The Present
Jaina followed him to the door and stopped as he closed it softly. She went to lean against the door, making a fist and hitting it with a thud against the back of the frame. She turned around and leaned against it, tears beginning to stream down her face. Slowly, she slid down the length of it to floor, bringing her knees up to her chest. Hugging them tightly, she was overtaken by deep, trembling sobs.
The past was settling into her mind, the old joy she had once had with the man whom had just left the room coming unbidden to her memory. She sobbed harder and harder until she was too worn out to cry anymore.
Her life was slowly coming to a ruin, and it was threatening to end her very being. Something would change very soon in her life, and if she did nothing to aid it, she would not like this change's result.
She slowly turned to lay upon the carpeted floor of the apartment, reaching up with one hand to roughing wipe her wet face. Then, hugging her knees tighter, curled up in a ball, she fell asleep in front of her door.
The Past
"Master Windu," Jaina said with a small smile. "I would like leave to go off on my own for a sort of meditation break. You said so yourself that I seem distracted. Perhaps this could help me."
Mace nodded. "Where are you going?"
"Dantooine," she replied. He looked up at her for a moment, just a second longer than he should have looked. A bit of doubt flickered over her mind.
"Then may the Force be with you. We expect you back in a few weeks. Take care."
Jaina bowed, turning to leave the room. She walked outside of the hallway quickly, going through the Jedi Temple towards the outside exit. Did he know? she wondered. Do they all know? How long will it be before they find out?
She kept going her way, making more double takes along the way, seeming as though everyone she passed was looking at her with a knowing look, understood exactly where she was going. They all know. Every one of them. How long will they keep up the charade? Are they following me? Will they be sending a spy to see where I'm going?
Her breathing increased as she went faster and faster through the hallways of the Jedi Temple, until she was practically running. She turned the corner and ran straight into a fellow Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"Oh my!" he said with a laugh. "Be careful. You never know who else is coming around the corner." He smiled and walked off. He knows too. Someone from my old training classes who knows me.
She finally reached outside and quickly got a taxi to the nearby hangar she was going to get to her ride. As she went inside the dark area, she found the correct ship and went up the ramp inside. It had already started closing as she neared the end of it and it shut completely just as she got inside. And seconds later, the ship had taken off. She stood still as it headed out of the hangar and up towards the atmosphere of Coruscant, heading into space for, not Dantooine, but Naboo.
She looked up and saw with a grin that Geist stood in the doorway outside of the control room now. "Ready, my bride-to-be?" he asked with a grin.
Jaina cast away all her cares and worries that had clouded her brain and ran to embrace him with a smile.