Outsiders
Title: Observer
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters: Jacen Solo/Tahiri Velia
Prompt: Outsides
Word Count: 235
Rating: PG
Summary: She’s watched their relationship from the outsides
Author's Notes: Takes place in a post NJO Star Wars Alternate Universe about the time of The Joiner King, without the bugs, but assume that if I don’t mention it then it didn’t happen. Will eventually be a companion piece to the promt Insides.
She’s watches their relationship from the outsides just as she now watches her twin talking to a woman whom she has come to regard as her sister. Jacen is pacing back and forth while Tahiri sits on a bench slightly facing away from him. She can’t hear their conversation and is not all together sure whether that is a good or bad thing. She can tell that they’re arguing, though that is not difficult. Jacen is tense and Tahiri resigned.
She worries about Jacen, about the path that he’s on. His actions have turned increasingly dark. She wonders how much of this is to do with his relationships with women. Tenal Ka got him to sleep with her so she could conceive Allana and his relationship with Tahiri could hardly be called healthy.
Movement caught her eye and drew her attention to the tableau in front of her. Jacen was now standing still his hand gasping Tahiri’s wrist. She was also standing, her other had curled protectively across her stomach.
One phrase drifts across the air to Jaina. “When were you intending on telling me?” Their conversation fades back to its previous volume, but apparently with more intensity, before Jacen turns and storms away. She catches a flash of his pain through the twin-bond before he shuts it tight again.
She’d watched their relationship from the outsides, its logical that she would see its end.