She leans into Ellaita, snuggling.

Wow what the FUCK is possibly worse than all that such that Anakin's comfortable saying these things but has Further Private Things to tell just her girlfriends.

That is probably not a productive line of thought.

Anathema moves her chair so she can join the cuddle line on the other side.

Anakin smiles a little, though not very happily. "I think next is - mostly Ellaita and Anathema's story. I wasn't present for most."

"Not... quite as exciting, fortunately. After the collapse of the old Empire, a lot of the regional governors scrambled to reorganize into their own petty kingdoms, to keep their holdings away from the New Republic. I was part of a resistance movement against one such, as a fighter pilot. The Reps sent us some aid secretly, including Anakin's granddaughter Jaina. But she was only there because Anakin's grandson, Jacen, was on the other side. She figured out that he was looking for Anakin, and sent me to find her first. I tracked the rumors to a planet called Jakku. That was where the Imperial wannabes caught up. They captured me, and I was taken to be interrogated by Jacen. That's when I met Anathema."

Anathema takes over, then. 

"Jacen's wanna-be Empire were calling themselves the First Order. A lot of the imperial satellites have been experimenting with cloning soldiers - that got used during Anakin's Clone War but there'd been issues with it. The First Order used multiple clone lines, and I'm part of one - so's Sharp. We'd decided to defect, and when Ellaita got captured we figured that was a good ticket to someone to defect to. So I rescued her."

"We talked some, but we got shot down over Jakku. I couldn't find Ellaita after the crash, so I took my girls and the information Ellaita'd had to her resistance group."

Glance at Ellaita and Anakin. "Turned out Lily had found and rescued Ellaita. Them and Anakin left Jakku, started making their way back to the resistance, but the First Order caught up. Jacen captured Anakin using some weird artifact. We'd known he was moving on something, so I led a strike force and rescued Lily and Ellaita from him. Ellaita and I started dating a bit later, while we were following leads on rescuing Anakin."

"Which we did, getting her out of the ghost trap thing - and then she proceeded to terrify the shit out of Jacen by disintegrating the mountain his base was in, destroying all his mens' arms and armor, and then recreating the mountain with the rock they'd cleared when digging under it back in, like the First Order had never been there. She dumped him and whatever of his men didn't want to defect with enough supplies to last until someone came looking for them, didn't harm a hair on anyone's head. Or even any of the plants or animals that had been living on the mountain, far as we could tell."

"Jacen was very, very intimidated, and we started working on peace treaties really soon after. That was four years ago. We've kept Anakin's past a secret successfully, so far, but there's a lot of tension still."

Shrug. "And a couple days ago me and Ellaita decided to seduce Anakin, figured out how to get her to possess someone. Last night was our first time together as girlfriends."

"So, there you have it."

"A lot's gone on, then."

"Yeah." She glances at her wife. "Though our world's had a lot of crap, too."

"Nothing galaxy-shaking, but people can still be awful to other people."

Serious nod.

Fay hums. "We had a war, too," she says, "That broke out a bit after I turned twenty - I was a teacher's assistant at our country's main school of magic, Hogwarts, at the time. A man calling himself Voldemort started a terror campaign. It lasted about a decade, during which I made a name for myself opposing him, before Voldemort received a prophecy that a certain child would be his downfall."

"That child was Ellie. Voldemort started targeting her, and her family went into hiding, until Voldemort caught up to them. Ellie's mother, Lily, set a trap for him, sacrificing her life to destroy his body and dramatically delay his ability to take physical form again - something he'd already had."

"Voldemort's forces crumpled after that. I'd become a full professor over the course of the war, a position I continued with. Things - were more or less peaceful for a while, after."

"Voldemort's first defeat was when me and Ellie were one," Anathema picks up. "My mom was his right hand, Bellatrix, and Voldemort was my father. My mom was arrested after Voldemort got beat, and I went to live with her husband's sister - her husband was a different person from Voldemort. My aunt was a huge asshole and I hated her and eventually I managed to run away, in time to go to Hogwarts at eleven. I was pretending to be a muggleborn - someone with parents who aren't magic - though I wasn't super good at that."

"School was... Weird, I guess? I met Ellie on the train. I liked learning, hated some of our teachers, loved others - Professor Fay was the best." She smiles down at her and Ellie's pet. "It turned out Voldemort was possessing our history professor, and he possessed me and tried to kill Ellie - that failed, which was when we learned Ellie's mom had put a magic protection on her."

"...Honestly most years had weird stuff happen. In second year, one of our... Not quite friends... Was possessed by one of Voldemort's horcruxes - an item he'd put a shard of his soul into to anchor himself to the mortal world. She set a basilisk, a giant deadly snake, on the school, though I managed to take control of the snake by declaring myself the true heir of the person who'd made her - Slytherin, who was Voldemort's ancestor. We destroyed the horcrux and rescued our friend. And then in third year, Ellie's godfather Sirius escaped prison - he'd been wrongfully imprisoned because people thought he had sold out Ellie's family to Voldemort - and then my mom escaped prison. We faked Sirius's death and got him settled in - he could take the shape of a dog, so he kinda just went to live at Fay's house as a dog. My mom - was harder, she was kinda skittish, and really - had been hit hard by the prison's guards, Dementors, who steal happy memories and eat souls. The Dementors were chasing her, and during a meeting with her to try to talk her into coming with us or something, a bunch of Dementors attacked, and she led them off so me and Ellie could escape. We thought she'd - worse than died."

