"What would you do if I kissed you right now?"

Sora inhaled quickly and she felt her heart beating harder against her chest. Did he just say what I thought her say? The seconds that ticked by were agony. Her brain finally had the sense to reply.

"You wouldn't kiss me right now…" she heard her shaky words and tried to continue her backward motion, feeling the wall behind her, looking for an opening of some kind.

"Well obviously I wouldn't if I just asked you but what would you do?" Sora tried to steady her breathing and still her heart. This guy was making no sense! One minute he's yelling at the top of his lung and the next he's asking her what she would do if he kissed her? Since when did anyone mention the word love or kiss or caring or anything! Her mind was moving too fast for her to realize and before she knew it she was blurting out the one answer that she didn't want him to hear.

"I would kiss you back!" Sora clamped her hands over her mouth and closed her eye tight. When she opened her eyes she saw him staring at her with a puzzled expression. She lifted one of her eyebrows and waited for him to speak. He didn't. Sora felt a drop of something fall onto her hands. Followed by another, and another...and another…She reached up to touch her eyes and felt the tears leaking out. "SHAVIT!" She cried, slamming her hands against the wall sending a jolt of pain up to her elbow. She looked back up at Obi-Wan. He was still standing in the same position. Both the flimsy's of paper had dropped to the ground.

"I can't believe I just said that!" She voiced her thoughts loudly. "I can't believe it's true! I can't believe that I've only known you for a week and I'm falling in love with you!" She pointed at him with an accusing finger. "You of all people!" She wanted to stop but there were too many things that had been hidden for too long in Sora Jade's mind. "I was taught to hate you…since the moment that lightsaber took off my father's leg and then was stabbed through his heart…I was taught to loath and despise you!" She was still waving her hands in front of him, and he was still at a loss for words. "And look at me now…" she dropped to her knees on the ground and for the second time in her life, Sora Jade cried.



"I would kiss you back!"

It took only moments for Obi-Wan's brain to register what she had said. The paper dropped out of his hand. He hadn't exactly predicted that she would say that. He didn't know what he had been doing when he made the comment, but the situation was becoming more and more interesting by the minute.

He too saw the tears running down her face.

When she looked at them she cried out again and struck the wall. All Obi-Wan could do was stare at her, noticing how beautiful she was. Her hair was back to total black now, still in deep contrast to her tear-filled jade eyes. He wanted to reach out and comfort her. Wanted to ease her pain. But he held back, fearful of her independent nature.

She started yelling at him. He flinched just noticeably at her last few words.
"…look at me now…" She lowered herself to the ground and bringing her knees up to her face, she began to cry. Obi-Wan was forced to act.

Cautiously he squatted down next to her, using his hand to wipe away a few of her tears that were showing. Her sobs died down into small leftover gasps and she finally looked into his eyes again. He felt a jolt of energy run through him as their eyes connected. He kept his face totally passive as he quickly reached up and kissed her.

It was the most wonderful feeling in the world.

As he felt her return the kiss, a smile grew on his lips. Due to the natural human necessity of air, they were forced to break apart. Obi-Wan pulled back just slightly and hesitantly looked back into her eyes. They were still sparkling from the tears and her face looked as if she had just kissed a ghost. Obi-Wan frowned and tried to reach forward to comfort her. Before he could even more, she bolted up and ran out up the stairs.

"Sorry about the bill, I'll make it up to you later!" she said very fast and she ran as fast as she could away from Obi-wan. He heard her door slam and echo throughout the empty halls of the Jedi temple.

Obi-Wan ran a hand through his hair, breathed out a long sigh and slumped to the ground, trying to figure out what to do. The paper still lay forgotten on the ground a few feet in front of him.


Obi-Wan was jolted out of his sleep by the sound of a door slamming. Opening his eyes he saw Padme running towards him, her eyes full of tears and grief. He rubbed the fuzziness away and he realized that he had fallen asleep on the floor, thinking of Sora after their small "encounter" He quickly stood up, ignoring his aches and pains of his uncomfortable nap. He looked worriedly towards Padme. He saw a holo-disk in her hand and she was running with her hands both clasped over her stomach. This is not good…

"Padme?" He finally said She ran into his arms, burying herself in his chest. She began to sob on his robes and all he could to was hold her. "What happened?"

