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Obi-Wan Kenobi (master_kenobi) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2013-07-26 09:35:00

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anakin skywalker, obi-wan kenobi

Distraction The (Ex)Jedi Way
Who: Helenakin and Bookerwan
What: Anakin-in-Helena has decided that Obi-Wan-in-Booker needs to get out of his room and do something.
When: Late Friday afternoon.
Where: Obi-Wan's room and then down by the lake.
Warnings: Grumpiness?

Obi-Wan didn't really want to go out among people without all of his senses. They all seemed hollow and wrong. Incomplete. Like a bunch of shells walking around. Still, Anakin was right and some fresh air would probably do him good. He'd been trying to meditate - and the robes Anakin leant him had helped him relax a little - but he still found it hard to focus his thoughts when he couldn't connect with the Force.

He unfolded himself from his seated position on the floor when he heard the door, stretching a little to get out the kinks in his muscles from not moving for several hours.

"Come in, Anakin!" he called.

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darkforcerising
2013-07-26 02:50 pm UTC (link)

Surprised, but not nearly as affronted as he should have been at being invited in by a shout through a closed door, Anakin entered Obi-Wan's quarters.

His first greeting was the quirk of his eyebrow. Which was actually Helena's eyebrow, so it must not have had the full Anakin effect. But it was as close to his usual tauntingly contemptuousness as they were going to get at the moment. So it would do.

Anakin was still taken by how un-Obi-Wan-like Obi-Wan looked in his borrowed body. Of course, Anakin must seem as equally shocking to Obi-Wan.

There was nothing they could do about that.

"I should adjust your lightsaber here."

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-26 03:15 pm UTC (link)
	Anakin didn't feel like Anakin, that was the hardest part. He was a shell walking around in the wrong body saying the right words with nothing inside it. Obi-Wan looked at him a little uneasily, then drew his lightsaber from his belt and handed it over. "Just make sure you can return it to its original state afterwards." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-07-26 03:44 pm UTC (link)

“Master, please. I’m Force-less, but I’m still me,” Anakin said with a hurt expression while he took the hilt from Obi-Wan. He popped the casing and started his adjustments.

“It’s only a matter of modifying the power output so the intensity of the beam is weakened.” It took him no more than a minute to complete the changes. He snapped the hilt back together and held it out for his friend.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-26 04:08 pm UTC (link)
	"You also have a turbulent track record with lightsabers," Obi-Wan reminded him, clipping it back on to his belt. "Where would you suggest we do this, bearing in mind that it will probably be embarrassing?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-07-26 04:33 pm UTC (link)

Anakin looked up, scrunching his brows. “Someone’s very negative today.”

He gestured to the hilt hanging from his own belt. “I’ve had this one for years now. You should be impressed… I am.”

He stepped towards the door and opened it. “I’ll go easy on you, stick only to Form I.” But joking aside, he wouldn’t make Obi-Wan do this in the courtyard. His friend was grumpy, that was easy enough to see, there was no reason to aggravate him more. “There are places around the lake that we can use and we won’t have an audience.”

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-26 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	"I should think so," Obi-Wan answered wryly. "I'm not the only one who's lost his timing and reflexes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-07-27 01:01 pm UTC (link)

Anakin might be living in denial about his diminished abilities. He was used to almost unending energy – how many times had Obi-Wan simply left him in a training room as a Padawan with instructions that basically amounted to ‘wear yourself out’ (if phrased more congenially)? And now, he was limited by a body subject to the life of a non-Force-sensitive in a way his will power alone couldn’t overcome.

And Obi-Wan was right about Anakin’s current state.

Anakin shot him a dark look. “The lake is it, then.”

