Saga Mists of Yesterday: An Obi-Wan/Anakin Drama-COMPLETED 3.19

Glad to see he is trying to deal with it

 

No, no, no! Put that pink thing back, it's for the queen of mush. Yours is the midnight blue with scarlet edging.

Obi has really much to deal with. And it could either bring him and Ani closer or completely alienate them.

 

Grr... My Internet provider needs some good beating!

 

Up

 

Is this ever gonna upped?

 

Well...here it is...about eleven months in the making..it's the conclusion! [face_shocked] Thanks to everyone who read.

diane Calling Anakin Ani for the first time was sweet. Aww.

Sheila I noticed that in both movies, pratically everyone calls him Ani at least once or twice, but Obi-Wan doesn't.

PK Me too.

Nifet Thanks for the ups..and for the lovely crown as well.

diamond Here ya go!



Obi-Wan smiled. "I said I'm fine. Just a case of insomnia." He paused. "I've been thinking.

"And I need to tell you something."

Anakin was admittedly curious; it had been a long time since he had a conversation with his lucid, healthy Master. He longed for the interaction. But the shadows under Obi-Wan's eyes redirected his interests. "Couldn't it wait until morning? You must be tired."

"I think you've had to wait long enough." Obi-Wan whispered knowingly. He gathered a breath. "I don't know all that happened while I was ill, but from what you've told me, I caused harm to you. The fact that it was involuntary does not erase the pain caused." The Knight was forced to pause and pull from his limited reserve of energy in order to continue. He inhaled again. "I wasn't just touching on a?delicate subject, I was throwing it in your face."

In the set of blue-gray eyes, Anakin saw the wash of sorrow, an agony of shame, not unlike what he had witnessed on the crumbling ledge. "Master--"

"I know this was no one's fault. But I still feel the need to apologize. You were on your own for far too long, and were made to deal with the effects of my disease solitarily. I wasn't able to fulfill my duties as a Master, and you suffered because of that."

"You suffered too." Anakin added.

"From what I've been told." Obi-Wan's smile was bittersweet. "But you'll remember it in a way I never will. " He laid his palm over Anakin's hand, and with his free fingers touched a bruise that purpled the top of the Padawan's cheekbone. When he tried to speak, he was almost silenced by a sob that lumped in his throat. "I'll do whatever I can to make up for it. Not just for?the wrong that was done, but the good times, too. "

Obi-Wan gripped Anakin's hand and forced himself to look the boy in the eye, when he would much rather have shut his own. "We can take a sabbatical, go to the Reserve, o-or go to those races you're always talking about?"

"Master," Anakin gingerly pushed him back against the pillows. "It's alright. It's enough that you're here." He smiled, but with restraint, afraid his strength would collapse--and the weak walls around his emotions would shatter. "It's?It's enough that I didn't lose you."

Obi-Wan's voice was fainter. "If there's anything more you want to tell me, anything else you want me to know?"

The moment stretched out, like a gleaming thread, reflecting the past few days against its surface. Anakin felt as though his hands were at the edges, and his next words would mean the difference between a break in the fibers--or the eternal binding of himself, and his Master, to the nightmare.

His fists were tight around the ends. "After you collapsed, you retreated somewhere in your mind. A place where the specialist, and not even Bant, could reach." Anakin grit his teeth, and looked at his Master, who was waiting for him to continue, anticipating the next weight on his burdened conscience. The youth's chest welled with a love that shoved away his desire for honesty? while planting remnants of resentment deep beneath the surface. He smiled. "But I found you. You were very sick by then, and you didn't want to come back with me, but in the end, you did. "

Obi-Wan's eyes looked fever-bright in the moonlight. "What did you do?" He whispered.

"I told you how much I cared about you. And you told me." Anakin rested his hand on the warm cheek. "That's all.

"Now go back to sleep. Or I will get Bant, and you'll be in here about a week longer than you need to be."

Obi-Wan chuckled. "I believe it.

 

Awww....it's over! What am I going to bug you about now?

Lovely job, LE! I like how you left just a seed of uncertainty in this, that things might still veer right off the track. Very well done.

Sigh. Another story I love come to an end. Great job, sweetie!

Shaindl

 

That was a beautiful way to end this story LE. Like Shaindl, I really like that you left the uncertainty in place, thereby hanging a dark cloud on the horizon. Great job, as always.

I hate to see it end, but now I can bug you about Blurred Visions, you left us hanging there my dear. I know, greedy greedy.

 

Oh....BRAVA!!! BRAVA!!! WONDERFUL ENDING!!

 

That was a lovely ending

 

ANAKIN IS SUCH A DUMBASS!

 

What a lovely ending, LE! With sadness and just a barest touch of premonition. Wonderful story! Pity it had to end.