Week 13: Benella
Notes: Once again, this is on the same timeline as several of the other drabbles and on the same storyline as Skywalker In Name. For the songfic version, talk to SilSolo on the Jedi Council Forums.
61. kiss
62. hug
63. smile
64. frown
65. laugh

Kiss

"Ben, we shouldn't," the woman pushed Ben's mouth away as he tried to give her one last kiss.

"Why not kiss on my doorstep?" asked the puzzled Ben.

"You're going to change my mind." Jysella shook her head and began to turn back.

"Isn't that the point of coming here? I mean to have me change your mind?" Ben grinned back, mimicking the famed Solo grin as he leaned against the doorpost.

"If it were just you, I'd stay, but please understand this, Ben," a tear slid down Jysella's cheeks, distorting the wrinkles that hinted at her age. "It's Corellia."

Hug

"Alright, how about a hug, then?" Ben continued to grin.

Jysella wanted to ask Ben if he ever gave up, but sighed and turned back. Maybe she could stay for one more week. Just one. But she had to return or else she'd never see her home again. Then she felt something sweep through her head and blocked it in its tracks as it approached her neck.

"Please don't do this, Ben. I know you're reading me."

"Jysella, we've been open and honest for the last year. Why not now?"

"Because it'll hurt you."

"Not more than you leaving now."

Smile

"Are you sure?" Jysella forced a weak smile onto her face.

"Yes, I'm sure. But if you're really going to take it with you to Corellia, I won't stop you."

"That's sweet of you, Ben." Jysella began to turn back again. She had to go before he really did convince her to stay, but she could not leave it all unsaid. Some, she had to, but other things, he deserved to know. "We've fought to keep the borders open, but I truly do respect the other side. Goodbye, Ben."

And with that, Jysella disappeared, taking her remaining secrets with her.

Frown

Ben frowned as he played it all back in his head. It was one thing for Jysella to return to Corellia with the political situation as hostile as it was, but it was something else for her to take their child with her without his knowledge. Just where had things gone so wrong that she didn't even want him around anymore? At first, he pleaded for her to keep their family together and even offered to stay on Corellia with her. But he lost his temper, even though she agreed to let him keep their child. And she was pregnant.
Laugh

Ben laughed as the baby splashed water all over the father's Jedi robes. It had been almost a year since he caught that last glimpse of Jysella leaving the bundle at his doorstep and a few months since he moved out of that old apartment where he used to live and into the Jedi Temple. In the end, alone without his girlfriend, he was happily raising his son and teaching the Jedi trainees. He and Jysella had each made a myriad of mistake with the other and perhaps, just perhaps, they were never meant to be.

"I'd better forget Jys."