Star Wars: In the Silence and the Dark: Holding Pattern, part 7

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“Breathe, Obi-Wan.” There’s a warm hand on his shoulder, and a familiar voice speaking that it takes a moment to identify as Master Tahl. “It’s still there. Just shielded.”

“Why?” Obi-Wan almost can’t hear himself speak, his voice is so quiet, and no little rough. As if he’s been screaming, though his throat doesn’t hurt as much as he’d expect if he had been.

“Because you fought it being removed, even though it was killing you.” Master Tahl moves her hand, helping him to sit up slowly, and holding a cup of water for him to sip once he’s settled against pillows. “What happened?”

“I don’t know.” Obi-Wan tries to reach up to take the cup himself, but his hands are splinted and bandaged, and he frowns. “What happened to my hands?”

“You broke several bones in them. The healers aren’t certain how, though there are apparently several possibilities.” Master Tahl sets the cup down on the table next to the bed once he’s drained it. “What’s the last thing you remember before waking up?”

Obi-Wan hesitates, trying to remember what was before trying to burn through whatever was blocking the training bond on Qui-Gon’s end. Trying and failing to rip it apart to get to his Master, whatever was happening to him. Whatever was making the bond feel like ice.

“I was listening to Satine. It was suddenly very cold, and I was staring at the ceiling.” Obi-Wan shrugs, shaking his head a little, before squeezing his eyes shut. He hadn’t expected that to make his head swim.

“What else?” Master Tahl sounds utterly certain there’s more, and Obi-Wan wonders how badly he’s shielding if she knows that.

“The training bond felt like ice.” His voice comes out as a whisper, and he keeps his eyes shut, not wanting to see the expression on Master Tahl’s face. “It’s felt like that since he disappeared. Like there’s a wall of ice and durasteel blocking it.”

Master Tahl wraps one hand around his forearm, squeezing tightly. Reminding him of the here and now, that he is not alone, that the training bond isn’t pouring ice into his bones. That it’s not even there, as far as he can tell. He wonders if Qui-Gon can feel the bond from his end. If he can feel the shield that’s been put between them. Shields.

He reaches for the bond again, even knowing he won’t be able to feel it. Nothing but a blankness that feels less like absence than it did when he first woke here. It’s still a horrible feeling, to be so utterly cut off from Qui-Gon; worse, in some ways, than to have a small pocket of ice always at the back of his mind. At least then he could tell that Qui-Gon was alive.

“Someone’s shielding him from the bond on his end, aren’t they?” It’s the only thing he can think of, because he can’t imagine Qui-Gon blocking him like that.

“Possibly.” Master Tahl squeezes his arm again. “We won’t know until we find him.”

“Find him, and bring him home.” Obi-Wan can’t bring himself to care about more than that right now. If he can’t have the certainty of knowing Qui-Gon’s alive because of the training bond, he wants to see his Master alive and well with his own eyes.

Star Wars: In the Silence and the Dark: Holding Pattern, part 2

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Obi-Wan gets to his feet using the counter to support his weight, and lurches for the fresher. The armor is left in a pile outside the door, what remains of his tunics is shoved down the laundry chute for the droids to clean or destroy as they saw fit. It’s good to have a chance to do more than a swift wash in cold water, the first time he’s been able to do so since a month after they’d landed on Mandalore.

There is a single spare set of tunics left in his clothes press, and it takes a long moment for Obi-Wan to realize that his tunics are too short, though he’s glad they’re not too tight across his shoulders. He’ll have to ask Qui-Gon to requisition new tunics for him.

He sits on the bed with a thump, letting out a long breath. He can’t ask Qui-Gon to requisition new tunics. Or a new cloak, to replace the one that’s somewhere in the mud on Mandalore. Either he has to convince the quarter master to allow him to get new ones without Qui-Gon’s authorization, or he’ll have to ask someone else to do so in Qui-Gon’s stead. Obi-Wan doesn’t know which sounds more daunting at the moment, or overwhelming.

Taking a deep breath, he reaches for the Force, closing his eyes as he tries to let the spike of grief go. He doesn’t know that Qui-Gon is dead. Just missing. He could come walking in tomorrow, and there would be no need for grief. No need to ask him why he’d left Obi-Wan alone and stranded in the middle of a war-zone with a young politician to protect.

