Episode 1 
Joy to Pain 
By Anakina Kyp-Jade 


Setting: just after Qui-Gon's funeral, there was someone you 
didn't 
see there in the movie, someone who didn't want to be seen, 
someone 
from Obi-Wan's past. 

Warning this my first attempt at any real romantic tanglings in years. It 
may contain adultish ideas (but I'm no adult!) 

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Obi-Wan walked out of the room holding little Anakin's hand. He 
had to
be strong for the boy. He had taken care of his own tears back in 
the generator. Anakin sleepily stumbled into the night. Amildala was by 
his side, holding his other hand. She looked down at him. 
"Sleepy Ani?" She asked, half teasing him. 
"No." He blinked his eyes and smiled at her. She laughed. "of 
course not, 
but even Jedi have to sleep, right Obi-Wan?" 
"Yes." The queen led them into the palace and to their quarters. 
"Obi-Wan! Obi-Wan!" They all looked to who called the Jedi. It 
was a 
blonde, short, young woman who looked about 25. Obi-wan dropped 
Anaikin's hand. 
"Shine`?" He asked. 
"Who else? I came as soon as I could. Are you ok?" 
"Yes." Anakin was staring at Shine`. 
"Who are you?" The boy asked. Shine` knelt down and smiled at 
him. 
"I'm Shine`, an old friend of Obi-wan and Qui-Gon's. Who are 
you?" 
The way she asked it Anakin felt she was looking into his soul. 
"I'm Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan's Padawan learner." She nearly 
fell over. 
"Anakin? Skywalker?" She stared at him in disbelief, could it be? 
"Yes. Why do look so funny?" He asked her. 
"Once, a long time ago, I knew a girl name Anakina Skywalker. 
Strange 
that you should have her name. Did you say Padawan?" She got up 
and 
looked at Obi-wan. 
"You're a Knight? Well of course you are. I told you, you would 
be." 
She turned to Amidala and bowed. "Your majesty, sorry to ignore you 
like that. I'm honored to meet you." Amidala nodded. She took Anakin to 
his room. 
"So Obi, how've you been?" 
"Shine`, what are you doing here? I'm glad to see you of course 
but I 
thought you said you couldn't come back." 
"I said I might never be able to. I had to now. I had to see 
him...and 
you." She looked down. "Let me see it?" She knew she was asking 
a lot, 
it was his memory and his pain. She looked up again her swamp 
water 
green eyes mixing with his cloudy blue-gray. 
"Of course, you collect pain." 
"Yes, but he was my friend, its a little different." He put his 
hands up, 
palm out. She lifted hers until they almost touched. He 
replayed 
the horrific experience of the battle. Shine` nodded after it 
was done. 
"That's all I really came for, I'll leave now if you want." 
"No, I never wanted you to go. We were best friends." 
"But things are different now, a the storm is fast approaching 
and you 
will be at the center of it. I told you that you would loose 
almost 
all you held dear, and it has started. You, Anakin, and Amidala 
will be 
at the center of it. If I stay I can help, but there are certain 
things 
that can not change. If I stay there will be more pain." 
"I have to train him, I promised Qui-Gon. Yoda doesn't-" 
"You know how I feel about Yoda! And yes you have to train him. 
Yoda would 
avoid the storm, but that would bring greater suffering." She 
knew her 
cryptic, metaphoric speech was getting tiresome. "The Republic 
no longer
does what it's supposed to, you know that. The Jedi have to 
protect it, 
even though it is corrupt. So the Sith will side with the 
government 
and corrupt it. The people will support it because they will 
not release 
what is going on until they have lost their freedom. Most of 
the Jedi 
will die, including me. You will not. Anakin is the key. 
Remember 
that, he had to be trained. And it had to be you." 
"Don't say stuff like that! You make it sound like all we can do 
is side 
with evil while evil sides with good and corrupts it." 
"That is the truth." 
"The future is always in motion!" 
"Of stop with the Yodaese! Besides some of the future can not be 
avoided!" 
"How do you know? You always think you know everything! What if 
Yoda's 
right? He's older and a Master! You never even finished training!" 
"And what do you presume to know? You know nothing! Yoda is not 
older 
and he killed me! He ordered me away!" 
"What? And Qui-Gon was never your friend! He never trusted you, 
you 
always contradicted him!" 
"Not always! I trained him to be like that! We were friends! He 
saw the 
storm, he knew, I taught him that!" 
"What are you talking about? You never taught him anything!" 
"Obi-Wan, I know this has been hard for you but-" 
"What the Sith do you know about anything?" 
"More than you'll ever know!" And she stormed away. *I said too 
much, I 
gave it away. I have to leave!* 

*What was she blabbing about, taught him what? No! She can't 
leave! 
I didn't mean to- aw I have to catch her!* 

She was about to board her ship when he grabbed her arm. It was dark. His 
heart was pounding. She turned to pull away. His arm slid around her 
waste, he pulled her close and their lips connected. 
Sorry. He thought and the kiss deepened. She let it. She knew it had been 
hard for him. He needed her and she had almost left. She wanted this as 
much as he did. 
The kiss was accident, he had just meant to stop her but when she turned 
it just happened. After that is was like his brain went on auto pilot and 
he was only there for part of it. Vertical? Horizontal? Bed? Ceiling? He 
wasn't sure what was going on, his mind just sort of blanked out. 
When he woke the next morning he was relieved to find that nothing much 
happened. She lay beside him in the bed in his temporary quarters but 
they were both fully clothed. It was well before dawn, his paranoid mind 
had woke him far to early. He went back to sleep and didn't wake again 
until morning. Shine` kissed him gently to wake him up. He groaned and 
pulled the covers over his head. She lay there for a moment smiling at 
his covered form. 
"Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan, come out you old Ben! You have a parade this morning!" 
He pulled her under. 
"Old Ben? What's a Ben?" He asked. 
"It's from a legend I heard. It was about an old hermit who was either 
incredibly lazy, not a morning person or both. Actually he was a minor 
character. It was called the Prince and the Piper." 
"I'm not an 'Old Ben'." He insisted. 
"Oh sure your not." Her smile changed. "Alright Mr. Jedi Knight, you can 
stay in bed but I'm getting up. And I'll come back earlier!" She pulled 
free and jumped onto the floor.