Star Wars Fic and Meta - From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 26

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 26 - Eternity is a Perfected Form of Loneliness
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, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, 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: ~ 7700 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: Keeping a secret Yoda has been. Nearly nine hundred years old he is and many secrets he’s kept, but most dangerous is this secret.

And knows the old saying too well he does, a secret is not a secret when two beings know, unless one of those beings is dead. Or if both of those beings are Jedi.

Now it is time for a third being to know this secret.

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From All The Spaces Between Times - Chapter 26 - Eternity is a Perfected Form of Loneliness (On AO3)

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Meta - Chapter 26 - Eternity is a Perfected Form of Loneliness

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.


Progress was a little slower this week, I struggled a bit with logistics -- moving Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan around, getting them just where I wanted. And then I realized I left out some key scenes, so I needed to backtrack. But nearly 7k, not bad at all. I’m still feeling kind of crappy, but getting better. The story is still singing to me, I'm still waking up with the words are just dying to get out.

Please note, I am still thinking about taking a few weeks off from posting after Chapter 27 (next week's chapter), which is the end of Book II. I will keep everyone posted.

241,504 words, 45 chapters

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Obi-Wan’s Immortal Midi-Chlorians

Vokara, thankfully, explains. "Midi-chlorians pass into the Force within an hour, at most two hours, after they leave the host. Your midi-chlorians from the tests done on Tatooine three years ago, and from the test done when you arrived here are still alive and active.


Obi-Wan just nods.

Master Che unlocks a cabinet and pulls out a locked box. She offers it first to Master Yoda, who leans forward and looks into an optical scanner, then she does the same. She takes out a slide and puts it into a scope, and turns on a wall-mounted display. There’s a bit of fiddling and then Obi-Wan sees life, wriggling, teeming life. It reminds him of a stellar incubator at the heart of the Galaxy.

"Whoa. That’s one of my cells?"

"That’s inside one of your DNA strands. Those are your midi-chlorians that Master Jinn took from you three years ago. They should not be alive here and now."

Then Master Che removes the slide, puts it back in the box and takes a sample of her own blood, depositing it on a slide. She fiddles with the focus and while there are many similarities between what he’d seen before, there are a lot of differences, too. Her blood isn’t as densely populated with that star-like matter. "Watch, Obi-Wan. It will take a few minute before you see the changes."

He does and the three of them sit in silence as the minutes pass.

Then Obi-Wan exclaims, "I see it - things are disappearing."

"My midi-chlorians are returning to the Force. Within an hour, two at the most, all of them will be gone from the blood sample. But in your blood, they are all still alive in the here and now."

All of this is made-up by me. There is remarkably little canon information about midi-chlorians, or the Whills, or how and when they were discovered, other than the basic bits that George had Qui-Gon mutter about The Phantom Menace, and a bit more in some TCW episodes, but nothing concrete. If I’ve somehow missed something seminal, forgive me. Let’s consider it a timeline variation.

The concept of immortal midi-chlorians was one of the first ideas that came to me when I started mentally fleshing out this story. There are reasons for that. I always have reasons, and you know that they won’t get fleshed out for many, many chapters.

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Lughashe Knows!

Lughashe does not often trouble with mind-speech, but when she does, slow and deliberate it is. "Blessings on the Force’s Champion please give, we thank you for bringing their gift to us. No longer lonesome we are."

Yes. And she actually know a lot more than Yoda. Yes, Yoda thinks that Obi-Wan is the Force’s Champion — mostly because of all of those immortal midi-chlorians and his skill with his 'sabers. He has no clue about the other timeline.

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Over-Used "Gundark Metaphor" Counter




Two gundarks, one chapter. I should be ashamed of myself.

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I hope you’re enjoying the story and I look forward to your comments (even if it takes me a while to answer them. I spend nearly all of my free time writing, thank you for understanding.