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Title: FA:
Baby-Wan Kenobi (1/1)
Author:
Darth Diebin [email protected]
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Series:
First Apprentice Series
(http://www.geocities.com/mistressdiebin/fa.html)
Setting:
Siona is 22, Qui-Gon is 36. (Playing with cannon time a little--I’m
making Qui
younger in TPM. Hope no one minds to terribly much. *grin*)
Rating: PG
for a little langauge and one lewd comment. ;)
Archive: If
it makes you happy. :)
Apology:
Once again, cute and not much plot. All of these cutsey little
Siona
stories are to distract me from the Anti-Cutsey story I’m currently
writing.
Whenever it gets to depressing, I write something happy. Enjoy
cutesy while
it lasts--things are going downhill, my dears.
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When it came
down to it, Siona much preferred the company of animals to the
company of
babies. Animals were intelligent, playful, and could usually
entertain
themselves. Babies were loud, smelly, required constant attention,
and liked to
throw up on you.
Obi-Wan
Kenobi was no exception to the rule. Although he spent perhaps less
time
throwing up than some of the other children, he made up for it in
other,
annoying little baby ways.
“I hate
you,” Siona said conversationally to Shawn as she tried to convince
baby Kenobi
that her braid was not a chew toy. “I really hate you.”
“You’re just
saying that to make me feel better,” Shawn quipped back,
looking up
from where he was playing with two small toddlers.
“You know,
Qui-Gon told me yesterday that we’re just like he and Mace were
when they
were younger.” Giving up on retrieving her hair from the infant’s
mouth, Siona
moved to sit next to Shawn, who was having considerable more
success
entertaining the children than she was.
“What, I’m
handsome charming like my Master, and you’re grumpy like yours?”
Shawn smiled
innocently at his best friend, lifting one of his small charges
upside-down
and listening to the small girls delighted screams.
“No. You
keep doing dumb stuff that gets both of us stuck with baby-sitting
duty.” Siona
glared at Shawn.
“I /like/
baby-sitting duty,” Shawn replied, uprighting the giggling toddler
and planting
a kiss on her forehead. The small girl squealed, squirming
around to
hug Shawn with her tiny arms.
Obi-Wan
chose that moment to pull Siona’s braid, showing considerable
strength for
a one year old. She winced, trying once again to pry the hair
out of the
baby’s fist. “Well I don’t. Having little children screaming and
pulling my
hair and spitting up on me is /not/ my idea of a good time.”
“Here--give
me little Obi. See if you can do better with the toddlers.”
Reaching
out, Shawn deftly plucked Obi-Wan from Siona’s eyes, dropping the
toddler girl
into her lap instead. “Here, Aila--play with Siona.”
Both
children started screaming--Obi-Wan reaching out for Siona and Aila
scrambling
over Siona’s legs to cling to Shawn. “Bad person!” the tiny girl
screamed,
scrambling into Shawn’s lap.
Siona rolled
her eyes. Children seemed to universally hate her. Qui-Gon
teased her
about it constantly--there was /no/ little creature that didn’t
immediately
love and run to her Master--but they ran away from Siona even
more
quickly.
“I think
little Kenobi likes you,” Shawn said, dropping the infant back in
Siona’s
arms. Obi-Wan immediately reached up a grubby fist to lock around
Siona’s
braid, pulling it painfully with a little gurgle of delight.
“Great. I’ve
got a baby attached to my head.” Siona sighed. “There’s just no
help for it,
Shawn. I can’t be you friend any more. I don’t think I can
/survive/
any more stints as a baby-sitter!”
“Nonsense,”
Shawn said, smiling. “It’s easy. Watch me.”
Siona
settled back, rocking Obi-Wan lightly, as Shawn rolled over on to his
back,
holding out his arms to little Aila. She ran to him as fast as she
could on her
unsteady legs, diving onto his stomach. Siona winced as the
tiny elbows
and knees dug into Shawn’s ribs, but he only laughed before
boosting the
small girl onto his knees, lifting her up carefully. Siona
could sense
the Force flowing through him as he supported the tiny girl,
lifting his
legs higher.
“Flying!”
the girl cried out gleefully, spreading her arms and crowing with
delight.
“Moremoremore!”
“He’s good
with the children, isn’t he?” A familiar voice asked from behind
her, and
Siona turned her head without thinking, wincing when Obi-Wan’s grip
on her braid
pulled it painfully.
“Better than
I am, Master,” Siona sighed mournfully, looking up at Qui-Gon.
“Almost as
good as you are.”
“May I?”
Qui-Gon asked softly, reaching out. Siona gratefully handed the
infant over,
marveling as he went quietly into Qui-Gon’s hands.
“He’s a
beautiful young baby,” Qui-Gon murmured, cradling the infant gently
in his large
hands. Siona spent a few moments marveling anew at the size of
her Master’s
hands--the baby was completely cradled in them, one large thumb
stroking the
downy hair softly.
“He likes to
eat my hair,” Siona replied with a wry smile. “But if I try to
give him to
Shawn he cries and screams.”
“He like
you,” Qui-Gon responded, kneeling down and tucking the baby back
into Siona’s
arms, running a gentle finger down the infant’s cheek. Obi-Wan
grabbed
Qui-Gon’s large finger with both of his small fists, cooing happily
and trying
to bring the finger to his mouth to chew on.
“Where did
you learn to be so good with children, Master?” Siona asked
curiously as
her Master freed his finger and rose, smiling over at Shawn who
was still
playing with the toddlers.
“As I told
you before, my Padawan--Mace landed me with baby-sitting duty
often. I
hated it at first--but grew to love it.” Casting his Apprentice a
serious
look, he turned to go. “Maybe you will too, someday.”
“And the
great Jinn as spoken,” Shawn intoned as Qui-Gon disappeared around
the corner.
“He has foretold a great love of children unfolding in the
barren heart
of his Padawan. One can only infer that it is to come to pass,
for the
Great Jinn is never wrong.” Turning his head to look at Siona, Shawn
gave her a
naughty wink. “Maybe he’s hoping to father a couple. Feeling up
to it,
Ja’Larkin?”
All of the
responses Siona could think of were highly inappropriate to say
around
children, so she settled for rolling her eyes, turning her face back
to stare
down at the infant cradled in her arms. Obi-Wan was obviously
growing
sleepy, large blue eyes only half open as he gazed up at Siona
contentedly.
Siona didn’t
mind as much when he reached up this time to pull on her braid.
She shifted
the infant so that his head rested against her neck, rubbing the
small back
softly. It wasn’t so bad, to have this warm trusting child
cuddled up
against her. Maybe he wasn’t even that smelly.
And then
Obi-Wan decided to throw up on her.
Siona glared
as Shawn erupted into howling gales of laughter, watching her
with
tear-filled eyes as she tried to scrub the smelly mess off of her
tunic.
Obi-Wan continued to stare at her contentedly, eyes devoid of
anything
resembling remorse for the mess he’d just made on her tunic.
If Qui-Gon
thought she’d come to love babies, that man had another thing
coming.
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