Title: The Key
Author(s): JediSeeker1
Timeframe: NJO/ AU
Characters: OC: Sara Skywalker, Jacen Solo, OC: Obi-wan Skywalker, Luke Skywalker and others
Genre: Action/Drama
Keywords: OC, AU, NJO
Summary: In the great Jedi purge Obi-wan Kanobi locked away important information deep in the Jedi temple with a special key. Not really knowing what importance this key was, Luke Skywalker took this key in as his daughter. To protect her from all who hunted her, Luke hid his daughter away only to find that she has disappeared.
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars it belongs to Lucasfilm. This is my way to be apart if that world. I did not write the songs that are intertwined in my story, because I am musically challenged. I felt that there are other people that are more talented in that area then I.
Prologue:
A long time ago, the clone wars corrupted the republic. The Jedi were forced into hiding. Before he fled the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan Kenobi unloaded all the information into a electronic Holo-Recorder. The recorder held the history of the republic. Everything one would want to know. The fall of the republic, a love story gone horribly wrong, but most important the key to putting an end to the Sith: how to create a Thought Bomb. This information if in the wrong hands would be the end for the Jedi, the end for the republic and the end to peace in the galaxy. He was bringing the information down to the depths of the Jedi temple, down so far that only the elite of masters knew about it.
On his way down, Obi-Wan found a five year old youngling hiding behind a big potted plant. She had escaped the fate of the rest of the younglings. He picked her up and brought her with him.
After many secrete passages and locked doors, they stud into this big room. Status of Jedi masters long past filled the room. When even the strongest of masters need guidance, they would come here to get it. One particular statue was special to Obi-Wan. It was the statue of his old Master Qui-Gon Jin. Underneath the statue was a door, with a hand print on it. Obi-Wan put his hand on it and a bright blue light filled the dark room with light. The light faded and the door opened.
Inside the door was Qui-Gon's lightsaber. It was the only thing in the statue. He grabbed the lightsaber and gave it to the girl. "Here this is yours now; you will need it to protect you."
"But master Obi-Wan, I don't know how to use one yet." the girls voice sounded scared.
"It's alright; I will show you how to use it." Obi-Wan said as he put the data he carried into the statue. He closed the door. To lock the data up he took the younglings hand and placed it on the door. A rainbow of Red, Purple, Blue and Green light filled the room. They walked out of the big room. When the door closed behind them, Obi-Wan stopped and turned. "Here put your hand here." The girl followed the order. Again the door locked the same way the door to the statue did. "I'm sorry to do this to you," he whispered to her. "You and the younglings you will have are now the key to the past."
"Master Obi-Wan I don't understand?"
"It's alright; you don't have to right now." He answered her, and they raced out of the temple.
Obi-Wan sent the girl to live on the planet of Naboo, The Empire would not find her there.
Years Past, Obi-Wan was living on Tatooine. He was keeping and eye on the son of Darth Vader.
One day an elderly lady came to see him unannounced. In her arms was a tiny baby wrapped in a blanket.
"Are you Master Kenobi?" She asked him.
"Who wants to know?"
"I do," She stated. "The baby's mother ordered me to bring the baby to a Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Are you Him?" she asked again.
"Yes. Where is the mother?" Obi-Wan didn't sense any danger.
"She was buried on Naboo a few days ago. Before she died she left orders to bring the baby to you." she handed the baby to him, and left with out another word.
Obi-Wan went back into the hut he lived in. inside of the blanket was a small note.
Master Kenobi,
Please take care of my little princess. She is now the key.
Chapter one:
Sara peeked threw the curtain, she didn't see him. For the first time in three months, the stranger that had caught her eye would miss her sing tonight. Tonight was the night she was going to sing the song she wrote for him.
She stepped on to the small stage at the bar that she waitresses at. The boy wasn't at his usual spot. She looked around everywhere for him, but couldn't find him.
Sara sat on the stool on the end of the stage, in front of the microphone. She cleared her throat. "This song I wrote for someone who comes here every Thursday. I've always been to shy to introduce myself to him so I wrote this song." She grabbed her guitar sitting next to the stool. She started picking at the strings on the guitar.
