A/N: Okay, here's the disclaimer I forgot in the first chapter. I don't
own Star Wars or any of the characters therein. What I do own is Nicole
because she is myself. I also own the subtle story plot that is slowly
building within my teenage brain. The rating of this story is PG-13 for
violence, a bit o' cussing, and a tad of sexual urges here an there. (I am
a teenager after all) So, please review. I hope you enjoy the story and
here we go with the second chapter!
Chapter 2: Meeting & Sharing With A Padawan
" Oh, mooie, mooie! I love you!" Jar-Jar exclaimed, following the even more frustrated (if possible) Jedi Knight, Qui-Gon Jinn. Nicole, who had to jog to keep up with the two of them, did not say anything. She was content to just walk with them.and to keep an open ear for the approach of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
" You nearly got us killed, are you brainless?!" Nicole winced at the impatience in Qui-Gon's voice, but said nothing against it, knowing that Qui-Gon had the right to say it.
" I spake."
" The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here.both of you." Nicole caught the soft flicker of Qui-Gon's eyes towards her at the last word.and it made her heart skip a beat. Qui-Gon started to walk away again but Jar-Jar followed behind him, and to Nicole's surprise, Jar-Jar grabbed her arm and pulled her along with him.
" No, no! Wesa stay!! Mesa your humble servant." Nicole quirked an eyebrow at the word 'wesa' but still said nothing.
' Man! I started out here talking to myself and now I haven't said a thing!' Nicole thought to herself, pulling her wrist free from Jar-Jar's grip.
" That won't be necessary," Qui-Gon replied, looking around for any sign of his Apprentice.
" Oh but it 'tis! 'Tis demanded by da Gods, it tis! Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks." Jar-Jar gave Nicole a slight poke with his elbow, silently telling her that she should say her name as well.
" I'm Nicole." She wasn't sure if Qui-Gon heard her because at that moment, two, low-flying droids came from out of the early morning mist, chasing a thoroughly soaked Obi-Wan Kenobi. (*.* drool).
Qui-Gon's response was immediate; he practically threw both Jar-Jar and Nicole onto the damp ground before drawing his lightsabre and deflecting the red laser blasts shot from the droids. The blasts were bounced back to the flying droids, causing them to explode, the pieces falling to the ground. Nicole pulled herself up from the ground, wrinkling her nose at the mud and grass stains now all over her clothes. Jar-Jar also pulled himself up and walked over to Qui-Gon with awe in his eyes.
" You saved my again." Obi-Wan stepped beside his Master and gazed at Jar- Jar in confusion.
" What's this?" he asked, his soft voice sending a shiver down Nicole's spine.
' AH! Calm down, Nicole! You're acting like a hormonal teenager..wait a minute..I am a hormonal teenager! Yay!! *drool*'
" A local. Come on, we need to get moving before more droids show up," Qui- Gon told his Apprentice.but his eyes flickered over Nicole again, the look in his eyes like the one a parent would give a child when they catch the child doing something that they weren't supposed to do.
' Oh, don't tell me that he can read minds!' Nicole wasn't sure and would never be sure because Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan started moving along again. This time, not to be dragged along again, Nicole moved after the two Jedi.now more for protection than interest....okay, maybe a little interest, but not much.
" More? More did you spake?!..Ex-squeeze-me, but da mostest safest place would be Gunga City. Tis where I grew up. Tis a hidden city." Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan stopped very suddenly at what Jar-Jar said, so suddenly that Nicole nearly ran into Qui-Gon..but she caught herself before that happened and backed away as the Jedi turned around.
" A city?" Qui-Gon inquired. Jar-Jar nodded his head. "Can you take us there?"
" Uh.on second taught, no. Not really, no, no," Jar-Jar told them, waving his hands in front of him. Qui-Gon spaced his feet apart, placed his fists on his hips, and gave Jar-Jar an accusing look before saying:
" 'No'?"
" Tis embarrassing but uh.my afraid my've been banished. My forgotten. Da Bosses would do terrible tings to me, terrrrible tings to me if my goin' back dare." As Jar-Jar finished speaking, a soft rumbling noise sounded throughout the woods.and Qui-Gon used it to his advantage.
" Do you hear that?"
" Ya," Jar-Jar said simply, raising one ear flipper slightly to hear better. Qui-Gon continued:
" That is the sound of a thousand terrible things headed this way."
'And here goes Obi-Wan,' Nicole thought to herself.
" If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into tiny pieces then blast us into oblivion!"
' He enjoyed that too much,' Nicole added, noting the little half smirk on Obi-Wan's lips.
