obi-wan imagines

star-gazing

Context: easy to figure out in the story!

Themes: FLUFF so much fluff

Word Count: 850
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"Why is it that I always find you out here at all hours of the night?" Obi asked.

He sat down next to where I was laying on the roof, careful not to bump into me. I breathed in the fresh air with a smile. Coruscant was stunning at night, especially with all the glowing ships flying overhead. 

"I like it up here."

Obi nodded and laid down beside me. Our hands touched for a brief moment, and I felt sparks jolt up my arm.

Despite the Council's rules, I had grown quite an attachment to the Jedi next to me. Who else would lay on the roof of the Temple in the middle of the night with me? Obi and I have always been close, closer than anyone I had ever known. It doesn’t help that we spend most of our time together. We're constantly being sent on missions together, and when we aren't, we enjoy each other's company during our free time.

"I don't understand why you like star-gazing so much," laughed Obi. "We're see them every time we leave Coruscant on assignments!"

"How could you not like star-gazing? They're all so unique," I argued, keeping my tone playful.

He thought for a moment. I gazed over to see him studying the stars intently. The sight put a smile on my face. Obi seemed so determined to see what I saw in the stars.

Not many people understood my fascination with space. After all, space travel is so common that no one really bats an eye at an especially bright star or a swirling cluster of space dust. Not me. I grew up on a harsh, sandy planet with little hope of ever leaving. Before the Jedi found me as a child, I dreamed of the day when I'd get to see more than the few stars above my head every night.

My time on Tatooine was when I started star-gazing. At first, it was an easy hobby to pass the time and help me forget about the world. But my obsession grew steadily, and soon I was spending every night laying on my back in the desert cliffs. It was dangerous and reckless. Tuskan raiders were well-known in the area, and each star-gazing trip put my life at risk. Even though I knew that, I didn't really have an adults in my life to tell me not to do something, no matter how stupid it was.

When I finally ended up at the Temple, I was blown away by the sheer number of shimmering stars I could see. The colorful city lights did nothing to hide the expansive universe up above. So I went back to my old hobby. At least once a week, I snuck up to the top of the Temple to relax and unwind.

Once, Master Windu caught me climbing the utility ladder. "I don't remember your quarters being on the roof," he had told me, rather sarcastically. I responded equally sarcastically by telling him Master Yoda had to make room for other Padawans, so my quarters were, in fact, on the roof now. He let my go without asking any more questions, which is the reason he is one of my favorite Masters to this day.

"The sky is stunning," Obi finally said. "I just think there are better things to spend your time looking at."

He turned to me with a small smile.

"Sure, but where else can you get a view like this at this hour?"

We held each other's gaze for what felt like forever. It was then that I realized there were small specks of green in his brilliantly blue eyes.

That moment was pure bliss. Not another word was spoken that night, not until Obi walked me to my quarters and wished me pleasant dreams. To anyone else, the situation would have been awkward, but we knew the words that had gone unspoken in the comfortable silence.

Years later, those words would finally escape my lips when I confess my love for Obi to him on a rainy afternoon on Naboo. He would admit he had felt the same since we were younglings, and that he was prepared to leave the Jedi Temple behind if it meant spending the rest of our lives together. I was fearful of leaving at first, so our relationship blossomed in secret. It was painful. Often we'd go weeks without seeing each other or evening knowing if the other was alive. When we finally took the leap and moved to Naboo together, it felt like a weight was lifted from off my shoulders that I didn't even know I was carrying.

"Hey," Obi whispered, snapping me out of my trace. "What are you thinking of, my love?"

I glanced at him, tearing my gaze away from the blue lake in front of me. He was holding a mug full of steamy tea, the kind he brought to me on the porch every morning for the past few years.

"The past," I answered. "I was thinking of the past."

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A/N: This was was super short, I know. But I'm trying to work on posting more regularly when I have free time :) Let me know if the time skips in this were confusing!