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AngelofDarkness Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 1/12/05 4:02pm Subject: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12 - Date Edited: 1/12/05 4:04pm (1 edits total) Edited By: AngelofDarkness
	Author replies will go up here later Enjoy the new post! -----signature----- "I worry about Anakin. He has a talent for chaos." "One of the things I like about him." -Obi and Quinlan, Republic 70
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AngelofDarkness Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 1/12/05 4:04pm Subject: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12 - Date Edited: 6/27/05 11:27am (4 edits total) Edited By: AngelofDarkness
	Talhalla Plains, Jarlath: 19 BBY A ripple in the Force warned of the incoming detonator with a second to spare. "Get down!" Throwing himself forward even as he shouted a warning, Anakin Skywalker fell into a diving roll, letting the Force carry him further than his body's momentum would have on its own. Instinct told him to stay low to the ground. A shrill wail filled the air as the detonator erupted, sending a wave of fire, heat and flame careening across the battlefield, swallowing up everything in its path. The explosion rang in his ears and molten debris from the Republic hovertanks that had been caught in the blast rained down upon him, hot embers dusting across the Jedi robe which protected his back from the heat and catching on the dark material. Rolling onto his back, Anakin smothered out the searing embers before they could inflame. "Skywalker?" a familiar voice called. "Still in one piece, Master Secura," Anakin assured her, pushing to his feet as the Twi'lek Jedi emerged from the smoke billowing from the skeleton of what was once a hovertank. She was favoring her right leg, he noticed the moment he laid eyes on her, but there wasn't any visible sign of injury so he assumed she'd just twisted it during the explosion. "How about you?" "I'll survive," she replied, eyes scanning the horizon for any sign of the enemy droids. "How many did we lose?" Anakin asked her, glancing somberly at the charred shell of blackened armor about a dozen yards away. "Everyone in the hovertanks," Aayla answered grimly. "Bly is regrouping the ground forces." So, Bly had survived, that was a relief. During the long, relentless months of war, it had become common for the Jedi commanders and generals to develop battlefield partnerships with a handful of the clonetroopers regularly assigned to their command, and Anakin knew that Aayla and Bly had been working together for quite a while now. It would have been a pity to lose Bly on this mission. "I can't sense the droids out there," Aayla announced, frustrated. "Are you picking up on anything, Anakin?" Reaching out with his senses, Anakin probed the area for any hint of danger. There wasn't much point in trying to sense the droids themselves in the Force, but when there were that many battledroids grouped together, all intent on killing you, it wasn't hard to get a general read on the situation. "They're pulling back," he concluded after a moment. "Most likely covering Soer's retreat." "And keeping their weapons trained on us in case we try to follow, no doubt," Aayla sighed, reaching for the comm-link on her belt. "Kit?" There was a burst of static, and then the voice of Kit Fisto crackled in the air. "Aayla, we heard the explosion," Kit said without preamble. "We lost about three dozen clones," Aayla told him, sensing the unspoken question. "But our ground troops are still mostly in tact." "And you are uninjured?" "I'm fine," Aayla assured her old friend, a faint trace of a smile gracing her lips. "And you can tell Obi-Wan not to worry, I'm taking good care of his former Padawan- or rather, Anakin is taking good care of me." Despite himself, Anakin's lips twitched upward even as he rolled his eyes. It had been nearly five months since his Knighting after Praestilyn, but one wouldn't know that the way that Obi-Wan carried on sometimes. His former Master had relaxed some since then, and was even making an effort to view him as an equal and fellow Jedi instead of the apprentice he'd raised from childhood, but at times Anakin wondered if the man would ever be willing, or prepared, to completely let him go. A Master's job doesn't end when he cuts the Padawan braid, Obi-Wan was found of spouting irritably these days. You don't have enough sense of self-preservation to worry for yourself, so someone's got to do it. Anakin refrained from admitting that someone else was worrying about him enough for them both. It didn't matter that he half-suspected that Obi-Wan was aware of his involvement with a certain young senator, nor that his former Master had vaguely hinted that he knew there was some sort of secret relationship between them, Anakin wasn't going to confirm it either way. Now that he was out on his own, it seemed that Obi-Wan was relaxing a little and Anakin had high hopes for him yet. Maybe one day, he'd even sleep without his lightsaber under his pillow. "It looks like the droid army is pulling back from our point," Aayla said into