Different Paths (Reylo ff) //Finished

Rey

As I saw the smashed down base, a big pain overcame me. I could barely handle it. Why did this have to happen? I looked on the ground. So many dead Resistance Fighters, so many dead Stormtroopers. I had to keep my tears from falling down my cheeks. Who was still on Naboo? Any more stormtroopers? Whom from the Resistance had survived? And where were they hiding? Every step I took hurt. I just hoped Poe and Finn had gone into a safe place and cared for themselves. Why? I could've helped, saved lives! But now I couldn't change it.

Then I thought about General Leia. I had so much to talk to her about. So many questions. My eyes faded over the ground - and stopped.

She's dead!, was my first though. I started running, or at least what you could call running in my state. I couldn't stop my tears anymore. General Leia Organa, the one person I could talk to everything about, was dead. Lying in the middle of the battlefield, eyes closed, no life.

I kneeled down in front of her, touched her face. No life. My hands slid around her body. Tears gushing on her dirty face. I cleaned the mud off her eyes. Then I grabbed one of her hands and folded it over her stomach. As I wanted to grab the other, I realised she was holding something.

My first assumption was a blaster. But I was gravely wrong. It was Luke's broken lightsaber. Why would she carry it in a battle? It had to mean something. If she had just been alive! I could tell her so much! She could tell me so much! We could ask each other so much! Figure out how all of this fitted together! Now, again, I was alone. With such a task!

Suddenly I felt someone breathing right beside me. I got shocked and fell onto my back. The pain sucked through my whole body. With my last power I used the force to grab the lightsaber. I thought of a stormtrooper that was about to kill me, as the head of Kylo Ren came into my view.