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qtrhrs78 Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 12/2/04 5:09am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	They're going to let him out? Hopefully Obi-Wan is right and they don't regret that decision.
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Kynstar Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 12/2/04 6:07am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	Yay! But Obi must still stay leery of Anakin, otherwise what Ben thinks might happen juz might. Great work!! Loved the dream! -----signature----- Paddy sis to t_s & SarkaVrae/Master to hyperspace_police Member of Rebel Legion and Jedi Assembly (Kynstar Lans) Only thru fear, hatred, and pain will the true power of the Force be revealed. See stories/viggies in bio
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Ana_Labris Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 12/2/04 10:13am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	A sly smile turned the corners of Obi-Wan’s mouth. “From a certain point of view.” Oh how I knew he'd say that!! rofl Anyways.. I like the way things are going.. must have more!! -----signature----- K.E.P.P. Agent #19! I am the one and only Angry Scientist. Darth Vader is my hero.
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meaganandsasha Registered: Oct '04	Date Posted: 12/2/04 2:44pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	"From a certain point of view." favorite line there, glad that you were able to put it in your story. keep up the good work....Obi-Wan's dreams/visions were very well done and seemed very real. -----signature----- May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always on your back The sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall softly upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 12/2/04 9:18pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	qtrhrs78 They're going to let him out? Hopefully Obi-Wan is right and they don't regret that decision. Crosses fingers that Anakin is a good little Sith. Kynstar Yay! But Obi must still stay leery of Anakin, otherwise what Ben thinks might happen juz might. Great work!! Loved the dream! Yes, Obi-Wan must take Ben's fears in question. Visions/dreams can be misleading. Ana_Labris A sly smile turned the corners of Obi-Wan’s mouth. “From a certain point of view.” Oh how I knew he'd say that!! rofl Anyways.. I like the way things are going.. must have more!! More soon. Thanks. meaganandsasha "From a certain point of view." favorite line there, glad that you were able to put it in your story. keep up the good work....Obi-Wan's dreams/visions were very well done and seemed very real. I have such a fun time wrighting dream sequences. I think there my favorite because they are so symbolic and can be creepy or eerie or funny and they work. Thanks. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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JediFalcon Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 12/3/04 5:18pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	will he actually open the door? I'm on edge to see what will happen next more soon -----signature----- Rogue Three in FFC Rogue Wing, Ward rm #306 Council Member of the Lightside Master to Stridarious Crimson makes my heart go Master of BYS AHBY The Impeccably Patient Drugged-Out Lunatic of the Skies I wonder whats my purpose in life
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 12/4/04 7:23pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	JediFalcon will he actually open the door? I'm on edge to see what will happen next more soon Obi-Wan will open the door its yet to be seen if Anakin will go through it. Thanks to whoever nominated this. I appreciate it. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 12/9/04 4:00pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/01/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	”Mom,” Anakin ran into their tiny, sand sprinkled, disheveled, hovel that had been his home for the last six years. He held out the credits that Qui-Gon had secured for them by selling the his Boonta Eve-winning podracer to his care worn mother. “Look at all the money we have, we sold the pod.” It was more money then Anakin could remember every seeing in this entire life. It was not enough to free either of them from the derogation of slavery, but it would make their lives a fair bit easier. His mother could have a knew dress, he would bye he and his friends a round of their favorite drink and the cantina were all the space pilots told the best stories. “Oh, my goodness Ani, that's wonderful,” she said, her once strikingly beautiful face, once again brightening with his enthusiasm. A brief lightening of the load she carried. “And he has been freed,” Qui-Gon announced gallantly. “What?” Anakin exclaimed, missing the frozen expression on his mother's face. Qui-Gon offered a warm, fond smile. “You're no longer a slave.” The young slave boy could not believe his ears. He spun back to face his mother an eager but dubious expression on his boyhood features. “Did you hear