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EGKenobi
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Excellent update.
Can't wait for more.
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Interesting that Qui-Gon was so unsettled about what to do with Obi-Wan. His experiences with Dooku don't sound like they went well, either. It looks like they are off to Ilum. Darn cold place. Just hope Obi-Wan doesn't get lost.
Good job so far.
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Awww man there's no more!? How did I miss this little gem when you started it? Frankly I blame DRL  I started reading this today and it just drew me in. Your unique descriptions and characters are just so interesting, I really wonder what Illum will be like. I love the richness of detail you offer in this story. Very cool to explore different aspects of Jedi life including training exercises, that was neat! I wish we saw more of those in fanfics. Most interesting insights into Qui-Gon and his self doubts about his training methods, of course he would have those, particularly after Xanatos. Please add me to your PM list for when you update this, if you don't mind 
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Could you put me on the PM list for this one!? 
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Nice updates! I enjoyed them, really. This is a great story, keep it up
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Fifilla: Thank you! Both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have uncertain thoughts about their relationship. That's part of what makes them so interesting.
Valairy_Scot: Thanks! Ooooh, they have a little bit more to do before Illum, but they are getting closer to it.
Veloz: Thank-you! Aaaah, they still need to finish lightsabers before Illum.
earlybird-obi-wan: Thanks for reading!
Gkilkenny: Thanks for the reply! It's easier for Qui-Gon to be thoughtful with Obi-Wan when they're at the Temple and not rushing off to any missions, I think.
EGKenobi: Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
dianethx: I think after Xanatos and Obi-Wan leaving and coming back and probation and all that Qui-Gon might be more uncertain of himself with their relationship, especially if they're at the Temple and he has time to really contemplate things. And lost? People might get lost on Illum? Maybe, maybe not.  Thanks for the reply!
Layren: Weeeellll, there is more. I just haven't posted it yet. Sometime last year I posted pages of stuff on the Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan discussion thread in Resources about Jedi life and this is one place where all that stuff went to I guess. Illum hadn't been invented with the JA books come out and I couldn't resist the temptation to tie them together. Thanks for reading!
VaderLVR64: Added. Thanks for reading!
Shahar: Thank-you!
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///o\\\’///o\\\’///o\\\’///o\\\’///o\\\’///o\\\ - - - Part 9
Obi-Wan exited the stairway onto Qui-Gon's level in the Temple. He walked around the big plant, under a false skylight at an intersection of hallways. He turned to his right. He carefully looked at the wall panels in the entryways of the doors he passed.
He knew where Qui-Gon's room was supposed to be, but he had never been there before. Qui-Gon always came to his room in the morning, or when he wanted to talk with him.
He carefully noted the designations on the doors he passed in the long hallway, getting closer and closer to Qui-Gon's. Finally, he stopped before the right one. He took a breath and touched the com panel in the entryway.
The door opened.
Startled, Obi-Wan hesitated before walking inside.
The room was dimly lit and Obi-Wan touched the wall as he walked into the main room.
Qui-Gon was still in bed.
Now shocked, Obi-Wan stared. He had never imagined that Qui-Gon would not be ready and waiting for him. Suddenly feeling like an intruder, he wondered if he should leave and come back.
No, he told himself. Qui-Gon had told him to come to his room in the morning, when he was ready. If his Master was not ready. . . . well, that was his problem.
Obi-Wan looked down at the low table and sat down on one of the two floor cushions on either side of it to wait.
He started again.
A little cleaner droid quietly hummed over a rug that covered most of the floor between the table he sat at and Qui-Gon's sleep couch. It was a little silver domestic one, a box on wheels that cheerfully sought out and sucked up any dust or accumulation on any surface. Its green and yellow lights blinked as it slowly finished one trek over the rug, turned around and began anew.
Obi-Wan looked up at his Master again. The only lighting in the room came from the large holo-window on the wall, currently displaying a twilight-lit beach with dark aqua-colored water and tree covered islands in the distance. His eyes had adjusted better to the gloom and he could see Qui-Gon's chest slowly rising and falling in sleep.
It would have been so much easier for him, Obi-Wan thought crossly, if Qui-Gon was still in bed because he had mysteriously died in the night.
Obi-Wan knew that he could not accurately tell when Qui-Gon was asleep or not, even with the bond they had between them. He had been wrong more than once on their missions together. Obi-Wan also knew that a domestic droid would not enter an occupied room unless the occupant had let it in. He supposed the it could have been there all night, but Qui-Gon's rug did not look that dirty.
Another waiting game, Obi-Wan thought. Possibly Qui-Gon had been unsatisfied with how much time had been wasted the day before with Guiyusinth's training, so he needed to find new ways to do it.
No, he moaned silently to himself. He knew he could have done better. Qui-Gon could have seen that blind-folded. In retrospect he realized that he, Eclin and Semko had almost caught Master Guiyusinth sneaking behind them several times. He had been too distracted by not wanting to be there in the first place to make full use of what he sensed around him. He had also missed the fun of catching the bothersome Master at her own game as well.
