The Mechanic

III

III- The day my family crashed back into my life

So, 4:09 pm. I was scouting out a house, in the rich district. Snobs. 4:09 pm, there were people running from the town centre. What's going on? So, being the nosy and stupid girl I was- am I went to investigate. There was a rebel ship, aaaand a First Order ship. Great.

"Aelin!" Someone shouted. I whipped around.

"Ben?"

"Aelin" A different voice

"Mum?"

Suddenly I was caught up in a hug. "Aelin," they breathed.

"Ben." Then there was another pair of arms around me. "Mum."

"Oh my baby, my poor, poor baby."

I twisted out of their grasps. "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you. I've missed you so much." Ben looked at me with those intense eyes.

"Huh. And you?" I turned to my mum.

"Same here." She smiled faintly. "Come on, honey. Let's go home."

"What?" I was stunned. "To where?"

"The resistance base. Here, meet our best pilot- Poe Dameron"

Poe stepped forward and shook my hand. "Nice to meet you."

"But, I-"

"Come with me." Ben cut in. "...Please."

"But, I-I..." They both looked at expectantly. "Going with one of you means picking a side right?"

"Well, uh, yes, honey"

"So...I can't go with either of you. Because that's not fair, I-I, can't. I just can't"

"But..."

"No, buts. It's not fair. I'll just visit both of you. That's fair."

Ben simply nodded.

"But, sweetheart...I need you..."

"Now you do. You didn't 5 years ago. When you left me alone-"

Poe stepped forward. "Can I talk to you for a sec?"

"Oh, uh, yeah sure."

We walked a few steps away.

"Listen, I know I just met you and this is not really appropriate, but you should know some things. Your mom, she just lost Han Solo, your dad, right?" I nodded. "And, uh, Kylo Ren-Ben- whatever, was his killer. She really needs you."

"Thanks, but it really doesn't change anything." I was shocked.

"Doesn't change anything?" Poe raised his voice. The quickly lowered it again. "But-but he killed your father." He spluttered. "I don't understand."

"I don't expect you to. People do what they need to do in order to become who they are. Sometimes they are blinded by emotion and sometimes they are not. I can't hold my brother to what he did- I've done things just as terrible."

Poe nodded and walked away. Leia raised her eyebrows and Poe shook his head. She sighed.

"I'll see you guys around." I stepped back over.

"Let me give you our location- so you can find us." Leia stepped forward, disappointment in her eyes.

I shrugged. "Sure," She whispered in my ear. I nodded. She squeezed me tight, I awkwardly put my arms around her. I'm not much of a hugger. They walked away and Leia raised her hand in fairwell, I smiled.

Ben approached. "So, uh, it's good to see you again."

"It's a bit of a shock to be honest."

He nodded. "I always wondered where you went."

"Not here- I've only been here a year."

"Huh." He paused, "So I best give you our location too."

I grinned. "Oh you don't need to, I only let mum tell me because it would upset her if I told her I could easily hack into their systems."

"You do know ours are significantly better."

"Ehhhhh... tell me if it makes you happy then."

He gave me the co-ordinates. "I don't know why they General was whispering the location we know where they are"

"She has to keep up appearances,"

"I guess...you said you would visit both of us... seeing as Leia already left do you want to visit me?"

"But we're talking here." I thought for a moment "You want me to come so you can show me all your fancy tech."

He sighed and put his hands up, "You got me"

"Fine. But you have to help me pack all my stuff up."

"Okay then"

We walked over to a nearby garage- where I kept my ship.

"This is your ship? Nice." He stretched out the I. "How'd you get it? Did you nick it?"

"Sort of. I paid the deposit..."

"And where did you get that?"

I sighed, "Blood money,"

"What kind of kids did our parents raise?" He chuckled.

"Bad ones." I said simply and began packing up my things and loading them onto the ship.

"So, black and orange? I always thought you were more of an all black person."

"I like the orange- gives it more of a personality, don't you think?" I gathered the final things into my arms.

"That was all your stuff?"

"Not much is it?" I stowed the last of my things. "Welcome aboard, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren of the First Order." I grinned and gave him a mock salute. He stepped aboard. "This is the main living area, fully equipped as you can see with a table and bench. I motioned to the black 'sofa' bench and the steel and wood table. The wood was black and the framework had been painted orange.

"You've got a bit of a colour scheme going on."

"Looks good, right?"

"Through there's the bedroom and that's the bathroom" I pointed at two opposite ends of the ship- where the wings were. "And this is the cockpit" I jumped into the pilots chair and spun around.

"Cool. I'll show you my ship. It's quite big."

"So I've heard. Lead the way."

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This chapter is a bit longer for you. It's the holidays so I'll update quite often but when I go back to school updates maybe once a week? Comment your thoughts so far.

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