Note:
K, here ya go. Sorry it's so late, i was expecting to get it on at like 5 but it didn't turn out that way. Oh well. Enjoy!
Pronounces: Thames is said as Tim's. I know it's weird but i have my reasons :).
Ch. 7 Nothing Left to Have
******Next morning****
Jesiana's, or Anne's, footsteps echoed along the metal of the 3rd level cell block path balcony A271-B32. The constant clicking was rhythmic after a while and accompanied by the slight jingle of the tray in her hands made her presence known. It was very early but she had to tend to the two Jedi before the slave calls were made.
Cell A296 opened at her hand identification. She couldn't see inside the dark cell but in the dim light she placed the tray on the sink and moved to the bed. Feeling out to it she found no one on the hard empty mattress. Her hands touched nothing but fabric. Her heart jumped and she called,
"Obi-Wan?"
He couldn't of been checked out, she would of known about that.
"Obi-Wan?"
She called again. Something moved in the very most darkness of the room.
"Jedi?"
She asked again. Another moan. Jesi rushed out the door hitting the lights. They flickered on as she came in again.
She nearly toppled over seeing the broken body in the corner.
"Obi-Wan!"
She rushed to him and dropped to her knees beside him. His face was covered in dried blood and under that massive bruises.
"Guards!"
Jesi yelled turning her head slightly then back. She took out her flash light opening his eyes and shined it into them. They contracted just barely....that was not good.
One then two guards hurried in.
"Get a hover bed."
Jesi ordered.
Obi-Wan groaned to say something but Jesi hushed him and whispered,
"It'll be alright..rest."
The guards hadn't moved. They looked at the teen stunned.
"Go! Now!"
Jesi yelled at them. In a hurry they ran out of view.
Jesi examined the cut below his left eye. She touched it slightly and came back with a middle and index finger with a combination of blood and infection puss.
How long ago was this?
She knew she shouldn't of kept him in this block. Thames commanded this block. He was practically a mini me of Colings. A wanna be.
The guards returned along with 3 others.
"Take it easy. On three. One, two, three."
They pulled Obi-Wan up and slid the hover bed under him. He groaned softly.
"Don't worry kid, things will get better."
Jesi muttered to him as she gave the hover bed a push.
**************
Anne hadn't come in this morning instead another healer entered. He didn't speak a word to Qui-Gon. Nothing. And Qui-Gon really didn't care. He got his food, if that's what you wanted to call *it*, and of course the sedation. The healer left without a word and Qui-Gon simply waited for something he didn't know.
***************
"O-i-n?"
Obi-Wan tried to open his eyes hearing the voice. Was it a real voice or that of a dream? He didn't know and was about to go back into the darkness when he heard it again.
"Obi-Wan? Can you -ar me?"
Light came suddenly and he blinked awake.
Anne lowered the flash light. studying the eyes that were troubling her greatly. So little contraction even awake now was so unnormal...something was wrong she just had to figure out what.
"Welcome back to the living."
Anne greeted with a fake smile.
"Hardly."
Obi-Wan replied. His voice was hoarse and it hurt to move his jaw at all. Anne's expression darkened. Nothing was done or said for a moment then she said,
"Do you know who did this to you? Did you recognize them at all?"
Obi-Wan did his best to shrug but that was nearly worse then the jaw pain.
"What..condition am I -in?"
Obi-Wan asked pausing and julting the words when it hurt the most. Anne sighed putting the flash light in it's place and sat on the cushy bed.
"Your ribs broke again..3 more this time and 2 on the right side. Your bruising is extensive, all over your back, abdomen, limbs, everywhere. You have burn marks on your back and abdomen, more then likely from electric rods.."
She paused with a far off look then returned to the living as she put it.
"Fractured arm, you had a dislocated shoulder but that's been taken care of. And lots of sprains I would imagine."
She finished.
Obi-Wan checked every one of the list. All were there and probably plus some.
"Was I luck of the draw or did they.."
He paused thinking.
"No, your Master is fine. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see him this morning but he's just fine."
Obi-Wan tried to give her a thankful smile but it hurt too much. Instead she smiled at him and said,
"Get some rest..you've been in the bacta tank for a while now..in fact just got out."
She touched, very lightly, his still damp ginger hair.
"You should sleep well."
He nodded. She stood and as she got to the door she turned.
"And there's no such thing as luck."
She said and exited.
Obi-Wan blinked at the statement but even that seemed to hurt and he didn't dwell on it.
***************
Jesi had just spent the passed 20 minutes going through the last nights sighting holos infront of Obi-Wan's cell. After a while she came across an area where who else but Thames and 3 of his loyalists came staggering to the cell. They'd done this many times before. Got drunk, picked any cell and Force help those unfortunate people inside. Some had died before. Though this time they didn't kill the occupant but nearly and this time she wouldn't stand by quiet as she tended their deeds.
So now she was walking through the cave ways to a pit of the slave mines were she was told she could find Thames.
Apon coming into the large open area of dust and sweat she spotted him in an instant. She took a beating stick, one similar to the one Thames was using on a young man, from a stack for guards. An occasional officer would give her a glance of question but the pure anger in her eyes and her rank pending theirs at the time, they said nothing hoping she'd pass by.
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Qui-Gon happened to look up as he wiped the sweat from his brow before he lifted another heavy barrel. He saw Anne Theran enter and the look on her face was like stone. When she picked up one of those sticks he frowned. She didn't seem to mistreat anyone, and didn't seem to agree with slavery.
"Move it Jedi!"
A man in 2nd command of his legue snapped. Qui-Gon did so without a word but continued to glance up at Anne to see where she was going exactly.
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Jesi didn't listen to whatever Thames was telling the youth he struck down on. All she truly heard was the voice in her head and that's all she cared about. She stopped behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Thames."
She demanded.
"What?!I'm bus-"
As he turned while talking Jesi swung the stick with everything she had making a loud 'thwack' as it connected with his face. He was out cold and sprawled on the ground. Everyone froze and his little partners in crime rushed up to her. One who reached for the stick received a painful hit to the gut then on the bridge of his nose sending him to join his leader. Jesi turned to the other two.
"Next time you boys want to get drunk and have a 'old ole' time' know that it's going to be at more of your expense than the victim's."
She warned them throwing the stick at their feet leaving the two out cold on the floor as she pushed past the two standing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Qui-Gon blinked a few times as one instant he saw a man known as Cpt. Thames turning to Anne then the next he was clubbed over by her and sent to the ground. She did it again to another and he couldn't help but wince. Anne said something to the other two, something about drunk and expense of them more than the victim. Whatever she meant that was why she had knocked the other two out. No one approached her to stop her. No one even went after her. Everyone was doing what he was. Collecting their thoughts then going back to work.
~~~~~~~~**** A Few Minutes Later ****~~~~~
Obi-Wan blinked. Blinked again. He was blinking wasn't he? He blinked hard, hard enough to make the bruises and cuts on his face hurt and yet he saw nothing. His heart jumped and he rubbed his eyes with the less damaged hand. He knew they were open! What was going on?! He prayed the lights were out.
He heard the door open and heavy, shuffled footsteps entered...but nothing came to his eyes and from the sound of the footsteps and the rasp rather windy breathing that entered he knew it wasn't Anne.
tbc....
Note:
I should (more than likely i WILL) be able to put up a good bit tomorrow starting by morning and working on. I'm not sure how much but it may be a lot so be ready i guess! Hope you're still liking it so far!!
Til later,
~Elli
