Illicit Affairs | Obi-Wan Kenobi

Fifteen

Rhea

After having spent the day tangled in one another's embrace it's almost sunset by the time we make it to the street my family home is on, walking through the city together for the first time together since all those years ago. I know it certainly brings back memories for us both.

"Well, this is certainly a lot more lively than how we found it," he says and squeezes my hand since there's no one here to recognise him. "I dare say they have their general to thank for that."

"Well my sister would say it's far more militarised thanks to their general," I chuckle knowing that when she agreed to it that an army wasn't what she had in mind. "But I've managed to scare away anyone else from invading."

"I did hear that," he tells me. "I remember watching the announcement on the holo news that Naboo had passed a bill to create a reservist army." I look at him in intrigue as he adds "Well more specifically I was watching you."

I'm blushing now. "I had hoped somewhere you would be."

He brings the back of my hand up to his lips as we step out of sight beneath one of the bridges. "I always was whenever I knew there'd be an announcement from Naboo, I could always count on you being by Padme's side with a blaster on your belt along with the saber, always a deadly sort of beautiful."

"A deadly sort of beautiful?" I repeat in astonishment, having been utterly ill prepared for his newfound way with words. "Obi-Wan, I must say you've somehow only become more charming in the past ten years."

"I should hope so considering what we were doing in that field," he says with a teasing grin as he adds "And in the cockpit."

"We used to have more self control than this I'm sure," I laugh despite knowing very well we did not. "As it seems age does not make you wiser."

"You my dear were the wise one, I was not," he reminds me and I kiss his hand now in quiet reassurance.

"We're here now, as unwise as this may be," I admit, both of us knowing it. "But you can't tell me it doesn't feel right."

"Nothing has felt more right," he says and dares to pull me closer. "I can't explain it, but it's the same as it was ten years ago yet more. This deep knowing but only deeper."

"And you could say we would be unwise to deny it," I say, using my own twisted logic to justify this for us and he goes along with it.

"We would be," he says as I point down the street.

"Here, this is my family's house."

"Do you think they'll know where Padmé chose to stay?"

"They should if she isn't there," I say, half expecting her to be here with our family considering Dormé and her other handmaidens have remained on Coruscant as her decoys. "She needs to know that she's leading the opposition against a Republic Army that's already been created."

"With two hundred thousand units and a million more on the way," he sighs, swinging our joined hands like we're young again, safe with the anonymity he has here on Naboo as we come around the corner. "I'll be letting you explain that to her, my sweetheart."

I smile at his endless terms of endearment and warn him "Now I know this is quite soon to be officially meeting my family."

"Really?" he teases. "And by soon you mean a few hours after we-"

"Made love," I finish for him, taking pleasure in the blush in his cheeks now. "Be warned my dear, they'll be all over you and trying to convince me to sign a marriage certificate then and there." He laughs as if I'm joking and I quickly elaborate "Arranged marriages are common on Naboo amongst the aristocracy, my parents were going to be in one until they actually fell in love so don't doubt they'll try it, they've already tried to talk me into one before."