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Alexis_Wingstar Registered: Sep '06	Date Posted: 4/24/08 10:26am Subject: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic) Won Best Songfic; Thanks to who voted! - Date Edited: 7/19/08 6:13pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Alexis_Wingstar
	Title: Gather 'Round All You Clones Author: Alexis_Wingstar Timeline: ROTS/Just after Order 66 and Obi-wan changes the beacon to warn surviving Jedi to stay away. Characters: An anonymous OC jedi Summary: One isolated jedi's response to the purge. Note: Thanks goes to The Musical Jedi for her permission to post this, as it was inspired by her OC's, Tobias, reaction to the purge if he did not have Koria with him. Also thanks to her for betaing. This was also in response to the Life's a Stage challenge: LifesAStage-Director posted: The next challenge will be: drum roll Write a story, any genre based on the song, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" from the Beatle's musical, "Help!". It does not have to be a songfic, but must include at least four lines from the song. Bonus if you include lines from any of the other songs from "Help!" The deadline will be Saturday, May 31, 2008. The only other song I quoted from on that album was "Yesterday", and I italicized that line. Here I stand head in hand Turn my face to the wall If she's gone I can't go on Feeling two foot small I am alone. Circumstances have allowed my continued existence in this darkened universe. I was deep under cover when it happened. I felt a disturbance so powerful, it almost made me pass out. Death. The galaxy is… was… at war, so there is no shortage of it. It had become a shadow hanging over me and the rest of the galaxy’s inhabitants. That shadow suddenly took shape as a spear and thrust itself into my soul as I felt my fellow Jedi being slaughtered. I could not understand what had happened at first. Everywhere people stare each and every day I can see them laugh at me And I hear them say Hey you've got to hide your love away Hey you've got to hide your love away I got the call to go back to Coruscant, but I could not depart right away. By the time I got to the ship the Order had provided me, the message had changed. Now it says to stay away. Hide. I found holonet news reports claiming the Jedi have betrayed the Republic, and are now hunted criminals. The chancellor has declared himself emperor. How can I even try? I can never win Hearing them, seeing them In the state I'm in The Republic is dead. The Jedi Order is dead. I… I live for now. This too shall pass. How could she say to me "Love will find a way?" Gather round all you clowns Let me hear you say Hey you've got to hide your love away Hey you've got to hide your love away I am now walking into the middle of a clone battalion. They ignore me for now. I must appear to be just another refugee to them. I stop in front of a clone marked as a leader. I do not know his designation. It does not matter. My lightsaber appears in my hand for the last time, and I ignite its yellow blade. I just hold it between me and the clone leader. And wait. An eternity in a moment, and blaster bolts find their mark. All ties have been broken now. No attachments. That is the Jedi way. -----signature----- 3rd time NaNoWriMo Participant 3rd time's the charm, right? RIGHT?
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earlybird-obi-wan Title: PT Scene Contest Winner Registered: Aug '06	Date Posted: 4/24/08 11:20am Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic)
	lovely response to that Beatles challenge. And so sad to see another Jedi killed -----signature----- writer and Star Wars fan FANART [link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_art/b10020/25793899]fanart[/link] stories in my bio
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The Musical Jedi Registered: Dec '99	Date Posted: 4/24/08 6:20pm Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic)
	Gave me chills the second time around as well. You make Order 66 that much more real... -----signature----- Hold your own Know your name Go your own way Mortality: http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30379374
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VaderLVR64 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 4/25/08 6:50am Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic)
	That was chilling and powerful! The Republic is dead. The Jedi Order is dead. I… I live for now. This too shall pass. Wow. -----signature----- R.I.P John, Alex, Jason, and Christian Never forgotten Soldiers' Angels http://soldiersangels.org/ 2114 soldiers waiting for someone to care
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LifesAStage-Director Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 5/22/08 10:26am Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic) - Date Edited: 5/22/08 10:28am (1 edits total) Edited By: LifesAStage-Director
	earlybird-obi-wan posted: lovely response to that Beatles challenge. And so sad to see another Jedi killed Thank you. The Musical Jedi posted: Gave me chills the second time around as well. You make Order 66 that much more real... The wholesale slaughter of the Jedi is just too big to take in, but seeing individuals I guess brings it home. Thanks again for letting me post this, and beta'ing for me. VaderLVR64 posted: That was chilling and powerful! The Republic is dead. The Jedi Order is dead. I… I live for now. This too shall pass. Wow. Thanks. EDIT: I forgot I was on my sock account!
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Trika_Kenobi Registered: Nov '99	Date Posted: 5/22/08 1:01pm Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic)
	Wow, Alexis. That's just super powerful. You gave it a hefty dose of realism while keeping the entirety simply beautiful. Wonderful job. Thank you. -----signature----- My Uncle Sam sends me places... the "going OCONUS lol" is here! Current Location: Iraq Don't bother running. You won't get far enough. http://www.TalonIntelligenceSquadron.com
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Alexis_Wingstar Registered: Sep '06	Date Posted: 6/13/08 4:57am Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic) Nominated Best Songfic
	Trika_Kenobi posted: Wow, Alexis. That's just super powerful. You gave it a hefty dose of realism while keeping the entirety simply beautiful. Wonderful job. Thank you. Thank you, Trika. You're comments always threaten to swell my ego. Thank you to whoever nominated this as best songfic. -----signature----- 3rd time NaNoWriMo Participant 3rd time's the charm, right? RIGHT?
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Alexis_Wingstar Registered: Sep '06	Date Posted: 7/19/08 6:14pm Subject: RE: Gather 'Round All You Clones (LAS Challenge; Purge Songfic) Won Best Songfic; Thanks to who vote
	Much thanks to everyone who voted. -----signature----- 3rd time NaNoWriMo Participant 3rd time's the charm, right? RIGHT?
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