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“Are you sure you can make it up there?” Satine asked Skye, Jinn, and Cody.
“I’m fine, mom.” Jinn answered, his eyes drooping. Skye rolled her eyes at her brother’s stubbornness. Obi-Wan smiled, Jinn reminding him of Satine when they were younger. “The owls would fall asleep before us.” Cody scoffed in his usual sassy tone. “The only thing I’m tired of is these two.” Skye said grumpily, which she only got when she was tired and didn’t want to deal with her brothers’ endless chaos.
“Watch as they fall asleep as soon as we get there.” Obi-Wan whispered to Satine. “They just never know when to quit.” Satine whispered back. “I wonder where they get it from.” Obi-Wan chuckled sarcastically. Satine glared at him until he mockingly surrendered by putting his hands up.
They continued up the hill with Jinn and Cody continuing to bicker, reaching the top of the hill, revealing a weeping willow. They all sat down, with Skye sitting on the far right, leaning against her father, who sat next to Satine. Cody sat on his mother’s lap and Jinn sat on his father’s.
“You know you can go to sleep right?” Satine reminded her children. “But I wanted to spend time with you!” Skye protested. Obi-Wan softly chuckled. “How about we make a deal? I’ll tell you a story if you three go to sleep.” Obi-Wan and Satine thought it was adorable how the three siblings started whispering amongst themselves, carefully weighing the options. Eventually after they all nodded, Skye spoke up. “We have decided to accept your proposition.” Obi-Wan laughed to himself again about how dignified she sounded. “Okay, what type of story do you want me to tell?”
“Tell us about how you dropped mom while running away from venom-mites!” Cody excitedly suggested before Jinn spoke up. “No! Tell us about grandpa Qui-Gon!” “I hate to break it to you, but we should totally listen to a story from the Clone Wars, those are the best ones.” Skye brought up in her steady voice, masking her tiredness. “Well since you guys seem to not be able to pick a story, I guess we’ll have to pick.” Satine said, hopefully encouraging them to cooperate or face listening to a boring story.
They all looked up at their mother with wide fearful eyes before beginning to whisper in a group again. Satine rolled her eyes at Obi-Wan, who scoffed and shook his head.
In almost the exact same manner as before, Skye looked at her dad’s eyes, so similar to her own, and told him, “We have decided to listen to the story of when mom first tried teaching you how to dance.”
Obi-Wan dramatically groaned. “Wow, my own children want to embarrass me? Such betrayal!” Satine on the other hand, rolled her eyes and laughed. “I’ll gladly tell this story.” Obi-Wan put his hands in the air in defeat while the kids cheered and settled down as Satine began the story.
“Well, it was during our year on the run and I saw a perfect opportunity to dance and called over your father. To my shock, he told me that he had never learned how to dance, and I wanted to fix that.” Cody whispered to Jinn, “I bet this is in the top ten of moments before utter disaster.” Jinn bursted out laughing, whispering to his brother, “Nah, they ran out of room because uncle Anakin took all the slots.” The two brothers giggled together as their sister nudged them before hushing the two of them. Satine continued after sharing a glance with Obi-Wan. “It was raining outside, there was a record player in the cabin we were staying at, which had my favorite song to dance to, and the room was clear enough to dance.
“So I started the song, A Thousand Years by John Michael Howell, JVKE, and ZVC. It would have been perfect if your father wasn’t such a terrible dancer.” Obi-Wan pretended to be hurt by her words. “You wound me cyare!” They all laughed and Satine continued as they all settled down. “I couldn’t tell if he was tripping over his feet or mine, it was probably both, but thank the Force he got better!” “It’s not my fault the Jedi don’t teach us how to dance!” Obi-Wan interrupted his wife as she lightly shoved him.
“Anyways, as I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted,” Satine began as her husband lightly shoved her back. “Your father ended up tripping both of us over right as your grandpa Qui-Gon walked in.” They all bursted out laughing as Obi-Wan added, “He looked so conflicted about whether it was too late for him to walk out.”
“All of us were frozen in place and your grandpa Qui-Gon just ended up quickly shutting the door as he left and me and your father just got up off of the floor, turned off the music, and followed. We ended up never even mentioning the incident.” Satine finished off the story. “To be honest, I forgot about the music playing.” Obi-Wan commented. Cody grinned. “Don’t need to point out the obvious, I’m pretty sure we all forgot.” “Anyways, I think you have a deal to uphold.” Satine reminded them. “Kriff.” Jinn said crossly. “Language!” His father scolded him.
Jinn knew better than to argue with his father, so he started to settle down along with his siblings. “Rest now ad’ike.” Obi-Wan gently told them.
As Jinn started to softly snore, Obi-Wan sighed and started to gaze up at the stars as Satine turned her head to look at him. “Do you ever regret leaving the order?” Obi-Wan looked back at her and shook his head. “No. I served my time in the order and while it did take some adjusting, I was tired from the war, and I can’t think of a better way to spend the rest of my life. I love you Satine. And Skye, Jinn, and Cody. I love all of you and I don’t regret being together with you or having the ade. I have a loving family and I love it when Anakin, Padmé, the twins, Ahsoka, Rex, Cody, and heck, even when the other councilors come over to see their niece and nephews. I love all of the little moments we have, like this one where we just go out stargazing. I’m happy here, and I don’t regret a thing.”
Satine smiled softly and whispered to Obi-Wan before looking back up to gaze at the stars.
“I love you too, Ben.”