Awareness came from patience and focus, from keeping a still mind no matter what circumstances he found himself in, no matter how irritating they were. Every Initiate was taught that as soon as they were old enough to understand what it meant. He just had a lot of trouble sometimes figuring out how to do it.
Obi-Wan glanced toward Qui-Gon again and immediately discarded the idea of simply waiting until he got up. He could starve before Qui-Gon stirred. His Master had the patience of a mountain. So, the burden was on him to get Qui-Gon up and their day started. As an Initiate, Obi-Wan had never pictured 'Get Master Out of Bed' as being part of his Jedi training.
Yelling? Turning on all the lights? Ripping the coverings off the sleep couch? Obi-Wan's ideas escalated in their daring as he pondered them. Jump on the sleep couch? Grab Qui-Gon by his hair? Grab his feet? Go into the fresher for a cup of water and dump it on his head? None of the choices that required him to get within arm's reach sounded very good. But with the Force he was within Qui-Gon's reach no matter what part of the room either of them occupied.
He finally decided that the best thing to do was to simply stand up and announce that he would be going on to second meal and then to work on his new lightsaber and Qui-Gon could join him at his leisure if he wished.
Obi-Wan turned around. The chrono on the wall panel showed that he still had some time to wait until second meal. His hand touched his short Padawan's braid. Then he pulled it away. Qui-Gon had frowned at him a couple of times the day before and Obi-Wan took the hint that playing with his braid would be a very bad habit for a Padawan to take up.
Sighing, Obi-Wan looked about the room.
A dark maroon curtain covered the wall by the entryway of the room. It changed the look of the room considerably, making it darker and more closed in.
The floor droid still had more than a third of the rug to go over. The rug itself was a coarsely woven rectangle in a dark color that might have been blue or gray in the low light from the holo-window.
Qui-Gon's robe hung on a hook, and he saw his Master's big boots by it and a few small odds and ends on the shelves in the storage alcove, but otherwise there wasn't much in that direction.
The fresher door was closed and there was a mirror on it and the wall beside it, reflecting faint phantoms of light back onto the beach scene across from it.
There was the sleep couch with Qui-Gon on it. Nothing special there.
His Master's lightsaber rested on a table by his head, with a cup and a com next to that. Something, possibly a holo-reader and tapes lay on a shelf under that. And on a bottom shelf next to a cannister and a bundle was a box of pik-sugar cookies.
The large bold lettering on the box advertised itself even in the gloomy lighting. It surprised Obi-Wan; Qui-Gon had never seemed inclined toward luxuries, no matter how small and there were rules against Jedi having food in their rooms. But Qui-Gon Jinn was not known for following rules, and the prohibition against food in the rooms was almost universally ignored by everyone in the Temple for small things that required no special storage.
Obi-Wan continued to survey the room. The table and floor cushions Obi-Wan sat at were exactly the same size and types as the ones in his room. In fact, in size and shape, Qui-Gon's room was a mirror image of his own. But the minor additions of rug and curtain and cookies distinguished Qui-Gon's room from the younger Jedi's own plain, beige box.
Obi-Wan had done nothing with the room he had been assigned to as Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan Learner. As an Initiate, he had built model ships and filled a study table with charts and holos and data tapes. Pursuits like that were considered good for the education of the young. When he had been assigned to the Agri-Corps, at one time denied the path of a Jedi Knight, he had left it all behind, taking only what he could carry. When circumstances, and the Force he believed, had bonded him to Qui-Gon his status had changed again. But his living space in the Temple had not been settled.
He and Qui-Gon had immediately embarked on a string of missions, ending disastrously with his rejection of Qui-Gon and the Jedi to follow the cause of a young people's war on Melida/Daan. That noble cause had fallen apart with the death of one its leaders and one of his closest friends. He had been forced to call for help and Qui-Gon had miraculously come back.
The bond between them had still been there. But his position with the Jedi had not been secure.
When they had returned to the Temple they were plunged into a new and dangerous crisis, driven by Qui-Gon's fallen former Apprentice, Xanatos. They had pursued him to his death by his own hand on his home world.
Only after they had returned to the Temple the second time had they been allowed to settle on their new relationship. Obi-Wan was on probation, watched and distrusted by Masters and his fellow Padawans. The Jedi Council did not assign them any missions for a time and Obi-Wan had not asked Qui-Gon about his own solemn meditations about the past, though his Master seemed to be at ease about Xanatos's demise on Telos.
Obi-Wan's old Initiate's room had not been disturbed. When his assignment to the Agri-Corps had been revoked, nothing had been done with it. When his probation began, he was assigned his new room, one that he could expect to live in for the rest of his life as a Padawan and then a Jedi Knight, just as many generations before him had. He and Qui-Gon had taken all of his things in his old room to the Creche to be given to the younger Initiates. Jedi did not have possessions. His old room was reassigned to an older Initiate.
