Title: Our Little Secret

Author: skyguyalltheway

Rating: T

Pairing: Obi-Wan/Siri

Disclaimer: Boy, I wish I owned Star Wars. But nope, Im just here to entertain. I don't claim any of the characters.

Chapter 1

Siri let the warm water cascade over her shoulders and sighed a sigh of relief. After she had passed out during sparring that day, Siri had been sent to med center. There she had learned something that would change her life forever.

"Not to be rude, Master Jedi," the woman working in the medcenter had said with a blush. "But have you been with a man lately?"

Siri had stared at the healer, dumbstruck. "Why?"

"It appears that you are pregnant."

Siri had gotten off the examination table right away and before walking out, she ordered with a little wave of her hand, "You will have the results of that test erased. Make it look like nothing happened."

"I will make it look like nothing happened," the young nurse had repeated.

Siri sighed at the memory. Siri Tachi, the young, beautiful Jedi Knight was pregnant. Even more surprising, she was pregnant with the child of the most uptight Jedi in the galaxy. Her fingers trailed over her soft belly. She smiled as she felt a faint heartbeat, but a tear slipped down her cheek. She had nowhere to go. The Jedi Council wouldn't allow her to continue her duties; love was forbidden. But Siri did have one option...

No, she thought. Obi-Wan can't know about this.

She thought for a while. She turned the water off and threw on a bathrobe. Stepping out of the refresher, she decided that Obi-Wan would find out sometime anyway.

She got dressed and quickly walked to Obi-Wan's apartment. Now was the time to tell him that he was going to be a father.

Obi-Wan closed his suitcase and walked to the kitchen. After the council had briefed him about his new mission to Kashyyyk, he was ready for anything.

Or so he thought.

He was, in fact, ready to be away from his padawan for about a year. He was ready to fight off any pirates who tried to stop his mission.

But he wasn't ready for a certain Jedi Knight to burst into his apartment right as he was about to leave.

Siri Tachi threw open the door to Obi-Wan Kenobi's apartment. The man jumped back when she did so. He was going to complain when saw the look of pure confusion on her face as she sank into the couch. Obi-Wan walked over to her and saw her elbow resting on arm rest, her mouth working furiously on her finger nails. He knew that she was upset about something.

"Where are you going?" She asked suddenly.

"Siri, I don't have a choice-" he began.

She cut him off with a wave of her hand. "I didn't mean it like that, Obi-Wan. I just want to know where you're going."

She looked up into his blue-green gaze. He sighed. "Kashyyyk."

"How long?"

Obi-Wan hesitated.

"How long are you going to be gone, Obi-Wan?"

"A year." He glanced at her as she fell silent. She seemed to be figuring something out. Wait a sec. Obi-Wan knew what was coming...

"I'm coming with you," Siri declared. Obi-Wan was about to object, but Siri was already off to her apartment to pack.

Obi-Wan decided to call Mace Windu.

"Ah, Master Windu," he said as the older Jedi answered. "About my mission to Kashyyyk-"

"Knight Tachi will be going with you," Mace interrupted.

Obi-Wan swallowed. "She will?"

"Yes, you need a companion, after all."

"Thank you, Master Windu."

"You're welcome. Now, I need to be going."

"Of course. May the Force be with you."

"And with you."

Windu hung up and Obi-Wan stood dumbfounded in his apartment. Had Siri called the council? Impossible, he called right after she left. Obi-Wan decided not to dwell on it. Soon, he heard a knock on the door. He opened it to find Siri with a bag in each hand.

"Ready to go?" she asked.

He took a deep breath. "Siri, you don't even know what this mission is about. Why do you want to come with me so bad?"

She sighed. "I just... need to get away," her voice dropped to a whisper as she added, "and I can't be without you for a year, Obi-Wan. I love you."

He felt like he was going to cry. Her gaze, it was so... trusting. Every bit of Jedi in him was screaming for him to lie, to say that they couldn't be in love, but the truth rang out as he brought her into an embrace and whispered, "I love you too."

