"Ha! You missed!" yelled Jacen Solo as Tenel Ka threw one of the couch pillows at him in the main living room of the Solo family's Coruscant apartment. "I may have missed you once, but I never miss twice." she said as she tossed another pillow at him. It hit him right in the face, and knocked him off the back of the chair he had jumped onto. "Jacen, my friend?" she said inquiringly, "Are you alright?" He didn't answer. "Jacen!" She ran across the room and found him lying on his stomach, apparently unconscious. Turning him over, she saw a broad smile on his face and punched him in the arm. "Jacen, you sca-"
"That scared you?"
"Well, I just thought that-"
"That?"
"That maybe you weren't okay."
"So you were concerned about me?"
"Well ever since the incident with the lightsabers-"
"Tenel Ka, just because I fell when I threw your lightsaber doesn't mean I'm going to be hurt every time I fall"
"I know but…" her finger traced the long scar on his cheek where he had been hit by red-hot pieces of the focusing lens when he saved Tenel Ka from her faulty lightsaber a few months ago.
"Don't worry about me, let me take care of you" he said as he put his arms around her. "I'll never leave you"
"Promise?"
"This is a fact." he mimicked her oft-used phrase, then leaned toward her…
"Jacen? Jacen! JACEN GET UP!" Jaina Solo yelled at her brother while knocking loudly on the door to his dorm room. "I'm coming in, so you better be dressed!" she walked in to see her twin brother making out with his pillow. He woke with a start, put the pillow back where it belonged and grinned sheepishly at her. "Dreaming about Tenel Ka again?" she asked.
"No! And what do you mean by again? Oh man, it was just a dream."
"Sure you weren't. Get ready, breakfast is in five minutes. And your dream was wrong, Tenel Ka never even misses once." she said, and walked out the door, not giving him a chance to yell at her for reading his mind. "And if you keep forgetting those bacta treatments, those burns will never heal!" she yelled as she walked down the hall. Jacen sighed and rubbed the special bacta lotion he kept by his bed on the burns that covered his right arm. He was just glad that Tenel Ka hadn't been hurt by her faulty lightsaber the week before. Jacen would never have been able to forgive himself if that happened. He threw on a clean jumpsuit, ran his fingers through his hair, and ran towards the cafeteria.
"You should stay out of other peoples' thoughts"
"You should stop messing with my room"
"It was a joke, Jaina"
"I spent hours scrubbing the bantha butter out of my best clothes."
"I didn't realize-"
"Well maybe if Mom didn't still send you your clothing-"
"Master Jacen, Master Lowbacca cordially requests that you pass the juice." Em Teedee said, interrupting the twins' mental argument. "Oh, sure, no problem Lowie. Hey, has anyone seen Tenel Ka?" "Mom doesn't buy my clothes, Jaina"
"Then explain the 2-size-too-small Snuggle Bantha pajamas."
"Shut up."
Tenel Ka braided another feather into her long red hair. She didn't know why, but recently she had become much more concerned about her appearance. She had assumed that she had just been realizing how much different she could have looked if the lightsaber had exploded in her hand, if Jacen hadn't saved her. She now realized that she liked looking her best, especially with Jacen around. Her comlink buzzed, and she picked it up. "Hey Tee," she secretly loved Jacen's new nickname for her, though she pretended to resent it, "are you coming to breakfast? Uncle Luke wants you at the comm center as soon as you're done eating, so you better hurry up." She looked at the chronometer, and realized she was 15 minutes late for breakfast. She grabbed her new lightsaber in case Jacen challenged her to a sparring match again after the 4 times this week, then boltedout the door.
So how'd y'all like the first chapter? It seems like a scattered plot, I know, but it will all come together soon. Review please, Flames accepted, constructive criticism encouraged. I'll try to update weekly. See ya!