Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 28 - It’s the Light That Makes You Remember
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars - Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, eventual Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (but not for a long while)
Word Count: ~ 6600 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Three years after Obi-Wan entered the temple and two years after the events at the end Chapter 26, when Qui-Gon was made a member of the Jedi High Council, Obi-Wan has settled into life as a Council Padawan. He has his friends, he had his responsibilities. The life he’d lived on Tatooine is a distant, if unpleasant memory.

The life he’s living now is good. If he stops and thinks, Obi-Wan might actually admit to being happy.

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From All The Spaces Between Times -Chapter 28 - It’s the Light That Makes You Remember (On AO3)

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Meta - Chapter 28 - It’s the Light That Makes You Remember

As always, I am deeply grateful for all the love you’ve given this story, the outpouring of comments on the last chapter - the guessing on where the story is heading - makes me so very happy.

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Book III

And now we begin Book III. I teased a two scenes here in the meta posts - bits of Obi-Wan and Anakin being best bros because that is a lot of what Book III is about.

I will be honest, when I had finished writing the modified Duel of Fates on Tatooine, killing off Maul and having Anakin make the Right Choice, I really hadn’t intended on Anakin playing a large role in this story going forward. I was planning on him getting Shmi off of Tatooine and that would be the last we’d ever see of him.

But I’ve learned to listen to the Force and to my readers and to my instincts. Any story about Obi-Wan where Anakin already exists is not going to be complete unless Anakin plays an important role in that story. I consider it the Star Wars version of Chekhov’s Gun (no not Star Trek’s Ensign Chekhov, sorry. The playwright, Anton Chekhov).

So, Book III will feature sane and stable and average (former) Jedi Anakin Skywalker hanging around the Temple quite a bit, getting to know his lineage brother, Obi-Wan. They will have their shenanigans and their moments of danger, too.

Padmé is still Anakin’s loving wife, and she’s winding down her last term as Queen of Naboo. There will be plenty of interaction between Padmé, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.

Shmi is here, too, and she’s become my favorite badass. I hope you love her as much as I do.

Other Prequel characters will begin to populate the story, but I’m not going to spoil the surprise.

Book III is a long one. I have about one more scene to write before it’s done (so about 2000 words to go) and the whole book weighs in at 20 chapters and 135k. This should bring me to two-thirds of the way done with the whole story. Yeah, you’ve heard that before.

But honestly, I do have all of the major cogs in the plot in place now. Fingers crossed. I do hope you stick with it, it’s going to be a good one, with a lot of unexpected elements that will definitely raise eyebrows but make sense at the end of the day.

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CW: Death of a loved one.

Putting this at the end because it’s sad and I don’t want you to read it if you don’t want to.

265,104 words, 48 chapters

In the last meta, on Halloween, the wordcount was 249,477, and I was rolling along quite merrily, putting in about 1200 words a day. Then tragedy struck. One of my very dearest friends, Temve, died suddenly. She had been out running with her wife, Ell, and collapsed. She never regained consciousness. I still can’t comprehend how such a vital and loving and kind person is gone from this earth. Ell, who is also a dear, dear friend, is absolutely shattered at the loss of her wife and is struggling to make sense of this.

I know it’s weird to tie a wordcount report to such a horrible tragedy, but I’m trying to organize my brain in a way that makes sense. Since the beginning of my writing "career" I’ve used the words as a way to momentarily escape from the pain of loss. First my father in 2010, when he died of bone cancer three weeks after diagnosis. Then in 2012, when my nephew was murdered by a drunk driver.

And now Temve.

The days melt into one and another. Yesterday was the one-month anniversary of her death and everything still sucks. I miss my friend. I will miss her every day for the rest of my life.

Thank you for reading and for listening.