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Anakin Solo (jediheir) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-01-14 22:56:00

Entry tags:

anakin solo, plotty mcplot, rahne sinclair

Who: Anakin Solo and Rahne Sinclair
What: First date whoo
When: Tonight
Warnings: Well, it is Plotty McPlot week.

Wearing native clothes wasn't altogether that weird for Anakin. One does eventually go native, especially when the only fashions available don't include robes or tunics, despite one's preferences. What was odd was that he didn't have his lightsaber with him. He felt almost... naked.

Any feelings of nervousness he might have felt about his identity as a Jedi were, however, overshadowed by the feelings of nervousness caused by being on a date. Technically their first, in fact. Hanging out at X-Factor and doing cases together didn't really count, and though they did a lot of things together, none of them were really dates. They were just doing things and sometimes kissing.

So this was their first date date, an actual, defined romantic engagement, and Anakin was nervous as hell. The waiter seated them and left them menus and Anakin looked at Rahne and said, "You look great."

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hairysmurf
2008-01-15 04:25 am UTC (link)

Actual dates were rare. She didn't know if she'd actually been on one. It was so.. normal. She liked it. She was far from comfortable in the too-short skirt, the too-tight shirt and the impractical heels that would be completely useless if she needed to run for some reason...But it was a date, and she wouldn't have to run. Probably. Knowing her luck, though..

Rahne blushed. "So do ye."

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jediheir
2008-01-15 04:43 am UTC (link)

Anakin did his best not to stare, but it was pretty rare for Rahne to look like she did. Not that there had ever been a situation wherein Anakin objected to how she looked, but this was still a nice change. If there was one comforting aspect about the date, it was that he could feel her nervousness radiating from her just as much as it was coming off of him.

"So I saw something weird today. Someone was singing and dancing. And there was music coming from nowhere. And it wasn't gay Jamie." He paused for a second, trying to figure out how to describe the issue. "Is this... that kind of thing didn't really happen back home. Does it happen here a lot?"

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hairysmurf
2008-01-15 12:44 pm UTC (link)

Rahne could sense Anakin's anxiety too; not as a Jedi does, but as a predator senses her prey's fear. Not that she was hunting him, or anything. Just the general principals. Smells. Watching his movements. Speaking of smells, she was pretty sure he was wearing cologne. Unless that was the guy at the table next to them.

"Ah, I dinna.. I've seen a few weird things happen.. Not music.." She shook her head. "An' not even.. that particular Jamie dupe has accompaniment when he sings."

She paused. "Ye smell nice."

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jediheir
2008-01-15 06:39 pm UTC (link)

"Oh. Do I? Thanks." It was technically called aftershave, but Anakin has acquired his all the same genes that resulted in his uncle's non-existent facial hair, so the proper term was probably 'didn't-shave'.

When the waiter put down a basket of breadsticks, Anakin used the Force to take one. He was blatantly showing off, and realized it. He dropped the bread stick into his hand. "Sorry. I just kind of... show off, sometimes, when I'm nervous." For some reason being on a date was more frightening than staring down a half dozen Vong. "So, um, I didn't know your senses were that good when you're fully human-shaped. Unless I'm wearing too much aftershave?" He laughed a little lamely. Nice one. This is why Jedi didn't date back in the Old Days. Because we suck at it.

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	hairysmurf 2008-01-16 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"It's all right," she said in response to his showing off, smiling as she reached for a breadstick the old-fashioned way. She smiled. "Aye, they're good. I'd change if I had t'track anything, but they're still good like this." She glanced down at the menu, trying to think of something to say. "How much can ye float at once?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jediheir
2008-01-16 01:33 am UTC (link)

"How many can I float at once?" Anakin gave this some thought as he looked around him. Then he closed his eyes. For a few seconds nothing happened, then one by one each of the bread sticks left in the basket rose. Then the place settings and silverware. Then the tablecloth and the table. Then they were all gently lowered. "A couple."

Cocky. He didn't try to be. But it was more or less involuntary. "I hope this will be the boring kind of date. You know, where we don't have to track things, and I don't regret leaving my lightsaber at X-Factor." So basically, the complete opposite of their lives thus far.

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hairysmurf
2008-01-16 02:03 am UTC (link)

Rahne laughed, glancing around to see how other patrons were reacting. She'd dealt with a lot of mutantphobia in her time. It didn't seem like anyone was paying much attention. There were a few kids pointing and trying to get their parents' attention, but nothing big.

"Aye.. Me too. I keep worrying somethin's going t'explode." She laughed nervously, suddenly regretting having even said it. Hopefully she hadn't jinxed them. "I hope it's dead boring."

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jediheir
2008-01-16 03:22 am UTC (link)

"If something does explode, we'll either smell it or sense it, and we can find a new place to eat dinner. I bet that little Korean place down the street never blows up." Anakin probably would have laughed a bit at his terrible joke if not for the fact that he became aware of a waiter standing next to him. "Hi." After a moment he added, "Nothing's going to explode." Another moment. "So I'll have the spaghetti and a Coke."

