Disclaimer: All characters except for Meagan, Sasha and a few minor other characters, belong to George Lucas, and we are not receiving any profit off this work of fiction.
This is written in first person point of view of Meagan unless otherwise noted.
From Earth to Star Wars
Part Two: Is now Post TPM by about seven years. (Anakin is about sixteen.) Meagan has been back for about three years now.
Meagan comes back to Star Wars and meets up with now Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his
Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Follows the movies, but is an AU. (Caution.) Ours does have a bit of a twist to it. Obi-Wan and Meagan are married and are living in the Jedi Temple, with Anakin still being trained. Now, due to dramatic events, they await the fate of Meagan and their unborn child Sasha.
Chapter Twenty Eight
**Obi-Wan's point of view**
While Anakin and I hurried back down to the Healer's wing, Master Jessie's words were still ringing in my ears. Meagan's water had broke and there was nothing they could do except remove Sasha by surgical procedure. I finally managed to release the worry and concern for my wife and daughter into the Force as we walked into the Healer's wing.
As Anakin and I entered the waiting room, Jema immediately approached us, her normal calm presence thrown into disarray. She was wringing her hands together as she explained everything, her voice cracking with emotion.
"Meagan had fallen asleep after her normal medication dose, so I ended up falling asleep on the couch in her room...." She broke off, trying to bring her emotions under control and after a moment she continued. "Just a little bit ago, Meagan woke up, gasping, telling me her water broke. Luckily Master Jessie was just coming onto duty, sensed what was going on and acted immediately. As you two already know, Master Jessie got a team together and started prepping Meagan for surgery. From what I picked up, they just started. Just before you two came in here, one of the Healer's came through, telling us to wait and they will come tell us when they are done....."
I put a hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. She glanced up to me, her smile watery.
"She was so scared, so helpless.....there was nothing I could do but watch them wheel her down the hallway....." Her voice trailed away as I led her and Anakin to the chairs and couch in the waiting area.
None of us said a word as the minutes ticked away. Finally, I settled back against the chair, trying to meditate. However, Anakin who was growing quite restless, started pacing, driving both Jema and I crazy. "Anakin, would you settle down. You're going to run a hole into the floor."
He turned to me, eyes blazing. "Like you are mister calm. You're flooding the Force with guilt and worry."
Jema stood up, still wringing her hands. "Would you two stop." She nearly yelled at us as another presence entered the room.
We looked up as Master Yoda drove his repulser chair into the room. "Stop it you three will. Disturbed my sleep you have. Strong Meagan and Sasha are. Talented at healing others Master Jessie is."
I sighed as we all sat back down with Master Yoda coming over to me, placing a gnarled hand on my shoulder. I could feel the comforting waves through the Force from him as we all began to calm down.
It wasn't that much longer that we heard the high pitched wail of a baby. Relief flooded through me, for the cry was strong and healthy. I felt Anakin's relief as he put a hand on my shoulder. I closed my eyes, knowing one of my loved one's was safe. Master Yoda just nodded his head, seemingly pleased with the latest turn of events.
It was some time later as we were growing tense again that Master Jessie stepped through the door. We stood up, fidgeting until we noticed the relief in the Healer's eyes. Just behind her, another Healer came, holding my fussing daughter in her arms.
"Everything went fine." Master Jessie smiled, the first time I'd really seen since the shot out occurred. "Congratulations Master Obi-Wan."
The other Healer came around, placing my daughter in my arms. Her cries immediately ceased as I gazed down into her eyes, identical to my own. Needless to say, I was mesmerized as she snuggled against me, yawning, her little mouth puckering. Anakin was besides me, reaching out a hand as Sasha curled her tiny hand around his smallest finger.
"She's so precious." I could him mutter as I gazed at my daughter, not noticing the tears on all our faces. In all my life, I'd never felt such relief at knowing she was safe, but yet there was something else....an absolute terror I'd never felt. In my time as a Jedi, I'd faced many adversaries, negotiated many treaties, talked crazy terrorists out of killing innocent lives, worked under cover, helped break up black market rings and even faced down a Sith, but nothing prepared me for the helplessness and terror I felt in holding my own daughter. Her life was completely in my hands, which at the moment it literally was. Her entire length not even spanning the length of my elbow to my hand, not even noticing her five pounds on it.
