Title: When Stars Collide
Author: Angel: da Newsies fan
Rating: PG-13 (language and suggestive dialogue)
Characters: main: Obi-Wan and you; Qui-Gon Jinn and other Jedi
Setting: Pre-TPM
Category: ABH, AU, romance/action adventure
Disclaimer: Don't sue! Star Wars belongs to George Lucas!! I'm just playing with the characters...the only characters that are mine are the made up ones, but I could care less if anyone used those.
Status: In Progress
Summary: You and Obi-Wan Kenobi loathe one another and everyone in the Jedi Temple knows it...so why in the world would they pair the two of you up for a mission and with out your Masters to control you?
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Chapter 6:
You’ve now contacted the Council and, basically, all they told you is to put up your shields and wait.
“Isn’t there anything else we can do? That ship’s probably locking in on us right now.” you say, leaning against the cockpit wall.
Obi-Wan looks at you and sighs.
“I can’t think of anything, I’m afraid. I suppose all we can do is keep a look out. What else could we possibly do anyway?” he asks, folding his strong arms over that wonderful chest of his. (A.N. *lol*)
You stare at him for a moment and frown.
“I dunno.”
Kenobi turns to look at you again.
“Look, I understand that you’re worried, I am as well, but we have to keep it together. Jedi don’t loose it easily...they thrive in stressful situations.” he says, attempting to console you.
You raise an eyebrow at him.
“Well, I must not be too good a Padawan, coz I’m gonna ‘loose it’ in about two seconds if I don’t find something to take my mind off of this mess!”
Kenobi looks at you, sort of taken aback.
“Right, I think you’ve all ready lost it...just relax, ok? They can’t do any damage with the shields up and besides, even if the shields weren’t up, then we’d still be all right. Now stop acting like a crazed being and pull yourself together. We’ve got a mission to accomplish.”
You nod.
“Your right...I dunno why I get like this. I should be focusing on the mission at hand, not the state of the ship.”
“Though that is rather important.” he adds, smiling cutely.
You shake your head at him.
“Yes, it is. C’mon, lets find something to do.”
“Ok.”
“Got any ideas?” you ask, sitting in your station’s chair.
Kenobi looks at you and thinks for a moment.
“Hmm...perhaps we could talk.” he suggests, taking his seat and pivoting it in your direction.
You raise another eyebrow (A.N. you do that a lot when it comes to him).
“About what?”
He shrugs and looks out of the main window.
“Oh, I dunno, maybe we could get to know one another better.” he suggests, glancing at you.
“I all ready know you, Kenobi. And what I know, is enough.” you says, with a slight laugh.
Obi-Wan frowns at you.
“Well, then perhaps just about you? There are things I’d like to know.”
“Like...”
Kenobi clears his throat.
“Well, for starters, are you a lesbian?”
You widen your eyes at him and look as if you could slap him silly.
“NO! What the hell ever gave you an idea like that!?”
“Whoa, ok, ok, sorry. It was only a question, Princess.” he says with slight amusement in his voice.
“Oh, well, if we’re going to talk about sexual orientation, are you queer?”
Kenobi looks at you perplexedly.
“Pardon? Am I ‘weird’?”
You roll your eyes at him.
“No, dip shit, are you gay?”
“Oh, ‘happy’, yes, very, but not at the moment.” he says, smirking that smirk.
*Gods, sometimes he makes my blood boil!*
“Listen, wise ass, want me to put it into terms your insignificantly small brain could comprehend? ARE. YOU. A. HOMOSEXUAL?!”
Kenobi laughs at you.
“No, of course not...by the way, you’re far too easily angered, you should work on that. You know what Master Yoda says, ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate ---’ ”
“You wanna see hate?! I all ready hate you! Isn’t that enough!?”
Kenobi stands up and looks you in your heavy breathing face.
“Calm down, love. I was only joking with you.” he says sweetly, a soft smile appearing on his face.
You look at him suspiciously.
“Why are you being so hospitable? You’ve never acted like this toward me...you want something, don’t you?”
Kenobi thinks a second.
“No, not anything from you anyway. We’ll always have wants, nothing will change that. Perhaps you should go to bed, you’re looking a little frazzled.”
You glare at him.
“You didn’t answer my question, fag boy.”
“ ‘Fag boy‘?”
“Why are you being so damn nice?!”
“Question is, why aren’t you?”
“Huh?”
Kenobi looks you directly in the eye.
“I said, ‘why aren’t you?’. I’m only being hospitable because I want this mission to go well, it’s not anything personal, so don’t even begin to flatter yourself, because I absolutely, positively have no romantic or sexual feelings for you at all!”
You look at him with bewilderment.
“When did I mention how you felt about me? I didn’t ask if you were attracted to me, I asked why you were being so cordial lately, that’s all.”
You sigh and break eye contact.
“I’ll be in the back if you decide you want to leave.” you say, turning and walking down the hallway.
