The playground corner of the park [Saturday afternoon]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was on a bench by the playground equipment watching his two children as they played.

Christopher ate sand. Anakin smiled.

Juliet jumped off the step side of the slide--Anakin caught her with the Force and smiled. Juliet blinked: that was not the expression she'd expected from her daddy when she did something that reckless. Being half

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[auroryborealis]

Rory was carrying a cupholder with two coffees, as well as a couple little cups of milk, when she wandered back from her Perk run. Anakin's coffee was a little bigger than hers -- loath as she was to admit it, he seemed like he needed it more than she did, today. He just seemed...more laid-back than usual, and that worried her.

Which was probably weird in and of itself.

"Juliet! Be careful up there!" she called, catching sight of what her daughter was doing. Christopher's chosen snack would get some attention in a moment.

[sith_happened]

"She'll be fine," Anakin said, waving his hand lazily. "She's a Skywalker. We don't fall down."

That was patently untrue.

[auroryborealis]

"That is a blatant lie," Rory said, still looking concerned. "You guys fall all the time, you're just good at catching."

[sith_happened]

"So it's pretty much the same thing, then," Anakin said, smiling.