Forbidden Cupboard

by QueenMimi96

It's not like Qui-Gon said not to touch anything while he was gone. I mean, why would he? Why couldn't Obi-Wan look around? He lived here, too, after all! Oh, wait, yes there was that one cupboard that he'd been warned not go into. But Qui-Gon wouldn't notice. Then again...maybe some cupboards are best left unopened. One-shot.

Note: Both of them are a lot younger in this one - Obi-Wan is about 13 and Qui-Gon about 34.

Setting: Coruscant, Pre-TPM

"And remember: Don't open the cupboard!" Qui-Gon ordered Obi-Wan as he left for the grocery store.

Obi-Wan sat up from this place on the green leather couch and walked into the kitchen. He quickly opened the door to the laundry room and picked up Qui-Gon's old yellow stool that Master Yoda had given him for an assignment when he was a Padawan. Obi-Wan rushed back into the kitchen and set the stool down in front of the counter. He slowly propped his foot on the stool. It was still sturdy enough to hold him up. Suddenly, the stool shook under his feet and then gave way beneath him.

Obi-Wan groped for the counter with his fingertips as he started to fall. Be barely caught himself as the stool landed in a discarded heap on the floor. He gingerly pulled himself up and climbed to the top of the counter. Obi-Wan carefully stood up on the blue-tiled counter and opened what Qui-Gon called the 'Forbidden Cupboard'. Obi-Wan knew that's where he was hiding the desserts. Qui-Gon would sneak into the kitchen late at night when he thought Obi-Wan was sleeping and open the cabinet.

Obi-Wan heard him eating something. Something crunchy...and he had to know what it was. Obi-Wan let out a shocked gasp as he picked up the clear Tums bottle.

Qui-Gon never said he got bloated, Obi-Wan thought.

Suddenly, Obi-Wan heard a speeder pull up next to the Jedi Temple. Obi-wan slammed the cupboard door and climbed down from the counter. He quickly scooped up the discarded stool parts in his arms and ran to the refresher. He tried to force the parts down the toilet. When that didn't work, he stuck them in the bathtub. Obi-Wan made a quick exit towards his room when he heard Qui-Gon's voice call out to him.

"Obi-Wan! I'm home! The grocery store was closed. I forgot it was a Sunday," Qui-Gon said as he laid his Jedi Robes on the couch and headed to the refresher.

"Obi-Wan?! What is my stool doing in the bathtub? And it's broken!" Qui-Gon cried as he picked up the pieces of his beloved stool in his arms.

Obi-Wan slowly peeked his head out from behind the closed door of his Temple room.

"Jocasta Nu stopped by when you were here and she went to the refresher..." Obi-Wan trailed off.

"I knew it!" Qui-Gon yelled, "She was always jealous of my stool! So she broke it, thinking it would make me angry! Oh, the nerve of her!"

Qui-Gon stomped out of the refresher and into the hallway to fume. Obi-Wan breathed a sigh of relief. When Qui-Gon got like that...well, it was just best to not interrupt him.