her comm-link. "Anakin thinks they're covering Soer's retreat." "Our location is still meeting with heavy opposition," Kit replied, and Anakin could almost hear the frown on his face. "Anakin's right," the distinctive and familiar voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi came over the comm. "Soer knows that we're closing in on him from all sides, he must be getting desperate by now. Without reinforcements, he's going to either have to surrender or flee." "He won't surrender," Anakin snorted. "No, I doubt he will," Obi-Wan replied. "He's probably heading into the mountain pass, hoping to lose us." "Or he could be doubling back to Geriias," Aayla pointed out. "He'll make for the pass," Anakin said, shaking his head. "He'd have to cut too close to Major Fellor's voulenteer brigade if he tried to make it to Geriias." "I don't think he'll chance it," Obi-Wan agreed. "General?" Both Anakin and Aayla looked up at the sound of Bly's voice, and found the clone commander approaching, his helmet removed and tucked under one arm. It never failed to unsettle Anakin how the hundreds of thousands of clones serving the Republic all bore the face of the bounty hunter who'd been part of the assassination attempts on Padmé, but he'd long since learned to appreciate them as individuals. He'd even given a few of them names at one point or another, although he suspected Alpha was probably the only one who'd kept his. "The ground troops are ready to move out," Bly informed them. "We await your orders." "What do you think, Obi-Wan, Kit?" Aayla asked into the comm-link. "Pursue the droid army, but keep your distance," Kit replied after a moment of confering with Obi-Wan. "We'll attempt to cut Soer off on the other side of the pass." "There's a chance we'll have to fight our way through the droid army," Aayla observed flatly. "A chance, yes," Obi-Wan responded. "That doesn't mean you should go looking for a fight, however." The unspoken 'Anakin' at the end of that comment was blaringly obvious. "Noted," Anakin said shortly, through gritted teeth. He started to turn away, moving towards the ground troops, when he was suddenly brought to a violent halt, every cell in his body straining, as if listening to something that only they could hear. Somewhere, systems away, something was shifting. The Force twisted, bent, convulsed around something abnormal, as if trying to expel it. For a long moment, stars stretched beyond their limit, space expanded, and he felt himself being pulled outward and along with the rest of the galaxy as the current changed. And then everything snapped back into place, as if nothing had ever happened in the first place. "Anakin?" Slowly, he became aware of his name being called, and he blinked, startled to find Aayla staring at him worriedly, her lips moving, but the voice echoing in his ears was not hers. "Anakin?" Obi-Wan's gruff voice crackled over the comm-link. "Anakin, are you all right?" "Yes," Anakin said at last, shaking his head to dispel the lingering fogginess. "Yes, Master, I'm fine. I just... felt something, that's all." "Something here?" Obi-Wan asked. "On Jarlath?" "No," Anakin replied. "Something... elsewhere. Something elusive. A disturbance in the Force." "The Sith?" Kit questioned anxiously. "Not the Sith," Anakin assured him. "It wasn't dark, it was... I can't describe it." Frowning, he turned inward, trying to recapture that moment, to anaylze what he'd felt in the Force, and he found a faint tendril of the... presence, for a lack of better word, that had burst suddenly into the Force. It was like an echo, but it wasn't out in the vastness of space, it was within his chest, within him. Whatever that disturbance had been, it had touched him, and he didn't think it had been intentional. "It was as if the Force suddenly shifted," he found himself murmuring, more to himself than to the others, even Obi-Wan. "And it felt like something in me shifted, as well." There was silence for a long moment, and Anakin was accutely aware of Obi-Wan's concern on the other side of the mountains. "We'll have to deal with it later, whatever it was," his former Master declared after a pause. "Right now, we have a job to do. Will you be all right to remain in battle, Anakin?" "Of course," Anakin retorted indignantly. "Very well, then," Kit said calmly, probably before Obi-Wan could chastize him for his attitude. "Keep the comms open as you follow Soer's army. We will do the same as we intercept him from the north. May the Force be with you both." "And with you, Master Fisto." Securing her comm-link to her belt once more, Aayla gave the order for Bly to pass on the orders to the ground troops, then turned to Anakin with an appraising look in her eyes. "Are you certain you are all right?" she asked. "I'm fine," Anakin insisted. "It was probably nothing, anyway." "Perhaps," Aayla murmured, but it was clear she didn't believe that was the case. Anakin couldn't blame her. Ossus: 19 BBY There was no telling how much time had passed. It could have been merely a moment, or it could have been a year. But the last thing Jaina Solo remembered was staring out at Danni Quee, feeling the Jedi scientist's