#emperor obi-wan au

[lilredghost]

WIP Wednesday: No knot

Omega Anakin giving ""Alpha"" Obi-Wan a blowjob. Some things come to light...

Anakin makes the mistake of glancing down, where the tip of Obi-Wan’s cock, pink and wet, is peeking out from his grip. It leaks over his fingers, and Anakin feels his mouth water.

He shifts down the bed, holding Obi-Wan’s hips down and licking up the precum without a second thought. He seals his lips around the head and sucks, bobbing his head up and down lazily.

It’s the first time he’s gotten the chance to really take his time with Obi-Wan’s cock, and he intends to take full advantage.

He lets drool slide down the shaft, slicking the way so Anakin can jerk off what he can’t fit in his mouth. It’ll take some practice before he’s able to take it all, given how long it’s been since he sucked anyone off.

Not that his husband seems to mind, twining his fingers into Anakin’s hair and letting out low gasps whenever he does something unexpected.

Anakin pulls off to mouth at Obi-Wan’s balls, sucking at them lightly and letting himself enjoy the way Obi-Wan’s scent is so thick here that it makes Anakin dizzy.

Eventually, he kisses his way back up the length of Obi-Wan’s cock, swallowing it down again. The weight of it is pleasantly filling, and the roof of Anakin’s mouth is sensitive where the head keeps rubbing against it.

It’s getting harder and harder to ignore the way his own cock is straining against his pants, or the way his hole clenches around nothing, leaking into his underwear. He aches to straddle Obi-Wan’s hips, to climb on top of him and finally, finally sink down onto his cock.

He’d go slow at first, teasing his alpha until he was begging and desperate. And then he’d ride Obi-Wan relentlessly, fucking himself hard and fast until Obi-Wan’s knot started swelling, until it jerked against Anakin’s rim with each push in and out. Until it caught, filling Anakin with the brief sensation of too much before he whited out from the pleasure, locked tight and pumped full of cum—

“Anakin!” Obi-Wan cries out, jerking in his gasp.

And then his mouth is flooded with the bitter taste of cum, quick enough—and unexpected enough—to make Anakin choke.

He pulls off, sputtering and coughing, and the sight of Obi-Wan’s cock throws him for a loop.

There’s no knot.

Anakin’s fingers are still wrapped around the base, and he squeezes his fingers, trying to confirm by touch what his eyes are telling him.

Distantly, he registers the cum splashing across his face, the spend he didn’t swallow dripping from his lips.

Obi-Wan is stiting up, is wiping at his face and apologizing, but—

But his mind is still caught on Obi-Wan’s cock. On the fact that there is no swell at all, no knot expanding under his touch.

He jerks away, feeling a lance of hurt. "You kept this from me?"

[wanderingjedihistorian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, CC-2224 | Cody & CT-7567 | Rex, CC-2224 | Cody & Ghost Company Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex, Jango Fett, Clone Trooper Wooley (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Waxer (Star Wars), CC-8826 | Neyo, Clone Trooper Boil (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Longshot (Star Wars), Boba Fett, CC-5052 | Bly, CC-3636 | Wolffe Additional Tags: Alternate Universe- Sith, Alternate Universe- Mandalorian Clones, Mandalorian CC-2224 | Cody, Mand'alor Jango Fett, Emperor Obi-Wan Kenobi, Cody is a good big brother, Loyalty, Cody finds out just how loyal his men are, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels Series: Part 7 of The Emperor and His Mandalorian Summary: Cody goes back to Mandalore for the first time. Some things are more difficult to than he expected.

For my October Challenge Day 6 Prompt: Loyalty

[shapelytimber]

Happy lesbian visibility week <3

The one week of the year I am being perceived (that's a lie, I am aggressively a lesbian irl. No one can look at me and think I am anything else) ! To celebrate, here is a compilation of what have been slowly taking other my mind these past few months : my star wars sapphic au :)

It's silly, it's inconsistent, it's made for me to have fun drawing women ! So here is every piece of art I made for it until this point, enjoy !

