Office #30, Tuesday

[suitably_heroic]

It was a Tuesday. Atton hadn't been in his office in a long time, but it was a Tuesday, and he was in it.

... out of spite. The leg injury made it hard to walk for large amounts of time, so of course he had to walk all the way from his apartment to his office just to prove he could. At which point he'd had to take a painkiller and prop his leg back up on a chair and he probably wasn't leaving the office again until well into the afternoon, but he had food here and the HoloNet. He'd be fine.

Stupid leg.

He propped himself up a little more and opened up the simulation program for Thursday's class. Might as well put in the work to make it as fantastic as possible, and thinking about programming and numbers gave him something to focus on.

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[sith_happened]

Would a phone call from an extremely bored Jedi help anything?

Probably not, but he's calling anyway!

[suitably_heroic]

"Rand's Pazaak Den of Totally Sitting On My Ass, Really," Atton answered.

In his defense, the last five calls had been from Mical.

[sith_happened]

Anakin burst out laughing. "Who did you think was calling?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Ugh, Skywalker," Atton sighed.

Mostly for effect. It was better than Mical mother henning him again. "Mical's been calling me."

Because he was a dumbass who got himself injured. But anyway.

[sith_happened]

"Is he calling for any particular reason?" Anakin asked.

Adult conversation. Ohhhhh, he'd missed it.

[suitably_heroic]

"It's Mical," Atton said vaguely, "I don't know how his brain works."

Mical's specialty was medicine, and Atton knew exactly how his brain worked. "Something up?"

[sith_happened]

"Just couldn't take one more minute of non-adult conversation," Anakin said, "and you came first alphabetically in my comm. If I call Mical--" not that he would because ugh, Mical, "--would he say the same thing?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Why the hell would you call Mical?" Atton asked, squinting. "I mean, you'd be better off making some more conversation with your kids."

[sith_happened]

"Please don't make me," Anakin whined. "They're putting on a show with songs they make up themselves."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton let out a snort. "Is it that bad?" he said. "Man, I'm so glad I'm never having kids. Ever."

Yeah, he was That Friend.

[sith_happened]

"School can't start soon enough," Anakin sighed. "And Rory's out in Iowa covering the State Fair, which is a thing on this planet I can't ever understand. Why do you need to carve cows out of butter? Why?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Somebody was hungry, but in a really artistic way?" Atton said. "Or there's some really sick people living on this planet..."

Sure, your brain would go there.

[sith_happened]

"I CAN NEVER UNSEE THAT!"

Anakin, inside voice.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton winced and held the comm away from him. "What are you trying to do, deafen me?" he barked at the comm. "Space! You're the one who wanted adult conversation!"

[sith_happened]

"I didn't mean for it to be quite that adult," Anakin griped. "Ew."

[suitably_heroic]

"Yeah, yeah, next time, will you please remember that I keep this device by my ears?" Atton griped right back. "Have you ever heard of volume control? Seriously?"

[sith_happened]

"I've spent half the summer with small shrieking children and their shrieking friends so...not really?" Anakin admitted.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton rolled his eyes. "Right," he said, "You need to stop by here, get drunk, maybe look at the Playboy channel for two seconds, maybe that'll snap you out of it."

[sith_happened]

"Sounds kind of great, really," Anakin said. "How's the island? Any smoking rubble?"

[suitably_heroic]

"We were abducted by some species a few weeks ago," Atton said, shrugging a little, "But we came out fine. Barring maybe your buddy Kenobi, but that's got less to do with the abduction and more with the island."

[sith_happened]

"Is he all right?" Anakin said, sounding really, really too invested.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton rolled his eyes. "The island dragged him back for a class and it's been pranking him every week," he said, "Going by radio, anyway. What do you think?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin burst out laughing. "I'm glad the island found a new target. Does that make me terrible?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Yes," Atton said, without hesitation. "You're a horrible sentient, and you deserve the grief those kids have been giving you."

Not that he particularly liked Kenobi, but still!

[sith_happened]

"What has the island been doing to Obi-Wan?" Anakin asked.