The Present
"If you came here to push all this in my face again, then I ask you to please leave, like you did twelve years ago," Jaina said crossly.
"I didn't come to do that," he replied in a soft voice.
"Then what do you want from me?" Jaina cried. "You have done your harm. You loved me and married me. You made me happier than I had ever been in my life. And you took all that away in one day! You left me to be alone for twelve years! You took my son away. You left me, Geist. You ended that love we had together. How could you have done something like that? How can you expect to show up here again and me to forget it? I can tell you now, I haven't forgotten. I've thought of nothing except my loss every day, every waking minute of my life!" She broke down crying once more, shamed to have done so in front of him, to let him see her like that.
He came slowly towards her, but as he reached out for her, she shoved him away. He tried to just touch her but she would not let him. Finally, he grabbed her more roughly than he would've liked, pulling her to him and putting his arms around her, holding her still. She struggled for another moment longer, but eventually she stopped, letting him hold her, and cried on his shoulder. They just stood there like that, him rocking gently and putting his cheek on her head.
At last, she leaned back from him, only a bit. He reached to her face, gently wiping her tears away. He pushed her hair back out of her face and stared down into her eyes with such an intensity of the same love he had for her the day they were married.
"I didn't come here expecting you to forget. I didn't come here to push it back on you and leave again. I came back to apologize to you, whatever it's worth by now. I came here, because I wanted you back and there was no way that I could possibly have gone on without being with you again. I love you, Jaina, and I want to come back to you."
He leaned down and kissed her, making it last, then again with even more intensity than the first. They broke off slowly, as though not wanting it to end.
"I love you, too. I'm so sorry," she whispered. She almost surprised herself, hearing those words. She could feel it again, forming in her heart. Those old feelings were still there however, pushing to make themselves known, wanting her to be stubborn and not accept him. But she was changing again. She wanted him back. She wanted that happiness that she herself was the original cause of them not having all those years ago. She wanted to have that love again. She leaned forward and kissed him again to assure herself of that, her final doubts disappearing.
"Come with me," he said softly, gently touching her face. "We'll go together, wherever it is the Galaxy takes us. Just as long as we're together. It's all that matters anymore."
Jaina nodded, her tears for once ceasing. He helped her gather her last belongings from their room, zipping closed the bag in which she had her things. Finally, they left the apartment together, making one final look at the place they had spent their old life before leaving to start their new one.