Chapter Twelve

"HELLO DOOR!" Anakin screamed, while running down the hallway up to the door, almost falling over in the process, and hugging it, stroking the door with adoring love. "I love you!" he purred softly, still stroking it.

Ciana sat in the corner of her room, it was dimly lit, and she was giggling like mad and playing with dolls, which looked suspiciously like Obi-Wan and Padme. She was holding the Obi-Wan miniature doll in her left hand, and the Padme doll in her right hand, she was talking to the dolls and making them talk to each other and making them do…not very pure things.

"I love you, Obi!" she cried, in a high-pitched voice, making the Padme doll move close to the Obi doll and making them kiss "passionately', as passionately as dolls could kiss, anyway.

"No! I love you, Padme!" she cried, once again in the same high-pitched voice.

She sat in her dimly lit bedroom making the dolls kiss again, making little kissing noises and still giggling like mad.

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Obi-Wan opened the front door to the apartment, attempting to hold the groceries in one arm while trying to keep the door open. The first thing he saw when he shut the door behind him was Anakin. A 'running down the hallway at top speed' Anakin.

Awww sithsp--

"OBI!"

Obi-Wan was surprised to find that he wasn't knocked out as he felt his body hit the wall as he felt Anakin collide with him. Anakin was holding onto him as would a leech to bare skin. The older Jedi let out a strangled groan as he felt Anakin tightened his hold. The groceries had flown from his hand and landed all around the floor. Great. Just Great.

"Anakin, would you get off me?" He said, trying to pry Anakin off of him.

Instead, Anakin smiled wider, and actually snuggled, much to the 'captive's' horror, closer against him, and laid his head on Obi-Wan's shoulder.

"I MISSED YOU OBI!"

"Ye-ah, I missed you too." Obi-Wan managed to get out, from being squashed by Anakin, he was still trying to get this thing off of him. Obi-Wan slumped against the wall as Anakin lessoned his grip on his Master, he stood in front of Obi-Wan, an insane smile on his face.

"Guess what!" he said, poking Obi-Wan, laughing hysterically.

Obi-Wan straightened himself, and was about to move away from IT when he felt another thing connect to his body and lesson his oxygen supply, again. Anakin, by now, was on the floor, laughing hysterically, tears running down his red face from laughing so hard, and so much.

Obi-Wan didn't need to look down to know who was connected to him.

"HI OBI!" Ciana yelled, right into his ear, he winced while he tried to pry this new thing away from him.

"H-ello Ciana." Obi-Wan grunted out, just as he finally got the new leech away from him at arm's length. Ciana pouted and reached out towards Obi-Wan and whimpered, she looked as if she was about to cry.

"NO! HUG!!" she demanded, pouting some more.

Suddenly Ciana wasn't there anymore. She just wasn't. In her place was…Anakin. Obi-Wan rolled his eyes and walked away from his two new leeches, but before he could get to where he wanted to go, he was tackled by both the 'leeches' and landed on the wood floor of the living room.

"Ooohhhhhh…" he groaned, putting a hand to his head, as if to stop the world from spinning. "Would you get the heck OFF OF ME!" He yelled at them, trying to get them off. He finally managed to get away from them, and he ran into his bedroom and shut the door, locking it as a good precaution. Obi-Wan couldn't believe that he just run away from them, but sighed in relief when he heard them collide with the door, which didn't move an inch.

Padme stood in the front door, trying to analyze all that she had just seen in the few minutes she had been standing there. She tiptoed away from the door and scurried to the kitchen, away from them. She didn't want to be tackled by them too.

Obi-Wan turned from the door and stopped short, staring at the floor, there were dozens of empty beer cans laying all over their bedroom floor. Dear Gods, how much did they drink! He stood there, aghast, just staring. He knew they shouldn't have been left alone, he just knew it! Obi-Wan flung the door open and stormed down the hallway; past Anakin and Ciana, who were lying on the floor by each other, and laughing every time they pointed at an imaginary thing on the ceiling. They paid no attention to him, which he was very grateful for, as he stormed into the kitchen, but came to such an abrupt halt he almost ran into the table as he saw who was in there.

"Padme!" he whispered urgently, eyeing the door every few seconds to see if the drunken leeches were coming. He made his way over to her and sat down next to her. "I didn't know you were home." he said, watching her. Padme eyed him skeptically and continued to eat the strawberry she had in her hand. Obi-Wan watched the strawberry go from her hand to her lips, being chewed softly and slowly. He swallowed hard and averted his eyes from her lips, he looked into her eyes. He cleared his throat and eyed the door again. "How long have you been home?"

Padme swallowed the last of the strawberry and smacked her lips, smiling, she stood up, poked him in the shoulder for no reason and crept up to the door, looking out of it and around the corner. "Not very long," she answered over her shoulder, "but long enough to see what those two did to you. I find it funny. and--" she said, walking back to the table, "good, they're still laying on the floor, laughing at nothing. Do you s'pose we could try and get them into their own bedrooms and make them sleep? Gods' know what kind of hangovers they're going to have in the morning, we all know Anakin will be complaining even more, now." she said, standing next to Obi-Wan, watching him. Obi-Wan, this time, eyed her skeptically, a smirk on his face.

