Chapter 4~ Discoveries

Obi-Wan was waiting in the medical ward while the healers were trying to find what was wrong with his master. The young apprentice was getting awfully annoyed at how much time had already been used.

He quietly got up and walked to the front desk.

"Excuse me, but I have been waiting for five hours and I would like an explanation of, what the hell is going on here!" Obi-Wan finally resolved to shouting and cursing at the receptionist who wasn't paying close enough attention.

"If you would just calm down, I'm sure someone will be with you in a moment."

"That's what you said three hours ago!"

"Aren't you a jedi?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Well patients is a virtue."

"I know that!" Obi-wan yelled.

Sighing, he made his way back to his seat.

~Yet another hour later~

"Padawan Kenobi?"

Obi-Wan looked up at the sorrowful eyes of healer Jane, who had first helped him.

"What is it?"

"Your master has been injected with a rare toxin. It's called Hienligo. It can be fatal, and in your masters position right now, it very well may be."

"How is it cured?"

"It's a medicine we have, but survival is totally up to the victim."

"Then why do you say for my master it may be fatal?"

"Well, this has never attacked a jedi before. You see, it is enabling him to reach the Force."

"Well that shouldn't be a problem. Have people survived?"

"Yes, all of them not force sensitive at all, but your master's body is rejecting all treatment."

"How is that possible?"

"Maybe he has no will to live."

Obi-Wan couldn't say anything.

'No will to live? What about him? He is his padawan. His student. Doesn't he have the will to watch Obi-Wan become a knight. That was everything they had ever worked for, the day he would be a knight.'

"Would you like to see him?"

Jane asked, pulling Obi-Wan away from his thoughts.

"Yes."

Obi-Wan's heavy feet moved inch by inch to his master's room.

Finding a chair, he put it next to his bed and sat down.

"I will give you a few moments. If you need anything just push the assistance button net to the lamp."

Obi-Wan nodded his head and took Qui-Gon's hand.

It took him a while to even attempt to wake his master.

"Master? Please wake up. I need to know that your not just letting this thing beat you."

He got no response from the jedi so he got louder.

"Master. I need you. I'm not done with my training. Not even close. You are My Master, I need You!"

Without warning the heart monitor hooked to his master began to scream.

Fear attacked the young apprentice as he pushed the assistance button as much as he could.

"We have a cardiac arrest on our hands, I need assistance!" Jane yelled to her crew as they bolted in.

"Kenobi, wait outside!"

It wasn't a request, it was an order.

* * *

"Kenobi?"

"Call me obi-Wan, please."

"Okay. Obi-Wan your master is in a coma, we're afraid that if we take him off life support he will die."

"Do what you have to do."

Jane looked at him dumbfounded.

"What?"

"You heard what I said. It's his choice to stay or not. Let him go if he wants."

The healer couldn't believe her ears. But when she looked into the padawans face she felt nothing but sympathy for the young boy.

She walked back into Qui-Gon Jinn's room and took him off life support. It was against her best wishes, but it's what the boy said to do. She watched silently as the jedi master's chest rose and fell, with one more moment of life.

~TBC~