Mementos Like Jewels

by Keelywolfe (keelywolfe@aol.com)



Rating: NC-17

Category: POV, Angst, S/M

Feedback: Oh yes, please. Love it, I do. :)

Summary: An excerpt from Obi-Wan journal.

Disclaimer: A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away, George Lucas created Star Wars. And he looked at it and saw that it was good. And all was right in the world. But then, we saw that Obi-Wan doth look upon Qui-Gon with lust, and that Mr. Lucas was not likely to include that in the next movie, so we said screw it and wrote it ourselves, even though we do not make any money off of this. And all was right with the world.

Warnings: Just in case you missed it in the categories, this story has S/M in it, so you've been warned. Did you see it? S/M!! So don't read on if you don't like that stuff.



-From the Journal of Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi-

Back on Coruscant for a few weeks and I finally have a little time to write in my journal. So much has happened since I last had time to write, but there is one thing I want to write about quickly, while it is still fresh in my mind. While we're home, Qui-Gon decided that now would be an appropriate time for me to attempt the pain exercises again. I'm on the second day.

I'm doing well this time, I believe. Only one mistake today and not a bad one anyway, so it seems that I will finally pass this trial.

Qui-Gon will probably be much relieved. He isn't much one for causing pain. Not that it really hurts that much; the flogger isn't designed to really hurt. It's made of the hair of some kind of animal, glossy black and long and it does sting, reddens the skin some but it doesn't even leave much of a welt and certainly won't draw blood.

When I first took the pain trials I was fourteen and, quite naturally, I failed miserably. At fourteen, you are expected to. I can still remember it, on my knees in front of my master, bent over so that my forehead was pressed to the ground and feeling the sting of the lash across the bare skin of my back.

As I said, it doesn't really hurt much but even a small pain becomes unbearable after a certain amount of time. At fourteen, I didn't even last fifteen minutes before I was sobbing, struggling not to flinch away from the blows raining down on my back.

The very moment the tears started, Qui-Gon had stopped, pulled me into his arms and soothed the tears away. A touch of healing Force and I was well again.

He hadn't been upset, not at all. As I said, that was expected at fourteen. It was when I failed again at seventeen that he was disappointed.

It was on the second day of the trial. I'd made it through the required hour on the first day but only just barely and nearly through the first hour of the second day, I broke.

I remember that quite clearly too, my shame as I knew I had failed completely combined with the feeling of large, cool hands against my burning skin. He had soothed me like he had at fourteen, although I could feel the sting his disappointment.

He didn't understand, he told me later. I had done so well in our practices, I had always handled pain well on our missions...

I couldn't explain it to him, not then, because I didn't understand it then myself.

Be honest with yourself, Kenobi, you don't understand it any better now.

The pain exercises involve distancing your mind from your body so that you don't feel the pain and I've never had a problem with that. I suppose that's why my master thought I was ready.

Apparently I wasn't.

I made no excuses to him, didn't tell him much of anything in fact. How could I explain to him that this was different than getting hurt on a mission? That this wasn't simply distancing from pain, but from pain that he was inflicting.

I'm not sure if it would mean anything to him but it made a galaxy of difference to me.

And now I'm taking the trials again. I did well yesterday, not a sound, not a whimper. I knelt there for the one hour until he was finished and although he tried to hide it, I could feel his pride in me.

I have to wonder how proud he would be if he knew I wasn't nearly as distant as he thought I was. That, in fact, I had been quite aware the entire time, feeling every lash burn its way across my back because...

Be honest, Kenobi, no one is going to see this but you.

I was feeling everything because I wanted to feel it, to feel every single stinging blow and the only thing that kept me from crying out was the knowledge that if I did it would stop.

But knowing that doesn't help me understand why I wanted it.

And then today, oh, I don't know how I withstood it. I nearly didn't, several times I came far too close to crying out but again knowing that any sound would end it kept me silent.

My only error came when his aim shifted slightly and he struck me across the backside.

I didn't exactly cry out, only gasped but he hesitated a brief second after I did.

I swear my heart nearly pounded out of my chest I was so terrified he would stop, but all he did was warn me against complacency and then it began again.

By the time he finished my back felt as if it were on fire. And I'm ashamed to say that I was grateful for the traditional kneeling position by then. Not because I was afraid that I couldn't stand but because by then I was so hard that I ached and had I been standing I would have had to try to explain away my erection.

And then he touched me again, his hands wonderfully cool against my heated skin. I felt him gathering Force to heal me and I stopped him.

Yesterday, he had healed me, just as he had when I was young but today I asked him not to. I told him I wanted to use this opportunity to 'practice my own healing techniques'.

Qui-Gon allowed it, even looked pleased.

That wasn't the first time that I've bypassed the truth a little with him but I swear it was the first time that I felt so guilty about it.

We went back to our quarters and I slipped into my rooms. He probably thought I was going to meditate. Instead, I stripped out of my clothes and stood in front of the mirror, craning my head over my shoulder to see my back.

My skin had still been reddened, only a few welts scattered about and one streak of red across my backside. He must have belted me a good one for it to be as red as it had been and I found myself touching it, fondling the slightly raised weal that dyed my skin crimson.