" Ah! Yousa point is well seen. Dis way. Hurry!" Jar-Jar spun around, literally, and headed into the mist. Nicole immediately followed, suddenly feeling shy and vulnerable around the two older, Force-wielding men.
.. .The troop of four walk through the woods. Jar-Jar is in the lead with Nicole beside him, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan take up the rear...
Obi-Wan gazed curiously at the back of the human girl walking with the Gungan. He felt the Force around her and it seemed strange...different, like something foreign...not to mention that she was taking the entire situation far too calmly for one untrained. Obi-Wan turned toward his Master and saw that he too was pondering the girl.
" Master, I sense something very strange about that girl."
" As do I, Obi-Wan. Her Force signature is unlike anything that I've ever felt before."
" And her future seems so clouded also, Master."
" No, Obi-Wan...I sense no future for her at all here. It's as if she has very little time to live...or she comes from a place not of this Universe." The two Jedi walked in silence for a moment before Qui-Gon raised his hand, passed it in front of him and said:
" You will come here." Nicole, not knowing that a mind trick had just been played on her, slowed her steps till she was walking along side of Qui-Gon. Not the one for formalities, Qui-Gon immediately asked Nicole the question that he and Obi-Wan had just been pondering.
" So tell me, where is it that you come from? You are not a native of Naboo." ...
*NICOLE'S POV*
** Oh man! What am I supposed to tell him?! I can't just say that I come from another dimension where all of this is just a movie!!!!
" Well uh...I come from Earth." Oh, that sounded original! I've got to be the worst Mary-Sue ever! I don't even have any powers!!!! ...This sucks...
" Where is...Earth?" Ack! Damn you Kenobi!!**
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan saw that the young human Nicole was near the point of panicking. As they continued to walk, Qui-Gon was searching Nicole's Force signature...and following it back to where she came from...only to find that the signature abruptly stopped in the forest a few miles away. It was as if it simply ceased to exist at that spot. How interesting.
" You come from another Universe," Qui-Gon said...it wasn't a question.
**NICOLE'S POV**
** He knows?!?! How?! Oh man...now what do I say?**
" Would you think I was crazy if I said yes?" Nicole asked carefully. Qui-Gon smiled softly as Obi-Wan stared at Nicole in shock.
" No, I wouldn't, but why didn't you tell us?"
" Because, where I'm from, a person would get thrown into the Insane Asylum for going around saying that they were from another dimension, another galaxy, and another time!!"
" That's quite a list. Your Universe must be very different from ours...especially if they let one who should have been trained as a Jedi go," Qui-Gon said, giving Nicole a knowing look. Nicole's eyes seemed to grow as large as plates and she stopped dead in her tracks, staring in disbelief at Qui-Gon.
" I thought Jedi weren't supposed to be evil 'cause that was just plain cruel," Nicole let slip...then she slapped both of her hands over her mouth and ran back beside Jar-Jar.
" So you do know of Jedi?" Obi-Wan asked, his shock finally wearing off some.
" Only from make-believe stories. But that doesn't matter. That was still mean, Qui-Gon."
' Okay, that was part of the truth, but I can't, under any circumstances, let them find out how much I know.' Little did Nicole know that Qui-Gon was piecing Nicole's unsaid story together...his biggest clue was that she knew his name when he had yet to give it to her.
" Well people say that the truth sometimes hurts. Jar-Jar, how much further?" The small group had now reached the edge of a large lake, its far banks hidden by the mists. Nicole was beginning to suspect that the mists were something perpetual here and not just a morning thing.
" Wesa goin' in da water, okey-day? But my warning you, Gungans no likin' outsiders, so don't spect a werm welcome."
" Oh, don't worry. Today's not been our day for warm welcomes. Here," Obi-Wan said, handing Nicole a strange little breathing device that they had from the movie. Before Nicole could ask what Obi-Wan would be using, he pulled out another from his belt.
But that still didn't help Nicole figure out how she was to use it. She looked at it, knowing that she was supposed to put it in her mouth, but that's where her knowledge of it ended...and she needed to hurry with it because Jar-Jar was now doing his flying acrobatic act, whooping and diving into the lake with relish.
" Yousa follow me now, okey-day!" As Jar-Jar ducked back into the water, Obi-Wan finally saw Nicole's confusion with the small breathing device and said:
" Just put it in your mouth, clamp it with your teeth, and when you're in the water, just breath normally through your mouth."
