Who: Anakin Skywalker When: January 14, 2011 Where: Lawrence, Kansas: Public Library What: Anakin burns down a library. Ratings: PG-13
Anaking had woken up angry that morning...which wasn't unusual, as he woke up angry most mornings. Anger at the Jedi, anger at Padmé, and anger at all of the Force, it didn't really matter what he was angry at that point. It all blurred together and he was barely able to get through the day without destroying something.
Except now he had been angry for several days straight, destroying books as he helped the librarian that had first greeted him on his arrival, coffee mugs as he tried to make coffee in the small apartment she was letting him use in exchange for help around the library, and then throwing a car into a building with use of the Force. Thankfully for everyone, it had been a wreck of a car already and the building had been abandoned and no one had been hurt in the process.
Except for Anakin's ear drums, when the librarian had found out.
He had enough sense left that he had been shamed into apologies (that he did not really mean) and he had tried to force his anger deep down inside of him. It was working, for the most part, even though he still was putting away books a little too harshly. He was very nearly tossing them into their respective slots on the shelves, when he was interrupted by his task.
"Hey, can you help me find War and Peace?" A man that looked about to be Anakin's age asked, coming up behind the Sith. He wore the typical attire of a hipster guy, looking like he was too bored and too cool to be there. "Now?" He insisted when Anakin hadn't stopped throwing books back on their shelves.
And that's when Anakin snapped. "You want what?" He questioned, dropping the armful of books he had on him, stepping over the mess and walking in a menancing manner toward the guy. The hipster backed away quickly. "Does it look like I care what you want?" Anakin asked rhetorically, before rolling his eyes. "Kriff this!" With a gesture of his arm, he sent the guy flying backwards into a shelf, knocking him out and the shelf over. "I QUIT!" He called over to the old librarian, who was staring at shock at Anakin's suddenly aggressive behaviour. She knew the young man had issues and some kind of ability, but she hadn't seen him lash out like this behaviour. It was very obvious that she hadn't seen Episode III.
As Anakin stormed out of the library, an older man entered the library, talking on his cell phone and smoking a cigarette. A sign on the wall nearby very clearly stated that neither were allowed and on his walk out, Anakin stopped in front of the man and tore the phone away from him. Dropping it to the ground, he stomped on it, before taking the cigarette from the man's suddenly slack lips and tossing it in the trash can, still burning. "NO SMOKING MORON!" And then he delivered a punch that felt good to the man's shocked stupid face, before leaving the library for good.
He needed to destroy something.
He didn't even look back to see that a fire was rapidly starting in the library. Later that day, the news would show that the public library of Lawrence had burned down by a disgruntle former employee, but thankfully there had been no casulities.