This is to be seen as a music video type thing, or a song in a movie. First read the part of the song in the *_______*'s, then read the stuff that happens after it without *'s. The two events are meant to be simultaneous.
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion (I KNOW you have it, listen to it after reading this once through.) Set in the time period of Dark Journey, when Tenel Ka is on Hapes.
*Intro music*
Tenel Ka lie in her bed, sleeping soundly. The room made her uncomfortable at first with all of its finery, but she realized that once she was Queen there was no escaping it. The walls were cream colored, with gold trim, and the bed sheets and cover blankets were a deep blood red. She was nestled in the covers, eyes darting back and forth behind their lids. A cool breeze gusted in from the river delta, and blew the shimmering curtains gently.
*Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you*
Her eyes fluttered open. It was that dream, again. She had felt Jacen die, and it ripped a hole in her heart, leaving his part of her soul empty, longing. Her dreams filled that hole with remembrances, thoughts of what could have been. She was soon to be a powerful ruler, and couldn't let these thoughts bother her during the day, so she pushed them to the back her mind and delved into them at night. Someone had once said to her, "A dream is a wish your heart makes." Well then, she thought, I wish he were here.
*That is how I know you go on*
She got up from bed and walked to the window. She may have felt him die, and told others he was dead, but somehow she knew he was out there somewhere.
*Far across the distance, and spaces between us, you have come to show you go on*
She looked up into the black sky, dotted with glistening diamonds. She let her arms hang out the window, and felt the breeze bring tiny drops of water from the crashing waves below.
*Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that that heart does go on*
Zekk had told her that she had left Jacen. Perhaps he was right, she should have protected him. He relied on her through the entire mission, and she had failed him. She pulled her arms from outside the window and lay her palms on the cool stone, letting the breeze playfully toss her loose hair. "No," She said aloud. She then used the Force to push guilty thoughts from her head. "Jacen would not want that," She thought.
*Once, more, you opened the door, and you're here in my heart and my heart will go on and on.*
As long as she was alive and well, he was too.
**Instrumental section**
Something in the dream triggered her mind. It was a tree, alone in a field. She knew that tree, and something told her she needed to be there now.
*Music picks up pace*
She ran out of the palace and into the night. There lay the grassy fields of the palace grounds, acres and acres of open space on the East side. On the West side, there were gardens and fountains, but the side opposite that was a hilly area dotted with trees. She ran, and let the memories flow back. She didn't care who saw her in her nightclothes in the middle of the night, for there were surely guards awake.
*Love can touch us one time, and last for a lifetime*
The dewy grass tickled her bare feet, as she remembered swimming in the lake… running in the jungle...climbing the temple at the Academy...all with Jacen. Every memory she could summon was of him.
*And never let go till we're gone*
Even if he was gone, alive, but gone, he would live on forever in her heart.
*Love was when I loved you*
Another, more potent memory floated through the stars and came to her. It was with Jacen, and of course Jaina, Lowie, and maybe Zekk as well. They had been talking on the river bank, and Jacen said, "Nothing could surprise me anymore. Nothing." And so, Tenel Ka surprised him, kissing him for the first time.
She thought to herself, "Why? Why did I do that?" A voice replied in her head..."because... you love him."
*One true time, I hold you*
The river bank faded away in her memory, and in it's place there was only bluish clouds, going down, down, down as far as the eye could see. Cloud City. Jacen had fallen down there, and this was when she realized that she needed him to go on. Not feeling his "death" through the Force that day had been a devastating blow. She thought they were deeply connected. When she realized he was alive, she wrapped her one arm around him and held him as tightly as she could. She thought perhaps she had whispered "I love you" in his ear that day, and no one else had heard. Maybe Jacen hadn't heard either.
*And my life will always, go on*
The memories jerked to a stop, and Tenel Ka was pulled back into the real world. She had reached the tree. The one she had seen in her dream. She touched the trunk and felt the life the tree emitted through the Force.
*Near, far, where ever you are*
She looked up at the oblivion of the sky, hoping...no...knowing Jacen could feel her reaching out to him, wherever he was.
*I beleive that the heart does go on*
Her hand reached up to the branch, and she began climbing the tree.
*Once, more, you opened the door*
Why she was climbing, she didn't know. A Force was pulling her up, up, up...
*and you're here in my heart and my heart will go on...*
Suddenly, she doubted herself, and lost her footing. She stared up into the branches of the tall tree as she fell, in slow motion, reached her hand up to the branches, calling for help before she crumpled into a heap at the base of the tree...
*..and on*
**Instrumental/Flute solo**
Far away, Jacen lay on a Yuuzhan Vong warship, eyes closed, dreaming of her. Suddenly, he felt her, calling for help. She was falling... NO! He sat up straight and looked at his hand carefully, then stood up.
**
Tenel Ka felt a ray of hope lift her from the ground. She stood up, and got a foothold on the tree again, determined to climb it. She used the stump of her left arm to steady her, but instead of reaching her right hand to the branch she reached slightly above it. There, where she reached her hand, she could feel and almost see Jacen's hand, reaching to her...
**
Jacen reached his hand out, and closed his eyes...
*You're here, there's nothing I fear**
Their hands touched, and Jacen pulled Tenel Ka up to the next branch.
*And I know that my heart does, go on*
As long and she had hope, he would be there to help her.
*We'll stay, forever this way*
She sat on a branch near the top of the tree, her hair and white nightgown fluttering in the wind.
*You are safe in my heart and my heart does go on, and on*
She placed her hand over her heart, and felt two heartbeats, Jacen's and her own. She would keep it safe for him, until his return.