The dorm lawn [all day]

[sith_happened]

Anakin had caught up on the radio and had been hearing about some of the fates of his droid babies.

So there was an annoyed teacher in the front lawn of the school with a bunch of Pack 'n Plays, baby toys and a sign:

LEAVE YOUR BABIES HERE BEFORE GOING OFF TO FIGHT MONSTERS

This was so not how he'd planned to spend his Sunday.

[OOC: As the sign says! Drop your droid babies off if you'd like!]

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[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce walked over to Anakin with his droid baby that was still making a clicking sound when it tried to turn its neck and a bird.

"Thanks for watching them," Bruce said, handing both over.

[sith_happened]

"Them?" Anakin repeated, reaching out for the baby and giving the bird a look. "Is that still Jean?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Bruce said. "She's been lucky enough to miss out on most of the excitement because of that."

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded, only half paying attention as he looked down at the baby with a small frown. "Why is this one clicking?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce was gone. He wasn't going to stick around to explain it.

[sith_happened]

"What the hell happened to you?" Anakin muttered to the baby, walking over to a chair and reaching for his tool kit.

[ihavenocodename.livejournal.com]

Jean the bird decided it was best to just stick where she was. Out of danger and near her fake baby.

Because her life wasn't weird enough.

[sith_happened]

Bird, yeah. Well, at least she wasn't going to fall into his coffee cup like certain granddaughters who turn into kittens?

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine...wasn't going to leave the baby she was carrying there, what with it not being her baby. She was, however, going to abandon the lobby once she realized what Anakin was setting up out there, and carry her box of first aid stuff and one of the plates of cookies outside.

"Need help?" she asked, Arthur Junior thankfully silent in his sling.

[sith_happened]

"Please," Anakin said with a little smile. "I figured that no one would thank me if we had a half-dozen yowling droid infants in the lobby today."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Sitting him in front of the fish tank seemed to help," Francine observed. "But I don't know if that would work for all of them."

[sith_happened]

"Probably not," Anakin admitted. "I programmed them to be very," fussy, "diverse in their interests."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine could so read that narrative. She snickered a bit. "And tasty, apparently?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin scowled. "There are not for eating. Who's are you watching?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"The one that's not for eating." Francine patted his head. ...Arthur Junior's, not Anakin's. Dude. "Illyria's fighting, Arthur's in the clinic."

[sith_happened]

"He'll recover, right?" Anakin checked immediately.

[thatsamilkshake]

"He's got a head wound and a concussion," Francine said, having totally already been to see him even though that thread isn't played out yet. She wouldn't be here if the answer to that question was no. "He's awake, just loopy."

[sith_happened]

"So not greatly different, then," Anakin said with a little smile.

He was under the misimpression he was funny.

[thatsamilkshake]

"He's not out there again trying to get his head bitten off, at least."

Not that she doubted he would try if he wouldn't fall over sideways before he got out the door, even without the fact that Merlin would probably chain him to the hospital bed if he made the attempt.

[sith_happened]

Anakin sighed a little regretfully. "I'm being responsible and watching the droids," he said.

He'd rather be getting his head bit off, yes.

[thatsamilkshake]

"I could watch the babies for you..." Because she could totally handle multiple fussy infants and a bird of indeterminate origin by herself. Yes.

[sith_happened]

"It's okay," Anakin said with a small smile. "My fault for not realizing that an invasion would happen this week. You'd think the Force would've warned me about this."

Because that was definitely when Force-visions happened. To make your work life easier.

[thatsamilkshake]

Hey, Francine would settle for visions that told her anything useful at all ever, or were remotely understandable sometime before whatever was supposed to happen happened.

"Maybe it gave up on warning people about Fandom invasions, they happen so often," Francine suggested.

[sith_happened]

"Makes sense," Anakin said thoughtfully. "Maybe it assumes I should be smarter than this by now..."

Post Finale

[likes_scoundrels]

After the rescue mission and dealing with Clancy, Leia limped back to the dorms. She was in sore need of a shower, a few bacta bandages, and a new shirt. But she had to stop and try really hard not to laugh when she saw her father, the famous Jedi master, babysitting droid babies in the lawn.

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"What the hell happened to you?" Anakin said, going pale as he rushed over.

Re: Post Finale

[likes_scoundrels]

"I'm all right," Leia assured him, bracing herself for a lecture. "Really. Just a little banged up, nothing some rest and a bacta patch can't handle."

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"Finding bacta around here can be quite a trick," he said, looking her over critically. "What hit you and is it still trying to breathe?"

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[likes_scoundrels]

Sometimes she forgot how primitive the tech was around here. "A pack of wolves," she said, totally pretending the claw marks didn't hurt at all. "They're all dead, and we rescued the principal."

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

Anakin hissed in a breath and bent down to get a better look. "These things can get infected," he said. Especially if after getting them you fell out of a transport and landed in sand. Stupid sand. "You should go to the clinic."

Re: Post Finale

[likes_scoundrels]

"Tomorrow?" Leia asked hopefully. "I'm tired, I just want to rest." Well, and she didn't want to walk all the way back to town because her leg hurt, but she wasn't going to whine about that. Luke got the whining gene.

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"Now," Anakin decided stubbornly. "I'll go with you."

Welcome to hovering, worried Anakin. Isn't it a good look for him?

Re: Post Finale

[likes_scoundrels]

"Don't you have babies to take care of?" Leia pointed out. The hovering didn't bother her too much; she was used to much worse from her aunts.

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"They're droids," Anakin said. "I can turn them off. You're real. And hurt. There's no choice here."

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[likes_scoundrels]

Leia got the feeling there would be no talking him out of this. "All right," she said. "I'll go. But I'm not staying there overnight."

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"That's up to the doctor," Anakin said, pursing his lips. "Your leg up to the walk?" he asked.

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[likes_scoundrels]

"It's sore, but I can make it," Leia said stubbornly. She was small, but tough!

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"Skywalker," he said fondly, reaching out to put his arm around her shoulders. "Lean against me, stubborn one."

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[likes_scoundrels]

Leia tried not to wince as she leaned against him. "Runs in the family?" she said with a small grin. "But you should see the wolves."

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"That's my girl," Anakin said proudly.

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[likes_scoundrels]

"And we saved Principal Winchester," Leia said, just as proudly. "And captured the strange little man responsible for all those creatures and the fog."

Re: Post Finale

[sith_happened]

"What happened to him?" Anakin asked. "Did Zoe kick his ass?"

Re: Post Finale

[likes_scoundrels]

Leia nodded, and told him about the fight as they walked. "She wasn't even the one he really wanted," she finished. "He was looking for someone called Dolores Umbridge. We brought him to the library, but I'm not certain what they did to him after that."

Oh, look, they reached the clinic.