After Rise

Garments

REY

I wake up feeling rested. That ends quickly.

I try to open my eyes and I feel tears come out. I sob uncontrollably for a couple of minutes not knowing why. I leave my chamber. I feel desperate to run. I just feel desperate and I don't know what to do. I don't hear noise outside the chamber so I go out to see if I take the ship for a trip around the planet.

I quickly get in and it's when I realize I don't see Ben's garments in the cockpit. I know I didn't bring them into my chamber. Where are they?

I opened up any compartment I could have put them in. But I don't remember misplacing them. I look at the floor, in the refresher, in the back room. I look everywhere and can't find them.

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Rey goes back to the chamber to make sure she didn't bring them in and forgot. She's worried and busy trying to find them; she doesn't realize Finn and Poe have been watching her the whole time. They stared trying to figure out why she was making a mess out of her chamber. Her frown made them scared to ask what was going on.

But after a while, Poe snaps her out of her search.

"Rey. What are you looking for? Did you lose something?"

"Yes, Poe. Have you seen erm..erm...a black long-sleeve tunic and black pants? I had left them on the ship but they're not there. And they're not here and I don't know where they are."

"No, Rey. I'm sorry. I haven't. Did the ship get cleaned out? It might be in the trash."

"No, no, no...no. The scene-..it's probably gone then." Rey says in such a disheartening form and with tears forming in her eyes.

Finn finally steps in,

"Rey, whose garments are those? They're too big to be yours. They're menswear."

Rey looks up immediately.

"Did you see them?"

"I was one of the crew cleaning out the ship yesterday night. We took out all the trash. We assumed it was just old clothes without use on the ship.

Finn says this to get answers out of Rey. He didn't actually throw them out. He put them away with a necklace he found in the cockpit.

"Gods, I forgot to say to not clean out the ship. That necklace and clothes mean a lot to me."

"Whose garments are those Rey? Let us in. You've been hiding around for too long."

"Yeah, Rey. Why would you have men's clothes?" Poe questions too.

"What have we missed?" (Finn)

Rey feels interrogated and the tears in her eyes finally fall. She's tired of keeping it all in.

"Those garments belonged to my equal in the force..the man I mourn."

She looks up at both of them and she sees when realization hits Finn. He swallows hard.

"How could you love him, Rey? How is that even possible?"(Finn)

"Who? Who? Who are we talking about? A boyfriend?" Poe says, feeling extremely confused.

"He blinded you. That's how evil he was. Do you not know all the wrong he did?"

"Aren't you strong in the force? How could you get blindsighted like this?"

"Back then when you said you saw yourself in a vision on the throne next to him, was it because you loved him? Do we mean nothing to you?"

"No..no Finn. That's not what that was. We....him and I are a dyad in the Force. Two that are one. The Force-bond makes us one in the Force. It's unbreakable. You cannot get rid of it. We..we carry both light and dark. But he succumbed to the dark when he was young. That also doesn't mean he was fully on the dark side. He was always being pulled to the light and he'd refuse. But it was there; the light was always there."