[center][URL=http://s362.photobucket.com/user/NMShape/media/cooltext140029515708796_zps0ubkbafo.png.html][IMG]http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/NMShape/cooltext140029515708796_zps0ubkbafo.png[/IMG][/URL][/center] [center][URL=http://s362.photobucket.com/user/NMShape/media/cooltext141154639685269_zpsycltzikx.png.html][IMG]http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/NMShape/cooltext141154639685269_zpsycltzikx.png[/IMG][/URL][/center] Joren sat across from Kaylee and Rush in the lounge of the Dreams while Nyna went about checking the newly installed regulator as well as the other systems on the ship. Joren and Kaylee had once been very close, but that all changed when Joren walked away from the Jedi Order. Now, instead of a joyous reunion with an old friend, Joren sat there awkwardly as the silence grew to be nearly unbearable. “So, how have you been?” Joren asked, not sure what to say. [color=92278f] “Joren, where have you been?”[/color] Kaylee asks. [color=92278f]“After your father- we looked for you. But you just vanished.” [/color] “I know.” Joren told her. “After my father and Master Skreel were killed, I knew that I didn’t want their life.” [color=92278f] “So you turned your back on me…on us.”[/color] Kaylee corrects herself. “I guess you could look at it like that.” Joren said. “Look, I didn’t mean to hurt you, or anyone. I just wanted to be alone.” [color=92278f] “But you aren’t alone.”[/color] Kaylee says.[color=92278f]“You’ve surrounded yourself with friends here. It wasn’t your desire to be alone that drove you away. It was something else. You need to search yourself and be honest about why you ran away, if not for my sake, then at least for yours.” [/color] Joren sat there for a moment silently as Kaylee spoke. He knew that she was right in a way. He hadn’t left because he wanted to be alone. He had wanted to live his life as he saw fit, and not according to the Jedi Code. His father as well as his master had dedicated their lives to the Jedi Order, and it had gotten them killed. He wanted more than that out of life. “Kaylee, I don’t know what to say. I should have said goodbye. I shouldn’t have left the way that I did, but I didn’t feel like I had any choice. I couldn’t stay any longer, I did what I had to do. If I hurt you, I am sorry. But I did what was right for me.” Joren told her. [color=92278f] “None of that matters. You’re here now. We can help you make things right.”[/color] Kaylee says. “Kaylee, I’m not going back. I can’t.” Joren said. [color=92278f] “But we need you. Joren, something is happening. There are rumors of Jedi going missing. Master Skywalker is concerned, but he isn’t saying anything to anyone. Come with us to Coruscant to see Master Skywalker.”[/color] Kaylee implores him. “He’s in.” Dono said as he came into the lounge. “I’m what?” Joren asked with genuine shock in his voice. “He’ll go with you to Coruscant to see the Jedi, and we’re coming with you.” Dono told them. “Would you excuse us?” Joren asked Kaylee and Rush, who up to this point had sat quietly during the exchange. Kaylee and Rush nodded and got up from their seats went into another section of the ship. “Fierfek Dono! What the kriff are you doing? I…I can’t go back.” Joren said, exasperated by what had just happened. “Mir'osik.” Dono spat. “This is exactly what you’re supposed to be doing.” "Have you lost your mind? What are you saying, you're a Mandalorian, you hate the Jedi just as much as the next guy." Joren asked, still in shock over this turn of events. "I don't hate the Jedi. Some of my people...alot of my people do. My people have fought against the Jedi all throughout our history. But that's what it is, history. I may be Mandalorian, but I'm not controlled by what happened millennia before I was born." Dono explained. "But why...?" Joren asked. "Listen to me Vod'ika. I've known you for a long time, I've seen you waste your...talents all your life. But I won’t let you do it anymore.You have a greater purpose Joren, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let you waste your potential." Dono told him. “I just don’t know if I can do this.” Joren confessed. It had been years since he had been a Jedi, and the thought of seeing his former mentor terrified him. “You can, and you will. But you won’t have to face this alone Joren, we’ll be with you every step of the way.” Joren sat there for a moment and looked down at the floor as he contemplated what Dono had been saying. He knew that perhaps Dono and Kaylee were right, that he had been running from his past for too long. But there was still a part of him that wasn’t sure about this. “Fine.” Joren said. “I’ll do it.”