~Chapter Seven~

"Why you little!" Jyana screamed at an ewok, darting quickly away from her.  "Give it back!"  She chased him around in circles on Obi-Wan's ship.  It was a tight space but that didn't stop her.

Anakin had not joined them on this trip and stayed behind on Coruscant for reasons only known to the Jedi Council. 

"What did he take from her?" Rabé asked Keldin who was sitting beside her, fiddling with a holograph projector, making some modifications on the plans of his ship.  He was always doing something with his gadgets to keep his hands busy.

"I'm not cognizant of what it is," he responded.  Whatever it is, he'd better give it back.

"I knew you had it with you all along," Wokki stated, still in his fast pace, "I knew you never could leave it behind."  If Obi-Wan only knew what its contents are.

Jyana took a deep breath and stopped her pursuit of the meter-high, furry Jedi Knight who she felt had a lack of maturity at the ripe old age for an ewok of 25.  "That's personal, Wokki.  Please give it back."  Tears sat in the corners of her eyes and she fought them hard.  She did not want to cry now.
Obi-Wan walked out of the cockpit.  He had to restore some kind of order in his crew.  "We're going to be there in a few minutes, so you guys should settle down."

Jyana glared at him.  But he took my journal…

"Your what?" he responded astonished.  She still has it?  "Wokki, give it to me and behave yourself."  She was always writing down stuff in it a long time ago.
Keldin looked up from his intense concentration on the holo, only to glare at him.  Does he know what's in it?  I hope he doesn't intrude in it or he'll have hell to pay.
Jyana froze.  He'd better not read it.

The ewok smirked and handed it to Obi-Wan.  He looked at it a little, but did not open it.  He handed it back to Jyana saying, "I never planned to read it.  It's your personal stuff."  Jyana sighed out loud taking it in her hand and hugged it to herself out of relief and protection.  Not like you should be hiding anything though, he thought.  Why would she?

Keldin then made his way to the cockpit as Obi-Wan and Tre eased the ship into Corellia.  A beautiful place to call home, he thought, At least she has one… a real one.  Keldin had never had a real home.  He was raised in the Jedi Temple since he was born so he never knew where he came from.  He longed to have a place to belong to, except for space and a Podracer arena.  He longed for some sense of belonging.  He wished he had known his parents.  Jyana was the only family that he knew.  Maybe that was the reason he didn't like Obi-Wan, because he was scared that he was going to lose his sister to him.  He couldn't lose her because she was the only family that he knew.

"What the…" Obi-Wan exclaimed.  The city they had entered, Corellia, Jyana's hometown, was in ruins, as if it had been ransacked.  When they touched down and the ramp opened, Obi-Wan thought he heard a scream.  He raced out and grabbed Jyana's arms.  She fought him as well as her tears and screamed at the ruined city, "Take me with you!"  He kept her in his grip tightly.  Keldin touched Obi-Wan on the shoulder in a warning gesture.  Obi-Wan nodded in understanding.  He didn't need any explanation.

Wiping her tears from her eyes she weakly said to Obi-Wan, "I need to see if there's anything left of my house.  May I go home?"

He nodded and replied, "I'll come with you.  I sense danger."

She sniffled.  "As you wish.  You know what's best."

"I'm coming too," Keldin accosted.  I ain't letting them go off alone, "Tre, keep watch of the ship," he said to his co-pilot.

Obi-Wan tried hide his disappointment of Keldin's presence.  He couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

They headed off into the ravaged city.  Jyana took in everything with a heavy heart.  Tears sat in the corners of her eyes.  She fought them as hard as she could, but it didn't work.  This was her home, and it was ruined.  Why this happened though, she had no clue. 

Obi-Wan looked at her, then back at Keldin.  If Keldin wasn't there, he would've taken her hand by now.  But he couldn't do that, lest he be smacked in the head again.  He then noticed Keldin's smirk.  That "little" brother of hers could read his every thought and was proud of his control over the situation.  He hated that.

