[OPEN/CLOSED] I'm here again, a thousand miles away from you

[neverlosemyfocus]

WHO: Siri Tachi and OPEN; Siri Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi (CLOSED)
WHEN: Day 7, early morning; Day 10, evening
WHERE: Around the City
WHAT: Siri can’t sleep for REASONS, so she’s exploring the City.


Day 7

Tossing fitfully, Siri reached out to the other side of the bed where Obi-Wan should be... only for her hand to touch emptiness. Stang. Suddenly awake, she sighed in frustration and flung the extra pillow across the room before flopping back against the bed.

She couldn’t sleep. She hadn’t been ABLE to sleep since arriving in the City. At least not restfully. And she was being driven to distraction. On top of being thoroughly irritated by the whole thing. She didn’t know why she was having so much trouble.

Force, she missed him.

Huffing a frustrated sigh, Siri slipped out of bed. Dressing quickly, she left her room. If she couldn’t sleep, she might as well continue exploring the City. It... felt strange, in the Force. Like it was always shifting. Which, given what she’d seen of it so far... was the truth. It was a little bit... fascinating. Also a bit annoying. Something she was adapting to easily... but still annoying.



Day 10: for Obi-Wan

Force, this was getting kriffing ridiculous. She shouldn’t be that bothered by this! But she’d gotten too accustomed to having him there, to sharing a space with him every evening. Waking up next to him every morning. Why had she DONE that? It wasn’t as though she hadn’t slept alone before. No, she’d slept alone for a very large chunk of her life, for star’s sake.

So why did her bed feel too kriffing large? And empty. So painfully empty.

Grumpy, and irritable, more irritable than she SHOULD be, she found her way to Dex’s, curling up in a corner booth with a cup of caf.

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Day 10

[master_kenobi]

Obi-Wan walked into Dex's and ordered a caf and a gorba melt, before he realized that, while he was thinking about her, she was really there, in the Force. He turned and looked towards the corner of the diner. Turning back to the serving droid, he told it he would be at that table when the food arrived.

"Hello," he said, gesturing towards the booth seat across from her. "Um. May I?"

[neverlosemyfocus]

It was unfair, the way her heart leapt at the sound of his voice, and she looked up at him, blue eyes bright as she gave him a fond, crooked smile. Force, she’d missed him. It was all she could do not to reach out and tangle her fingers with his. “Of course, Obi-Wan.

On her neck, partially hidden under her hair and mostly forgotten since the incident that had caused need for it in the first place, was a bacta patch.

[master_kenobi]

He sat, offering her a small, friendly smile.

"I haven't seen you in a while. Have you been keeping well?" he asked.

[neverlosemyfocus]

“Well enough,” she told him. He didn’t need to know about her... inability to sleep. There was no point in mentioning it. “And you?”

[master_kenobi]

"Well. Indeed. There is a hole in the ground and people are throwing money into it to make wishes. Have you seen it?"

A very strange custom. The Earth people seemed familiar with it already.

[neverlosemyfocus]

Siri nodded. “I have. It’s... peculiar. I wonder how that particular custom was started.”

[master_kenobi]

"Perhaps it was a way to pay tribute to gods who lived under the ground," Obi-Wan suggested.

[neverlosemyfocus]

"Seems as possible as anything," she said, taking a sip of caf.

[master_kenobi]

"I'd be interested to know," Obi-Wan said conversationally. He paused, looking at her for a moment.

"...Is there a reason I haven't seen you since that first day? Did I...say something that offended you?"

[neverlosemyfocus]

Siri nearly choked on her caf, setting her cup down with a thump and just sort of... staring at him.

“What? No!” She frowned at him. “Of course not, Obi-Wan. If you haven’t managed to say something to offend me in all the years that we’ve known each other, it’s not going to happen now.”

[master_kenobi]

"It's happened before," he pointed out with a wry smile. She'd once called him a disgrace to the Order.

[neverlosemyfocus]

She looked amused. “Well yes, but not because of something you SAID.”

[master_kenobi]

"It was partly about something I said. And largely about what I did because of what I said," he teased back.

At any rate, it wouldn't have been the first time she was annoyed with him.

His expression sobered a little and he glanced down into his drink before looking back at her.

"Master Qui-Gon has disappeared."