At the entrance to the bar on Tatooine, Jacen Solo was running late. He sees the girl that had caught his eye three months ago, when his father had taken him there for a sabacc game. She was just sitting on the stool picking at her guitar. She took a deep breath in and looked up. Just as she started singing she saw him standing at the door. She smiled a big smile so brightly it took Jacen's breath away. After a few words in the song, he new that the song for him.
There you are again
I see you all the time
We haven't really met yet,
But you know, I don't mind
'Cuz I think today's the day
I'm gonna go right up and say to you
Would it be alright
If I called you up sometime?
There you go again
I let you get away
At least I've got more time
To think of what I might say (like)
"Couldn't we be good" (or maybe)
"Don't you think that we should find
Some quiet little place where we'd make love all day?"
Come and talk to me
What are you waiting for
'Cuz I can see you passing every day and I'm always wanting more
Come and talk to me
What are you gonna do
'Cuz I can't seem to get the nerve to get off my own ass
And come and talk to you
You know I love the type
You look like you've been up all night
And yet somehow still look beautiful
You do it all at the same time
Whenever you walk by
You always look me in the eyes
And in that moment I know
the same thing's on your mind
It always seems to be that I let the good things pass by
because I let my fear stop me (but not this time)
Later that night, Jacen sat waiting. The bartender was kicking the last of its drunks out, as he cleaned up the bar he walked up to Jacen "Are you the boy from the song?"
"Yes." Jacen replied almost fearing he was going to stay she wasn't coming out.
"Sara will be out in a minute, she is just packing up her things."
'Sara' Jacen repeated her name in his head. 'Sara, what a gorgeous name. It fits her perfectly.' Jacen daydreamed while he waited.
"Bye Sam," her voice came from behind Jacen. Jacen turned to look at her, he was in awe. "I was wondering if you were going to stay." Sara smiled at him.
Jacen couldn't move all he could do was just stared at her. She was so pretty with her brown hair and green eyes.
"I'm Sara, Sara Walker." She held out her hand to shake his, with a smirk on her face.
It took a minute, but Jacen had to shake his head a little to come back to reality. "I'm… I'm Jacen." He finally spit out.
"Jacen," she repeated slowly. "It fits you well." There was a moment of silence. All they could do was stair at each other. Then Sara broke the silence.
"Look… do you want to come over to my place and talk. I would love to go out but then I have to pay the babysitter over time."
"Yea, sure" Jacen snapped back to reality again. He offered to carry her bag as they walked out of the bar.
Sara and Jacen strolled into Sara's home. "I'll be right back" Sara walked in to the other room leaving Jacen alone in the kitchen. Jacen looked around the kitchen. He noticed lots of pictures on the fridge. To pass the time he stared at each one of them.
Sara walked into her three year old son's bed room. He was fast asleep. She bent over to kiss him on the forehead.
Obi-Wan's eyes opened "Hi Mommy." He whispered.
"Hi sweet heart. You're supposed to be sleeping." Sara smiled at him.
"Did you sing your song tonight?"
"Yes I did, and it worked." Her son smiled at her "Now you go back to sleep."
"Ok" Obi-Wan turned and fell back asleep.
Sara walked back in to the kitchen where Jacen was looking at the pictures on the fridge.
"Is this your son?" he asked when she walked in to the room.
"Yea. His name is Obi-Wan. He's three."
"He looks like someone I know. He kind of looks like you." Jacen smiled at Sara. "Who's-
"Where-"Jacen and Sara said at the same time. Sara knew what he was going to ask. And she didn't want to answer that question.
"Sorry … go ahead, what were you going to say?" Jacen insisted.
"Where are you from?"
"Well I live on Coruscant," Jacen took a seat on the stool at the kitchen counter. Sara grabbed a couple of glasses from the cabinet. She filled the gasses with water. She sat next to Jacen and placed the glasses in from of them, "but I have lived many different places growing up." He continued.
"You're a Jedi aren't you?" Sara asked out of the blue.
"Yea. How did you know?" Jacen was surprised. He had not expected her to ask so sudden. He could feel her in the force, almost as strong as his twin sister. It was what made him notice her in the beginning.