Another deep breath, to keep from sobbing, and he shoves to his feet, taking the step over to his desk, and the com embedded in it for in-Temple communications. His usual one is, like his cloak, lost to the conflict on Mandalore. There is a brief message waiting for him, from the Healers informing him he needs to make an appointment to see them today, or they will come to him. He ignores it for now – he has no injuries that need any immediate attention – and coms Master Tahl.

“Obi-Wan.” There’s relief in Master Tahl’s voice when she answers, and Obi-Wan wonders if she’d been worried about him. “I was about to come over and check on you. I was expecting you to call last night.”

“My apologies, Master Tahl. I fell asleep very shortly after returning to my quarters, and have only just awoken.” It was something like sleeping, anyway. He does feel less like he’s been trampled by a herd of banthas, even if nothing else seems to have improved between passing out and this morning’s shower. “I need to ask a favor?”

“You can always ask, Obi-Wan.” He can hear the smile in Master Tahl’s voice, and it draws an answering one of his own.

“My Master is—” missing, possibly dead, not in any shape to replace Obi-Wan’s too-small clothing, “—not able to requisition new tunics for me, and I found the ones I had left here are too short.”

“Do you need a new cloak as well?”

Obi-Wan ducks his head, even though there’s no one to see him do so but himself. “New everything, probably. I don’t remember where I lost my cloak, and my comlink is with my boots.” He can use the ones from the armor for now, but he should have proper boots to go with the rest.

“Which aren’t here, I take it.” Master Tahl sounds amused. “I’ll escort you down to the quarter master and tell him to take it up with Qui-Gon when he returns.”

Obi-Wan isn’t certain how he gets out a thank you, and closes the connection, before he sits heavily on his bed once more. Not if Qui-Gon returns, and to Obi-Wan, that feels truly an if, not a when as Master Tahl said. He doesn’t even know what happened to his Master, only that Qui-Gon vanished, both from their hiding place over night, and in the Force. Not dead, not the gaping, ragged end of the training bond, but missing, the bond running into some barrier that Obi-Wan flinches from. Ice and durasteel, burning cold as space.

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About that OT3 modern au

What if Obi-Wan and Cody are college-era boyfriends and then life and everything gets in the way, they split friendly but with a couple of regrets each.

Cody goes on to be a firefighter.

Obi-Wan kind of works himself into an exhaustion breakdown.

And then switches majors.

And goes into librarianship.

Cue Rex who is a cop, who goes at his shop and flirts and they start seeing each other.

But then stuff happens with Obi-Wan’s family.

And they are still early enough in the relationship that it’s kind of awkward.

Rex doesn’t want to intrude, Obi-Wan isn’t ready to introduce Rex yet to his family because they are not that level of serious yet.

Like they are into each other, they went on a few dates, the sex is great.

But dealing with the aftermath of Qui-Gon’s death and Obi-Wan adopting Qui-Gon’s ward?

That’s kind of a lot to deal with.

And I am sure Rex is the kind of man who would try but it’s kind of a mess of a situation.

So they peter off and then agree to break up though, again, with a couple of regrets each.

Cody and Rex meet.

They get together.

They date.

They get engaged.

They get married.

Cue sometime later, the two of them going to a new book shop who also doubles as a coffee shop.

And behind the counter, here’s Obi-Wan.

Who’d very happily just go die in the back.

YOU CAN’T JUST STOP THERE!!!!

WHERE’S THE REST OF IT?!!!

I AM AGREEING WHERE IS THE REST OF IT

OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T JUST STOP

That’s as far as a I got in the chat where I
was detailing this, before my attention got derailed :p

So what I was envisioning is that Obi-Wan is
positively dying to disappear because oh hey, look, it’s the two guys he never
fully got over coming in together because, yeah, they’re married now.

(Obi-Wan kind of disappeared in time, because
he removed himself from Cody and Rex’s lives, but he kinda also kept tabs on
how they were doing because when he cares, he cares.)

(Rex might or might not have Obi-Wan’s name
flagged in the system to alert him if anything happens to Obi-Wan and Cody
still meets Obi-Wan’s mother Tahl at least once every three months for coffee
and while she doesn’t dish on Obi-Wan’s private life she has promised to tell him if anything serious happens, so yeah).

