By: Jedi Master Skye Skywalker
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Star Wars.(In my imagination I do, but not in reality (starts to cry)) I DO, however, own Clara, Claire-Kay, and any other characters, places, or any other things that I decide to make up. Yay me! (hehe)
This is my first SW fanfic,(Well, my first fanfic period) so please give me a break if I mess up.
Prologue
It was before The Phantom Menace, and young Obi-Wan Kenobi was in love with a beautiful girl named Clara. She was about the same age as Obi-Wan was. He knew that he would be breaking the Code if he continued their relationship, but he loved Clara so much. So they decided to keep it a secret before the Jedi Council found out. Before they knew it, Obi-Wan and Clara were deeply in love, and, after thinking about Obi-Wan's future Jedi career, they decided to get secretly married. Then Clara got pregnant. It was three years before The Phantom Menace and late in her pregnancy when the Council found out about their secret marriage:
FLASHBACK
"Clara?" Obi-Wan asked as he walked into their apartment on Coruscant.
"I'm in here." Clara yelled from the bedroom. She was putting away some of her clothes. When Obi-Wan entered the room, she saw that something was bothering her husband. "What is it, Obi?" she asked, concerned.
"They know."
"Who knows what?"
"They found out, Clara." Obi-Wan said, "The Council knows."
"About what?" Then suddenly she realized, and her face went pale. "But how..." Clara said.
"I don't know."
"Oh, what are we going to do, Obi?" Clara worriedly asked.
"I don't know, but they're sending me on an assignment to Cato Neimoidia. Me and Qui-Jon are leaving to go there tomorrow. The assignment will take at a few months. They know that your pregnant.The Council is trying to seperate us." Obi-Wan said, standing by the window, then turned around and sat on the foot of the bed.
"Obi, I don't want you to go." Clara said, finishing putting her clothes in the closet.
"Me either, Clara, me either."
"I don't want you to leave me." Clara said with desperation in her voice and sitting beside Obi-Wan. Then she placed a hand on her stomach. "I mean, us."
"I want to stay too, Clar." Obi-Wan turned to look at her while he was talking, "I just don't know what to do. I need to think." Then he stood up, "I'm going to the Jedi Temple. I promise I'll be back tonight."
Clara stood up beside him, "Please be careful, Obi."
"I will, Clar," and Obi-Wan wrapped his arms around her. "I will."
"I love you, Obi-Wan Kenobi." Clara replied to his big hug, smiling away.
"I love you too."
END FLASHBACK
Obi-Wan went back to the Temple where he tried to meditate in his "room", but ended up walking around in the Temple trying his best to think of what to do.He didn't know it, but it had gotten dark a couple hours earlier...
FLASHBACK
"Obi-Wan? Where are you?"
He was suddenly shaken out of his thoughts when a soft voice called his name. Then he looked up, "Clara?" he asked in suprise.
Clara ran up and hugged him tightly, "I was starting to get worried when you didn't come home when it got dark." Clara said.
"I'm sorry."
"Oh, Obi-Wan." she said inbetween sobs.
"Why are you crying, Clara?" he asked.
"They really are trying to seperate us." she looked up at him, "A little while after you left, my cousin came and visited me."
"Well, that's good." Obi-Wan replied, not knowing what was bad about the situation.
"No, Obi. Yes I stay in touch with my family, but we hardly visit each other." Clara said, "My cousin came straight from our home planet."
"Ok, am I missing something?"? Obi-Wan asked.
"My home planet is in the Outer Rim. I came to Coruscant because I wanted to be in the big city. Anyways, my cousin came because she wants me to move back where my family lives, in the Outer Rim.She says somebody is trying to kill me, I don't know. We need to go away somewhere , Obi. I don't care where. The Jedi Council already knows about our marriage, my family is trying to convince me to move back to the Outer Rim and who knows? My family maybe working with the Jedi right now."Clara told him,"We need to go now, Obi. Somewhere, anywhere, before it's too late."
"I have an idea. We'll borrow a small cruiser, and we will go to Naboo. We'll find a place to live there, and then we will start a new life." Obi-Wan said.
END FLASHBACK
So, they decided to do just that. But as they were walking to Clara's speeder to go and pack at her apartment, out of nowhere, there came the sound of a blaster. Then Clara fell down.Obi-Wan looked around to see who shot her, but, to his dismay, he couldn't see or sense anyone. So he pick her up and took her to the medical center. They told him that Clara most likely would not make it through the night. At the same time, she was about to have the baby. When Clara had the baby, it was a girl. She named the baby girl Claire-Kay. Clara held her, and then she handed the baby to Obi-Wan. A short while after, Clara died. The next day the Jedi Council did a blood test, and , to both Obi-Wan's and their suprise, Claire-Kay was not Force sensitive. So the Jedi Council decided that the baby had to be put up for adoption. When he heard this, Obi-Wan was heart broken. Not only was the woman he loved so much dead, the only thing/person he had left of her was being taken away from him. But he knew that he was lucky that he didn't get kicked out of the Order. So he put the locket, that he took off Clara after she died, (a locket he had given Clara when they first got married) on the baby girl. It was a silver heart on a silver chain. In the middle of the front of it was a littlier heart.If you pushed the littlier heart in, the locket would open to reveal a picture of Obi-Wan and Clara together on the right side, and on the left side, a picture of Obi-Wan by himself and a picture of Clara by herself. On the front of the locket, above the littlier heart, it said "O and C". And below the littlier heart, it said "Forever". Before Obi-Wan put the locket on the baby,he took the littlier heart out and kept it, hoping that one day they would meet again. After she was adopted,(Obi-Wan didn't know by whom) all he could think of was his baby girl for a few months. But soon training took his time, and a couple years later, he had a new apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. A few months before AOTC is where our little story begins...
A/N: Well, that's the prologue.(Sorry it's so long. especially for a prologue) Hope you liked it! Please review. No flames allowed. Constructive criticism/advice always welcome. Oh, and I need some suggestions for later chapters. (And please don't forget to review!!)
May the Force be with you
-JMSS
