sith_happened: (Vader: facepalm)
Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote2007-01-25 09:58 am

Office hours [all day]

Darth Vader was in his office brooding.

He'd handwavily gone home to scare the Stormtroopers working on the newest Death Star. It was very close to being weapons ready--something that filled him with a sick sort of dread.

And when he came back, his meditation chamber had been destroyed because he'd spent the entire weekend thinking he was a lion (except for an equally humiliating time believing he was some kind of actor from Earth). He'd given advice to some random cub.

And now he wanted to eat duck.

His life was terribly hard, yes.

So he sat in his office with the door propped open, poking occasionally at the musical instrument Rose had given him and tried to keep his mind off of what it had felt like to feel the breeze on his face again.

[OOC: Contents of conversation with Rory are NFB, please.]

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Rory, naturally, was there, knocking on the doorframe.

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"What?" Rory asked, confused. Her hand flew to the fading black eye, and she sighed. "Oh, that. Kill who? I already killed the thingy that did this."

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"It was a robot," she said, peering at him. "John wasn't even there. I shot a bunch of them and once of them managed to hit back. So I shot him, too. It's just a little bruise. Calm down."

Inwardly, she was dancing, but she'd file this away. No need to play all the cards now.

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, Artoo's adorable," she replied. "We were rescuing Bridge."

She paused.

"Did you hear the radio on Tuesday?"

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't really give him a choice," she replied. "It was mutual, but I was the one who instigated it."

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not that it's any of your business, but we broke up because we're not in love with each other," Rory said, crossing her arms and shutting the door behind her. "We never have been. We...I was looking for something in him, and there was one huge, huge reason that we didn't work."

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"What do you think?" she asked. "I spent all of September and most of October being confused and depressed. I just...wanted to be happy. But it turns out that I couldn't recreate what we had. It's not fair to Bridge to stay with him when I'm still in love with someone who left in August."

[identity profile] cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"And how are you today, Herr Vader?"

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
She shrugged, looking at him. "Doesn't mean the feelings went away. I told you they didn't. It just took me awhile to admit that I wouldn't be able to manufacture them in another relationship."

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Rory smiled genuinely for the first time in what felt like days. "Would you rather go flying in the sim?" she asked, teasing.

She was teasing Darth Vader. This was surreal.

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"See, here's the thing," she said conversationally. "I don't expect you to start dating me. There are like, eleven million reasons why that would be Wrong with a capital W. What I do expect is for you to take me more seriously when I try to make you remember what you were, and to believe me when I say that I do love you, I do miss you, and I do want you to come back."

[identity profile] auroryborealis.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Who says I need to feel better about myself?" she asked a bit defensively. "You're not a project. You're a person who I care about who needs to wake the hell up and stop being a giant baby because you think you're stuck."

[identity profile] cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's that? Super secret death ray?"

Schrodinger understood the concept of "I don't want to be bothered." He just didn't care.

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