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Opposites Attract [Complete]	By : Meleana24 Category: Star Wars (All) > General Views: 9158 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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In the next instant everything came rushing back. Meleana was standing facing the house. She could see Obi-Wan closing in on her. She was so excited to see him she ignored the obvious. She smiled and opened her arms to hug him as he got closer. Her smile faded when he raced straight past her and dropped down to his knees. His momentum carried him the rest of the distance to the body on the ground. Meleana walked slowly towards the feet of the body on the ground and trailed her eyes up from her singed boots. Blood was splattered down her legs. The blood there was nothing compared to the crimson stain on her tunics. A large blood-soaked piece of glass jutted through her chest. She shook her head in disbelief as she watched Obi-Wan slide her blank eyes shut. He didn't need to check her for a pulse. He'd have felt her death through the force before he'd reached her. She saw a tear roll down his cheek. She dropped down on the other side of her corpse and reached a hand out to comfort him.
"I'm right here," She passed right though him. He didn't even seem to notice her energy around him. He wiped the tears from his cheeks and took a breath as he looked down at her. She reached her hand up and trailed it over his jaw, "I'm right here."
Obi-Wan pulled one of the sashes from his tunic and used it to pull the glass from her chest. She tried to look down at her body but couldn't stand the sight of it. Meleana grimaced at the sickening slick sound her flesh made as it relinquished the glass. This couldn't be real. She was just unconscious. She'd just hit her head when she fell. It was a trick the Sith was playing on her to try and break her. She wasn't dead. She couldn't be dead.
"Please see me," she said holding back a sob. He used the clean end of his tabard to dab the blood away from her mouth, "Obi-Wan... please," He brushed her hair from her face and lay a gentle kiss on her forehead before gathering her into his arms, "Stop it," She tried to pull his arms away from her but again passed through him, "Stop. That isn't me. Please see me."
Obi-Wan knew someone was coming long before they arrived. Master Windu had gone to evacuate the others before the fire could spread. He didn't bother looking up from Meleana to see who it was until their shadow fell over him. Rendain dropped down beside him and picked Meleana's hand up out of the bloody grass.
"Master Windu told us what happened. I should have been there," Rendain shook his head and stared blankly down at Meleana's hand. He looked up, past Obi-Wan. His eyes stayed fixed there a moment before he turned his attention back to the body.
"There was nothing you could have done," Obi-Wan said when he found his voice, "she jumped. She died quickly."
Rendain and Obi-Wan were still sitting together over Meleana's body when Mace and the others joined them. Darlean took one look at her friend before breaking into tears and turning away. Sion wrapped an arm around her to comfort her.
Repairing the ships didn't take long. Meleana had the spare parts they needed on her ship. The sabotage done by the Sith had not been very complex. Darlean and Sion left first. Neither of them had any desire to stay a moment longer than was necessary.
Rendain was staring at the fire still burning in upper levels of the mansion. It seemed to be going out on its own, though it had done plenty of damage to the mansion. He was contemplating setting another when Master Windu walked up beside him.
"It's time you get going," the Jedi Master was not asking.
Rendain looked at him, then back at the house, "You'll recall I do not take orders from the Jedi."
Master Windu shook his head, "Your anger at the Jedi is misplaced-"
Rendain turned to look at the slightly shorter Jedi Master, "Is it? I apologize. Perhaps when you spent my entire childhood making me feel like an abomination you should have mentioned it wasn't personal."
"This may come as a surprise to you Rendain, but your father is not the one who decided to raise you. The choices made regarding your upbringing were made under the advisement of the Jedi Council."
At that Rendain chuckled. He'd never felt anything but disdain from the Jedi.
"None of us would have known how to train the son of a Dathomir Witch. Your connection to the force is unlike ours. We allowed Master Ari to raise you to be sure you were not a danger to yourself or others."
