Tenel "this is a fact" Ka:

... I fell in love I made that decision
on broken hearts I cut my self
despite the pain I maintain my position
and put good will up on the shelf
but now I'm stuck a chain with no linkage
a vagrant lover prisoner
suspicious goals distort good intentions
aggressive action batterer ...

-- Jacen Solo. He was always the peacemaker. No matter what the situation, he would find the fault in it and stitch it up as best as he could himself. This trait was no different when it came to him and one of his closest friends. Tenel Ka.

       [ With a stubborn lift of his chin, Jacen looked at the stump of her left arm. It made him feel sick, and he wanted to turn away. This was the first time he had really seen her injury. "I... I won't let you take all the blame. If I'd been letting the Force direct my movements, I would have sensed something was wrong." He pointed to where her arm ended so abruptly. "And that would have never happened."
       Tenel Ka's eyes flashed with a smoky gray fire and, using her right arm to hike up her gown to a comfortable thigh level, she plopped onto the cushioned bench. "And had I been using the Force," she argued, "I would already have known my lightsaber blade was inadequate."
       "Well, I..." Jacen stopped, unable to dredge up a counterargument to convince his infuriatingly proud friend. "I..." He cast about furiously for something else to say and finally finished, "Um, want to hear a joke?" (Lightsabers) ]
 

... erupt again ignore the pill
and I won't let it show
sacrifice the tortures
orchestral tear cash-flow
increase delete escape defeat
it's all that matters to you
cotton case for an iron pill
distorted eyes
when everything is clearly dying
burn my knees and pray ...

-- Everything is clearly dying. The war rages on around them and for once they remember the childhood they shared -- and that fleeting moment shows us that the Jacen and Tenel Ka we all grew up with are still there; and their hearts are still beating strong. (Screw you, force turkey. ♥)

       [ Taking her lightsaber in hand, Tenel Ka stepped over to kiss Jacen -- and was cut off by Vergere.
       The little creature shooed him down the slope. "Now go, before your quarry escapes."
       Jacen looked over her to Tenel Ka and rolled his eyes, then flashed the Dathomiri a lopsided grin and pushed up his breath mask. (Star by Star) ]
 

... nothings what it seems anymore
i come running
through the worlds that you have built
its clear my fate is tourmented by your lying eyes
and its lovely
i live out every pretence
i swear my heart is broken by your words again ...

-- Bitterness takes over the Princess as she watches pals Lowbacca and Jaina work effortlessly on some machinery, four hands in all. Jacen steals her attention and tries to work his Solo charm on her, complementing her on her skills. His motives are genuine and Tenel Ka feels a bit guilty once she snaps at him. It's at that point that she realizes that nothing will be the same - but she knows she'll do her best to work it all out and stay positive.

       [ Tenel Ka noticed then that Jacen had propped himself up on his elbows and had turned to look at her, his eyes serious. "Hey, you fought really well out there yesterday, against that killer seaweed."
       "You mean for a girl with only one arm?" Tenel Ka said bitterly.
       "I... no, I--" Jacen's cheeks turned crimson and he looked away. His voice was low again when he spoke. "Sorry. All I remembered was you fighting that plant. I didn't even think about your missing arm -- it didn't slow you down a bit."
       Tenel Ka flinched as if he had slapped her.
       "Do not be sorry, Jacen," she said. "Your words were meant kindly. It is I who must apoligize." She thought again of the battle, musing over what she had accomplished. 'I might have fought better, though, if I--"
"--if you had your other arm?" Jacen finished for her. "Hey, I might've fought better if I'd had a blaster cannon, but I didn't. I just did my best."
       "No." Tenel Ka looked at him in surprise. "I meant to say, I might have fought better had I used a lightsaber."
       With a hesitant smile, Jacen looked up at her again. "Yeah... you're pretty good with a lightsaber. Of course, you're pretty good at a lot of things." (Lightsabers) ]
 

... if I could control tomorrow's haze
the darkened shore wouldn't bother me
if I can't control the web we weave
my life will be lost in the fallen leaves
every single move's uncertain
don't tell God your plans
it's all deranged
no control ...

