Author Notes:
I started writing a vignette that just wouldn't shut up. It became nineteen Word pages of vignettes, all connected to each other by the chronology of the NJO. Different POVs, different scenerios, different opinions on the situation at hand, namely the death and rebirth of the H/L relationship after Chewbacca's death.
I'll note at the end of each section whose POV is being presented, and what time period it was written in. There are ten scenes total, all of which have already been written and will be updated daily.
You may like what your favorite (or not so favorite) character has to say. You may not. But at least you'll see what the emotional spectrum of the NJO actually is. :)
The Reality of the Love Story
(Sometimes it takes a number of truths to get to the truth)
Nothing is as depressing as a love story.
We fuss over love, exalt it as the epitome of life's experiences. Everything is centered on it; our music, our holofilms, what we hope and dream and live for.
But then, of course, the love story ends. Even if it spans twenty – thirty – forty years, it still ends with the inevitable last kiss, the leaving, the mourning. And people don't like to read about the aftermath, or the recuperation, because we are only allowed one true love, and what's the point of having a one true love if you can fall in love again later?
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I have a love story for you. It's a good love story with a happy ending, but not a happy middle. Like so many love stories, the antagonist splits the one true love. This one is different, though. I've read enough love stories to know that the antagonist should be defeated, should leave, and the happily ever after starts brand new.
This is a love story where the antagonist isn't really evil and the one true love isn't instantly repaired. Love is not a jigsaw puzzle. It can't be assembled – or reassembled – in one day. It doesn't have boundaries. You don't finish a love story, even when the story is concluded. Because people don't fit together perfectly; there are rifts and wrong edges and big gaps where another can't possibly connect.
What makes this love story a good one is that you know it will end happily. Unlike the characters, you can be reassured that life is crueler than I am, and I am in control, after all.
This is a love story. A happy love story with a depressing middle. A love story that demonstrates to you the true resiliency of love.
This is a love story.
A long time ago.
This is a love story.
(Narrator)