Jacen had left his apartment almost as soon as she'd agreed to see him. But the hour he'd asked for was well spent. He wandered the streets of Lawrence on his way to the complex. Passing store after store and finally pausing at the window of a flower shop. He considered it briefly but he suspected there was no card big enough for 'Sorry I betrayed you, followed the path of the Sith, kidnapped our child and went on a genocidal attack on hundreds of planets full of people who didn't agree with me, and oh, by the way, killed your father because I thought it would save you.' Funny that. He walked on from the flower shop looking over his appearance again, and again. Was he too casual, too formal. Did it matter what he looked like, would she care.
He had left the complex a long time ago. Out of annoyance at a leader that wasn't around anymore. He'd set himself up with an apartment and it was fine there, very sparce. Not much to show for his time here. But then he supposed he'd just been getting on with things, making friends where he good, enemies everywhere else. Getting to know Jaina again. It made sense to him that he would try to get to know Allana again, and in Tenel Ka's case. Well he knew her. He knew how angry she was and yet how confused. Knew that she wouldn't know if she could ever forgive him again. He really had torn her life apart when he had taken Allana. Put her in a terrible position. Logically, Tactically it had been the right move.
But he knew better now, this place had changed him. Not completely. He might have buried Caedus but he wasn't gone. That had been proven when Rose Weasley had been in danger, the way she looked, the double of Tenel Ka and Jacen had snapped. Jumped to her defence and tore apart the thing that had been attacking her. He could only imagine his reaction if the actual Tenel Ka was threatened. Or his Allana.
Stepping into the lobby all sorts of thoughts still swirling in his mind, blue eyes met grey and Jacen had to talk a moment to regain those thoughts, she was still as beautiful as she had been of course but her Force presence was cold to him, and he had hated that in those last few months. "Tenel Ka" he said simply, trying to remember what Vi had said about honesty, about how to act.
"...Should we sit?" he mused, standing in the doorway to the lobby, just over the groove made for the salt lines that protected this place but still not having taken his eyes from her