" Thanks," Nicole muttered, putting the little device in her mouth, wondering how it was supposed to keep her from choking and drowning. But Nicole timidly followed the two Jedi into the water and her final thought, before ducking into the slightly warm water, was:
' Man, I hope my contacts don't fall out.'
~ Fin of Chapter 2~
Chapter 2: Meeting & Sharing With A Padawan
" Oh, mooie, mooie! I love you!" Jar-Jar exclaimed, following the even more frustrated (if possible) Jedi Knight, Qui-Gon Jinn. Nicole, who had to jog to keep up with the two of them, did not say anything. She was content to just walk with them.and to keep an open ear for the approach of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
" You nearly got us killed, are you brainless?!" Nicole winced at the impatience in Qui-Gon's voice, but said nothing against it, knowing that Qui-Gon had the right to say it.
" I spake."
" The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here.both of you." Nicole caught the soft flicker of Qui-Gon's eyes towards her at the last word.and it made her heart skip a beat. Qui-Gon started to walk away again but Jar-Jar followed behind him, and to Nicole's surprise, Jar-Jar grabbed her arm and pulled her along with him.
" No, no! Wesa stay!! Mesa your humble servant." Nicole quirked an eyebrow at the word 'wesa' but still said nothing.
' Man! I started out here talking to myself and now I haven't said a thing!' Nicole thought to herself, pulling her wrist free from Jar-Jar's grip.
" That won't be necessary," Qui-Gon replied, looking around for any sign of his Apprentice.
" Oh but it 'tis! 'Tis demanded by da Gods, it tis! Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks." Jar-Jar gave Nicole a slight poke with his elbow, silently telling her that she should say her name as well.
" I'm Nicole." She wasn't sure if Qui-Gon heard her because at that moment, two, low-flying droids came from out of the early morning mist, chasing a thoroughly soaked Obi-Wan Kenobi. (*.* drool).
Qui-Gon's response was immediate; he practically threw both Jar-Jar and Nicole onto the damp ground before drawing his lightsabre and deflecting the red laser blasts shot from the droids. The blasts were bounced back to the flying droids, causing them to explode, the pieces falling to the ground. Nicole pulled herself up from the ground, wrinkling her nose at the mud and grass stains now all over her clothes. Jar-Jar also pulled himself up and walked over to Qui-Gon with awe in his eyes.
" You saved my again." Obi-Wan stepped beside his Master and gazed at Jar- Jar in confusion.
" What's this?" he asked, his soft voice sending a shiver down Nicole's spine.
' AH! Calm down, Nicole! You're acting like a hormonal teenager..wait a minute..I am a hormonal teenager! Yay!! *drool*'
" A local. Come on, we need to get moving before more droids show up," Qui- Gon told his Apprentice.but his eyes flickered over Nicole again, the look in his eyes like the one a parent would give a child when they catch the child doing something that they weren't supposed to do.
' Oh, don't tell me that he can read minds!' Nicole wasn't sure and would never be sure because Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan started moving along again. This time, not to be dragged along again, Nicole moved after the two Jedi.now more for protection than interest....okay, maybe a little interest, but not much.
" More? More did you spake?!..Ex-squeeze-me, but da mostest safest place would be Gunga City. Tis where I grew up. Tis a hidden city." Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan stopped very suddenly at what Jar-Jar said, so suddenly that Nicole nearly ran into Qui-Gon..but she caught herself before that happened and backed away as the Jedi turned around.
" A city?" Qui-Gon inquired. Jar-Jar nodded his head. "Can you take us there?"
" Uh.on second taught, no. Not really, no, no," Jar-Jar told them, waving his hands in front of him. Qui-Gon spaced his feet apart, placed his fists on his hips, and gave Jar-Jar an accusing look before saying:
" 'No'?"
" Tis embarrassing but uh.my afraid my've been banished. My forgotten. Da Bosses would do terrible tings to me, terrrrible tings to me if my goin' back dare." As Jar-Jar finished speaking, a soft rumbling noise sounded throughout the woods.and Qui-Gon used it to his advantage.
" Do you hear that?"
" Ya," Jar-Jar said simply, raising one ear flipper slightly to hear better. Qui-Gon continued:
" That is the sound of a thousand terrible things headed this way."
'And here goes Obi-Wan,' Nicole thought to herself.
" If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into tiny pieces then blast us into oblivion!"
' He enjoyed that too much,' Nicole added, noting the little half smirk on Obi-Wan's lips.
" Ah! Yousa point is well seen. Dis way. Hurry!" Jar-Jar spun around, literally, and headed into the mist. Nicole immediately followed, suddenly feeling shy and vulnerable around the two older, Force-wielding men.