Obi-Wan doesn’t know it, but this was all Tahl’s
idea, by the way.

She changed her usual meeting place with Cody
to Obi-Wan’s new shop, because Tahl has met Rex (Cody’s husband, of course she met the man) and she recognized
him as the man from the photos on Obi-Wan’s phone that Anakin was so jealous
of.

(Anakin was a nine years old adopted kid who
just lost his stepfather and whose stepmother was in the hospital with
life-threatening injuries, so he latched onto his big brother with the force of
a thousand suns and hated Rex on principle, which made the situation between
Obi-Wan and Rex even harder at the time).

Tahl, you should know, is a meddler who feels her son should be
happy and who is reasonably sure, knowing Cody and having gotten to know Rex
well enough in the course of the four years he and Cody have been married, that
they are the kind of men who might not mind a third.

Though if she’s wrong and Obi-Wan gets involved
and then hurt, she will destroy them
and spend the rest of her life atoning for bringing them back in Obi-Wan’s
life.

(Spoiler alert: she’s not wrong, Tahl is a
really good judge of character and she made as sure as she could be, without
actually touching the argument in any way, that Cody and Rex might be open to
the idea).

But let’s go back to Obi-Wan, who has grown a
beard since Cody last saw him, and has turned even more unironically hipster since Rex saw him last, and looks like he
could use a good night’s sleep and possibly some comfort food and relaxing
company.

Cody is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that hooligan Vos, whom he used to be high school boyfriends
with and had casual hook ups with before Cody came into the picture and who
left a really bad impression on straightlaced, serious Cody.

Rex is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that terrible person Ventress, whom Obi-Wan worked with at the
library he was employed at and was somewhere between flirting buddies and
who-the-fuck-knows with and who left a really bad impression on unamused,
possessive Rex.

(Obi-Wan is still hanging around both Vos and
Ventress, who get along like a house on fire and might or might have not ended
up set a house on fire at some point, no one is admitting anything, during a
vacation that has many lengthy gaps every time it gets recounted).

(Vos and Ventress might or might have not
gotten married in Las Vegas during that trip. Obi-Wan has forgotten about 99,9%
of what happened in Las Vegas on that trip. He doesn’t want to remember what
happened in Las Vegas on that trip. Vos says yes, Ventress says no unless it’s
one of those days when Ventress says yes and Vos says no, because they are
utter assholes who love to frustrate Obi-Wan and who make sure their versions
never align).

Cody and Rex are both immediately sure Obi-Wan
is not taking good enough care of himself and what the hell is up with you
Kenobi, you were supposed to be a professor / a librarian why are you now the
owner of a book shop that doubles as a coffee shop?

Cody and Rex do. not. approve. of this state of things and start immediately to think about how to tell the other about Obi-Wan and why that idiot might have to end up coming for dinner at their place.

Tahl smugly sits at her table, with a perfect view of all three of them.

OH MY GOD!

*dying whale noises*

THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE ALL OF IT! Tahl, you perfect, meddlesome human being you!

WHAT MUST A DO FOR MORE? BEG? I CAN DO THAT!

So Obi-Wan was born Obi-Wan and remained
Obi-Wan through college, until he got into some problems in finding job as ‘Obi-Wan
Jinn’ so he did his paperwork and changed his name to Ewan Kenobi (Tahl’s
maiden name is Kenobi, though she still to this day, goes by Tahl Jinn).

These days he’s compromised to changing his
name, again with all the needed paperwork to make it legal, to Obi-Wan Jinn-Kenobi.

So Cody and Rex don’t know that Cody’s “Obi-Wan
Jinn” college boyfriend and Rex’s “Ewan Kenobi” brief acquaintance slash
boyfriend are the same person.

(They did talk about their exes, among
other things, so they actually do know
about Obi-Wan, they just didn’t realize he was the same person.)

(Especially because in college Obi-Wan was very
grunge / artistic as a style, except when he needed to clean up for tests, with
short hair and a long braid and clean shaven. After college Obi-Wan grew a
beard, got himself tattooed and basically emerged from the chrysalis of grunge
into the unironic hipster phase that Rex met him into so even the few photos Cody
has of him / of him-and-Cody-together are of a far different man than the one
Rex met).

