"Rey what happened?!" Finn asks with urgency.
"I just had a nightmare" I reply with tears down my face like a waterfall of despair. Finn walks towards me and unexpectedly hugs me. He holds me for what seems like forever. His embrace is warm and comforting. I mellow into it, enjoying the comforting silence between us.
"Finn?" I call, with a hint of curiosity in my voice. "Yes, Rey..." he answers concerned. tears begin welling up in my eyes again but I manage to hold them back. The weight of my secret holding me down. But I face my fears with integrity and I tell him everything that happened on Exegol. The truth, of it all. Unlike Poe, Finn had a look of warmth, understanding and sincerity look on his face.
After I had told him everything he did something that I never thought he would do. He cuddled me. There was no look of disappointment on his face just understanding. I never thought it would be like this. " I told Poe," I say ashamed. He could tell that Poe didn't react well form my motions that he could sense through the force. " I can see why he did react that way. I will talk to him to find out if I can help him understand." Finn says knowing how much it would mean to me.
" General??" someone called from the hall. I was unsure of who it was but it sounded very much like Rose. Finn gets up and leaves. Attending back to his duties that he neglected earlier.
I go to my closet and search for my hidden drawer. I open it and see Ben's shirt. My eyes begin to well up again. I pull it close to me and breathe in his scent. The hole still present from our fight. I place it down on the floor next to me. I look at the two lightsabers sitting there helplessly. I unwrap the covering and hold both of them. One in each hand, I begin to think about what I should do with them.
After trails of thoughts, I decided to honour both Luke and Leia by laying them to rest on Tatooine. Where it all began in just a simple sand planet. Much like Jakuu.
I begin to look at the fine details on each one of them. The scrapes on the metals, each telling a story of their own. Such beauty can be used to cause such pain and destruction at the same time. On Leia's lightsaber, there was a particular part that too my interest. It was the piece of metal fused into place at the hilt. It was almost like it had been from into two in its life and patched back together.
It was like the force had meant for all to this to happen.
I begin to look at Luke's old lightsaber. I look at the simple repair I made. A grin of pride coming onto my face. But it soon leads to sadness. I brush my thumb over the repair and a vision comes.
I am taken back to the throne room. The red walls and black floor. Darkness in the force drowning any inch of the light on the room. I am knelt before
Snoke.
"Well done my young apprentice, my faith in you is restored," he says proudly. "young Rey... welcome," Snoke says sinisterly as the cuffs deactivate and I regain use of my hands. "Come closet child. Darkness rises and light to meet it... I warned my apprentice that as he grew stronger his equal in the light would rise." He force pulls the lightsaber from kylo's grasp and cautiously pales it on the arm of his throne. Panic is still coursing through my veins. Not knowing if I would even make it won't of here was heightening it. " Skywalker...? I assumed wrongly. Closer I said. He begins force pulling me towards him, beginning the torture process. "YOU underestimate Skywalker AND Ben Solo AND me. It will be your downfall." I spit back at him.
I scream as he pulls me into the air consuming all the information I have inside. I could not resist.
I yell out in agony. "Araaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
The vision breaks. I stumble backwards screaming, my fight or flight response at its highest.
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