that?” “You're free,” she said softly. Too young to understand the conflicting relief and fear in those simple word, Anakin could only smile dumbly. She bowed her head for a moment, then it sprung back up to regard the man behind her son. “Will you take him with you? Is he to become a Jedi?” Her wonder was infectious and it seeped into Anakin as he gazed up at the taller man. Qui-Gon folded his arms into his sleeves and looked kindly at Shmi. “Yes. Our meeting was not chance. Nothing happens by accident.” “You mean I get to come with on your starship?” There was never a more blissful thought for Anakin, his dreams manifested in a heartbeat. Youth a general and inherently misfortuned to think that the galaxy resolves around them and our slow to pick up on antying that does not readily involve them. So was it with young Anakin. The Jedi knealt down so that he was eye level with the excited boy. “Anakin, training to be a Jedi is not an easy challenge. Even if you succeed it will be a hard life.” “But it's what I've dreamed of doing. Can I go Mom?” he asked, to him she was the sole power in his world. How little he knew that there were others and many. She took his hands into her own and he felt the calloused skin against his own and thought nothing of it. Only Padme, the Queen's Handmaiden, could be so soft. “Anakin. This path has been placed before you. The choice is yours alone.” He hid his surprise well, when both Obi-Wan and Ben entered his cell. Not since their first encounter had the three of them been together, there had been the more painful conversations with Obi-Wan - his pains he took care to cover in the ice of his anger - and the more laughable ones with Ben; it was getting harder and harder to invent reasons for this other Skywalker's existence. He could no longer doubt that Ben was a relation to him and his resolve to disbelieve the young man to be his future grandson was waning. Like a barrier her felt a sudden surge of awareness of the ship around him. Instantly he recognized the sunned-warn water pool sense of Padme; next to Padme's sense there was an odd ripple in the Force as though it were reverberating off itself in a tiny swirl. It was tentative at best, but spoke of untold potential. Abruptly, Anakin gasped as he made the connection from him, to the strange disturbance, and then to Ben. He looked up at the younger boy and the man who had raised him in unguarded shock. They had been hiding his family from him, but it was not this that gave him pause. Why, if it had been so effectual to keep his wife and children from him, did they now reveal the truth? “We're offering you an opportunity,” Obi-Wan answered his silent question. Ben frowned at this, but did not say anything further. Obviously, this had not been his idea to allow the protective shield he kept in place, but was playing the dutiful Padawan. It was then that Anakin felt the rest of his reserve slip and admitted that the boy was very much like himself. A thought occurred to him. If Ben had not suggested this, then it must have been Obi-Wan. It would have made sense had they still been Master and Apprentice, Jedi and Council Member; friends. Not Sith and Jedi. “You can either remain here and separated from Padme and your children or you can agree to a different sort of prison cell. One that consists of full time supervision by either myself, Ben, or Master Yoda,” Obi-Wan continued. “You will be allowed to wander the ship under our guidance and see Padme and the twins if you wish. However, the extent of your visit with them will be up to your wife.” “Know that if you get out of line, I will not hesitate to kill you,” Ben informed coldly. Obi-Wan sent him a disapproving glare, but Ben did not seem to notice. “Or if you lead that nerf Palpatine to my father, aunt, and grandmother.” Shaken by the inexorable will behind Ben's words, Anakin turned to his former Master. “My death would do the galaxy little good. Isn't that what you said, my old Master?” “No it wouldn't,” Ben drew his attention back. “But your life could make it worse if you put the future in danger. I don't want to kill you, but if there is no other alternative then allowing you to live and bring this galaxy to ruin, then I will.” Obi-Wan stepped forward, coming between the two Skywalkers as each glowered with similar expressions. “It's your choice, Anakin. I offer you a door. I will open it if you ask it.” Despite his better judgement, Anakin thought what this must cost his former Master. Obi-Wan's previous attempt to rescue him from the clutches of the Dark Side had ended in a battle that, if Ben had not interfered, would have caused Anakin's near death and Obi-Wan's exile. In some ways he wished to placed in the suite that Ben had spoken off, driven out of everything that had once made him feel human, vulnerable. These confrontations with Obi-Wan would have been much easier. Empty. Once he might have met Obi-Wan's gaze when his former Master spoke so solemnly, instead he managed to look just over his shoulder, not a direct link but one he felt kept up a measure of his pride. The choice should have been simple enough, for he had already