Rendain's eye moved from the fire to one of the ground floor windows, "Well thank you, Master Windu, that is most informative. Unfortunately it looks like I am out of people to visit at the temple though, so you'll have to find other ways of keeping tabs on me."
"Do you mind my asking, how have your powers developed?"
It was rare that anyone asked Rendain what his powers were. For the most part people assumed he was only gifted with the ability to heal, "In addition to healing. I can change my face, have visions of the future, and can turn my abilities around to do a fair but of damage to an opponent. I can also see beings on other planes."
Master Windu seemed intrigued, "Were you able to see the spirits Meleana spoke of?"
Rendain nodded, he still wasn't sure lying to Meleana had been the right course. He would find some way to make it up to her, "Have I answered enough of your questions to convince you I am not a threat to the Jedi order?
Master Windu shook his head, "Obi-Wan and I are leaving. I suggest you do the same."
Rendain looked over towards Obi-Wan and the woman hovering around him,"I can't leave her," He muttered under his breath.
Obi-Wan sat in the control room of the Jaded Star staring out the view screen at hyperspace. He'd spent hours sitting in Meleana's room with her. He kept hoping she would come back, and fearing she would come back as something else. He was both pained and relieved when he'd finally accepted the fact that she was gone. Her body must have been too damaged to be any use to the Sith. Still he expected her to walk into the room at any moment and give him flack for messing with her ship. Master Windu had fallen asleep shortly after reporting to the council. Despite his exhaustion Obi-Wan couldn't sleep. He kept going over everything that had happened since Korriban and wondering what he could have done differently. He was the one who put Meleana into that machine to begin with. If he hadn't been so careless she would have been safe.
He continued to watch the stars fly by as they moved closer to Coruscant. The burning in his eyes eventually subsided. They must have gotten used to being dry.
"What are you doing? Sleeping in the control room?" Meleana leaned up against the control panel and smiled at him.
He stared at her slack jawed. She was wearing one of her little gray nightgowns. The large wound on her chest was nowhere to be seen. A naughty grin lit up her face.
"You look like I caught you in something. What were you doing in here?" She winked at him. "Naughty boy."
"You're alive..."
She stitched her brow, "So let me get this straight, you snuck off to do naughty things in my control room because you thought I was dead... that is a little too kinky. Even for me."
Obi-Wan jumped to his feet and embraced her, "You're alive!"He kissed her as he pulled her in close to him. He felt something warm and wet soaking through into his tunic and pulled her away.
Meleana looked down at the bloody gash that had replaced her once pristine cleavage, "Oh..." she said dipping a finger into the blood, "That's right." She looked at the blood on her fingers then up into his eyes. "You didn't stop me."
Obi-Wan put his hand over her chest to try to stop the bleeding, "No, no, no..."
"Yes, Obi-Wan! You didn't stop me. You didn't help me! You weren't fast enough! And now look at me!"
Obi-Wan looked up from her wound and jumped back. Her eyes were yellow rimmed with red and all of the color had drained from her face.
"You're never fast enough," her voice was low and rough. Nothing like her own.
Obi-Wan jolted awake. The control room was empty and pristine. He looked at his hands, half expecting them to be covered in blood. He marched into Meleana's room with his heart in his throat. He half expected her to be standing there with her lightsaber drawn. Waiting to kill him. Once again she was just a corpse. The peace on her face almost made him forget she'd died a violent death all alone. He knelt on the floor next to the bed and took her ice cold hand in his.
"I'm so sorry."
Returning to Coruscant was both a blessing and curse. Back at the temple there would be distractions. He would no longer be trapped on a ship with the corpse of the woman he loved and a member of the Jedi Council. On the other hand it made everything real. He would have to give a detailed report of everything that had happened. He would have to relive all of it. Meleana would have a funeral. Everyone would move on as though she had never been there at all. Her ship, which had once been a comforting reminder of her presence would sit in the docking bay haunting him with memories of her.