"It's Anakin…" she said slowly, pulling away and reaching up with the disk towards him. He saw that it was engraved to him and Padme. "Master Windu sent this to me…they don't know where Anakin is…they think he's joined the Sith…" Obi-Wan felt the guilt rise into his heart. He grabbed the disk from her hand, studying it.

"I knew they shouldn't have taken him with them!" He cried, trying to convince himself that it wasn't his fault. "I offered to go…he was having too many problems…" He looked back to Padme and she was staring off into space, still clutching her abdomen with one hand.

"Padme? What is it? Are you sick?" He held out his arms to her but she backed away as if she was frightened of his touch.

"I thought that's what it was. But I went to the doctor today…" She breathed out a long sigh and looked down to the floor. Obi-Wan saw the tears welling up in her eyes again.

"I'm pregnant…" she paused taking a deep breath. "The Jedi think that Anakin will try and kill our child…and they need more Jedi on the front."

Obi-Wan stood in shock. She looked back up at him and with tear-filled eyes spoke again. "They are asking for you to go and join them…in the war I mean…I think Master Windu said they were heading to Mon Calamari next..." The words played and replayed in Obi-Wan's head. Anakin to the dark side? Padme was pregnant? I am going to the battle…? All his thoughts landed back on one person…Sora.

"I…I need to go look at this," he stuttered as he spoke, holding up the holo-disk. "Would you like to come-"

"No," Padme answered quickly. "I…I need to go lie down…I just thought that you would want to know."

She was trying to stay strong.

Stay in her character.

She broke.

Obi-Wan held out his arms as she once again collapsed into them, sobbing uncontrollably. I've disappointed all three of my girls today, he thought, Sora will probably leave, Jalia is in a panic for Terrik…and Padme just lost her husband…No, Padme will find him again. He banished all the thoughts of guilt and anger in his mind and pulled away from Padme, looking into her eyes.

"I will get him back."


Sora stuffed a few of her remaining possessions into her pack and zipped it shut.

What was she thinking? That outburst was nothing like her usual calm and collected self…something had happened to her down there. Something that she couldn't explain. Something that she couldn't figure out.

Sora hated it when she couldn't figure something out.

She growled at shoved the dresser drawers close, making her way for the door. There was no way that she was staying here anymore. As the door slid open, Sora gasped and stepped back. Her anger was gone. It was replaced by a cool sense of embarrassment. Obi-Wan Kenobi was standing right outside her door.

"So you're just leaving then?" he asked smoothly. He was propped back against the wall, hands crossed in front of his chest. Force he looked good!

"Looks that way doesn't it Kenobi?" She tried to add her usual spice of anger and bitterness. Sora found herself struggling to make it come out. She slid the pack over her shoulders and made a move for the stairs. He stepped in her path.

She let out a large exasperated sigh and looked up at him. "We already played this game Kenobi, remember? Do you really want a blade shoved in your face?"

"Well that wasn't after you had just kissed me."

"I kissed you?! Think again buddy I believe you were the one kissing me!"

"I felt you return it Jade."

Sora started to protest but he silenced her with another kiss. As the kiss broke, he locked eyes with her again, her expression full of astonishment. She felt her face becoming softer the longer their eyes were locked. He must have held her gaze for five minutes. When he finally broke it, his eyes traveled down to her bag on her shoulder. He carefully reached up and pulling it off her shoulder, set it on the ground. She was still looking where the bag lay when she felt his gaze upon her again. A tear trailed down her cheek as she remembered why she had run away from him in the first place. She looked back into his eyes. She could see the hope lingering in them, the hope that she would stay.

"Look...Obi-Wan..."she hesitated, she realized that that was the first time she had called him by his first name. "This could never work out. I mean you don't know a thing about me-" He quickly grabbed her hand and brought it o his lips.

"I know that I love you," his kissed each knuckle in turn. Her tears were threatening to come again. "And I know that you love me too." He looked up to her and smiled, that wonderful, glorious smile and said, "You told me yourself."

The realization hit Sora like light speed as she heard his voice in her head. I love you Sora Jade...

Then the tears came again. Her hand came up and touched her face as the happiness of that statement changed her mind.

Someone loved her. Her whole life...she had been waiting to hear those words, and now she had finally heard them.

She looked towards Obi-Wan and smiled with tear filled eyes. He smiled back and took her into his embrace. She held him strong and never let go.