"Hey!" Poe cries after the kid. "Hey!"
There she is. A flash between trees. Poe lunges, but the girl trips over a root and screams.
"Are you okay?" Poe exclaims, reaching for her. She tries to kick him, but Poe dodges her foot. "Easy. I'm not—"
"You're with the Resistance, aren't you?" she spits at him.
BB-8 whirs up behind Poe, speeding past him towards the girl. He bleeps at her. She frowns.
"He says hi," Poe offers.
"It's a droid. It just does what you tell it to."
The droid or you? Poe wonders. "Nah, BB-8 does what it wants when it can. It's friendly."
"It's a droid," the girl repeats.
BB-8 chirps and sticks out a fiery thumb. The girl gasps. BB-8 chatters.
"He says not to worry," Poe informs her.
"Why did you come here?" the girl asks, getting to her feet. Poe stays crouching down.
"That guy I was with—the younger one—he's my boyfriend. And he was a stormtrooper too. But he left, and he's—"
"He left? Why? That doesn't make sense." The girl's eyes dart around the trees, the mossy grass, several mauve flowers blooming from a vine cover a tree.
"It's a long story. He'll probably tell you it. His name's Finn."
The girl steps back.
"What's your number?" Poe asks. "His was FN-2187. Now he goes by Finn."
"SN-3237," the girl recites.
Poe wants to give her a name right here, right now. But he knows that would send her running. Instead, he reaches to the tree next to him and plucks a flower, holding it out to her.
"What am I s'pposed to do with that?" she demands.
Um— Poe shrugs. He reaches towards her and she flinches, but lets him put it behind her ear.
"No!" SN yanks it down and stomps on the flower. When she looks at him again, her eyes are overflowing with tears, but she's not running. "We're not s'pposed to—"
"Okay then," Poe says quickly, grabbing another flower. "How 'bout you put it in my hair, then?"
She doesn't quite smile, but her lips curve slightly. She takes the flower and pushes it behind his ear. She giggles.
"Does it look all right?" Poe asks her, winking.
"It looks stupid." But now she's definitely smiling.
"SN-3237!" A shout rings out, and Poe freezes.
"Good work," says an older stormtrooper, a teenager, who aims a blaster at Poe. SN steps back, her eyes wide.
Poe manages to smile at her again, even as his heart sinks and the stormtrooper drags him away.
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•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•
Fanfiction*WRITTEN PRE-TROS, POST TLJ* When a ship crashes near the Resistance base, Finn and Poe are shocked to discover Kylo Ren. What does he want? And where is Rey? And as for Kylo, he must decide how much he can trust them with what he knows about Snoke...
