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ardavenport 
Registered: Dec '04
22348_Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 1/20/07 10:14pm Subject: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- COMPLETE -- 28-Apr-2007 - Date Edited: 4/28/07 5:31pm (21 edits total) Edited By: ardavenport
Title:The Heart of the Jedi
Author: ardavenport
Timeframe: pre-Episode I, pre-TPM, JA
Genre: Drama
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Keywords Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi
Summary: Master and Padawan both learn from each other and from the simple construction of a new lightsaber.
Notes: This story begins with a mission and lots of action, but it is really a Jedi Temple drama. It fills in various and sundry details conspicuously left out of the JA books.
Typo is my middle name, with missing words and errors that spell checkers don’t catch being my speciality – if you see any, just post a reply or send a PM with the what and where and I will kill them with no mercy.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to George and Lucasfilm; I’m just playing in their sandbox.




Obi-Wan Kenobi did not think, he just acted.

The heavy outer door slowly closed and he could see that even with the Force his Master was not going to make it.

Obi-Wan listened to the Force.

His blue lightsaber blade flashed out as he thrust the hilt high up into the opening. The steady friction of the door mechanism instantly changed to squealing and grinding. Qui-Gon Jinn leaped forward, the pack of mazivs running and slashing behind him, their handlers urging them to the kill.

The Force surged through both of them as Obi-Wan seized an arm and shoulder and pulled his the much larger man through. The opening was just wide enough, the length of Obi-Wan’s lightsaber.

Propelled forward, they both rolled to their feet and Obi-Wan got a fleeting glance of his lightsaber bending under the pressure before Qui-Gon seized him. They ran along the wall of the castle, propelled now by an urgent warning in the Force. Run.

Halfway to their air speeder, they saw the flash from the implosion of the lightsaber’s power core that even the saber’s well-engineered core containment couldn’t defeat as it was being crushed. Hopefully some of the discharge deflected back toward their pursuers.

Blaster bolts from above exploded the paving on one side, bits of pulverized stone flying out from the hits. Qui-Gon’s lightsaber deflected the danger from both of them. Obi-Wan leaped into the driver’s seat of the speeder. He didn’t look up, but he knew exactly when his Master was safe in the speeder next to him. Qui-Gon continued to deflect the blaster bolts as the speeder hummed and sped away and up.

Obi-Wan swung the speeder around the outer walls, rising higher. He knew what direction to go, without knowing where he was going.

“There!” Qui-Gon shouted. Obi-Wan saw the two lightsaber blades, green and blue, swinging, jabbing, high on a parapet. Mazivs howled their rage and pieces of them fell over the side. Obi-Wan soared upward, slowing down just enough for the two Jedi to jump to safety. Three Mazivs leaped after them. Qui-Gon’s saber cut them down in mid-air.

The speeder accelerated away, descending down the castle hill, and then over the grassy plain toward the mountain where their ship was hidden. Somewhere in the back of Obi-Wan’s mind, he knew he should have been elated, his connection with the Force, with his fellow Jedi, was total. He supposed that later he would, but only cool purpose and action filled this moment with no room for satisfaction. The wind blew his hair and bangs back away from his face.

“Well, that didn’t work,” Eclin commented from the back of the speeder. Obi-Wan kept his eyes forward, but he felt the moment of connection to his actions, to the older Jedi with him, passing.

“You are injured,” Qui-Gon said. Obi-Wan glanced back. All he saw was Qui-Gon’s back and side, as he turned around in his seat toward Eclin, and an expression of concern in Semko’s brown eyes as she also leaned toward Eclin.

“Yeah,” Eclin inhaled suddenly in pain. “Ow! That’s easier to ignore when someone is shooting at you.”

Obi-Wan kept driving. The plain whizzed by under them, the mountains getting larger, huge gray, uneven shapes getting taller as they got closer.

In the back, Eclin gasped again. Qui-Gon gave single word instructions to Semko. Obi-Wan looked down at the locator-holo. Their small, yellow dot rushed toward transparent, miniature cliffs. When the slightly larger green dot of their ship blinked, Obi-Wan touched a yellow control. The answering bleep of their ship’s astromech immediately followed.