After landing the ship he sat for a few minutes. Preparing himself for the final chapter of his life with her. Preparing himself to behave like a Jedi, and not a man who felt his heart had just been cleaved in two. He could see the medical droid with a stretcher standing outside the ship. He should open the door and let it collect Meleana. He wanted to say goodbye one more time. Master Windu entered the control room.
"The medical droid is waiting to take her."
Obi-Wan nodded and pressed the release for the door.
"I understand you cared very deeply for her. I trust your loss will not impact your duties?"
Obi-Wan took a breath and stood up, "No, Master. Life goes on. She was a dear friend and I will miss her. As I do Qui-Gon."
Mace nodded. The door to the control room opened to reveal a tall silver medical droid.
"Excuse me Master Jedi, but I am unable to locate the casualty reported on this craft."
Obi-Wan and Mace both pushed past the droid to get into Meleana's room. They stopped once inside and stared at the empty bed. Her bloody clothes were laying exactly where they would have been if her body had still occupied them, belt and all.
"Sound the Alarm. I want a security team to look over the security footage for this docking bay immediately. No one goes in or out of the temple without screening."
"Yes Master," the droid replied.
Obi-Wan ran out into the docking bay. It was filled with ships coming and going. There were a handful of human women with long brown hair, all of them were conversing with other Jedi or working on ships. None of them seemed to be making a getaway.
"Jedi Kenobi," Master Windu's voice was commanding. Obviously he didn't want Obi-Wan running after his dead lover. "I will see to it this matter is handled. Return to your quarters. Master Yoda will summon you tomorrow for your mission report."
Obi-Wan took a frustrated breath, "Yes Master."
After his mission report Obi-Wan inquired about the investigation into the disappearance of Meleana's body. There had been no sign of her on any of the security holos. Her picture had been released to planetary security, but no sightings had been reported. The council had decided, for now, that it seemed Meleana had simply become one with the force. Obi-Wan checked his facts in the Jedi archive. Which confirmed that, while it was possible for a Jedi to become one with the force and for their physical form to disappear, it required a good deal of skill. There were also no cases of it occurring long after the death of the Jedi in question. Obi-Wan concluded on his own the the council had no idea what had happened, and didn't want word getting out that they may have just unleashed another Sith onto the galaxy. Still, part of him wanted to believe that Meleana had simply gotten up. That she'd been sick of her life as a Jedi and wanted to start again as someone else. He knew this dream wasn't true, but he liked to believe it anyway. He would need to tell Meleana's friends that she would not be having a funeral. He was not looking forward to explaining why. He could already see the looks of hurt and betrayal in their eyes. They trusted the Jedi and the Jedi failed them. The Jedi had failed themselves. Obi-Wan picked up his holotransmitter. The sooner he got through telling them the sooner he could put this behind him.
As weeks turned into months Obi-Wan stopped seeing Meleana every time he left the temple. He stopped visiting her ship at night when he couldn't sleep. She slowly stopped haunting his dreams. He put the holos of her away where he wouldn't be tempted to look at them any more. To anyone who didn't know him well he had gone back to normal. Qui-Gon and Meleana had both been freer spirits than he had. After losing both of them he found himself laughing less. He was stricter with Anakin than he'd ever been. He'd stopped having fun as he had before. The Jedi council was impressed with his training of Anakin. The Jedi were not likely to criticize one of their own for being too serious.
****Hello all, this story is soon coming to an end, because as I went on I realized part 2 was too big. It needed to be its own story. This second story is 1 mission, which means things will be fleshed out a good deal more than they are here. The next chapter of "Opposites Attract" will be the last, but it wasn't really intended to end there. The good news, I am in my final semester of school so I will finally be an author who can update regularly! I am hoping to find a Beta reader, as story 2 is already 68,000 words. I want to thank all of you for reading. I was always very nervous about sharing my work, but finally thought "well, if one other person likes it, then I guess it was worth writing to amuse them." I am so pleased to have had so many positive words of encouragement over the years and hope story 2 is even better, and much more timely.*****
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