fear, and then she was gone, swallowed up by the silver light. The next thing she knew, there was solid ground beneath her feet. And then she swayed, overcome with a sudden bought of dizziness, and stumbled over the pack at her feet before she was able to grasp her vertigo and shove it aside with the Force, regaining her balance. "Jaya?" Blinking once to let her swimming vision even out, Jaina looked down at her little cousin in her arms and smiled weakly. "The dizziness will pass, Ben," she promised him, and pressed a finger to his forehead for good measure, using the Force to calm his nervous system as she had her own. "All better now?" "All better," Ben confirmed with a nod, then scrunched his face into a frown. "Where we at?" "We're on Ossus," Jaina told him, and looked around with a frown. "I think." Sure enough, after a moment of scrutiny she recognized the crumbling ruins of what was once, thousands of years ago, the Great Jedi Library that her uncle had dreamed of rebuilding one day. But that dream, like the Jedi Order itself, had been reduced to dust. We can change that, though, she reminded herself. That's why I came back in the first place, to give the Jedi, and the galaxy, a second chance. If nothing else, maybe she could make the future a little better. "Where are the Vong?" Ben asked anxiously. "There aren't any Vong here, Ben," Jaina assured him with a weary, but relieved smile. "You don't have to worry about them anymore." At least not for another forty-something years. Ben looked around suspiciously, as if he expected a band of Yuuzhan Vong to jump out at them from behind the ruins at any moment, and it made Jaina's heart ache. He'd been born into the war, into the slow death of the galaxy, it was all he'd ever known. To Ben, there had never been a time when they weren't running from the Vong. He's the real reason for this, Jaina thought sadly, touching a hand to his reddish gold hair tenderly as she indulged in a bit of wistfulness. So that he can grow up in a better galaxy than the one we left behind. Better than the one that had claimed the lives of their entire family. To her amusement, and her pride, Jaina felt a small stirring of the Force around Ben as her cousin reached out with the Force to tentatively look for the 'bad empty' that he associated with a Vong presence nearby. As their numbers had dwindled at the hands of the Vong, there had been few Masters to instruct the children, and most of Ben's training, as rudimentary as it was given his age, had been left to Jaina. Despite Ben's talent and her own aptitude to teach him, due largely in part to their bond, Jaina now appreciated even more the frustrations her uncle must have endured trying to instruct her and her brothers at that age. "No Vong," Ben declared, sounding a bit bewildered and awed by that fact. "That's right," Jaina said with a confident nod. "No Vong. They can't find us anymore." "Good," Ben replied sternly, complete with that trademark Skywalker pout that he, like both of her brothers before him, had inherited from his father. "I don't like the Vong." "I couldn't agree more, little man," Jaina murmured. An entire galaxy had fallen to the ruthless might of the alien invaders, dozens of worlds had been destroyed, the rest shaped beyond recognition into some perverted image of the long-lost Yuuzhan Vong homeworld. Billions of sentient billions had been slain during the Vong's campaign to conquer the galaxy as their own, and billions more had been sacrificed to appease their imaginary gods. Whole populations had been wiped out on some worlds, and the survivors had been enslaved, a fate far worse than death. The galaxy itself had begun to die. And an Order that had just begun to take root, reborn from the ashes of thousands of years of tradition, had slowly and methodically been burned to the ground. Most nights, she went into a Jedi trance instead of sleeping, so that the screams would not linger in her ears. Stop it, Jaina told herself sharply, and shook her head of such morbid memories. Everything will be different now, and that's what matters. She could wallow in the past once she secured a better future. And in order to do that, she needed to focus. "Let's see," she mused aloud. "If we're where- or should I say when- we're supposed to be, then Ossus has already fallen into Separatist hands." "Separatist?" Ben echoed, wrinkling his nose at the big word. "They bad?" "Yeah, they're the bad guys, little man," Jaina confirmed. "Which is why I need you to be on your very best hiding behavior, okay? I'm going to have to steal a ship for us to get out of here on, and we don't want the bad guys to see us, do we?" "No." Ben shook his head vehemently. "Don't like bad guys." "Me neither," Jaina said with a faint smile. "So we're going to hide from them, just like we do the Vong, all right?" Ben nodded, gray eyes serious and somber. "I'm going to find you the best hiding place we can," Jaina told him, crouching down to his level. "Then I'm going to leave for just a little bit, and you're going to practice using the Force to hide while I'm gone." "You gonna come back?" Ben asked, biting his lip. "I always do, don't