Poet Laureate

by Rachael Sabotini (Rachael@mediafans.org)



Archive: Yes, please, at M/A. If anyone else would like to archive it, please ask.

Category: POV, PWP

Rating: NC-17

Summary: Obi-Wan reflects on his upcoming literature competency exam.

Notes: elynross and Rosa beta'd this for me, since I whined a lot.



In balance, the Force guides us
Summer, winter, fall
But in your arms,
Eternal spring

Poetry has never been my strong point.

I dropped my legs off the desk, and my chair righted itself with a slight 'thud.' I wiped my palm over the reader, intent on erasing the passage, then decided to let it lay. A testament, perhaps, to a too-dramatic nature, one now harnessed to the practicalities of Jedi life.

I smiled, thinking about what my Master would say. I'd pulled out these old scribblings just to see if any of them were as good as I'd thought they were when I'd written them, years before, in the throes of my hormone-obsessed puberty. Dark dreary things, for the most part, full of the pain and anguish of teenage life and desperate, unrequited love.

I winced as I read them. It would be a kindness to delete them. Still, they were how I'd viewed the world at the time.

It was lucky I survived.

I pushed my chair away from the desk and slouched down, spreading my legs out wide in front of me. It was all Qui-Gon's fault, anyway. I'd written them late at night in the throes of passion and was now reading them six years later in the clear light of day. I looked over at the passage again and immediately hit the off switch on the reader, watching as the light faded, leaving my room in sleep cycle twilight. No one should have to read his old work like this. It was depressing.

But it was either this or '100 Poems Every Being Should Know'. I scratched at my bare chest and pushed my braid 'round to the back of my neck so it wouldn't get in the way. Most of 'em were just as bad as anything I'd ever written, long maudlin things about the nobility of the Jedi and the wonder of life. Somewhere, deep in his soul, I knew Qui-Gon had laughed at me when he handed out the course work; I'd seen it in the twinkle in his eyes at the time.

Poor Qui-Gon. I love him dearly, but my Master has no poetry in his soul. Sensitivity, yes, compassion, yes, but the two of us together? 'A black cat at night' was the extent of our creative endeavors.

It's lucky we became Jedi.

I ran my hand down my stomach to the waistband of my pants, enjoying the feel of my own touch. Unfortunately, my literature competency exams were scheduled for a few months from now, so there was no way either of us was getting out of it. Qui-Gon had looked so pained when he made the reading assignment, and each poem I turned in -- oh, they just made him pale. I don't know which of us hurt more.

Still, we would muddle through, just as we had folk songs and stories from other worlds. I wrapped my hands about my wrists and arched into a long stretch; I'd been cramped up in one position for far too long, and my body was saying it wanted a little more room...along with some other things.

I reached down and cupped my cock through my pants, changing its position. Now, if Qui-Gon has assigned '100 of the Greatest Poems about Sex', that was something that we both would have done better on. Sex was a subject I'd always interested in, even after I'd passed through my 'hormone-obsessed puberty' stage.

'Budding flower' my arse. I'd enjoyed sex from the moment I stuck my hand down Jarik's pants. I liked to think I'd found one of those innate talents the Masters talk about. Some Jedi could foresee the future, others fucked really well. I knew where my gifts lay, and it wasn't with reading anyone any poetry, not even '100 of the Greatest Poems about Sex.'

Now there was a thought. What if Qui-Gon read those poems aloud to me, made me memorize the stanzas and repeat them back to him? I felt my cock tighten at the thought, lengthening under my negligent land. Oh, yeah, that magnificent voice ringing out in the room, surrounding me with images of sweaty bodies interlocked in various positions, and my own voice following his, repeating every raunchy word.

Better yet, I thought, unfastening my pants and licking my palm so it dripped with spit, Qui-Gon naked in bed, reading the book aloud...gasping out a poem while I nipped at the flesh on the back of his neck...or the poem was torn out of him as I deep throated his cock...or maybe the words were muffled, with his face down, arse in the air, begging to be taken...

Unfortunately, even in my imagination, I couldn't get Qui-Gon to say some of the stuff he'd assigned me to read. "Obi-Wan, suck my cock." That I had no problem imagining him say, but "Obi-Wan, my love is like an ocean..."? I snorted. Never gonna happen.

Why couldn't poetry be composed of my favorite phrases, like "Come here," "strip," "kneel," and the all time winner: "fuck me now." I mean, in the right mood, those had a sort of lyricism in them, especially if they were being said by Qui-Gon Jinn.

I closed my eyes and sighed, pushing my pants off, giving up on the assignment and taking other, more urgent, matters in hand. I pulled on my balls and pinched my nipples, alternating quickly between them so the sensation spiked. When I tingled just on the edge, I switched, grabbing my cock in my hand and deliberately stroking it, imagining Qui-Gon spread out before me, his head thrown back as I sank balls-deep into him. I licked my hand again, making sure I was slick enough, and pumped myself faster, the wet sound adding to the reality of the moment, letting myself feel what it would be like to be in him, fucking him, dirty and raw and hard--

How he would clench the sheets and writhe beneath me, destroying me utterly with the small sounds he made when he came.

I threw back my head and gasped, my body locking as I felt the liquid surge out of my balls, up my shaft, and out onto my hand. I shuddered and shook in aftermath, feeling over sensitized even to my own touch.

When I felt okay enough to move, I got up, rolled my pants into a ball, and used that to wipe myself off, then threw it into the laundry bin. I couldn't help rubbing my hand across my chest, feeling the wetness left behind by the cloth, and I smiled. Someday, I planned to make that image a reality.

Great poetry takes time.

--end--

Poet Laureate

12/03/1999