Note: This chapter has a bit of violence in it, not really gory but thought i'd put this note in just to be safe. Enjoy! Keep the last scene in mind throughout the rest of the fic!
Ch. 10 The Line
Everything came to her as if she knew exactly what it was she was doing.Every thought was already planted before the last one finished. A part of her was worried about these thoughts. They were all dark, hateful. But that part of Jesi began to disappear when she felt her own power spreading around her. She could do anything.Smiling she knew all she had to do was think of what she wanted to happen and it would...and it did.
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Obi-Wan finally made it to the top of the hill. He froze for a moment watching as Jesi walked, very calmly, towards the rushing army. They would kill her. He yelled out her name but the wind ripped it from his mouth. Starting on the edge of panic he started running down the hill completely aware of the fact that a mist was beginning to form about the lands. It started from Jesi and circled as it grew. It grew dense and after only a short while he couldn't see anything. No, no this can't be happening! He could still get there in time..Time for what? What exactly was he going to do?
"Obi-Wan."
Obi-Wan stopped and spun around in an instant.
"Master?"
He called back. He could see a tall figure a distance from him.
"Leave her." He said.
"What? -No.- Why?" Obi-Wan blurted out.
"She'll kill you. Get out of the valley." Qui-Gon said calmly.
"But Master-"
"Come back Obi-Wan!"
Qui-Gon interuppted more desperate than anything.
"Come back!"
Obi-Wan glanced back down where he was going then back towards his master. He could feel darkness behind him, light infront of him. A bit hesitantly he moved back towards his master at a jog, glancing back ever so often.
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They'd all die a thousand deaths before they stopped her. Jesi stopped walking and awaited the wave. She could feel the power flowing all around her, all she had to do was harness it, provok it. The ground below her shook with the wave's motion.'Picture it Jesiana. Whatever you can imagine can happen...just concentrate.' A thought, not of her own, told her. Closing her eyes she flexed her free hand. They were close now. A wave as their own would flow. Flow and wash away their very souls. She could hear screams now. Their bodies would burn in wild fire. Heat and smoke surrounded her senses. And they'd be nothing more.Jesi opened her eyes to find nothing but a black field and a smoky sky.
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As soon as he had reached his Master the mist cleared and his master smiled.
"Foolish boy."
He said and Obi-Wan watched as his master's form melted away into that of a dark cloaked figure.
"Checkmate good son."
He said and faded from existence. Suddenly terrified Obi-Wan looked back down into the valley and could do nothing but watch as a dark grey mist julted from Jesi's body. It washed over the army and took with it red figures. Their souls. And as the bodies lay limp on the soil, with just one flick of her fingers Jesi set fire to the field and a burning hell erupted with dark smoke filling the sky above, absorbed into the storm.What had he let happen? His mouth was dry and the pain in his knotted stomach was something he couldn't ignore as the man he'd spoken to earlier.
"Know good from evil young Kenobi." He simply said.
"..N-Now what?" Obi-Wan asked stricken.
"Now we only wait until the next shift...and now we only watch."
"What..what did she just do?" The man sighed.
"She just opened the gates..now all he has to do is step through them."
"He?"
"Quire." The man pointed to the stormed sky.
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The woman went spastic when Qui-Gon told Grant and her about what had happened.
"No! This can't be happening! Not now, they can't let go!"
She exclaimed. Grant Raider set a hand on her shoulder.
"Calm down Tes."
"I will not! This is all their fault! I told you not to bring the Jedi here! And why he insisted on bringing *her* here is beyond me!" She snapped back.
"Who? Who wanted her here?" Qui-Gon asked interested.
"Poishen of course. He wouldn't take anyone else."
Tes replied frailing her hands all over the place. Raider and Qui-Gon looked at eachother.
"Did he know about Jesi being Force sensitive?"
Qui-Gon asked as the puzzle began to come together.
"I don't know, I doubt it. What's that got to do with any of this?"
Raider replied.
"I don't think Jesi's being here was an accident.We were set up."
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Seeing what she had done filled her with a feeling she didn't understand. It could of been pride but that would be so barbaric.
"Don't be so ashamed of your feelings.It is natural." A deep voice told her.
"Natural to like killing?" She questioned.
"Did you not feel the same when you killed Colings and the others?"
Jesi looked around, yet she saw no one in which the voice was coming from.
"That was different."
"How so?"
Jesi sighed.
"Why should I answer to you?"
"Because it is I who will give you your purpose back."
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"Who is she talking to?"
Obi-Wan asked. He could see her mouth moving but couldn't hear what it was she was saying or who it was she was talking to.
"*Him*." The man said grimly.
"What will he do with her?"
The man didn't answer for a moment the he replied softly.
"He has her convinced that she can give up her future to change the past. He convinced her by using her memory of me."
He paused then continued.
"If she completes the next task he will allow her what she wanted but it won't be the same. If she has a strong enough mind to live through this as still herself she will recieve only what the stars want her to...if her mind is weak then she will be trapped in her own mind for eternity and relive everything she wanted to right."
"So he makes the past the present." Obi-Wan concluded.
The man nodded.
"What do you mean that she will receive what the stars want her to?"
The man looked at him.
"What she did right there just gained her the chance of a daughter again, but it's doubtful it would be Reghan. Next she'll fight for Kyle and lastly she fight for me, for the past."
"You're her husband..Raiy?" Obi-Wan said though he wasn't quiet sure.
"I am."
He replied his eyes still on Jesi.
"She doesn't want to understand that the past can't be changed. She wants it to be but nothing will ever be the same even if she lives through this."
Obi-Wan sighed.
"How do I stop her?"
"Show her the future."
Obi-Wan frowned.
"I don't know the future."
"You are her future Obi-Wan. You, and Billy, Lynn, Pierce, your Master, anyone who she's met in this last year, that's her future.Under no costs can she change that, don't let her Obi-Wan you are her only hope."
He turned and looked at him.
"You're the future's only hope...the stone can not reflect if there is no light."
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"You've done well, I'm impressed."
Jesi took a breath in and held it then let it out.
"You've earned what you've fought for, a daughter again."
"Mama?" Jesi froze afraid to breath."Mommy?"
Turning around Jesi looked at Reghan who looked back with wide brown eyes.
"Mommy, I wansta go home."
She said with a sniffle. Jesi smiled and dropped down to her knees with her arms open and soon embraced around a little bundle that she had missed so dearly.
"We'll go home soon."
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Obi-Wan stiffened slightly watching. How could he possibly take away what was just given back to her?
"She's only a memory."
Jesi's husband said. Obi-Wan looked at him.
"She's not real?"
He shook his head.
"She's just a pawn in this game. Jesi's certain she's real but not in the physical world..it's just that her mind makes it real. She has a daughter again but the daughter is one fathered by her intentions."
Obi-Wan looked at him dread and recollection coming through his being.
'Carry the child fathered by darkness she will...'
"Jesi's with child isn't she?"
Raiy looked at him in return.
"Not if we can convince her otherwise. Only after the New Season will Quire's deeds come true to life, and only if she believes those deeds are reality. She has to realize that this is nothing but a dream."
"And if she doesn't?"
"This dream will become a nightmare that all of you will live in forever."
Tbc.....
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