Journey of a Padwan

Chapter Seven - Working together apart

-3rd Person-

Finn and Rose were directed to got to Canto Bight, a Luxurious planet that all of it's patrons had gotten off rich by selling weapons to the first order. Their attempt to find the master Codebreaker was foiled by a patron who saw them leave their vehicle on the beech, causing the two, to be thrown in the jail cell and BB-8 out of the casino they had been in.

While Rose and Finn were trying to figure out a plan B and fast. The two came across hacker by the name of DJ who they less than trusted but took the operatic of escape when he managed to open the door. The two used the capture racing animals to escape but their ship was destroyed as the were approaching. When it seemed there was no way out Hacker DJ revealed himself with BB-8 in tow and a stolen ship.

They formed a unlikely alliance with the hacker instead of the master codebreaker in a last ditch attempt to finish their original mission.

During the night on the island, Luke attempted to reconnect with the force, which he did in away, but the force connected him back to a comatose Leia and woke her up.

-Rory-

I was making my way back from the ship, checking in on Chewie once more when it happened again. I sighed in frustration.

"I'd rather not do this now." I retort before he could say anything.

"Yeah, me to." he replied and I turned around. We still couldn't see each others surroundings but each other. He was shirtless this time, though I made an attempt to ignore that fact.

"Why did you hate him? Your Dad?" I questioned less aggressively this time "Can you be honest for once, why did you hate him? He loved you, he gave a damn about you.  Do you realise how lucky you were to have even that?" I sniped

"I didn't hate him." he answered coming closer.

"Then why?" I question

"Why? Why what?" He countered back "Say it, Roe. Say it." he demands softly as I became teary eyed

"Why did you kill him?" my voice broke asking. Han and Luke were like the fathers I never had. Sure I had mom and she is a great Mom, but she wasn't a sensitive like I was. She believed and trusted in the force. But she hadn't been as close to is as i was, and that led to a brake down in communication. A brake which Han seemed to heal. "I don't understand."

"You don't not when your parents abandoned you like yesterdays meal." he retorted

"They were protecting me." I insisted

"Were they? Leaving you to a group of murderers, liars and thieves. Raised in a corrupt lifestyle. Yet despite that you can't stop needing them. It's your weakness, looking for a parent everywhere. In Holdo, Han Solo, Leia, Skywalker. They even left your sister before long does she share the same temperament as you?" I didn't say anything "Has he told you yet, what happened that night? How you became so disconnected?"

"Yes." I state hollowly, his head tilted

"no." he retorted "He sensed my power, as he sensed yours one that grew inside of you, and he feared it." he told me. I stumbled back in shock "Yes, I know. I have always known as did he. That why he tried to kill me, to prevent further corruption."

"Your lying." I deny

"Being a Jedi has rules, who I was growing to be, who we were becoming, went against everything. He saught to end that. Let the past die. Kill it if you have to, that is the only way you will become who you were meant to be" With that he was gone. He left a battle in my heart, the one between faith and truth. A battle that been raging on for years and I kept at bay on faith. Yet now i needed truth. I followed the path of the darkness, to find the answered I seek.

Rey was right, there was a chasm that lead to beneath the island. I looked over the edge and my conscience kicked in. The refusal to go down that road, I went to turn away but my foot became caught in something and i fell backwards into a a vast of water. Catching a hold of myself and swam back up and caught my breath. Then swam ashore, damp and cold washed over me as i stood looking around, wondering where I could find answers.  I saw my reflection and stepped forward reaching out.

Everything was still and unmoving, the silence I felt was different I turned slowly and the noise I made was copied over and over again as I faced myself, only the back of myself. Raising my hand hundred of me in front of me copied. Every little movement and sound went forward and came back. I reached out seeing nothing  but a frosty sheet once more.

"Show me, show me what was taken." I requested. The frost began to clear it revealed to me my younger self who i was before Hattie. I dropped to the ground. Nothing.

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I sat back in the hut. Hattie and Rey were fast asleep I needed speak to Ben. I had to speak to him. His astral self projected him sitting across from me next to the fire as I warmed myself back up.

"I should have felt trapped or panicked. But I didn't I knew it was ending somewhere. And at the end it would show me what I came to see. I thought I would find my answers here, but I only have more questions. I've never felt more alone." A stray tear rolled down my cheek.

"Your not alone." he told me

"Neither are you." I countered back "It isn't to late." I took my hand out of my blanket and slowly raised. I wasn't with Kylo, I was with Ben. My Ben. The man I fell in love with, the I gave my everything to, the father of my daughter. He removed his glove and copied me, our hand slowly came together and intertwined, with one another, our connection ignited   once more.

In the moments that past My hopes were confirmed, and my mind started making connections again, to the force and it wrapped around me.