(A lot of them are available as prints on my inprint)

As always, the Palpatine and Dooku designs were made by Stagbeetleboy :) these are his designs

Here is a link to every og posts :

Disco maul

The anime wives

Butch4femme Hanleia

Blood hound

How to woo a countess

Fem Obi-wan sketches

t4t obimaul hooking up

Maul should have been at the club

Girls night out

[buffshipper8490]

(artwork by @grassprint, used with permission)

Rating

Explicit

Summary

The Original Trilogy re-imagined as young Tatooine farmgirl Leia Skywalker learns the ways of the Force from old Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and joins with smuggler Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca aboard the Millennium Falcon to rescue Prince Luke Organa of Alderaan from the clutches of the evil Sith Lord Darth Vader and the tyrannical Galactic Empire...

Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: Title Crawl

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... STAR WARS: THE AGE OF REBELLION It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire on the planet of Scarif. During the battle, Rebel spies Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR-- a space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet-- from an Imperial Citadel run by Director Orson Krennic, relaying them to a Rebel cruiser in orbit. Determined not to let the rebels escape, the Death Star obliterated the Citadel, and the Empire's sinister enforcer Darth Vader arrived to the aftermath of the battle in pursuit of the cruiser...

Chapter 3: Tantine IV Darth Vader pursues the blockade runner Tantine IV to retrieve the plans to the Death Star stolen from Scarif...

Likes ❤ and Reblogs 🔁 are much appreciated!

[wileycap]

I have a vision.

Okay, so, we all love Star Wars time travel fics. They're great, and I've read like, 50 of them in two days.

So. Obi-Wan travels to the future. From the Clone Wars to, oh, 10 years into the Empire era. Directly to Mustafar. Directly to Darth Vader's private chambers. Right in front of Darth Vader, who is currently helplessly floating in a bacta tank.

And the first thing he says is "oh Force, Anakin! What happened to you?"

And the first thing Darth Vader says is "You did this."

From Obi-Wan's perspective... well. Obi-Wan can feel it in the Force that the Jedi are gone. Anakin is grievously injured in every way possible, and he's telling the truth that Obi-Wan was responsible. They are on a remote planet, on which Anakin is obviously hiding.

Obi-Wan puts two and two together and gets twenty-two.

"I Fell. Didn't I, Anakin? I did this. All of this."

Obi-Wan explains away Anakin's obvious Darkness as a result of the trauma of watching his Master, brother and best friend become a Sith Lord. And, because Obi-Wan is duty-driven, selfless and above all a man who loves punishing himself, he immediately agrees to help Anakin hunt down his older self. Actually, he suggests it.

Darth Vader is caught in a conundrum. On one hand, he hates Kenobi almost as much as he hates himself. On the other hand, Kenobi is willingly admitting that this was all his fault and not Vader's (which is what Vader already believes anyways, and it's nice to have validation even if Obi-Wan is, technically speaking, wrong), and if he can just keep Young Obi-Wan on his side, he could overthrow Sidious...

Hilarity ensues. Vader tries to keep Obi-Wan from finding out the real truth while desperately lying to himself and Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan is too caught up with blaming himself to actually look at the situation they're in, and, of course, if Vader just managed to be honest with Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan was able to return to his time, this whole mess could be averted.

[threebea]

Sheev hits the cloning Sith magic hoping for eternal life in exactly the wrong way and time and now he's a small redheaded child.

1. Everyone thinks the Supreme Chancellor is missing or captured.

2. Everyone assumes he's the bastard child of Obi-Wan Kenobi (as all redheads of a certain age are traditionally assumed).