I finally tore my gaze away from her delicate features and red curly hair to the Healer's. "How is she?"
Master Jessie smiled at Sasha, who was just falling asleep. "She is pretty small, but some of the preliminary tests I ran, came out clean. I"m running some more, but I believe she will be just fine."
We all sighed with relief as Jema stepped in closer. "What about Meagan?"
"She came through the procedure with flying colors. Right now she's settled into the bacta tank and will remain there as she heals. At my best guess, she'll be out of there in a couple to several days, depending on how her body responds to the treatment."
I nodded as I turned back to my daughter, feeling the Force strongly in her, for she practically glowed in it. No wonder she made it through everything. "Can I keep her with me for a while?"
Master Jessie smiled. "Sure, Sasha is a lot calmer with you. She was upset earlier since she can't really feel Meagan. Let one of us know if she needs anything."
I nodded again, sitting in a nearby chair, not taking my eyes off Sasha, my daughter. Something, I once thought I would never have.
For the next while, I just watched my little Jedi sleep peacefully in my arms. I proceeded to count all her toes as she curled her tiny fist around my finger. I was still in awe that my daughter was finally in my arms.
"Can I hold her?" Anakin asked from besides me, his eyes never leaving her face. Jema stood nearby watching. Master Yoda had followed Master Jessie from the room several minutes ago.
I turned my gaze from Sasha to the eager look in my Padawan's eyes. Gently I leaned over, placing her in his waiting arms. She didn't even stir as Anakin settled her against him, completely relaxed. She sighed a little, her mouth puckering slightly as she slept.
"She's so little, so precious...."Anakin murmured, still holding her close. "Poor little thing, not being able to sense her own mother."
:"I know." I gently placed a kiss on her forehead, sending her a warm wave of love through the Force. "But she has us and I promise you Sasha, Daddy and Uncle Anakin will take good care of you."
She opened her eyes and looked straight into mine, and it was like looking into a mirror.
"Wow, she has a pretty direct gaze for only being an hour or so old." Anakin watched her turn her gaze from me to him. "I still can't decide if she looks more like Meagan or you."
I chuckled slightly as I felt Sasha reaching for me in the Force. Reaching out, I sent her another reassuring wave along the bond we created. "Let's hope she looks more like her mother."
He chuckled with me as Master Jessie and Master Yoda reentered the room and we both looked up a few seconds later.
"Awake she is." Yoda smiled as Master Jessie came forward, holding a bottle in her hands.
"Let's see if she won't let us feed her. I want to get something in her." The Master Healer knelt down in front of us as Anakin readjusted Sasha so Master Jessie could guide the bottle to Sasha.
However, Sasha knew what was going on and moved her head, try to hide in Anakin's tunic.
"It's all right Sasha, I'm not going to hurt you. I know we're not your mommy, but I know you must be getting hungry."
"Let me try." Anakin said, over Sasha's cries, as Master Jessie tried again, but failed.
"Okay." Master Jessie handed Anakin the bottle. Sasha squirmed in his arms as I watched him try to feed her.
"You think you can do better." Anakin turned to me a moment or so later, frustrated.
I shrugged slightly as Anakin put the bottle down, then placed Sasha in my arms.
Sasha settled down pretty quickly, but grew a little squeamish when she saw the bottle.
"Sasha." I stated gently, softy as she looked to me. "It's alright my little one. Daddy's not going to give you anything that will harm you. I'm not going to let anything hurt you, I promise."
She seemed to digest that as I felt her relax against me. Several moments later when she was calm again, I reached for the bottle. This time Sasha opened her little mouth and immediately started suckling. As she worked on the bottle she, now and then, gazed back to me, her eyes betraying the complete trust she had in me.
Sighing, I was pleased that Sasha easily drank most of the bottle. After it was all over, she fell back asleep in my arms, then I placed her in Jema's arms as she sat down next to me.
