InsaneJournal

Who: Anakin Sr. and Peter
What: Peter has a question for Master Anakin after class
When: Wednesday early afternoon
Where: Classroom at the University
Rating/Warnings: Probably low
NOTES: At the University Anakin goes by a shortening of his last name, Walker (on Claudia’s suggestion to aid anonymity)
Status: In progress/Closed


Compared to the day before today was a rather uninteresting day. Thus far. Maybe young Ani would get it in his head to take Luke’s land-speeder out for spin disrupting the calm? That was the type of thing Anakin recalled fondly from his youth, finding all those ways he could interject some kind of excitement, his kind of thrills into the hum-drum normalcy of training at the Temple. It was only a matter of time before young Ani was off doing something yet again for which the older version had to feign disappointment, like he’d done the night before. (Because in Anakin’s three days spent up in the mountains earlier in the summer, the dragons had been quite the highlight.) Which also redirected Padmé ire onto the adult version, like had also happened the night before.

Today, blessedly, Ani had gone to school, and Anakin could still feel the presence of that boy in the back of his mind, indicating that the young boy was still at school. And what trouble could a child get into in a building full of adults? Anakin’s afternoon should prove uneventful.

The long hand of the clock had reached the hour and Anakin ended that day’s lecture. Student’s snapped shut laptops and notebooks, bags were stuffed and bodies filed out into the hall intent to either just be free of the room or to make it to other classes on time. Anakin turned to gather his own things and clean up the board for the next occupants. As he was erasing his illegible chicken-scratch writings on the white surface (though to him it was all decipherable) he sensed one student had yet to leave. He knew who it was without looking, but in an effort to seem less unnerving he looked over his shoulder before addressing the young man.

“Mr. Parker?” he said. As filling the role of instructor Anakin was keen on keeping with formalities. It was how he understood the teacher-student relationship to work. It was why he still referred to Obi-Wan as Master – their relationship wasn’t that of equals. Not anymore, and it was arguable it never had been. It helped him define the boundaries of the classroom, even if Anakin had been forced to learn more details about the young man, like grooming and hygiene habits, during that week Peter was stuck with Padme than Anakin cared to know. He faced forward to finish cleaning the board. “I take it you have a question.”