"No!" Jyana screamed as they stopped in front of a house that was half on fire.  Obi-Wan caught his breath as she raced inside the house.  He and Keldin raced inside after her with the same amount of caution in them.  They both wanted to protect her.  Maybe that was the only thing they agreed on; that Jyana's well being was the most important thing that mattered, although they differed on exactly what her well being was.  Obi-Wan wasn't sure what Keldin thought her well being was, but he did know that it was probably completely different than his own point of view.

They found themselves in her bedroom and Jyana was on her bed and searching through something on the other side.  Obi-Wan became unusually uncomfortable looking at her lying across her bed the way she was.  Keldin punched him in the shoulder in warning, instead of smacking him in the back of the head.  Before Obi-Wan could retaliate something came flying at his head.  He then took a look at what was now in his hands.  Ekoko.

"Obi…"

"Just remember that whenever you're scared, that there is someone out there that cares for you."

A tear fell from her eye and Obi-Wan brushed it away with his finger.  Jyana wrapped her arms around him and hugged him…

Keldin was looking at him oddly.  He was holding the stuffed ewok named Wokki.  "Why are you getting emotional over these stuffed ewoks?" he asked Obi-Wan.

"Long story.  I didn't realize it hurt that much."

"What?" Keldin asked, but he didn't pry.  He very soon understood.  He does love her.  He just doesn't know it yet.  Good.

Jyana darted past them and went to another room.  Where is he… I feel his presence… ah there…  She closed her eyes and moved towards a closet.  She opened it.  There was a little boy of about 3 with brown hair and hazel eyes.  "Han!" she exclaimed picking him up, "What happened?"
The bewildered child started stuttering as he choked back his tears.  "Person in black come asking for you, looking for you.  Your Daddy no tell them and they killed him."

Daddy! she cried inwardly but did her best to maintain her strength for her baby brother.  "How'd they kill him, Han?"

"Red color lightsaber," he blubbered

Sith.  She took Han out of his room and ran past Keldin and Obi-Wan, who quickly ran after her.  Once they got outside of the house, the building crumbled into dust.  There was now nothing left of the house she called home.  They've destroyed all I've ever cared about, just to get me.  I could've saved them… I could've saved them all.

"The Sith did this," Obi-Wan muttered with wrath.

"You would've never surmised how bad they crave her," Keldin pondered aloud, "I speculate why."

"She didn't…"

"She did Obi-Wan, but I sense there's another rationale, one so consequential that they slaughter her father to endeavor to acquire her."

They destroy all that's important to her.  Someday they'll pay for this.

Someday.

Someday…

It started raining icy rain.  Jyana looked up at the sky, shifted Han in her arms and pulled her cloak to protect him from the rain.  She didn't care if she got wet and uncomfortable because she was more concerned for her baby brother.  She'd rather him be alive than herself at this present time.

Keldin made a face and stated out loud, "I hate rain."  He picked up his pace towards the ship and hoped that Obi-Wan and Jyana would do the same.  They just followed at the same pace they had before.

Obi-Wan noticed Jyana's attitude towards Han.  She would make a good mother with her self-less attitude.

Keldin flashed him an annoyed look and raised his hand.  Obi-Wan looked at him and rose an eyebrow and looked upward into the rain.  Just an observation.  Keldin turned back around angrily at the situation and led the way back to the ship, taking glances behind him every now and then, making sure Obi-Wan was behaving himself, which Keldin thought that he certainly never was.

When they got back, Keldin went for cover immediately.  Jyana placed Han down, who quickly found and went straight to Wokki.  When Han was safe, Jyana looked back towards Corellia and fell to her knees and let her tears spill out.  Daddy!  Daddy!  "There's nothing for me here," she mumbled.

Out of great concern and an older brother type of longing to comfort and protect, Obi-Wan knelt down beside her and wrapped his arms around her.  "I'm sorry."

It's not your fault.

