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Ch. 11 Nothing Left to Have

Pure hatred and anger shot through Jesi seeing Colings through her *own* eyes again. He'd taken everything from her. Her family, friends, her whole life. And now, now he had her son within his reach...under his eyes and he looked at Obi-Wan and herself with those mocking eyes.

"So.."

He began, his voice seeming even worse now than with the impersonation of Anne Theran.

"I see even now, back from your pursumed grave, you still cause me problems Stafferi."

He had a thin smile of pleasure upon his face and his eyes moved to Obi-Wan.

"And you Jedi, I suppose you were apart of this plot to bring me down again."

"He had nothing to do with it."

Jesi snapped recieving a stinging smack across her face by Wess. She shook her head to get the feeling away and glared at Wess.

"Is this true Jedi? Speak now, or suffer her fate."

Colings questioned.

~~NPV~~

Obi-Wan looked at the shadowed General. True he had nothing to do with what ever he was talking about but he felt that he would abandon Jesi to say no...but what good would he be dead?

So he just looked at him and said nothing as his vision continued to clear ever so slowly.

"Silence is deadly boy, you're a fool."

Jesi nudged Obi-Wan willing him to speak.

"You tell me General for that's the way it always goes doesn't it? Whatever you say goes?"

He purposely looked at Wess and Thames, both in which grunted.

Colings stiffened then said,

"We'll see."

Then he smiled looking to the tall Jedi Master at Obi-Wan's left.

"Your Master will see....take him."

Obi-Wan gasped mentally when Qui-Gon grabbed him harshly with one hand behind his neck and one on his arm.

"We'll talk soon."

The General said with a smirk. It would be useless to fight, Obi-Wan knew, so he did nothing. Absolutly nothing and was dragged from the room.

~~~NPV~~~

"And Jesi, before you decide what you'll tell me I want you to see your Team."

Jesi frowned, she wasn't going to tell him anything, nothing.

Wess pulled her to her feet and led her away from the room. She caught a glimpse of Obi-Wan down the corridor still being dragged by his own Master and 3 guards. She prayed for his well being,....though she doubted it greatly.

~~~****NPV Few Minutes Later***~~~~~

The wall was unforgiving as Obi-Wan was thrown into it. Catching his ripped away breath he looked to Qui-Gon. Why was he doing this? They, now, were the only two in the small room and Qui-Gon's eyes were never so blank. It was like he had no feeling at all. He didn't care what he was doing.

A smack across the face and a jerk up but his collar he looked his Master in the eye.

"Nothing lasts forever boy, certainly not a trust."

Again into the wall followed by a kick, two hits and another jerk up.

"Trust you see..."

Now the other wall and to the floor.

"is a mortal thing, "

Kick, hit, kick, up.

"That only hurts when it's over."

Obi-Wan coughed when he was kneed in the stomach and slammed, still in his 'Master's' grasp.

"There is no forever, only hurt."

Next wall. This was beginning to become routine.

~~~NPV~~~

The voice never stopped it's commands now and his body never paused to think. Oh, how Qui-Gon wanted to tell Obi-Wan it wasn't him, this wasn't him telling him that and doing this to him.

At first, Qui-Gon could see the hurt in his apprentice's eyes but now they were stone, and filled with only the will to survive and not show any emotion.

'Oh-no'

Qui-Gon tried again, and again, and again. He tried to stop the rod from coming down on his apprentice. To stop the electric volts to shoot through his young teenage body. He had to stop this, had to find some way...but what? There was nothing, he'd tried everything. Unless...

~~~NPV~~~

Obi-Wan didn't hear whatever Qui-Gon was saying, the pain was too loud in his mind to get around it. The electric shocks never stopped, when the rod charged he could still feel the last one, and during this moment he could hear. Qui-Gon was saying something about betrayal, and that no one ever really cared, nothing was left for him to have. And finally when he paused for longer then a moment the distant voice said,

"Then, you'll have nothing, be nothing...just like it always has been."

