Pronounces:

Lern: Lie-ern

Ric: Rice

Clements: K-limb-its.

Raiy: Ray

Jesi's accent (the Kishir accent) is like an English and a Scottish accent wrapped together. Just to let you know. :)

Ch. 10 Nothing Left to Have

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Obi-Wan's ears perked at the snap-hiss of a lightsaber. No, it couldn't be. Everyone above them were against them. As shown, or sounded, from Jesiana's blaster fire in return. It couldn't be his master. His master would never turn against them, him. Never.

Jesi shoved Obi-Wan through the door and he stumbled into an area that was cold and the sound of water was there.

Jesi glanced down at the small wound on her abonmen, nothing to worry about. She just had to get to Thomas. Taking Obi-Wan by the arm again they went down some steps and onto a pathway next to the deep water supply river. She shuddered thinking of it and didn't look at it.

They ran a good distance before a shadow moved. Jesi raised her blaster until she heard the tapping. She lowered it and went on to met Thomas around the corner.

"Jesi!"

Thomas whispered as she nearly passed him. They both could hear as the footsteps entered the underground area.

She brought Obi-Wan with her to him.

"Are you alright?"

She asked. He nodded and motioned to her wound. She shook her head. He mouthed 'You?' to Obi-Wan but Jesi mouthed back, 'Can't see...blind.' Thomas frowned and Jesi shook her head. She thought for a second the released Obi-Wan's arm and peeled away the fake skin, as Thomas already had seeing the face mask on the ground along with wig and contacts. All of hers quickly joined and she ripped away the voice chip and turned to Obi-Wan.

"Obi-Wan,"

Obi-Wan jerked slightly at the voice. He didn't know it and that's why she was talking to him in a whisper.

"Shhhh....it's just me, Anne, or Jesi."

Jesi said and felt joy at hearing her own accented voice.

Obi-Wan nodded.

The footsteps were closer now.

"Obi-Wan, do you know why your master may turn against us? Why would he?"

She asked so quietly.

"He wouldn't!"

Obi-Wan said trying to keep his voice down.

"He wouldn't do that."

Thomas and Jesi shared a look as now they could hear the hum of a lightsaber nearing as well.

"We have to go."

Thomas stated.

Jesi nodded and took Obi-Wan's arm again.

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'No, for Force sake stop Jinn!'

Qui-Gon thought as he tried to make his own feet stop moving. Nothing would change and he could start to see shadows in the near distance. He couldn't let this happen. Force knows what Colings would do to his apprentice and who ever was with him if they were caught trying to escape. Stafferi was it? Stafferi! Jesiana Stafferi! The assassine, of course. But,..what was she doing here? And why was she running with Obi-Wan?

'A vital role she will play...'

The memory came. Vital role?

Then he looked out again through his eyes and was shocked at what had happened while he wasn't paying attention.

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Thomas turned to see the green blade moving closer. The figure of the Jedi Master but that wasn't enough. Before he knew anything had happened he had felt the shirring pain of the blade through his left side. He heard Jesi yell 'Thomas!' but the air was already moving around him and he hit water.

~~~~New point of View~~~~~~

"Thomas!"

Jesi released Obi-Wan and reached for her friend but he fell into the water out of her reach. She turned her head to Qui-Gon just as he grabbed her by the throat lifting her near 6 inches off the ground.

She gagged and tried to pry his hand away but he just held tighter as he brought his saber toward Obi-Wan who stood bewildered and confused against a wall.

~~~~~~~~~NPV~~~

Obi-Wan could swear it wasn't as dark as it once was in his eyes. That the dark mist was beginning to clear. He rubbed his eyes and he could see figures, like shadows, moving around him. He could see a bright light. A saber. The tall figure of his master and in his out streched hand was actually a person. Now the fog stopped clearing and left him with only shadows.

~~~~~~~NPV~~~~~

'I'm going to strangle her! Let go of her!'

Qui-Gon struggled with the operation of his own mind and body. The voice, not of his own, continued to give orders and finally said, 'Let her go, bring her and the Jedi alive to Colings.'

His body obeyed and dropped the woman who went to her knees coughing and gasping. He looked to Obi-Wan who looked stunned and confused and did nothing. Did he scare the boy so much as to make him stone? Qui-Gon thought on it. No, something else was wrong.

Then the others came and cuffed the youth and Wess jerked Jesiana to her feet, still coughing slightly, cuffing her as well.

Qui-Gon heard the fogged voices say,

"What's wrong with you boy?! We said go!"

"He can't see!"

Jesiana said coughed then continued,

"He's blind, leave him be."

Blind?! How could he be blind? Obi-Wan couldn't be Blind, there was no way....then again how was he not able to contoll his own actions.

"Permentently?"

One man asked with a smile. He had been one of the ones with Thames the other night.

"No,....he'll recover his sight in time more than likely."

Jesiana replied as Wess began to pull her away.

"We'll just have to see about that eh, dog?"

Thames said giving Obi-Wan a hard pat on the back.

Qui-Gon watched Obi-Wan continue to look at him. Or at least the outside of him. He knew he was there even if he was blind. Thank the Force he'd recover...Qui-Gon questioned the same in his own future. He prayed so, he couldn't do this...couldn't see everything happen right before him, he even inflicting the actions, and not being able to stop it or even come close.

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'Damn that Sith spit of a Master! Damn him!'

Jesi cursed Qui-Gon in her mind as he stood next to her not saying a thing as they went up in the leveltransport. Poor Obi-Wan, so sure his master wouldn't turn on him. Course that was life wasn't it? People you trust turning on you in an instant. Now he was added to her long list of people.. Qui-Gon, Warren, Teria Somel, Ric and Lern Ward, Chris Griffin, Jay and Carry Clements, and many others but she didn't want to think about it.

She still couldn't believe Thomas was dead..he'd been her friend so long now. Nearly 9 years...ever since she met her husband. Raiy's best friend. Now he too was gone...her family and friends all because of Colings..murderer, now Thomas because of Master Qui-Gon Jinn. Funny, she couldn't bring herself to say he was a murderer. Probably because of the way Obi-Wan looked right now. Grim and confused. She could tell his eye sight was coming back, his pupils were slightly contracted. And she knew he saw his master and what he was doing. Prehaps he really was the man in her dreams, the man that had killed her over and over. Maybe he was....

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'That wasn't him...it couldn't be him.'

Obi-Wan thought as the dim lighting began to come back to him. He could see the person he knew as his master infront of him but...why would he do this? Why would he betray him so dearly? He'd betrayed him...the words where forgien even to his mind while thinking of his master. He didn't...he couldn't. He was a father to him. Their bond was strong nothing could make him do this. Nothing.

The doors opened and they were escorted to the center of a large room. It had tile floor yet nothing actually in the room. No furniture, pictures, windows, not a thing. Empty. Then he saw General Colings come out from the shadows in which he hid. Or perhaps it was just the shadows of Obi-Wan's vision. Never the less, he was there and he smiled evilly as his eyes fell upon the two.

tbc...

Note:

Things in the story will either pick up the pace big time or slow for a bit then pick up (Probably the first one.) from here on out. This MAY be all today i don't know. I might be able to put up another chapter or two. If not then at LEAST one will be up tomorrow sometime.

Til then,

~Elli