Once Sasha settled into a deep sleep with a quiet sigh, we all turned to Master Jessie as she drew out a small data pad.
Anakin and I glanced nervously at each other as Master Jessie started to talk. "So far, all the tests came out just fine, though her mid-chlorine count is extremely high." That I had come to anticipate, but the numbers she read off, left all of us in shock. "She has about 17,500."
As nearly one, we all turned to watch Sasha sleep peacefully in Jema's arms. I was nearly in shock, knowing my baby girl had the third highest count in the entire Jedi order, only behind Master Yoda and Anakin.
"No wonder she made it through everything." Anakin broke the silence a moment or so later.
"That's my take on it as well." Master Jessie said. "Though I wasn't expecting it to be that high, but she's perfectly healthy."
I sighed, that was exactly what I needed to hear. "That's good to hear. Thanks again for everything....."
Master Jessie held up her hands. "I'm just doing my job and I'm very pleased to finally meet this little one." She ran a hand over Sasha's curls before sweeping quietly from the room.
Then, Master Yoda drove his chair close to where Sasha was sleeping. He reached out a wrinkled finger and gently touched her cheek, before touching her head, as if in a blessing. "Strong she is, special she is. Her mother's insight and her father's strength and strong will she has. He continued to watch Sasha sleep before he spoke again. "Rest well little one, Jedi you will become. Help save us from the darkness you will."
Anakin, Jema and I all looked up in amazement at his words as Anakin squawked. "Save us…"
"Always in motion the future is. For clouded with darkness the future is, but a light in that darkness, Sasha is." With that, the wise Jedi Master turned and left the room.
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**Anakin's point of view**
I sighed as I held a sleeping Sasha in my arms. She was little, so precious, so much like her parents and she nearly glowed with the light of the Force. She was perfect, all ten toes and fingers, the way her little red curls fell on her tiny face.....It only took one look at her to know how much I really loved her. I was beginning to think our relationship was going to more than her being my Master's daughter, that maybe someday she would be my Padawan.
"She still sleeping?" I looked up to see Obi-Wan come into the small nursery in the Healer's wing.
I nodded my head. "How's Meagan?"
He sighed as he sat down next to me, gently touching Sasha's head. "She's responding well to the bacta treatments. Master Jessie says they will take her out in a day or two."
"That's good news." It had been a long two days since Sasha's birth. We'd mostly stayed with Sasha and sat in the room with Meagan. "I'll be glad when this is all over."
Obi-Wan managed a weak smile. "Me too, Padawan." We sat in quiet for a few moments before he rose, and left, going back to Meagan I assumed.
Sometime later, I put Sasha back in her crib, then left to go find something to eat. After realizing Obi-Wan had left the Healer's to rest, I went to the cafeteria, not wanting to disturb him. I knew the night before he'd been up most of the time with Sasha.
It was close to an hour later when I came back down to check on them. I was walking down the hallway when Sasha's cries entered my ears. She sounded so upset and scared, that I immediately ran the rest of the way into the room.
In the corner, Bant, Jema and a Healer stood by Sasha's crib with Dede trying to feed Sasha. What were they thinking? Sasha hadn't taken to too many people yet and they were scaring her. "What's wrong? What are you doing to her?"
They all turned to me before Jema spoke. "She needs to eat and be around a female right now since she can't feel Meagan."
As she was talking I reached into the Force, sending Sasha waves of comfort and love. I smiled slightly as she quieted somewhat and turned towards the sound of my voice. "She doesn't know you either, she's only two days old."
They all looked doubtful that I knew what I was talking about. "Anakin, no offense, but you can't know that much about babies."
Well, I had to give her some of that, but Sasha's tears were breaking my heart. "I might not know that much about babies, but I know Sasha and she knows me." With that I strode over to Dede, taking Sasha gently into my arms, speaking quietly to her. "It's all right my little one, Uncle Anakin's here to take care of you. Everything's alright."
For being Jedi, they all looked completely shocked as Sasha stopped crying while I paced around the room, sending her warm Force waves, talking quietly to her. When she was calmed down enough, I sat in the rocking chair, still cradling her close. I looked up to Dede and the Jedi. "Where's her bottle?"