Obi-Wan veered to the left, away from the gray wall of rock rushing toward them. Mindful of the three in back, Obi-Wan banked as gently as possible. Patches of bluish green foliage dotted the uninhabited slopes they passed over. The scanner screen continued to blink green; no power sources, only primitive life signs, but they had just escaped an ambush from life forms that would be equally less disturbing to a scanner.

Qui-Gon’s arm brushed past Obi-Wan's shoulder as he turned back in his seat. Obi-Wan piloted the speeder dove into a canyon. His Master glanced at the scanner display on the board between them, but said nothing.

In the back, Semko said that she had seen much worse injuries.

“I wish I had,” Eclin replied, her voice strained, serious. “But I really haven’t. Is that good or bad?”

“I couldn’t say,” Semko quietly admitted.

“Well, I think it’s bad. It’s bad every way. It’s bad getting slashed by those things. It’s bad killing them. And bleeding, that’s bad,” Eclin went on.

Qui-Gon stared ahead at the twisting canyons that Obi-Wan navigated while Eclin compared the mazivs to swarming, eight-legged boolots, especially how they smelled; the injured Jedi’s voice gained strength and normalcy as her narrative rolled on, occasionally spurred on by Semko’s sympathies.

Obi-Wan skimmed over a small lake, surrounded by steep rock walls, the area’s tough plant life clinging to near vertical surfaces. Reaching the far bank, Obi-Wan made one more sharp turn and then swiftly up the open, rear ramp of their ship. Semko literally leaped over them, her slender, lithe body hitting the deck and running to the forward pilot seats.

Qui-Gon leapt up right after her. The astromech whistled shrilly.

The ship’s engines, already warmed up, whooshed as Semko hit the antigravs and the rear ramp began to close. Obi-Wan threw himself back to the seat next to Eclin.

Qui-Gon’s lightsaber hissed and slashed. Mazivs screeched and flailed. Body parts fell all around the Jedi Master as swept his green blade through another one. Unarmed, Obi-Wan crouched next to Eclin, his legs up to kick out at another attacker. Eclin stared up the length of her own green lightsaber blade at the dead maziv, one of it’s long, rear legs still hooked on a strut on the ship’s hull above them. Gritting her teeth, her face contorted with revulsion, Elcin pushed upward, just enough to sever the limb.

“Oooaaaahhh...” Eclin moaned, her voice loud with disgust. The sinewy body, it’s plumed head still attached to charred tendons, slid off her knees and thumped down onto the floor like a sack of bones. Pushing the tough, clawed forelimbs off of himself, Obi-Wan climbed out and carefully helped Eclin up. The ship was rising; the slight, subtle changes in acceleration made the injured Jedi’s steps even more wobbly. Obi-Wan helped her limp to a sleep couch set in the wall, and then retrieved the medical kit.

At the forward pilot seats, Qui-Gon told Semko to go into orbit, but not to jump to hyperspace until he told her to. He came aft and searched with his eyes, turning around, his whole body facing any potential hiding places. Obi-Wan did not sense any more danger. He could feel that Qui-Gon did not sense anything either, but the older man still slid opened all the wall and floor compartments to look. Then he began picking up maziv remains, gathering them under the disposal lock.

Qui-Gon was angry. It was an unspeaking rage that demanded silence from anyone nearby as well. Eclin, grimacing, said nothing though her eyes kept followed her elder's motions. Obi-Wan kept his back to Qui-Gon and checked the bandaged gashes on her side and upper thigh.

Obi-wan heard his Master climbing into the speeder in back. He heaved the maziv remains out and then dragged them forward. Space and stars and a yellow sun showed through the forward view port. They were in orbit.

Qui-Gon hit the switch and the disposal door slid open. The space wasn’t large enough for the mazivs' long legs, so Qui-Gon had to cut them up with his lightsaber. The air recyclers could barely keep up with the smell of burned meat as the Qui-Gon repeatedly filled the disposal with body parts and then ejected them to burn up in the upper atmosphere of the planet below.

