FIC: Elegy (Vert) [Star Wars, PG-13]

[winter]

Today was a surprise department meeting and then surprise department-funded drinks. In a Mexican restaurant. Damn my competitiveness and damn tee-kill-ya.

This was written while I was still sober, and between assignments. Take pity on the poor drunken girl - read and review :D

Previously in this series:
Aere Perennius | Cat in the Cradle | Childish Things

ELEGY (VERT)

When all fires had burned out, they settled to tell tales, each asking others what he should speak about, C3P0 translating when necessary. They sat close together in the cold pre-dawn of Endor.

"My turn again?" Luke made a face. "I'll bore you with sand tales yet. You want womp rats or krayt dragons?"

R2D2 beeped before anyone else could put in a request.

"Uh, Artoo thinks you should tell us about Dagobah, Master Luke." C2P0 sounded apologetic. "He is quite insistent about it, I'm afraid."

R2 beeped again, punctuating it with a short whistle.

"Droid's right," Han added. "You owe us the story, since it had you leaving us in the dust. Twice."

"Okay, okay." Luke took a deep breath. "It all started back on Hoth, after the wampa attacked me. I barely escaped, I was lying in the snow, and then Ben-"

Humans, Ewoks and droids listened intently to Luke's story of his arrival on Dagobah, the dangers of the swamp, and finally the meeting with the old Jedi master.

"Yoda really opened my eyes to a lot of things." Luke looked up at the greying sky. "He showed me there was more to being a Jedi than fighting. He was great because he wasn't a great warrior, because he didn't fight with a lightsaber."

Tired faces nodded their agreement. All except one.

Chewbacca remembered troops and warships, green light and a severed head rolling to rest at his feet.

{FINIS}

Comments

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

...Wow, that one kind of gave me a cold feeling in my stomach. Damn, Beth. Stop whupping my ass at this, will you?

[winter]

Wny thank you >:)

I'd have a more insightful comment, if not for the tequila...

[sorano.livejournal.com]

Wowza. Nice. :]

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Heh-heh, and yet Chewie would certainly appreciate a warrior, since he is one himself. But he's not speaking up to tell his little memory. Interesting. Good stuff!! Hope you recover hangover-free, too.

[winter]

Heh, it wasn't even half a bottle of tequila. Takes more than that to give a Polish girl a hangover, you know ;)

My Chewie's a quiet one for some reason. Possibly because I haven't yet hit on a good way of representing his speech in writing, except for when he's talking to someone who understands Wookiee language.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Neat, and what an excellent punchline.

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice.

[right-as-rain.livejournal.com]

These are breathtaking. I hope there will be more!

[winter]

Thank you :) I'm planning more, when I have time to finally watch my TOT DVDs.

[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

Here via imadra_blue. These vignettes are awesome. The characterization is great and the irony killed me. From a certain point of view, all of them are right.

[winter]

I think Lucas himself isn't aware of how much depth he managed to put into the original trilogy by making the prequels - there are just too many ideas to explore.

I'm glad you liked my attempts at it :)

[furius.livejournal.com]

♥ these fics. I'm in utter awe at your use of irony. What a tragedy.

[a-blue-moon-cat.livejournal.com]

Interesting point of view. I had always just figured that just because we didn't see Yoda and Luke at fighter practice, that didn't mean they didn't. But that's just MHO. :)

As usual, the last line in this story, like the rest in the series, just kills me. :)

By your title, I'm reminded of the title of an Asimov autobiography, _In Memory Yet Green_.

[winter]

I just went with the way Yoda seems to want to impress Luke that he shouldn't solve everything with his lightsaber and should use his head instead at times (unlike his father). And Luke's drinking it all in, never knowing that it's a change that Yoda himself underwent after Coruscant...

Never read that book, but I'll keep it in mind :)

[unperfectwolf.livejournal.com]

Gods, this was.... WOWHIHEREIAM. I guess thats how I'd describe this. But it was amazing.

[winter]

Thankee :) I did try my best.

[sarisia.livejournal.com]

Just got through the whole series at once. Got it through a rec site and thought that it was pretty awesome. =thumbs up=

[luminations.livejournal.com]

Just read your little series here and wanted to let you know I liked them. Heartbreaking and poignant. Excellent stuff.

[rainey-creek.livejournal.com]

This is an intensely cool series. I got chills from the third and fourth parts.