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last_kallig ([personal profile] last_kallig) wrote2020-06-20 08:17 am

AU: Not Milliways continuity -Obi-Wan Kenobi -aiming for angst free for once, damn it!?

Ibani has a mounting headache. Stupid Sith scholars of the past and their need to be damnably clever.

Oh, the LITERAL translation is clear enough, the word is blood, but given the time and cultural context, that has AT LEAST 12 different possible meanings.

"If you weren't already several centuries dead, I'd smack you for being insufferably vague," she mutters at the book as she closes it.

"I need a drink."
acertainpov: (Padawan :))

[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
But Obi-Wan's right at home with the physical part of a lightsaber fight! He doesn't jump her foot this time, but the the grapple doesn't quite go as planned when instead of tripping he flips backwards on to his free hand and lands a meter away.

He grins brightly and swings his saber low, on the off chance she's sent herselgff off balance with that move.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
It nearly works! Obi-Wan brings his saber up for what would be a perfect block, but notices his saber is off just in time, and leaps back with nanoseconds to spare, Ibani's blades passing within an hair's breadth of his body.

He inhales quickly, impressed, and has his lightsaber on in an instant.

He races at her, assuming that with enouigh speed he can keep her distracted enough to prevent any more tricks like that.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, he catches it just a little later than is really safe, and manages to catch a lightsaber to an arm that is already moving away, so the bow is painful, but still wouldn't have been disabling on full power.

He has to roll, again, and spin around to resume the attack

"So full of tricks," he observes.
acertainpov: (Padawan ??)

[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
What the hell, Ibani?

Obi-Wan is only able to express his surprise with a sharp look at her, before he's a bit preoccupied countering both lightsabers. Although as he does so he reaches into the Force and...

...one of the lightsabers starts slowing down considerably.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
She barrels into Obi-Wan just as he's grabbed hold and control of the hilt off the blue lightsaber. Which would be more of a victory except he's now knocked to the ground and has no use of either.

Hands out uselessly to his side, he rocks onto his shoulders to tuck his legs up under her, and kick upwards as hard as he can, just to get her free of him.
acertainpov: (Padawan :))

[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He raises his eyebrows again at her.

And switches off the lightsabers in his hand, wraps his hands around her back, and pulls her in.

If he's getting dizzy, she can too!
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Obi-Wan keeps his eyes on hers.

"I believe you were the one throwing herself at me?"

His hands move up her back, his arms tucked against her side, his face inclined to hers.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Obi-Wan breathes slowly, keeping his eyes entirely on hers, feeling her breath on his face as he smiles slowly.

"Anything that doesn't involve you dropping that lightsaber on my head."
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not just her lowering them gently down.

Obi-Wan moves both lightsabers to one hand, which he drops to put in his own belt. The other hand cups the back of her head gently, fingers tucking into her hair, as he returns the kiss, sweet and lightly.
acertainpov: (Padawan ??)

[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There's more hesitation there then was to any physical touch.

Just a little, though, and then he returns it, reaches back to her. He's warm and tender and joyous, and only sharing exactly what he chooses to.
Edited 2020-06-28 20:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-28 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
He pulls back from the kiss to look her in the eye and in answer just reaches out a hand to the lake, carries them both over without having to do any of the messiness of separating their arms.

But also, he needs to be clear on something.

Jedi can have no attachments. He will always be a Jedi.

He searches her face for an answer, this is only what it is, and he needs too check that she knows that.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-29 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Always."

This cannot break friendships, he knows. It's also not about what's forbidden - Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan has a healthy disrespect for the rules. But Obi-Wan is already experienced in what happens when you let yourself get too involved. He already knows the pull of the Dark Side that comes from putting one person above all others, even in the face of what is right for everyone.

But let her think it's about rules, rather than tell her why it is there's that little bit less of him to give.
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[personal profile] acertainpov 2020-06-29 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Here, literally?

Obi-Wan's thoughts don't actually make words, because that's just not how his mind operates. It's more a questioning, understanding of his meaning that settles lightly in her mind. One of the reasons he's so good with non-verbal animals.

They reach the spot they were aiming for and settle down, first on their feet and then he bends his knees so they're sitting instead.

Or more metaphorically?

If so, he's surprised, but willing to be the teacher, in everything. He keeps that one hand on the nape of her neck, and rests his other on the back of her shoulders, and just reminds her that there's no need for anything except this, but at the same time, opens himself up, asking what she wants right at his moment.