Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Genre: Tragedy
Character(s): Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan
Note 1: This is NOT about a slash pairing.
Note 2: The inspiration for this ficlet came when my friend (who doesn't even like Star Wars) was watching episode 1 and noted that Star Wars tended not to be about human emotion but about galactic-scale battling. I thought that was fine, but in the case of Qui-Gon's last words, might his distraught apprentice not have thought t that they were awfully impersonal?
Death of a Master
The last thing you said to me was not, "You've been a good Padawan." Not even, "I love you," which in its platonic, powerful way was exactly what I was trying to say, but I would have cried on you if I had tried. You said, "Train the boy." All about Anakin, or the fate of the Galactic Republic. Is that the Jedi way, nonattachment, or were you just proud because you found the Chosen One? Were you trying to tell me everything wordlessly, through our splintering Force-bond that I nearly ignored in my single-minded desire for your last words?