2nd Floor Common Room [Wednesday Evening]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge is in the Common Room, notebook on his lap as he studies for finals.

Of course, he'd probably be better able to focus on studying if the TV wasn't on. But there it was.

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin laughed. "Sometimes? I honestly don't know. We're always together, but there's something new and different to do most days. So it's not just us and a transport and endless space--that's when we're both climbing the walls."

He paused and decided to be honest. "Or I'm climbing the walls. Obi-Wan takes that as another opportunity to meditate."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I usually take things apart when I get bored," Sam chuckled, knowing exactly what he was talking about. Except she bet Anakin never had to deal with Jack O'Neill's endless hours of finger tapping. "Which, y'know, is generally considered to be bad."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin gave her a wide-eyed look of fake innocence. "I'd never take things apart when I was bored."

He smirked. "I make things better. It's a whole different thing. Not that Obi-Wan appreciated my work with the food unit on that trip we took out to Kashyyyk. It would only spit out sugary cereal for me." He shrugged. "I was eleven."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Here's a contest Sam can compete in. "Eight. Took apart my parents' dining room table and chairs with the screwdriver I bought my dad for Father's Day."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Nice," Anakin replied, eyes shining. "I was, um, seven I guess, when I built my first podracer. It was very, very cool. Scared my..." Anakin trailed off. "It was very, very cool," he repeated. "Flew and everything."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Podracer?" Sam's eyes lit up again. "Could you build another one?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"In my sleep," Anakin replied with a grin. "Just not sure how we'd fit--they were normally made for smaller people." He shrugged. "But it's not like we'd be racing them at Boonta Eve or anything. Want to do that this weekend as a break from studying?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Building something that goes fast and which could be dangerous?" Sam grinned widely, "I'm so far in I can't even begin to explain."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Very fast and totally dangerous," Anakin said, eyes shining. "So...junkyard or Danger Room Shop?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Junkyard. In case it doesn't blow up, I want to be able to use it for real more than once. I miss feeling the wind blowing through my hair, you know?" Sam tilted her head. "Do you know anything about motorcycles?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Like speeders?" Anakin's hands spread out, trying to describe one. "One seater, controls on the handlebars?" He smiled. "Ours fly, but yeah, I've seen motorcycles. You ride?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah," Sam grinned with the fervor of the zealot, "and I've been rebuilding a classic one since Homecoming, but I haven't been there in months. Wanna help sometime? It's got an old internal combustion engine..."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I'd love to," Anakin replied almost before Sam had gotten the question out. "I was tinkering around on Rory's car for a little while and built myself a television and stuff but oooh, yeah. Count me in!"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Great! Maybe I'll make some real progress." Sam was making a mental note to ask Rory if she could check out the changes Anakin had made when the rest of what he'd said registered. "Wait. You built yourself a television?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "Well, sort of a television. It projects in three dimensions like the ones at home do." He smiled, looking proud of himself. "I tweaked the DVD players Parker gave me to do the same thing for Homecoming."

He blushed, suddenly shy. "I'm kind of good with my hands like that."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Are the DVD players still around?" Sam asked, innocently, "because I'd love to take one apart to see how they work."

"Y'know, it's almost too bad about the whole Jedi thing...I know someone who'd recruit you here in a heartbeat."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"You might ask Parker," Anakin suggested. "I don't know what happened to the stuff that wasn't the volcano from prom."

He ran a hand through his hair. "Well, for me at least, being good with mechanics is linked to the Jedi thing. I can kind of, um, see how things work--what's broken, how to make them better." He shrugged. "I didn't know that's what I was doing when I was little, but yeah, I was tapping into the Force to fix stuff."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Added to the mental list? Checking with Parker to find out about the DVD players.

"You have a gift that makes you a better mechanic? I'm so jealous!" Sam looked at her hands, then wiggled her fingers, "I have to make due with what I've learned on my own and what Jolinar has stuck into my head after she died."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"The Force is everywhere," Anakin said, obviously reciting something he'd been told a thousand times. "It's infinitely large as well as infinitely tiny."

He waved his hand and the cupcake wrapper lifted from his lap and began to spin around. "The same gift that lets me manipulate the molecules of this wrapper lets me, well, manipulate the molecules in Rory's car's engine." He shrugged and let the wrapper drop back down. "It's just part of who I am. It's kind of hard to explain."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Actually, that sounds a lot like the arguments that conservationists on this planet use for protecting our natural environment and animals from development by industrialists," she mused, "You're just the only one I know who can manipulate molecules and atoms by concentrating on them. Have you ever been anywhere where there was no Force to manipulate? Didn't you worry about that before coming here?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"They're right--everything's connected." He paused, thinking about her question. "I've heard of certain creatures that could repel the Force but I've never encountered them." He gave a small shiver. "From what the Archives say, it would be like going deaf and blind. I can't imagine."

He looked at her. "You know? It never even crossed my mind that the Force might not work here."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam nodded, "It must be like us and gravity--it's such a large and encompassing part of your life that it doesn't occur to you that there may be places that don't have it."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "A little bit like that. More all-encompassing, though."

He looked a little frustrated. "Obi-Wan is better at these kinds of explanations."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry about it, Anakin. I think I understand enough for my purposes," she shrugged, and flipped some hair out of her eyes, "I mean, it's not like I'll ever have a practical use for the information."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"True," Anakin said.

He stretched his arms over his head and glanced at his chrono. "I should probably get back to studying now, though."