Title: Little Girl
Timeline: prequel
Author: the katte bookkatte@yahoo.com
Characters: Obi Wan, Pyra, Tisha, and Lily
Category: angst
Status: 1/1
Disclaimer: I am using places and Characters and bits of a storyline
belonging to George Lucas (aka god of the sw universe) the creativity
belongs to me. I make no money for this story I write for thine
entertainment.
Summary: Obi Wan follows a fellow greiver home and finds something
unusual about her apartment (please excuse in advance any
misspellings or typos as i have no spellchecker on this dumb program)


Little Girl


      Obi Wan Kenobi sat in the restaurant staring out at the night
skyline of Coruscant. His master, Qui Gon Jinn was gone. In the
simple stroke of a lightsaber, he was gone. Being made a master and
having his own apprentice did nothing to stop the grief. Though he
hid it well from most, the grief would not leave him.


      The girl watched the man staring out into the night. He was a
jedi she thought. Perhaps he dealt with pain as crippling as her own.
She clutched the little baby size locket in her fist. She carried it
in her pocket always.


      It had been hers. The little girl now lost to Pyra. Her
baby, taken along with her father by some unknown plague when the
baby's father had taken Pyra's baby to visit his family. The man had
not been anything to Pyra but a fun night on the town but they had
both loved the little girl that had resulted. The little girl who was
now gone. She had been only a toddler, had just learned to say "Mama,
love you.", had just learned how to give kisses. Just a baby learning
to walk in the world, why had the fates taken her? Why?


      Obi Wan could sense the girl's grief. Her pain was so great
that it blotted out his. He studied the girl sitting across the room.
When her tears came he could feel the same prickle in his own eyes.
He arose and went to her. She looked up at him as he sat at her
table. "Tell me," he said.


      In choking sobs, she told him of her pain. When she had
finished, he rose and took her with him out of the restaurant. They
went to the girl's rooms in the city. It was a modest apartment and
did not have very many knickknacks or luxuries. What it did have
though was a very real sense of home. This was not merely a few rooms
in a large city it was a home.


      At least it used to be a home. Obi took a closer look around
and realized it also had a sense of echoes from the past. He could
almost hear a little girl's giggles as she ran down the hall. He
could almost see her dress flutter as she ran. He blinked and
realized he had an afterimage of the little girl peeking out from the
hallway.


      Obi Wan turned to Pyra. "What did she look like?"


      Pyra smiled sadly. "I have a holovid of her here." Pyra
lifted the holovid up from beside a chair. It had obviously been
viewed many times before.


      The jedi knight watched as a little baby took her first steps
and then watched the little girl about a year older ran toward the
recorder laughing and saying "Mama, love! Love, mama!" This was the
little one the fates had claimed? How cruel. How very, very cruel.


      The vid had ended but Obi could still hear her laughter. At
first he thought it was just his imagination, but then a bluish
figure ran past and disappeared up the hall. Obi Wan was startled,
and he noticed that Pyra had not seen a thing.


      Pyra smiled at him again with that sad, sad smile. "Would you
like to see her room? I have not changed a thing. Not since..."


      Obi Wan nodded and they walked up the hallway. Inside the
room, Obi Wan could see the remnants of a child's life force running
here and there as if showing her room off for him. He watched in
astonishment as Pyra did not even seem to realize her daughter was
standing beside her. Well, her ghost was anyway.


      The ghost looked at Obi Wan with big eyes. "Mama sad. Make
happy, please?"


      Still not seeing her little girl, Pyra picked up a little
stuffed animal and hugged it to her before putting it back in the
exact same place. She turned to Obi Wan and said, "Well, only one
other room in here. Shall I show it to you?"


      They walked to the last room and Obi Wan noticed the little
girl stayed in her room apparently more interested in talking to her
toys. The last room was Pyra's bedroom. Obi only got a quick glance
before Pyra threw herself into his arms and started kissing him. He
tried to break it off, but she kept right on touching him. He found
himself backed up into the bed and landed on it with a bounce. Pyra
was right on top of him. She kissed him, touched him, and thoroughly
aroused him. He could not seem to find space enough to breath let
alone think about what was happening and why they should not do this.
He finally just gave in and took over the seduction, getting them out
of their clothes.


      The lights dimmed and Obi Wan Kenobi would have bet his
lightsaber that he heard pattering footsteps and a giggle.


*******


      Several times in the next weeks, Obi Wan stopped by Pyra's
place. Neither one of them mentioned what happened in the bedroom.
They became good friends. Obi helped her start getting out more and
socializing. The little girl seemed happy that her mama was becoming
alive again but she seemed more lonely every time he came over.


      One day about two months after he had first met Pyra Obi Wan
was visiting again. The little ghost girl kept leaning over and
laying her head on her mother's belly. When she saw Obi Wan looking
at her, she smiled and said, "Sissy talk quiet."


*******


      It was another month before Pyra realized she was pregnant,
and another month after that before she told Obi Wan. Obi never told
Pyra about the little ghost girl. It was hard enough for her to
understand his Jedi powers. How could he explain her daughter still
lived on in a spirit form?


      The jedi knight was there for Pyra all through the pregnancy
and even helped her through the birth. He knew Pyra had planned to
get pregnant that night but he never held it against her. Their
daughter was beautiful. She had Pyra's gold-red hair and his blue
eyes. The little ghost girl was estactic to have the baby sleeping in
her room and several times Obi Wan could hear her singing in a
childish voice to their little Tisha.


*******


      Can a mother's anguish ever be eluded? The midiclorian test
had proved positive that little Tisha would be taken to the jedi
temple. Now it was his job to tell Pyra and take little Tisha to her
new home. What about the little ghost girl? Obi Wan thought she would
be lonely as well.


      When Obi Wan got to Pyra's home, Pyra opened the door and let
him in without speaking. He was surprised. Little Tisha's things were
already packed and waiting.


      "I knew before you got here," Pyra said.


      Obi Wan looked at Pyra in surprize. "How?"


      Pyra gave him the saddest smile he had ever seen. "I may not
be able to see her running around and hear her talking like you and
Tisha do, but my Lily still comes to my dreams. My Lily told me you
would come for Tisha today and that Tisha would have a chance to
become a Jedi Knight."


      Obi hugged her and saw the little ghost girl talking to
Tisha. He turned Pyra around so she could see Tisha giggling and
cooing at her sister. Pyra smiled. Finally she was able to let go.
Her children would be happy in this man's care and she trusted him.


*****


      When the message came a few days later for Obi Wan, he
already knew. Pyra was dead. No one would ever know if she had
deliberately crashed the speeder or if it had just been bad luck and
a malfunction. Pyra had left behind a powerful little girl who would
no doubt make them both proud. Tisha was popular with her fellow
potentials, but her teachers could always swear they heard a
toddler's giggle and pitter pattering feet when Tisha left a room.