Fever by Glasshouses

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Title:Fever
Author:Glasshouses
Rating:PG-13 (It's been rated by Glasshouses as PG-13 but it borders on R
Pairing:Q/O
Warnings: passing references to material in the Jedi Apprentice books
Author's e-mail: ghouses@yahoo.com or ghouses@glassworld.org
Website: http://www.glassworld.org/
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Link to story:http://www.masterapprentice.org/archive/f/fever.html
Reasons for recommending: I originally was going to chose a non Q/O story that isn't on the MA site this week.But in honour of Glasshouses I thought I would rec a story of hers. It's got a bit of everything, angst, hurt/comfort , Q/O and humour. What could have been a very angsty hurt/comfort is treated with a light touch that makes this story written from a line challenge so delightful. I've always loved her characterizations of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.

"Eat me, Master."

Qui-Gon sighed. What now? For three days he'd tended Obi-Wan as his Padawan's temperature regularly spiked and he babbled on under the influence of various delusions.

"Padawan...?"

"When I die, I want you to eat me so that you may live, Master."

"Obi-Wan, you're not going to die and I'm not going to starve."

"Master, I know you're just trying to comfort me. But we're stranded in this frozen wasteland, and I want my death to have some meaning. Master Yoda refers to our flesh as just 'crude matter' housing our spirits. That's the way I feel, Master. If you can survive, my death will not have been for nothing."

Qui-Gon was amazed at the lucid speeches Obi-Wan was capable of when he was so completely out of his head. Yes, they were stranded at the top of a mountain in a frozen wasteland on Hoth. But they happened to be stranded in a well-stocked, warm and cozy villa with a rescue ship only 48 hours away. For the first two days of their enforced stay and Obi-Wan's fever, he had alternately; apologized for everything he'd ever done wrong as Qui-Gon's Padawan, apologized for everything he'd ever done wrong while in the creche before becoming Qui-Gon's Padawan, and made a compelling case for Qui-Gon to disown him.