( If there was one thing Jaina had learned through the Yuuzhan Vong War, it was that anyone could be taken out at any time. It didn't matter how good you were, how hard you trained, anyone could get off a lucky shot. )

Jaina hadn't even considered setting Zekk up in a hotel while he was in Fandom. They hadn't been able to see each other in months after a very long time of spending most of their time together, and they were happy to take advantage of it. And if sometimes they completed each other's sentences or didn't use actual words, well, neither of them ( Read more... )

( Really, Zekk and Jaina had been un-Joined by the time they left Tenupe and the Swarm War ended, but their Force connection was still pretty strong. And once the dust had settled, that bond almost felt too strong sometimes when you wanted to be left alone with your thoughts. )

( Jaina and Zekk felt Luke call them back to Coruscant, but they ignored it. Part of it was because they honestly couldn't trust Jacen not to be pulling another trick on them, and part of it was because staying in Chiss space meant helping the Colony in the war. Even if they couldn't go back to Taat, the Colony was more home than anywhere. )

( While Jaina's actions at Qoribu prevented war and saved lives, the fact that she'd gone against the Taat to warn the Chiss meant that she and Zekk were expelled from the nest. This meant resuming life as normal, going back on missions as Jedi, even if Jaina missed the Taat with everything she had in her. And a year after leaving, she couldn't say that her time there with Zekk hadn't left them with some side effects. )

( Jacen arrived at the Taat nest about a month after the others had first gotten there. For as many comments as Jaina gave him about being more than a little tardy in answering a call for help, she was elated to see her twin for the first time since the end of the Vong war. It was just too bad it wasn't under better circumstances. )