Disclaimer: All characters except for Meagan, Sasha and a few minor other characters, belong to George Lucas, and we are not receiving any profit off this work of fiction.

This is written in first person point of view of Meagan unless otherwise noted.

From Earth To Star Wars

Part One: Pre-TPM

Meagan travels from Earth to Star Wars and becomes friends with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Chapter Two

I slowly awoke, becoming aware of my surroundings. I could feel the roughness of the robe around me, but it kept me warm and comforted and it smelled like Qui-Gon.

I smiled as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. Despite the stress of the last few days, I strangely felt calm. It must have been the robe I mused as I sat up on the couch.

Qui-Gon was cooking something quietly in the kitchen and smiled when he realized I had awakened. "Did you sleep well?"

I nodded as I stretched my stiff muscles.

Qui-Gon came over and handed me a large glass.

I glanced down at the glass, then back to him. "What's this?"

He smiled. "You have juice on Earth don't you?"

I smiled back, nodding and slowly took a sip. It was awful. I pulled the glass away as far as I could as the Jedi Master laughed.

"You are dehydrated. It will help."

Sighing, I knew he was right. Taking a deep breath, I drank it. "Ugh." I said as I sat down the empty glass.

I heard him chuckle as he picked it up, taking it back into his small kitchen. "Why don't you go freshen up and by then breakfast will be ready?"

I nodded and headed into the refresher. A hot shower would feel so good. After I cleaned up and somewhat tamed my red curls, I went back into dinning area where he was putting the morning meal on the table. I didn't recognize it, but whatever it was, it smelled heavenly.

Just as I took my first bite, Qui-Gon looked at me. "We'll have to get you some clothes after I take you to the Healer's."

"Healers?" I asked him, swallowing a bite. "Why? I feel fine."

He smiled as he took a sip of his coffee, or what looked like coffee. "Just to make sure you're okay, especially the concussion."

I could tell that I was not going to get out of this. Sighing, we finished our breakfast and then cleaned it up.

"What's Obi-Wan up to today?" I asked, curious why I hadn't seen the Padawan yet.

"Not much. He'll mediate and work on his studies."

"He's still in school?" I asked as we left the room and started toward the main building.

Qui-Gon smiled slightly. "They stop taking classes about at 18, but continue to study on their own."

I smiled slightly, well knowing how that went. "He's dedicated uh?"

"Sometimes." He pointed down a hallway, directing me. "This way."

"Well, my grandmother said we never stop learning."

"Wise woman." He commented as we walked into the Healer's, which actually resembled a doctor's office on Earth, somewhat.

He quietly and quickly talked to the Healer's. Then, for the next while, I was pocked and prodded with instruments and with the Force. And the questions they asked, some of them quite personal, seemed to go on forever. By the time they were done, I was quite exhausted, but was given a clean bill of health and normal for my age and species. Well, I could have told them that one.

However, it was nice to know my concussion was healing nicely. All I needed to do was drink more of the concoction Qui-Gon made for me and don't over do it during the next several days.

So, then headed back toward the residential wing where we joined up with an old friend of Qui-Gon's. She was human and about my size, though closer to my mom's age than mine. She was nice and helped me pick out some clothes and let me know I could talk to her about things if I needed to. We picked up a late lunch and headed back to the Temple.

After drinking the juice again, I easily lay down on the couch and immediately feel asleep. I awoke several hours later and found Obi-Wan with several books and data-pads sitting at the small table in the dinning room. Qui-Gon stood behind him, reading what he wrote. They both glanced at me and smiled. I smiled back as I wiped my eyes. Getting a glass of water, I sat down next to them. "What's this?"

"Quantum Physics." Obi-Wan said dryly.

"Fun." I glanced at the work, the language foreign to me.

They must have seen the odd look on my face, because one asked me. "You can't read this?"

I shook my head. "We speak the same basic language, but our is written differently."

The two Jedi glanced at each other and then back to me. "Maybe we should teach you."

I shrugged. "I don't have anything else to do."

Qui-Gon turned to me. "We still need to discover why you were brought here and to us in particular. Tomorrow the three of us will mediate together and see what we can find."

"You are going to teach me how to mediate?" Wow, my first Jedi activity.

"I take it, that you want to learn?"

"Yes, of course." Oh, if my friends could see me now. They would never believe this.

"Good." With that, the two turned back to the books.

*******

I easily headed down the turbolift with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan the next morning. Today I was going to learn how to mediate. This was going to be a good learning experience and I was more than exited.

We settled in a secluded area of one of the mediating rooms in the main Temple building. We sat down in a circle in Indian style or cross-legged.

Qui-Gon turned to me. "I want you to close your eyes and clear your mind."

I did as I was told the later part harder.

"Good." Qui-Gon reached out and took my hand, seconds later, I felt Obi-Wan take my other one. "Now, just take a deep breath and I'll tell you what to do in a second."

I took a deep breath and kept myself calm. Nothing happened for several minutes and then, slowly I began to feel an energy flow around me.

