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[neverjedi]

"Candy Land," he said, with absolute seriousness. "Scrabble. Trivial pursuit. Cards against humanity. Not Safe For Work Exploding kittens."

"...and a couple we need at least a few more dates for me to bring out." It was teasing, but also truthful. Some things just required a degree of intimacy to play with. Meaning 'to be played with people you were already having sex with and not the first time you had sex with'.

[darkforcerising]

"Every game can turn into something you shouldn't play on the first few dates."

A drink from his rootbeer. A bit from his plate.

"So... obviously, bring out Candy Land."

[neverjedi]

"They can, but some start there."

He stops teasing and eats a few more bites of food himself. "Can we finish eating, or are we going to multi-task?"

[darkforcerising]

For a flash of a second Anakin gives Obi-Wan a flat stare. "I have only one hand, I can task."

But then he's smiling again. "Finish food first, assess if you're fed up with me, then we play."

[neverjedi]

You can put your fork down and pick it up again, his return stare says.

"I have no idea why you keep expecting me to get fed up with you in the next twenty minutes or so, but okay."

He ate.

Pointedly.

[darkforcerising]

Still one task at a time.

Anakin shrugged. "Most people do. It's weird that you don't."

Anakin ate, not as pointedly.

[neverjedi]

"...You really need to show up before the end of my class tomorrow, no matter what time you leave." Tonight or tomorrow. It was a weirdly revealing thing to offer, but it might just convince Anakin of at least a couple of things.

With that he finished his food and went to get the game.

[darkforcerising]

"What am I going to see happen?" Anakin asked. He only had a few bites left.

[neverjedi]

He put the box on the table, and then set about slowly clearing up and packing things away once he was sure Anakin was finished eating. He really was going to have lunch tomorrow - or dinner, as the case may be.

"Me with a class. If I felt capable of explaining, I'd just tell you."

[darkforcerising]

"I assumed that," Anakin said.

He stood up from the table. "Because this is a kids game, we have to play with it on the floor like kids would. Also, why do you have this game?"

[neverjedi]

He groaned, but only slightly, before he put Anakin's dishes into the dishwasher and moved into the living room to sit on the floor.

"Small children like to share their favorite things. I haven't yet found a way to tell them 'no thank you' without crushing their little souls. I also have a mug collection."

[darkforcerising]

"Give them back to their parents when they aren't looking?" Anakin suggested. He followed after and picked a side of the board next to Obi-Wan, not across.

"Okay, tell me how to play this again?"

[neverjedi]

"Roll the dice, move along the board, pick a card, follow the instructions. First one at a castle wins."

Yes, he had to look at the instructions, and:

"Donate. Donation works when I get around to it."

[darkforcerising]

"Do we roll to see who goes first?" He'd listened patiently, but now he had the dice in his hand.

[neverjedi]

"I have no idea. As much as I like rules - just go first." It was a game for six year olds. Even he can only take it so seriously.

[darkforcerising]

"Well, okay." Anakin rolled the dice, got seven, and then moved his yellow piece. But instead of going the spaces according to the dice, he added one, moving eight spaces instead. Just to see what Obi-Wan would do.

[neverjedi]

What Obi-Wan did was get very confused, double check to make sure he was right and then just gave Anakin a look that was wounded.

And put the piece back one, where it went.

...maybe he was taking it that seriously.

[darkforcerising]

Anakin was grinning, knowing exactly what he and Obi-Wan were doing. "Are you sure that goes there?"

[neverjedi]

"If this is your idea of not safe for work, I have some news for you...." He was playing along with the tease with the remark though. "Yes, I'm sure that's where it goes."

[darkforcerising]

"Oh! This isn't not safe for work. If we were doing that- we'd take off clothes ever turn or some ever increasing sexual dare," Anakin said. "This is me see how quickly you get fed up with me. Because I think that goes-" he took a finger and ever so slowly nudged the piece forward one space.

[neverjedi]

He lifted his eyebrows a bit - but then smirked, stretched out his legs while he leaned back on his arms, and toed his sneakers off.

Call his bluff.

[darkforcerising]

Anakin watched with an amused look, and unconsciously lick his lip. His eyes traveled back up to Obi-Wan's slowly.

"Your turn."

[neverjedi]

He stretched out on his side, propped on one elbow to make his move, got a 6 and moved the actual number of spaces he was supposed to.

"Back to you."

Yeah, there was now a definite dare in play.

[darkforcerising]

Anakin picked up the dice. "What do I owe you for you following the rules?"

[neverjedi]

"Are you offering to pay me for following the rules?" He pretended to be scandalized. "You come skating with me again."

He wasn't trying to make Anakin a figure skater, but proficient and comfortable? Sure.