(Also, the photos Cody took were with 90s
disposable cameras, so the quality is sometimes so-so, and Rex and Obi-Wan were
together before cellphones with cameras were a thing, so there are no photos of
the two of them together).

Timeline as far as I’ve figured it out is :

–
Rex&Cody
walk in Obi-Wan’s shop in 2016

(Cody is 47, Rex is 46, Obi-Wan is
45)

–
Quinlan,
Asajj and Obi-Wan go on the Cross Country Trip Of Doom in 2013 to celebrate
Anakin turning 18 and heading off to college.

(All three of them were 42)

–
Rex&Cody
have been married since 2012

(Cody was 45, Rex was 42)

–
Rex&Cody
were engaged from 2010 to 2012

(Cody was 43, Rex was 40)

–
Rex&Cody
met in 2007

(Cody was 40, Rex was 37)

–
Rex&Obi-Wan
split in 2004 after three dates (pre-accident) and four more (post-accident)

(Rex was 34, Obi-Wan was 33)

–
Cody&Obi-Wan
were together from 1991 to 1995

(Cody was 22, Obi-Wan was 20 when
the relationship started | Cody was 26, Obi-Wan was 24 when the relationship
ended)

Obi-Wan was born in 1971 (31 March), Rex was
born in 1970 (26 December), Cody was born in 1969 (26 December too).

So Cody and Rex sits down with Tahl, say hello
and then Cody turns to Rex to tell him about how the one behind the counter
(who is edging towards the back) is his ex Obi-Wan at the same time as Rex
turns to tell Cody about how the one behind the counter (who is squirreling
towards the back) is his ex Ewan.

There’s a bit of confusion going on because ‘look
I know him and his name is Ewan’ and ‘no you’ve got it wrong, that’s Obi-Wan
and this is his mother right there’, at which point Tahl informs them that the
man behind the counter is indeed her son and that he was raised Obi-Wan,
changed his name at Ewan for work-related reasons and is now going once more by
Obi-Wan.

The lightning bulb of “we share a common
ex-boyfriend and we don’t regret ending things with him, because we both had
good reason to, and we both also kind of consider him as ‘the one who got away’”
goes off.

By the time they turn to the counter again,
Obi-Wan is gone.

Anakin is there, glowering at Rex as he takes
orders and including Cody in the glower for good measure.

Tahl might be giggling.

*I’m* giggling! This is great! Can I ask what his tattoo is? (Since you’ve got me on a tattoo jag.)

Made post about the tattoos that you can find here.

Grandfather Dooku doesn’t approve of his
nephews tattoos.

Grandfather Dooku didn’t approve of Cody either.

Great-grandfather Yoda (also known as “the-one-who-might-just-outlive-us-all”)
thought it was all (Obi-Wan dating a Maori, Obi-Wan having no intention of
having not-adopted children, Obi-Wan tattooing the hell out of himself, Dooku
blowing a gasket over his son and grandson’s life choices) very hilarious.

Dooku is scottish nobility, so Obi-Wan has Scottish
blood from his father’s side.

Great-grandfather Yoda is actually from Tahl’s
side of the family and I think he came from Hong Kong when he was very young
and ended up surviving all of his children.

He was one of Dooku’s teachers in college and
that’s because of that connection that Qui-Gon and Tahl met at all, when they
were teenagers and at faculty gatherings (Yoda took custody of Tahl when her
parents decided to go back to Hong Kong and she wanted to stay in the States),
the kind where you bring your family along to suffer.

(Dooku is a professor with tenure at college,
Yoda should have retired eons ago but no one dares to oust the old troll and he’s
actually famous enough that the college kinda wants to keep him on as much as
it’s possible).

(Tahl and Qui-Gon were high school sweethearts
turned couple turned married couple by the time they were twenty-five.)

But back to the story!

Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.

(Anakin went to college to study mechanics,
fell hopelessly in love with older law student Padme, decided to keep doing
mechanics but with a minor in law, only to be screwed over and used in some
faculty scheme by Head of Law Department Palpatine, an old acquaintance of
Anakin’s great-grandfather Dooku. Following that he completely dropped out of
college and just went through a depressive self-destructive phase that scared
the living hell out of Obi-Wan).