Wordlessly, one of them handed me her bottle, then I feed it to Sasha rather easily. "I told you I can take care of her."
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It was just about a day later that they brought Meagan out of the bacta tank, her wounds finally healed, her strength returning. She would still need to take it easy for a while, but she was much better and wouldn't have that many recurring problems because of the ordeal.
I sat by her side, mediating lightly in the Force. Meagan, still under the sedative, slept peacefully. Master was with Sasha at the moment, feeding her.
It didn't seem like that much longer when I heard a voice, thick with sleep. "Anakin?"
I opened my eyes to find Meagan watching me.. "You're awake. How do you feel?"
"Like I just took a bath full of jell-o." It was music to my ears to hear her sarcastic sense of humor. "Where's my baby? I want to see her."
I leaned over her, smiling. "Meagan, she's so beautiful and a lot like you and she's perfectly healthy."
Tears doted in her eyes and I could feel her relief. "You still didn't answer my question."
I sighed, touching her face gently. "Obi-Wan's with her, feeding her. You can see her later."
The medication must have been still in her system since she was beginning to fight keeping her eyes open. "He promised me."
"I know." I told her soothingly. "You can see her when she's done eating."
She seemed to accept it as she feel back into sleep. I watched her for several minutes before walking into the room where Obi-Wan was, holding Sasha close.
"What is it?" He asked me quietly as the little one still worked on her bottle.
"Meagan woke up for a few minutes before going back to sleep." I looked down at Sasha before grinning. "I almost had to tie her to the bed before she could get in here to see Sasha."
He chuckled, the relief evident on his face. "I'm not surprised. I'll take Sasha to her later."
I nodded, not wanting to take my eyes off Sasha. "Did the Healer's say when we can take these two home?"
"Maybe in a week or two."
I sighed as I sat down next to him. "Why that long?"
"Just to make sure they are both alright." He told me as he readjusted Sasha against him, her falling right to sleep. "Let's just hope she's not up all night again."
"I'll stay with her. You can sleep." I told him.
"You need to go back to class now that most of everything is behind us." He straight out told me, his Jedi Master voice coming through loud and clear, silencing any protest that I could have made.
"But I still can stay here with you." He gave me a look as we sat together, watching Sasha sleep.
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**Obi-Wan's point of view**
It was only a few hours later that Meagan woke up again. I wasn't that far away and after she took a shower, I brought Sasha to her. Her eyes still portrayed some tiredness and I knew the Healer's were concerned about me bringing Sasha to her so soon, but I knew Meagan would draw strength from seeing our daughter.
One of the Healer's literally dragged Anakin out of the room as I sat down next to Meagan, handing Sasha to her. "Can you see her honey?"
She nodded, gently touching Sasha's red curls. "She's so precious, so beautiful."
I put my arm around her, pulling her against my chest. It felt so good to hold her again. "She looks like you."
She smiled as mother and daughter gazed into each other's eyes. I could feel them reach and find each other in the Force. Sasha grabbed hold of Meagan and immediately fell asleep, knowing she was finally with her Mother. "She looks like you too."
We watched our daughter sleep for the longest time before she turned to me. "I still can't believe she's here....that we made a baby together."
I felt the tears rush to my eyes. "I know. I could hold her in my arms for hours, still in awe that you've given me this wonderful gift."
She gazed up at me, love for me and our daughter in her eyes. "I love you Obi-Wan Kenobi."
I leaned down to kiss her gently. "I love you too my Lady Meagan."
She sighed, leaning into me as held each other close, glad that our daughter slept peacefully in her arms.
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AN: Well, as the saying goes, all's well that ends well........(though this story isn't over yet.) Now we get to see Obi-Wan and Meagan as parents and Anakin being a very protective uncle. Thanks again for all your reviews, we've enjoyed and appreciated the feedback.......Have a great Thanksgiving and God Bless.
LOTR quote from "The Fellowship" between Gandolf and Frodo. We thought that it was fitting for this chapter.......
"You're late."
"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
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