His room now as a Padawan was nearly as bare as it had been when he had first walked into it. He did all of his studying in the Archives, not even borrowing a holo-reader or data tape copies or computer terminal. His room was for sleeping in, tending his bodily needs and meditation. His holo-window was set to an open sky over Coruscant. Sometimes there were clouds.
Now, looking at Qui-Gon's surroundings, Obi-Wan felt weary of his own bare room, ideally minimal for a Jedi Knight, or a Padawan trying to live down his transgressions. He had no idea where to get rugs or curtains, but he resolved to at least change the holo-window. Maybe Qui-Gon would comment on it.
Obi-Wan turned and looked back at the chrono again. He still had some time before second meal. On the sleep couch, Qui-Gon had not moved at all. Even in sleep Obi-Wan doubted that he stayed that still. His eye found the box of cookies again.
There did not seem to be any good reason for him to starve while he waited to announce that he was leaving.
Obi-Wan closed his eyes and cleared his mind. The noise of his own thoughts receded enough for him to really feel the flows of the Force. Opening his eyes again, he reached out his hand.
The cookie box wobbled. Then it came shooting straight at him, too fast. He caught it and sighed. The box had come like a called lightsaber even though he had been concentrating on having it arrive with a slower and more controlled trajectory. The cookies rustled in the box when he tilted it and it felt satisfactorily heavy.
He opened the top of the box and looked inside. The inner wrapping had been opened and the flap neatly folded over and re-sealed, but most of the cookies were still there. The wrapping crinkled loudly when he opened it and Obi-Wan's eyes looked toward his Master, but Qui-Gon had not moved. Obi-Wan sensed nothing, only the quiescent non-thoughts of sleep.
This absolutely confirmed to Obi-Wan that the older man was faking. Qui-Gon preferred getting up early, but it was already late morning. He was a light sleeper on missions and he had enough control and awareness to pick Master Guiyusinth out of a noisy Coruscant concourse. He could not possibly sleep through the noise Obi-Wan was making. But if Qui-Gon objected to him eating his cookies, then he was going to have to get up and say so.
Obi-Wan extracted one perfectly round pale cookie. The top of it glistened with tiny sugar crystals and it smelled good, faintly sweet and rich.
Halfway to his mouth, the cookie whipped out of his hand.
It flew across the room, but to Obi-Wan's irritation it quickly slowed to hover in the air before lightly landing in Qui-Gon's open palm. Still lying on his back Qui-Gon took a bite and munched contentedly.
"I suppose we should find something more nutritious for breakfast," he commented.
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I loved this update, I had to laugh and kind of cringe at Obi-Wan's uncertainty because I swear I have been in situations just like that.
It would have been so much easier for him, Obi-Wan thought crossly, if Qui-Gon was still in bed because he had mysteriously died in the night. 
You have me hooked. Thanks for the update.
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Yelling? Turning on all the lights? Ripping the coverings off the sleep couch? Obi-Wan's ideas escalated in their daring as he pondered them. Jump on the sleep couch? Grab Qui-Gon by his hair? Grab his feet? Go into the fresher for a cup of water and dump it on his head?
Great!!!
I would love to see Qui-Gon's reaction to these possibilities!
Halfway to his mouth, the cookie whipped out of his hand.
It flew across the room, but to Obi-Wan's irritation it quickly slowed to hover in the air before lightly landing in Qui-Gon's open palm. Still lying on his back Qui-Gon took a bite and munched contentedly.
"I suppose we should find something more nutritious for breakfast," he commented.
 What a chapter - and such a perfect ending!
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Caught with his hand in the cookie jar (or box, in this case)! This great story just keeps getting better.
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Aw...not really sweet, but kind of. A lesson in patience, indeed, and thinking. Nice update.
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I find Qui-Gon’s method of training disquieting, no wonder Obi-Wan doesn’t know where he stands
in Qui-Gon’s eyes. 
I can see there was a lesson there in patience. Though there should be lessons in sharing as well. 
Not nice not offering Obi a cookie.  Qui.
A cold cup of water would do the trick it would get him up very quickly.
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Cookies? No wonder Obi-Wan became grumpy with Anakin when he was using the Force frivolously
Great update
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This is brilliant. Poignant, occasionally funny, and always in-character. Would you add me to the PM list, please?
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Yay i love updates 
ardavenport posted:
Yelling? Turning on all the lights? Ripping the coverings off the sleep couch? Obi-Wan's ideas escalated in their daring as he pondered them. Jump on the sleep couch? Grab Qui-Gon by his hair? Grab his feet? Go into the fresher for a cup of water and dump it on his head? None of the choices that required him to get within arm's reach sounded very good. But with the Force he was within Qui-Gon's reach no matter what part of the room either of them occupied.
this was way too funny... i wonder what would have happened had Obi Wan tried one of those  
It was also funny how the yummy cookie just flew out of his hand... i bet poor hungry Obi Wan was looking forward to it Qui Gon, u meanie, u
I really enjoyed this update, and thanks so much for the pm  
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