MCA #4, Saturday Afternoon
Feb. 7th, 2015 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
suitably_heroicThere was music screaming across Atton's apartment again, for the first time in about a week. He was here much sooner than Mical would have liked, but he couldn't stand hanging around the Temple any longer, and the kolto had healed up the worst of his chest injuries. What was left now was the enduring-- bruised face, bruised insides, and moving hurt, but that wasn't new.
For the sake of not aggravating his injuries, he'd sat down on a pillow on the floor. That was the only concession he was making. He had a job to do, here: rebuild his lightsaber. Maybe build one that suited him better. He'd been running around with a loaner for too long.
Besides, if he had to stay in, he might as well work on his finer Force control.
He let the various segments levitate into the air, taking care to spend some time on each one. It was... more complicated than he'd planned. But that was good. Stretching his legs, so to speak.
He grabbed the bottle by his side and took a long gulp, letting the fizz settle in his stomach. No alcohol for him any time soon, it'd dull the senses. But a sugar rush? That would keep pushing him on.
Besides. It was harder to think when you had sugar screaming through your system and something physical to focus that energy on. It shut out most of whatever this past week had dredged up, except for one thing:
Her face. There is another war waiting, in the Unknown Regions.
Maybe Brianna was right. Maybe he was kidding himself out here, pretending to have a normal life.
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For the sake of not aggravating his injuries, he'd sat down on a pillow on the floor. That was the only concession he was making. He had a job to do, here: rebuild his lightsaber. Maybe build one that suited him better. He'd been running around with a loaner for too long.
Besides, if he had to stay in, he might as well work on his finer Force control.
He let the various segments levitate into the air, taking care to spend some time on each one. It was... more complicated than he'd planned. But that was good. Stretching his legs, so to speak.
He grabbed the bottle by his side and took a long gulp, letting the fizz settle in his stomach. No alcohol for him any time soon, it'd dull the senses. But a sugar rush? That would keep pushing him on.
Besides. It was harder to think when you had sugar screaming through your system and something physical to focus that energy on. It shut out most of whatever this past week had dredged up, except for one thing:
Her face. There is another war waiting, in the Unknown Regions.
Maybe Brianna was right. Maybe he was kidding himself out here, pretending to have a normal life.
[[ door shut, post open for messages or visits or what have you ]]
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Date: 2015-02-10 12:32 pm (UTC)Which he was proud of, by the way. In a crotchety, kark-you-all kind of way.
"If I'd known you'd jump up and race right over here, I'd have waited another week," he grumbled, stacking on some pizza on his plate and then shuffling off to the dinner table. Gingerly. "I mean, not that I don't appreciate the concern." It was always nice to know people cared.
Just, you know. Not up and close enough to see the actual bruises.
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Date: 2015-02-10 12:41 pm (UTC)"If you waited another week, I'd see you in class on Thursday anyway, and then probably just be even more annoying then to make up for lost time."
He would have, too.
"I might even be nice and frame it as bitching about how you left Skywalker to teach in your place." He shrugged, content to lean back against the counter. "Depends."
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Date: 2015-02-10 01:03 pm (UTC)"What'd he have you guys do?" Atton asked. Mostly to get off the subject.
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Date: 2015-02-10 01:08 pm (UTC)Funnily enough, the way he viewed Atton hadn't changed all that much since Atton was a student. Which just meant the whole Jedi thing tended to perplex him, and the friendship with Anakin baffled him all the more.
"Run laps," he grumbled. "Jump fences, crawl through mud and pudding and whatever. Wasn't too bad, I guess. It isn't like I can't handle a fence."
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Date: 2015-02-10 02:10 pm (UTC)Hence also the not mentioning the explosion part, among other things he wasn't - or hadn't, in the past - mentioning to Sparkle.
"Could've been worse," he decided. "Look, Skywalker's the only one I know who could've covered that class with something useful, so..."
He took a bite of his pizza.
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Date: 2015-02-10 03:15 pm (UTC)... Sparkle was very good at holding a grudge.
"What's this week gonna be?"
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Date: 2015-02-10 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-10 03:32 pm (UTC)And then he just... cackled.
Sometimes, you just needed to cackle. Sometimes, shit was just so ridiculous, it didn't take much, and Sparkle's brain was in the gutter already anyway, and. Yeah.
So much cackling.
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Date: 2015-02-10 04:17 pm (UTC)"Sit down and stuff some pizza in that face of yours," he said irritably.