3. Obi-Wan is once again asking people not to assume he is the sole provider of redheads. (He is ignored).

4. Due to plot reasons naturally Obi-Wan and Anakin have to look after him.

5. Sheev tries to act cute so that he can win over Anakin.

6. Somehow it backfires and Anakin is weirdly threatened by Obi-Wan's (probable) son.

7. Sheev does have a few tantrums and falls into brat mode. Not because he's a Sith in disguise but because he was a rich boy and assumes that's how kids are.

8. He claims to be the Supreme Chancellor several times. Padme thinks it's adorable that he wants to be a little politician.

9. the Jedi figure out he's force sensitive and are wondering if they should take him in if they can't find his guardian. Anakin now views him as a rival and is waiting for Obi-Wan to say he's going to train his son the boy.

10. Obi-Wan is not doing that again, thanks. He just finished the last one. He needs a break.

11. Sheev due to child body can't control the Force as well as he can as an adult (as far as he knows) so trapped playing baby games and getting hugs and also getting rules which did not happen the first time around. Weirdly nice but it isn't going to stop him from being Emperor and murdering these people. He just needs to reverse the spell.

12: as it turns out his spirit accidentally went into one of his prototype clones and they find his dead elderly body. Looks like it's time for elections.

13: Jedi decide no, this time they're not breaking the he's too old rule. They're gonna look after him and when he's old enough they'll send him to one of the corps. It's for the best. Especially since the war is going really well under the new management and they'll probably have a treaty by next life day.

14. Also as it turns out the clone body does not have a high m-count like his former body. He's a little less than average. The Force is whistling innocently in the background.

Of course he's still going to try for galactic domination but oh boy is it not gonna go well.

Not sure if he becomes reformed or what. Either way he's probably gonna be farming for a few years which he will not enjoy. Yes he can still manipulate people, but it's hard to manipulate who he needs without any money or power to offer.

Tries setting off Order 66. Voice isn't the right register and doesn't set it off.

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

odd tho, that right at the finish line to the revenge of the sith (a thousand years in the making) sheev would send maul to fight some jedi on naboo, right? when by all means he got the result he wanted from the jedi 'winning' that conflict. big risk of discovery innit?

unless that wasn't about the planet at all. unless sheev wanted maul to fight qui-gon, specifically. ya know, sith historically love pitting apprentices against each other...

...and qui-gon was all about the prophecy of the chosen one, right?

and like, there's only a few canon sith, versus a metric ton of jedi. fifty thousand or something?

cool.

... what did everyone think 'balance' meant?

yeah so, what IF qui-gon knew what kind of monster anakin was going to become.

what IF qui-gon was another sith apprentice.

what if that duel was 'who gets to train anakin' and either way the jedi lose?

lil ani, destined to bring balance to the force? well. he did. in a manner of speaking.

anyhoo. sith qui-gon au, amirite?

[veloursdor]

What if Emperor Kenobi hadn't been mad with power, heartbreak and anger? What if an arrangement could have been made between between him and Obi-Wan regarding the fate of one Anakin Skywalker? Not everything needed to end in tears.

This is a 'What If Scenario' based on 'he who can never be thought to be the same'. It's not necessary to have read it, but it might help with some details.

Thank you @tideswept for helping me beta this what if and @amadwinter for helping me with the title 💕

It's also part of @palfriendpatine66’s More To Love ao3 Collection. All works are amazing, so check them out if you can! 🩷

[funnypansexualanimorph]

Working Title; The Grey Collective

Star Wars AU

by: @funnypansexualanimorph and @tricksterscorvid

Character List: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Rage, Luke Skywalker, Darth Sidious/Emperor, Raistlin Orniphicus (Darth Shirak), Tharisa Solarfall (Darth Nox), Auron Kisshin (Mandalorian), Leia Organa, Boba Fett

Summary:

In this AU we're exploring the idea of the 'what if Anakin actually did the Chosen One plotline, only he did it in the most complicated and extra way possible, because that's just how Skywalkers work' principle.

Drawing from both Legends and the 'Canon' movieverse, this A.U. leaves a few things well known the same, before blowing up 'canon' with, well… a space cannon.

concrete info:

the fight on mustafar does not happen; however Padme still dies in childbirth.