His embrace didn't seem to completely comfort her, but she allowed his warmth to help her.  As long as she was warm, she could mourn in peace, if that was at all possible.  She didn't find any reason to fight him, not now.

Keldin glared at Obi-Wan from the ship but didn't do anything to stop him.  Jyana needed some comfort, and Obi-Wan was there to give it to her, the best he can.  Keldin still didn't like it.  Still with a scowl on his face that could never seem to disappear since he joined up with his sister this time, he turned away and stalked back into the ship, away from the rain that he so hated.

Jyana turned to look at Obi-Wan.  "Where to now?"  He shrugged in response and wiped a tear from her eye with his finger.  "There's nothing for me here, now," she said with a little more strength.

"I'm sorry," he said softly against her ear as he pulled her closer to him for a hug.  He kissed her softly on her neck, which surprised her.  I'm trying to comfort you by any means possible.  It wasn't supposed to mean anything but that.

Sure…

They stood together.  He took her hand in his, weaving his fingers through hers.  The rain dripped from her clothing and hair as she looked at him in confusion, wondering what he was trying to tell her, but she didn't fight him.  He could never replace Daddy, even if he wanted to.  He took her out of the rain and back inside his ship.

Han saw them come in first and asked, "Is that Obi-Wan?"

When she realized what the child was implying her face turned a nice shade of pink.  She quickly got her hand out of Obi-Wan's grip and sat down and covered her eyes with her hands to think and hide her embarrassment.

Wokki whispered something to the 3-year-old and they both walked over to Obi-Wan and started tickling him.  Keldin started laughing because Obi-Wan then shed his maturity and started tickling back.  That smile though had soon disappeared when Jyana got up from her seat.  Keldin knew Jyana could never feel left out.  She had joined the tickling in a second.  It was Obi-Wan and her against the ewok and Han.  But then all of a sudden, due to a whisper from Wokki, Obi-Wan turned on Jyana.  By a quick poke in her side she had turned to him and stated, "Oh no you don't," and started tickling him back.  Wokki and Han backed away, leaving Obi-Wan and Jyana tickling each other so hard they had fallen on the floor and were doing their best to hold their own against each other.  Keldin tried to move in to help Jyana, but Han grabbed him and said, "Don't hit Mr. Obi."

"How you going to stop me?"

The kid looked up at Keldin.  "Daddy liked Mr. Obi.  Above anyone else, J. would listen to Daddy."

"But…"

"If you must hit Mr. Obi, hit him later.  Wokki's and my plan has to take root."

"Your plan?" Keldin raised his eyebrow.  Oh no… not him too.

Obi-Wan had pinned Jyana to the ground.  They were breathing heavily and laughing as they gazed into each other's eyes.  Gosh she has pretty eyes, he thought.  All of a sudden she quickly stated, changing her whole demeanor, "Please get off me, Obi-Wan."

"Oh, sorry."  He quickly got off and offered his hand to her.  She didn't take his hand though, but got up on her own.  Keldin walked up behind Obi-Wan and smacked him in the back of his head.  When Obi-Wan responded with only a glare of annoyance, Keldin chuckled to himself.

"You're so mean to Mr. Obi," Han remarked to Keldin.

Now that was something Keldin was proud of.  He continued his chuckling and went off to the side of room they were in on Obi-Wan's ship.

Han then turned to Obi-Wan and asked, "Am I going with y'all Mr. Obi?"

Obi-Wan turned to the child and rose an eyebrow in question.  Was he to be like Qui-Gon and take on a stray kid?  He sensed no Force power in little Han Solo, so he couldn't take him to the temple to get him trained as a Jedi.  This kid could be in the way a lot and it really wasn't wise.  He may be a distraction for Jyana and she didn't need anymore distractions.  She had enough to deal with.

"He can," Jyana piped in, "I'd take care of him.  He wouldn't be a problem."

"It's not wise Jyana," Obi-Wan stated.

"But Obi…"
"Our mission is too dangerous to have him with us."  Whatever that is.

