"More than twenty thousand years have passed since Revan and the Revanchists went on their crusade against the Mandalorians and forced the Republic into a devastating war. Yet we are still feeling the ripples of-"

Boring!

Honestly, you didn't give a shit about what Raven or Revan or whatever he was called did twenty thousand years ago, you cared about when you could finally go and leave to be anywhere else. Maybe you should just quit the order and become a stripper?

No, Anakin would probably follow you - Not probably but more like he would do so with a guarantee of one hundred percent. Would you be able to support the two of you on that? That was a lot of pressure on just one person…

You sighed and abandoned that plan.

But since you were already thinking of Anakin, why not continue?

Anakin always had food on him hidden Force knows where. He called it a bad habit he'd taken with him from Tatooine where food was scarce many days. It helped make many bad lectures more bearable and you were very proud to admit that you had only got caught once! Maybe he had some with him today as well? You decided it wouldn't hurt to ask and tipped the question into your datapad.

You gave Anakin's force presence a nudge and slid the datapad across the table you shared. Some things were better done old school, especially when one was in a room full of nosy and highly bored force- sensitives. There was no thing as privacy in the force!

He snuck a hand into his robes and offered you a small bag of delicious looking gummy bears. You opened the packaging and stuffed them into your mouth all at once too fast for anyone to notice.

They weren't even stale!

The only place for good candy was the vending machine, so how did Anakin get such high quality goods when you two had already used every single vending token he had? His Master certainly would not have given Anakin new ones, he had cut Anakin ( and by extension on you) off only a few days ago!

You squinted at him. Calling you suspicious would be an understatement to say the least.

"What else do you have in you pocket?"

"Well..." He made a downward gesture and smirked.

Should you admire him for his audacity, or be baffled? You chose baffled. Why again were you even friends with that stupid pervert? Right, for some reason you enjoyed spending time with him.

"Ugh, Anakin!" you hissed..

"Hey, don't blame me! You are the one that asked!"

What you would give to wipe that smirk off his face.

"Seriously though, this is good! Where did you get this fro-"

"Shh, are you trying to get us caught?"

What the- Since when did Anakin care about being reprimanded for talking? The two of you talked during lectures all the time!

Well you could be patient. You could wait. Waiting wasn't that hard…

You might let this topic rest for now but you definitely weren't going to let go of it.

—

"So, about that candy…"

Anakin scratched the back of his neck before quickly saying with way too much volume to not be considered screaming:

"How about you meet my Master? Isn't it weird that that hasn't happened yet? We should change that!"

He didn't let you voice any form of protest and pulled you- No, more like dragged you by your arm to whatever direction he suspected his Master to be. You could only sigh and hope for the best. Surely Anakin hadn't told Kenobi about the troublemaker you two were when combined. Oh Force, it was Anakin so he probably had. You were so going to die!

Okay, Master Kenobi wasn't as bad as you had imagined, because thank the Force, Anakin had refrained from mentioning any of your escapades to his Master. A Master that not only was he unnaturally handsome but also allowed you to call him by his first name. Obi Wan Kenobi, the Sith-Slayer allowed you to call him-

"Stop broadcasting your emotions all over," Anakin groaned and gave you a shove.. "What are you, a youngling?"

"Stop whining, Ani, you are just jealous because I like your master more than you." You stuck out your tongue and shoved him right back..

And suddenly for once Anakin was silent. Was he really...?

"Anakin, are you sulking?"

"I am not."

His lower lip was actually sticking out in a pout and he wouldn't meet you eyes. Was he joking? Well it was Anakin, so probably not? And he compared you to a youngling!

"There's no one around here in the Order that I like more than you, you know that," you admitted with a sigh.

"And outside the Order?"

"No, of course not. Not even there."

He like at you like a deer caught in a speeder's headlights.

And he wasn't blinking again!

"Anakin. Anakin, blink!"

—

Why did you always stumble into the weirdest kinds of situations? Why you? Who had you ever wronged that you had to live your life like this?

This day had been a disaster from the very first step you took out of your room towards your history lecture to the steps you were taking now in the dead of the night towards the closest public bathroom in the temple.

If only you were a Jedi Knight already, then you would have you own damn toilet and wouldn't be forced to walk through the creepiest hallways in the dead of the night.

You stubbed your toe kn something and cursed.

This was discrimination! Maybe you should start an union for Padawans, that would show the Council!

And then you crossed through the visitors wing and felt your heart break. The panels of the neon green eyesore also known as the vending machine, had been disassembled by some kind of monster. The candy was gone. Great. This had to be why you hadn't seen any of your fellows with any kinds of snacks all day.. You'd just assumed they were on some sort of dietary craze. At least you were finally at your destination.

You turned the doorknob and opened the creaking door, only to immediately regret that decision. Okay no, you could ignore a lot of things when it came to Anakin but even you had a limit.

Should you simply pretend you weren't looking at what seemed to be Anakin bend over a hole in the girls bathroom in the middle of the night, only clothed in his pajama pants and socks? The missing piece of floor from the hole was clutched between his fingers, it was obvious that he was the culprit.

Maybe you should just leave?