-Obi-Wan follows Anakin to the Dark Side in that instant instead, realizing his love for Anakin is too much to let him go.

Obi-Wan's fall is not expected or noticed by the other remaining Jedi, so they willingly hand baby Luke over to him, and him and Anakin flee to seclusion.

The Emperor agrees to let Anakin take Obi-Wan as his apprentice, and allows them to go train for a while in seclusion, however he is unaware they have Anakin's son. Anakin does not know about Leia.

After several dreams in which Anakin is visited by Qui-Gon's force ghost, they begin to seek out the Elders. who these beings are exactly, is unknown at first.

they narrow the search eventually to Geonosis, where they meet up with two Sith who have been alive through force-immortality related means, for a very very long time.

the next step beyond destroying the Jedi Temple, which has already been accomplished… is to destroy the Emperor… to do this… they need to destroy Sidious' planet of personal clones. Anakin decides the best weapon for the job is the Death Star.

the ancient sith they found decide to train Obi-Wan and Anakin, (and subsequently Luke) and end up taking them to various old abandoned temples that were quite active in their time, on planets half-forgotten to time.

young Boba Fett discovers Auron, who decides to train him as a foundling; we're just not talking about exactly how ancient Auron is quite yet.

[tennessoui]

yeah ok but a gladiator au where no one is Russell Crowe and Anakin is a gladiator who has been in the arena for years — he’s good. He has lost, obviously and especially when he was first thrown out there, but he’s good, especially as he grows and learns and trains. He’s one of the few gladiators that capture the public’s eye and the emperor’s attention as the perfect representation of The Strength of Rome.

He’s still a slave, he still hates these people, and especially Emperor Palpatine and the senators, but he knows enough to know to play nice, and there is some part of him—trained into him or naturally a part of his soul—who relishes in the violence, the winning, the moments Palpatine will turn his thumb up to the heavens and tell him to kill his opponent.

Meanwhile, Obi-Wan is a senator who despises the gladiator tradition, but cannot say no to the emperor’s invitation to join him in his seats for Anakin’s next fight. That would be unwise.

It would also be unwise to let his eyes linger on the young gladiator’s form. To ask after him once the fight is over. To attend a party he knows Skywalker will be made to attend, to talk with him in shadows and in secret, to allow his eyes to linger. To find the young man so captivating, so beautiful, so fierce, so strangely both untouchable and touchable. To give the man a reason to fight that isn’t just to win.

[lilredghost]

WIP Wednesday Thursday

(Sorry guys, I forgot how calendars work 😂)

Obi-Wan claims his own diva, painted a deep green with yellow and orange accents.

He places a cotton wick in the center, filling the lamp carefully with oil. He has to hold the wick down with a finger to make sure it soaks properly, huffing with irritation when he realises there must be some trick to doing it without getting your fingers wet.

Maybe I'll figure it out next year, he thinks-- and the idea fills him with a jolt of unexpected longing.

He wants to be here next year, wants to stay in this little lineup of Anakin's family, knowing he's loved and-- and accepted.

Shmi turns to him then, her own diva already lit, face creased in a broad smile.

She speaks, words heavy with meaning: "From mother to child, I pass my knowledge on to you."

Obi-Wan searches her expression and finds-- to his astonishment-- complete sincerity. As far as he can tell, she means it.

He is… her child. Her son-in-law, perhaps, but a son nonetheless.

Obi-Wan has not been a son to anyone since he was thirteen.

[wanderingjedihistorian]

Six Sentence Sunday

Have a snippet of a fic for the upcoming @sithobiwanevent.

Set in my Emperor and His Mandalorian verse

The cold metal of a lightsaber hilt tiled his chin up to meet Obi-Wan’s blazing eyes. “Give me one good reason not to ignite this and kill you right now.”  That statement shouldn’t have been cause for relief, but it was. If Obi-Wan was willing to give him a chance to explain, then Quinlan could still salvage this.  “I failed you,” Quinlan admitted. “I couldn’t return until I’d made it right.” 

