hunger games fic alert
Anakin wakes to the sound of birdsong and the heavy weight of the cat on his chest. The light is soft, so it must still be early in the morning. The cat is not yet crying for food scraps, so it must be very early in the morning.
It’s second nature to extend his arm across the vast expanse of the mattress next to him until his fingers brush against the line of Obi-Wan’s shoulder beneath the sheets.
Today, his fingers meet nothing. Anakin turns his head to the side and opens his eyes in increments. Obi-Wan is nowhere to be found; Anakin is alone.
For one breathless moment, disquiet rushes past logic. He sits up roughly, taking in the small empty room around him. The cat, dislodged and displeased, hisses out a protest as it rights itself amongst the rumpled sheets and hops off the bed altogether with a flick of its tail.
Anakin watches it go for a moment before he sets his feet on the ground to follow.
The jolt of the cold floor on his newly bared feet startles him out of the last vestiges of both sleep and his panic. It’s early in the morning.
It’s early on this morning.
Of course Obi-Wan will not linger in bed; Anakin would be surprised if he even slept. The other man’s ghosts often haunt the edges of their cottage, often linger on Obi-Wan’s mind, but never more than they do on this day, every year.
Anakin snags his commlink from the squat table next to his bed as he hauls himself up.
It is 0812.
The Reaping will take place in four hours and forty-eight minutes.
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completely forgot about my medieval au when i was making incorrect quotes so here have some Incorrect Medieval AU Quotes
Omega: This is a very powerful artifact. We’ll be messing with some forces we don’t fully understand.
Cal: That sounds like a dare to me.
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Caleb: Why would you bite someone?
Sabine (age 7): You weren’t there, you didn’t hear what they said to me!
Caleb: What did they say?
Sabine: "What are you gonna do, bite me?"
Caleb: That’s fair.
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Merrin: It's not like I try to blow things up, exactly. It just sort of happens. You've got to admit though, fire is fascinating.
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Rex: Ahsoka! Have you no dignity?
Ahsoka: Of course not! How long have we known eachother?
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Carthage: I think we should kiss.
Sabine: And I think you should die but we don’t always get what we want.
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Ahsoka: We have fun, don’t we, Rex?
Rex: I have never been more stressed out in my entire life.
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Omega: You remind me of the ocean.
Merrin: Because I'm deep and mysterious?
Omega: No, because you're full of salt and you scare people.
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Ahsoka: *about Barriss and Adenn* They make a cute couple, huh?
Rex, deadpan: They certainly are standing next to each other.
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Zeb: Ooh, somebody has a crush
Caleb: Pfft, I don’t have a crush on Hera I just think she’s cool, it’s not like I stay up at night thinking about her.
*Later that night*
Caleb, very much awake: Uh oh
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Ahsoka: Can I bother you for a second?
Rex: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.
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Cal: Did Merrin just tell me she loved me for the first time?
Omega: Yeah, she did.
Cal: And did I just do finger guns back?
Omega: Yeah, you did.
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Adenn: Punch me in the face.
Skira: ...Punch you?
Adenn: Yes, punch me, didn’t you hear me?
Skira: I always hear ‘punch me in the face’ while you’re speaking but it’s usually just subtext.
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Kidnapper: I have your children
Hera: I don’t have children?
Kidnapper: Then who’s the boy who just asked for warm milk and made me cut the crusts off his sandwich—
Hera: Oh Force, you have Ezra.
Kidnapper: —and the girl who headbutted me when I didn’t do it?
Hera: Oh, you have Sabine, too. Okay. Good luck, you’re gonna need it.
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Adenn: I think I'm falling for you.
Barriss: Then get up.
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*Discussing an image of a really hot knife cutting bread*
Ahsoka: Imagine stabbing someone with this knife.
Barriss: It would instantly cauterize the wound, so the person wouldn't bleed, so it's not very useful.
Caleb: if you want information it is
Cal: why would you STAB a person when you can have TOAST?
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Ai-kel: I’m a fool, not an idiot.
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Sabine (age 7): Why would you tell on us?!
Ezra (age 5): I felt guilty.
Sabine: Guilt is a trick emotion. It’s put there by our parents to stop us from doing things that feel good.
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Korkie: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Ahsoka: We could attack them with hummus.
Korkie: I stand corrected.
Ahsoka: Just keeping things in perspective.
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Ahsoka: Hey, Caleb? Can I get some dating advice?
Caleb: Just because I'm with Hera doesn't mean I know how I did it.
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Barriss: What is wrong with you?
Ahsoka: Loaded question. Elaborate.
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Sabine: Ezra and I are no longer friends.
Ezra: SABINE THAT IS THE WORST WAY TO TELL PEOPLE THAT WE ELOPED!
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Rex: Ahsoka, no.
Ahsoka: Ahsoka, yes.
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a really fun thing about superheroes is that sex pollen is a genuine thing that they might encounter in their day to day and you don’t even have to stretch to make it possible, they’ve got aliens, magic, superpowers, etc etc. Especially fun for Gotham based capes who live in a city where Miss Sex Pollen herself is roaming around as a genuine occupational hazard
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smh one of the people whose job i’m gonna have next year after she graduates who has always been particularly mean and snobbish saw all of us new hires at this lil initiation meeting and was like ‘hmmm i don’t like that now i don’t feel special anymore i enjoy being part of this in-group and being kind of elite’ and i flat out said ‘yeah we can tell’ like girl shut up get off your high horse you make $10 an hour here and you have the personality of a middle school rich horse girl bully despite being like 22
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