Challenge 05: 3 x 5 Prompt List

[kitty_fic]

Description Choose one word from each column/list, then include all three words in your writing.

List 1
List 2
List 3

Brilliant
Lace
Epiphany

Immaculate
Leather
Serendipity

Superb
Fur
Leisure

Ferocious
Silk
Dulcet

Solemn
Gossamer
Demure

Points You can earn a total of 51 points+5 points for every 50 words, up to 500 words (50 points

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[lealila]

Title: there's a war going on out there somewhere (and anakin isn't here)
Fandom: star wars
Characters/Pairing(s): obi-wan
Rating: t
Warnings: fake funeral?
Word Count: 538
Words/Prompts Used: solemn, gossamer, demure

[the war cannot touch us here]They bury him in the afternoon, with the sun warming their faces. Some attendees brought umbrellas, but Obi-Wan thinks the sun helps with remembering that he’s still alive even if they are burying a body.

Padmé stays close to him, never more than an arm’s length away, eyes moist but her face is dry. Ahsoka is nowhere to be found-he tried contacting her on the private comm channel he and Anakin built, but he never got a response. Obi-Wan wonders if she’s hiding in the trees, preferring to mourn privately rather than with a crowd.

Obi-Wan doesn’t take his eyes off the gravestone.

It’s too real. He knows this is for Anakin’s safety-pretend he’s dead so they can hide him away in secret while Palpatine mourns the loss of his supposed next Sith apprentice-but with dozens of people sniffling and wiping faces-it’s too much. Even without the proper Jedi pyre and the wrappings of gossamer (given up after the war), this is too much.

The Chancellor insisted the burial happen on Naboo, instead of Coruscant, claiming close relations and Anakin’s victory with the Blockade of Naboo all those years ago. The Jedi compromised, and agreed to a headstone and a ceremony, but Anakin’s “body” would be buried with the rest of his kin in the Temple. Only Jedi were allowed then. For this, Obi-Wan and Yoda are the only ones.

Yoda speaks, then the Chancellor. Both brief, both traditional to their customs. The Naboo pour a glass of water into the hole so the soul can be reborn. After the casket is lowered, other politicians and nobles speak. The Queen chants a dirge. Obi-Wan never says a word.

He hates every second of it.

Padmé never leaves his side, not even to speak. She knows the truth-he couldn’t keep it a secret, even though he knows it’s risky. Not to her. Besides, he owes her for the last time they pretended to bury a body.
After all is said and down, Obi-Wan finally mourns.

Now, there is only Padmé, Yoda, and Palpatine still left at the gravestone. And he knows this is fake, that Anakin is safely aboard a ship heading to an undisclosed location in the Outer Rim, but he cannot help but remember the last time he had to attend a funeral on this planet. Even if he did not have to put on a show for Palpatine, he does not hesitate to kneel before the marker, reaching out to touch it.

Padmé bursts into tears-real or fake, Obi-Wan does not know-but he glances back to see the Chancellor wrap her in a hug, his attention away from him.

Now, with the sun setting and the stone cool under his fingertips, Obi-Wan reaches into the Force for some clue about how all this will go, and finds himself wanting. If the Force knows whether this will work or not, it will not reveal any answers.

It’s too late to turn back now, though, so Obi-Wan takes a breath and lets go of the gravestone. He does not know if he will ever see Anakin again, but he will do everything he can to make it so he will.