Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Rey didn't understand the superstition around Friday the 13th, but apparently the woodchucks did. She walked in to a broken mirror near the crate sitting area, and a random ladder in the middle of nothing. She didn't know why these things were there, and she wasn't asking. She was just getting to work with the dustpan (the Force saved her from actual sweeping) and watching as the woodchucks tossed salt over their shoulders before walking under the ladder. Where were they going? Also not asking.

"You can just go around," she said, deeply confused.


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[sith_happened]

"Rey?" Anakin called, stepping into the warehouse.

[thatwaslucky]

"Careful," she called. "You might get seven years of bad luck. For some reason."

[sith_happened]

"I don't think luck works like that," Anakin said.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't either, but it seems to be a thing here?" She shrugged, sending the glass pieces into the dustpan.

[sith_happened]

"This planet is strange," Anakin said, and not for the first time. Or hundredth.

[thatwaslucky]

She shrugged again. "Turns out the woodchucks are more superstitious than you might think. Or causing the trouble, I'm not sure which."

[sith_happened]

"I'd take a healthy dose of both, really."

[thatwaslucky]

"Both," she agreed. "I think I got all of the glsss, but watch your step. How was your week?"

[sith_happened]

"Mostly uneventful," Anakin admitted. "You?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Very uneventful, but also too busy to do much," she said, because the week was too crazy to ping into anything. "I have this and date night so I think I'm back in a more normal space."

[sith_happened]

"Are you doing a big thing for Valentine's Day?" Anakin asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"I think we're just spending it at his place, but he's very good at making things a gesture." She didn't need it. But she appreciated that kind of attention. "Are you doing anything for it?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "We're always doing something with the kids, so it's nice to remember that we used to be just us, too."

[thatwaslucky]

"That really seems like it'd be important," she said.

[sith_happened]

"It helps that we don't need to pay for babysitting any more," Anakin admitted. "Very freeing."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm glad you get to have that time," she said with a little smile. "Do the kids have things to do for the holiday?"

She'd been a mostly anti-social teenager, she had no idea if that was a thing they'd be doing yet.

[sith_happened]

Anakin shook his head. "Not really. Juliet's on a kick about it being a fake holiday."

[thatwaslucky]

"Aren't they technically all fake?" Rey mused.

[sith_happened]

"...yes," Anakin admitted, "but they're fun."

[thatwaslucky]

"Some of them," she agreed. "This one is great when I'm in a relationship."

Otherwise it was just another day.

[sith_happened]

Anakin laughed. "And not when you're not?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I send flowers to my friends and don't do anything for it. I don't have an issue with the day-" Except that one year because the breakup timing was awful. "-but it's not really anything otherwise."

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "Other than dinner, we aren't really over the top about it," he admitted.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't think you really need to, in general," Rey said. "It should just be about time together."

[sith_happened]

"And that time is harder to carve out when there are kids," Anakin said.

[thatwaslucky]

"You know if you ever need time, I can take them to do something," she offered.

[sith_happened]

"I really appreciate hearing that," Anakin said. "Maybe a weekend away sometime?"

[thatwaslucky]

"If you were okay with it, I could always bring them home with me," she said. "Not anything dangerous."

[sith_happened]

"I'd be fine with that," Anakin said, "but I have to double-check with Rory."

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe the weekend after the trip? You two can check off on everything first," she said.

[sith_happened]

"That would be really nice," Anakin said with a smile. "I leave her wrangling the kids for a week all alone."

[thatwaslucky]

"Good timing, then," she said with a small smile.

[sith_happened]

"I'll tell her at dinner," he said, "and be a hero."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey nodded. "And I'll tell Adrian I'm going after this weekend."

More of a post-Valentine's thing.

[sith_happened]

"Thank you," Anakin said with a little smile. "Truly."

[thatwaslucky]

"Of course," she said. "I'm about due to go back there anyway."

[sith_happened]

"How's it going?" Anakin asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"Kind of chaos, but that's to be expected. I'm not involved in all of the big stuff, but I hear things," she said. "I'm keeping to a smaller scale and it can be a lot."

[sith_happened]

"Control what you can," Anakin said, smiling. "Let the big stuff go its own way."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's what I'm trying," she said. "I barely know how our galaxy works, I am not qualified to decide what it should look like."

[sith_happened]

"I'm not sure I know a lot of people I'd trust to decide it," he admitted.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't know that there really are many," she said. Leia. That was about it. And even she hadn't been able to do as much as she should have.

[sith_happened]

"Part of the problem," Anakin said. "The ones who want to run the galaxy really shouldn't be allowed to."

[thatwaslucky]

Somewhere Jag and Jaina were just so, so tired.

"I've definitely seen that," she said wryly. "It even happens locally, in small areas."

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "Padme was an exception, which is why Leia was an exception. They both genuinely wanted to change for the better."

[thatwaslucky]

Hadn't worked out well for either of them, but Rey wasn't going to say that.

"I'd hope at least with enough people of the New Republic still around, they'd at least go forward with those ideals," she said.

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "Trust in your instincts as you hear their plans."