@forcewilled asked:
"you trained me better than this."
Guest muse: Older Dooku
This has been, Dooku supposes, a long time coming: Qui-Gon and he have not butted heads often, but he is under no illusions about the rift that has grown between them. That Dooku left the order, that he took the mantle of Count when the Republic failed his homeworld so thoroughly, and thus slowly set Dooku on a path further and further from the Jedi Order, has likely not helped matters.
Proof of it is that he is yet to meet Qui-Gon's most recent Padawan and, as matters stand, he does not think he's about to meet him just yet. Not if he is not here, and it's just Qui-Gon, familiar and foreign both, standing uninvited in a complex belonging to one of the most dubious branches of a banking company Dooku is conducting business with.
He cannot deny much of the accusation: there are plans in motion that require these alliances, and yet they both know that Dooku has always loathed politics. Alas, there he is, the very image of a politician.
"And yet," he answers, evenly, "I can still sense your disapproval."
Not undeserved, but nevertheless impractical.
"What brings you here, Qui-Gon?"