Siri sat patiently in the passenger seat as she tried to think of a way to tell him. They had left Coruscant only a few minutes before, but already they were nearing the exit from the atmosphere.

"Siri?" Obi-Wan asked politely.

"Yes?" She responded. She looked up to find him staring at her.

"What's wrong?" He asked quietly. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

"It's nothing," she lied, looking back out the viewport on her side.

"Siri Tachi, look at me," Obi-Wan switched the ship into autopilot and moved from his seat until he was kneeling next to her chair. "What did you mean when you said that you 'needed to get away'?" He cupped his hand under her chin and brought her face towards him so that she was forced to look at his beautiful face. A tear slid down her face and he brought his other hand to wipe it away, and a new look of worry formed on his face. "Siri, I heard about the accident during training. Does this have anything to do with that?"

"Oh Obi-Wan!" She cried as she fell into him. She buried herself into his shoulder and sobbed.

Obi-Wan quickly recovered and used one hand to smooth out her hair while the other one stroked her back. "Shh..." He soothed. "It'll all be ok."

"It won't be ok!" She cried as her body spasmed from her sobbing. This cause Obi-Wan told hold onto her even more tightly. "I can't be a Jedi anymore, Obi."

"Why?" He asked, pulling slightly away from her. "Because you love me?"

"No," she answered. "Yes... No. I just..." She fell into his arms again.

Obi-Wan knew something was completely wrong. She was never this emotional. "Siri, what is it?"

She pulled away slowly and Obi-Wan only found fear in her eyes. "Obi-Wan, I'm- I'm pregnant."

Obi-Wan looked deeply into her eyes. He didn't know how to ask the question he felt that he needed to ask. "With...?"

Siri laughed dryly. "Yes. With your child."

Obi-Wan sat frozen. Siri had no idea how to take his shock. Of course, she expected him to be shocked, but she couldn't figure out if he was happy or scared. After a few more moments, Obi-Wan brought her tightly against him. "Siri, that's wonderful," he whispered into her ear.

"Obi-Wan— the council can't know."

"Of course they can't, this will be our little secret."

The young woman smiled.

Our little secret.

Yet Siri still couldn't shake off how against the code this was. She shook her head helplessly. "What are we going to do?"

Obi-Wan placed a light kiss on her lips and smiled all the more. "We're going to be happy," he declared. He moved farther from her and placed a hand on her stomach. Siri placed her own over his. She guided his hand to the place where a faint heartbeat could be felt. She looked up to his face to see him deep in concentration.

She was trying to figure out what he was thinking when he spoke, "It's going to be a boy."

She laughed and covered her other hand over both of theirs. "And what makes you so sure of that?"

He smiled the smile that could make a girl's, or anybody'sheart melt (and Siri knew that she wasn't the only one who felt this way). "The Force told me."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"And what if the Force told me it was going to be a girl?" Siri had felt no such thing; she had been too busy worrying about how Obi-Wan would react.

"It didn't," Obi-Wan stated surely.

"Oh, really?" Siri asked with an eyebrow raised. "And how can you be so sure of that, Kenobi?"

"Because I love you enough to know what you're thinking."

"Or is it just that I don't have my shields up?"

He chuckled as . "That too."

She laughed and hugged him. "I love you, Obi-Wan Kenobi," she whispered.

"And I you, Siri Tachi," he replied as he placed a delicate kiss on her cheek. He pulled away and brought one of her hands into his. He squeezed it gently and looked into her eyes. "We're going to get through this together."

She nodded and tears started forming in her eyes. She could easily get lost in those pools of blue-grey that stared at her so intently. Obi-Wan looked out the view port. He turned back to Siri and placed a reassuring hand on her cheek. "You should rest, darling. We will be there soon tomorrow."

Siri nodded before heading off to her sleeping quarters. Once there, she changed into her sleeping robe before falling asleep on the double bed. The last thing she sensed before drifting was Obi-Wan in the doorway checking in on her.