You were about to close the door behind you and search for another bathroom, when you suddenly caught a glimpse what Anakin was hiding in that hole. Your jaw dropped.

This was why he had those gummy bears! And he didn't even think of telling you!

"Anakin, do let me know if I am hallucinating, but by the Force tell me this isn't the entire content of the vending machine in the visitor wing. You know, the one that is supposed to be full and not broken down and sparking?"

Anakin jumped and turned towards you, opened wide and with an embarrassed flush on his cheeks. He must really have been out of it to not have noticed you before.

"Hello? Anakin, I'm talking to you!"

Anakin parted his lips, obviously trying to think of an excuse, then he held up a half-wrapped chocolate bar towards you.

You lifted a brow.

"You are buying my silence with chocolate?"

"Is it working?" Anakin asked, licking over his lips nervously, his eyes flicking towards yours for a millisecond. Was he accessing you as a threat because of kriffing chocolate? You spotted your favorite brand of bonbons, the wrapping glistening underneath the lit lights. However, you would take that chance!

"Yes."

"I am buying your silence with chocolate!" he exclaimed and gave you a brilliant smile.

Confident as always, Anakin. Confident as always.

"Then scoot over, fatass, and let me take a look at the goods!"

And that was the story of how it came to be that you were standing in front of the door, playing lookout like a common criminal while Anakin was prying out your 'treasure' from underneath the loose floorboards he had hidden it. You were almost proud of how quickly he had come to agree that he had chosen the creepiest hiding place ever in the history of the Republic. If only he was faster when putting all of it in the bag you had scurried to get a few minutes ago.

"Hurry up! Somebody could come around that corner any minute and I don't want to be around when that happens!"

"I am hurrying up! Don't rush me - Force help me now! And stop complaining or you won't get any of this," Anakin half whispered - half shouted back at you.

"What will you do if I don't? Come on, tell me what you are going to do!"

"You'll see. Oh, you'll see," Anakin answered and mumbled something you couldn't decipher.

It would never stop being fun to rile him up, you thought and smiled to yourself.

—

Sitting huddled together in a broom closet was certainly an upgrade from the girls bathroom, right? Right? Oh how far you had sunken. If your Master could see you now, you would certainly never hear the end of it.

You scooted closer to Anakin, brushing your shoulder against his. He buried his hands in your bag for a second before pulling another large chocolate that he immediately broke into large pieces.

"Say 'aaah'!"

"No."

He flicked a finger against your nose, fully engulfed in whatever high the heist you pulled off had put him on.

"Fuck off," you laughed.

"How about 'Thank you, Anakin, all mighty chosen one'?"

"I do not sound like that! You are a horrible impersonator, you little prick!"

"Just for your information I do not have a-"

"Bah, shut up. Just give me that!" you choked out and immediately swallowed the chocolate he was offering, embarrassed.

Why couldn't he be normal? But even imagining a less Anakin Anakin was extremely abstract. You put your head on his shoulder, your eyelids heavy and your mind tired, when suddenly Anakin said something so quietly that you almost didn't hear it.

"Sometimes I wonder if this is just another form of slavery."

You shook off all tiredness and instead placed another piece of chocolate in your mouth, nodding, interested in what he was going to tell you. He wanted someone to listen to him without any judgement or repercussions and you would do just that.

"All of those rules and stipulations, how do they help us become higher beings? I only feel trapped. Am I supposed to be happy this way? This can't be all there is to existence, right?"

"Right. I don't know if you've noticed but only when we two are out doing whatever shenanigans we've gotten into, do I ever truly felt my age. It shouldn't have to be like this, Ani, for any of us," you said.

You reached out with the force just at as you opened up your palm and turned it towards him. Hopefully your palm wasn't sweaty. Wait were your palms sweaty? Maybe you should retract your hand, maybe he hadn't seen it y- Anakin intertwined his fingers with yours, gripping onto them tightly.

You spent the rest of the night like this talking and just being together, holding hands.

You didn't know it yet but that old, stuffy closet full of cobwebs would become your refuge. Whereas the archives had once been your lair of solitude, this was something shared, something connecting you to Anakin.

It took you a while to realize it but you were happy that he was here with you, your companion through thick and thin. So you didn't mind hanging out in the closet day after day again, even when Anakin was complaining. Though today...

"Obi wan keeps putting me down as if I-"

You kissed him square on the lips, effectively stopping him from continuing his tirade. By now you had listened to it so many times, you could probably quote it if you'd wanted to. You wanted - needed to do something different, something unpredictable. You had to see if you could change something, could put an end to the constant monotony.

Okay, you mainly just wanted to finally kiss him, but that would be a bit much to admit. Small steps, right?

If only he could close his eyes and stop staring at you but whatever, his staring had become somewhat endearing to you - who would have thought?

You took a breath and were about to say something when he simply shushed. He straight up shushed you.

"No. No talking, we can do that as much as we want later. I know we've wanted to do this for a while, so just let me..."

You snorted but let him do his thing. You would have enough time to tease him later on for sure and you would enjoy every minute of it, that was a given. Anakin took hold of your shoulders, gripping them determinately, and deepened the kiss.

He tasted like candy.

AN: That's it folks! Time to leave this universe behind and for me to go back to writing Angst as usual lmao