AL: Timeless Love (Oct-09)
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master_obiwanTitle: Timeless Love
Prompt: 004.
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” - Lord Byron
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 491
Rating: PG
Warnings Spoilers for Secrets of the Jedi, by Jude Watson.
Disclaimer George Lucas owns Star Wars. Lucas is King. If he doesn't like me pilfering his characters, he can have his merchandise back.
Summary: Obi-Wan muses on his love life.
Author's Notes:....*hides* Sorry, thought this was going to end up in Obi/Padme territory, but then I realized that in all honesty? While that is a fun pairing to envision and I like hopping on the bandwagon ever now and then, Obi-Wan would never betray Siri's memory simply because he could never truly love anyone in the same way. Anakin has permission to rejoice in this.
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Their friendship was an unlikely one, since she had always been a part of Bruck's entourage. But when he discovered that Bruck had been merely using Siri to try and advance in their classes faster, Obi-Wan marvelled at his first lesson in not always relying on first impressions. He found out that impressions and instinct were two different beasts, and that one ought to always try and differentiate between the two. After all, Master Qui-Gon had always told him not to trust appearances and never take anyone's attitude at face value unless it could be backed up by cold, hard fact.
So when Obi-Wan and his Master had been teamed up with Siri and hers, Obi-Wan wasn't quite sure what was going to happen between him and Siri. They had always had a volatile past when it came to interacting with each other, and Siri always had a knack for throwing Obi-Wan off-balance, mentally and physically. It was no surprise, therefore, that he and Siri had ended up having issues after they, along with Taly, got separated from their Masters and ended up hiding out in a cave in the middle of nowhere. Poor Taly had to endure days of bickering between the two padawans.
By the end of the mission, Siri and Obi-Wan had gone from being friends to falling in love to saying good-bye all in the span of a heart-wrenching week. It was Siri who had started to pull away, with her silly pact of non-acknowledgement and ignoring her feelings instead of learning to live with them while simultaneously denying them. From the second she had run away from him, Obi-Wan had felt her receding from his grasp and for almost two decades he had to live without her.
Yet as she lay there, mortally wounded and on the verge of dying, Obi-Wan felt those long years melt away as they finally broke the barriers between them and let the other in. How they could have fathomed being friends and comrades only in the face of their love, Obi-Wan didn't know. He supposed that the minds of eighteen-year-olds were always filled with funny notions that seemed foolish when reflected upon later in life. But now they knew the truth: to deny love existed was worse than accepting its quiet presence and learning to temper it with living, even if love's obligations and agendas couldn't be fulfilled.
Obi-Wan would always love her, and while he knew he would always keenly feel her absence and sorrow over her loss would visit him every now and again, he also knew that without her memory and the lessons of their entire relationship he wouldn't be the man he was now. An open heart joined an open mind, and with her death, Siri gave him the ability to see the universe in its beauty, and to accept the will of the Force in the shaping of events, deadly though they might sometimes be.
Prompt: 004.
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” - Lord Byron
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fandom: Star Wars
Word Count: 491
Rating: PG
Warnings Spoilers for Secrets of the Jedi, by Jude Watson.
Disclaimer George Lucas owns Star Wars. Lucas is King. If he doesn't like me pilfering his characters, he can have his merchandise back.
Summary: Obi-Wan muses on his love life.
Author's Notes:
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Their friendship was an unlikely one, since she had always been a part of Bruck's entourage. But when he discovered that Bruck had been merely using Siri to try and advance in their classes faster, Obi-Wan marvelled at his first lesson in not always relying on first impressions. He found out that impressions and instinct were two different beasts, and that one ought to always try and differentiate between the two. After all, Master Qui-Gon had always told him not to trust appearances and never take anyone's attitude at face value unless it could be backed up by cold, hard fact.
So when Obi-Wan and his Master had been teamed up with Siri and hers, Obi-Wan wasn't quite sure what was going to happen between him and Siri. They had always had a volatile past when it came to interacting with each other, and Siri always had a knack for throwing Obi-Wan off-balance, mentally and physically. It was no surprise, therefore, that he and Siri had ended up having issues after they, along with Taly, got separated from their Masters and ended up hiding out in a cave in the middle of nowhere. Poor Taly had to endure days of bickering between the two padawans.
By the end of the mission, Siri and Obi-Wan had gone from being friends to falling in love to saying good-bye all in the span of a heart-wrenching week. It was Siri who had started to pull away, with her silly pact of non-acknowledgement and ignoring her feelings instead of learning to live with them while simultaneously denying them. From the second she had run away from him, Obi-Wan had felt her receding from his grasp and for almost two decades he had to live without her.
Yet as she lay there, mortally wounded and on the verge of dying, Obi-Wan felt those long years melt away as they finally broke the barriers between them and let the other in. How they could have fathomed being friends and comrades only in the face of their love, Obi-Wan didn't know. He supposed that the minds of eighteen-year-olds were always filled with funny notions that seemed foolish when reflected upon later in life. But now they knew the truth: to deny love existed was worse than accepting its quiet presence and learning to temper it with living, even if love's obligations and agendas couldn't be fulfilled.
Obi-Wan would always love her, and while he knew he would always keenly feel her absence and sorrow over her loss would visit him every now and again, he also knew that without her memory and the lessons of their entire relationship he wouldn't be the man he was now. An open heart joined an open mind, and with her death, Siri gave him the ability to see the universe in its beauty, and to accept the will of the Force in the shaping of events, deadly though they might sometimes be.
