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bedlamsbard ([personal profile] bedlamsbard) wrote2014-12-29 12:14 am

Star Wars fic: "Queen's Gambit" (26: Put All Your Paper Maps Away)

Queen's Gambit (269438 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 27/?
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Dooku (Star Wars), Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail Organa, Ahsoka Tano, Quinlan Vos, Barriss Offee, Plo Koon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes
Series: Part 2 of Ouroboros
Summary:

Civil war threatens the galaxy. Hundreds of star systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic and form a Confederacy of Independent Systems.

In the hopes of securing a quick peace, the Jedi Council has dispatched two Jedi to capture or kill the leaders of the separatist movement, Queen Amidala of Naboo and her lover, the former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Into this period of conflict have come four refugees from another universe, fleeing a devastating massacre triggered by the death of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith lord Darth Sidious, at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…


*

Ahsoka looked up as the Force hummed a quiet warning, and saw Skywalker standing beside her chair. He looked uncomfortable but determined, and after a moment he said, “Hi. I don’t – I don’t think you know me, here.”

Ahsoka unfolded her legs and straightened up. “I’m Ahsoka Tano. But you knew that already, didn’t you? You called me by name back on Isold.”

“Yeah.” Skywalker looked around, then dropped into the nearest armchair and leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees as he laced his fingers together. “Sorry. That must have been…weird.”

Ahsoka shrugged. “Were we friends back in your universe?” she asked. She thought that she knew, or knew of, most of the senior padawans and junior Knights his age, but couldn’t seem to match his face or name to one of them.

“I – yeah. Sort of. Yeah. I think we were friends. I hoped we were.” He took a deep breath, bracing himself, and said, “You – she – my Ahsoka – you used to be my padawan.”

“What?” Ahsoka sat bolt upright. “But I’m Master Plo’s padawan!”

“I know that,” he said quickly. “It was – different. I mean, I’m not a Jedi here, in this universe, so you wouldn’t…” He let the words trail off, then shrugged, rubbing a hand over the back of his neck. “I know you’re Plo’s padawan here. I just…I just wanted to talk to you.”

Ahsoka took a deep breath, trying to force herself to relax, and instead blurted out the first thing that came to mind, “Aren’t you too young to have a padawan?”


NB: The internal chapter numbering is one off AO3’s numbering, since AO3 counts the prologue as a chapter. At this point, it’s too much trouble to change it.

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