"But where will I go, Mr. Obi?  I have nothing left," the child said tearfully.  Obi-Wan knelt down to see Han at eye level, man-to-man, as an equal.  "Do you not like me or something, Mr. Obi?"

"It's not that I don't like you Han," he started.  He then changed his voice to a whisper tone.  "I like you much more than Jyana's other brother."

Han giggled as Keldin scowled and said aloud, "I heard that."  Actually, he thought to himself, I'm glad he doesn't like me because I don't like him.

Paying no heed to Keldin this time, Obi-Wan continued, "I've got to think about your best interest.  The life of a Jedi is difficult, but it would be much more difficult if you have someone tagging along."

"Like me," Han mumbled sadly.

"It's too dangerous."

"I can take care of him Obi-Wan," Jyana said strongly.

"I know you can.  You're very good at it, but right now we must think of what's best for him."
"It's best he stay with his family."

"Has he anyone else?"

"I don't think so."

"Then we must find another alternative."

"Obi-Wan, I can…"

"J., I'm afraid Obi-Wan's right this time," Keldin interrupted.  Anything to get rid of another annoyance.

The ewok nodded his reluctant and sad agreement.

Due to this, Jaina angrily stalked away.

Obi-Wan looked down at the ground.  I've hurt her more now.  Now she'll never trust me again.

"You did the right thing," Keldin assured him, secretly hoping that Jaina really would never trust Obi-Wan again.

"I hope so."

"Mr. Obi," Han said quietly, "Let me talk to her.  I can see if I help her understand."

"Thank you Han.  You're a good kid.  Don't lose that," Obi-Wan said with a smile.

Han walked off to talk to his big adopted sister, the only mother he ever knew.

I don't suppose I like Han speaking with her on this issue, Keldin thought, I have a terrible wretched feeling connected with this.

Obi-Wan arched his eyebrow at the doubtful Keldin and left the room, Wokki following to help him find a place for Han to call home, one of the things that was so heavy on his heart.  He had his own children and hated being away from them and his wife.  He had to make sure that Han was well taken care of.

"Daddy, I'm going to miss you," a 4-year-old Jaina said looking up at a tall man with brown hair and hazel eyes.

"Qui-Gon will take good care of you.  You must become a Jedi, my princess," the man replied.

"I'm scared."

"Qui-Gon will not hurt you."

"But his apprentice…"
"Is the only young man I ever want to see you with.  Ever."

"Oh."
The man smiled sadly at his little girl as another large man with greying long brown hair approached and a brown-haired teenage boy with a Padawan hair cut following.  She looked at both with great interest.  "She'll be fine, Jaciin," the large man said.

"I know, Qui-Gon.  This is best for her."

"Is it hard, Mr. Falson, to raise her alone?" the boy asked.

"Dreadfully, Obi-Wan.  I don't have much to offer her."

"Except love," Qui-Gon declared.

"She will never lose my love."

Obi-Wan knelt down to meet Jaina at eye level.  "You'll be staying with us now, young Jaina."

She nodded and bit her lip, staring intently into those blue-green eyes.

"She's young…" Obi-Wan started.

"She won't always be," her father declared.

"You must learn patience young Padawan," Qui-Gon ridiculed.

"Yes Master," Obi-Wan sheepishly replied.

"Obi-Wan," Jaina spoke up softly.

"Yes?"

"You have pretty blue eyes."

He couldn't hide the blush that crept up his face.  "Thanks."

When Obi-Wan got up and stepped back beside his Master, face still blushing, Jonash Solo knelt down to his daughter to tell her good-bye.  He then nodded in Obi-Wan's direction.  "This is the man I want for you."...

"Jyana?" a tiny voice interrupted her memory.

She looked up to see Han standing in front of her.

"Why are you crying?"
"Daddy."
"He's better off now.  He died to save you."

"But I could've saved him."

"We can't change past."
"True."
"Mr. Obi knows what's best.  I trust him.  He's gonna find a good place for me."
"I wish I didn't have to lose you too."

