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- # inn-world: valentine's day,
- alex kane,
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- dean winchester,
- dorothy williams,
- henry winchester,
- ignis scientia,
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- kitty pryde,
- lara croft,
- lindsey mcdonald,
- molly carpenter,
- qui-gon jinn,
- river song,
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- sam winchester,
- sansa stark,
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[GP] Shoot that poison arrow
None of the guests noticed when the spiky-haired man-child in jeans and purple t-shirt, wrists wrapped in cheap leather and metal bracelets, arrived at the Madonna Inn a few hours before midnight on February 13. That, in itself, wasn't all that surprising. Eros, otherwise known as Danny Valentine, had millennia of experience doing his job without being spotted.
What was surprising was that the dude at the front desk did see him. Tall and Nondescript waved him over and then gave him a room number 'in case you wanted to rest'. But Danny didn't.
Want to, or rest. He spent the time before the clock struck midnight polishing his love gun. Not like that. He'd find a girl to spend his nameday with. He always did. No, this little beauty was made by Hephaestus himself. It shot love darts that disappeared on contact.
At midnight, kitted out with more love darts than there were people in this pink and gold monstrosity, Danny left his room and shot the first person he saw--and didn't wait to see what would happen.
No point getting a slow start. He had a lot of work to do.
What was surprising was that the dude at the front desk did see him. Tall and Nondescript waved him over and then gave him a room number 'in case you wanted to rest'. But Danny didn't.
Want to, or rest. He spent the time before the clock struck midnight polishing his love gun. Not like that. He'd find a girl to spend his nameday with. He always did. No, this little beauty was made by Hephaestus himself. It shot love darts that disappeared on contact.
At midnight, kitted out with more love darts than there were people in this pink and gold monstrosity, Danny left his room and shot the first person he saw--and didn't wait to see what would happen.
No point getting a slow start. He had a lot of work to do.
Qui-Gon Jinn - safe space - OTA
Qui-Gon Jinn had no such objections; he was past that sort of thing himself for the most part, but even in his youth he'd considered 'Jedi are forbidden to take lovers' as a stunningly stupid prohibition. Regardless of whether or not celibacy was the best way for a Jedi to live (and he felt he could argue either side there), flat prohibitions were challenges rather than deterrents.
So he simply collected various foodstuffs, as well as a tea tray (Miss Williams's drink of choice had become his after not much time at all) and took them out onto a patio. There he sat in a fairly comfortable chair and meditated, doing his best to project peace and calm in that small area. You cannot touch me or anyone here, he said. Move along.
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She had felt this strange feeling for almost a month now. It was as if everything around her was slightly different than it had been before -- as if everything had been dismantled in the night and suddenly, hastily put back together.
Rey wasn't sure what to think of it. She wrote in her journal. She exercised. She tried to find anything to distract herself from that weird, uneasy feeling that seemed to follow her everywhere.
And then the feeling was stronger. Stronger than it had been before. And instead of trying to distract herself from it, this time she followed it. Down the hall, through the foyer, and out to the patio, where she saw a man sitting, quite comfortably.
And instantly, Rey knew what it was that she felt.
"You," she said, the word unintentionally coming out as an accusation. "You're using the Force!"
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Then finally, she asks:
"Are you a Jedi, then?"
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Sith, perhaps, now that he at least knew they weren't as extinct as the Council wanted to believe.
It required a different answer. "For many years now, yes. Most of my life, in fact."
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"Do you know Luke?" she asks, excitedly. "Luke Skywalker?"
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"I don't know an Anakin," she says, shaking her head. "Just a Luke, and his sister Leia."
A beat, and then:
"Where were you hiding before now?" she asks. "We all thought Luke was the only Jedi left."
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A terrible future, and likely he'd missed it twice - once being caught in it in the first place, and again on being brought to the Inn. In that light, it was an absolute duty to mind the present. This present. "I believe I'm from some distance in your past, then. The Jedi Order is a substantial group, last I knew."
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"What time are you from?" she asks. And perhaps, a more important question: "What's your name?"
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Shaking hands was what people did when they were meeting for the first time, right?
Regardless of if he takes her hand or not, she still continues. "I was on my way to see Luke when I arrived here," she says. "He had been training Jedi, trying to rebuild the Jedi Order. The Sith attacked and destroyed everything," she said, her thought trailing off to the vision from before. "He went into hiding."
A beat. Rey presses her lips together briefly, and clearly hesitates.
"I was hoping he would train me."
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Could 'balance to the Force' have meant bringing the Sith back into power? They'd been 'extinct' for so long, and the Light Side of the Force had ruled... could 'balance' mean darkness and light coexisting? It was an uncomfortably reasonable possibility, even if the 'coexisting' part had clearly not happened. "I was about to take on a new apprentice myself, before arriving here. Anakin Skywalker, the one I mentioned earlier, in fact. Perhaps an ancestor of your Luke."
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Something about the very real instruction to move along made her uncommonly interested in standing where she was.
Watching him very intently.
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As an experiment, he twisted his own presence in the Force, very slightly. Still bidding whatever was causing the low-grade chaos to leave him in peace, but very specifically inviting the young woman closer. I don't mean you.
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She didn't know if he could hear her, the way she heard things, but that was there in the tilt of her head and in her thoughts.
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"Not exactly," he answered the unvoiced question out loud. "I can sense intentions and feelings, and reason from there. Unless that's what you do, in which case, yes."
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It was hard to explain, and her words were stilted.
"Not like a book. Don't turn pages. They talk to me. And they say things. And.. they want me to..." She pressed her hands to her ears and scrunched her face up.
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"You are, less obtrusive." She would stay. "But you are speaking, so you are saying things."
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"People are people. I am different."
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