially been back here for a full year (364 days, give or take the days she'd been at home). The weird part was that what felt like a milestone to her wouldn't be one to anyone else; it'd only been a few months back home. She'd known Finn for a year but he'd known her for less, there was no need to check in on Leia any more then she would normally, but she'd been working towards becoming a Jedi for a year. She'd had an unwanted bond with another person for a year. She at least hadn't been tortured for a year?

So she was marking this vague anniversary in a warehouse she'd borrowed and had never had an opportunity to give back, and making a deal with the woodchucks that they were free to do their thing right up until she said stop, and then she started running the course from the opposite end that she normally did, which seemed to throw them off more than it did her while still presenting a challenge.

She'd gotten smarter in a year, too.


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[sith_happened]

Anakin came by as usual, this time with a box of Cassatelle biscotti from the class' trip to Sicily. He'd already dropped a box off at home, so there were actually cookies still inside this one. "Rey?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah," she called, just in time for a woodchuck to throw a piece of wood that immediately got cleaved in half from atop the course.

[sith_happened]

"Nicely done," Anakin said, grinning. "Woodchucks at it again, huh?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I agreed to it this time," she said, continuing the opposite way through the swinging things by slipping between them.

[sith_happened]

"Excellent negotiating, then," Anakin said.

[thatwaslucky]

"Thank you," she said, taking a board that was thrown wildly and using it as an excuse to skip the very usual-beginning part to hop off the side and switch off her lightsaber.

"Stop," she told the woodchucks, and turned to Anakin with a, "Hi."

[sith_happened]

"Hi," Anakin echoed. "Was it fun going through it backwards?"

[thatwaslucky]

"It was strange," she admitted. "In a good way."

And she'd had no problem letting the woodchucks dial up the difficulty.

[sith_happened]

Anakin smiled at her. "So which way do you want me to run it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"You can handle backwards," Rey smiled.

[sith_happened]

"And the woodchucks?" Anakin asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"Entirely up to you. I promised to bring them carrots if they listen to orders."

Because of course Rey would treat the local vermin like rational beings capable of understanding barter.

[sith_happened]

"I think I can handle the woodchucks too," Anakin said, shrugging off his cloak like a drama queen.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey turned to the woodchucks and nodded at them. They immediately picked up some wood to start.

Where did they even get it all.

"I'm looking forward to this," Rey admitted. Because look! She got to see him in action! It was cool!

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned. "I've been looking forward to this, too," he admitted, igniting the lightsaber. "Hope I'm not too rusty."

He absolutely wasn't.

[thatwaslucky]

"You'll be fine," she said, confident in that. "Whenever you're ready."

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned and kicked the remotes to life with a flick in the Force, then took off through the obstacle course.

He was definitely giving her a show.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had sort of thought that she'd be studying what he did, but instead she was just taking it in. She'd never been able to sit back and watch a Jedi do anything like this before.

[sith_happened]

Anakin was really letting himself have fun, too, jumping and flipping and spinning, easily ricocheting remote blasts and what the woodchucks were chucking.

[thatwaslucky]

"You're showing off," Rey called, smiling.

[sith_happened]

Anakin laughed. "Maybe a little," he said before plunging down and catching the rope to swing from at the last possible second.

[thatwaslucky]

"Mm hm," she said, grinning, but she was happy to actually watch him do it.

[sith_happened]

Anakin landed easily on the ground, then ran his lightsaber against the remotes that were left, blade a blur as he kept himself safe and turned the blasts back onto the remotes, which then crashed to the floor.

He beamed at Rey. "This was fun."

[thatwaslucky]

"You can do that anytime you like, you know," Rey said. "It was fun to see."

[sith_happened]

"I will," Anakin said, all but bouncing on his toes. "I'll make the next one harder. I have ideas now."