Kenobi says nothing, obviously embarrassed for allowing the “romantic and sexual feelings” thing to slip out.
“Wait, Princess.”
You stop and turn around slowly.
“What?” you ask, bringing your arms across you chest.
Kenobi stands and walks over to you.
“I’m sorry if I angered you. But I still want to talk, can you at least give me that?”
You look at him suspiciously.
“Fine, but no more questions about sexual orientation; that’s just wrong.”
“Agreed.”
“Good.”
You both just stand there for a minute in silence.
“How ‘bout we sit.” you say, gesturing to the front of the ship.
Kenobi nods.
“Of course, of course.”
You both walk over and sit in your chairs.
“So,” Kenobi starts, “anything you want to know about me?”
You stare for a moment.
“Yes, actually, there is.”
“Really? Well, ask away.”
“Why do you think we’re always at each other’s throats?” you ask, leaning back and crossing your arms.
Kenobi, who looks as if he’s been caught off guard, stares at you quietly.
“Uh...Um...Well...I have no idea. Why do you think so?”
You smirk at him.
“I think you know, or at least have an idea...but, for some odd reason...you don’t wanna tell me. You‘re hiding something.”
Kenobi’s face drops.
“What?”
“You heard me. I think you’re hiding something. Something that you don’t want anyone to know. Which brings me to another question: Why are you so secretive?”
Kenobi is starting to get nervous, you see it in his eyes and on his face.
“C’mon, Obi-Wan, you gotta answer. This was your idea.”
“I didn’t realize I was so secretive.”
You laugh slightly and smirk again.
“Bull, you know, you just won’t tell me why. So, what was your plan, Kenobi? Get me to talk so you could blackmail me when I revealed intimate information to you? Or is it something else...something bigger?”
“I had no intention other than to get to know you.”
“Yeah, right. I see right through you. Why do you do this to yourself? It’s like you wish stress and aggravation upon yourself. I wanna know what the hell I have to do with your little road to self-discovery! I will not tolerate being used!”
You are now both glaring at one another.
“You know what, you’re right. Is that what you want to hear? I was trying to use you, but I can see now you’re far too clever for me.”
“Don’t you dare mock me, ass hole. Just admit it. You know I’m right, you’re just too damn prideful to ever admit, you, all mighty Obi-Wan Kenobi, could ever have a flaw!”
Kenobi just stares at you.
You rise, he follows.
“Why won’t you let anyone get close? It’s not bad, Obi-Wan. It's nice to have friends and people who care about you, people you can trust and rely on. Why won’t you just open up?”
Kenobi sends a hurtful glance in your direction and stalks off toward his cabin.
You sigh openly.
“You’re doing it again...pushing me away...it only makes it worse, you know. You can’t hide from your problems, Obi-Wan, they’ll only follow. If you wanna talk I’ll be here.” you say sitting at your navigation station and fiddle with a few things on the screen.
You sigh when you hear Kenobi’s door shut and get up to check the shields.
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Twenty minutes later, Kenobi’s still sulking and you’re sitting in the control room doing absolutely nothing.
*He’s such a baby.* you think, *Why do all guys have to be so anal retentive?*
You sit there another couple of minutes, wondering if you should try and talk to him again; you immediately decide against it.
*If he’s looking for an apology, he’s not getting one from me.*
Just then, your ship rocks violently.
*Uh-oh...* you think, scrambling to the radar screen.
You see the large ship that had been following you and two others, smaller in size.
“They went and got reinforcements. This is serious.”
“What’s going on?” Kenobi says, walking into the room.
You glance at him and decide to let your argument lay dormant for now.
“It’s that unidentified ship, again. And this time, he’s got reinforcements. Great, huh?” you say, sitting down at your station as Kenobi takes his seat at the main controls.
“Oh, yes, very great.” he responds, “Can we lift off yet?”
You check your screens and see that the engines have fully cooled.
“Yeah, we can lift off...that is, if you can get through the mass of metal above us.”
Kenobi looks at you.
“They’re above us?”
You nod.
“Yeah, about 200 feet above.”
“Oh...damn...we’ve got to find a way out of this...can you think of anything we can do?” Kenobi asks, as you get shot at once more.
“The shields won’t hold up much longer if this continues, but be happy it’s not rapid fire.” you say, adjusting things on your screens.
“I have an idea.” Kenobi states warily.
You look at him hastily when he doesn’t elaborate.
“Well? What is it? You’re not going to help by keeping the idea to yourself, Obi-Wan.”
“How about we go forward, gain enough speed and get the hell off this planet?”
You look at him peevishly.
“Great idea, Obi-Wan, only one problem: they’re going to follow us! What makes you think we can go faster then they can?”
Another jolt.
“Sith! I know, but how are we ever going to know if we don’t even attempt it?”
You sigh openly and look at Kenobi.
Another jolt.
“Ok, fine. What’ve we got to loose?”
Kenobi nods and turns toward the controls.