[reactorshaft]

Idea: Anakin as Kuzco from the Emperor’s New Groove who wants to blow up Tatooine to make space for his cosmic podracing race track. Anakintopia!!

Palpatine and Jar Jar are Yzma and Kronk. Palpy is the Grand Vizier to Emperor Anakin and Jar Jar is his home-world representative Naboo assistant :)

Obi-Wan and Padme are Pacha and Chicha. Luke and Leia are their kids Tipo and Chaca. They’re both ambassadors of Tatooine to the Empire Senate (this is an Emperor’s New Groove AU, don’t say silly things like, “that’s not canon!”)

and since Padme’s pregnant with their third kid, Obi-Wan had to try to justify his planet’s continued existence by himself when he thought he was just summoned in regards to his request to discuss water import tax tariffs or subsidizing bantha dairy farms or whatever.

But it all goes wrong. Obi-Wan gets mad at the spoiled young emperor after he reveals he plans to destroy the “revolting sand pit”, but he only departs Coruscant after a talking llama, formerly known as Emperor Anakin, unknowingly and accidentally stows away on his ship back to Tatooine.

But with Jar and Jar and Palpy in hot pursuit hoping to finish their failed assassination attempt, Obi-Wan and llama!Anakin hit an unexpected number of increasingly ridiculous detours on the way home :)

If someone wants this to be more Star Wars-y, Anakin could be turned into a droid and not a llama. …which is actually a pretty funny idea because he’d be something like if R2D2 and C-3PO had a baby.

[musewrangler]

While on a political visit to Axxila, a young Sola Naberrie meets an equally young Firmus Piett. Stars align, attraction is mutual, things progress and they are happily married.

Merely a year later, the galaxy is in flames, Padme' Amidala is dead, Anakin has a new and terrible name, and Obi-Wan Kenobi must carry the newborn twins to the Pietts to raise in secret.

Neither Firmus nor Sola know the first thing about raising Force sensitive children, but they will do their best to become a loving family while on the run from the Sith Father who wants his children back.

[builttoserve]

I am weirdly invested in this au and I want to ask what about the rebellion? Do they still have the same goal as canon? How do the rest of the jedi fare? What about luke and leia? I'm assuming obi-wan doesn't know vader is anakin at that period of time so are you going to do some reveal? Oh also what is the empire's like from citizens perspective? Sorry I ask a lot I just like this so much I need to know more detail!!!

*cracks fingers* Okay, so that is quite alot of asks, but lemme try and break them down:

The Rebellion still has the same goals as in-canon; restore the Republic, overthrow Imperial rule. That said, they are having a far harder time of things. For one, the destruction of the first Death Star never occurs, because Vader cut the funding for the superweapon on Thrawn's insistence- which, in turn, severely hampers the Rebellion's overall unity as a faction, since they no longer have that 'great victory' to build them up into a stronger and more-popular faction. Additionally, Thrawn's pro-alien reforms have split the galactic population. In canon, it is mostly condensed down to a largely-humano-centric Empire against basically a largely-alien Rebellion. In 'Built To Serve', however, you are just as likely to find a Twi'lek or a Rodian Stormtrooper as you are to find a Human Stormtrooper. This, naturally, deprives the Rebellion of one of their largest recruitment 'pools from the canon timeline: the oppressed alien masses.

One other change is that Galen and Jyn Erso never sided with the Rebels; the Death Star project was scrapped, and Galen's technology was turned back towards clean renewable energy. This kept him on-side with the new Empire, and never separated him from his wife and daughter. Jyn, now living a new life as the daughter of a high-ranking imperial scientist, got the best education and connections, allowing her to rise rapidly through the ranks of the Imperial Navy. She now serves as one of Tarkin's many government officials.