"Draw on the energy Meagan, let it fill you." Qui-Gon said as he and Obi-Wan dipped more into the Force.

I let my mind go clear and slowly began to draw on that energy I felt or the Force. Nothing major happened and all I could describe was an untapped energy moving through me. I basked in the glow, the light of it. I felt at peace. It was a long time later when we opened our eyes.

"Good Meagan." Qui-Gon nodded at me. "Tell me what you felt."

I moved slightly to adjust my muscles. "I felt an energy stir through me and a light and it was so peaceful."

Obi-Wan smiled. "We didn't think it would take too much or long to draw it out of you."

"We'll do this again tomorrow for a lot longer to see why you were brought here."

"Will the Force tell us?" I asked, intrigued.

"It will when the time is right. At least we might get some clue."

I nodded.

"What's Earth like?" Obi-Wan asked me.

I was about to start to describe it when Qui-Gon smiled. "Why don't you show us?"

"Show us?" I drew a blank, wondering how I was going to do that. No photos of home came with me.

"Picture an image in your mind."

Closing my eyes, I remembered the mountains I could see from my window, the river I played in as a kid, the hills we slid down on lids on the snow. The bare trees as they glistened in the snow and ice, the deer as they made their way across the fields of wild wheat, the flowers that bloomed in June.

"You live there?" Obi-Wan asked him and surprisingly I heard it in my mind.

"Yes, most of that I could see from my house." I said, but got the distinct impression that if I just thought it, they would have understood. "My brother and I used to go hiking through the hills."

"It's beautiful."

"Not all of it is, of course, but I can show you more later."

We rose and headed out of the meditating room. "That would be nice."

*******

During the next few days, I spent most of my time learning what I could about the Temple and taking it easy. The difference in time and galaxies had taken its toll on my body and every night I slept like a rock. However, as the days went by, I began to feel better. On one day, while Qui-Gon was tied up with something, Obi-Wan showed me around the city. Parts of it weren't unlike major cities in the United States and someone even nearly reminded me of Denver. (I'm from a small town about 150 northwest of Denver, Colorado.) However, there were parts that were nothing like home. Obi-Wan took great amusement at my expressions when viewing things. We stopped and ate lunch at a small café owed by some old friends of his and Qui-Gon's. The food tasted different, but good and some even looked familiar, just with a different name. All in all, we both learned a lot that day about each other's worlds and I could already feel a steady friendship building between the two of us, especially since we were about the same age.

"So, you know martial arts?" He asked me as we returned to the Temple.

I nodded my head. "I took what we called Karate, which is just one form of the many martial arts on Earth. So, I know basic defense mechanisms, balance and things like that. I have an older brother, so it came in handy growing up."

He chuckled quietly. "It could get pretty ruff around here too, so I know what you mean." We came up to the residential wing and entered it. By this time I was slowly getting used to all the air travel. "How would like to spar a bit?"

My eyes lit up. "I love too. I haven't done it in a while, so I might be a little rusty."

He shrugged his shoulders lightly as we got on the turbolift. "I think it will be fun anyway."

I couldn't help, but smile. "I think it will be fun and a challenge."

"Master Qui-Gon having you doing anything special tomorrow?"

I looked into his green-blue-gray eyes. "Nope. He's still going to be tied up with this same thing. So I think he's relying on you to baby-sit me."

He laughed as we left the lift heading toward Qui-Gon's room for dinner. "I don't think you're the type that need looking after. I have a feeling you're more than capable of taking care of yourself."

"Of course I am. Seth, my older brother, made me learn the hard way. After a few bruises, I learned how to defend myself."

His eyes twinkled merrily. "I'll bet." We arrived at the room and he palmed the door open and we went inside.

Qui-Gon turned to us as we entered. He was just finishing getting dinner ready. "You two are just in time for dinner."

"Good." We sat down and began to eat.

Qui-Gon turned to the two of us. "How was the tour?"

I smiled as I set my teacup down. I had already fallen in love with their tea. I had no idea what was in it, but I had to know, thinking if I ever went back home, I would be able to make it myself. "It was cool. Obi-Wan showed me a lot of neat places across the planet. This place is huge."

"It can be rather overwhelming to a newcomer, but you'll get used to it." Qui-Gon said as he slowly sipped his own tea. "Just keep calm and patient."

I smiled, well knowing how true that was. "I'm not worried since one of you will be with me anyway."

The two of them glanced at each other then back to me. I got a sudden feeling of uneasiness. "Is the Council sending you two anywhere yet?"

"Not yet." Qui-Gon started out. "Of course, I'm stuck in this thing right now, but eventually they will."

The thought that the two of them leaving me alone, even in the Temple, in a strange land, frightened even me.

Obi-Wan must have picked up my thoughts and after giving me a comforting look, turned back to his Master. "Why don't, when the Council does send us somewhere, if possible, take her with us." At Qui-Gon's look, he continued. "Maybe that's why she was sent to us, to help us with some sort of mission. The Force has not relieved to us why yet, maybe she's supposed to be a team with us."

