Watching the Jedi Master's Future

Owen Lars

As promised, a longish chapter with more reactions than the previous chapter.

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(The scene changed again to BEN's workplace on Tatooine)

"No! Wait, what will happen to Leia?" Anakin questioned, obviously stressed about Leia. He has grown to like her already.

"Sure, we will see it soon, I am, Young Skywalker," Yoda said, putting Anakin's stressed mind at rest.

(The whistle blows to alert the workers that the shift is over)

(The holocron swiftly shows that BEN is cutting up a piece of meat and putting it on the napkin and then tucking it in his apron)

(BEN is on the train again to ride back to ANCHORHEAD)

(BEN is walking to get his eopie, and then he caressed his eopie and then about to open his napkin to feed his eopie, but he was disturbed by someone tossing a bag to him)

"Wait, isn't that the stuff that Obi-Wan gave to the Lars farm earlier?" Anakin said, observing.

"Someone's pissed," Anakin added, giving Obi-Wan the look.

"This is not me, Anakin," Obi-Wan said, exasperated, holding up his hands, surrendering. "The future me did something, certainly not me."

OWEN: I want you to stay away from him.

"I knew it!" Anakin said triumphally, as he glares daggers at Obi-Wan on his stepbrother's behalf. That is his future step-nephew!

OWEN: We don't need anything from you, Ben.

BEN: It's just a toy.

OWEN: It's more than that.

BEN: There's more to life than your farm, Owen.

BEN: He needs to see that.

"You are not my nephew's father," Anakin snapped, growing angry at the holocron. "You don't decide what's best for him—his father does."

BEN: There's a whole galaxy out there.

OWEN: I'm asking you to leave us alone, Ben.

"Yeah, please," Anakin growled.

OWEN: I mean it.

BEN: (WORRIED) Is he okay?

OWEN: (SCOFFS) You don't care if he's okay.

OWEN: You care if he's showing.

"Showing?" Anakin asked if he heard that right. Is his nephew...?

The Jedi Council seemed to comprehend what Owen meant. Of course, they do; they have been around for more than a thousand generations. They had picked up younglings for centuries. It's not the first, and certainly will not be the last time they've faced these situations where parents were afraid to give the baby to the Jedi Order. It mostly takes a couple of reassuring words to the parent that the child will be safe and trained. The choice is only theirs to make. Either give the child to the Jedi Order or face the probability of an untrained child that will never join the Jedi Order by the time the youngling turn four years old.

"His son is force sensitive," Shaaki said, stating the obvious.

BEN: He's my responsibility, Owen.