She should have looked away when he walked through the door. She should have tossed them out in the sandstorm despite the protests of her son. Anything to keep her away from my Qui-Gon.
She was the mother of the chosen one! But surely, surely Qui-Gon was not falling in love with her, as she was with him. He had pledged himself to me, and I to him. I promised to wait for him, and he agreed.
"…No one can kill a Jedi."
"I wish that were so."
So he did still love me, let's hope he was talking about me. I nearly felt guilty, thinking for a moment he had interest in someone else.
True, I was dead. Could he still yearn for someone to love…physically?
Our relationship had never been physical, but emotionally, it was strong.
That idea was pushed away when I came back to my senses. This man was Qui-Gon Jinn, not some bachelor I met at a bar last night! I should know better, but what can I say? I'm the jealous type.
But with each passing day Schmi fell deeper and deeper in love with him. Qui-Gon never noticed.
A "good morning" here, a shoulder pat there, all the things he would do to be polite. After all, her son was risking his life for them!
Finally, Qui-Gon was leaving. She was speechless, speechless, when he asked her if she would be all right. Perhaps the shock that her son was freed, leaving her forever…
No, she was speechless because of him. Now he noticed. How would he react?
He was mine. I wouldn't let him forget it.
The last time I did something like this, Qui-Gon was at the beginning of a path too dark to see. I had to do it. It was difficult.
I could repeat it, I know I could.
No, Qui-Gon.
He heard me. He was riding an eopie in the middle of the desert. He didn't think it was a hallucination. He knew it was me.
And he understood. No one would come between us, not ever again.
True, I was the jealous type. Too jealous for my own good. Too possessive. Qui-Gon isn't mine, after all. He is still a Jedi.
But in another life, in another time…
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