Obi-Wan didn’t watch, but he and Eclin sometimes stole glances toward the forward pilot seats.


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earlybird-obi-wan 
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Date Posted: 1/21/07 12:03am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
Hey this one is good can you PM me when you update.
By the way I have read all your stories and they are funny, good pieces of fiction.

 

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Date Posted: 1/21/07 8:10am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
This is really interesting!! I'd like to be PMed too, if you're starting a list happy

 

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Noelie 
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Date Posted: 1/21/07 9:06am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
Yes, this one is great Ardavenport. Not sure it is too funny at this point, however happy

Qui-Gon's anger is the kind I think make most of us the most unsettled.

It was certainly a very intense action scene.

 

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Date Posted: 1/21/07 3:31pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
I liked that Obi-Wan used his lightsaber to keep the door from closing on Qui-Gon. The action was really good, I could picture it very clearly. I do wonder why Qui-Gon is so mad, though. It couldn't be because of Obi's saber, could it?

Looking forward to more.

 

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Date Posted: 1/21/07 11:39pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
Great start - nice action!
But I'm also looking forward to the temple scenes.

 

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Date Posted: 1/21/07 11:49pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
Oh, nice...why oh why is Qui-Gon mad? I can't wait to read more, please add me to the PM list.

 

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Date Posted: 1/25/07 8:24am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
Oooh, really nice beginning. I was so excited when I saw this. dancing Like everyone else, I have no idea really why Qui-Gon is angry. And I'm quite anxious to find out. grin

 

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Date Posted: 1/26/07 6:40pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007
earlybird-obi-wan: Thanks for reading! happy For this one and the other stories; that's a lot of them.

NYCitygurl: Thanks. Glad you're reading! happy

Noelie: Thanks much! There are some funny bits coming later. happy The story leans more toward the serious. Aaaaah, yes, I wouldn't want to be around when Qui-Gon's angry.

dianethx: Thanks a bunch! Since SW started out as a movie, action scenes just don't play right for me in print unless they're very visual. Why Qui-Gon is angry will be answered.

Fifilla: Thanks! There will lots of Temple scenes for awhile after this.

Valairy_Scot: Thank you! happy

LuvEwan: Thanks for reading! Aaaaah, it seems so obvious to me what Qui-Gon is mad at; it shall be revealed....

 

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Date Posted: 1/26/07 6:42pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Part 1 -- 21-Jan-2007

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Qui-Gon carefully cleaned his hands at the fresher in the rear of the ship. The residue of blood and gore came off easily and then the residual cleaner solution dried to nothing on his skin. Both Eclin and Obi-Wan watched him without looking at him while his initial fury waned. He focused on the mundane task of washing and let the rest of it go. He checked on Eclin, but Obi-Wan was trained well as a field medic, as all Jedi apprentices were. He had already replaced or reinforced the quick bandages that they had applied in the speeder, attached a fluid replenishment pack to her arm to make up for the lost blood and given Eclin antibiotics. The side wound was serious and she was most in danger from infection.

“Have you set the coordinates for Coruscant?” Qui-Gon called out.

“Yes, Master Qui-Gon,” Semko replied from the pilot’s controls.

“Then it is time to leave.” He finished with his hands. He picked up the debris left over from Obi-Wan’s ministrations to Eclin’s wounds and went to the disposal. Obi-Wan and Eclin were still not looking at him and he was still not looking at them. His anger was not directed at them, but he could do nothing about it making them nervous. That did not concern him.

The ship made the jump to light speed smoothly. They would be back on Coruscant in less than half a day.

Amid the tense silence in the cabin, he finished at the disposal and went back to the sleep couch. He reached to an upper compartment that was too high for his fourteen year-old apprentice to reach. The panel slid aside and he took out a blanket and handed it to Obi-Wan. Eclin looked up, her mouth open. Qui-Gon coolly looked down at her. She closed it.

Qui-Gon went forward.