set himself the assignment of infiltrating the Jedi. Yet as he thought of the consequences to Padme and his children, children he already knew a brief history of, he could not think to lead them into the hands of his current Master. Had Ben or Obi-Wan orchestrated this? Another sort of prison for their Sith captive? He did not find it unlikely for either of them. But even as one part of his mind debated this, another told him to accept and see his children. One who would bring about the existence of the young man before him. Trying to put his mind around the ramifications of the future only caused him to be frustrated. Ben had told him that his father, Luke, would rebuild the Jedi after Anakin and Palpatine had razored them down, but it had not been, or would not be enough to repel a threat that no one could have expected, not even the Force had sent out a warning. Palpatine had long since been dead at this point, killed by Anakin himself in saving his son's life. Had the Dark Lord lived, would this threat have been vanquished? Would his son not be at his side if he could convince Palpatine of the boy's worth? Padme he doubted would let him take Luke before the Emperor, but she was not the only one to decide their futures. Luke and his daughter, Leia, were meant to be his, he felt that instantly. He should have a hand in their direction. A father where he'd had none. “I agree to your terms,” he said softly, not needing to feign the sincerity in his tone. He would be under their watchful eye for the moment while he hunted his own escape. An alien expression fell over Obi-Wan's features, one that disconcerted Anakin. Once he would have known exactly what a look from his Master meant. Whether quiet pondering, a soliciting quirk of an eyebrow, or his reminiscent repose. Obi-Wan had once been a datapad for him to view, now when he needed the knowledge of the man who'd become an enemy, he found that he stood amongst a stranger. He cringed at the anxiety of separation he felt. He's no longer your friend and mentor, he is the obstacle, he chastised himself. Obi-Wan stood forward and pressed a keycard into the security slot. Anakin felt the working of the energy as the energy bars barricade cycled off. He was totally free from his physical prison and he stepped forward to join his former Master and the young man who would be his grandson. Past, present, and future. “I'll take you to see Padme now,” Ben said, his voice deadpan now, objective. In that they were not alike. Anakin had never seen anything except from one viewpoint. He had yet to realize that he only saw as a slave saw. Obi-Wan shook his head. “Master Yoda asked that you return to the cargo hold. Your training will not be neglected.” The reproach was nothing knew to Anakin but he was another thing to see it directed at another. Had Obi-Wan carried that hint of softness amongst the harshness of his reprimands when he'd once addressed Anakin as Padawan? He shook this last question off as unimportant, as there was no way to review his past. Except Ben had gone back to change the future for his father. Anakin also pushed that away, knowing the headache it caused thinking of past or future tense when knowing what would have happened. Could still happen? Ben's jaw worked, the ruddy stubble marring his chin. Headstrong and stubborn, yes, now that Anakin had admitted it to himself this was definitely a Skywalker, one that could have come from himself. And his grandmother, Anakin thought of how unmoving Padme could be when she stood by something she believed it. After an untold moment, Ben gave a crisp nod and walked out of the room. He had also learned that Ben did not waste a lot on useless words. If a hand gesture or a bob of his head would relayed what he wished, that would suffice. Now that he could take the boy's claims seriously, he felt that Ben's eccentricities needed discovering. Of course, Ben had left him alone with the one person he had not wanted to encounter again. Obi- Wan regarded him at some length before asking, “Where would you like to go first?” he said it with what was meant to be a light air, but the spaces between them lumbered heavily. “My son and daughter,” Anakin said tersely, adopting Ben's precise speech. “Of course,” the Jedi Knight muttered and they retreated out the door and into the ships corridor. “Padme is unaware of Ben's connection to you and her. To reveal it would only confuse her.” Anakin only nodded. It had not taken him much to learn that they were on one of Bail Organa's corvettes. Sharp angled, it was amazing these corvette's had a space-worthy hull. Anakin had always preferred the more sleek appearance of a fighter. It had been long years since he'd thought of his podracer. A morbid stillness hung around them, as Obi-Wan guided him through the ship. It was not a necessity of Anakin's inability to find Padme, her sense pulsed at him unknowing in the Force, but a condition of Obi-Wan's requirements. Nor did he believe he would be allowed to visit his children and wife unaccompanied. Obi-Wan stopped before one of the cabin doors that had appeared after rounding a corner. With a knuckle