He tells you to get the booster engines ready and to put the shields at maximum power.
You oblige.
“Hold on to something.” he says as you strap in.
Suddenly, there’s another jolt and a banging sound coming from the ship’s entrance.
You and Kenobi look at one another.
“Did you put the shields at max power?”
You look at your screen.
“Yeah...but they blew up it’s generator...they’re going to get in.”
Kenobi looks at you momentarily then back out the main window.
“They’re not getting in. Hold on, love.”
You nod and jump as you hear another crash behind the entrance door.
Kenobi pushes several buttons and pulls a lever that instantly makes you hover, then he pushes his controller forward and you’re off.
You nervously grip you chair’s arm with one hand, while the other rests on your lightsaber; you’re not going die with out a fight.
Kenobi speeds up a little more every second and beckons you to check the radar.
“They’re getting a little behind. Keep accelerating. We actually may loose them.” you say, eyes on the screens before you.
Kenobi nods and speeds up even more, pushing you back in your seat.
After two minutes of this, you check the screens again.
“Obi-Wan, up! You can go up! Go, Go! Now!” you yell with all the energy you possess.
Kenobi obviously hears you because he begins accelerating upward.
“Initiating hyperspace!” he yells.
You nod, though he can’t see you and close your eyes tightly as he performs the action he intended.
Ten minutes in hyperspace and Kenobi yells to you.
“Check the screens.”
You open your eyes and glance at the screens as hyperspace dies down.
“They’re definitely gone. But keep speed, just in case.”
Kenobi nods and accelerates more.
“Where are we?” he asks after a moment of silence.
You study the navigational screen.
“It looks as if we’re three quarters of the way to Sophax.”
“What is the closest planet?”
You do a search and read as a map pops up on the screen.
“Tatooine. Why, do we need to stop again?”
“No, just wondering. I just like to know where I am.”
You nod you head and say no more.
“You know, you were right.” he says suddenly.
You glance at him.
“About what?”
“You know, about me being all secretive and introverted. You were right. I just wanted to tell you...”
“Oh...ok...” you say staring at him confusedly.
“You said, um, earlier that, um, if I wanted to talk, that I could, uh, talk to you?” he states questioningly.
You smile a half smile.
“Yeah, I said that. Why? You wanna talk, or something?”
Kenobi sets the ship on autopilot and un straps himself. He turns to you.
“No, I was just fooling around with you...what do you think? I wouldn’t have asked if I wasn’t interested.” he states sarcastically.
You laugh, unbuckle yourself as well, and turn to him.
“Ok, ok, no need to jump down my throat. What’s on your mind?”
Kenobi breaks eye contact with you and stares at his hands in his lap.
“Um, it’s actually about something you said before, about why we’re always at each other’s throats.”
You nod.
“Ok...what about it?”
“Well, I -- I know half of the answer...” he states still not looking at you.
You furrow your brow.
“ ‘Half’? How do you know ‘half’ of an answer?”
Kenobi, looking more and more nervous by the second, gulps.
“Uh, well...you know the other half.”
You raise an eyebrow.
“I do? How in the universe do I know it?”
“Well, I have my reason and you have yours.”
“Oh, ok...so, what’s your reason?”
Obi-Wan gulps again and licks his lips unconsciously.
Clearing his throat casually, he makes eye contact with you once more.
“My reason is....that, I....um....I...”
You gape at him.
*What’s going on? It’s like he’s trying to tell me he...*
“I have feelings for you.” he blurts out quickly, averting his eyes once more.
You blink and stare unbelievingly.
“You what?”
“You heard me.”
“Uh...I thought I heard you say that you have feelings for me.” you say looking at him; he doesn’t respond.
“No way...but...why?” you ask disbelievingly.
“Honestly,” he starts, looking you in the eyes again, “ I have no idea.”
“But, why would you be all mean to me if you...felt that way?”
“It was a cover.” he states simply.
“A cover?”
“Yes...”
You rise from your chair and pace the room.
“How....How long?” you ask, biting your fingernails.
Kenobi looks at you sweetly and rises as well.
“Long.”
He walks over to you and looks deeply into your eyes. (A.N. this is gettin’ pretty good, no?)
“I love you, Princess.” he says before planting a searing, hot kiss on your lips.
You jolt awake and look at your surroundings. No Kenobi in site; you look out the window and see that you’re still on Geonosis.
*Damn.* you scream inwardly, *It was all a dream.*
You get up, stretch and walk toward the main control panel lazily.
That’s when the ship’s entrance bursts open and there stands a group of masked beings.
You stare wide-eyed, too shocked to scream.
Through the smoke, you vaguely see Kenobi exit his cabin.
That’s when one masked creature turns to you and points a gun at your head.
“This won’t hurt a bit.” says the voice.
Then, all is black.
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Sorry...this was long enough, I HAD to end it somewhere!! I’ll be updating hopefully quicker next time...it’s just this month has been REALLY busy.
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