I?" Jaina responded gently, and he nodded. "This won't be any different, little man. I'm just going to go find us a good ship, and then we'll get out of here and go far away from the bad men, okay?" "Fast ship?" Ben requested with childlike eagerness. "Who do you think you're talking to?" Jaina retorted with a teasing grin. "Of course it'll be a fast ship. The fastest ship on the whole planet." "Can I fly?" Despite herself, Jaina chuckled. "Maybe next year, Ben," she replied, ruffling his reddish gold hair. "Little boys aren't supposed to pilot starships." "Five's not little," Ben said with a little scowl. "No, five isn't little," Jaina corrected amicably, her chest constricting at the thought of the life he'd been denied, the life that he should have had and all the carefree joys he should have known at that age, instead of the nightmare that Danni had helped them escape. "Wow, you're getting big, you know that? Pretty soon you'll be all grown up." "Soon," Ben agreed, placated. "It'll be too soon for my tastes, little man," Jaina sighed. Ben gave her a quizzical look, not quite understanding what that meant, and she shook her head. "Never mind, kiddo. Let's just get you hidden, okay?" It didn't take long to find a good sized niche in the ruins for her to stash Ben in temporarily, and his blanket, which he'd had since he was a baby and she'd stashed in her pack, made the little nook more comfortable. Once she'd made certain that he was ready and that he remembered not to come out for anyone or anything except her, Jaina waited just long enough for him to erect his Force shield around himself before she set out. Leaving Ben was never easy, whenever he wasn't in her sight she was on edge, but they'd fallen into this routine all too often over the years with the Yuuzhan Vong dogging their every step. And Ben, while scared, would be fine on his own. She'd been forced to leave him in hiding under much worse circumstances than this. I'd take a few thousand Separatist droids over a dozen Vong any day, Jaina thought darkly. Having an enemy that could be fought with the Force would practically be a vacation after all the years she'd spent combating the Yuuzhan Vong. -----signature----- "I worry about Anakin. He has a talent for chaos." "One of the things I like about him." -Obi and Quinlan, Republic 70
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DarthJaina Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 1/12/05 4:22pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Now that he was out on his own, it seemed that Obi-Wan was relaxing a little and Anakin had high hopes for him yet. Maybe one day, he'd even sleep without his lightsaber under his pillow. LOL! Great look at the Clone Wars, and I'm asusming Anakin felt his grandkids arriving in the past? That was a great description of the feeling. Ben looked around suspiciously, as if he expected a band of Yuuzhan Vong to jump out at them from behind the ruins at any moment, and it made Jaina's heart ache. He'd been born into the war, into the slow death of the galaxy, it was all he'd ever known. To Ben, there had never been a time when they weren't running from the Vong. He's the real reason for this, Jaina thought sadly, touching a hand to his reddish gold hair tenderly as she indulged in a bit of wistfulness. So that he can grow up in a better galaxy than the one we left behind. Better than the one that had claimed the lives of their entire family. They come from such a horrible future, this section was just heartbreaking, it showed what a bleak life they've had, and it made my heart break for them both -----signature----- "Do you want the short answer, or do you need someone to explain it to you with charts and diagrams?" -Jag and Jaina in DJ "You're a major now?" "I'm better than that, I'm a holovid star. Not to mention a goddess." -Jacen and Jaina in DW
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Lady_Jade Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 1/12/05 4:25pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	So Ben and Jaina are back in time w/ Obi-Wan and Anakin. Huh, this should become interesting very fast when she runs into them........ -----signature----- "Do or do not. There is no try." ~Yoda, ESB 6 years of schooling + 6 months of training + 6 hours of sweat and pain = one very proud black belt Hokies in our Hearts - 4/16/07 (said in my heavy southern accent) : You bet your pretty lil' head I don't
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rhonderoo Title: Former Head Admin Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 1/12/05 4:35pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Great post! I can't wait until they find "grandpa", that should be a doozy. Great writing as always. It felt like I was right there. I'm one of those picky Anakin/Vader fans when it comes to fanfic and your Anakin is as good as your Vader. Great job! -----signature----- DT421
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Jedi Trace Title: SouthEast RSA Fan Fic Mngr Forum Feud Winner Registered: Dec '99	Date Posted: 1/12/05 7:37pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Oh wow! This looks really interesting. Can't wait to see where it goes. -----signature----- Captain of the Cade Brigade: "Always bringing up his rear" “In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” ~ Elwood P. Dowd