After that it was just a repeation of words and blows, shocks, and after a long while of a fierce fighting urge, the screams of utter pain.

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

Jesi thought she was going to be sick. Doc was on the floor in a bloody mess, Pierce beside him trying to stop the bleeding with only his hands. Billy layed passed out on a cot. And Lynn...her clothes ripped and blood stained and Jesi knew what had happened. They had been so cruel as to rip away her very spirit. She sat in a corner silent and with tears still running on an emotionless, expressionless, face. Jesi knew that face.

She looked down at Pierce as they uncuffed her and closed the cell door. She knelt on the other side of Doc.

"What happened to him?"

"What happened to the rest of us Jesi."

Pierce replied with a sorrowful look in his eyes.

"Beaten, totured, anything you can think of."

He looked at Lynn's dark figure in the corner as he said the last statement.

Jesi's anger grew even more, if that was possible.

"Where's Thomas?"

She looked at Pierce. His usual 28, smooth, tanned face was bruised and bloody. His eyes, brown but so dark.

Jesi just shook her head not wanting to say how or why.

Pierce sighed.

"How's Billy?"

"Not that bad, hit too hard on the head and a lot of cuts and burn marks."

"And you?"

She asked looking down at Doc. He wasn't moving. Wasn't moving at all. He'd left. Left them alone without him. He as old as Thomas, 34. Only her senior by 2 years. Now, she looked only at his body, nothing more.

"Not nearly as bad as these two..."

He said two..he knew yet he still had his hand on Doc's largest wound though his eyes fixed on Lynn.

"She won't let me near her."

He muttered.

Jesi looked at the 26 year-old woman. Tears still dropped but from unmoving eyes.

"I know."

Jesi whispered back. She knew. Slowly, very slowly she crawled to Lynn.

"Lynn, it's Jesi."

Jesi whispered. She didn't want to frighten her anymore, and from the looks of it she had left this world and gone into her own. She had to bring her out now before she stayed there.

"Pierce is getting worried about you....I'm worried about you."

She had to know she was wanted more then anything. Loved, needed. Jesi sat next to her leaned on the wall as she was.

"I know what you're doing Lynn....it doesn't make anything better."

Jesi whispered even softer. She could see the guards outside through the window in the door.

"You don't have to hide anymore,.."

The tears came more rapidly now.

"Nothing is going to happen anymore...we're here. We're right here with you."

Jesi said seeing the life start to return to her eyes and the tears never ceased.

"We're going to get out of here Lynn. We can't let them win remember?"

Finally Lynn came back to reality and sobbed loudly. Jesi wrapped her arms around the younger woman gently rocking her back and forth.

"It's alright...it's ok..."

Jesi said softly though the anger in her heart was so great she thought she'd burst soon.

"We're not getting out of here Jesi...they won't let us."

Jesi blinked at the words between sobs. She parted with Lynn and looked at her.

"They can't stop us...they won't break us."

She said.

"But they already have.."

Lynn cried as she said it.

"They already have..."

Jesi pulled her close again and looked at Pierce with her eyes. He sat with a shocked look. Lynn, it always seemed, was untouchable when it came to confidence. Nothing would ever stop her. Jesi looked away and listened to the sobs that she remembered so clearly.

"They won't do this again..."

Jesi whispered.

"Never again, to anyone."

*************

The only sound in the room was his own labored breathing. The room was now empty except for himself. He, who laid on the hard floor, his own blood on his and around him. The blood drawn from the Master he once thought so worthy of.

His father-like master, like he had said himself, had betrayed him. Turned against him and everything he knew. And he was right about another thing, there now was nothing left to have. No trust. No love. No known purpose anymore. Once it was different. There was trust, and love, and the will to be a Jedi, but now..now everything was gone and he knew that the 'trust and love' was never really real. Never really there.

Obi-Wan didn't let the tears come, he wouldn't for he was no child. Instead he lay there, silent and unmoving and drown within his own depressing realization.

tbc....

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~Elli

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