he wrapped lightly on the door and it took Anakin sometime to realize that he had not used the door announcer in case the babes inside were sleeping. He would have thought his former Master oblivious to such details as sleeping children. Padme came to the door, holding a bundle of expensively stitched cloth baring the crest of the Alderaan Viceroy. This irked Anakin in ways he did not understand. Certainly he did not want his children swaddled in the homespun he had warn as a child, but something else more appropriate. The colors of Naboo, possibly. “Anakin,” she acknowledged, tears forcing her voice to a whisper. “May we come in m'lady?” Obi-Wan asked, the formality in his tone was such that had not been between Padme and the Jedi for some years now. Was that for Anakin's benefit or had there been another reason for the curt tone of Obi-Wan's words? “Yes, of course,” Padme said, and backed out of the door jamb. Obi-Wan waited behind, leaving Anakin to trail after her as she deposited whatever child she'd been holding in it's bassinet. It was a simple room for a Royal vessel. The carpets a plush violet that Anakin felt his heavy boots sink into with every step. The walls were ivory and red-veined Alderaniaan marble stood in columns against the room-side door. A large bed, covered in shimmersilk and pillows sat in the right corner, set off-kilter to create an interesting space. Not far from the bed sat the bassinet trimmed in knitted lace and Anakin coursed out his feelings towards the babes inside to taste the aura's of his children further. Unknowingly, he walked toward them in much the same manner as Ben had. Luke and Leia. Stepping to hover over the babes, he felt their presence bluster heat past his icy shields and he took a step back in retreat, withdrawing the Force as he did so. A second time he looked upon his son and daughter and did so as any father would, with his eyes only. Small, tiny, vulnerable, these were his initial thoughts of his children. Anakin saw this and felt an undeniable need to tower over his children and fight anything that threatened that vulnerability. Not Darth Vader, not the Sith, he only saw how those weaknesses could be exploited by himself, by the Emperor. The conflict inside of him nearly caused him to tremble, but he had chosen his path and he silenced the Anakin-side of him. For he too had a vulnerability that could be exploited. He turned away from them then, afraid to gaze upon them further with the threat that his real hand would reach out and quest a finger to be sat inside a tiny palm. He saw the instant hurt in Padme as he marched toward Obi-Wan and requested, “Let's go.” “But Anakin?” Padme tried to stop him. The plea to her voice stopped him in mid-step. Such a plea would have never gone unanswered a month ago, now he considered marching from the cabin without Obi-Wan, even if that resulted in him being placed in his cell once more. He felt a tiny mind reach out to his and recoiled from its touch. Luke, he identified it a minute later. The boy, no his boy, flailed for him blindly in a shower of artless images. That's when Ben's presence stepped in and drew Luke's tiny mind back to his bassinet and lulled him to sleep. He knew his future grandson would be monitoring this first meeting of father and son, father and daughter. ”I can't do it, Mom. I just can't do it.” “Anakin,” Shmi admonished gently. “Will I ever see you again?” a tear-stained Anakin had asked. Running a hand through his hair gently, she asked, “What does your heart tell you?” “Yes, I guess,” he answered begrudgingly, but did not now that to be his hope or the Force Qui-Gon claimed was strong in him. “Then we will see each other again,” she assured him with a tender smile. She lifted another hand and cupped his head so that he looked at her straight on. “Now, be brave. And don't look back. Don't look back. Anakin jerked his head toward Obi-Wan but the Jedi ignored him for a moment to speak to Padme in hushed tones. The Sith Lord ignored the babes inside the bassinet. They are too young to be turned, he reminded himself and therefore useless at the moment. Finally, Obi-Wan joined him and Padme came to sit on the soft couch that was as elegant as anything on Naboo had ever been. Her shoulders shook with repressed sobs but Anakin knew she would not let them out until he was no longer in sight. Behind him the door spurted open and Obi-Wan waited for him to exit. A farewell sat on his lips unused as he exited and waited for Obi-Wan to leave. It had seemed such an important event in his cell to come face to face with his family, now he regretted it, felt shaken and off-centered. Obi-Wan gazed at him questioningly, but said nothing. “Leave the children to their mother,” Anakin said as an answer to the silent words plaguing Obi- Wan's thoughts. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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qtrhrs78 Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 12/9/04 8:36pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	What a sad reunion. It's hard to picture Anakin being so cold to Padme and his children. Great post.
