On the mend

A/N: Missing moment, pre-AotC.

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Healer Tsi-Bo settled down in her chair in the Ward Station in the Healers' Ward of the Jedi Temple with a sigh. Three small crechlings with an infectious cough take a lot of looking after, especially when they all seem compelled to cough the moment one of the other two has fallen asleep.

Three of them! And when a disease gets into the creche, there will soon be more...

Tsi-Bo sighed again, and then reached for the data pad with the list of current patients. If there was a sudden influx of crechlings, they might well need to re-arrange the allocation of beds, double up some rooms, arrange an isolation gap if possible, before the entire Jedi Order was coughing and whooping. Some less ill patients might need to be sent back to their own rooms.

She began to tap out possible changes. The young padawan with the broken legs could go back to his rooms … the old Jedi knight with the Sha'anar flower poisoning likewise … and in the end room...?

Tsi-Bo scrolled down to see the names of the pair in the end room – and stopped. Of course. Who else would it have been?

Kenobi. And Skywalker.

She smiled. When Qui-gon Jinn had died, there had been sadness in the Healer's Ward. Tsi-Bo herself had gone and wept oh, quite, quite foolishly, in the little end room which the Healers had often joked needed to be renamed the Jinn-Kenobi ward. Qui-gon and his padawan had been in and out so frequently over the years, always one of them bringing the other and always the same introduction:

"He's sick." "I'm not!"

But her tears had indeed been foolish. For although there was no longer Qui-gon's gentle smile, some things don't change.

"He's sick." "I'm not!" It was the refrain of Kenobi and Skywalker too. The same frequent visits, the same lugging of one by the other, the same need for the healthy one to stay in too, lest they worry themselves sick about the other.

There was really only one difference. Tsi-Bo put down her data-pad and listened. With Jinn and Kenobi, you had needed to check on them to see if they were on the mend. With Kenobi and Skywalker, you only had to listen.

"...what did you expect, jumping into a nest of gundarks?"

"YOU jumped into it, not me, Master!"

Yes, they were on the mend again. They'd started bickering.

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