doMAYstic 2
Prompt: unboxing and finding something from the past Fandom: Star Wars. Characters: Obi-Wan. Words: 361. Rating: G. SFW.
The box hadn’t been hidden or lost, per se, but when Ben pulled it out from behind a crate of blankets it all rushed back to him. He’d put Anakin’s lightsaber away after he had cut his friend down, but taken it out often — probably too often. After years of the cruel ritual, he hadn’t seen it for months.
And he hadn’t missed it.
Ben thought back over the last few months, when he’d settled into this new home, and realized that he’d found a measure of peace. Opening the box, holding the cool metal in one hand, feeling the crystal within slumbering — or something like that anyway — he knew that he had not missed the sadness he had been coveting. Holding the last piece of Anakin he still had claim to woke a deep pain in him that had been scabbing over, if such things could ever heal, and he felt the responding murmur from the Force. A question.
Will you walk those paths forever?
He licked his lips, the lightsaber growing warmer, but the eddying power which curled around him, catching at his heart and the crystal, seemed reluctant to respond to him.
What is forgiveness worth to you?
He shuffled quickly to his feet, wincing at the way his knees popped, and went to the flagstone by the window and quickly prised it up. His own lightsaber was carelessly wrapped in a burnt scrap of dark fabric, and he pulled it out quickly to hold them both in each hand.
“He’s dead,” he said aloud, more for himself than the universe which knew his heart already. “There is no one to forgive.”
Yet you carry resentment, and you hold onto the past.
Ben closed his eyes, feeling the way the two kyber hearts responded to one another, half-awake.
“I don’t understand, and I can’t forget, but I forgive him.”
The Force hummed, thoughtful.
And do you forgive yourself?
“I did what I must,” Ben replied, sounding less convinced than he should.
In his hands, the two hilts grew cool again, and instead of separating them, he wrapped them in the same cloth and laid them side by side.
