Author's Note: Okay, this is kind of cheesy, and a bit sappy. But I just kind of got the smack in the face reality brings, and so along came this story. Enjoy, and feel free to review with Constructive criticism.

Terrors of the Future

Obi-Wan walked up to the door, slightly worried, and curious. He had gotten a call from Siri a short while before asking to meet him, and he wondered what was going on. He knocked, and when there was no answer went ahead and entered.

"Siri?" he called. The main room seemed deserted. The door to the left of the room opened and Siri walked in. Her eyes were slightly red, and her normally well combed hair a tussled mess. "Siri? What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Siri muttered. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to come. It was silly."

Obi-Wan took a step toward her. "Siri, tell me. What's wrong?"

Siri collapsed onto the couch and buried her face in her hands. Obi-Wan instinctively sat next to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. Something was wrong. Siri never broke down like that for anything. He knew nothing had happened to Adi Gallia, he would have heard. Her being a council member it would have been all over the temple.

"Siri," he said softly.

"Obi-Wan, it just hit me now, I mean you've probably realized this already, you being older..." Siri trailed off. She looked ahead and took a deep breath. "I'm being sent out on a solo mission." Obi-Wan was surprised.

"You are?" Siri glared at him and he quickly backpedaled. That came out wrong obviously. "I mean, that's great!" Obi-Wan said. It was. Being sent out on a solo mission was the first sign you were nearing knighthood. "I thought you'd gone on solo missions before is all."

"Obviously I haven't or I wouldn't be like this!" she snapped. She then breathed again, calming herself. "Sorry, I have been in charge of one faction of a mission, and overseen minor negotiations. I haven't actually gone out solo before, without my master. To be honest, I'm scared."

Obi-wan felt bad. If Siri was scared, and she was telling him this, then she was really shook. Obi-Wan had gone on a few solo missions before, nothing big, so he didn't think to much of them anymore. But he remembered when he first was sent out alone. He'd been terrified. It hit him then that he wouldn't always have Qui-Gon beside him, looking out for him and guiding him. Siri was now going through the same thing.

"Hey, it's alright," Obi-Wan said. " You're right, I did already face that. When I was first sent out alone, I was terrified. I didn't think I was ready, I thought that maybe in a few years I could do it. I wasn't ready to go without my master yet. I'd actually been on my way to tell the Council that."

"You were terrified of being sent out solo, but you were brave enough to march up to the council chambers to tell them that?" Siri asked, and she laughed.

"Well, if I'd gotten there I probably would have turned tail and run, but Qui-Gon met me before I got there. He gave me one look and then took me to the Room of a Thousand Fountains. Once I'd relaxed, we talked. He told me about his first mission, and helped me get past this. I realized that the fact that I was afraid, that I wondered if I was ready, meant I was ready."

Obi-Wan studied Siri, she looked at her hands, and was quiet. He waited.

"Thank you, Obi-Wan," Siri said softly. "That helps."

"Glad to help," Obi-Wan replied, and he stood. " So, hungry?"

"Starving," Siri answered with a grin.

"Let's go raid the kitchens then."

Together, the two friends ran off to enjoy a snack of stolen cookies. Why they still could.

The End