Han walked up to Jyana and put his hands on her shoulders since she was sitting on the floor.  "You never lose me.  I stay in you heart."

She bit her lip in reply, fighting off the hurt she felt inside.

"Daddy had one last wish, sissy, and I do hope you fulfill it."

"What's that?"

"Marry Obi-Wan."

"What?"

"This is the man I want for you."...

"That's Daddy's last wish."

"I don't know Han.  I never wanted to marry."

"Wants change."

"Not usually."

"Well consider it.  It was Daddy's last wish."

"Considering, but not yet… We'll see what fate allows."

"Fate can allow it."

"But will it happen?"

"I hope so."

"This is the man I want for you."...

"I can't promise it Han."

 "Okay.  Just thought you wanted to know Daddy's point of view."

"Don't bother Obi-Wan about it."

"That wasn't my plan."

"Good."
"Good-bye Jyana."

"Bye Han."

Han walked out of the room to be taken to his new home.

At last, the tears easily fell from Jyana's eyes.  She also started shaking.  Sith… I sense the Sith.

Keldin appeared in the doorway.  "You all right?"
"No Keldin.  I wish to be alone.  Let them know that."

He nodded and closed the door behind him.

"Master Kenobi, what's wrong with the ship?  The hyperdrive isn't working," Syerré stated once Obi-Wan entered the cockpit.

"We did not leave the ship at all, Obi-Wan," Tre stated, sitting in the co-pilot's seat with Rabé behind him, soothing his muscles.  "I can't figure out how it got messed up."

Obi-Wan frowned and walked off to inspect the hyperdrive corridor.  I've never seen anything like this hyperdrive.  Maybe I should've stuck around when they put it in.  I don't know how it can be fixed.

Artoo beeped his confusion alongside him.

"Yes," Obi-Wan agreed, "It is not a normal hyperdrive."
It was completely foreign to Artoo as well so he couldn't fix it.

Maybe it's a good idea to carry around a gifted mechanic with you at all times, as well as an astromesh droid.

Keldin walked up a puzzled Obi-Wan.  "Problem?"

"Hyperdrive isn't working."
"I'll fix it."

"You will?"  Talk about a travel mechanic.  Maybe Keldin is good for something.

"This hyperdrive is my creation.  I'll correct it so it won't malfunction again."

"Wasn't it supposed to not malfunction at all?  That's what the mechanics that put it in told me."

"They must have put it in awkwardly since that was the aboriginal contrivance.  I have now rectified the design and I can readily adjust what was miscalculated and what wasn't in there already."

"Okay."

Keldin went to work immediately.  Within a very small amount of time, it was fixed and the ship was soaring off into hyperspace.

Syerré walked by on her way to check up with some other happenings when Keldin had finished and they had started their soaring.  "All fixed," he declared with a wide grin in her direction.  She raised an amused eyebrow and shook her head.

Obi-Wan laughed at Keldin's vain attempt to impress Syerré.

Not like you can do any better with Jyana.

Obi-Wan shrugged.  Then he changed the subject.  "What was wrong?"

"Someone had disassembled it and put in an allegory of it."

"How?"

"Not sure.  My assumption is the Sith."

"Sith?"

"They are on to us now."

"How do you know?"

"Like J., I can also sense their presence.  That's why she's even more fidgety now."

"I hope she'll be all right."

"She'll be fine Obi-Wan."

"I'm still worried."

Keldin quickly replied, "There's nothing you can do to make her any better."

Obi-Wan looked disappointedly at the floor.  "You're probably right."

The ewok walked into the corridor, searching for someone, which was easily found.

"What news?" Keldin asked while Obi-Wan looked at the ewok with a hopeful look.

"She's more calm now.  She wants to see Obi-Wan."

"Me?"  Why me?

"Him?" Keldin asked thinking, What does she want with him?

"Yes, Obi-Wan.  She wants to see you."