The Jedi are far worse-off in this timeline. Whilst Palpatine mostly concerned himself with the Empire and left Vader to deal with any Jedi that dares to spring out of hiding, in this AU Emperor Vader leaves the broad-strokes of Imperial policy to Thrawn and Tarkin. This, in turn, leaves Vader with more time to organize and arrange the Imperial Inquisitors under the leadership of Grand Inquisitor Barriss Offee (the only person who hates the Jedi perhaps even-more than Vader himself). This newly invigorated Inquisitorius, in combination with the massive ISB propaganda effort to paint the Jedi as treasonous manipulative b*stards post-Order 66, has alienated the Jedi survivors from much of the support they might have had in-canon. Kanan Jarrus, Cal Kestis, Cere Junda and Ezra Bridger were all killed in this new timeline by the hand of Grand Inquisitor Offee, as was Darth Maul during an ill-planned assassination attempt against Emperor Vader. Ahsoka Tano remains alive as the head of the Rebel spy-network, 'Fulcrum'. Yoda, similarly, remains in hiding on Dagobah.

The exception to this blanket persecution is the planet of Ahch-To. In this new timeline, Ahch-To is used as a demilitarised 'reservation' for maybe 10% of all captured Jedi. The imprisoned Jedi are disarmed, installed with tracking chips, and released onto the planet's surface. There, they can meditate on the Force, practice their beliefs, and live out a relatively peaceful, low-tech, primitive life... on a number of conditions... The reservation of Ahch-To is led by the renowned former Jedi master Luminara Unduli, who preaches nonviolence and pacifism whilst firmly dissuading any talk of escape or insurrection; like it or not, Vader has given them all a second chance after Order 66, to live simple (albeit heavily-monitored) lives. Additionally, any newly-discovered Force-sensitive who fails examination under the Imperial Inquisitorius' exacting standards is dumped in the hands of the Ahch-To Jedi reservation.

Luka and Leia are unchanged from canon - Leia is still the outspoken daughter of Senator Organa (who, coincidentally, has been having a harder time getting supplies off-of Alderaan to the Rebels, now that the 'Death-Star-carcass-turned-Imperial-Navy-starport' is parked right over his planet), and Luke is still a farmboy on Tatooine.

Obi-Wan never had his little adventure from his 'Kenobi' series, and remains in-hiding on Tatooine. He still communed with Qui-Gon Jinn as a Force Ghost, and learnt how to become a Force Ghost himself, but he never had that final fight with Vader. Indeed, Leia herself was never kidnapped as a young girl; instead, her father Bail just told her about Obi-Wan's many adventures. As for if Obi-Wan discovered Vader is Anakin... ehhh, let's just say that Obi-Wan never made that connection. He'd still think that he killed Anakin on Mustafar, and that Vader is some other Sith Lord who stole power 'out from under Palpatine at the final minute. Or, atleast, that is his best-guess. He doesn't exactly have an abundance of intelligence on a backwater like Tatooine.

The Empire, from the prospective of an average citizen, is a marked improvement on the Old Republic. Granted, they are under intense scrutiny and subjected to a near-dizzying amount of Imperial propaganda, but they are *safe*. The Clone Wars are over, the Jedi traitors are gone or in-hiding or on the 'reservation' world of Ahch-To, and the old corruption and greed of the Republic Senate has been expunged (for the most part). The Hutt cartels are far less aggressive and daring, with crime at an all-time galactic 'low. Slavery is still a problem, especially in the Outer Rim, but worlds like Ryloth and Shili are firmly slavery-free, and firmly loyal to the Empire. Alien and otherwise nonhuman citizens are far more satisfied with the new Imperial system, finding it as a source of excellent new career paths with alot of upwards mobility. Indeed, reports and news stories on galactic equality margins are at an all-time-high, firmly outstripping the Old Republic. Basically, if you were born a Sullustan, you would have far-better chances of finding work in government under the Empire than you ever did under the Republic. The prices of much-needed items like medicine and food are also much more affordable, with some of Emperor Vader's key early policies being based around the production and distribution of these two things... partly to cement his own popularity, partly to incentivise postwar economic prosperity, and partly to urge more people to buy-in to the new Empire as a new galactic government.