"I just do." She looked at her glass. Jacen could see that something was wrong.
"Do you have something against Jedi?" He asked suspiciously.
"No." She said defensively. "No- no I don't." Sara got up and walked over to the sink and dumped out her water.
"You can feel the Force, can't you?" Jacen asked her. Sara nodded her head yes. "So can your son."
Sara whipped around and looked Jacen right in the eye. "You leave my son alone." She said firmly.
"Look, I didn't come here to take your son away. I came here to get to know you." Jacen explained himself.
Relived, "I'm sorry; I just don't want anything to happen to him." She explained.
"I know. Look as long as I'm around, I'm not going to let anything happen to your son or you for that matter."
Sara looked a Jacen and smiled. "Thanks."
After a few minutes of silence, Jacen just had to break it. "So what is your story? How did you end up here?"
"My Story?" she rolled her eyes, "It's long and complicated."
"Well do you have to work tomorrow?"
"No, but Obi-Wan has summer camp in the morning."
"Well we can stay up all night talking until you have to bring Obi-Wan to camp, then we can get some rest." Jacen Smiled at her.
"Where do I start?"
"How about from the beginning."
Sara Chuckled to her self. "Ok, that doesn't help much but…Well my Mom had me when she was really old. She never made it threw child birth. I was sent to live with my uncle Obi-Wan here in this house.
"One day my uncle was call upon for help. We went to help and my uncle was killed by my grand father. But I didn't know that he was my grandfather at the time. A young man that we were with took me in as his daughter. He became my dad. Someone was looking for me, someone bad, I don't know why. My father sent me to live here with my best friend. Someone my dad trusted. …" Sara became very quiet for a little bit. Then continued. "I only saw my father maybe three times.
"I fell in love with him… my friend who I was staying with. But after living with each other for a year, we just got into fight after fight. He would hit me, hard sometimes, I couldn't take it any more, I had to get out. So a friend helped me get away, he was sort of my hero, but his family didn't want me with him and on top of that I found out I was pregnant, so I ran and hid here."
"I never saw him, my father or my hero again," a tear ran down Sara's cheek, "I got my job at the bar, had my son, and here we are." Sara finished her story with, "it's hard sometimes, I look at my son and I'm reminded of my past," Sara came back to the present. "What about you?"
"Well, my mom is a senator, and my Dad is an ex-smuggler, kind of a weird combo, but they love each other."
Sara laughed as Jacen joked around with his story.
"I have a twin sister Jaina, and then there is my little brother Anakin, we went to my uncle's Jedi academy, we were kidnapped a couple of times and rescued, a few years later I became an apprentice to my Uncle. My dad took me out to this bar and I fell in love with this waitress we had."
Sara started blushing and the young man smiled, "I think it was love at first sight. So I kept coming back…" Jacen stop for a second, "well I tried to make it entertaining."
Sara giggled "I liked it."
Jacen stud up from the stool he was sitting in, he took a step closer to Sara, brushing a strand of hair from her face as she just looked up at him standing in front of her as he finally lent down and kissed her.
There was a knock at the door. Obi-Wan ran to open it.
"Hi! I'm Jacen." Jacen bent down to greet the three year old. "You must be Obi-Wan."
The boy just stared at Jacen.
"Where is your mom?" he asked.
"Obi-Wan, who is at the door?" Sara called from the other room.
"It's me. Jacen."
Sara came to the door, a big smile appeared on her face as she saw him and she pulled Solo into a hug, Jacen was filled with joy just having her in his arms.
"What brings you by? I wasn't expecting you until next week," Sara said as they walked into the kitchen.
"Well I couldn't wait to see you," Sara blushed and Jacen added, "that and I can't make it next week. I have to help my family. I'm sorry."
"It's ok. Family is important."
"I was wondering if I could spend the day with you today?"
"Well, I had planned to spend the day with my son, so you are going to have to ask him."
Jacen knelt down to Obi-Wan. "So what do you say buddy? Can I spend the day with you and your mom?"
Obi-Wan was hiding behind his mom's legs, he nodded a yes.
"So what are we going to do today?" Jacen asked the shy boy.
Obi-Wan shrugged his little shoulders, he didn't know.