He stood behind the left pilot’s seat. The glowing, random shapes and darknesses of hyperspace passed by like malformed ghosts. Qui-Gon sensed dread immediately before him. Disappointed, Qui-Gon remained silent, while he looked at the nothingness beyond the ship. The dread ebbed, but it did not entirely go away.

“You were not aware of the danger when we entered the ship,” he finally stated.

“No, Master Qui-Gon.” Semko’s voice was quiet.

“You rushed forward directly under where four mazivs had concealed themselves.”

“The Force must have been with me, Master Qui-Gon.”

Qui-Gon’s expression soured. “No, it was not, Knight Semko,” he said, sternly. He waited, until she turned her seat around. She faced hm.

“I know.” Then she lowered her small brown eyes. “I was careless.” Qui-Gon looked down at her short, thick blond hair. Semko was an agile, slender humanoid with fine, short hair covering her in shades of cream, with light brown stripes marking her face and hands.

“You were not aware of your surroundings. It is fortunate that, even injured, Eclin was aware enough to defend herself, and my Padawan, who is unarmed because he sacrificed his lightsaber to save me..” Semko started, but she did not look up. Qui-Gon folded his arms before him. “You are inexperienced, but you have been on many missions. This is Eclin’s first, as a Jedi Knight.” Qui-Gon waited, letting the meaning of his words sink in and letting his own rekindled fury fall and diminish. He had felt it, creeping into the tone of his rebuke. Contempt and anger were dark and forbidden, and could only aggravate Semko’s shortcomings. Qui-Gon banished any thoughts of acting on his anger over their catastrophically failed mission followed immediately by Semko’s near-fatal mistake.

He waited, aware of the mass of discordant surface thoughts in her.

“Are you afraid of what I will do next, Semko?”

She looked up, surprised by the question, the facial stripes, radiating out from her eyes accented her expression.

“Yes,” she said, but nothing more. Qui-Gon’s anger released, dissipated, upon hearing her simple, honest answer. He did not ask her anything else, because he sensed that she didn’t know anything else, but she accepted her actions as they were, with no dissembling.

“I will recommend to the Council that you receive further training. There is no point in dwelling on your mistake, Semko. Your focus should only be on not repeating it.” he laid his hand on her shoulder. She did not start this time; she only nodded and then looked up at him, her brown eyes earnest.

“Thank-you, Master Qui-Gon.” He nodded back to her, satisfied that she would learn well from this near-costly error. He lowered his hand and went around her to sit in the right pilot’s seat. There was no more to say.

After a moment, he heard her quiet footsteps going aft and then her voice asking Eclin how she felt. Eclin told her in great detail, and then she asked in a near whisper what Qui-Gon had said to her. Semko declined to discuss it, but that didn’t stop Eclin from finding a new topic to expound on, her impeding stay at the Temple med-center and her former Master’s reaction to her injury.

It was a small ship and really impossible not to hear some of Eclin’s chatter. Qui-Gon supposed that while she talked, he could be certain that her injuries were not worsening.

Qui-Gon settled back in the padded seat and closed his eyes. Eclin and Semko and Obi-Wans’ voices faded to background sounds as he cleared his mind.


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As soon as their ship emerged from hyperspace and joined the orbital traffic around Coruscant they received a com from the Jedi Temple. They were told to report to the Jedi Council immediately upon disembarking. Qui-Gon confirmed the message and requested a medical capsule at the landing platform before closing the com.

Semko piloted the ship down into the atmosphere. The approach path to the Temple was reserved, so there was no traffic. Upon landing, they first gave Eclin Moli to the medical droids and the Jedi that waited for them. Qui-Gon smiled at her, Obi-Wan promised to visit later and Semko kissed her lightly on the forehead. She unhappily looked after them, clutching the battered, dark brown robe that Obi-Wan had retrieved from the back of the speeder for her.

The three of them did not speak as they passed through the hangar level, nor did they say anything as Qui-Gon strode through the great halls inside the Temple, Obi-Wan and Semko following. They took a lift that whisked them up to the tower above the Temple where the Council met.