The waiter just stared before shaking himself out of it. "And you, madam?"

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	hairysmurf 2008-01-16 03:36 am UTC (link)
	Rahne covered her mouth, suppressing a giggle. That poor waiter. "That sounds good f'me, too." Once the waiter had left, she turned back to Anakin. "Maybe ye should make an announcement.. Ask that anyone planning t'commit a crime today find somewhere else t'eat." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jediheir
2008-01-16 03:54 am UTC (link)

Anakin grinned. "I don't think we have to worry about it. I don't sense any danger. But then on the other hand, I'm with you. How much danger could I be in with you on my side?"

If Anakin were inclined to say anything else, he was interrupted by the arrival of the waiter with two plates of spaghetti and their drinks. "That was fast," said Anakin, impressed. He generally had to apply Force to get dinner before it was cold.

"Yes, well," said the waiter, clearly disturbed.

"I keep telling you, I'm not going to blow anything up. It would make a terrible mess."

"I believe you," said the waiter, clearly not believing him. "Anything else? No? Enjoy."

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hairysmurf
2008-01-16 04:17 am UTC (link)

"I--" She blinked when the dinner came out. They really wanted to get them out of there, didn't they?

"We're--" And then the waiter was gone. "The good guys," she added, mostly to herself and Anakin.

She looked down at the pasta, wondering if they should worry about some sort of contamination. "At least if we get out of dinner early, we'll have time t'see a film or something. As long as ye dinna make bomb threats there, too." She grinned.

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jediheir
2008-01-16 04:28 am UTC (link)

"You were the one making bomb threats. I was just suggesting that we have other options if this place does explode." Quickly, he looked around to see if anyone had overheard and, just in case, waved his hand and said, "We're not going to blow anything up."

It probably should have made it a bad day that he had to use the Jedi Mind Trick to convince people that he wasn't going to do something he'd never been going to do, but Anakin didn't really mind. He was less nervous now. And it was all Rahne's fault.

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	hairysmurf 2008-01-16 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Rahne laughed. She supposed he was right. She did bring it up. At least they weren't in an airport. "At least I have ye t'clean up after my big--eep!" She shrieked as she was suddenly very very naked. She covered her breasts quickly with her arms. She was blushing brightly and, out of the instinct to hide, sank under the table and curled up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jediheir
2008-01-16 10:39 am UTC (link)

First, and most emphatically foremost, it was not his fault that he was looking at her breasts when the clothes happened to dissolve from them. Anakin had been watching her face, and then she raised her fork and lowered her fork and of course his eyes are going to follow the moving thing, that's just years of battle training. What choice did he have?

And, fine, he may have used the Force to slow his perception of time so that he stared at them longer, but that was... well, it was accidental, is what it was. She shrieked, and what could be more useful than having more time to react? They could have been in danger.

The fact that he didn't react in any way beyond staring, as such, that was probably his fault. He'd own up to that one. But they were such nice breasts.

"Rahne?" They were burned into his mind's eye. No. That wasn't the kind of thing to say. "You know you're naked?"

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hairysmurf
2008-01-16 01:36 pm UTC (link)

"Of course I know I'm naked!" she hissed at him. She hadn't had time to realize Anakin's delay in reaction, due to her own panic. Now she was busy making sure her breasts and everything weren't visible from outside the table. God, she hoped people weren't looking.

She whimpered. Just her luck. Right after rebuking Alex for taking this nudity business so lightly, and her frustration with the obvious lack of shame from the other nude people on the boards, she's naked. Was this a 'show them how it's done?'

"Are people looking?" she asked Anakin's knees.

It seemed the sudden disappearance of one of the alleged terrorists, combined with the other bomber's preoccupation with whatever was beneath the table was causing a stir with the staff in the back.

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jediheir
2008-01-16 11:35 pm UTC (link)

"You might say that." What they were doing was watching Anakin rather closely, as if worried that Rahne had gone somewhere to do something untoward. He waved in a friendly way and ate his spaghetti as if nothing were wrong. Which, in the strictest sense, was true; if anything, things for him were looking up.

"Try not to touch the tablecloth, it might melt too. He tried to think of a way to get them out of there. He could use the Force to levitate a few bread bowls to cover strategic places on her body, not quite touching her. But he didn't think it likely that she would want him studying her body that closely to determine how far away to float them. Which was a shame.

As soon as the thought of studying her body entered his head, Anakin realized that he was suddenly rather chilly, and that his keys were on the ground next to his wallet, despite having been in his pocket. "I don't have pockets?" he said to himself before it clicked. "Oh stang."

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hairysmurf
2008-01-17 12:00 am UTC (link)

Rahne shrieked again, loudly. She clapped her hands over her mouth, then reassessed the situation and used them to cover her eyes. She was blushing all over, and probably looked like she had third degree sunburns. Her brain wasn't working at all. She had no idea how they were going to get out of here.

"I dinnae touch ye, or the tablecloth!" Eyes tightly shut. Then she realized that her senses seemed extraordinarily dull. She tried to shift into her wolfy form--though that would probably be uncomfortable for them both, since that form was bigger and Anakin would have suddenly had a furry body pressing against his legs.. But nothing happened.

