something fluffy to atone all the angst lol

reuse great advice

Anakin watched in silence as Ahsoka taught Rey how to wield her walking st—quarterstaff. He would have preferred that Ahsoka showed Rey how to use a lightsaber but he realized Ahsoka's use of the Shien was more a version of her own now since she had been out of the Order for decades.

Besides, Rey seemed to be commanding her quarterstaff beautifully.

"That's it, Rey!" Ahsoka grinned at the eleven year old. "Just like that!"

It didn't last very long.

The sound of the quarterstaff hitting Rey right between her eyes sent Anakin to his knees guffawing while Ahsoka slapped a hand over her mouth to stop the loud snort. She cleared her throat before she moved the quarterstaff away from Rey and began to rub the red spot in between her brows.

"Are you alright?" Ahsoka inhaled sharply to keep from laughing.

It was proving to be a difficult task once Anakin began to wheeze. He was an awful father.

But it was so funny.

"I think so." Rey pouted as her eyes watered. "It just stings." She was clearly ignoring Anakin.

Ahsoka smiled and gave the red spot a kiss, "be more careful with the staff. That weapon is your life."

Her advice immediately sobered up Anakin and Ahsoka hadn't noticed the solemn look that passed over his blue face. But when she felt his sudden sorrow and the way it entered through her skin like poison, that was when she realized what she said.

"I understand," Rey picked up the staff and twirled it slowly. "Again?"

"Yes." Ahsoka cleared her throat after she shivered slightly. She shot a look at Anakin before fixing Rey's stance and her grip on the staff. "Keep practicing your strikes. Once I find a staff of my own, we'll work on defense."

Ahsoka moved several steps away from Rey once she started to whack the air mercilessly and clumsily. She took Rey's distraction as an opportunity to move to Anakin and she inclined her head.

"Was that remorse or nostalgia you decided to bathe me in through our bond, Skyguy?" she asked him flatly as she rubbed her arms. "Warn a person before you decide to sulk."

Anakin scoffed, "I'm not sulking!"

He was totally sulking.

"I get that Obi-Wan said those words to you but you said them to me too." Ahsoka shrugged as she turned her gaze back to Rey. "It's inevitable that we teach it to the next generation."

Anakin folded his arms, "don't reuse my advice."

That translated to 'Obi-Wan was a sore subject and I'm still not ready to talk about him.'

"Oh hush, it's good advice." She stopped herself halfway from trying to bump shoulders with him. It would have resulted with her sporting an identical red mark on her forehead. "Seeing as to how she's now our daughter, I totally get the right to tell her."

Ahsoka felt a warmth in her heart once the words left her mouth. She softly rubbed her chest as she looked at her best friend.

"I thought you preferred to be her grandmother." He drawled and raised an eyebrow. "She's all of a sudden your daughter when you want to win an argument?"

Anakin: 1, Ahsoka: 0

Ahsoka flushed and whacked at his transparent form but it was more like swatting a flying bug. "Shut up! We aren't even arguing!"

His grin only widened and it started to irritate her.

"Mom, stop arguing with Papa." Rey called out over her shoulder as she stuck her quarterstaff into the sand. She wiped the sweat off her brow and went to retrieve her water bottle.

"See." Anakin said smugly. "That's my girl."

"I hope I don't see you when I die. I prefer Yoda." Ahsoka huffed and stomped her way back to Rey's side, suddenly feeling fourteen again. "And I wasn't arguing with Anakin!"

Anakin smiled softly yet sadly as she blatantly ignored him while she continued fixing Rey's flaws. He too hoped he didn't see her when she finally passed.

An Ahsoka without a beating heart was not an Ahsoka he wished to see. Even when he tried to kill her as Vader. In his mind, she would live forever. The galaxy would mourn for the passing of someone as great as she.

But the mere mention of Yoda made him bitter too. Why she would choose that green slime was beyond him. Plo Koon, on the other hand, was a better choice. But Yoda? He hoped she was joking.

"Anakin!"

He blinked repeatedly as Ahsoka's waving hand took him out of his thoughts. "What's the emergency, Snips?"

"You've been staring at me for a while." She gave him a weird look. "We're off to the Graveyard. We should scavenge some junk before the sun sets."

"On your order, my fearless leader." He playfully saluted.

Rey giggled from where she stood behind Ahsoka and saluted as well. Anakin beamed at her while Ahsoka rolled her eyes at their antics.

One of these days the two of them were going to be the death of her.

"Hey Rey, want to know about the time I totally beat Anakin in number of kills in the Second Battle of Geonosis?"

"That was a tie, Snips!"