Well, the chapter title says a lot. *grins* Now we get to see what fire and earth do together.
Anakin thinks he's one hot seducer. LOL! Well, actually he didn't do so bad. I'm sure we've all seen/heard worse.
Not what Anakin himself would have given out to guests, but it matched the rest of the building.
He must be thinking of what Padme would give out? The Jedi temple is a beautiful building, but since we see little of the private rooms, it's difficult to say what a guest room might be like--perhaps more plush and colourful than a typical apt. of a Jedi.
They certainly didn’t seem to prize comfort or color in this new Republic. And Anakin was beginning to wonder if he’d ever see anything that made this future seem at all desirable. Everything so far just made him think that everyone would be better off if he and Obi-Wan could manage to fix things.
They just needed to figure out how to do that.
First sentence harks back to what I mentioned in an earlier comment about plushy decadence and stark non-decadence. Anakin hasn't seen anything. He doesn't know what's going on. And even though the events of the OT and the twenty years before it aren't the best of times, not by a long shot, people did live during the Empire's sway, and those people indeed might want things to have been better, but who's to say that any interference in trying to change the past wouldn't just cause things to be worse? Yes, they could be better, but the laws of probability say they might not.
*snort* Yeah, Anakin, you and Obi-Wan just do just that. Fix things. You could break things worse, too. Yes, Anakin is a fixer, but I am not sure that repairing the past isn't beyond the ability of anyone to "fix".
What Anakin does to the cameras and the door just stuns me. That's awesome, and he does it the way you or I would just breathe.
Interesting how Anakin wants to talk, and Obi-Wan doesn't. Do I heard a little Queen of Denial here? If he igores what Anakin and Padme have, he can also ignore what's between him and Anakin. A silly, useless, and dangerous game. Even Anakin knows that. *evil grin*
Anakin licked his lips, then let out a breathy little sigh, carefully peeking out from under his eyelashes to see Obi-Wan’s reaction.
So typical Anakin. I didn't know whether to sigh or laugh. ;)
But then, there's this:
“Oh, no, Master, I’ve been listening to every word,” Anakin said, slipping just the tip of a finger under the top of his pants. Anakin’s hips bucked slightly, and Obi-Wan’s gaze flickered between Anakin’s face and his hand. Anakin’s breath caught in his throat for a moment at the look in Obi-Wan’s eyes.
Dang. That's hot. Can I cut me off a piece of that?
he allowed himself to touch the Force as fully as possible – it was easier here, somehow. He’d been noticing that for a while, but it never felt as clear as it did right now.
Fascinating. There is no shroud of the Dark Side to impede Light-Side Force-users.
“Because it burns,” Anakin whispered, doing his best to control the sharp flickers already racing through him. “And if I let it loose, it will consume me.”
Fire imagery again. And I think you've hit on the crux of the problem: Anakin, probably because of his slave upbringing, wants to be in control of everything, including the Force.
The vision of the Sandpeople camp at that particular moment is chilling, for many reasons.
Anakin relaxed into the kiss, the unfamiliar calm of true meditation washing over him. The Force still surged around him, but its fire had been banked, briefly transmuted into something gentler.
For this single moment in time, Anakin was at peace.
Wonderful way to end this chapter.
And all those lines or echoes of lines from RotS are evocative and chilling.
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re: Fic: White Rabbits (Star Wars, 28: Alchemy
Date: 2006-03-16 06:13 am (UTC)Anakin thinks he's one hot seducer. LOL! Well, actually he didn't do so bad. I'm sure we've all seen/heard worse.
Not what Anakin himself would have given out to guests, but it matched the rest of the building.
He must be thinking of what Padme would give out? The Jedi temple is a beautiful building, but since we see little of the private rooms, it's difficult to say what a guest room might be like--perhaps more plush and colourful than a typical apt. of a Jedi.
They certainly didn’t seem to prize comfort or color in this new Republic. And Anakin was beginning to wonder if he’d ever see anything that made this future seem at all desirable. Everything so far just made him think that everyone would be better off if he and Obi-Wan could manage to fix things.
They just needed to figure out how to do that.
First sentence harks back to what I mentioned in an earlier comment about plushy decadence and stark non-decadence. Anakin hasn't seen anything. He doesn't know what's going on. And even though the events of the OT and the twenty years before it aren't the best of times, not by a long shot, people did live during the Empire's sway, and those people indeed might want things to have been better, but who's to say that any interference in trying to change the past wouldn't just cause things to be worse? Yes, they could be better, but the laws of probability say they might not.
*snort* Yeah, Anakin, you and Obi-Wan just do just that. Fix things. You could break things worse, too. Yes, Anakin is a fixer, but I am not sure that repairing the past isn't beyond the ability of anyone to "fix".
What Anakin does to the cameras and the door just stuns me. That's awesome, and he does it the way you or I would just breathe.
Interesting how Anakin wants to talk, and Obi-Wan doesn't. Do I heard a little Queen of Denial here? If he igores what Anakin and Padme have, he can also ignore what's between him and Anakin. A silly, useless, and dangerous game. Even Anakin knows that. *evil grin*
Anakin licked his lips, then let out a breathy little sigh, carefully peeking out from under his eyelashes to see Obi-Wan’s reaction.
So typical Anakin. I didn't know whether to sigh or laugh. ;)
But then, there's this:
“Oh, no, Master, I’ve been listening to every word,” Anakin said, slipping just the tip of a finger under the top of his pants. Anakin’s hips bucked slightly, and Obi-Wan’s gaze flickered between Anakin’s face and his hand. Anakin’s breath caught in his throat for a moment at the look in Obi-Wan’s eyes.
Dang. That's hot. Can I cut me off a piece of that?
he allowed himself to touch the Force as fully as possible – it was easier here, somehow. He’d been noticing that for a while, but it never felt as clear as it did right now.
Fascinating. There is no shroud of the Dark Side to impede Light-Side Force-users.
“Because it burns,” Anakin whispered, doing his best to control the sharp flickers already racing through him. “And if I let it loose, it will consume me.”
Fire imagery again. And I think you've hit on the crux of the problem: Anakin, probably because of his slave upbringing, wants to be in control of everything, including the Force.
The vision of the Sandpeople camp at that particular moment is chilling, for many reasons.
Anakin relaxed into the kiss, the unfamiliar calm of true meditation washing over him. The Force still surged around him, but its fire had been banked, briefly transmuted into something gentler.
For this single moment in time, Anakin was at peace.
Wonderful way to end this chapter.
And all those lines or echoes of lines from RotS are evocative and chilling.