I sat quietly as Qui-Gon considered this. "We'll see what the mission is and those circumstances before we decide that Obi-Wan. However, we won't rule out that possibility."

Obi-Wan and I looked at each other and smiled and then turned back to our food, the conversation moving on.

The next morning after Qui-Gon left for the day, Obi-Wan swung by and picked me up. We headed into an empty room in the training room in the Temple. We stretched out and easily ran a few laps to warm up. Even though I worked with foster kids in a child care facilities back home, I still kept in good shape mostly by rollerblading, biking, and hiking.

"You run a lot?" He asked me as we slowed down.

I wrinkled my nose. "Not a lot. I prefer to either walk or rollerblade."

That got his attention. "Rollerblade?"

I smiled as we stretched out our muscles again. "It's like those tennis shoes I had on, but with small wheels. We call it skating and it's a form a recreation. I think you would like it."

"Well, if you could put a pair or two together, I'm willing to try anything new."

I sat down, stretching my legs out in front of me. "Just don't use the Force, or you won't fall down."

"Isn't the point to stay on your two feet and roll?"

I laughed. "Yes, but it's a part of learning…you know learn from your mistakes. Or do Jedi just learn everything easily?"

He shook his head emphatically to emphasis his point. "Your world may think we can do things easily and that can be true, but what we do is not easy."

I nodded as we stood and faced each other. The conversation stopped as we danced around each other, taking shots, ducking, the works. It was a lot of fun and by the time we were finished, I was exhausted.

I pushed myself up to a sitting position as Obi-Wan knelt next to me. "You all right?"

I nodded. "You got me on that one, knowing exactly where I was going next."

He shrugged slightly. "You were doing a pretty good job predicting my moves."

"Really? I guess once you learn something you never forget it."

He nodded. "Yes, we should do that again sometime."

"That would be nice." I said as he reached down to help me stand up. In the instant that our hands touched, I felt something like electricity shot up my arm and a picture of a red headed little girl with blue-green eyes floated for a second before me and then vanished.

"You all right?" Obi-Wan asked me as I pulled my hand away from his.

I smiled, shaking whatever I saw off. "I'm fine, just tired I'd guess."

We slowly headed toward the exit. "Why don't we head back to the quarters and you can take it easy for a while. I have some studying to do anyway."

I nodded. "Quantum physics?"
He nodded. "Mostly and even though we study on our own, we still have tests."

"I'm just glad that I'm done with school. I miss some things, but I'm glad I'm out."

"What did you do on Earth?" Surprisingly that topic hadn't come up yet.

"I work with kids that have runaway from home or their parents can't take care of them for different reasons. The organization I work with, finds homes for them either permanent or until their parents can take care of them again."

He smiled sadly. "The Temple has something like that, since a lot of different species leave them at our door." He paused for a second. "Do you like what you do?"

I gently smiled. "Yes, I do. Sometimes it can be hard, especially when the kids are so hurt and need love and they don't get it at home."

"Yes, children, no matter what galaxy or the problem, seem to be the ones most hurt by things. Sometimes as a Jedi, I wish I could fix everything, but I've realized that I can only do what I can do when I can do it."

"That's what I keep telling myself when I get frustrated. One of the things that helps me is to remember all the good things that happens or when a family or child I've helped sometime come back and thank me or let me how well they are doing."

He smiled. "Every once in a while, Master Qui-Gon and I run into people we've helped before and see how their lives are different. That's the best part, is seeing how we touch lives and use our gifts for the good of the galaxy and not for the bad. It still galls me when I have to take a life."

"Isn't that how it should be?" I asked quietly as we came back into the residential area.

He nodded slightly. "I just hope I never get used it."

I glanced up to him to find his deep eyes, a rich color that was not describable, watching me. "I don't think you ever will."

I could nearly see the questions on exactly how much I knew, running through his mind. However, after a moment or so, his mind cleared and turned back to me. "I hope you are right."

We stepped into the lift and soon arrived at the apartments. He left me at the door, saying he would be back in a couple hours so we could do something for lunch. I still hadn't learned how to cook very well in this galaxy yet.

While I showered, I was relieved he decided not to ask the questions I was not prepared to answer. How could I tell either of them how their lives ended and what happened to the Temple and the very galaxy they swore to protect and serve. They knew I knew something, but how much I exactly knew, they hadn't questioned, but I wasn't ready to answer them.

I wasn't even sure if I should. My being here might already change the timeline anyway. Besides some things in the JA books, I wasn't sure how far off the world George Lucas created was from the one I was currently living in. Sighing, I shook my thoughts off, deciding not to even think about this much unless confronted. But knowing the Jedi, who believed the future was always in motion, wouldn't ask exactly what happened in their lives in my world.

After I showered, I easily curled up on the couch, wrapping a warm blanket around me, thoughts swirling around me about telling them or about the little one I saw. Then, clearing my mind, like Qui-Gon had taught me, I easily fell asleep.