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 Three

I woke up in the morning slowly and stretched out my muscles. After working out with Obi-Wan more than once, I was a little sore. I was still staying with Qui-Gon and learning my way around the Temple, even though I rarely ventured out of the quarters without either of the Jedi. However, I knew my existence here was the talk of the Temple. It didn't take a genius to figure out that people were talking about you after walking down a hallway. Of course, that was to be expected, so I wasn't really surprised.

The smell of something like bacon and eggs brought me out of my thoughts. It immediately reminded me of home. Suddenly, I wanted to wake up in my own room and drive my car to work, stop by my parents house for dinner, taking in a movie with Lisa, or drive to Denver to take my niece and nephew out for the day, so Seth and Heather could have some time alone. I felt tears come to my eyes as I wondered what they were all doing and what was happening on Earth right now.

At least if I was in Romania, I would have been able to contact my parents, to see what was happening. In the offices, I might have had access to the World Wide Web. I also began to wonder if the orphanage would have contacted the Colorado Child Protective Services by now to see where I was. There was that little mix up before…maybe somehow…..they didn't think I was coming, but everyone else thought I was still across the world.

However, my parents still would have wondered why I didn't contact them. Of course they still knew that communication would have been hard, given consideration of the conditions I would have been living in. The trip was only going to be for about a year and if I didn't go home soon, they would eventually find me missing. They might not have discovered my disappearance by now, but they would eventually. It didn't help matters that I had no idea when I was going home.

"Meagan, are you alright?" Qui-Gon asked me quietly as the tears began to trickle down my cheeks, breaking me from my thoughts.

"It's just that breakfast smelled a lot like what my mom cooks and……" I let my voice trail off, as he slipped his arms around me. I put my head on his strong chest as I began to cry.

"Shh, it's all right." Qui-Gon quietly murmured in my ear as he gently stroked my hair.

"I want to go home, but have no idea of how and when. We can't even begin to discover how and why I came here in the first place. How am I going to get home? I want to be able to see my family and friends again. I miss them so much and I pray that they aren't worried about me." I let my voice trail off as the tears still flowed down.

"I know." He said soothingly. "We've been meditating on that. One of these days you will be called back home once you've accomplished what the Force brought you here for."

"But what is that and why can't I do it soon, so I can go home?"

"I know it's hard for you to be patient Meagan." He said as I wiped my eyes. "But both Obi-Wan and I will help you try to get home and adjust to living here for a while."

I smiled tearfully at him. "Thank you."

He nodded as we sat contently together as my tumbled emotions slowly began to calm down.

*******

The days, then weeks began to pass by. I was slowly learning how to read basic Republic. It was hard, almost like learning Chinese or some other Oriental or Old World language. However, I studied French and Latin in high school and college, so focusing to learn a new language, I was quite used to. Obi-Wan and I continued to work out and the three of us continued to mediate together, though the Force revealed very little to us. I still battled my homesickness and both of the Jedi were quite wonderfully comforting to me when I would break into tears. They by no means, minded hearing about my life on Earth or about Earth. The two Jedi seemed to enjoy "their vacation," though his training continued full force, no pun intended. It was during this time, I started a journal so I could write about my adventures in this new and different world. Whenever I found some free time, I would pick up my pencil and paper and started to describe the days in the Jedi Temple.

However, when things would grow quiet, either in the dead of night or the early morning hours, I would think of what I knew, what George Lucas wrote. I still debated whether to tell them or not what happened to them in my world. Obi-Wan got so close to asking me about it once, asking how much I knew, when Qui-Gon interrupted us. He told us it was never good to know too much about your own future and I don't think he would base his life on what some author in another galaxy wrote about him. Sighing with relief, I easily changed the subject.

However, left alone that same night, I couldn't help, but think that if I would be around for the Jedi Master's death. By calculating through events they had shared with me, that were in the JA books and by Obi-Wan's age, I figured there was about three years before the first movie. That gave me three years, if I was still here, to decide what to do about it.

Never one to dwell on issues, I decided to learn everything I could about this world before the trip home, which I knew, would eventually happen. Despite my wishes to see my family and friends again soon, praying that they weren't sick with worry, I concentrated on learning about the Force and brushing up on my defenses. The Council forbade Qui-Gon to train me like a Padawan, but there was nothing said about teaching me a few survival techniques.

So, my days were often quite full and I began to dread the time when they would leave me alone, alone in a world I was still just learning about.

*******

Obi-Wan and I were walking in the gardens one afternoon when we came up to the waterfall and river. I just gazed at it, more than amazed. I had only been in the famous temple gardens once or twice since my crash landing on the ship.

Obi-Wan smiled. "I thought you would like it."

"I love waterfalls. I lived in the mountains most of my life and we would go hiking and there were beautiful waterfalls, but this is exquisite."

We stared at the falls for a few minutes before we headed down to the river. There I met Bant, one of Obi-Wan's oldest and dearest friends. By now I had met some of their other friends and I enjoyed meeting all the different species.