[therewasatale]

A Reason for leaving

On Ao3.

Summary: Qui-Gon Jinn finds his friend, Samuel Vimes in a ran down bar and tries to reason with him.

The bar wasn’t the worst one on Coruscant. This was because the “Worst Bar On Coruscant” became a coveted title long ago and there were several hundred establishments vehemently competing for the title.

It became an artform in which the goal was to make a place as close to being a corpse filled pile of rubble with a liquor license as possible, its brushes were various assortments of blaster burns, bullet holes, sticky floors and cheap watered-down drinks, and paints were supplied by several kinds of bodily secretions of the myriad species of the galaxy.

This year’s favourite to win was the “Rakghoul's Spirit” on the lower levers which sported the dubious honour of having a member from every space faring race known to the Republic having been killed in it at least once. No, this bar was simply a small run down one around the mid-levels, a place where people go not so much to forget, but to be forgotten.

So it was a complete shock to the patrons that this day, there was a visit from not one, but three jedi.

The first one come in around the early morning, already stinking from booze. Most other establishments would have sent the man away, but a drunk jedi was enough of a new experience that the owner, a Rodian with one broken antenna and a facial scar, let it go.

The jedi was steadily sending down various kind of drinks, and based on the strength of said drinks, the owner suspected he must have used some kind of force powers to keep himself standing, or despite looking human, he was of a species that can live with a blood alcohol content around 75% without much problem. The man had the face of someone utterly lost and grounded down, but at least paid his drink so he was content to let him be.

Now that during midday another two arrived, he started to sense trouble. He glanced towards the drunken jedi near the bar and made a nod, indicating to him that the newcomers probably were searching for him.

Jedi Knight Samuel Vimes had the kind of malaise usually experienced only by small worms living in a starship’s garbage disposal. He had the mood of reactor waste. And the knowledge that someone was coming to visit him wasn’t improving it.

He turned back unsteadily on the barstool and regarded the newcomers.

One of them was Qui-Gon Jinn. The man was the most annoying know it all good for nothing jedi in the entire galaxy. His friend. And oh the force, he brought his padawan. Bollocks.

Qui-Gon himself was searching for his friend in the last three days, trying to find him in every possible bar and cantina he could find, but Vimes didn’t want to be found, and through his unique force powers, the city obliged. Qui-Gon was forced to rely on his own knowledge about the workings of the city to find a lone drunken jedi amidst millions of sentients. But he had to do it for his friend.

He wasn’t there, when the Council published its decision, he wasn’t there for the row that followed, which, according to the masters gathered there, almost became violent, before he stormed off.

But he was here now.

“Sam. Let’s go back to the temple." Said Qui-Gon as a greeting.

Vimes took a big slow breath and shook his head.

“No. I don’t think I am going to do that Qui-Gon. I dint think I am going to do that at all. “ He said raising his hardened resin cup and trying to drink from it. It was already empty. He grunted and pushed it back towards the bar owner. “Another one.”

“I think you had enough Sam." Said the jedi master, his voice even, yet quiet. Seeing the man like this was a punch to the got for him. Samuel Vimes was always the more idealistic from the both of them. The man wanted to change the Republic to the better, he fought for it, harder than anyone aside from maybe his master. And now, he seemed absolutely broken.

“Peachy. But I’ll be the judge of that.”  Mumbled Vimes, but before the bar owner could even move towards the empty cup, it flew up and landed in Qui-Gon's hand. Vimes grunted angrily and turned towards the jedi once again. “What the everdamned force you want from me Quai Gon.”

