>"Is that what we're here to do. Pretend like this is normal. Come on Jaina. I might have changed but I still know you like no one else in any galaxy.
Isn’t that the truth, though? No matter who or what he may have become, he’s still Jacen, he’s still known her before they were born, same way she used to know everything there was to know about him. She used to, until she got popped into an alternate universe where her brother was from the future and a Sith Lord and almost ten years older than he should have been...
>“Do you want me to shut down my Force Presence. Might make it easier for us to talk if I don't feel so wrong to you all the time"
“No,” she said, rushed out and stupid and almost desperate; she should have wanted him to, so she wouldn’t have to feel it and she could just... pretend everything really was normal, pretend like he thinks she wanted to do, like she should have wanted to do - but even the wrongness, the darkness, is better than nothing at all, better than that gap where half of herself belongs, “It’s better than feeling like you’re gone.”
Better than feeling like you're dead, she didn't say, dropping her eyes from him and trying to figure out where to go from here. Maybe this was a bad idea, after all - but then again what wasn't, at this point? There was no good in any of this.