Can someone hug me right now? I need a hug. Or possibly a Baymax. (Guess who watched Big Hero 6 last weekend? Bawled my eyes out, too.) Or a pocket Merlin. Or a pocket Ahsoka. I just need that right now. (In other words, school has been a total pain in the neck and so are certain people I know. Just please - I need to punch all of my problems in the face, only they're not physically in front of me...)

*sigh* Hopefully, you guys are okay. That'd be nice to know.

Bells

Anakin Skywalker awoke to the sound of bells ringing in his ear.

Literal, actual bells.

Not the dull, head-throbbing beep-beep-beeping alarm bell he usually woke to; not the shrill, harsh trill emergency bell; but silvery, light, cheerful sounding bells. On a different occasion, Anakin would have actually been rather curious as to how those bells got there, especially since he didn't really hear them that often. However, today, he was tired and didn't want to be disturbed.

Anakin sighed and rolling over on his side, mumbled, "Ahsoka, if this is some stupid prank you're trying to pull on me, go away." The sound of the tinkling, jingling bells persisted, followed by a soft laugh. "Come on, Skyguy, you know you love it! Besides, Senator Amidala had an extra set and she said I could borrow it and use it if I needed to," Anakin heard his apprentice reply cheerfully.

Anakin groaned and pressed the side of his pillow against his ear. "And this is a reason why you need the bells?" he grumbled. "To bother me?"

"Hm…basically," Ahsoka replied. "Now, come on, Master! Wake up! We've got a whole day ahead of us!"

"That's what I'm supposed to say," Anakin murmured, but all the same, slid out of bed. The sound of bells was rather hard to ignore. He brushed a hand through his hair and asked, "Since when did Padmé have those?" His apprentice shrugged her small shoulders and giving the small bells another shake, answered, "I think she got them at some market on Naboo – apparently, there's a whole ton of stuff that she can find and this just happens to be one of them."

Beaming down at her reflection on the shiny metal of the bells, Ahsoka asked brightly, "Aren't they pretty?"

Anakin wanted to snort and give some sarcastic remark about the childish attitude Ahsoka was displaying, but then he caught sight of the shiny, enthusiastic glint in her eyes and he couldn't bring himself to do it. When the Togruta looked up back up at him, Anakin only pressed his lips into a smile. "Yeah, Snips," he replied. "Guess so."

A/N - Aaand my laptop is trying to pull a stupid pop-up stunt on me. Not nice. In other words, I can't bold the stupid letters or else something iwll pop up...amd I can't transfer it into my Microsoft Word because I'm too tired.

Reviews would be nice! Constructive criticism is always welcome, but flames are not.