Disclaimer:  Same old one, none of these characters belong to me.  I am making no money off of this.  If you have any questions, or want to see the complete disclaimer and list of characters, see the Prologue

A Complicated Friendship:

The Story of Jag Fel and Jaina Solo

Chapter 16: Letters Part 1

As Jaina sat in the meeting beside her brothers and cousins she thought of Jag.  She also wondered where in the galaxy Ben was.  She really needed to talk to him and get his opinions on different things.  So far he was nowhere to be found.  Soon the meeting adjourned, she didn't even notice the people starting to leave, her thoughts were focused solely on Jag and Ben.

"Hey, Jay," Luke said trying to bring her out of her reverie; she looked up at him startled.  "The meeting's been over for about 5 minutes now.  Where are you at?"

"I'm just thinking about Jag and Ben, wondering how they are and what they are doing."

Luke just smiled, "well who knows, we might run into Ben one of these days.  Let's go get you settled in your room."

A few minutes later they arrived in front of her door, Corran and Mara already inside.  "Hey guys, thanks for bringing my stuff up for me."  She then just sat in the chair by the transparisteel window and looked out into space.

"Hey, sweetie," Corran said, "he's gonna be just fine."

"I know Corran, but I'm still worried."

"Who are you so worried about, you look like you're missing your other half," a new voice added in.

"Benjamin Brady Jade-Skywalker, I ought to kick your butt for sneaking up on me like that," Jaina said smiling as she walked over to hug him.

He crushed her in a big bear hug, "I've missed you so much Sticks," he then whispered, "you can tell me what's bothering you later, ok?"

She just looked into his blue-green eyes, a mixture of his parents, and smiled, nodding her head yes.

Just then Wedge burst into the room. Jaina's first thought was that something was wrong.  He soon saw the worried look on her face and reassured her.  "It's about Jag, but everything is just fine."

Ben just looked on confused but sat patiently and listened.  He was so much like his father at times.  Wedge handed an envelope to Jaina, which she opened.  "It was waiting for me in my quarters after the meeting," Wedge told her.

She read it out loud. 

"Dear Sticks,

Well I guess your getting the first letter a little sooner that you thought.  They had to delay my departure time for a little bit so I went to find you.  Only to find out that you were already in the meeting with Luke.  Then I happened to run into Kam and Tionne.  They happened to have something for me that I asked them to do.  Enclosed in this envelope is a picture I asked them to take.  It is of the two of us on Yavin 4, I got Kam to take it on one of his walks.  I hope you like it.  Whenever you look at it think of all the great times we will have together and cheer up.  Please stay safe and watch yourself.  I miss my best friend so much already.  I'll contact you as soon as possible and write as much as I can.  'May the Force be with you.'

Love your best friend,

Jag"

"Wow, this picture is beautiful," she gasped as she showed it to everyone.  It was of her and Jag sitting pretty close on a rock, right in front of the waterfall they both love so much.

"Hey, Jay, this is great and all, but who exactly is Jag?"

"That's right, you haven't been around, have you," she said slugging him in the arm.  "He is Colonel Jagged Fel of the 181st Imperial Remnant.  He's become one of my best friends."

"Oh, I see how it is," he said acting mock hurt, "I've been replaced."

"No you idiot," she said hugging him, "you know that nobody could replace you, no matter what.  Come on, let's go find some trouble to get into.  Help me get my mind off of things."

"Ok, see you all later," he said shaking Corran and Wedge's hands, hugging his father, and giving his mom a kiss on the cheek, just to make her mad.

"Boy, you'd better get out of here," she said, playfully shoving him out the door.

After he and Jay had been wondering around for a while he finally spoke up.

"Jay, exactly how much does Jag mean to you?"

"What do you…"

"Don't give me that crap Jay, I want to know exactly what he means to you." 

"Ok big brother," she said sarcastically, "I'll tell you my feelings from day one.  I first met him on Ithor, even then I felt attracted to him, but I didn't want to admit it to myself.  Then a lot of the guys were talking crap about Corran  and he kept me from doing anything stupid, then I yelled at him.  I was upset and just lashed out at anyone.  Then he yelled back at me and walked off."

"He did WHAT!" Ben practically yelled.

"Would you just calm down and let me finish.  Then about a week later we apologized to each other.  Then we had a little challenge and I won so we went camping.  He was the closest person to me besides you.  We went camping by the waterfall at Yavin 4."

"Obviously," he said gesturing towards the picture.

"Would you let me finish," she said grinning.  "Then I found out Hapes got hit, I was really upset.  Jag said some things to try and comfort me, but I took them the wrong way.  We got mad a yelled at each other, said some pretty hurtful things.  We didn't speak for an entire year after that.  Then I got hurt and he's been by my side since.  It seems that before I got hurt, we were both planning on apologizing to each other after we got done with the battle.  I think that somewhere along the way I fell for him."

"Why haven't you told him about this yet?" he asked, knowing that she needed to tell him.

"Right now, after everything that has happened, we've been just trying to get our friendship back to where it was.  And plus, I don't even know how he feels about me.  One day after things have settled down I promised myself that I'd tell him."

"You do that, you seem to be real happy with him.  I want to see you stay that way.  You deserve to have what Jace, Tenel, Ani, Tahiri, Sean, TJ, Ally, and myself have.  I just want to see you happy."

She hugged him, "Thanks, I want that too, and I promise, I'll tell him." But she then thought to herself, 'I just hope it's not too late.'