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Entry tags:	fanfic100, obi-wan, padme

Abeyance - Pt. 1 ~ Prompt #076
Title: Abeyance - Pt. 1
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters: Padme and Obi-Wan
Prompt: Who?
Word Count: 288
Rating: PG
Summary: Padme wakes up from a coma, while a hoping Obi-Wan sits by her bedside. Part 1 of 2.
Author's Notes: I'm not sure where this one came from. I was RPing and chatting on AIM when it popped into my head. Was originally supposed to only be for the Strangers prompt, but the course of the story made me re-write it to include both prompts.

Part two is HERE

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Obi-Wan believed in miracles.

He believed in them because of her; because she had transformed his life simply by being a part of it. He smile, her laughter, her joy, all of it made him come alive. He had been chained to duty for so long, that loving her was freedom.

He believed in them because of her; even after they took her, she had found a way to get a message to them. She had left a trail so blazing hot, that to miss it would have been to be blind in the most ignorant of ways.

He believed in them because of her; the trauma to her body was more than anyone could endure, and the fact that she was still alive when they had found her was a miracle.

They had said she might never wake up. That it would take another miracle for her to open her eyes and once more rejoin the living.

It was a good thing Obi-Wan believed in miracles.

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He was by her side when it happened: that tiny flicker beneath the lids that was the hallmark of a heavy sleeper returning to the surface of consciousness. He held his breath, hardly daring to believe, yet aching with certainty at the same time. As her eyes fluttered open to reveal her baby-blue eyes, his relaxed into a relieved smile, squeezing the hand that had been in his grasp for so long.

"Padme," he said softly, not wanting to startle her with the noise of speech.

His smile faltered as the look of sleep blinked into a look of confusion.

Her voice, rough from disuse, broke over the syllables, the words cutting through him in a terrible way: "Who are you?"