The Forgotten Jedi - Rey Skywalker // Book V in A Spark of Hope

Chapter Eight- Han.

For the past few months now, this base has been very busy.

Just awhile ago, Rey and Finn got engaged, and Rose and Caden became a couple.

Ben is finally coming out of his shell that he's hidden himself in ever since he returned back to the light, and is now talking to Leia and I again.

Everything has been pretty much perfect.

Or, at least, it is for everyone else.

Although I'm ecstatic about Ben's turn, and Leia and I being back together, there's still some things I haven't completely gotten over.

Ben—my own son, killed me.

I was dead.

At first it didn't bug me too much, but ever since those dreams started haunting me...

Everything feels different.

And not in a good way.

I've been getting these ... visions, or memories, or whatever you want to call them.

In these 'memories' Ben and I are standing on a bridge, and suddenly there's a lightsaber going through my chest. Then I fall. I fall and it never ends.

And I finally wake up.

And then I'm back at the base with Leia and everyone else.

Everyone tried to explain to me what happened, and these dreams are exactly how I imagine it to be. So I just sort of assume they're memories.

Leia walks in, and sighs. "So, how are you doing today?"

I shrug. "I'm fine, why are you asking?"

"Because you look down." She replies. "And I can sense something's bugging you."

"Nothin' is bugging me." I insist. "I'm fine. Don't worry about it."

She frowns. "Are you sure?"

"Leia!" I say. "I swear I'm alright."

"Okay, well, if you insist." She says.

And then we go silent.

It wasn't until I died I realized how much I truly need Leia. When we were split, those were very hard times.

I didn't know what to do.

And now she's back, and I'm so grateful.

"Hey," she sighs. "I love you."

"I know,"

I smile at her, and she smiles back.

Gosh, I missed her.

~

I wake up to a very loud alarm.

For a minute I think it's nothing, it's just someone's stupid alarm that accidentally went off a little too early, but it doesn't go away. It just grows louder, and louder, and louder.

And then suddenly I smell smoke.

I quickly open my eyes and sit up, seeing smoke in the bunk.

"Leia!" I gasp. "There's a fire!"

"What?!" Leia exclaims, standing up and getting on her slippers, then we rush out of the bunk.

Ben is thankfully already out of his bunk by the time we get out there.

The halls are one huge mess. Leia, Ben, and I try to find an exit, but they're all full. I begin to believe that there's no use.

We're going to die.

Until...

One general guides everyone from this side of the base towards an exit.

We manage to escape from the base with just a few burns.

Thankfully we made it out just in time, because the fire begins to grow, and it looks like it's going to explode at anytime.

I look at everyone just to make sure they're all there...

...Only to see that not everyone is there.

Poe, Lyra, Stella, Rose, Caden, Jyn, and Cassian, along with almost everyone else from the base are there ... but Finn, Rey, Luke, and Bodhi aren't.

I'm suddenly overcome by fear.

"Where's everyone else?" I ask, and their eyes widen.

We all turn to the base.

Just as it explodes.