Trust in the Force Part II

Chapter 1

The com link went off early. It had been so long since he'd heard it, that it took a few seconds for him to realize what was making the sound. Once he figured out what it was, he quickly pressed connect and Beru's worried face came into view.

"Ben? I need you to come over immediately. Something has happened. It's nothing bad, but you said to contact you if Luke did anything…well, you know. Owen is out and shouldn't be home for a while. Please hurry!" She said with urgency.

"I'll be right there." He turned the com link off and sat up running a hand over his face and through his unruly hair. Beside him Luna was stirring.

"What's the matter?" Her voice was rough with sleep.

"It's Luke. Something has happened. I have to go." He threw his legs over the edge of the bed and looked around the room for his clothes.

"Is he alright?"

"Yes, he's fine. Apparently he chose this morning to put on a display of his Force abilities. I'm not sure what he did, but Beru seemed upset. Thankfully Owen had already left for the day."

"Oh. Well, you did think that would happen anytime now. Younglings rarely wait for a convenient moment." Luna slipped her arms around his waist and placed a kiss right between his shoulder blades. "Good luck!"

Obi-Wan looked back at Luna who had turned over and gone back to sleep. Her long dark hair fell in ripples across her bare back. The blankets had slipped down and miles of velvety soft creamy white skin lay exposed just begging to be touched. He smiled and thought as he had so many times before, I'm the luckiest man in the galaxy!

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Obi-Wan walked down the path to the Lars farm with a spring in his step. He was excited. Luke was the galaxy's best hope for a bright future. His training was what he had been sent here to do. Finally he felt like he was getting to fulfill his destiny!

When he had first arrived, Obi-Wan was a broken man. He had been through hell and back and lost everything he cared about. Yoda had sent him to Tatooine with instructions to watch over Anakin's son Luke and to train him in the ways of the Force when the time was right.

As he scratched out a lonely existence watching and waiting, a beautiful Force sensitive woman named Luna Merris literally fell out of the sky and into his life. While teaching her how to control her powers, they fell deeply in love. For a while Obi-Wan struggled with his conscience. But, after some deep soul searching and a rather cryptic conversation with Qui-Gon Jinn, he decided the Jedi had been wrong about attachments. They had been together for almost 3 years now.

He was closing in on the farm when a small boy with white blond hair ran up the path to meet him.

"Hi Ben!"

"Hello there Luke." He looked blissfully oblivious to the concern he had apparently caused.

"You want to see the KPR droid I've been fixing? It's really neat!"

Obi-Wan smiled sadly remembering another young boy with a passion for droids and fixing things. "Maybe later young one. Where is your Aunt Beru?"

Obi-Wan found her sitting in the kitchen with a broken glass on the table in front of her. "Oh, Ben. I'm so glad you're here. I don't know what to do. Things have been going on that I can't explain and today I just…." She shook her head, unable to continue.

"Why don't you start by telling me what happened." he asked wondering what Luke could have possibly done to unsettle her so badly. She knew this was coming after all.

"For about a year now I've been noticing that he seems to know what's going to happen before it does. He will pick up the com link before it goes off and tell me the Darklighters are calling and a few seconds later they will. A few weeks ago he woke us up in the middle of the night and said that one of our Eopies was sick. When we went out to check on her she had started to calf. Three days ago we were sitting down to dinner when he jumped up and started yelling at Owen that the Sand People were coming. Owen didn't believe him and told him to sit down and be quiet, but the next day he found they had broken through the electric fence and seriously damaged two of the vaporators. I wanted to call you then, but Owen wouldn't hear of it. He got angry and said it was just a coincidence.

"Precognition is a Force power. All Force sensitives have it."

"Well, this morning something happened that can't just be brushed off as a coincidence. Owen had left for the day and Luke was finishing his breakfast when I started to clean up the dishes. I put everything in the sink, but one of the glasses slipped out of my hand and shattered. I cut myself pretty badly." She held up a dishtowel stained with blood. "I'm afraid I cried out and scared Luke. He ran over with a look on his face like it hurt him worse than it did me. He said, Please don't cry Aunt Beru, I'll help you! Then he held my hand, and got this odd far-away look like he was concentrating on something very hard. I felt my palm start to tingle, and then it stopped hurting. When I looked down, the cut was gone."

"I see. Healing is a skill that usually takes a long time to master. How extraordinary!" It spoke volumes about the boy that his first use of Force power had been to help someone who was in pain. Such a compassionate and unselfish display almost never happened in untrained individuals. With a pang he briefly thought of Padme and Anakin and how proud they would be of their kind-hearted son.

"We have to do something, Ben!" Beru pleaded. "If anyone had seen that, he could be reported. The Empire might take him away from us."

"Well, it is obviously time to start training him. How do you propose we deal with Owen's resistance to the idea?"

Beru thought for a moment. "He knows that Luna and I are good friends, but he doesn't realize you two live together. If I tell him I am going to visit her he won't be suspicious. I'll bring Luke with me and you can work with him then."

Obi-Wan stroked his beard thoughtfully. "Yes, that just might work. Bring him by tomorrow."

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Back at the hut, Luna was just getting out of the sonic shower. She quickly slipped on a thin cotton robe and made a large pot of caff. Just as it finished brewing, Obi-Wan came walking up the path. He was whistling! Things must have gone well.

Luna smiled. She knew he had been waiting for this day. Luke beginning his training was the first step towards righting the terrible wrongs that had taken place in the galaxy when Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side.

Obi-Wan stepped through the door and grabbed her spinning her around in a circle and laughing. When he stopped she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him playfully on the lips.

"I take it you'll get to train him?"

"Yes! Beru will come by tomorrow with Luke and we will begin then."

"I'm so happy for you! He's a lucky boy to have such a fine teacher."

Obi-Wan handsome blue eyes twinkled and he raised one eyebrow suggestively. "You do realize flattery will get you everywhere."

"Is that a threat or a promise?"

Without another word, Obi-Wan picked her up and threw her over his shoulder . Luna shrieked with laughter as he tossed her unceremoniously onto the bed and jumped in after her. Their laughter slowly turned to gasps and sighs of pleasure as they made love again and again in the bright morning sunshine.

*Welcome to my new story! If you would like the back story on Luna and Obi-Wan's relationship please read my first story "Trust in the Force." I appreciate all comments and reviews. Thanks in advance for all your support.