(Between Tahl and Obi-Wan and Padme, they got
Anakin back on his feet and pushed him to turn his habit of stress baking into
something more productive and Anakin is like 90% of the reason why Obi-Wan’s
book shop doubles as a coffee shop).

(Anakin is tattooed and pierced as fuck
nowadays, dresses in leather or plaid pants with cotton t-shirts and wears
eyeliner which makes him a complete contrast to Padme’s flawless professional
or high end style. They are engaged and very happy together).

Anyway, Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.

He knows it wasn’t the smoothest move on his
part but he couldn’t think of anything else and Anakin basically seized his arm
and told him to stay there while he
took care of the front.

(One of the very few things Anakin and
great-grandfather Dooku agree on is that Obi-Wan has shitty taste in boyfriends).

Ahsoka is kinda confused as to what’s going on,
but she gets a glass of milk for Obi-Wan and puts a package of cookies in front
of him because he looks like he needs both.

Obi-Wan is really not sure of what he should
do, because he hadn’t planned on being face to face with Cody and Rex anytime
soon (or ever), especially not since they got married. They have their own
lives, it’s not for Obi-Wan to interfere.

Obi-Wan might or not might make a half-dive for
the pantry when he hears Cody’s unmistakable low growl of a voice very politely
ask Anakin if he can tell Obi-Wan that there are couple of friends outside waiting
for him. If he did, well. Ahsoka had her back at him and couldn’t see.

Anakin sounds especially snippy and
uncooperative when he says that Obi-Wan is busy and that if Cody is a friend,
he’s not a friend Anakin has ever heard of.

Obi-Wan realizes he has to go back outside,
before this snowballs further and Anakin moves from that to outright hostile
and protective.

Oh hell.

AHHHHHH!!!!!

THIS IS SO GOOD!!!

Oh i needed this this morning. *snuggles into fic*

Some more headcanon stuff and then a little piece of writing by me and the always wonderful @the-last-hair-bender .

Qui-Gon was a social service worker with a hell of a green thumb. He actually graduated college as a lawyer (not Academia, which is what his father Dooku wanted but still good enough) only to throw it all to the wind when he decided social services were his life calling.

There was a huge fight between Quentin (as Qui-Gon was called then) and Dooku, who threatened to disown his son if he kept this farce going (he was already unhappy because he wasn’t exactly enthused by Qui-Gon’s marriage to librarian Tahl).

It was not a threat Dooku meant to carry out, but Quentin took off and told Tahl all about it. Tahl told her grandfather (Yoda), who told Quentin that if that happened, Quentin was welcome to take Yoda’s surname (Kenobi is Tahl’s father surname, Yoda’s daughter was Tahl’s blood connection to her grandfather).

Quentin thought it was a swell idea and filed for a full change of name (Obi-Wan got the idea he could change name somewhere, of course) and became Qui-Gon Jinn.

He died as a consequence of the same car accident that left his wife paralyzed, a few days after the accident from consequences from it. He left behind his wife and adopted son, Anakin.

Obi-Wan, who was thirty-three at the time, took Anakin in and restructured his whole life around Tahl and Anakin’s needs, helping his mother raise his little brother by lightening her load while she first recovered and then learned how to work her wheelchair.

Tahl likes to go out on Halloween and Carnival dressed as Barbara Gordon with Anakin in a Jason Todd costume. They change Obi-Wan’s costume every year.

Snippet under the cut, picking up from where the outline left off, with a little change.

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About that OT3 modern au

What if Obi-Wan and Cody are college-era boyfriends and then life and everything gets in the way, they split friendly but with a couple of regrets each.

Cody goes on to be a firefighter.

Obi-Wan kind of works himself into an exhaustion breakdown.

And then switches majors.

And goes into librarianship.

Cue Rex who is a cop, who goes at his shop and flirts and they start seeing each other.

But then stuff happens with Obi-Wan’s family.

And they are still early enough in the relationship that it’s kind of awkward.

Rex doesn’t want to intrude, Obi-Wan isn’t ready to introduce Rex yet to his family because they are not that level of serious yet.

Like they are into each other, they went on a few dates, the sex is great.