I found the idea that he had marked me strangely arousing, that his hand had caused this undeniable symbol.

I had been aroused since this morning, waking to thoughts of my trials and by then my need had been almost unbearable.

This...I'm almost too ashamed to write this but denying it won't make it any less real.

I had lain down on my bed, on my back so that I could feel the cool sheets against my skin and so the pressure would make the abused skin flare to life again. I had wanted to feel it.

Lying there I touched myself and I relived the last two days again in my mind, savoring every burning stroke of the lash through my memories, especially the feeling of that one strike across my backside. And in my mind the scene...changed.

Behind my eyes, I saw my master stop and order me to strip out of my leggings and I obeyed, confused and blushing as my arousal was exposed to eyes. He didn't comment on it, instead he motioned me back into my kneeling position.

I knelt there, my forehead pressed to ground and the hair at the back of my neck prickling, feeling more naked and exposed than I ever had in my life as I waited.

A light touch against my skin and I flinched slightly before I realized what it was. The lash, its hair scratching against my skin but so light this time that I could barely feel it, trailing over the hot skin on my back, teasing the cleft of my buttocks. The thin filaments were strangely soothing and even a bit ticklish and I found myself relaxing into it.

The sudden strike across my backside caught me off-guard and I nearly cried out, bit my lip hard to stop the sound. Again and again, harder than he had before and I knew my ass had to be glowing red but I still held back the cries that were trying to escape. Of pain? Of need? I didn't know but the pressure of my erection, caught between my thighs and my stomach, was almost unbearable.

I started to move, unable to help myself but I wasn't cringing away from those blows. I was rocking backwards into them, into each flick of the lash.

And then it was over. I lay there panting and trembling, my backside on fire and my entire being aching with -need-.

Then he touched me, large hands, familiar and cool on my back, my buttocks, soothing me and I trembled anew. I almost lost control and cried out when his mouth replaced his fingers, tracing each welt with his tongue and making new fire race along them. Lower, liquid heat against my backside as he parted my cheeks and ran his tongue down to the entrance of my body. His tongue was replaced by fingers, slick with some kind of oil and he opened me, sliding his fingers inside.

Again, I nearly cried out but sheer stubbornness held me, that and the desperate knowledge that if I made a sound this would end. Those slippery fingers were easing in and out of me and I shivered as I thought of what they were preparing me for.

They withdrew from me and I was forced to wait again. My sight was stolen from me by my position but I could hear clothing rustling. I urged him silently to hurry and to please, please give me what I so desperately craved.

I felt him shift to kneel behind me, felt thick, blunt pressure against my anus and then he pressed harder, sliding inside my body. It burned, the way the lash had burned across skin and I wanted this just as much, more.

Hard pressure and he pushed deeper, my body opened to his invasion and, oh, it was the most difficult thing I had ever done, holding so still while he slowly entered me. Rough cloth abraded my abused backside and I realized that he hadn't undressed, had only opened his clothing and somehow that excited me even more, the idea of my fully clothed master draped over my naked body.

Yes, I mouthed silently, yes, take me, possess me, own me.

As if he had heard my silent pleas he suddenly surged inside me and I nearly screamed as the burn flared into pain and ecstasy. He didn't stop, only rocked backwards and deeply inside me again and I had wanted this for so long, needed it and, oh I was coming, I was exploding or imploding and I tasted blood I was biting my lip so hard, holding back screams of affirmation that I was -his-. And being his, he was also mine.

Blackness fluttered briefly before my eyes and I blinked hazily up at the ceiling of my quarters, alone, with nothing touching me but my own hand.

I've never had such an intense fantasy before. In my complete immersion, I'd actually bitten my lip. I'd never felt anything like that, ever, though I'd be lying if I said I'd never thought of my master that way before.

Master.

I shouldn't enjoy calling him that so much. I just...I shouldn't.

Well, I think I've written enough for this night, I still need to meditate and work on healing my back. And now my lip. Much as I'd like to keep the welts, like a memento I suppose, Qui-Gon would most definitely notice and I can't see myself explaining to him why I haven't healed them.

I can hardly talk about this with myself, how could I speak of it to him, my gentle master who I am sure loathes putting me through these trials. A part of me desperately wants to speak of it, to ask if this is even appropriate and if it is not then to ask how I should stop it but...I can't. I can't.

Tomorrow will be that last day of my pain trials. Strange, that for the first time in my life I am not relieved to be passing a trial and putting yet another milestone behind me. In truth I am actually dreading it because when I pass tomorrow, it will be the last time that I ever feel my master touch me that way.

And I will pass. No matter how much I regret that I won't be able to experience this again, I would rather live out my life without it than ever see that disappointment in his eyes again.

I am going to kneel before him and feel every stroke burn its way across my back. And I am going to memorize the feel of it, treasure every single blow so that in times when I am alone I can take that memory out and relive it.

I think when I heal my back, I'll leave the welt on my ass. Qui-Gon won't see it and for at least a little while every time I sit down I'll have a brief reminder of this. It will only last a day, perhaps two before it fades and heals on its own, I know, but just for those days, just for a very short time, I can pretend that he gave me that mark because I belong to him.

OWK



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