Second Floor Common Room [afternoon]

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Rory didn't understand why people insisted she was such a bad cook.

She had like, an apron and everything. And she had washed her hands, because it was gross to cook and not do so beforehand. And how hard could it be? Measuring out stuff - it was just like chemistry, which she had been quite good at when she was at Chilton.

And besides, these were cookies. Even she and Anakin couldn't screw up cookies.

[Here for Anakin and Rory to fail miserably at making cookies, but all are welcome to stop by and watch or sample :)]

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"I'm not lying. They're delicious," Rory said, trying not to laugh. "Maybe it was what you did with the flour."

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Anakin's lower lip stuck out but he ate the cookie anyway. "I'll have to pick some up when I'm back home because these aren't right. And it wasn't because of what I did with the flour."

He sat up straight. "Oh! Guess what!"

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"What?" Rory asked, not quite as excitedly as him.

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"The Jedi Council said that I can bring the entire flight class to Coruscant for a few days to fly real starfighters and, you know, ride on Republic public transportation and stuff. But you can come to Coruscant with me and see the Jedi Temple and we can go to a tapcafe and see the Senate be really, really boring and go eat decent banthaburgers and skip out on Mon Cal ballet and it'll be great!"

Yep, all in one breath. He was a little excited.

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Rory blinked.

"Really?" she asked, eyebrows up. "I have no idea what like half of that is, but please to be breathing. And we all get to come for a few days?"

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"Like a weekend," Anakin said, nodding so hard his braid almost smacked him in the face. "But you know how Fandom time is--we might not miss much time at all. But you'll get to see Coruscant. Which is, well, kinda ugly long-term, but pretty damn impressive the first time you go there."

He ran his hand through his hair. "And one of the Jedi Masters will watch to make sure that the students don't blow themselves up in starfighters and then we can go to dinner and come back and you'll have gotten to see where I come from and how cool is that?"

He grinnned. "I can't believe I almost didn't tell you about this."

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"That is like fifty kinds of awesome," Rory said, starting to catch his excitement. "Can we go shopping? Will they take my money? What do I wear to any of this? Will we stand out really bad as being from Earth? And where are we staying?"

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Anakin paused. "We'll have to do some exchanging for money here first--get you some credits. Coruscant merchants wouldn't know what to do with, one, paper, and two, dollars. And what you wear now is fine. I mean, there are beings wandering around with multiple heads--jeans aren't going to exactly stick out."

He grinned. "And you'll be staying at the Temple. Not in the Jedi quarters, obviously, but we have guest rooms available for visiting dignitaries, stuff like that."

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"Eeeeeeeeeeeee," said Rory. "And and and we'll get time to ourselves, right? For exploring and so on?"

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"As long as you don't go off by yourselves, yeah," Anakin said, nodding. "It's a huge place and I think they'd frown on me not bringing all of you back or with pieces missing or something."

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"Well, I meant time to ourselves," she said with a significant look at him. "I wouldn't dream of wandering off by myself."

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"I think that can be arranged," Anakin replied, grinning.

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"Good," Rory said, smiling. "Can we get sand cookies that no one ruined with their refusal to adhere to the recipe?"

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Anakin stuck his tongue out at her. "I think it was because the baking whatsit wasn't properly sifted. But yes, we'll get sand cookies."

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"I wanted to make correct cookies," she reminded him.

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"I wanted to make edible cookies," Anakin replied. He shrugged. "Bet we could eat the batter instead."

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"...why didn't we do that to begin with?" Rory wondered.

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"I don't know," Anakin said, walking over to the bowl and dipping his fingers in.

And then generously sharing with Rory.

Well, he put some of the cookie dough on her nose, anyway.

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"We shouldn't be allowed to play with food," Rory decided, reaching in and smudging some on his forehead.

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"This is true," Anakin agreed. He popped a fingerful of dough into his mouth. "It tastes fine--it just didn't cook right. I blame the oven."

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"I can live with that," she said, considering. "I mean, it's not like the oven can help it. Maybe someone hurt it when they were trying to cook. Someone not us, I mean."

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"And it was just taking out its trauma on us," Anakin added. "Poor oven." He glared. "Even if it ruined our cookies."

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"Poor oven," she said oh so sadly. "It's not its fault. And the cookies aren't like, deadly. Just...crispy."

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"They're supposed to be crispy," Anakin said. "Just not 'tossed into Tatoo I' crispy."

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"I don't know what that means," Rory said. "But maybe they're just special. You're going to hurt their feelings."