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-27 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Don't get cross with me," Obi-Wan protested. "We're suffering the same fate at the hands of the same perpetrator." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2013-07-28 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	“Then the same goes for you, too,” Anakin retorted. They walked through the corridors to the nearest exit and out onto the castle grounds, though they still had a ways to go to reach the place Anakin had in mind. “How’s Ani handling this?” (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-28 12:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Insolently," Obi-Wan replied, tugging at the robes that, while they fit this body, weren't quite made for it. "I have some suspicion that he's been taking advantage of my inability to be aware of him." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2013-07-28 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	Anakin snorted. Maybe it was a gesture of self-satisfaction. “Of course he has. Did you seriously think he would respond differently?” (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-28 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	"Seriously thought? No. But I had hoped." He looked at Anakin. "You were capable of a great deal of maturity when it suited you, at that age. It seems to suit you less often here than it did even at the Temple." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2013-07-28 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	Anakin’s eyebrow shot up. “Really?” And he barked a laugh. “You and I remember my time at the Temple differently. It’s kind of endearing how well behaved you thought I was.” (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-28 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	Obi-Wan shot him an annoyed look. "I didn't say you were well-behaved; I said you were capable of behaving well. When it suited you." He smoothed the front of his tunic. "And that your younger self is less often well-behaved here. That's more a comment on his bad behaviour than your good behaviour." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2013-07-28 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	"I know what you meant, Master," Anakin said through his grin. "I'm saying you just never caught me. Here, he doesn't have the trillion life signatures of Coruscant to mask his movements. But trust me. I snuck down to the lower levels as often as I could get away with. Sorry to destroy your good opinion of me." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-29 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Obi-Wan gave him a sharp look. "Anakin, did you ever actually want to be a Jedi?" he asked. "Because sometimes you seem to enjoy making it look like you didn't." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkforcerising 2013-07-29 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	That erased the smile from Anakin's face. "Of course I did!" They walked a few steps, each in their scowls, before Anakin answered more. "But my idea of being a Jedi doesn't exclude having fun once in a while- Don't say meditation is fun." This was one of many ideological differences, of course. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-29 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	"You could have had 'fun' in a more structured environment, Anakin. Illicit street racing in garbage tips and whatever else you got up to in the seediest corners of the city are undignified. Every action taken by every Jedi reflects on the Order." He glanced over at him. "You think sparring is fun. There were a lot of people to spar with in the Temple." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-07-30 02:46 pm UTC (link)

“It seemed perfectly normal for a boy who grew up on a junk heap.” Anakin was care to not actually mention being a slave while referencing that period of his life. “Almost classy, even.” It was Coruscant after all – the city planet, metropolitan center of culture, arts, and academia. Cruising through the shit and refuse of those fine citizens was their gift to him.

“I was only an obligation to them,” he countered. Just a chore. “And besides, sparring isn’t anything like flying.”

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-30 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	"You were not an 'obligation'," Obi-Wan argued irritably. "You were a very challenging sparring partner; working with you was an excellent opportunity for them. And there were respectable ways to fly." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-08-01 11:59 am UTC (link)

“Master, you were welcome there, I was not. You were the only one who wanted to deal with me. I know.” And he had so many one on one experiences to back that up. Like his time with Master Mundi, for example.

They were approaching the clearing now. It was, as Anakin said earlier, free of an audience.

“And flying transport shuttles or city air speeders are not in any way like flying a pod-racer.”

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	master_kenobi 2013-08-01 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Anakin knows and Obi-Wan, who spent his whole life in the Temple, doesn't? Probably leftover feelings from his difficult initial adjustment. "You know, do you?" He activated his lightsaber and gave the weapon an experimental swing. It felt different in this body. Awkward and weighty. "And how do you know?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

darkforcerising
2013-08-01 10:38 pm UTC (link)

Anakin pressed the switch on his own hilt, the blade humming to life. He passed it through a patch of grass, testing it. As predicted, or hoped, the blade made a noise like a string of z’s, and the grass trembled, but nothing was singed or cut. No one was going to lose a limb on account of Anakin’s blade this sparring session.

“As it turns out, you’re not the only Master I had at the Temple.” Yes, that was a good place to start.

He stepped across from Obi-Wan, taking a familiar Form I starting position.

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master_kenobi
2013-08-01 10:50 pm UTC (link)

His immediate reaction was an irritated "What are you talking about? That's..." Then his expression sobered, even became grim.

"I did something wrong," he surmised. "They took you away from me." He must have made a monumental error in judgement; the Council only took a Padawan away from his Master if they were certain the Master's tutelage was going to have an adverse affect on the Padawan.

"What did I do?"

Because it had to be that. Obi-Wan was, deep down and (mostly) secretly, always concerned that he wasn't instructing Anakin adequately. That he'd fail the bright, restless, brilliant boy somehow.

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darkforcerising
2013-08-01 11:39 pm UTC (link)

Anakin wanted to roll his eyes. Of course Obi-Wan jumped to that conclusion. He always did.

“Yes,” Anakin confirmed none too gently. Or was that sarcasm? “You make the egregious mistake of being captured in battle by Dooku’s then acolyte, Ventress, who cut you off from the Force so everyone thought you were dead. Leaving the Council with the unfortunate mess of finding me a replacement Master.”