Star Wars Fic and Meta - From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 13

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter Thirteen - Like the Past and the Future
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars - Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, eventual Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (but not for a long while)
Word Count: ~4500 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Author Chooses Not To Use Warnings/Ratings

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Quinlan has an appointment for a high-stakes game of Sabacc in Jabba’s palace against a certain bad-tempered, spice-addicted Toydarian. He knows he has to win tonight, Master Yoda and Master Gallia are depending on him.

He’s also anxious to get back to his real mission of destabilizing Hutt control in the Outer Rim, breaking the spice trade and funding local abolitionist movements. Freeing one single slave seems like such a waste of his time and talents.

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From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter Thirteen - Like the Past and the Future (On AO3)

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Meta - Chapter Thirteen - Like the Past and the Future

As always, I am deeply grateful for all the love you’ve given this story, the outpouring of comments on the last chapter - the guessing on where the story is heading - makes me so very happy.

189,667 words
37 completed chapters

This past week marked several milestones:

• I have been officially writing this story for one full year.


• The story, with just 12 published chapters, crossed the 500 kudos mark.


• Chapter twelve received nearly 50 kudos.


• The story has crossed 10k hits.

That means everyone gets to celebrate with me. I’ve decided that the best way to reward my loyal readers is to give you a spoiler. It’s just a short one, but it’s a good one. It’s the scene where Obi-Wan gets his Force-inhibitor collar taken off.

It’s also a very important scene for the overall story although not much about it is plot heavy. You’ll all read this again in Chapter 16, the second chapter of Part II of From All the Spaces Between Times.

Enjoy!

The Force Doesn’t Work Like This. Or Does It?

As Vokara starts to cut Obi-Wan's collar, Qui-Gon connects with Mace and the rest of the group, forming a barrier against any possible Force-surge. She slices through the metal and there is a bright flash of Light and a great rush of power flows out from the cube.

But it’s unlike anything Qui-Gon or the High Council had planned for.

It’s both gentle and inexorable and despite the power of the Jedi linked together to hold back the tide, the Force flows through them like their shields are piles of feathers, over and around them, into the Temple, relentlessly.

Power seeks out power, and Light seeks out Light. Ancient sigils, laid down a thousand generations ago to protect the Jedi, and long forgotten, are recharged. Grievously injured Jedi in the Healer Wing, sustained on life support or in bacta tanks, wake up fully healed. Jedi holocrons in the Archive that no one has been able to access for since the Destruction of Ossus pop open, revealing their contents and Master Nu doesn’t know whether to faint or cry or get to work.

In the Jedi’s zoological park, Lonesome Lughashe, the last known Force-sensitive Testudinoidial that has been living by itself, lovingly cared for by Jedi zoologists for the last five-hundred years, grows gravid with a thousand fertile eggs.

And in the Great Spire, five bells that had been silent since the end of the New Sith Wars begin to ring in pure harmony.

Throughout the Temple, dozens of major and minor miracles abound, some so great they are hard to credit, others so seemingly minor they pass by unnoticed.

Obi-Wan sits in the transparisteel cube, unaware of what he’s released throughout the Temple. He revels in the Light, and the joy in all of his brethren’s lives shining so brightly throughout the galaxy. . and he swears to himself that he will not let the Darkness touch them ever again.

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