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[neverjedi]

He'd been about to answer the first question, but they kept coming and he got very bewildered looking, very quickly. "...What?"

[darkforcerising]

“I’m just trying figure you out,” he said with an amused smile.

Their ride pulled up and Anakin opened the door.

“How do you feel about Eighties children’s movies?”

[neverjedi]

He got into the car, but was still pretty blank. "There has to be a better way and I don't know, which 80s children's movies in particular?"

[darkforcerising]

“The Goonies, the Never Ending Story, Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal, Legend- the Rescuers- please tell me you’ve at least seen these movies,” Anakin said. His expression wasn’t completely serious, It was a slight bit on the side of mocking.

[neverjedi]

"I don't think I've seen Legend. I've seen the others. I love Never Ending Story." Do you feel better yet?

Because he's starting to feel really weird.

[darkforcerising]

Anakin did feel better.

"Okay, I'll accept that answer... You probably had an intense childhood competing."

Anakin's childhood had been intense in its own way. But he still watched TV as a kid.

[neverjedi]

"I missed some things, but I was having fun." He settled in more completely in his seat. Brooklyn wasn't exactly a quick jaunt, especially in this city and it's traffic. "I was never intensely competitive though." Good, sure, enjoyed pushing himself, yes. Desire to beat other people? No.

[darkforcerising]

"Do you miss it?" Anakin asked.

He missed motocross, but he was consigned to be a spectator for that for the rest of his life.

[neverjedi]

He could see the analogy and reality clearly enough, but was afraid to address it directly at this moment, for fear Anakin would shut down entirely - or at least shut him out, completely. Simply being open himself seemed to be the... smartest option.

"I teach a few even classes of very small children how to skate and do some private coaching to be able to afford rink time regularly." This is why 'chess, skate, work' covered most of his life - FBI wouldn't allow it. "I'd miss skating badly if I didn't have that outlet. As it stands, I miss training with a purpose, and I miss my body cooperating enough to allow me to do what I want. But I've found way to keep the most valuable parts in my life."

[darkforcerising]

"I really want to watch one of those classes." He was learning so much about Obi-Wan in one afternoon than the other man had revealed these past how many weeks playing chess.

"So why the name Obi-Wan, if you're actually Benjamin, where did you get the other name?"

[neverjedi]

Chess was an ice breaker, at best, but it was hard to get to know anyone when your attention was focused elsewhere.

That question made him snort. "I kept losing my student ID. Every time someone would find it, they'd be looking for OB-1 - which were the first three places. It stuck."

Oh, and: "You're welcome to watch a class any time you'd like. They're held in public. There are usually spectators as well as doting parents."

[darkforcerising]

Anakin did laugh a little at that. "Where did you go to school and what did you go to school for? I'm liking everything I'm learning about you."

[neverjedi]

"New York University and Cyber Security." He seemed a little uncomfortable, but mostly because that being open thing was fine, but compliments were another. "What are you doing now?"

[darkforcerising]

Anakin almost said 'being adorably annoying.' But He decided he could talk about this safely.

"Other than being annoying, Aeronautical, aerospace engineering." He didn't need his right hand for that, no really.

[neverjedi]

He flashes a smile at that, and it's teasing because it's a bit backward from all reason, even if some of the reasons are pretty damned painful on Anakin's end: "And now we've established you're the intelligent one and I'm the jock."

[darkforcerising]

“I do sports- just the extreme kind- like skydiving or BASE jumping, Anakin pointed out. “ And you work for the FBI, that’s an evidence gathering organization”

[neverjedi]

"Then we're both well rounded." Because he wasn't arguing, but Jesus, Anakin. "And one of us is sane enough not to want to do anything involving parachutes."

[darkforcerising]

“You’ve never gone skydiving?” Anakin asked, curious but also surprised.

“It’s almost never fatal.”

[neverjedi]

"...Why would I ever go skydiving?" Why was Anakin surprised?

also: HELL NO.

[darkforcerising]

Who didn’t want to jump out of planes?

“Because it’s fun,” Anakin said it like it should be obvious.

“They have indoor simulated skydiving.”

[neverjedi]

"That's lovely. I don't want simulated terror, either."

There's a pause though because he's... actually considering it a possible thing that maybe he'd do at some point.

Indoor or from an actual plane.

Maybe just once, but-

[darkforcerising]

“It’s not terror,” Anakin said. “It’s fun.”

If Obi-Wan really didn’t want to do it, he wouldn’t push it.

“So what do I need to know about ice skating.”

[neverjedi]

"They can be fairly closely related," he said, absently.

Then he blinked and refocused, because they were getting close to their destination. Enough so that the car's signal was on for the final turn.

"If at all possible, fall backward rather than forward. Get up by kneeling, hand on your knee and up. Push off your blades sideways. I'm getting you a wrist guard. Wear it."

[darkforcerising]

“Am I going to lose another hand doing this?” He asked. “Because I’m running out of those.”

[neverjedi]

"I wouldn't have suggested it if you were at risk of losing anything, but you are going to fall. Natural instinct is to catch yourself with your hands. I don't want you to have to deal with spraining your wrist. So, protect it."

Matter of fact, about every single point of all of that.