V: Qui-Gon

A/n: So, this is the end of the Code, and the last chapter. I’m honestly not quite sure about this one. It kind of went in a different direction than I had thought it would (I got up on the soapbox and kind of went on about my Tahl becomes-a-Force-ghost theory, which isn’t actually mine, but which I am a wholehearted supporter of). This could be set anytime after Episode I, I guess. Actually, let’s just say the end of Episode III, when Yoda and Obi-Wan are on the Tantive IV. That was what I had in mind, anyway, though it doesn’t really matter.

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There is no death, there is the Force.

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If ever there was a tenet of the Code that applied to Qui-Gon Jinn, it was this one. He often though that this was ironic, as he was not the first to achieve eternal life. No, it had been Tahl. The moment he realized that it had been her who had spoken to him, who had brought him back from the brink, he had known that she had done it.

There is no death- that was not meant to be taken literally, Qui-Gon knew. Much of the Code was metaphorical. Rather, it assured that, in death, fallen companions would become one with the Force.

Tahl had not been the first friend Qui-Gon lost. He had been to his share of funerals, seen more than a few friends burn into ash on the pyre. But her death- it had changed him. The moment that the light had faded from her eyes, he had known that he would never be the same. Age old Jedi wisdom- and even the Force itself- had been no comfort.

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There is no death, there is the Force.

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