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Padmé Amidala Skywalker (i_cannot_follow) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2012-11-01 02:01:00

Entry tags:

anakin skywalker, padme amidala

Who: Padmé and Anakin
What: Padmé and Anakin skip the feast, Anakin decides to put on cat ears to cheer up Padmé... and 8:00 strikes. Also, morning after cat.
When: October 31st/November 1st
Where: Their rooms
Rating/Warnings: ~~Excessive kitty cuteness?~~ PG-13; will change as appropriate
Status: Incomplete / Closed

Halloween held a certain level of uncertainty in relation to what costumes may be chosen by others and all it would take was one Darth Vader costume, or similar, to make things extremely awkward. That was something that neither Padmé nor Anakin wanted, so they had decided to eat in their rooms and avoid the feast.

In general, Padmé (personally) attempted to be rather accepting of other culture's costumes so long as they weren't harmful to anyone. She knew Anakin was as well, in general, though he perhaps had less patience than her in regards to seemingly silly things - part of diplomacy versus not, she supposed. Satine had expressed a level of interest in the cultural aspect of it, before she left, and Padmé understood the curiosity. But even if Padmé accepted the idea of Halloween, that didn't mean they needed to participate in it and feel uncomfortable.

It just made their lives seem, somehow, less significant. Comedic, perhaps. Fictional. And Padmé knew they weren't fictional. She had been lost amidst her thoughts, contemplating her missing friend, rather than paying attention to the delivered meal. She was getting over Satine's absence, but the occasional stray thought still hit her at times.

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darkforcerising
2012-11-01 07:48 am UTC (link)

The younger of Anakin version had sat sullenly through the meal, and then, like he’d done every night for the past two week since finding out about his future, he slipped out the door and headed down to the workroom. He spoke nothing the whole time in his older self’s presence. Anakin, the elder, didn’t press the boy, he knew nothing but angry words would come out of the boy’s mouth if he tried. The boy was harming no one, it seemed best to just let him go for now.

After the meal he and Padmé both retreated to the sitting area, Padmé to a chair to read quietly. And Anakin supposed he could be working on making a final decision about who to fill into the student research assistant positions opening at the end of the year. But he really didn’t want to go over those applications again. Not tonight. Not when he needed stimuli outside the confines of his head, or he was bound to think on things that were depressing.

He rested back against the couch and sighed. He looked over at Padmé but she seemed – he could feel it even – to be wallowing down in the same kind of sad feelings he often found himself these days. He knew she wasn’t ignoring him, but was trying to find a distraction in the book she was reading.

On the coffee table sat a pair of furry cat ears stuck to a u-shaped bit of plastic. Anakin wondered where they had come from, maybe Padmé had picked them up from somewhere. But it didn’t matter, as they had caught his attention and he’d rather fiddle with something than focus on those applications. He called them too him with the Force and he played with them, turning them over every which way in his hands and examining them from all angles before taking the plunge and using them the way their manufacturer intended. He placed the ears on his head.

Pleased with his own initiative he called over to his wife. “Padmé,” he asked, “do I look like, uh, one of these animals that are so popular as pets here?”

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i_cannot_follow
2012-11-01 08:52 am UTC (link)

Padmé looked up from the text and paused, only briefly, before flashing a toothy grin. Anakin looked ridiculous, but quite cute. And she couldn't help but appreciate him putting on the ears and lightening her mood.

She sat the book down, slipping a marker back in to hold her page. "A cat? Not quite. They're covered in fur and have a tail... but as a whole, you're far cuter." Never mind the fact that Padmé thought that most of the popular pets were rather adorable, cats included. Anakin always topped the list since he was her adorable husband and they were just someone else's pet.

	darkforcerising 2012-11-01 09:34 am UTC (link)
	Padmé's smile made one of his own blossom on his face. Seeing her smile did wonders to those sore places in his heart. "A cat," he laughed as he said it, "that's what they are called." He raised his eyebrows at her, pleadingly. Now that he'd got her attention he planned to keep it. "You're saying I couldn't improve fur and a tail?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)