First floor lobby [afternoon]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin? Had time on his hands.

Anakin? Had learned how to make paper starfighters.

This? Was a bad combination.

Sitting on the couch, he controlled seven of the paper missiles through the Force as they flew around the room.

Why yes, he was making little shooting noises as they chased each other. And the crash and burn sound, too.

He just didn't realize he was doing it.

Someone want to point it out?

[OOC: Open like a giant open thing.]

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn walked in from town, iced mocha in hand, and stared at the paper airplanes actually flying and the guy who was sitting there making shooting noises as he watched them. "Who's winning?"

She may have also been looking around the ceiling for strings or controls.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin glanced up and gave a small start at the girl talking to him. Yoda had always said something about everyone being luminous beings--he'd just never seen it so literally before.

"I am," he replied with a small smile, pointing up at the lead starfighter. "I'm reenacting a space battle as a, um, tactical exercise. Seeing where things could've gone better."

He paused. "I wasn't actually flying something made of paper, though. Um, the first time, I mean."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Space battle? Where're you from?" Dawn made herself at home on one of the chairs. "And, well, unless you have a really big piece of paper, I was kind of assuming the ship part."

"Oh, I'm Dawn, by the way."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Never hurts to be specific around here," Anakin said. "There was a sighting of a snake flying on a paper airplane earlier in the year. Of course, the snake was John Crichton..." he trailed off. "I'm Anakin. Hi. And I'm from a galaxy far, far away."

Above them, the ships continued their epic space battle.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Anakin?" Dawn brightened with recognition. "Oh, you're Rory's friend--the one who had her so worried when your dot went out. I'm glad it didn't."

"John Crichton was a snake on a paper airplane?" Somehow, this didn't surprise Dawn. "How far are we talking here, and why are they, er, were you fighting?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"That's me," Anakin said, nodding. "This time I was very careful not to fall on my phone. She'd've kicked my ass if it had gone out again."

He looked up. "This was a group of space pirates, actually," he said, wrinkling his brow up in concentration. "Trying to get around the tariffs in Corellian space. Well, and trying to steal a Jedi starfighter, which is just stupid."

Demonstrating, the first starfighter made a spectacular crash onto the stairs. "See?" Anakin said. "That was my teacher's ship they had tried to take for their own. So I shot it down." Above them, the ship he had pointed out as his did a cheesy little victory spiral.

"I'm from very, very far away." He pointed up. "That way for a few days at lightspeed."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I don't blame her. Buffy's phone going out was really scary, plus then all the others."

Dawn giggled as she tipped her head back to watch the battle. "You realize I don't understand most of what you just said, right? But, hey, you can outfly space pirates. That's got to be good."

"Er, there aren't any space pirates around here, are there?" She looked out the window, as if expecting them to land any minute. "Wow, that's far away."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "Do you know how she's doing? I haven't had a chance to check in since I brought her back on Saturday night."

He looked up, waved his hand and the ships paused, hovering in the air. "They were getting annoying," he said, smiling. "And there aren't any space pirates around here that I know about. There's just a regular pirate with a thing for dressing like a bush. Freak."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I saw her in the gym this morning," Dawn nodded happily, "and she was beating the heck out of my boyfriend, er, my boyfriend in Alec's body, anyway, so all's right with the world."

"He likes dressing up like a bush?" She snickered. "This place is so weird."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin thought back to the radio last night. "Alec's switched with...Dean, right?" He smiled. "And I'm glad to hear that Buffy's better."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

More nodding, then a slight scowl. "Someone was messing with magic they didn't understand," she grumbled, "but Dean's handling it okay, I think. I haven't seen Alec since this happened."

"Me too. I mean, I know she's not my Buffy, but I still worry, y'know? Some weird cross-dimensional sister bond, I guess."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Not me," Anakin mentioned hastily. "I can't do that sort of thing."

He paused. "Cross-dimensional sister bond? That sounds...complicated."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn looked at him a little strangely, then shook it off. "Okaaaaaay."

"You have no idea. Basically, she's from another universe where I don't exist." Yet.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Dork," said Rory as she hopped down the stairs.

Pot, meet kettle.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Studying," Anakin countered. "It's a very old Jedi technique that I kinda just invented."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"You realize you're making little boy noises?" Rory asked, going to sit by him.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I'm doing what?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory imitated his little noises.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin blushed to the roots of his hair.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"It's very cu...funny," Rory volunteered.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin blushed harder. Spontaneous combustion was becoming an option.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"So what is this?" Rory asked, waving a hand and choosing to spare him.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"A battle Obi-Wan and I were in a few years ago," he said, staring up. "Pirates trying to get out of paying tariffs in the Corellian system." He snickered. "They stole Obi-Wan's starfighter, too. He was very cranky."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Pirates?" Rory asked curiously.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Not like Barbossa," Anakin clarified. "Smugglers. Weapons, drugs, other valuables. Corellia's always had high tariffs--they're a vastly important system and know it--so someone's always trying to get around paying it." He shrugged. "Which is wrong. It had been getting worse, so they sent Obi-Wan and I to deal with it."