Aeris smiled when Jek agreed that they should have a meeting, but that a shower first sounded perfect. She returned his kiss before he slipped out of the bed, giggling when he scooped her up to carry her into the bathroom and into the shower. She wrapped her arms around him, moaning softly as he kissed her neck while holding her close. She shivered when he whispered into her ear before nibbling at the earlobe. “I love you, too,” she whispered in reply before she moved to kiss him deeply, her hands moving to slide across his skin, wanting to have him one more time before they were forced to return to reality.<br/><br/>-<br/><br/>When they had finished and washed up, she’d gotten out, dried off, and chosen some loose red capri pants, a fitted black sleeveless top, and some black boots to slip into. She didn’t think she would need her lightsaber, but she hooked it to the black belt around her waist nonetheless, before putting on some short red fingerless gloves. As she dressed, she reached out to the other two through the<br/>Force. She found that An-Lok was napping, so she instead spoke to Jax,<span style="font-style: italic">“When An-Lok wakes up, I think we all need to talk about this mission, this rescue, and what’s coming,”</span>she told him,<span style="font-style: italic">“Meet us on my ship when you can.”</span><br/><br/>When Jax had agreed, Aeris grabbed her datapad and then looked back at Jek as he finished getting ready and turned to her. She gave him a quick kiss and nodded to indicate that she was ready. She took his hand and led him towards the lift, glancing his way after he whispered into her ear that they could do this. “Yeah,” she nodded, feeling at least a little more confident than she had felt earlier this morning. She stayed close to him until the lift came to a stop and she took a deep breath, focusing her mind and putting on the air of commanding confidence that she always did whenever there were soldiers or others around.<br/><br/>When they reached the hanger, she punched in the code and waited for the doors to open before strolling to the hanger, to her ship. She let down the ramp and boarded the ship before closing the door behind them but leaving the ramp down for the other two. “An-Lok was napping when I reached out to them, so it might be a little before they get here,” she told Jek, turning to face him as the door let out a hissing sound as it sealed shut. “You’re welcome to look around some more if you want. I’ll probably wait in the conference room,” she told him with a small smile.<br/><br/>Aeris leaned up and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before she headed towards the conference room where she took a seat and began to look through all of the data she had compiled regarding her visions and nightmares. She wanted to look through it all and make sure that there wasn’t anything she had missed, any connections or clues she had overlooked. She still had no intention of telling the other two everything, but it wouldn’t hurt to look through everything again to be clear about what she would tell them, and to make sure for her own sake that she didn’t miss anything.<br/><br/>-----------<br/><br/>Jax didn’t mind lingering in the archives for a bit. He might not spend as much time reading as the other two, but it wasn’t as if he never did. He look his time looking through the archives until he found something that was of interest to him—a book about engineering. He stood there reading it for a while before he decided that it might not be a bad idea to take a seat somewhere, and to see if An-Lok had found anything.<br/><br/>He chuckled when found her sitting on the floor in a corner with a datapad. When she patted the floor next to her as she told him that they could go shower once she’d finished this, he nodded, moving to take a seat next to her. “No rush,” he said as he let her move to sit in his lap. He rested his head on her shoulder as he looked over his own datapad, skimming through the material as he allowed her whatever time she need to finish what she was reading.<br/><br/>He had been rather tempted to keep the datapad he had chosen, just as she had, but he followed her example and put it away where they were meant to before they headed back to their quarters. He had shed his layers and headed to the bathroom, turning on the shower and hopping in behind her. The warm water felt nice on his sore muscles. He kissed her and allowed her to lean into him as he grabbed the soap and began to wash them both. He smiled a little when she yawned. “That’s fine with me,” he was glad to allow her to rest as she needed to. He wasn’t particularly tired, but he wouldn’t mind a short nap, and even if he couldn’t sleep, he was happy to just lay there and relax with her while she slept.<br/><br/>Once they were both clean and dry, he scooped her up and carried her to the bed, setting her down gently before climbing into the bed next to her. He allowed her to snuggle up to him—or on top of him, whichever she preferred—and kissed the top of her head while gently stroking her back, as if to soothe her. He then closed his eyes to relax and sleep if he could.<br/><br/>He was able to fall asleep, but he didn’t sleep long, and when he woke up, he wasn’t able to make himself go back to sleep. Instead, he just laid there, stroking her hair ever so gently as he allowed her to continue sleeping. He felt relaxed and perfectly content to just lay here with her, even if he couldn’t sleep.<br/><br/>After a while, Aeris reached out to him through the Force and told him that they wanted to meet, to discuss everything, asking them to meet her and Jek on her ship whenever An-Lok woke up.<span style="font-style: italic">“Alright. Sure,”</span>he agreed to do as she had asked and felt the connection end there. He looked back at An-Lok and couldn’t help but wonder what it was that was coming. What was it that had Aeris so worried? He didn’t think he’d ever seen her worried or afraid—not that she seemed outwardly scared, but he got the feeling that she was, even if she hid it well enough. He wondered, though, if she would actually tell them, or if she would just say it was bad as she had before?<br/><br/>When An-Lok woke up, he kissed her forehead, “How’d you sleep?” he asked, gently stroking her hair. He didn’t immediately tell her about the meeting, allowing her to wake up a bit and just enjoying the moment for a little longer. “Aeris and Jek want us to meet them on her ship, whenever we are ready,” he finally told him, brushing some hair from her face and tucking it behind her ear. “They want to talk about this rescue, what is coming, and all of that,” he explained, making no immediate move to get up.<br/><br/>When she was ready, though, he would get up and get dressed in one of the outfits he’d picked up on one of the many planets they had been to. He picked a blue shirt, dark pants, a pair of shorter midnight blue boots, and then his belt and lightsaber. He then sat on the edge of the bed, watching her as she finished dressing.