Title: It Was Always You
Author: Me
Summary: Sequal or "Three-quel" to The First Time and the Broken Shell, It Was Always You is Obi Wan and Dorme's story. Obi Wan and Dorme become married, only a secret threatens the marriage; Dorme is in love with someone else... Anakin and Padme's rekindled love story continues.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a beautiful wedding took place.
The setting could not have been more perfect. It was spring on Naboo and the air was sweet and the temperature mild.
The bride and groom were equally handsome. The Groom, a Jedi Master of average height, strong red hair, cool steel blue eyes and a full beard, was everything a woman could want. He was proud, gentle, kind, compassionate, fierce… and just. His bride, a handmaiden and companion of ten years stood nearby. Side by side, they held hands as they stood under a gazebo decorated in soft pink marsh flowers, its petals blowing in the soft breeze toward the shimmering lake behind them as if to fly away, dusting years of loneliness and agony away from them.
Naboo was a green planet, known for its beautiful lakes, oceans, and flowers. But most famously for its former queen, Padme Naberrie Skywalker. The husband of this queen was the former emperor of the known Galaxy and had the honor of marrying his former Master to his wife's former Handmaiden. They were all connected. The priest to his former Master, the bride to the former queen, and the queen to the land.
The groom, Obi Wan Kenobi, held tight to the bride's hand and whispered the words "I Will." Dorme, couldn't ask for a more loving husband than he.
And upon hearing the vows to which she must apply herself, "til death do them part", Dorme whispered the words "I Will," but scarcely met the groom's eyes. For hers were placed upon the man who recited their vows... Anakin Skywalker. Looking at him made chills crawl up her spine and tremors shoot down to her nethers.
Her eyes were drawn to Anakin's lips as he commanded the "happy" bride and groom to seal their new marriage with a kiss.
She awoke from it then... her trance, to kiss her new husband for only the second time in ten years. Dorme felt a knot form in her stomach… and thought she had seen him hesitate to kiss her. 'Nerves,' she told herself. She was seeing things.
She closed her eyes as their faces drew near and their lips softly meshed. She heard Obi Wan sigh, a deep rumble in his chest. And for the moment had forgotten that he was not that man she loved.