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Ch. 17 The Line

"Obi-Wan?"

Qui-Gon questioned reaching for his swaying apprentice.

"Padawan?"

Obi-Wan gasped suddenly and his knees gave out dropping him from the slim edge.

"Obi-Wan!"

Qui-Gon julted his hand out despite his rassional knowledge. He grasped the youth's arm but Obi-Wan was already off the edge and falling and that jerked Qui-Gon off balance and he too fell with his apprentice.

It didn't feel like what he thought it would. It was just like floating really...just floating downward quickly. He watched as the ground came up quickly and closed his eyes near the end, but then it felt as though the Master and Apprentice fell into a big puff of whipped cream. Something soft felt as though it had caught them and Qui-Gon pulled Obi-Wan closer in what ever this darkness was.

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Jesi didn't care what she was doing. This was NOT her daughter. She kill the imposter here and now for the lies and for whatever she had done to the people on the ridge. Slamming her blade into her opponent's she felt the stinging feeling of the contact shake down her arms. Pulling back she ignored it and bashed 'Reghan's' blade again and again without pausing. The younger woman stumbled back then rolled to the side out of the way of another strike by the elder.

Jesi glared at her as she stood again and pushed on, oblivious to what she was really doing. Oblivious to Quire becoming more and more part of reality.

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Obi-Wan opened his eyes as he felt the wind tear all around him. He could faintly feel that he was close to someone but he couldn't see them at all. All he saw was black and white smudges. Shapes that he couldn't identifycertainly. Where was he?

Suddenly it felt as though he had been dropped on the ground and who ever was near him wasn't there anymore.What was going on?

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Qui-Gon shook his head trying to clear his vision.One minute he couldn't see anything, the next he was just dropped here with a very large headache. Glancing around he realized Obi-Wan was no longer near him.Blinking hard he sat up fully looking around.

"Obi-Wan?" He called. No one replied but he heard the sound of metal against metal.Standing rather wobbly he reached back to the bond he and his Padawan shared....but the moment he brushed it a sever pain shot through his head.

//Why thank you so much Jedi Master...and here I thought I'd have to worm my way in your mind.//

Qui-Gon knew his color faded at the voice that sounded through his head.

Quire.

//I have someone here who is a bit confused about where he is. Perhaps you can help him, before he's dead.//

Qui-Gon turned one way then the next. No, calm down. Taking a deep breath he concentrated on the gateway that was now established between himself and Quire. He wasn't far and Qui-Gon quickly followed the unseen trail.

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Obi-Wan didn't know that a dark person was near him until he was hauled to his feet.

"Nice to see you again."

Quire whispered dragging him somewhere.

"I thought I'd be too late."

A question rang in the Jedi's head...for what?

"Your friend is a big help you know. She's so blind with rage I won't even need your Master to get back to reality."

"What?" Obi-Wan snapped angrily as Quire flopped him down again.

"Oh yes, you see I need a lifeforce in order to live...I can't use you, you'll already be dead."

Obi-Wan's stomach turned.

"I would use your master but..."

Quire paused.

"The woman will be easier to tame."

Obi-Wan looked away from Quire when something suddenly julted into his line of sight.

Force! Jesi was trying to kill Reghan!

"J-"

Obi-Wan almost got the name out but a sudden white hot pain erupted from his chest. Focusing on breathing Obi-Wan didn't hear what Quire was saying but noticed the circle made by what looked to be blood, around him. Looking towards Jesi she was nearing one.

"Obi-Wan?!"

He turned his head towards his master quickly and saw as he stepped into another circle.

"No!Go back!" He yelled as the Master put his first step down.

Looking quickly to Jesi he saw her thrown into the thrid circle with Reghan.Qui-Gon stepped fully in and Obi-Wan froze with a strange feeling and could do nothing as he watched Quire approach.

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Landing on the ground Jesi rolled to stand but when she did nothing was the same. Reghan was not there, she wasn't in the 'cave', and she could feel her anger dwindle. Looking around she realized that she was standing infront of a gate. A very large gate.

"I've been waiting for you."

Turning her eyes settled on her husband. Though she wanted to relax and hug him she couldn't.She remembered last time she'd seen him..that led her to all of this.He smiled as he came towards her.

"It's alright Jes."

He put his hand on the blade she had tightly in her hand and began to push it away.

"It's really me this time."

Jesi trembled in fear and in something of relief or joy.

"Let it go Jes." He said softly.

She loosened her grip on the blade.

"It's alright..Let it go."

Seeing that his eyes didn't hold that strange look, that look of warning, she slowly released the blade then it dropped without a sound as she threw herself into his arms.

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It felt as though needles were poking into him.Obi-Wan felt the tingle grow until it hurt inside him. It was hot too. Feeling like it was burning him.

He watched with eyes that he could not move as Quire stood over him. He reached down and suddenly everything was ice cold. Obi-Wan gasped in a stricken breath and yet Quire did not stop.

He was literally reaching into his chest!

Then Obi-Wan felt the pain and coldness begin to subside...he began to feel tired. Very tired, not just sleepy tired but weak too. His head lay back in the warm sandy dirt as the last bit of warm vs.cold in him disappeared and his body relaxed completely except for the abnormally slow breathing. His eyes focused and unfocused as Quire stood straight again with a bundle of light in his grasp.

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"Jesi listen to me."

Raiy said quietly parting from his lost wife. She looked at him with watery eyes.

"Things are happening right now that we can't allow." She nodded slightly.

"The Jedi Master won't realize what he's done until it's too late."

"What do you mean done?" Jesi asked.