"She hadn't, but we didn't find that out for another year - in fourth year, there was a big tournament between schools, with students competing in different tasks. Someone slipped Ellie in even though she wasn't at the minimum age requirement, and forced her into the tournament with a magically binding contract. That someone was Voldemort."

"Fourth year was when me and Ellie started dating - there was a big dance in the middle of the year, and I'd been thinking of asking Ellie, then another school's champion asked her to it, and I got jealous and so... In classic teenager fashion, decided to make Ellie jealous back, and asked out the third school's champion, Elodie."

" - I would like to note that that worked and it got me Elodie as a friend, even if it was unnecessarily dramatic in the meantime."

"It was unnecessarily dramatic for about fifteen minutes. The champions only had to do the opening dance together. So Krum and I did the first dance and then went to go sit and I expected Anathema to come over and sit with me, but she didn't, she kept dancing with Elodie. Who is, by the way, unfairly pretty for magical heritage reasons. I got a little bit angry and realized that I was getting angry because I wanted to be dancing with Anathema like that. So I went over and Elodie was very mature about the whole thing and graciously handed Anathema off. So we danced and then we went out to the garden and kissed."

"That's adorable."

She giggles. "We are. And I'm pretty sure Fay spent the entire drama somewhere between amused and vaguely exasperated - though she has no room to judge about melodrama. I had to lock her and Ellie in a closet to get them to kiss."

"A literal closet. It was a bit embarrassing."

"They forced my hand. The pining was painful to watch."

"But that was later, obviously. Going back to the tournament, at the end of it, Voldemort had enchanted the prize cup to teleport me away to a secret location where he could do a ritual that would nullify my mom's protection. And then kill me. It only mostly worked before I managed to get away. Bellatrix was there too, helping him. Voldemort had gotten to her while she was on the run and put her under some kind of magic mind control."

"Yeah. It - really sucked. Ellie did successfully get the Resurrection Stone from that - Voldemort had been using it in the ritual, and she stole it while escaping."

"We managed to rescue mom near the end of next year - fifth year was... Mostly just bullshit. The Ministry didn't want to acknowledge Voldemort was back, and they forced the school to accept a government appointed history teacher who could recite the official lines."

"Me and Ellie did get married, though, and we started helping build up some of the anti-Voldemort stuff that year and next. Sixth year... Sucked again. Voldemort was really escalating. We figured out he had a bunch of horcruxes and started destroying those, and..."

"At the end of the year Fay learned from the school's headmaster that Voldemort had accidentally made Ellie into a horcrux, and the headmaster thought she'd need to die to kill Voldemort." Deep frown.

Fay turns to lean reassuringly against Anathema. "I killed him," she says, voice flat.

"That - did several things. It complicated the fight against Voldemort, of course, but - there's a set of three artifacts in our world called the Deathly Hallows. We'd used the Resurrection Stone to talk briefly to Lily, and she was convinced Ellie needed mastery of all three - she couldn't tell us everything, but it later became obvious she meant in order to safely destroy the horcrux in Ellie."

"Ellie had two. The Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility which she inherited from her father."

"The headmaster had the third, the Elder Wand. It transfers ownership only on the total and sincere defeat of its current wielder. After killing the headmaster, I was its new master, and - Ellie wasn't willing to hurt me to gain the wand."

"Voldemort took over the Ministry. The resistance movement gathered in the school, which had old, strong wards. Voldemort laid siege."

"We got, um, a little desperate."

"Fay knew I needed the wand, but we couldn't figure out how to get it to me. She swore herself to me in a magically binding way. Then was going to-"

"I stopped her. Took the wand and the stone and the cloak and went to face Voldemort. He killed me. But not all the way. I was sent to the border of the land of the dead and talked with my mom. She... explained a bit about things, how him killing me had killed the horcrux and I could choose to stay or go back. I went back. Turned into a dragon and bit Voldemort in half."

Time to lean comfortingly against Ellie. "It... Sucked."

"But we started rebuilding. And after that, Anathema got us to confess to each other. I - didn't want to be theirs while I was their professor, so they quit school, I quit my job, and... We've been exploring, since."

Anakin frowns. And, softly - "Can I hug you two?" 

"...Yeah."

She mostly ends up hugging Fay, but - hug for Ellie, too, and Ellie's Anathema when the girl inevitably wants one too. 

"Thank you," she says, returning to her seat and her girlfriends a bit awkwardly.

"Seems - unpleasant drama is a bit of a consistent thing across universes."