No Place Like Home

by Pumpkin <apumpkin@slashcity.org>



Archive: yes

Author's webpage: https://www.squidge.org/~pumpkin/

Category: some humour, some angst -I'm not sure what category to give it

Rating: R

Warnings: none

Pairing: O/Bruck, Q/O

Spoilers: none

Summary: Obi-Wan comes home to the temple

Feedback is always a treat

Disclaimers: Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm

Notes: An answer to Master Ruth's challenge -how come it's the challenges that I think I'm not going to answer that I always do? It started out as a silly piece and warped on me.



Obi-Wan slid into a free seat among a group of agemates, sliding his tray onto the table in front of him. Returning the greetings of the other padawans and contemplating his plate of galik soup and peni pudding -simple, plain and filling food - Obi-Wan couldn't help but be delighted at being back at the temple.

"Oh, they've restocked the peni pudding," exclaimed Bant as she got up and headed toward the food dispensers.

"Get me some too," Bruck called out before turning his attention back to the table and rubbing his hands over his short white hair. "Silna says my cum tastes good when I eat peni pud. She can suck dick like a nori."

The padawans groaned and one flung a napkin at Bruck. "If you did even half the things you brag about you would be an exhausted heap," said Bant as she plonked a bowl of pudding in front of the older padawan and slid into the empty seat next to him.

"At least it doesn't look like cum," said Belvin with a mock grimace. "Have any of you ever had rancor stew? It's a delicacy on Malistaare."

Obi-Wan dug hungrily into his food, enjoying the teasing banter that flowed around him. He'd missed this, missed the feeling of home and family that came with temple life. It was a relief to be in a place where he didn't have to guard every word and action, where the food was familiar and didn't resemble bodily fluids of one sort or another.

He was just digging into the sweet, purple pudding when the conversation at his table fell into a lull at the same time the soft buzz of conversation at the other tables faded into silence. In the rare quiet of the large dinning hall, one voice rang out clearly for all to hear.

"Equipment enlarger I need not. Zabrakian anal stimulator I ordered, Zabrakian anal stimulator I want."

Shocked silence filled the hall for several seconds, broken only when Master Yoda's gravelly voice rang out once more. "Wrong item from Black Box Mail Order have none of you ever received?"

Silence broken, the buzz of voices grew loud once more. Teli shuddered theatrically. "Well that was more than *I* wanted to know about Master Yoda."

"You think that's bad?" asked Bruck. "I had chamber duty last rotation and when I felt a strange surge in the Force I went to investigate -do you know what I found? Master Yaddle was on top of Master Yoda -the were both naked and she was about to take his-"

"Bruck!" Six voices shouted out together and the padawan in question looked around, shrugging his shoulders. "What?"

Several padawans pushed away their trays.

"There's an image I could have lived without," complained Bant.

"Hey, calimarian sex isn't much better," suggested Bruck, "all those tentacles and cold jelly-like excretions."

"Like you humans have the market cornered on elegant sex," shot back Bant. "You males especially with your growing members and messy ejaculations."

Obi-Wan shook his head and finished his pudding, refusing to let even the image of Masters Yoda and Yaddle and the Zabrakian anal stimulator ruin his first decent meal in months.

Desert finished, he drank two cups of the temple's special blend, adding a comment or two to the lively conversation flowing around him.

With a final smile, he left his agemates, heading back to the quarters he shared with his master.

"Kenobi."

Turning, Obi-Wan saw Bruck walking quickly to catch up with him.

"Chun," he said, inclining his head toward the boy. Bruck caught up with him and the two turned a corner together, heading for the residence hall.

"It's been awhile since we've seen you around here," said Bruck. Obi-Wan shrugged, feeling the tension between them. He berated himself. Their ill-advised rivalry was long ago, surely they had both grown out of such childish competition. He tried to let the tension go, but could feel it still, setting him on edge.

"Does the peni pudding really make your cum sweet?" Obi-Wan asked, blurting out the first thing that came to mind. He felt his face grow red.

"You could always check for yourself," suggested Bruck, and Obi-Wan could feel the heat increase in his cheeks. Bruck took his arm and stopped them, turning Obi-Wan until they were facing each other. Obi-Wan's eyes stayed glued to Bruck's as he was walked backward. Bruck didn't stop until Obi-Wan's back hit the wall behind him.

Only marginally taller than Obi-Wan, Brucks body fit perfectly against his own. Obi-Wan felt as if he were watching someone else tilt his head and part his lips, begging mutely for Bruck's kiss. Bruck tilted his own head as he pressed his body tighter against Obi-Wan.

When Bruck's lips met his own, Obi-Wan felt as though he was slammed back into his own body, the feeling of detachment rushing away and leaving the stark reality of Bruck's mouth covering his own in its wake.

Bruck's lips were hot and sure and Obi-Wan opened his mouth further under the insistent pressure of Bruck's tongue. The tension exploded within him, coiling around his belly and settling in his groin, hardening his penis. Not anger or rivalry at all, but desire, lust for the other boy.

Obi-Wan broke the kiss and pushed Bruck away, his lust and his shock at its presence warring for dominance within him. Bruck read his expression and the boy's brittle eyes gentled as he brought a hand up to gently cup Obi-Wan's cheek.

"You always were so innocent," Bruck whispered, leaning back in to take another kiss from Obi-Wan. This one was gentle, his tongue moving like a ghost within Obi-Wan's mouth. Bruck stepped back again and dropped his hand. A sad, eloquent shrug and he turned away, only to be stayed by Obi-Wan's hand on his arm. Bruck looked up at him and Obi-Wan could read the hope and vulnerability there.

"Come back to my quarters?" Obi-Wan asked softly. Bruck nodded and the two boys made their way quickly through the halls.




Qui-Gon let himself into his quarters, biting back his tired sigh. It was always nice to come back to the temple, but meetings with the Senate were far more tiring than the hazardous missions that often filled his and Obi-Wan's days. He stopped with a quiet grunt, musing cut short at the sight that greeted him. Asleep on the couch, bodies obviously twined together beneath a thin blanket, were Obi-Wan and another padawan. Both sleeping and both quite naked beneath the cover.

It did not take much imagination to guess how they had spent their evening. He felt the tug of desire and a jab of jealousy as he saw two braids, one white and one golden red, twisted together on Obi-Wan's shoulder. He was more than familiar with the sated look upon his sleeping padawan's face -they had shared this intimacy between themselves often. He fought the urge to rip the interloping padawan from Obi-Wan's arms.

He had no right. The best he could hope for was a threesome, but the thought of sharing -of seeing someone else's hands on his Obi-Wan's body was anathema to him.

So instead, he walked sedately to his room, his wish that Jedi handled love and sex differently not visible on his face. It promised to be a long night of meditations, though he doubted it would change his feelings.

Changeable eyes trailed him as he went, the light green growing into dark blue.

Obi-Wan sighed as his master's door clicked softly closed behind him. Where has his master been so late in the evening? He shook the thought from his mind -jealousy was of the darkside and he hadn't exactly spent the evening alone himself.

Nonetheless, he would be happy to be away from the temple once again, sharing a mission with his master, the two of them counting on each other for defence, for companionship, for love. Peni pudding notwithstanding, it seemed he preferred the temple in small doses.

End.