But dealing with the aftermath of Qui-Gon’s death and Obi-Wan adopting Qui-Gon’s ward?

That’s kind of a lot to deal with.

And I am sure Rex is the kind of man who would try but it’s kind of a mess of a situation.

So they peter off and then agree to break up though, again, with a couple of regrets each.

Cody and Rex meet.

They get together.

They date.

They get engaged.

They get married.

Cue sometime later, the two of them going to a new book shop who also doubles as a coffee shop.

And behind the counter, here’s Obi-Wan.

Who’d very happily just go die in the back.

YOU CAN’T JUST STOP THERE!!!!

WHERE’S THE REST OF IT?!!!

I AM AGREEING WHERE IS THE REST OF IT

OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T JUST STOP

That’s as far as a I got in the chat where I
was detailing this, before my attention got derailed :p

So what I was envisioning is that Obi-Wan is
positively dying to disappear because oh hey, look, it’s the two guys he never
fully got over coming in together because, yeah, they’re married now.

(Obi-Wan kind of disappeared in time, because
he removed himself from Cody and Rex’s lives, but he kinda also kept tabs on
how they were doing because when he cares, he cares.)

(Rex might or might not have Obi-Wan’s name
flagged in the system to alert him if anything happens to Obi-Wan and Cody
still meets Obi-Wan’s mother Tahl at least once every three months for coffee
and while she doesn’t dish on Obi-Wan’s private life she has promised to tell him if anything serious happens, so yeah).

Obi-Wan doesn’t know it, but this was all Tahl’s
idea, by the way.

She changed her usual meeting place with Cody
to Obi-Wan’s new shop, because Tahl has met Rex (Cody’s husband, of course she met the man) and she recognized
him as the man from the photos on Obi-Wan’s phone that Anakin was so jealous
of.

(Anakin was a nine years old adopted kid who
just lost his stepfather and whose stepmother was in the hospital with
life-threatening injuries, so he latched onto his big brother with the force of
a thousand suns and hated Rex on principle, which made the situation between
Obi-Wan and Rex even harder at the time).

Tahl, you should know, is a meddler who feels her son should be
happy and who is reasonably sure, knowing Cody and having gotten to know Rex
well enough in the course of the four years he and Cody have been married, that
they are the kind of men who might not mind a third.

Though if she’s wrong and Obi-Wan gets involved
and then hurt, she will destroy them
and spend the rest of her life atoning for bringing them back in Obi-Wan’s
life.

(Spoiler alert: she’s not wrong, Tahl is a
really good judge of character and she made as sure as she could be, without
actually touching the argument in any way, that Cody and Rex might be open to
the idea).

But let’s go back to Obi-Wan, who has grown a
beard since Cody last saw him, and has turned even more unironically hipster since Rex saw him last, and looks like he
could use a good night’s sleep and possibly some comfort food and relaxing
company.

Cody is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that hooligan Vos, whom he used to be high school boyfriends
with and had casual hook ups with before Cody came into the picture and who
left a really bad impression on straightlaced, serious Cody.

Rex is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that terrible person Ventress, whom Obi-Wan worked with at the
library he was employed at and was somewhere between flirting buddies and
who-the-fuck-knows with and who left a really bad impression on unamused,
possessive Rex.

(Obi-Wan is still hanging around both Vos and
Ventress, who get along like a house on fire and might or might have not ended
up set a house on fire at some point, no one is admitting anything, during a
vacation that has many lengthy gaps every time it gets recounted).

(Vos and Ventress might or might have not
gotten married in Las Vegas during that trip. Obi-Wan has forgotten about 99,9%
of what happened in Las Vegas on that trip. He doesn’t want to remember what
happened in Las Vegas on that trip. Vos says yes, Ventress says no unless it’s
one of those days when Ventress says yes and Vos says no, because they are
utter assholes who love to frustrate Obi-Wan and who make sure their versions
never align).

Cody and Rex are both immediately sure Obi-Wan
is not taking good enough care of himself and what the hell is up with you
Kenobi, you were supposed to be a professor / a librarian why are you now the
owner of a book shop that doubles as a coffee shop?

Cody and Rex do. not. approve. of this state of things and start immediately to think about how to tell the other about Obi-Wan and why that idiot might have to end up coming for dinner at their place.

