Hope you're enjoying this. Anya's dream is starting to bother her. Is it just a dream or is it a vision of what is to come? The mission to Naboo is about to get under way.
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Chapter 5
As the nights of the past week, the dream returned. But the dream was altered. Instead of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fighting Darth Maul, it was she and the young man. She woke just as the deadly electric gate opened between her and the Sith.
Anya sat up, gasping for breath. Sweat rolling down her face. Her heart was racing. A light touch on her arm startled her. She looked down at Obi-Wan. The light that was filtering in through the window, softly lit his face. Worried and concern was mixed together on his features.
"Was it the dream again?" he asked in a horse voice.
"Yes and no." she said, shacking her head.
Obi-Wan sat up. He rubbed her back slowly, as if settling a child after having a nightmare. "Yes and no?"
"It was the same dream. But instead of Qui-Gon, it was me." She turned to face him. "I woke up when the last wall opened. It seems like the dream was altered when I was given the mission. What does this mean?"
"I don't know. Maybe it's a vision."
"If it is the future, maybe it's not too late to change it?"
"You already changed part of it. Qui-Gon will live." He smiled. "We just have to wait and see."
Anya laid back into his arms. Obi-Wan wrapped his arms around her as he kissed the side of her head.
"Lets get some sleep." he said.
The two lay there, wrapped in each other's arms. Obi-Wan had drifted asleep a shot time later. Anya stared up at the ceiling. What was the dream telling her? Could the Force be telling her she will die instead of Qui-Gon? Or will the duel with Darth Maul still take place?
Why am I still having the dream? Her lover's words echoed in her mind. "We just have to wait and see."
The morning sun was peeking over the top of the Coruscant skyline. The Republic cruiser was waiting patently on the Temple's north landing pad. The captain was busy doing last minute checks as she waited for her passeneagers. Standing some distance away, Yoda, along with Mace Windu, stood. The two men were in the middle of their conversation when the landing pad doors opened and Obi-Wan and Anya appeared The conversation ended as the two younger Jedi made their way to the two senior council members.
"Be careful." Windu said.
"Sense a great disturbance, I do." Yoda said gravely.
"Master Yoda, if a dream is the same for several days and then it is altered, but everything is the same, except a person is different, what does it mean?" Anya asked.
Yoda's ears dropped. He closed his eyes as he reached out to the Force. "Hard to tell. The future maybe."
Anya looked over her head to stare at their ship. //That's what I was afraid of.//
Obi-Wan glanced at her puzzled. He had heard her thoughts as clearly as if she said them out loud. Something was going on between them. There was no way he shouldn't have heard that. But the voice came from a different place in his mind. It didn't come from the training bond or when he talked to another Jedi. It even felt different. He mentally crossed his figures, hoping Qui-Gon was right and a bond was forming. This is something he'll have to tell Anya when he gets the chance. She would want to know.
"Remember, treat this mission like any other. If you can help it, don't try to re-enact it." Windu stated.
"Yes, Master Windu." Obi-Wan said.
"May the Force be with you." said Yoda.
Anya and Obi-Wan bowed and started towards the ship. The captain turned her attention to the two Jedi. She gave a bow of her own as the two stepped up to her.
"Welcome aboard."
Windu and Yoda watched as the ship lifted off. The little green master's eyes turned to stare at the landing pad, he ears still turned down. He was troubled by what Anya had asked him.
"The future she saw." he said. "Darkness I feel."
"Lets just hope the Force is with them." Windu said. There was something else troubling the accident master. "What is it?"
"Meet her past she will. Her family's past."
With that, Yoda turned and hobbled back to the Temple with Windu following close behind. Indeed Yoda had felt the Darkness. The Naboo mission felt suddenly dark and was troubled by it. He couldn't figure out what had caused the sudden change in the Force. Yoda had felt the change in the Force yesterday after Obi-Wan and Anya left the council chambers. And just now. Anya's dream only made him more troubled.
Standing on a balcony, over looking the landing pad, Qui-Gon watched his apprentice and his love leave for Naboo. The mission had begun. He should be going. But wasn't. Anya warned them about the mission. She must have said something else. If the council didn't agree with her, he would be on the transport.
His heart was with them. He and Obi-Wan knew what had happened. On the trip from Tatooine to Coruscant, he had told Obi-Wan what happened in Mos Espa. Hopefully, the boy. . .no. . .man, will do what his heart and the Force tells him.
As he watched the other Jedi head back into the temple, Qui-Gon sensed something was troubling his formal master. Yoda was worried! About what? Could it have been what ever Anya said? From this height, he was unable to hear the conversation taking place on the pad. But he still could sense the worry through what remained of their training bond. What was really going on?
Anya, I hope you know what you're doing. May the Force be you, you two.
End of Part One