He felt kind of special and privileged.  "Let her know I'll be there in a moment," he said walking off to the cockpit to double check with the pilots.

"Did she say anything about me?" Keldin asked hopefully.

"Nope."

And she desires to see him.  They'd better behave themselves.

"You behave Keldin.  I assure you her motifs are pure.  Even in your eyes."
He sighed angrily.  "I hope so."  Or else they will both get smacked.

A lightsaber flew into the 15-year-old's hand and damage was made.  The damage wasn't fatal, but then all of a sudden an ewok interrupted what she didn't and couldn't finish.  He never found out though.  No one knew the significance of the burn on her wrist.  She told herself no one would...

"You wanted to see me Jyana?" Obi-Wan asked her as he opened the door to her chamber.

She nodded shyly and motioned for him to join her on the floor.  He took the offer, closed the door behind him and sat a good distance across from her.  All of a sudden, she was at a loss of words.  She couldn't figure out what she had originally planned to say or even now what she was going to say.

Obi-Wan waited patiently for her to begin.

"This is the man I want for you."...

I'm not ready yet.

She then heard the voice of Qui-Gon; You cannot escape your destiny.

"Did you just hear Qui-Gon, Jyana?" Obi-Wan asked softly.

She nodded.

"What is this destiny you're trying to escape from?"
She shrugged.

"Are you going to talk to me?"
She smiled a sad smile.  "Sorry," softly came out, "I couldn't remember what I wanted you for."

"Do you want me to leave?"

"No.  I'm just enjoying your company."

"I guess company is nice when you've been alone for quite a while."
She nodded her agreement.

"Are you running away from your destiny, Jyana?"
"Not sure am I of what my destiny is.  It used to be so clear.  Now it is not."

Obi-Wan cocked his head in question.

"It was very clear when I was young, but after an incident when I was 15, it's no longer clear."

"What happened?"

"We all do stupid things when we're 15.  I remember yours."

He eyed the stuffed ewok she had loved because her mother had given it to her.  He sighed sadly when he remembered the time when he almost demolished it. 

He couldn't remember his name but he did remember that he had never trusted him before.  For some unknown reason he had a lot of good things to say today.  It had been a long time since Obi-Wan had been with fellow learners at the Jedi Temple, or with kids his age.  He was either with Master Qui-Gon or Jaina or both.  They had went off somewhere together and Obi-Wan felt left out.  She does get so much more attention from Qui-Gon than I do and I'm his Padawan.  And she gives more attention to her little stuffed ewok than any human or living being.  That's not right.  The boy who had used to be his rival had told him it was not good for a child to pay so much attention to inanimate objects. His best friend from when he was 12, Bant, had agreed with him, but he didn't think that she liked Jaina anyway.  Maybe because he spent more time with her.  Jaina was only 5.  She needed attention from the people she lived with.  But recently Jaina had stayed aloft from Obi-Wan and he felt a little angry that she was behaving that way.  He felt as if he was losing her, and she was the only true friend that he had ever had.  Not even Qui-Gon was as good a friend as she was.

The boy had prodded him over the edge of reason.  "You see that stuffed ewok over there…"

"Yeah."
"Jaina seems to like it better than you…"

"I noticed."

"Maybe you could get rid of it."
"I couldn't."

"I dare you.
"I…"

"You'll be doing her a favor."

"But…"
"Okay, Oafy-Wan…"

"Fine oh fine.  I'll do that."  He reluctantly grabbed the ewok from where it was.  He grabbed his lightsaber in his other hand and ignited it.  He tossed the ewok in the air… All of a sudden, Jaina was there and a lightsaber was in her hand and it crashed against his own, barely missing the ewok which was a slave to gravity.  She fought him with such anger and passion that he was sure that the "5-year-old" was going to kill him…  Until Qui-Gon intervened, yelled at Obi-Wan and told him that Jaina's mother had just been killed.  When Qui-Gon sent Obi-Wan to his room to think about what he had almost done, he looked back and saw a very frightened Jaina holding her treasured ewok and crying.  Qui-Gon bent over her and cried with her.  Tears welled up in Obi-Wan's eyes.  I'm so sorry…  And he was, he truly was…

"And I regret it incredibly.  I didn't know a stuffed animal could mean so much to anyone."
"I forgive you.  I did something stupid when I was 15 too."

