Title: Beginnings and endings
Summary: Qui-Gon was too blind to see that the future must be protected.
Rating: G
Challenge: TPM100 challenge – new beginnings
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Each mission was a new beginning, a chance to make things better, gathering hope's fragile seed, nurturing it into blossom. Or a last desperate attempt to avoid failure, fighting futility's dead dreams, knowing it was already too late.
Always, Qui-Gon had taught me to focus on the here-and-now, that the future would take care of itself. But I'd seen too many futures crumbling into dust, foresight's shrill warning ignored in momentary distraction.
As the Force was warning me now.
Willfully blind, Qui-Gon ignored my forebodings, ignored everything but the moment and Anakin Skywalker.
It was the beginning of the end.