“To stop this self-destruction spiral Sam. Keels death was a tragic accident but…” Vimes' fist hit the table so hard that every other drink clinked together on the plasteel bar table.

“Accident? Accident. Keel and his padawan was massacred on a street of Coronet City…” The jedi knight could feel the anger rise inside him like bile.

Quai Gon put the cup down on an empty table and looked back at him.

“It was ruled to be an accident, they run into a gang war zone and…” Qui-Gon knew he shouldn’t have said that. That was what set him off back on the council chamber. Truth to be told, even he wasn’t sure if this was the truth. But it was the decision they came to. Unfortunately, there was nothing else to do.

 This time Vimes pushed himself up from the barstool, anger burning full throttle now.

“That is a load of bantha manure and you know it! Gangs with slug weaponry, fliers and explosives?  It was the Pykes and the Hutts, they paid the locals to get rid of Keel because he was too much of a torn in their sides, and a kid no older than your padawan!”

Vimes pointed towards the smaller figure in a brown coat standing beside Qui-Gon. “Died in the crossfire. And the council aren’t going to anything because they fear poking the Hutts, because they care about the peace." Vimes felt the poison in his every word, but he couldn't hold them back. He didn't want to. "Peace, where criminals and slavers do what they want. I had enough of it, Qui-Gon. I had enough. They stone walled me and Keel for years and now they are going to pretend his death was nothing but bad luck.” Behind Vimes' eyes a kind of dangerous fire burned. A kind of fire that could force a man to make stupid decisions, provoke fights with people he didn’t want to fight with. With people he cared about.

These feelings were a gateway towards the dark side the council always said. But he didn’t care what the council thought anymore.

“I am not a kid. “Said the padawan suddenly, and received a stern look from Qui-Gon which made him look away in shame. If Qui-Gon could help it, Obi Wan wouldn’t have come near this type of establishment, but the kid snuck out after him, day after day, so he just brought him along, it was safer this way. And besides that, Obi-Wan was a padawan, old enough to leave the temple. Sooner or later, he had to see the true face of the Republic, and even the jedi. He just wished that his padawan wouldn't see his friends in this state. Vimes wasn't a bad man, nor a bad jedi, but he lost his master, and with him he lost himself too.

 At the padawans words, Vimes' rage disappeared. It was blown away by a sudden gust of lethargy and cold despair. He remembered saying the same thing to his dead master more than once.

“Yes, you are. And you have a lightsabre already, and fighting beside your master, good for you kid.“ He collapsed back to his stool and rubbed his temple. “ Qui-Gon, I have come to realise we are doing things wrong. Seriously wrong in some cases. It was growing in me for a while, but this, this was the final straw. “

“Sam-,” Qui-Gon's voice was almost pleading. “I want to help.” He really wanted, Samuel Vimes was his friend, and represented in his eyes, one of the last best hopes for the Jedi order to change for the better.

“Are you a drink, or Keel's killers so I can make sure you will pay with your life behind bars?” He asked looking at him with empty eyes.

Through the Force pain and sorrow oozed out from the jedi knight. It almost made Qui-Gon to take a step back, to try to shield his padawan from his friend feelings. 

“I-”

“Then piss off.” He grasped towards a cup that wasn’t there, and then sighed, turning his back towards Qui-Gon and glanced at the bartender. “Another one, don’t bother with a cup, I will take a bottle. “

Qui-Gon stared at the back of his friends for a minute. Thoughts and feelings were chasing each other inside his mind. Shame, that he couldn’t help him. Anger at the council, but at Vimes too that he would let himself sink this much. And deep profound loss. He felt trough the force, he may never see his friend again in his life.

He shook his head before he sighed.

“If that’s what you want Sam. May the force be with you.” He said in a resigned voice, as he gently led his padawan out of the pub. Vimes received his bottle, stared into the swirling amber liquid through the black, reflective bottle, seeing the face of Keel inside of it for a second, before his own appeared. He grunted, and began drinking, trying to forget how miserable it looked