The door was open to them. They were expected.

Qui-Gon took his place in the center of the patterned floor of the circular room, Obi-Wan and Semko respectfully behind him. They all bowed together.

There were only four Council members present. Master Yoda and Master Yaddle, two ancient Jedi of the same diminutive, green species, Depa Billaba, a solemn, dark-haired, light-skinned woman in a plain brown robe and long tunic, and Maga-Tel Dal, a frowning, square-jawed, older male with silvery gray hair and large, seven-fingered hands.

Immediately, Dal asked where Eclin Moli was and Qui-Gon informed them of her injuries. All four Council members exchanged looks but offered nothing in return.

Qui-Gon reported their mission. The planet, Zunus, had harbored illegal settlements for thousands of years, so long that one wondered why they had never petitioned for official status. But a strong streak of independence among the inhabitants ensured its outlaw status. For the past few generations, a schism had grown between the factions that traded with the Potep Union (the systems that nominally claimed Zunus, but hadn’t enforced its claim in centuries) and the stubbornly planet-bound factions that wanted nothing to do with ‘dirty machine-users’, or the rest of the galaxy. The planet-bound faction had been gaining territory and influence for some time and had systematically forced the traders into smaller and smaller reserves. The castle was their last stronghold. A truce had held for several years, but new leaders among the planet-bound factions began attacking. The Zunusian traders petitioned the Republic, through the Potep Union’s Senator for negotiators to establish a new truce. The planet-bound factions valued strength and fighting prowess, so the Jedi were sent.

They received questionable landing instructions upon their arrival. Instead of using the stronghold’s landing field, they were told to set down on the open plain below the castle. Qui-Gon, the senior Jedi and in charge of the group, had selected a secluded area and they approached by speeder to investigate. The castle, the landing field and the town around them appeared wrecked and abandoned when they had arrived.

A lone individual, waving a red banner, flagged them down to the castle grounds. She had been a large woman, her blue body armor hand made and spun. She informed them that they were welcome to take away the last of the trader faction.

The invitation was obviously a trap, but Qui-Gon did not feel that he could leave without confirming the status of any survivors. They warily entered the castle. There, in a large, high-ceilinged meeting hall, the leaders of the planet-bound factions presented Qui-Gon with the heads of the remaining trader faction. Stacks of them.

The leader of the planet-bound faction’s ruling tribunal assured Qui-Gon that the Jedi would be allowed to leave. Their witness was required to inform the Potep Union that their collaborators had been eliminated. Qui-Gon had believed her. She, and the other members of the tribunal had been sincere. They had been, until arrows simultaneously felled some of them. Apparently not all the leaders of the planet-bound factions had agreed to let the Jedi leave, or on who should actually be in charge.

The room had instantly turned into a melee, where only some of the combatants and fighting animals were trying to kill and dismember the Jedi, while more of them were fighting amongst themselves. The Jedi team had separated. Qui-Gon had defended their retreat, while Obi-Wan ran out to get their speeder.

At this point, Qui-Gon described how Obi-Wan used his lightsaber to keep the door open for him. Qui-Gon glanced back to see an embarrassed expression on Obi-Wan’s face. He stood with his arms crossed before him, tucked into the opposite sleeves of his robe, a proper stance for meeting the Jedi Council, but it also conveniently hid his lack of a lightsaber.

Qui-Gon described the rest of their escape, and Semko’s error when they returned to the ship. Qui-Gon stated his opinion that Semko should be given training to sharpen her awareness of her surroundings.

“Hmmmm, agree, you do, Knight Semko?” Master Yoda asked in his aged, raspy voice.

“I do, Master Yoda. I should not have been so careless,” Semko responded from Qui-Gon’s left.

“Hmmmm,” Yoda seemed to ponder this, but his green eyes settled on Qui-Gon and instantly he knew that the aged Master was considering him for the task. While Qui-Gon would have accepted, if asked, he did not want the task. He would be assisting Obi-Wan in building his new lightsaber and he did not want his attention divided.