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jediheir
2008-01-17 12:36 am UTC (link)

Anakin was torn. On the one hand, staying where he was meant that Rahne was staring at his... stuff. On the other hand, moving meant that everyone else was. Then he realized that, from having had Rahne in his mind for the entire night and especially most recently, his lightsaber, as it were was switched on. That made up his mind quickly.

First he jumped up and covered himself with the bread bowl. The cloth napkins inside started to melt away but the wicker bowl itself was left intact. "Um." He'd had nightmares like this. He'd also had what he would call the opposite of nightmares.

"Why are you naked and where's your dining partner?" demanded the waiter, who'd apparently lost the rock-paper-scissors game on who had to yell at the terrorists. "Why are you so quick to get away from the table?"

Anakin knew what was going to happen before it did, but he was powerless to stop it. The man pulled off the tablecloth, but he wasn't that good at it, so the table fell down as well, leaving Rahne completely without cover.

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hairysmurf
2008-01-17 01:14 am UTC (link)

Rahne had started hyperventilating... which had an unfortunate resemblance to panting. She yelped as one of the flung aside breadsticks hit her in the face. Oh right. Just a breadstick.

And there was a loud crash and much more light against her closed eyelids. She parted her fingers, peeking out at all the strangers. She didn't have the first clue what to do. She sort of wished the building would blow up. Then at least people would be distracted.

Should she get up? Try to run? Try to speak? Start crying? Scream again? She really wished she had Siryn's powers, at a time like this. Hey, maybe she did. Weirder things had happened, in the past two minutes. Power switch? Much less crazy than this.

She opened her mouth and tried to scream, but all that she could get out was a strangled "Eek!" Scratch Plan A.

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jediheir
2008-01-17 01:25 am UTC (link)

It did make him feel slightly better that he was no longer the only naked person in sight, and for fairly obvious reasons more people were staring at the hot redhead than the skinny Jedi. Unfortunately, he could hear someone yelling to "call the cops!" and "my poor child!" and so on. Which was not good.

Both Jedi and Solos had a deep distrust of any member of any local constabulary, and Anakin had it in a double dose. Given how they treated mutants where Rahne came from, he imagined she felt more or less the same. "We need to run. We need to run fast." He stuffed what had fallen out of his pockets into Rahne's purse and pushed it into her arms while doing his best not to look at her or touch anything he hadn't touched already. "Pick something to cover and let's go!"

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hairysmurf
2008-01-17 01:45 am UTC (link)

"What? Cover? Run? I cannae!" Her brain wasn't working well enough to pick out a suitable object to cover her. She knew they had to get out of there--she would've liked to just disappear--but she was frozen to the spot. At least when she was on the ground curled up in the fetal position nobody could really see her. At least, not the most 'delicate' bits of her.

"I.."

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jediheir
2008-01-17 02:51 am UTC (link)

Anakin picked Rahne up. "Sorry about this." Anyone looking would probably find any "bits" covered up by her foot, or arm, or otherwise obscured, but that really only served to bring more attention to the fact that she was naked in the first place. To put it another way, though he was holding her with both of his arms, the bread bowl dangled merrily where it was.

He still had his shoes, which looked a bit odd, he had to admit, though he wasn't about to question it as he ran through the restaurant to the door. "Cold cold cold," he found himself saying. Fortunately this meant that the streets were less than crowded. Unfortunately, it meant that he was going to have to worry about things shrinking, which was the last thing one wanted when on a date with one's girlfriend.

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	hairysmurf 2008-01-17 03:09 am UTC (link)
	She squealed again. "An.. Anakin!" She squirmed, twisting in his arms so that her torso faced his more squarely and onlookers would see mostly her back. "Hide.. Find somewhere to hide!" Where was an abandoned warehouse with central heating when you needed one? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jediheir
2008-01-17 03:52 am UTC (link)

X-Factor was several blocks away. He could probably run the distance, but no one really wanted to see that. And the longer he stood around being naked the more likely it was that someone was going to catch on to just how naked he was, and how illegal that was.

Anakin ran a small distance, passing someone singing and someone flying, but he didn't really have time to investigate. There was a fancy restaurant nearby, so he ran in there; at least no one was looking for them specifically. He ignored the door that said "Employees Only" and ran into what turned out to be a coat check room. And he probably would have been fine if not for the fact that he stumbled over a fallen coat and ended up falling on the floor, a very naked Rahne falling with him.

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hairysmurf
2008-01-17 04:14 am UTC (link)

A restaurant? Isn't that what started this whole mess? She clung to him, burying her face against his shoulder. God, this was embarrassing.

Oh, good. A coat room. They should be able to hide here, and hopefully their clothes would come back soon enou-- "Oof!"

She landed on her back, looking up at the naked boyfriend that was ontop of her. It was impossible for her to blush any deeper, but now there was a different sort of heat flushing through her, and she felt her chest tighten. "I..." Her voice was softer and less panicked.

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