Out of Balance

Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan Fanfiction
Title:	Out of Balance
Author(s):	Anne Higgins
Date(s):	27 September 2001
Length:	60k / 10,093 words
Genre:	slash fanfiction
Fandom:	Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
External Links:	Out of Balance (Master & Apprentice) Out of Balance (author's site)
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Out of Balance is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan story by Anne Higgins.

Summary: What happens when a bond is not equal?

Notes:

This story has been in an editor's hold box for at least a year, and I've decided it was time to get it out of there. There's nothing particularly original about it, especially now, but it wasn't fresh when I wrote it. It grew out of a scene in "Letters" where Obi-Wan briefly suffers the effects of the bond he shares with Qui-Gon being out of balance. I wondered what would happen if the lack of balance were permanent, and this is the result.

Recs and Reviews

This story has angst like whoa. Obi-Wan manages to save Qui-Gon by pouring as much healing energy as he could into the dying man, including his own life force. This forms a life bond between them, but because of the circumstances in which it was made, it's a lot different for Obi-Wan than it is for Qui-Gon.