“Master Guiyusinth, a keen observer is, and available, I believe,” Yaddle said, drawing the attention of the other Council members. “Since Knighted her Padawan, Eclin Moli, is.”

“Hmmm, agreed,” Yoda affirmed, though Qui-Gon thought that he saw disappointment in the small Master’s eyes. “Busy Master Qui-Gon will be. Assisting his Padawan, to build a new lightsaber, he will be,” Yoda finished, practically reading Qui-Gon's thoughts. A smug smile formed on Yoda’s wrinkled face. Qui-Gon kept his expression blank.

Yoda had urged Qui-Gon to take Obi-Wan as his Padawan, a partnership that Qui-Gon stubbornly declined, but the Force itself seemed to bring them together anyway. Or perhaps it had just been one small green Jedi Council member.

Qui-Gon strongly suspected that Yoda had arranged to have them on the same transport to Bandomeer. The personalities of Master and student had clashed badly at times and Obi-Wan had even left the Jedi Order to join a children’s war on Melida/Daan, but circumstances put them back together again, and Qui-Gon could not deny that the bond between himself and Obi-Wan was real.

Qui-Gon Jinn thought that Master Yoda enjoyed being right a bit too much sometimes.

“Acted well, young Obi-Wan did.” Yoda nodded his approval.

“He did,” Qui-Gon acknowledged, letting the aged Master have his gloat.

The Council agreed to Semko’s training and Depa Billaba returned to their mission.

“Your mission was lost before you left. When you were in hyperspace, returning to Coruscant, we received a warning from the Zunusians who had escaped to the Potep Union not to send anyone, that their world was gone and that they were banished and would not petition for return.”

Qui-Gon nodded. There was little more to say about the failed mission and the group was soon excused. They all bowed and left.


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Valairy_Scot 
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Date Posted: 1/26/07 7:05pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
1st reply! Yeah.

I get it! Qui was angry that Obi-Wan could have been in danger. Well played!

Love the byplay in front of the Council.

At this point, Qui-Gon described how Obi-Wan used his lightsaber to keep the door open for him. Qui-Gon glanced back to see an embarrassed expression on Obi-Wan’s face. He stood with his arms crossed before him, tucked into the opposite sleeves of his robe, a proper stance for meeting the Jedi Council, but it also conveniently hid his lack of a lightsaber. laugh

 

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Date Posted: 1/26/07 9:34pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
Love it especially these remarks about Yoda

“He did,” Qui-Gon acknowledged, letting the aged Master have his gloat

 

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ardavenport 
Registered: Dec '04
22348_Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 1/28/07 8:47am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
Valairy_Scot: Thanks for reading! I think Qui-Gon was also concerned about Semko getting herself killed, too, along with Eclin, who was injured, and Obi-Wan, who was unarmed. It was just a stupid move that made Qui-Gon mad.


earlybird-obi-wan: Thanks much!



I'm replying a little earlier than I usually do because I'm having computer problems at the moment. I like to be regular with updates, but my video card is going south right now and I'm very limited online right now until I get the replacement. So, if I'm late with an update for next week, that would be why.

 

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dianethx 
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46246_TFN Turns "10"
Date Posted: 1/28/07 9:22am Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
Yoda was certainly pleased with Obi-Wan's quick thinking. It would seem that young Jedi Knights make mistakes but that is to be expected, especially in the dangerous line of work of the Jedi,

Good job.

 

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Fifilla 
Registered: Mar '06
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Date Posted: 1/28/07 11:54pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
Qui-Gon Jinn thought that Master Yoda enjoyed being right a bit too much sometimes.
laugh That's probably true! laugh

 

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ardavenport 
Registered: Dec '04
22348_Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 1/30/07 7:11pm Subject: RE: The Heart of the Jedi -- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, JA -- Parts 1-2 -- 26-Jan-2007
dianethx: Thank you! Young Jedi do make mistakes, but their elders work to make sure that they don't repeat them.

Fifilla: Thank you! Yes, Yoda has is pride. mischief


 

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