"We usually go run errands around town, or find a game to play here or read a book." Sara answered for him, "but today I think we can alter our plans."
"I have an idea," Jacen tried to sound excited to get capture Obi-Wan's attention, "how about we go for a ride in my ship?"
Obi-Wan's eyes grew wide, "Yeah!" he turned to his mom, "please Mommy can we go?"
"I don't know baby."
"I won't take you guys far, we won't even leave the system." Jacen tried to help Obi-Wan convince his mom.
"We are not supposed to be leaving the planet."
"Mommy, we will be back before Papa comes for us." Obi-Wan knew his mother's fear of leaving.
Sara feared that she would leave and her father would come for her, she didn't want to miss him. However, deep down the young woman knew he was not coming, she had already missed him long ago.
"I know, sweet heart," she paused. "Ok we can go." She gave in.
"Thanks mommy!" and Obi-Wan was already running off to get ready.
Sara looked over at Jacen, he had a happy grin on his face as he slowly leaned down and kissed her.
"Come on lets go!" Obi-Wan rushed back into the room, he grabbed Jacen's hand no longer shy of the man and pulled him away from his Mom.
"Ok Buddy, we're coming."
When they finally arrived at the space port, it felt like Obi-Wan had excitedly pulled Jacen the whole way.
"Obi-Wan!" Sara lightly scolded, "stop pulling, we are not in a hurry."
"It's ok," Jacen picked Obi-Wan up and put him on his shoulders, "you see that ship way in the back? That's mine; It's called an X-wing.
"An X-wing?" Sara asked, "is there going to be enough room for all of us?"
"Of course, this one has been modified for two people." He smiled at her.
Jacen was showing Obi-Wan around his X-wing, Sara lost herself in watching them. He was so good with Obi-Wan, it made her like the Jedi even more.
"Come on Mommy, let's go." Sara's son called to her, she smiled in response and walked over to them.
They spent the whole day flying around Tatooine, Obi-Wan sat on Jacen's lap and the Jedi knight showed him all the flight controls.
It was late when they returned home, Sara was carrying Obi-wan, who had fallen asleep on the ride home into the house. She put him to bed and when she came back out of his room, Jacen was there waiting for her.
She hurried over to him and her arms around his neck, kissing him as if she was never going to see him again. He kissed her back just as passionately as he held her close to him.
Sara pulled back a bit and looked him in the eyes, "spend the night with me?"
Jacen paused a second and took in a deep breath, "we shouldn't."
"Please?"
"Alright, I'll spend the night here, but we shouldn't," there was a moment of silence.
Sara nodded her head yes, "Come on, lets go watch some Holo-net."
They walked in to the living room and sat down on the couch together. She rested her head on his chest and he locked his arms around her. She could feel the muscles in his arms, it made her feel safe, like no harm could come to her, after a while she fell asleep in his embrace.
Jacen picked her up and carried her to her bed, he gently laid her down and tucked her in, kissing her on the forehead as he turned to leave. Before he got far Sara stopped him.
"Please don't leave me, I don't want to be alone tonight."
There was more silence and then he spoke, "Ok."
Jacen crawled in the bed and curled up next to Sara, wrapped his arms around her and they both fell asleep together.
Sara was able to come home early from work. She was eager to spend time with her son Obi-Wan. When she arrived at home she found her home had been ransacked.
Books on the floor, chairs broken the table tipped upside down, there were markings on the wall that looked like blaster shots. She ran over to hiding place under the coffee table in the living room, the coffee table had been flipped over, and the door had been ripped off.
There was no sign of Obi-Wan anywhere.
Horrified she knelt down and started crying, she didn't know what to do.
Then suddenly Sara noticed the type of marks on the wall and she knew who took her son. The Empire.
How did they find her? How did they know about her son? Sara wished Jacen was there. She felt so alone, she had no one to turn to, she didn't even know where to find her father.
But Sara remembered what Jacen said before he left:
i"If you need anything at all you can find me here." Jacen handed her a card with an address on it./I
iThat's what I'm going to have to do/i she thought to herself, putting aside the thought of her father coming for her and prepared to leave Tatooine.