Luke's hand kept straying back to the lightsaber at his waist as he glanced over at Jo while they walked through the quiet town. "So what are we going to do with him if we find him?" he asked quietly.
Jo fingered the hilt of her knife even as she tightened her grip on the stake she was carrying. "I'm a big fan of killing evil things. Tends to be a permanent-type solution."
"But he wasn't evil two days ago," Luke replied, eyes going wide as a breeze rustled dead leaves close by. "People don't generally have a switch or something, do they?"
"If who doesn't have any legs?" Anakin asked icily, coming up behind them. "Please, please tell me that my instructions not to leave the dorms without weapons wasn't spun into a 'please form a hunting party like walking bit of bait.'"
Anakin's eyebrows almost reached his scalp. "I've done this sort of thing longer than either of you have been walking upright," he retorted. "And in hand-to-hand, I can kick Angelus's ass."
Or he had when they were teenagers. And it had been Angel.
"And besides," Jo added. "If we had been planning on doing something, and that's a pretty big if, we would have been planning on using weapons rather than our hands."
Anakin's tenuous hold on his temper snapped like a thread. "That's it!" he exploded, reaching for a shoulder of each of them and intending to march them back to the dorms. "You're going back to the dorms right now."
"Ridiculous child, I am a weapon," Anakin retorted, moving quickly towards the dorms, "and I have a lightsaber. What I don't need is to get a call from the clinic finding out that my only son has decided to turn himself into vamp bait."
"It's not like I don't know how to defend myself," Luke protested, wincing as his father's fingers dug into his shoulders. "Death Star duel striking any bells?"
"He's the one who gave Rory her scar," Anakin hissed in Luke's ear, voice loud enough to carry to Jo as well. "He never gets that close to any of mine again. Got it?"
"He," Luke tossed his head towards the glowering Jedi between them, "said that Rory invited us all up to her place in Connecticut. It'll be cold and snowy but other than that it should be fun."
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Permanently optimistic Luke.
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Then he recognized the voice.
Uh-oh.
"Hello, father."
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"Of course not," Jo lied smoothly, turning to face Anakin. "Whatever would give you that idea."
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Or he had when they were teenagers. And it had been Angel.
Shut up. He'd totally won.
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That Jo, so helpful.
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whinedwhined, absolutely humiliated, "this is so unfair!"no subject
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Not that she was naming names or anything.
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dragging themwalking when they arrived at the gates. "Bed. Now!" he barked.no subject
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