Author's Note: I'm making it a series, I suppose. this is the
4/? for my series regarding Tenplí.
Pairing: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan
Archive: SWAL, Master Apprentice, anywhere else just tell me.
Rating: PG (for foul langauge in Huttese)
Category: Drama, nothing much beyond that.
Feedback: Yes please! My Master is making me write more stuff
and I need some consolation. engelhasse@yahoo.com
Summary: A dialogue between Tenplí and Obi-Wan.
"Ay, Tenplí, this is getting impossible!"
"How so, dear Obi-Wan?"
"This food! Look at the line to the kitchen!"
"It's main eating time. Everyone is eating now."
"Not him."
"Oh, really? You can tell?"
"Yes, I can sense him constantly. It's interfering with my
training."
"How so? Look, the line's moving."
"Eh. I am barely able to concentrate because of him!"
"And it's not likely that you are about to get a new Master,
neh?"
"Not if it would mean I were to be separated from Qui-Gon,
never."
"You insist on staying with the one that distracts you?"
"I insist on staying with him!"
"Eh. Understood. It would be painful to leave him. But your
training...?"
"Training be damned. I'd rather be just his lover than a Jedi."
"Rash words, my friend, neh? Are you sure?"
"My knighthood or his love?"
"If you had to choose..."
"His love. No questions."
"I see. And you can't concentrate on training while he's
around?"
"Well, not easily. It wasn't this hard before, when it was just
me, but now I know he shares my feelings..."
"The little looks, glances, and touches are harder to resist,
neh?"
"Eh. How do you know so much, Tenplí?"
"Long experience. I haven't had many relationship, but lovers I
am not short of. Things are never the same between you and a
person after you have copulated."
"Such a crude word for lovemaking."
"It is not love, and that is the point. This line is never
going to budge."
"Not love between me and Qui-Gon!?"
"I didn't say that. Now quiet, or the whole Temple will hear
you. Look at the line watching you now. Do you want to be
separated from him? Eh? Eh?"
"Eh. Then what did you say?"
"I meant that is was not love between me and the person I would
copulate with. Lovemaking is very different from just
copulation. Copulation, the focus is your pleasure. In
lovemaking, the focus is the other's pleasure."
"Eh, true. So your point is?"
"My point is that the act itself can change things between you
and your partner. Of course you cannot go back to what you
were-"
"I never said that!"
"No you didn't, but I felt the idea in your mind, don't deny
it. You can't, no matter how hard you try, go back to the
ignorance of his emotions. Nor would you want to. So you shall
learn to deal with it as best you can."
"How? Answer me that, wise Padawan, neh?"
"Thank you, I shall disregard your insult to my age. It's not
my fault that you're older than I. You must learn to deal with
more distractions, and concentrate harder on your training. You
said yourself that it wasn't impossible to focus, only harder."
"Hmph. At least we got some trays."
"If you don't learn, how will the mission do?"
"Always with the mission! Always it is with the mission!"
"Stop shouting. You know how it is: We are Jedi first, then
humans."
"Yeah, I get that enough from Master Qui-Gon. I don't need it
from you."
"You wanted my help."
"Eh. Then give it."
"I am, if you would listen. It is very simple. You must learn
to concentrate better. It is the only possible option for you.
What good would it do if you could not concentrate because
Master Jinn was in pain, and your concentration was the only
way to escape?"
"You're a fine one to talk about focus."
"I have my own methods. Like blocking out my senses on
different levels. You might want to try that."
"That's a four year Padawan trick."
"Then I feel accomplished, for only a three year Padawan, eh?"
"It wouldn't work anyway. He exists on all levels, emotional,
physical, spiritual, for me. There is no way that I can run
form him or block him out."
"Such luck, and also such lack thereof."
"What do you mean?"
"You have the luck to always be with the one you love, and to
be in a pleasant contact with him at all times. I suspect it
makes your lovemaking much better than the usual."
"Ay! That's none of your business!"
"I know that. But you also have the misfortune to be completely
unable to run from your problem. You'll have to work through
this. Instead of going around the problem, you'll have to go
through it."
"And that would mean what in Standard?"
"That means that you should be having this conversation with
Master Jinn and not with me. Although I don't mind the
companionship."
"You're quite welcome, Tenplí."
"My pleasure. Ah, here is the food."
"Now, Obi-Wan, if you wouldn't mind telling me...what exactly
is this stuff on your plate?"
"Oh, that. It's Gamorrean pasta."
"You sure? It looks and smells like mynock poodoo."
"It doesn't taste like poodoo."
"I'll take your word for that. And how would you know?"
"Umm..."
"Never mind, I don't want to know that."
"You know too much already."
"That's why my elder Padawan friend comes to me for advice."
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