Silence

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After the ship was set on course Roni and Rey went to the back and joined Nessa, Chewy and the droids. Nessa sat in silence at the table, while Rey and Roni were at the opposite side of the room. None of them would talk to each other. "Are you guys going to talk to me, the silence is killing me." Nessa spoke first feeling guilty.
"Why should we talk to you?" Rey half yells at her.
Roni looks at Nessa with a sad look, "Aren't you at least a little bit sad about Luke?"
" Are you kidding me? Of course I am, I just handle grief different than you." Nessa said back loudly feeling hurt that they just asked that. "I may not have trusted him, but he was still our father." She said feeling bad about yelling.
Rey looks up at Nessa with tears in her eyes, "Why couldn't you just work it out with Luke?"
Nessa looks down at the ground and says, "It's hard for me to trust anyone." She pauses then continues, "It wouldn't have changed the outcome anyway."
Roni still standing on the other side of the room, says, " Yes it would have."
Nessa gives her a confused look, "What makes you think that?" She is trying to defend herself, but starting to realize that she may be wrong.
Roni just looks at Nessa with a glare, "The only reason we got caught was because we were trying to rescue you. If we didn't do that Luke would still be alive." Roni sniffed because of the tears in her eyes.
The room went quiet again, no one knew what to say. Nessa thought to herself and found out that Roni was right. It was all her fault that they even came here, if she hadn't been tempted by Ben to join him none of this would have happened. She just can't believe that this is all her fault.
After a few minutes of silence, Rey finally spoke up, "I am going to see how the ship is doing." She left the room without saying another word. Chewy followed her to help if anything went wrong.
Roni and Nessa sat in silence each waiting for the other to talk. Nessa was the first to crack, "I'm sorry." This was said in a bit of a whisper so Roni didn't understand her.
"What did you say?" Roni asked with curiosity.
Nessa said louder than before, "I said I'm sorry. I shouldn't have abandoned you guys. You're right Luke would still be alive if it wasn't for me." Nessa was getting really upset now.
She was about to rant some more when Rey yelled from the other room. "Guys you have to see this." Roni and Nessa gave each other a look and ran into the control room. Rey was sitting on a chair starring at something in the middle of the room, it was a hologram. Luke was the hologram. Roni and Nessa went and stood by Rey.
"What is this?" Roni asked.
Rey pauses and then says, "It's a message Luke recorded when he was alone in here. We have a way to stop Ben."

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