"What?"

She rolled up her shirtsleeve.  She rubbed a spot on her wrist and then handed Obi-Wan that same arm.  She pointed out the spot of question.

"A lightsaber burn," he recognized.  Like the one on my back from that battle with Darth

Maul.  "Were you in battle or something?"
"Battle?"  She put on a thoughtful expression for a moment and looked at the wound.  "I guess that if it was against yourself, it could be called that."

Against yourself?  He grabbed her arm again, carefully, and looked at the wound more closely.  "You did this?"

She only nodded in response.
His eyes widened.  "Why?"

"I felt incredible pain.  I thought the only way to get rid of the pain was to die."

"Did it hurt?"

"Excruciating.  That pain made me hesitate and then I couldn't completely kill myself."
"I'm glad."  I could've never accepted that fact if it did happen and I probably wouldn't even be able to live.  If she killed herself, I might have done the same thing.  Then where would Anakin be?

She rose her eyebrow.  When he didn't explain she said, "Don't tell anyone that this happened.  Not even Wokki or Keldin knows about it."

He now felt a little special.  She had trusted him enough to tell him something that no one else know, but he didn't take glee in it.  He couldn't.  It was so grave that she could even think of harming herself, more less killing herself.  In a protective move, an older brother type of longing to protect and comfort; no, not older brother; something more, something deeper that came from some kind of tugging of the Force; he rubbed his fingers over her scar.  "Promise me that you'll never do that again."  I can't bear to lose you.

Her eyebrows burrowed in confusion and she could only stare at Obi-Wan's hands that were holding tenderly yet tightly onto her arms.

"Please, promise me."

She sighed and nodded her head.  "I promise."

"Give me your lightsaber."
"But I'm not…"

"Just give it to me.  You don't need it now anyway."

She took the long-handled lightsaber off from her belt and handed it to him.  He took it and looked at it in confusion.  A double?  He didn't bother to ask.  He placed it in his lap for the time being.

"I'm sorry I brought you here to this pain…"

"You did the right thing so don't be sorry."

He didn't challenge that anymore.  He still felt responsible, but maybe he was.  At  least she didn't blame him.

They sat in silence for a while, looking at each other.  Then his eyes were drawn to a tiny bracelet with three lightsaber crystals as beads on a black leather rope on her other wrist.  He fiddled with it and asked, "You still wear it?"

"It's the only family I truly have left."

That startled him.  "What about Keldin?"
"Well he hasn't always been there.  I remember hating him when he was a baby because he got most of Qui-Gon's attention for three months.  But I'm over that now.  But really only just recently has he started tagging along on my escapades.  He really doesn't know me all that well."

"You consider me family?"

She sighed.  "Well you were like a big brother.  You were more of a brother to me than Keldin is now."

Really?  "Thanks."  He got up feeling as if it was almost time to go, lest he be smacked by Keldin for being alone with her too long and with the door closed.  "I think I'd better go now."  Jyana didn't seem to object.  He then sighed a response on their current subject, "And Keldin acts like an older brother now, even though he's younger."

She laughed a little, but with pain, and traced something with her finger on the floor.  "Yeah, I guess so."

"He's an annoyance to me."

"Well, I believe he feels threatened by you."
Obi-Wan scoffed.  "Why?"  She's only his sister.

"I guess he doesn't want any guy near me."

Feeling that was a cue to leave he nodded a good-bye.  She understood.  Before he left he said in response to her revelation, "A pity.  I really better go now."  He opened the door, left the room closing the door behind him with her lightsaber in hand.

A pity?  "Only sometimes," she mumbled in response when he was gone and out of earshot.