Not too sure how much I like this one- mostly it's a connector tto the next chapter, which I promise to have up tomorrow. It's nearly done!
"Let me get this straight. She hit Master Vameo with her chart of the subconscious?"
"Yes." Obi-wan sighed. To Ventress's surprise, Master Windu snorted slightly in what may have been a laugh. "You think it's funny?"
"No, I was not laughing." Mace insisted. "I just sneezed at a highly inconvenient moment."
"Alright then…" Ventress muttered.
"She hit Torin. With the subconscious board. Anyone else feeling a bit of déjà vu?"
"Don't I know it." Obi-wan agreed.
"Then perhaps we'll inflict the same punishment on her we used to place on skywalker. Three hours of library work."
"You're not kicking her out?" Obi-wan breathed, relieved.
"Normally I would, but as a favor to you, Obi-wan, we'll give her another chance."
"Thank you, Master Windu. I promise it won't happen again."
"Good. Now off to the library with you."
"Pssst. Whatcha doin'?" Aayla pered around one of the bookshelves.
"Library work. Boring stuff." Ventress whispered back.
"What did you do?"
"I hit Torin the psychologist."
"With her subconscious board?"
"Yeah. How'd you know?"
"Trust me, everyone around here wants to hit Torin with the subconscious board. Well, except for Mace Windu, but I still say that's because he likes her. Like, in a code-breaking way. You're only the second one to ever pull it off."
"Let me guess, Skywalker was first?"
"Yup. From what I heard, she told him his affections for a certain senator were based on his past. He said his feelings had nothing to do with his past. She pulled out the subconscious board, and he just whacked her with it."
"His past?"
"You know, as a slave."
"No. No I didn't know."
"Torin assumes anything you want and feel right now is based on something from your past. Like, if I'm hungry, it's because I went to bed without supper once when I was a younling or something. So of course, whatever Anakin does, it's because he was a slave. That bugs him, I guess."
"It'd bug me. Plus she tried to accuse me of having feelings for…"
"For Egghead?"
"Yeah. How'd you know?" Oh dear Force is it that obvious?
"Like I said, Torin's really predictable. If your master is the opposite gender, she thinks you must have feelings for them, regardless of how much of an egghead your master really is."
"My master is not an egghead."
"You keep telling yourself that." Aayla responded.
"He's not." She insisted, but Aayla had already left the library. "He's not an egghead!" She shouted after the Twi'lik, only to receive a resounding Shhhhh! from the librarian.
Irritated, Ventress hit the closest bookshelf. To her horror, it tipped over. And it knocked over the next one. And the next one. And down the whole row like dominoes, bookshelves were falling and crashing, sending books tumbling chaoticly to the floor. The librarian positively screamed, and the few Jedi in the library tried to stop the falling shelves with the Force, but at this point it was too late. The entire row- half the library- was collapsed.
No one had noticed Ventress yet. So she did what may have been the wise thing and took off like a shot down the hall and away from the library, which, she resolved, she would never enter again.
Asajj Ventress: 1
Library: 0
somehow I doubt Mace will ever assign Ventress to the library ever again...
