Rilme: I'm sorry for the wait. It's been too long. Errands weren't too bad and I got a pottery class and lunch out of it so win-win XD. Glad you like the cover art! Well, thank you for thinking that chapter was not horrid; I just loved Tahl when I read Jedi Apprentice and I was totally bummed when she died.
DreamPlane: I can totally see Mace freaking out about the porgs XD. Glad you enjoyed the speeder chapter; too funny about the battle droid voice!
El Droide: XD he was so naughty! I know, poor dears. Question: did you ever read the final chapter of Man's Best Friend? Just curious cause I didn't see a review from you.
This message is for GreyFoxofLight: Alex, I miss you! I hope you are still reading this and enjoying it! I miss your sweet reviews and feedback! Let me know if you're still here?
For El Droide.
"She, um, Fell Apart."
"Arfour!" As 21-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi entered the Temple hangar, he came across his droid, tipped over and one of her legs was missing, thrown across the space. The air in the hangar smelled like smoke. Obi jogged to his droid and tipped her upright, holding her steady as he called her leg to his hand with the Force. Lifting R4 with the Force also, he walked back in the direction if his quarters, the droid floating behind him.
Obi entered his quarters and set his droid on the floor near the table.
"What are you doing?" Qui emerged from his bedroom.
"Fixing Arfour. She, um, fell apart." Obi retrieved the tool box from under the wall hooks near the door and grabbed a hydrospanner. He began to ratchet the leg back on.
"How exactly did she fall apart?" Qui-Gon inquired, sitting down next to his apprentice and holding the wobbly droid in place. R4 began to beep out the story in binary, extenuating the story with sound effects and color changes of her sensor. Apparently there had been a "minor" explosion when an inexperienced Padawan attempted to recalibrate the targeting system on his starfighter, and that had resulted in R4, who had been helping him, getting her leg blown off.
"So that's why the hangar smelled like smoke when I walked in there," Obi mused, putting down the hydrospanner and scraping at some carbon scoring on R4's dome with his fingernail.
"Was anybody hurt?" Qui-Gon asked as he scrolled through the droid's memory banks for a video feed of the incident. The little astromech beeped a negative. "That's good. Ah, here it is." The three watched the clip of the minor explosion, Obi snickering under his breath as the little droid went flying through the air. R4 poked him in the leg with her prod.
"Hey! Ow!" The Padawan rubbed his leg. R4 twittered.
"You are fixed, little droid. Back to the hangar with you," Qui-Gon ordered, turning the memory bank holo off.
"Master!" Obi-Wan protested. "Can't she stay?"
"No droids in the apartment, Obi-Wan, you know that," Qui-Gon reminded. The boy sighed.
"Alright. C'mon, Arfour, let's see if we can't help that Padawan with his targeting system."
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So sorry it's been a while. I don't really have a good excuse... I'm just lazy XD. And very, very sleep-deprived.
Also, I rearranged some of the chapters because it just didn't make sense for Obi to be a Padawan at seven. Then he'd be an apprentice for a really long time. So, reviews probably don't match the chapters anymore, but hey, whatever. I've made some edits to the switched chapters and all that good stuff, so if you notice any mistakes if you happen to read them again, please let me know!