However, the feelings I was getting from Bant weren't good. Of course, I couldn't blame her, for I was stealing most of Obi-Wan's free time that would have been hers. I was nice and just hung out while the two chatted. Then they suggested a swim. I could swim. That wasn't a big deal. Little did I know what her definition of a little swim was. Obi-Wan handed me one of those breathing devices that I saw in Episode I and quickly showed me how to use it.

"Don't breath through your nose, only your mouth. Unless you want water going up your nose."

I shook my head with laughter as we headed into the water. At first it was fun, seeing fish and going real deep and not having to go up every minute or so for a breath of fresh air. But after a while, I started to tire. The other two had obviously swum together before and headed down to the cave I'd heard about. We went through it and behind the waterfall. That was a long swim and we still had to go back up. I wondered how the two could do this. 'Of course, she's made for the water and he's training to be a Jedi Knight, what did I expect?'

Finally we made our way up to the surface and by the time we got to shore, I was more than ready to stop swimming. For a moment I just lay on the shore, breathing. I could hear someone coming and knew instantly it was Qui-Gon.

"Meagan, are you all right?" He asked me, kneeling by my side and helped me sit up.

"Yes, I just never want to go swimming again." I managed.

Qui-Gon just stared at me for a moment and then glanced toward the two who had went back in briefly and were just now coming toward shore. "Please don't tell me that you swam all the way to the cave."

"Okay, I won't"

Qui-Gon shook his head. "I should have warned you about how long those two can swim."

I shook my head too. "It's not your fault. Even if you had warned me, I would have gone anyway."

Just then, the two sat down on the shore. They both looked toward me. "Well, what did you think?"

"Very pretty and the water is warmer than anything I've swam in before." I decided to be nice and not tell her what I was really thinking.

"Really?" Bant looked surprised.

I nodded my head, glad that she finally acknowledged my presence. "The rivers and lakes that are near where I lived flowed down from the mountains. Even in the warm summers, it's still cold as ice and snow melts."

"Interesting." Was all she said as we left the gardens.

Bant headed her own way as the three of us headed back toward Qui-Gon's quarters.

"Master is something troubling you?" Obi-Wan asked after we lapsed into silence that lasted a while.

Qui-Gon gave him a quick look and then looked back to me. "Meagan, why don't you get cleaned up and then we can do something for dinner?"

I glanced from one Jedi to the next one, glad that I wasn't going to be around for the scolding session.

*******

Obi-Wan and I were stretching out after our workout one day when Qui-Gon entered the training room.

"Finish up you two." He said after he walked over to us. "The Council has summoned us in an hour."

Obi-Wan nodded and stood, while I looked up at Qui-Gon. "About what?"

The two glanced at each other, sending shivers of fear up my spine at being left behind, even at the Temple.

"It'll be all right Meagan." Qui-Gon padded my shoulder as I stood.

I nodded, trying to calm down. I didn't want to be left behind, especially when my Jedi friends were going half way across the galaxy. Most of the Temple hadn't really accepted me being here quite yet and there weren't too many I felt that I could confide in.

However, I did feel much better after I taken a hot shower and changed clothes. Though I didn't like the idea of being left behind, I knew and came to realize I could take care of myself and do all right.

So, it wasn't too much longer that the three of us stood before the Council. I stood behind Qui-Gon with Obi-Wan besides me. His presence besides me somehow made me feel calm, like everything was going to be okay.

The Council then efficiently explained the mission to a planet named Arismes and had some internal greed and crimes that needed to be solved by a non-involved outside eye. The planet was by no means violent by nature and was in the Republic, so they deemed it safe enough for me to travel with them. Some, I could tell, were not thrilled to see me accompanying the Jedi, but others, particularly Yoda, seemed to think that I was supposed to be there.

After the Council dismissed us, I fought my excitement as I followed the two Jedi as we headed to the library to prepare ourselves for the journey.

We gathered, read and studied for several hours. Well, they studied and explained things as they went along. I added my own insights and questions, trying to understand what we would be getting into once on the planet.

We left the library and packed our things quickly. We caught a ride on a Republican Cruiser and it looked nothing like the ships from Episode I. But I easily explored the ship and enjoyed watching it fly through space with ease and grace. The pilot was pretty cool, showing and teaching me things about flying and ships. Of course, I didn't fly the ship, but I certainly knew a lot more now than I did before. This was totally cool, but I hoped I was prepared for the mission ahead of us.

After about two days, we arrived and I followed the two Jedi out of the ship. The hanger was like any other hanger, I surmised, watching the small talk between Qui-Gon and the aid that was sent to greet us.

"Welcome Master Jedi. Thank you for coming out to help us." He led us down a series of hallways and into the main palace chamber room. (Their monarch, like Naboo, was elected.) There we were introduced to the leaders of the planet. We, from our debriefing at the Temple, knew their problems of the leak from inside the chain of command to a black market of illegal trading. It was up to us to get to the bottom of the scam and bring them to justice in Senate.