"You do know that once they see you, they're going to attack you." he said, standing up and walking to the door. Padme followed and let a small snort escape. "Yeah, I know, I just hope Anakin doesn't kiss me or anything." she said, her nose scrunching up in distress at the thought. Her eyes went wide, her mouth performed a complete O.

"What if he does kiss me, and it'll be a really slobbery kiss!" she said, clutching Obi-Wan's arm, cutting the circulation off. He smothered a laugh at the thought, and tried to rescue his captured arm. He walked out of the kitchen, Padme trailing along, and around the corner. "We'll find out soon enough." he whispered, walking down the hall to the drunken people laying on the floor.

Anakin looked up as he heard footsteps, he tried to focus on who it was. He sat up quickly, groaning as suddenly the two people became four. He recognized the brown hair, he flung himself up and tried to run towards her.

"PADME!" he yelled, grabbing her in a huge bear hug. "HI PADME! YOU'E BACK!" he yelled again, trying to place a kiss on her cheek, instead their heads knocked together. Anakin let go of Padme and rubbed his head, groaning. "Padme, do you have a twin? Cuz I swear, there's two of you now!" he said, pointing at the Padme to his right, which was actually thin air. He swayed on his feet and was hurtled towards the wall as Ciana rammed into him. She was trying to get to Padme, but somehow Anakin was in front of her instead. She got herself off of the floor and stood facing Padme. She hugged Padme as well and cried out. "HI PADME! GUESS WHAT!" She didn't wait for Padme to answer, instead she smiled hugely and stepped away from her. "I…--.I'M DRUNK!" She cried, laughing hysterically, falling to the floor. To her right, Anakin was also laughing hysterically, Obi-Wan had grabbed onto his arm and was trying to pull him up to stand.

"ANAKIN. To your bedroom now!" Obi-Wan bellowed, shoving Anakin towards his bedroom.

"NO! You can't make me!" Anakin cried defensively, swaying on his feet where he now stood. He grabbed onto Padme's shoulder to hold himself up. He swayed some more and finally fell over, taking Padme with him. Obi-Wan rolled his eyes and bent down to pick them up but stopped at hearing the front door open.

Siri strolled through the front door, swinging a brown paper bag filled with secret stuff and promptly opened her mouth to yell,

"HELLO EVERYO—" Shestood there, mouth gaping open, eyes wide, at the image in front of her. Suddenly she burst out laughing and couldn't stop. Anakin didn't even bother to get up and see who it was. His head hurt, and his mouth tasted like something died in it, and this carpet was actually quite comfy. He felt a poke on his back, he turned his head and glared at Ciana, who started poking his back again and laughing. Suddenly the poking stopped, he lifted his head slowly and saw that Obi-Wan had picked up Ciana and was carrying her down to her room; they disappeared in through the door. Anakin laid his head back down on the comfy carpet and sighed, it felt good to lay down. Suddenly he was being picked up, instincts took over, he fought for his life, yelling at the top of his lungs. He roughly heard Obi-Wan say something through the haze in his head, but it was drowned out by the roar in his ears. Suddenly he was on something soft and plush, and it was pitch-black. Anakin scrambled for the door, falling off of his bed, again, he pulled on the doorknob, it was locked! Anakin howled and leaned against the door, sliding down to the floor, he sat there, moping. A smile appeared on his face as he remembered something; he crept up to a hiding spot in the back of his closet, and got a box out. He opened it and looked at all his treasures, there were dozen and dozens of suckers and a lot of other candy in that box. Anakin took one out and stared at it.

"My precious," he muttered to himself, unwrapping it and sticking it in his mouth, sitting there, waiting.

Ciana, meanwhile, hadn't been bothered by anything at all, so once she had been dumped by Obi meanie, in her room, she had resumed her play with the Obi-Wan and Padme dolls, making them kiss and anything else she could think of, that dolls would do. She giggled and suddenly she shivered. Ciana scrambled up to the window, pressing her face up to it, looking out. IT WAS RAINING! Ciana pouted and pulled her face away from the window, only to be drawn by something else on the window this time. Her face print was there! She dabbed her finger on the window and made it all smudgy. She leaned back and looked at her work with admiration, smiling, and wishing that she could have another one of those yummy tasting drinks that were in those weird cans.

She sighed and continued to look outside, wishing for more to drink.

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Obi-Wan and Padme plopped themselves on the couch, exhausted. They looked at each other with a knowing look, the look that said 'they will never ever be left alone again' look. They didn't pay attention to Siri who was standing there, a smirk on her face, until she plopped the brown paper bag on the coffee table. They didn't even bother to ask what was in the bag, they just watched as she grabbed the bag and pulled out a wine bottle.

"DRINKS, ANYONE?" she cried, laughing as they groaned in unison.