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Meet another
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Meet another |
| Author(s): | torch |
| Date(s): | April 2001 |
| Length: | ~67,000 words |
| Genre(s): | slash fanfiction |
| Fandom(s): | Star Wars TPM |
| Relationship(s): | Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan |
| External Links: | Meet another (AO3) Meet another (The Flambeau Factory) |
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Meet another is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan story by torch.
Summary: On a mission to Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba the Hutt, the young Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi runs into some unexpected trouble as he tries to deal with the reappearance of the long-vanished Qui-Gon Jinn, who has an agenda of his own.
Recs and Reviews
(SW: TPM) Meet Another is a vast Phantom Menace AU that breaks from canon yet incorporates some of the Tattooine sections of the movie. To label this just a Q/O story is to diminish it although the difficult relationship between the two Jedi is at its center, it's a damned good story about the kidnap of Qui-Gon, set in the complex society of Tattooine. Much of the writing is, as ever, stellar.[1]
You should read it 'cause it's torch. Aside from that, this is an AU take on TPM where everyone lives who otherwise wouldn't have. *cough* It involves Qui-Gon Jinn as a slave in Jabba's palace, an adult Knight Kenobi who undertakes to rescue him, and some mutual attitude. Anakin and Shmi also feature, as does Xanatos, so the canon's a little mixed in with the Jedi Apprentice novels. A solid long story that stands up well as an alternative to the movie.[2]
Another one where Obi-Wan did not become Qui-Gon's apprentice, but in this one Qui-Gon ended up in the hands of Jabba the Hutt, where Obi-Wan finds him on a mission to Tatooine.[3]
This starts off running side-by-side with The Phantom Menance, carries through finding Anakin, through the pod race. And then diverges into some angsty, beautiful O/Q slash, the likes of which could only be executed by Torch. Apparently there are spoilers for the Jedi Academy books, but I haven't read them and found no need -- Torch's story stood on its own merits (and was a far better interpretation of TPM than Lucas ever could have dreamed).[4]
torch is a wonderful storyteller. This is a first time with plot, an AU in which Qui-Gon did not take Obi-Wan as his apprentice. When they meet again, Obi-Wan is a knight and discovers the long missing Qui-Gon Jinn living on Tatooine as slave of the Hutt.Excerpt:
Obi-Wan breathed deeply and kept his thoughts to himself, inside his head and off his face. His mind teemed with questions. He had last seen Qui-Gon on Bandomeer, fifteen years ago, when the man had made it clear that he was not going to take Obi-Wan Kenobi as his padawan learner. Half a year after their final parting, the Jedi master had made a brief visit to Coruscant, never to return again. Obi-Wan was aware that there had been any number of search and rescue missions during his apprenticeship and the first years of his knighthood; he had been part of one such mission, which had been disguised as a lengthy set of trade negotiations. The negotiations had fallen largely to him while his master concentrated on trying to find the missing Jedi. Obi-Wan had been successful; his master had not.
Now Qui-Gon stood before him on a planet half a galaxy away from where he'd disappeared. Stood before him a slave of the Hutt. When Obi-Wan reached out with his mind, all he could sense was the presence of a living body. Something was blocking him. Whatever it was did more than just keep the force away from Qui-Gon; it also kept Qui-Gon away from the force, made him invisible to all but ordinary sight. Try as he might, Obi-Wan could not touch Qui-Gon's thoughts.[5]
References
- ^ Your Mileage May Vary: Recs, via Wayback. (Accessed 10 April 2015)
- ^ veronamay. The Phantom Menace recs: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, 29 July 2005. (Accessed 22 April 2015)
- ^ Alternate Universe Recs for Miscellaneous Fandoms, ratcreature
- ^ Novel-Length Recs, Archived version
- ^ hsv_fangirl in crack_van. Meet Another by torch (NC-17), 01 April 2011. (Accessed 03 January 2016)