Tahl smugly sits at her table, with a perfect view of all three of them.

OH MY GOD!

*dying whale noises*

THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE ALL OF IT! Tahl, you perfect, meddlesome human being you!

WHAT MUST A DO FOR MORE? BEG? I CAN DO THAT!

So Obi-Wan was born Obi-Wan and remained
Obi-Wan through college, until he got into some problems in finding job as ‘Obi-Wan
Jinn’ so he did his paperwork and changed his name to Ewan Kenobi (Tahl’s
maiden name is Kenobi, though she still to this day, goes by Tahl Jinn).

These days he’s compromised to changing his
name, again with all the needed paperwork to make it legal, to Obi-Wan Jinn-Kenobi.

So Cody and Rex don’t know that Cody’s “Obi-Wan
Jinn” college boyfriend and Rex’s “Ewan Kenobi” brief acquaintance slash
boyfriend are the same person.

(They did talk about their exes, among
other things, so they actually do know
about Obi-Wan, they just didn’t realize he was the same person.)

(Especially because in college Obi-Wan was very
grunge / artistic as a style, except when he needed to clean up for tests, with
short hair and a long braid and clean shaven. After college Obi-Wan grew a
beard, got himself tattooed and basically emerged from the chrysalis of grunge
into the unironic hipster phase that Rex met him into so even the few photos Cody
has of him / of him-and-Cody-together are of a far different man than the one
Rex met).

(Also, the photos Cody took were with 90s
disposable cameras, so the quality is sometimes so-so, and Rex and Obi-Wan were
together before cellphones with cameras were a thing, so there are no photos of
the two of them together).

Timeline as far as I’ve figured it out is :

–
Rex&Cody
walk in Obi-Wan’s shop in 2016

(Cody is 47, Rex is 46, Obi-Wan is
45)

–
Quinlan,
Asajj and Obi-Wan go on the Cross Country Trip Of Doom in 2013 to celebrate
Anakin turning 18 and heading off to college.

(All three of them were 42)

–
Rex&Cody
have been married since 2012

(Cody was 45, Rex was 42)

–
Rex&Cody
were engaged from 2010 to 2012

(Cody was 43, Rex was 40)

–
Rex&Cody
met in 2007

(Cody was 40, Rex was 37)

–
Rex&Obi-Wan
split in 2004 after three dates (pre-accident) and four more (post-accident)

(Rex was 34, Obi-Wan was 33)

–
Cody&Obi-Wan
were together from 1991 to 1995

(Cody was 22, Obi-Wan was 20 when
the relationship started | Cody was 26, Obi-Wan was 24 when the relationship
ended)

Obi-Wan was born in 1971 (31 March), Rex was
born in 1970 (26 December), Cody was born in 1969 (26 December too).

So Cody and Rex sits down with Tahl, say hello
and then Cody turns to Rex to tell him about how the one behind the counter
(who is edging towards the back) is his ex Obi-Wan at the same time as Rex
turns to tell Cody about how the one behind the counter (who is squirreling
towards the back) is his ex Ewan.

There’s a bit of confusion going on because ‘look
I know him and his name is Ewan’ and ‘no you’ve got it wrong, that’s Obi-Wan
and this is his mother right there’, at which point Tahl informs them that the
man behind the counter is indeed her son and that he was raised Obi-Wan,
changed his name at Ewan for work-related reasons and is now going once more by
Obi-Wan.

The lightning bulb of “we share a common
ex-boyfriend and we don’t regret ending things with him, because we both had
good reason to, and we both also kind of consider him as ‘the one who got away’”
goes off.

By the time they turn to the counter again,
Obi-Wan is gone.

Anakin is there, glowering at Rex as he takes
orders and including Cody in the glower for good measure.

Tahl might be giggling.

*I’m* giggling! This is great! Can I ask what his tattoo is? (Since you’ve got me on a tattoo jag.)

Made post about the tattoos that you can find here.

Grandfather Dooku doesn’t approve of his
nephews tattoos.

Grandfather Dooku didn’t approve of Cody either.

