A/N Because of school starting tomorrow, I'm not sure how often I'll be able to update, but I'll try to keep it up, okay? Now I need to figure out what the end's going to be like, and what caused all of this to happen in the first place. Don't worry, I'll get it, even though it might suck. Reviewers thanked at the bottom of the page.

Spoilers: Okay, I'm getting into the bad area, with spoilers from every episode. Beware.

Obi-Wan was still a little unsteady on his feet as he stood before the Council, but he managed to not look it. He could sense Qui-Gon watching him carefully, but didn't mind as much as he would have before. He was glad that his old master was still around.

How long it had been since he had first awoken, he didn't know, someone had told him but it had slipped his mind. All he knew was that it was long enough for him to have mostly healed, and short enough that nobody seemed to have aged significantly.

"Decided, the council has," Yoda announced. Obi-Wan looked up. "Found, we have, a 'surge' in the Force like the one that felt, you did," the green Master continued.

"When?" demanded Obi-Wan, forgetting for the moment that he wasn't supposed to interrupt Jedi Council Members in that way. A few of the others shot him disapproving looks, but he didn't mind.

"It seems to be at exactly the moment the universe of Obi-Wan's visions split off from ours," said Mace Windu.

"When Anakin shot Darth Maul?" asked Qui-Gon.

"No," Obi-Wan answered for the Council. "When the Federation blocked Naboo's trade."

"I thought you said we were sent on the very same mission in that version of events," Qui-Gon said, confused.

"We were. But we were sent a year later. Everything in that version happened a year later."

"But what would that have changed?" asked Qui-Gon, and this time Obi-Wan didn't have an answer.

"Always foresee, we cannot, what do, the Force will," explained Yoda.

"More things may have changed for Anakin in that year than we know," agreed Windu.

"So in that version," Qui-Gon was still obviously trying to puzzle this out, "Anakin never shot Darth Maul…"

"You were killed by him a few days later," continued Obi-Wan.

"Anakin became Obi-Wan's apprentice," added Windu.

"And to the Dark Side, the boy Skywalker went," finished Yoda tensely.

"The question is," put in Shaak Ti, "will that event happen in our version?"

"If true, that is, than stop it, we cannot," said Yoda sadly.

"Maybe we can," contradicted Obi-Wan suddenly. Everyone turned to look at him, and he flushed, but continued determinedly. "From what little I know of Anakin's turning, there were a few events that led up to it that could have been preventable if we had suspected that they would happen."

"Such as…" asked Windu.

"His marriage to Padmé Amidala," suggested Qui-Gon, who, by now, knew the whole story just as well as Obi-Wan did.

"Prevent that, we can," agreed Yoda.

"And maybe Qui-Gon not dying will change a few things on its own," added Obi-Wan. "Qui-Gon's a very different master to Anakin than I was, and maybe that could help."

"Or harm," said Qui-Gon, giving him a stern look.

"Well, it can't exactly make anything worse than it was that time," said Shaak Ti.

Few things can Obi-Wan thought, but he didn't say anything.

"Attempt to stop Anakin's turning, we all will," finished Yoda. "To him now, you must speak."

"You want us to tell him?" demanded Obi-Wan, outraged.

"Best if he knows, it is," answered Yoda, to nods of agreement from the other Council members. Qui-Gon stepped lightly on his former Padawan's foot to prevent him from making a second fool out of himself, and the pair exited.

"How's Anakin going to take it?" asked Obi-Wan after they left.

"I don't know," admitted Qui-Gon. "I've never had to explain anything like this to him before."

"He'll be alright," Obi-Wan assured him.

"I forgot you know him just as well, or better than I do," smiled Qui-Gon.

"It feels odd, with both of us thinking we were his master," agreed the younger Jedi.

"Speaking of which," the other added, "what did you mean back there?"

"What?"

"When you said that you not being his master might make him not go over to the Dark Side. What was that about?"

"Well," Obi-Wan tried to find the best way to say this. "You're a more experienced master than I am. It's never good to be the first Padawan, because then the master's trying to figure out exactly how to do this."

"You've forgotten, I had an apprentice go over to the Dark Side once before. It could happen again."

Obi-Wan stopped, surprised. Qui-Gon didn't talk about Xanatos much, and he had almost forgotten that his old master had suffered the same fate that, through his visions, he had too.

"Now that we know about it, we can stop it," he said briskly. Qui-Gon nodded, looking a little relieved to be off the subject of his old apprentice.

"How do you think we could prevent Anakin and Padmé getting together?" he asked instead. "And what else would that change?"

"When Padmé comes back as a Senator, there is an assassination attempt. While I, or rather, you, try to find out who it was, Anakin takes her back to Naboo so that she won't be harmed. It's his first mission alone, and he's very exited about it, but don't let him go. They fall in love. Five or six years later, he learns that she'll die, and goes to the Dark Side to prevent it."

Qui-Gon looked a little surprised, but only nodded. "And what else would their marriage change?" he asked. Obi-Wan thought for a moment…

"You knew my father?"

…"Your sister, Luke"

"My sister? Leia!"

"I am your father."

"There still is some good in him…"

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You are my only hope."

"Obi-Wan?"

The Jedi looked up at his former master and gave a rueful smile. "They have twins. Luke and Leia. Both of them are pretty important, but mostly to stopping Vader."

Qui-Gon looked a little annoyed. "Of course, when the only way to stop all that destruction is to make sure he doesn't marry, he has twins. Important twins, too. Only Anakin could cause all that. Is there anything else?"

"Yes," admitted Obi-Wan. "Another thing that might have helped cause his turning would be his mother's death."

Qui-Gon gave him a questioning look. "How does that fit in?"

"On the same mission he falls in love with Padmé, he also goes back to Tatooine following a series of prophetic dreams he had about his mother dying. He finds her being killed by Tuscan Raiders, and slaughters the whole lot of them, even the defenseless ones."

Obi-Wan had never seen his master look more shocked. "I knew Anakin had a temper, but this…" he muttered. "It all balances on that one mission, then," he said. "All we have to do is stop him from going on it."

"Unfortunatly, that mission is also very important. He has to go on it, or too many things won't happen." Obi-Wan paused. "Then again, all that really happens is fighting Dooku, and we don't even beat him until later, and the clones, and they didn't have anything to do with Anakin. Not to mention that they slaughter all of us."

"Well. That would definitely be something to miss out on," commented Qui-Gon, smiling.

What neither of them knew was that Chancellor Palpatine was watching them carefully. He had heard about Obi-Wan's visions of the future, and vowed to watch young Anakin Skywalker very, very carefully.

Finally, one with a length I can actually not be terrified of. It's still not very long, but oh, well. Okay, so, last time I forgot to list the reviewers, so here they are, along with my apologies. Alley Parker, Alena Rivendell, Jedi Ha'Li, music nimph, Ellenlome, and Data Kenobi reviewed chapter 4. And music nimph and Ellenlome reviewed chapter 5. And, in response to the things mentioned in more than one review, I will not kill or torture Obi-Wan, (I've passed by 'murder every character in the story stage) 5 or 6 years between Episodes 2 and 3 sounds about right, and I don't do bad Qui-Gon stories. Wow, this thing is really long.