Mini Nano Day 20

[morgynleri]

Star Wars: Our Hands Will Never Be Clean AU

Ceret tilts her head the other way, watching him for a long moment. "His death would hurt you."

"Why do you say that?" That it's true is something he doesn't care to admit here, save in the privacy and safety of his own mind. He knows he should be willing and able to let go if Qui-Gon dies, knows it's a risk with the sorts of missions they both take, but he still fears that day.

"Because it's true." Ceret shrugs, shifting her weight so she's leaning against a bedpost, and poking his foot with her own. "Don't try to hide what I already know. It's a waste of energy better expended elsewhere."

Obi-Wan sits up more, crossing his legs to keep his feet tucked out of the way. "Such as on trying to escape?"

"And go where? There is no transport from this place but your own two feet, and the only space port is on the far side of an ocean." Ceret smiles, the expression almost gentle. "You will remain safe here, and perhaps you might learn."

"Learn what?"

"To read what you can't yet." Ceret shrugs, standing up, and coming closer. "You should sleep. It will be a long day tomorrow." She reaches out to touch his hair with her fingertips a moment, trailing them down his face until he catches her wrist in his free hand.

"Why did you bring me here? Why not just kill me?"

Ceret doesn't try to pull free, leaning in instead until her face is inches from his own. "I have no use for you dead, Obi-Wan."

Comments

[poplitealqueen]

I NEED MORE.

I don't know why I like imprisoned Obi-Wan, but dammit I do.

[morgynleri]

*grins* Most of the more of this scene is before this snippet, and I still have the set-up story for the AU to finish, and I probably should get the AU this is a time-travel AU of through the story-in-progress and that much closer to where the two diverge. Which mostly means that I have no idea when I'll post this as a whole on AO3.

Imprisoned Obi-Wan is fun! :) I have some of it - with the same OC, many years younger - in Into Shadows. Most of that story involves Obi-Wan in captivity, actually, though he'd much rather be in the sort that keeps him in a cell than the sort he's dealing with there. :)

I don't think I use that in any other non-crossover AU, though it might come up in Daerja at some point, but that AU is still mostly a mess of world-building that isn't coherent as I'd like yet. I do have him stuck in a cell in Into the Fire: Mirkwood. *very big grin* Annoying elves is not very productive. Though it does mean he meets dwarves, and Bilbo Baggins, so. *shrugs*

[poplitealqueen]

CAN'T BREATHE.

YOU'VE WRITTEN A HOBBIT CROSSOVER?!

*zooms to it*

[morgynleri]

*cackles* Yes, yes I have. And it's only gotten through Mirkwood - the next part is stalled at figuring out the end of the barrel ride. Nothing I've written so far has worked, and at the rate things are going, I'm about to scrap the bit between them escaping Mirkwood and getting into Laketown.

[thedeadcat]

Poor Obi-Wan. I think. :D

[morgynleri]

*grins maniacally* I don't think he's going to be sure if this is horrible and he wants it to stop please, or if he thinks it's interesting and let him explore this thank you. Mostly both.

And I am going to take these two and thump their heads together, because they're having entirely too much fun with flirting with sexual tension. And it's not even a "will they or won't they", it's a "he wants someone else, she prefers to watch, and they like watching the expressions on people's faces when they flirt aggressively". Including mine, apparently. *sighs, and whimpers a bit*

[thedeadcat]

I like them both more already. :D

[morgynleri]

:)