Obi-Wan glanced up as a door banged. Three people entered the infirmary, all ones he recognized. Sith-Qui-Gon, the Not-Sith girl, Tiv, and Sith-Anakin's apprentice, Luke.
As the went in, Sith-Qui-Gon turned to Luke and said, "Shouldn't you be getting home before your master starts worrying?"
The boy shrugged. "Actually, he'll most likely assume that I had something to do that I forgot to tell him about. Master Anakin naturally assumes that just because he never told his master where he'd be, means that I won't."
Sith-Qui-Gon grinned. "Very true. Alright, so shouldn't you be getting home before I start worrying that your master will worry?"
Luke blinked at him. "Are you trying to get rid of me?"
"Yes."
"Fine. Since I'm not wanted here, I'll leave." And he stormed off in mock anger. Tiv grinned, and then looked up at her master.
"Stay here," ordered Sith-Qui-Gon. "I'll go see if I can find someone." He turned around and left.
Tiv shrugged and sat on a bed next to Obi-Wan. "Hi," she said.
"Hey," Obi-Wan replied. "You still not a Sith?"
Tiv smiled at him. "I guess not. Although, the more I look at it, the more obvious it is that our logic was a little flawed. I mean, if they were Sith, why'd they tell me that they were Jedi?"
"To trick you into training with them?" suggested Obi-Wan.
"But that's just it! I don't particularly have any opinions on that issue. I mean, I've heard some horrible things about the Sith, but nothing worse than what I've heard about the Jedi. And I'm not exactly someone they'd want to train. I'm not good at much of anything, I have almost no Force sensitivity, I have no appealing traits…"
"Including self-confidence?"
"Exactly!" exclaimed Tiv, obviously not noticing his sarcasm. "There doesn't seem to be any good reason for them to pretend that they're Jedi."
"I guess you're right," sighed Obi-Wan. "You know, maybe Master Qui-Gon was telling the truth about the whole alternate universe theory."
Tiv blinked. "Alternate… wait. Master Qui-Gon told you what's going on?"
"Yeah."
"Well he didn't tell me!"
"Yeah."
"I wonder why?"
"Yeah?"
"Maybe he doesn't trust me!"
"Yeah!"
"But he said it was the rules…"
"Yeah?"
"So what if they are?"
"Yeah?"
"But he should have told me!"
"Yeah!"
"I'm sure he has his reasons."
"Yeah."
"Then why can't he at least tell me his reasons?"
"Yeah?"
"He said that to do that he'd have to tell me whatever it is."
"Yeah…"
"You buy that? C'mon, he's obviously just getting out of telling us!"
"Yeah!"
"That's not true! He has a reason for not telling us, we just can't figure it out!"
"Yeah."
"So why can't we?"
"Yeah!"
"We're too young. We don't have the same experience that he does. The list goes on and on!"
"Yeah!"
"So what, we're inferior to him? Because we're younger? We're always going to be younger than him, so does that mean that no matter how old we get, he's always going to be able to refuse to tell us something, just because we're younger? Is that fair?"
"Yeah?"
"What I mean is, we're not old enough! We will be eventually, but for now…"
"Yeah."
"For now, what? When are we going to be old enough! I say we make him tell us today!"
"Yeah!"
"But why? Do we really need to know?"
"Yeah?"
"Yes, of course we do! Look how much it's affecting the world around us!"
"Yeah!"
"I'm obviously never going to talk you out of this, am I?"
"Yeah."
"No, you're not."
"Yeah"
"Then, fine! Go try and make him tell us! It's your loss when he doesn't!"
"Yeah!"
"You'll see. He'll tell us."
"Uhh, Tiv?" Qui-Gon was standing in the doorway, looking amused at the scene before him. Obi-Wan was only participating in this conversation by saying 'yeah', and Tiv was taking up both other sides with an argument with herself.
His younger apprentice looked up at him and grinned. "Yeah?" she asked.
Okay, I have a reason to have not posted! I've got a bad cold, and I was bogged down with homework, and my cats kept freaking out, and I got a schedule change so I had to catch up in all my new classes, and (this one's a little embarrassing) I sorta… forgot. Hey, it's not my fault, okay! I can blame… I mean, explain. Nobody reviewed, so I just kept writing whenever I felt like it, and didn't even post. I've gotten farther than I had in a while, but I keep forgetting how I'm going to end this! Well, I've gotten quite a few strange situations that Tiv and the others can get into, and I know where I want to go with this, I'm just not quite sure how they're going to get out of them. And by the way, if nobody else has anything to say on the matter, I'll just go with Fell's suggestion of a Tiv/Luke pairing.