As Long as there is Hope (JA): Completed!!!

Just thought I'd steal the 100th post *g*

 

Shameless upping of own thread...

 

Why up your own thread? Let someone else do it for you!

So Merden has his worries about the application to join the republic, but is still pressing on with the expansion? Ruthless and heartless as he is, his overconfidence is his weakness...

Poor Jemmy, it's amazing she turned out so well with a childhood like that. having to worry about whether you'd end up exhuming your own mother!

 

Wow Jem! I'm speechless.

Meridian is one heartless <enter your own name here>. The way he thinks of all the women there as nothing but merchandise and he's making a business transaction. *shivers*

At least Levenstowe is gone!

 

Just upping again

 

Chilling post, Jemmiah. I just watched a movie last night, and this reminded me of that, the exhuming of the bodies that is. How...awful.

I really hope Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon get there soon. Well done!

 

de le premier!!

 

Chilling! Jemmiah's tiredness worries me as well!

 

So, when's the next one?

 

boosting this up...

 

and again...

 

sigh and again...

 

I'll help you on that!

 

thanks

 

I'm working on a post.

It should be up sometime in the weekend. (hopefully!)

 

Up!

 

It's short, but it gets me to where I want to be for the next post

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"Padawan, concentrate."
"Yes, master."
"Keep your mind focused on what is going on around you."
"Yes, master."

Pause.

"And keep your eyes off my hair."
"Yes, master." Obi-Wan tried not to giggle.

Qui-Gon sighed. No doubt this was some immature revenge for what he had done to Obi-Wan's shorn locks.

"You've seen my hair many times before." He pointed out with patience born from years of reasoning with teenagers. "What's so special about it now?"
"It's short, master!" grinned Obi-Wan.
"So?"
"It just looks kind of strange. You know?the way it comes to just above your shoulders and not to your back. It takes a little getting used to."

Qui-Gon raised a single eyebrow at the boy. He was glad that Obi-Wan was feeling so relaxed in the face of what they both knew could be an extremely tricky mission. Certainly Yoda's comments to him had done little to instil confidence. Still, it wouldn't do to underestimate the danger they might well be facing and perhaps now would be as good a time as any to try and remind his padawan of the intricacies involved.

"My hair is just one of many things you will have to think of as nothing out of the ordinary, young Jacen." He emphasised his new identity and was rewarded by a slightly brooding expression, which Qui-Gon took to be displeasure.

"I don't want any undiscipline. You really will have to follow my lead this time, no margin for doing what you think is best."
"Yes master, er?uncle." Obi-Wan nodded unenthusiastically.
"Good." Qui-Gon softened his tone. "I trust you, padawan. But I can't stress the importance of this. Lives may be at stake here."
"They usually are, uncle." Obi-Wan said quietly. "It's just?"
"What?" Jinn looked at him intensely, trying to find the source of his discomfort.

Obi-Wan shuffled from foot to foot, trying to stall.

"I really don't like the idea of being in a brothel, master." He gulped slowly.

Qui-Gon's eyes flickered with a small trace of amusement as he caught the uncomfortable flush of scarlet on Obi-Wan's face again.

"I would sit up and take notice, padawan. Be mindful. Pay attention to your surroundings because I assure you it's the nearest to a brothel you will get ever again."

Obi-Wan looked up at him, not knowing whether to be relieved or dismayed.

"What, never?" he frowned.
"Not if I can help it. One day you might meet a nice girl but until then?"
"When would that be, master?"
"When I say your old enough. When you are thirty or so."
"Thirty, uncle-master?"
"Or when you are a knight. Whichever happens first."

Qui-Gon turned away to hide his smile. "Close your mouth padawan, there's a freighter landing."

Obi-Wan snapped his mouth closed audibly, and felt behind his head with his hands. "No girl would ever want to look at me like this anyway." He grumbled.
"That's the idea." Qui-Gon replied.
"Is that why you've cut your hair, master?" Obi-Wan asked innocently.
"No, I've cut my hair because?because?it needed cut. Now, I want to go over the facts again until I am sure you have them up here." He tapped lightly on the boy's head with one finger.

Obi-Wan sighed, but when he saw Qui-Gon preparing to fix him with 'that look' he quickly gave him his full attention.

"Thank you," Qui-Gon remarked dryly, "Now we will be receiving a welcome message in the next few hours telling us that we have permission to proceed. If we stick to our false backgrounds we won't go wrong. They will then grant us protection until we get to the rendezvous ship. From then on we will?"

Qui-Gon looked towards the screen. The face that filled it was not what he had been expecting at all.

"Master Ashdal?" he frowned.

 

"Close your mouth padawan, there's a freighter landing."

ROFLOL!!! And Qui-Gon had to cut his hair? Hehehe...

So, why has Master Ashdal appeared on the screen?

 

I loved Qui-Gon's explanation about cutting his hair! It's almost as good as "Just because." And I also wonder why Master Ashdal is contacting them...very interesting.

 

<<Obi-Wan sighed, but when he saw Qui-Gon preparing to fix him with 'that look' he quickly gave him his full attention.>>

Obi-Wan I think 'that look' has felled delegates from all over the galaxy!

Wonderful post Jem! Loved the surprise Master Ashdal at the end!

 

good post! Master A. showed up? How odd... Twilight zone music playing...

 

I loved the way Qui-Gon was telling him he wouldn't see a brothel again until he was thirty or had been knighted, whichever came first.

Is Master Ashdal undercover in the brothel, too? She's not the one giving them the welcome message, is she? Or is this something completely different?

 

I don't think Qui-Gon wanted him to have anything to do with GIRLS until he was thirty or a knight!! Poor Qui-Gon, that plan was sent south with this mission!

 

UP!