.. .The troop of four walk through the woods. Jar-Jar is in the lead with Nicole beside him, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan take up the rear...
Obi-Wan gazed curiously at the back of the human girl walking with the Gungan. He felt the Force around her and it seemed strange...different, like something foreign...not to mention that she was taking the entire situation far too calmly for one untrained. Obi-Wan turned toward his Master and saw that he too was pondering the girl.
" Master, I sense something very strange about that girl."
" As do I, Obi-Wan. Her Force signature is unlike anything that I've ever felt before."
" And her future seems so clouded also, Master."
" No, Obi-Wan...I sense no future for her at all here. It's as if she has very little time to live...or she comes from a place not of this Universe." The two Jedi walked in silence for a moment before Qui-Gon raised his hand, passed it in front of him and said:
" You will come here." Nicole, not knowing that a mind trick had just been played on her, slowed her steps till she was walking along side of Qui-Gon. Not the one for formalities, Qui-Gon immediately asked Nicole the question that he and Obi-Wan had just been pondering.
" So tell me, where is it that you come from? You are not a native of Naboo." ...
*NICOLE'S POV*
** Oh man! What am I supposed to tell him?! I can't just say that I come from another dimension where all of this is just a movie!!!!
" Well uh...I come from Earth." Oh, that sounded original! I've got to be the worst Mary-Sue ever! I don't even have any powers!!!! ...This sucks...
" Where is...Earth?" Ack! Damn you Kenobi!!**
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan saw that the young human Nicole was near the point of panicking. As they continued to walk, Qui-Gon was searching Nicole's Force signature...and following it back to where she came from...only to find that the signature abruptly stopped in the forest a few miles away. It was as if it simply ceased to exist at that spot. How interesting.
" You come from another Universe," Qui-Gon said...it wasn't a question.
**NICOLE'S POV**
** He knows?!?! How?! Oh man...now what do I say?**
" Would you think I was crazy if I said yes?" Nicole asked carefully. Qui-Gon smiled softly as Obi-Wan stared at Nicole in shock.
" No, I wouldn't, but why didn't you tell us?"
" Because, where I'm from, a person would get thrown into the Insane Asylum for going around saying that they were from another dimension, another galaxy, and another time!!"
" That's quite a list. Your Universe must be very different from ours...especially if they let one who should have been trained as a Jedi go," Qui-Gon said, giving Nicole a knowing look. Nicole's eyes seemed to grow as large as plates and she stopped dead in her tracks, staring in disbelief at Qui-Gon.
" I thought Jedi weren't supposed to be evil 'cause that was just plain cruel," Nicole let slip...then she slapped both of her hands over her mouth and ran back beside Jar-Jar.
" So you do know of Jedi?" Obi-Wan asked, his shock finally wearing off some.
" Only from make-believe stories. But that doesn't matter. That was still mean, Qui-Gon."
' Okay, that was part of the truth, but I can't, under any circumstances, let them find out how much I know.' Little did Nicole know that Qui-Gon was piecing Nicole's unsaid story together...his biggest clue was that she knew his name when he had yet to give it to her.
" Well people say that the truth sometimes hurts. Jar-Jar, how much further?" The small group had now reached the edge of a large lake, its far banks hidden by the mists. Nicole was beginning to suspect that the mists were something perpetual here and not just a morning thing.
" Wesa goin' in da water, okey-day? But my warning you, Gungans no likin' outsiders, so don't spect a werm welcome."
" Oh, don't worry. Today's not been our day for warm welcomes. Here," Obi-Wan said, handing Nicole a strange little breathing device that they had from the movie. Before Nicole could ask what Obi-Wan would be using, he pulled out another from his belt.
But that still didn't help Nicole figure out how she was to use it. She looked at it, knowing that she was supposed to put it in her mouth, but that's where her knowledge of it ended...and she needed to hurry with it because Jar-Jar was now doing his flying acrobatic act, whooping and diving into the lake with relish.
" Yousa follow me now, okey-day!" As Jar-Jar ducked back into the water, Obi-Wan finally saw Nicole's confusion with the small breathing device and said:
" Just put it in your mouth, clamp it with your teeth, and when you're in the water, just breath normally through your mouth."
" Thanks," Nicole muttered, putting the little device in her mouth, wondering how it was supposed to keep her from choking and drowning. But Nicole timidly followed the two Jedi into the water and her final thought, before ducking into the slightly warm water, was:
' Man, I hope my contacts don't fall out.'
~ Fin of Chapter 2~