Note: Well, since the reviews jumped up here's the last chapter! Thank you So much for the reviews all! This is the Last chapter! Hope you like it! Some strained humor at the beginning cause the end is kindof sad in my mind, course I know what's going to happen after this fic so yeah it's pretty damn sad! Alright, ENJOY and reviewers MUST read last note!!!

Btw, italics are for the small recent memory recollection.

Ch. 19 The Line

Obi-Wan gulped in a large breath of air. He opened his eyes and realized he was staring at ceiling. Moving to sit up he also found out that he was chained down by his arms and legs. Jerking on the chains he already became frustrated with them.

"Patience Obi-wan." Qui-Gon said.

Obi-Wan julted in surprise.Looking down from his place on the table like stand he saw Qui-Gon sitting up with his hand on his head.

"Master, I didn't realize you were down there."

He paused.

"How exactly did you *get* down there?"

"Apparently not by choice."

The Master replied standing with a groan.

"I'm too old for these things." He muttered.

Obi-Wan couldn't help but smile a little.

"How do you suppose we get these off?"

"Simple." Qui-Gon said.

"We use these."

He moved to a far wall and came back with a set of...something Obi-wan didn't recognize.

"What are those?" He asked as his Master fit them into small slots in the cuffs of the chains.

"Keys I believe." Replied the Master.

"Strange looking." Obi-Wan mentioned rubbing his wrists as the cuffs fell off.

"I'd say so." Qui-Gon replied moving towards the lower chains. Suddenly a thought dawn on the Padawan.

"Where's Jesi?" He asked almost too frantically.

Qui-Gon stopped what he was doing and froze.

"Don't worry...If you two are around, I'm never far." Jesi said softly entering the chamber like room.Relief was evident on both Jedi's faces.

"Where were you?" Obi-Wan asked.

"Oh, I had my own personal suite on the other side of..this thing." She said lightly but he could see something was different about her. Something was off.

"Are you both alright?" She asked.

The two males nodded.

"Are..are you ok?"Obi-Wan asked thinking of Raiy.

Jesi took in a deep breath.

"I'm ok kid...I'm glad to see you up and about though." She replied as Obi-Wan stood.

He wobbled and nearly fell but Qui-Gon and Jesi steadied him.

"Well, almost." She added.

Obi-Wan smiled.

"You think this is bad..see him in the mornings."

Qui-Gon said.Jesi smiled but couldn't seem to make herself laugh.

"I found a few things I believe Mr.Raider was missing."

She said picking up the Black Book that had disappeared while Qui-Gon was still in the capital along with the gold staff. Obi-Wan eyed the staff. Jesi took in a breath and shifted the items in her arms.

"Come.We should leave here." Qui-Gon said rather abruptly.

The two others nodded and they exited the tomb like building together, alive and in one piece...but as Jesi stopped a moment to look back she wondered who said dieing was when your heart stopped beating...wasn't it also, if not more so, when your heart stopped feeling? Her eyes ran across the stone building then she turned slowly to catch up with the not very far nor fast moving Jedi.

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Raider sat with Lumair on the other side of the table with blank expressions.The three on the other side waited. Raider drummed one finger a few times then took in a breath like he was about to speak but didn't and instead drummed again. Lumair was the one to finally make sense of the tale the three on the other side of the table had told them.They had practically strolled into the embassy, though filthy and very tired, the first place they went was to Raider.

"So..you-you reversed the sequence? The triangle never completed?" Lumair asked.

The three nodded glancing at eachother.

"Quire?"

"Back were he belongs I suppose." Qui-Gon replied.

"And the messenger?" Raider asked.

Qui-Gon frowned.

"What messenger?"

"It's said that there is a person from between realities who guides the light...where are they? They were supposed to live."

Jesi swallowed.

"Re-read your texts Lt.Colonel Raider, the messenger died...But he died for a cause." Jesi said.

Obi-Wan looked away from the others and out the window. Raiy was the Messenger, that made sense...so why did it bother him so much that it was him? Perhaps it was because he *had* died...all over again for Jesi. If not worse.

They had continued the discussions of question and answer until a little after mid day.Finally, when Raider got all the information he needed he altered the subject suddenly.

"Very well, I'll have a transport ready for the three of you as soon as possible."

All three were surprised.

"So soon?" Qui-Gon asked.

"Yes Jedi Master.I'm afraid with everything that has happened...none of you are probably very safe here.Religion will drive people to do many things." Raider stood trying to get them going.

"Wait just a minute, don't we have time to see proper medical attention, or at *least* take a shower?" Jesi snapped rather angrily.

The two Jedi looked at her surprised. Raider paused.

"Well...ah..yes of course. I just suggest you hurry." He replied, stumbling over his words.

"Thank you." Jesi said tartlystanding with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.

******* 4 hours later ************

He was worried about her he wouldn't deny it.Obi-Wan was too he knew. Even now, 2 hours into flight, she hardly spoke a word. When she entered the healers she was one way, when she left she was another insisting she was fine. He knew what she had done back in whatever world they were in. He knew she had sacrificed Raiy for Obi-Wan. Though he knew it was incredibly selfish he was glad she did. And now as his gaze shifted to the young man who was standing up he truely wondered what he would have done if Jesi hadn't choosen. He shuddered at the thought and told himself that, once home, he'd tell his apprentice what he needed to know. That he wasn't an Apprentice but a son. He'd know if he didn't already.