Great-grandfather Yoda (also known as “the-one-who-might-just-outlive-us-all”)
thought it was all (Obi-Wan dating a Maori, Obi-Wan having no intention of
having not-adopted children, Obi-Wan tattooing the hell out of himself, Dooku
blowing a gasket over his son and grandson’s life choices) very hilarious.

Dooku is scottish nobility, so Obi-Wan has Scottish
blood from his father’s side.

Great-grandfather Yoda is actually from Tahl’s
side of the family and I think he came from Hong Kong when he was very young
and ended up surviving all of his children.

He was one of Dooku’s teachers in college and
that’s because of that connection that Qui-Gon and Tahl met at all, when they
were teenagers and at faculty gatherings (Yoda took custody of Tahl when her
parents decided to go back to Hong Kong and she wanted to stay in the States),
the kind where you bring your family along to suffer.

(Dooku is a professor with tenure at college,
Yoda should have retired eons ago but no one dares to oust the old troll and he’s
actually famous enough that the college kinda wants to keep him on as much as
it’s possible).

(Tahl and Qui-Gon were high school sweethearts
turned couple turned married couple by the time they were twenty-five.)

But back to the story!

Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.

(Anakin went to college to study mechanics,
fell hopelessly in love with older law student Padme, decided to keep doing
mechanics but with a minor in law, only to be screwed over and used in some
faculty scheme by Head of Law Department Palpatine, an old acquaintance of
Anakin’s great-grandfather Dooku. Following that he completely dropped out of
college and just went through a depressive self-destructive phase that scared
the living hell out of Obi-Wan).

(Between Tahl and Obi-Wan and Padme, they got
Anakin back on his feet and pushed him to turn his habit of stress baking into
something more productive and Anakin is like 90% of the reason why Obi-Wan’s
book shop doubles as a coffee shop).

(Anakin is tattooed and pierced as fuck
nowadays, dresses in leather or plaid pants with cotton t-shirts and wears
eyeliner which makes him a complete contrast to Padme’s flawless professional
or high end style. They are engaged and very happy together).

Anyway, Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.

He knows it wasn’t the smoothest move on his
part but he couldn’t think of anything else and Anakin basically seized his arm
and told him to stay there while he
took care of the front.

(One of the very few things Anakin and
great-grandfather Dooku agree on is that Obi-Wan has shitty taste in boyfriends).

Ahsoka is kinda confused as to what’s going on,
but she gets a glass of milk for Obi-Wan and puts a package of cookies in front
of him because he looks like he needs both.

Obi-Wan is really not sure of what he should
do, because he hadn’t planned on being face to face with Cody and Rex anytime
soon (or ever), especially not since they got married. They have their own
lives, it’s not for Obi-Wan to interfere.

Obi-Wan might or not might make a half-dive for
the pantry when he hears Cody’s unmistakable low growl of a voice very politely
ask Anakin if he can tell Obi-Wan that there are couple of friends outside waiting
for him. If he did, well. Ahsoka had her back at him and couldn’t see.

Anakin sounds especially snippy and
uncooperative when he says that Obi-Wan is busy and that if Cody is a friend,
he’s not a friend Anakin has ever heard of.

Obi-Wan realizes he has to go back outside,
before this snowballs further and Anakin moves from that to outright hostile
and protective.

Oh hell.

Broken Mirrors, Broken Time

punsbulletsandpointythings:

I dunno what this is, but I can’t get the idea out of my head, so enjoy.

Warnings for death, blood, PTSD, fucked up Force Visions, and general hallucination/vision brought on unpleasantness.

EDIT: @lacefedora‘s reblog reminded me, listening to Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine on repeat while reading will up the intensity by like, a thousand.

It starts with a nightmare Qui-Gon’s having. He’s back on Telos, which only happened a short time ago, and he’s facing Xanatos. They’re fighting, and Qui-Gon wakes up screaming out. He sits in bed, shaking and breathing hard and fast for a few moments, before getting slowly out of bed.

He stumbles his way to the ‘fresher, holds the sink with white-knuckled hands to keep himself upright, and stares into the mirror. Suddenly, Xanatos is standing behind him in the glass, laughing as a broken circle scar appears on his cheeks and his eyes glow like acid. In an overwhelming mix of grief, rage, and panic, Qui-Gon punches the mirror, shattering the glass and the image.

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