-- Lowbacca is clinging to Tenel Ka as Jacen's grasp on her leg loosens and he plummets from the bottom of Cloud City. As she hangs there, her mind wanders through different territories and she asks herself -- why couldn't she have taken control of it all in the past. It would fix everything in the present. But destiny doesn't work that way...

       [ For a split second, she considered letting go, plunging after Jacen into the clouds. At least that would save Lowbacca, and she wouldn't have to live with the guilt of knowing this had all indirectly been her fault.
       A long time ago, if she hadn't been trying so hard to impress Jacen when they'd first built their lightsabers, her pride would not have led her to fight him with a substandard weapon... would not have led to the accident in which her arm had been lost -- an arm that would have been there to save Jacen from his fall, had it not been for her own foolishness.
       She should've been there to catch him. Tenel Ka had failed Jacen.
      Why had she simply not told him how much his friendship had meant to her? (Trouble on Cloud City) ]
 

... and I'll feel a guilty conscience grow
she burns like the sun, and I can't look away
she'll burn our horizons, make no mistake
come let the truth be shared, no one ever dared
to break these endless lies, secretly she cries ...

-- A quick sense, a small window after the Myrkr mission where Tenel Ka feels Jacen -- she feels him after he's been captured. Bright and comforting, like always. But it's only for a few moments as that presence is ripped brutally from her. She reacts just as violent.

       [ Suddenly her unshielded mind flooded with a familiar mixture of warmth and humor, friendship and frustration.
       "Jacen," she said wonderingly, recognizing the presence that meant more to her than any other.
       For a moment Tenel Ka knew complete happiness, something she had deemed elusive since the day she'd realized that when Jacen looked upon her, he saw only an old friend. But happiness was a gift as fleeting as it was sweet. The light that was Jacen faltered, then blazed up into an agonizing heat.
       Tenel Ka, despite her stoic courage and superb conditioning, shrieked in rage and pain. (Dark Journey) ]
 

... oshiete okure yo
shinjitsu o...
tsugete okure yo sono tsumi o...
akai namida ni nureteiru
kakusareta kono sugata o...

please teach me
the truth...
please tell me
the crime...
as my hidden self is
wet with red tears ...

-- She had just forgiven him for being such a stubborn gundark on the whole "whose fault is it" over her left arm. They had joked a bit, and she had laughed for him, with him (maybe even a little at him) -- and to finish the conversation he wraps his arms around her. Though guilt lays dormant in his system still, he tries to force it out of him for her.

       [ Tenel Ka returned his hug, as best she could, with both arms. Shaking, she pressed a face wet with tears against his shoulder, and Jacen did not think that they were tears of laughter anymore. (Lightsabers) ]
 

... i'm the one natural one, make it easy
we can take it inside
I can have it cause I act like I love it
it's a matter of pride

yeah, we can take it
good excuse for an endless spree
good because we made it
and if the world is falling down,
it may as well crash with me ...

-- Pride was her downfall. They both crossed lightsabers in a playful duel, complete with snarky banter, until the weapon she rushed through faltered. And it cost her an arm. Jacen himself thought it cost him a friend, and proceeded to take the blame for himself.

       [ Tenel Ka felt a line of blazing agony sweep across her arm just above the elbow. It burned... and yet below the burn she felt only a sickening, horrible coldness -- a bone-deep chill like none she had ever felt before.
       Somehow her lightsaber thumped on the ground with a soft thud. Impossibly, she saw her hand clenching the carved rancor's tooth. Sparks the size of lightning bolts flashed around the handle as her weapon exploded in a burst of blinding light.
       Bright. So very bright...
      Tenel Ka felt a dizzying haze swirling up to engulf her. Everything was so confusing. Jacen screamed something she couldn't understand. Tenel Ka hoped intensely that she had not hurt him. (Lightsabers) ]
 

... past sidewalk ashes
a last lovers arc
you come apart to intertwine
it was all so simple
as you watched him move
across the darkness in your room

you love him
you love him for youself
you love him and no one, no one else

and the winding vines
the pretty boys dive
and thru the pinhole stars
into the shadow mind
you will lose him then
on some gentle dawn
this boy is here and gone ...