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"Your blood pressure is a bit high. You've had no problems with that in the past?"

"No." She replied trying to stay calm while looking in his troubled eyes.

He grunted and sighed.

"Well, there's nothing that shows anything extensively wrong but that does worry me somewhat.Here's a signature and datachip, I want you to see a healer on Courusant.Don't let this slip."

He said handing her what she needed. She nodded.

"I'm not trying to worry you, in fact I'm sure it's nothing after all you've been through but I do want you to check up on it. Swear?"

Jesi was hardly comforted by the words but smiled a little.

"Swear."

Jesi rubbed her eyes. Truly now, that was nothing! A little high blood pressure, it's nothing.Nothing...

"Jes?" She was startled a little by the voice and looked to Obi-Wan.

"Yeah?"She asked.

"Can I have a seat?" She nodded and he sat down.

Silence settled a moment then he said,

"I am sorry for what you had to do."

Jesi didn't say anything for a moment then took a deep breath.

"I'm not." She said softly."I hate that I had to do it...that it was him."

Her voice wavered.

"But if I hadn't, then would you be here, now, next to me, in the living?"

She brushed his cheek at the last words.

"I had to let go some time...I had to realize that things couldn't go back to the way they were years ago, and whether you realize it or not, you are the reason I know now that perhaps life shouldn't be based on the past so much; but on the future."

She looked away from him and back out the window. Obi-Wan sat there a while...a long while, waiting. He knew that she couldn't keep doing this. Couldn't keep everything inside.

And when the first tears came to her eyes from whatever she was thinking of he simply placed his hand over her's moving his thumb up and down her hand as her whole past unraveled in her mind and the tears spilled. He said nothing and did nothing besides what he was doing. She needed nothing more of him but to be there.

And when finally the last memory was set in place, in her mind but not ruling, and the last tear slipped and faded away, she waited a moment, composing herself, then leaned towards him and kissed his cheek like a mother or friend would and whispered.

"Thank you."

He smiled at her warmly and she returned it then looked back out into the stars. Into the future.

***** Midnight ********

The hollaring of pure pain and agony tore through the air. Obi-Wan ran as fast as he possibly could and slid to a stop coming around a corner. There stood Jesi with an odd gold staff in her hands. he wind ripped and roared and Obi-Wan finally noticed the body at her feet.With utter sickness filling him he approached his fallen Master. Jesi took a step back for every step he took. Pulling the old Jedi onto his back Obi-Wan gasped seeing the pale emotionless face.The usual lively blue eyes were dull and unseeing.

" Jesi, what happened?"

He asked, his voice hoarse. He looked up when Jesi started laughing.Her laugh was different somehow, not the same as he knew.

"Why, young Kenobi, do you ask her? She knows nothing.You should ask me."

She said. He did ask her! What was wrong with her? The staff in her hand had a fine silver mist around it now.Obi-Wan stood.

"What did you do to him?"

He demanded.

"Only what I'm going to do to you young one."

She replied moving the staff to hold in both hands. Suddenly fire shot into Obi-Wan's vision.Heat, pain, blinding pain.

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Obi-Wan woke with a jult. Glancing around the small cabin he was in for the over night flight he saw his master sleeping in the cot across the small room. Obi-Wan layed back breathing calmly again. So it was JUST a dream. Not reality, nothing to do with reality, just a dream buried deep in his mind. Thinking about it he realized that, that could never happen. He'd known it all along but it just seemed that now, after all of this, it made more sense.

With a deep breath he calmed and closed his eyes sliding into a dream of happiness and with the people he loved at the temple and not. A dream that was blissful but it wasn't reality nor was the nightmare.

They were behind the line of dream and reality.

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Jesi kept her gaze out the window even at midnight. For some reason she felt as though she had weights lifted off her shoulders. It was strange at how, now, she could think of Raiy, Kyle, and Reghan, without the pain. Without the tearful eyes and instead smiled. She found it interesting that she smiled the same way when she thought of the young Jedi and his Master. Perhaps she wasn't alone anymore....maybe she never was.

Turning her wedding ring around her finger for the millionth time she stopped and looked at it. No, she had never been alone...and she'd never be alone.

Smiling at the thought she crossed her arms over her stomach and thought in a different direction.

Forward.

The End

WOW! The Line is over! OMGosh! Lol, not sure how much I liked the ending but if all of you do then I'll be happy with it.

Ok, here's the fun part...... recognition's!!!!

(Reviewers are placed from first reviewer to latest from the dates 11-31-01 to 2-19-02.)

Z - 1st reviewer! You gave me hope! Thank you SO much!

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knight_obi - Yes...what DID it all mean??? *gets looks* Well I don't bloody know, I just wrote it! lol, thanks for the review and if you're who I think you are (just not signed in) I LOVE your fics.

Salak - Cool? YAY! You called my fic start cool! That's so...so....COOL! Thank you! (I'm sorry I don't know what to say....THANKS!)

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Until Next Fic,

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