"He's going to deflect what he thinks is a danger to him and it's going on to you."

Jesi frowned.

"What? Raiy, you're not making any sense.What are you talking about?"

Raiy sighed thinking of how to put this quickly.

"I'll explain later.Just do as I tell you."

Jesi's eyes clouded but then she nodded.

"You're frozen in time right now, something like you're dreaming again.You have to wake up. Wake up and I need to to get infront of Qui-Gon Jinn at any costs."

"You're saying for me to break time and jump infront of Qui-Gon...."

Jesi said very confused.

"Why?"

"If you don't Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are both going to die and an evil will be set free...through you."

Jesi's breath froze.

"You have to interrupt the triangle. Once you do that, I can help you. I can save Kenobi but you have to open the door."

Raiy brushed a strand of hair from her face and she nodded. The husband smiled at the lost wife and sent her back to were she was needed.

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Jesi blinked. Reghan had the tip of her blade right near her face but she didn't move...she was frozen too. Carefully Jesi slid out from under the blade and stood. Looking to Qui-Gon he was in mid-step reaching for his lightsaber, frozen. Her gaze continued and set apon a near still figure on the ground.

Obi-Wan.

Near him was Quire with a ball of light in his hands.Quire brought his hands back and Jesi knew he was about to throw it. Jumping into a dead run she rushed towards the 'frozen' Jedi Master.

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Qui-Gon began to finish the step and reach for his saber as the light neared.On instinct he snatched his saber but everything was happening so slowly. He knew what he was doing but he wasn't doing it quickly at all. He was practically in slow motion.

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Jesi had to make it...had to make it..had to...she wasn't going to make it. Force no! She wasn't moving fast enough. She wouldn't get there in time. She was at least two yards from him and the light was one.

Taking two more long steps she put everything she had into the leap she made out of desperation.

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"No!" Quire yelled in anger as the air around them seemed to break as glass. Qui-Gon caught Jesi as she flew backwards from the force of the moving light. They both landed on the ground as Reghan snapped back to reality. She looked to Quire as the wind picked up around her. She screamed as her vision darkened.

Obi-Wan watched from his paralyzed state as the dark bird circled Reghan and when it left she was not there.He tried to look up as he heard Quire ranting.

"Fool bitch! Do you realize what you've done?! Damn you! You've ruined everything!"

Again the bird came and swooped down and Quire was no more. A sudden wave of weakness again surrounded Kenobi and he closed his eyes relaxing.

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Qui-Gon moved Jesi to the side as he sat up. Her breathing was raspy and pained as she clutched her stomach in which the white light shown brightly.

"Go."

She told him.

"I'll be fine. Help Obi-Wan."

He hesitated but she pushed him weakly demanding,

"Go!"

He stumbled to his feet and rushed to Obi-Wan.

"Obi-Wan? Obi-Wan wake up!" Qui-Gon ordered shaking his apprentice gently but firmly.The youth's eyes opened tiredly. He murmured something but Qui-Gon didn't understand it. He said it again muffled but not as much.

"Master...I think..I'm dying."

Qui-Gon's stomach knotted.

"No you're not. Just stay awake. Stay awake." He said trying to sound confident when in truth he had no idea what to do.

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It was hard for her to breathe and despite what she told Qui-Gon she was NOT fine. It felt as though her stomach was knotted up in ten rope and her lungs were bunched together.Her vision darkened and she wondered what was going to happen.

"Breathe Jesi."

A soothing voice said.

"Breathe in easy, let it out slowly."

It coached.

"There you go..keep breathing."

Her vision lightened and she looked at Raiy again.

"I knew you'd do it."

He said softly.

"Now, you have to help Obi-Wan. Remember I said I can save him?"

She nodded still focusing on breathing.

"I can but I need your help.Without the light Obi-Wan will die.We have to reverse the triangle, if you keep the light you will die, we have to give it back to him."

She said how but it just came out a squeak.

"Give it to me."

"-ow?" She asked again a bit more coming out.

His face tightened and he took her hand.

"Feel this?"

He asked squeezing her hand.

"This is me. I'm real here."

Her face lit up.

"But listen to me...you have to save Kenobi. No matter what and the only way to transfer the light from you to me to him again is to..."

He paused.

"You have to kill me Jes."

"..no." She whispered.

He placed his hand over the light in her abdomen.

"Yes...Nothing is going to happen that hasn't already."

The light began draining from her to him.

"No Raiy. I can go, I'll die."

"Jes."

He soothed as tears came to her eyes.

"I'm not back...I can never be back."

"But you just said you were real." She said pleadingly as the pain started to waver.

"Only in your dreams...this is a deathly real dream." He said gently, his face beginning to light up from the radiation from the light forming in him.

"You have to do this. Do it for me."

He said bringing her to stand as they moved towards Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.

"No." She said firmly, stopping near the two Jedi.

Raiy looked at her sorrowfully.

"I'll do it for him."

She said softly looking at the near limp body a single tear sliding down her cheek.

Raiy brushed it away and they moved to kneel on the other side of Obi-Wan Kenobi as his Master looked at them distraught.

"Don't fear for him Qui-Gon. He'll live."

Raiy said placing the hilt of a dagger in Jesi's hand.

Tbc....

Wow, ending is coming soon now! Only like 1 to 3 (at the most) chapters left! I really didn't mean to have this center on Jesi's family so much but it just kinda turned out that way. Sorry everyone! Promise, next fic will not be so much on the past but the future. heh. Well, I should be able to get the next chapter up before Wednesday.

Til then,

Elli