-- I don't even think this one needs an explanation or an excerpt. None would fit it just right~ I believe it engulfs the whole relationship up to now, but in the future... who knows. ♥
 

... i'm drowning inside your head,
help me to answer, help understand,
why it's been so long,
since we talked like friends, oh
please, forgive me, I'm just a man
whose made, mistakes,
wait, for me.

oh just stop pretending,
when they say you're nothing.

are you sad, are you holding yourself,
are you locked in your room?
you shouldn't be ...

-- As they part, Jaina senses Tenel Ka's strongest feeling -- she's alone.

       [ "It's won't be easy," the new queen said. "Not for me, not for you. I suspect that your road may be more difficult than mine. At least you will not be alone."
       Jaina pulled away. "Neither will you."
      Tenel Ka's only response was a faint smile. She lifted her hand, a somber regal gesture, and then walked away. Her bearing was proud and her step quick. Her determination came through the Force, and with it, a sense of desolation so intense that it brought tears to Jaina's eyes. (Dark Journey) ]
 

... in 24 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my life, it's over tonight
i'm not messing no I
need your blessing
and your promise to live free
please do it for me ...

-- Myrkr. The mission proves taxing on the young Jedi, emotionally and physically -- but the small things show us just how strong everyone's bond is, especially between mentally sound Solo and his close companion, the fierce Hapan princess.

       [ A door slid open behind Tenel Ka, and something blunt caught her between the shoulder blades. Jacen dropped to his knees and started to black out, then realized it was Tenel Ka's body he was feeling and reached out to the others, calling upon their strength to keep them both conscious. When his vision cleared, Yuuzhan Vong filled the corridor. (Star by Star) ]
 

... while those around him criticize and sleep
and through a fractal on that breaking wall
i see you my friend and touch your face again
miracles will happen as we trip
but we're never gonna survive unless
we get a little crazy ...

-- And it all snowballed from here...

       [ Jacen waved at her, grinning. She acknowledged him with a nod, made her way over to where the twins were sitting, and slid onto the cool stone bench beside Jacen.
       "Greetings," Tenel Ka said gruffly.
       Jacen nudged her with his elbow and dropped his voice, "I've got a new one for you, Tenel Ka. I think you'll like it. What do you call the person who brings a rancor its dinner?"
       She looked perplexed. "I don't understand."
       "It's a joke!" Jacen said. "Come on, guess." (Heirs of the Force) ]
 

... can't you see my hands are clean?
i'm as holy as can be
i will never do you harm
i am fractured
it can never be the same
what kind of life is this ...

-- Young Solo was worried that the princess would never forgive him for that fateful afternoon with the lightsaber training accident. She showed him that she trusted him and that the blame wasn't his -- by another lightsaber match. This time with full trust, stripped pride and, well... working lightsabers.

       [ Her throat was tight with unaccustomed emotion when she finally spoke. "Jacen, my friend, I know of no better way to show that I trust you... that I do not blame you for what happened."
       Jacen's face was solemn as he nodded his acceptance. "Thank you." (Lightsabers) ]
 

... untie the hands that bind your mind
and be nice, she put a gun against her ear
inside, against a gin and tonic sky
she's a star, she finds a place to lose her pain

caged as she waits inside
hate and she wants to die
and she wants, and she wants to live
deny, the problem never catches light
rewind, she pours herself some self respect

she wants, she wants to live
away from this haze ...

-- Tenel Ka knows she has to take the throne or salt would sizzle in the wounds that Hapes had suffered from the war (and from Ta'a Chume, but that's a whole 'nother story) -- so as she accepts her fate, she stays strong and doesn't flinch when the halo of metal is dropped on her head.

