"I didn't know Kylo Ren was married," remarks SN-3237 as she leads Rey along, the droids bleeping and following.
"It's a recent thing," Rey mutters. She looks at the girl and sees Finn, and she wants to scream and cry.
"They're in here." SN-3237 stops.
"How old are you?" Rey questions.
"Six."
Rey clenches her jaw. This is so wrong. "Open the cell."
"Rey!" shrieks Finn.
"You're not with the First Order?" SN-3237 gapes at her, as if she's a traitor, a liar.
"No." Rey shakes her head and grasps the girl's hands, kneeling down as Poe and Luke slip out of the cell, both relieved to find their droids unharmed. "Kylo Ren isn't either. Not anymore. He was born by the name of Ben Solo, and he went to join the Resistance."
The girl gasps. "But—"
"Do you really think we're monsters?" Finn questions, crouching down beside Rey.
"N-no."
"Not everyone in the Resistance is bad. Or good," Rey says, thinking of Shiv in fury. "Same with the First Order."
"What did you come for?" the girl cries out.
"To let you know you can leave. If you want to," Luke puts in.
"If we want to?"
"Yeah," Poe says. "It's up to you. If you want to stay, we can't—I mean—" He glances at Rey. Ben?
She shrugs. Who knows? But she highly doubts he'll be able to persuade everyone to abandon the First Order.
"What will happen if I go?" she demands. "I don't want to be a Resistance fighter."
"You don't have to be," Finn encourages. "I didn't want to be. I'm actually more of a Jedi than a Resistance fighter, and if I'd chosen not to be, no one would be mad at me."
Poe shrugs and smirks.
"The first thing you'd get is a name," Finn says. "Like when Poe started calling me Finn instead of FN-2187."
She shakes her head and backs up. Rey bites her lip.
"What name?" she inquires.
"What..." Finn glances at Rey, at Luke, at Poe.
"SN..." Poe muses.
"Sini," suggests Finn. See-nee.
"Sini?" The girl's lips curve upwards, and tension dissolves in Rey's shoulders.
They're safe. Finn, Poe, and Luke are all safe, and coming home. And so is Sini.
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"You're lying!"
"I'm not. Snoke is dead," Ben states, crossing his arms.
"Why aren't you leading the First Order, then?" demands one of the head stormtroopers, a tall woman who almost reminds Ben of Phasma. He shudders as he remembers her end, according to Rey.
But the desperation riddling the woman's face is enough to tear at Ben. He swallows. "Because I've joined with the Resistance."
"So you're going to build a new Republic, then? After all the work Hux put into—" snarls a male captain.
"Hux is dead," Ben shoots back. "He died killing Snoke, not that you'll believe me."
The woman aims her blaster and Ben sends it flying through the air. Blue bolts to his left, and Ben waves his other arm, freezing the blast before it can slam into Chewie.
"Now," Ben says. "You're going to gather your troopers. You're going to let me explain things. And then you're going to give them the choice as to whether to leave or stay, and whatever choice they make will be respected. You hear?"
Chewie growls, grabbing the woman by the throat.
"Order them to assemble," Ben commands, sparking up his lightsaber for added affect. "Now."
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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...