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Ana_Labris Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 12/10/04 2:59am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	Yes, it is a bit hard to imagine it, but I'm glad you don't have a far too muchy Anakin, glad you're keeping him Dark Side for now Great chapter! Can't wait for more.. -----signature----- K.E.P.P. Agent #19! I am the one and only Angry Scientist. Darth Vader is my hero.
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Kynstar Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 12/10/04 6:15am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	Oh man that was great! How emotional twisting that was!!! Looooooved the flashbacks with Shmi! How it fit perfectly too! Poor Anakin... -----signature----- Paddy sis to t_s & SarkaVrae/Master to hyperspace_police Member of Rebel Legion and Jedi Assembly (Kynstar Lans) Only thru fear, hatred, and pain will the true power of the Force be revealed. See stories/viggies in bio
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 12/10/04 8:25am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	rhrs78 What a sad reunion. It's hard to picture Anakin being so cold to Padme and his children. Great post. But he's not fully Anakin. Many people forget in the wake of Anakin's reversal to the good side that he was trying very hard to turn his son to the Dark Side. And it wasn't until he saw what Luke was willing to give up, his own life, that he knew he didn't want that. That he wanted something different for son then what he had for himself. Ana_Labris Yes, it is a bit hard to imagine it, but I'm glad you don't have a far too muchy Anakin, glad you're keeping him Dark Side for now Great chapter! Can't wait for more.. Thanks. He is dark side,he is an agent of the Sith, but I don't think it's so cut and dry, not as it would have been when he'd fallen and become trapped in the black armor. Kynstar Oh man that was great! How emotional twisting that was!!! Looooooved the flashbacks with Shmi! How it fit perfectly too! Poor Anakin... Thanks. I'm glad you like it. Anakin is definitely having issues. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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SnowFalcon Registered: Dec '03	Date Posted: 12/11/04 6:38am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	poor Padme, the realization of loosing her husband really hit her hard I can't wait for more -----signature----- On this day our savior was born let us not forget about what God did for his people he Sacrificed his son so we may close the gap I know your all frustrated to this point but remember Jesus will return
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 12/11/04 3:29pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	SnowFalcon poor Padme, the realization of loosing her husband really hit her hard I can't wait for more I generally don't like Padme. So I try to right her in subtle deepth so that I can give her a little more then just this Queen turned Senator who fell in love with a Jedi. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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obaona Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 12/15/04 9:08pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time 12/09/04 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ben Skywalker? Epi III AU
	Still reading, still loving. These people are so messed up - Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ben, Padme . . . you can feel the pressure of unresolved emotions in every scene, between Anakin and Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan and Ben, Ben and Anakin . . . Anakin's turning to the Light Side was very sudden in the movie, but I don't think it's going to be like that here (assuming it happens at all ). -----signature----- MS Word is designed by sadists with masochists in mind. - teh atty my recent Atton (KOTOR2) fic: http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/30335989
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