       [ She would not stand and see others die in their place.
       They stopped at the front of the audience chamber. Tenel Ka turned to face Jaina. "There are times when personal inclinations must be put aside," she said softly. "I will take up my mother's crown, and I will defend it if I must. But for now, we have a common foe."
       The Jedi women regarded each other for a long, silent moment.
       "Let's go," Jaina said.
       A faint smile touched Tenel Ka's lips. She strode over to her father and dropped to one knee. Without hesitation he placed the crown on her head.
       Thunderous ovation swept through the room. The newly crowned queen rose and whirled toward the crowd, cutting off their applause with a swift, impatient gesture. (Dark Journey) ]
 

... all I want is everything
everything that I'll ever be
all I want is everything
everyone that's coming for me
nothing happens and everything is changed
all I want is everything to stay the same
will you give in ...

-- A bit of time passes after this and suddenly everything is changed, what with the war and all. The sparks were there... but no one ever confronted them. And now the galaxy was in the middle of a crisis. Something larger than the young Jedi knights had ever dealt with. So what was to become of what had grown between Jacen and Tenel Ka...?

       [ "After all we've been through together," Jacen replied, "I'm not sure anything in the future could surprise me."
       "Ah," Tenel Ka said, turning to him. "Aha." Then she kissed Jacen firmly on the mouth.
       "So... were you surprised, friend Jacen?" she asked, with a twinkle in her granite-gray eyes. (The Emperor's Plague) ]
 

... i'm losing my grip
need you there to remind me
the friends I used to keep
i'm nothing again
need you there to define me
before I go to sleep

i don't want to go through this
without you ...

-- Prince Isolder speaks to his daughter of things, and Myrkr seeps into her mind -- she thinks of Jacen and what had happened in the previous days and doesn't think... or feel like she knows how to bring it up.

       [ One grim picture after another flashed into Tenel Ka's mind: scenes from the terrible days of captivity in the Yuuzhan Vong worldship, the battle that followed, the agony of leaving behind the young man she had loved since girlhood. What could she tell her father of this? (Dark Journey) ]
 

... strike me down, give me everything you've got
chance me now, I'll be everything I'm not
hope's the child of what luck brings
points the faith in higher things
ask me now, fire at everything at once
strike me down, take it anyway you want ...

-- Jacen has to change somewhat, but deep inside, he can't change too much.

       [ Amphistaffs twine around Jacen's ankles and climb his body like vines enveloping a forgotten jungle idol. They twist around his legs, his hips, his chest, coiling the length of his arms, shrouding his neck, curving up to embrace even his skull. The approaching squads of fully armed warriors slow uncertainly, not quite sure, now, how to attack. (Traitor) ]
 

... this time I woke up on my back again
staring up at the sky
i don't care about his confidences
i don't wanna feel that slow
i don't care about these permanencies
when you wanna stop, just go

and I just wanna be near to you
when the things we done come clear to you
and I wanna go mad, I wanna go mad
i wanna go mad for a minute
i just wanna be in it
i just wanna be near to you ...

-- Even as they grew older and more mature, their ways seemed to stay the same. Close chats, shoulders touching "in a manner that was a little more than comfortable," even swapping lines and quirks for moments here and there -- and all of this started to come quite easily to them. They had learned to know each other so well mentally and emotionally that these things came without a second thought.

       [ Jacen shook his head in guilty regret. "That was my mistake. A bad one."
       "Fact." Tenel Ka bumped him with her shoulder. "But there is no need to sulk. I will always be fond of you."
       Jacen's stomach grew hollow. "You think he's that angry?"
       Tenel Ka rolled her eyes, then took a canister of bacta lotion and slipped off the nestbunk to check on their insensate fellows. "It was a joke, Jacen."
       "Ah." Jacen grabbed his lightsaber and followed close behind. "Aha. You have a lot to learn about jokes." (Star by Star) ]