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Koori Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 1/12/05 7:56pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Aw, poor Ben. He has to be so confused, and its only going to get worse. But I am looking forward to watching Jaina kick so battle droid butt. Wonderful addition. -----signature----- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire http://s9.invisionfree.com/Jello_Anarchy/ Of Sun and Moon - http://boards.theforce.net/The_Saga/b10476/20490078/?1
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RebelMom Title: TFF Secretary Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 1/12/05 8:30pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Very nice. I really like your Ben. I hope that the twist that Anakin felt was for the good. fingers crossed -----signature----- Short Story: Pressure Point http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/26961243/p1/?7 Jacen Solo and Anakin Skywalker - as it should have been. TFF: Cheryl
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Trickster_Goddess Registered: Jun '03	Date Posted: 1/13/05 6:47am Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Great post Ben is so cute, it's so sad his whole life has been about war and the Vong Somehow I think the arrival of the grandkids is going to give Anakin a heart-attack... not to mention throw his secret marriage out in the open -----signature----- "I am a Jedi... like my father before me."
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VaderLVR64 Title: Fan Fic Manager Digging out from Fay Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 1/13/05 6:53am Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	I have to say, I really like Jaina in this! She seems more like I would have pictured Leia's daughter being than in Canon. I found this hilarious for some reason, probably because it's so darn true: You don't have enough sense of self-preservation to worry for yourself, so someone's got to do it. I think this is a trait all the Skywalkers share. -----signature----- If you have to choose between tears and laughter, remember that laughter burns more calories. They call me NANA Vader. At least she doesn't lack confidence...
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jacen200015 Registered: Jan '02	Date Posted: 1/13/05 7:06am Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	This is so sad. cries Very moving. Write more quickly. -----signature----- If I review then PM me when you update. thanks so much. Send me your completed 'the saga' stories! Attack Of The Sith is here! Obi-Wan's Journal Updated 8/01 Don't quote me the odds. I shall do as I must. Do or do not, there is no try.
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Kinwon Registered: Oct '04	Date Posted: 1/13/05 11:34am Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Excellent post. The Clone Wars are still raging, and it was a nice touch to see a glimpse of the fighting, especially with our favorite Jedi in the midst of the fray. It should be interesting when Skywalker Sr. meets the next generation of his family. -----signature----- "Obi-Wan once thought as you do."
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jedi-solo-fel Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 1/13/05 12:54pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	This gets betters with each post Jaina and Ben have had such a hard life, I feel so bad for them! But Anakin is his usual self, I snickered at the unspoken 'Anakin' at the end of Obi's "don't go looking for a fight" mantra, lol He knows his former apprentice too well -----signature----- "None Shall Pass!"
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JainaSoloSkywalker Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 1/13/05 1:05pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	I was wondering how far back they were going, now we know It looks like Jaina's mission isn't just going to be to prepare the galaxy for the Vong invasion coming a few decades from now, but to save her family as well. Makes me wonder how she's going to fill Anakin in on the bleak future that was awaiting him- ouch, what a blow to strike, he he. -----signature----- "I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of surviving... and getting to the end of the war and discovering that I'm all alone. That everyone I knew and cared for is gone." -Jaina in RD
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Ana_Labris Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 1/13/05 1:46pm Subject: RE: Sanctuary of Time (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jaina, Ben) Updated 1/12
	Excellent writting again! I can't wait till they meet Anakin, if they do of course.. it'll be most interesting to see their first reactions. -----signature----- K.E.P.P. Agent #19! I am the one and only Angry Scientist. Darth Vader is my hero.
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