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

Chapter Thirty Six- Han.

I watch as Ben paces around the room while Finn sits with his head hidden in his hands. Lyra sits quietly beside Poe, Stella sitting on her lap. From across the room I see Leia sitting beside Luke, who looks so close to falling apart.

We're all silent.

It's amazing, really, how things can change so quickly. How you can go from not anxious to so anxious you feel you're about to faint in just seconds. How you go from happy to upset in no time at all.

No one expected this; Rey was here just four hours ago. Now she's gone, no where to be seen.

Because they took her.

Who's they, you might be wondering? Well, the true answer is: We don't even know.

We've been calling them 'they' for the past year now. We don't know who they are or why they're doing what they're doing, we just know that they want to end the galaxy and they're obsessed with Finn for some reason. We don't even know why they're so obsessed with him.

Nathan, Ezra Bridgers' son, leans against the wall in the corner of the room. I can't help but feel he somehow knows what's going on. He's been acting suspicious ever since we found out he was alive. When Ben explained to us what had happened, Nathan got all defensive about it and claimed we didn't search for her enough. He said she we shouldn't tell anyone about her disappearance yet.

And when Stella told us they had Rey, he said that we shouldn't trust a stupid three year old who doesn't know what she's talking about. Which was followed by Poe and Lyra yelling at him, telling him never to talk about their daughter like that again, and Rose slapping him since she'd been the one sitting beside him.

We're all silent, until: "We have to find her."

Everyone turns to him, watching as Luke rubs his hands on his face with a sigh. "Rey, we have to find her." Luke repeats. "I don't care what it takes, we have to find Rey. We have to find my daughter."

"Luke, we will." Leia tries to assure Luke, but he doesn't seem to be listening.

"She's my daughter, and I've lost her so many times." Luke says. "I've failed her so many times. First, I abandon her, then she gets kidnapped like three times. I have to find her, I can't let anything bad happen to her again." Luke pauses, looking down at his hands. "Jemma would be so disappointed in me."

"Jemma—?" Nathan questions. "Jemma Simmons?"

Luke looks up at him. "What?"

"Jemma Simmons?" Nathan repeats. "She'd be disappointed? Why?"

He glares at him. "No, not Jemma Simmons!" Luke snaps. "Jemma Kenobi, my wife, Jemma!"

"Nathan?" Rose asks suddenly. "Did you suffer from amnesia or some other injury that disrupts your ability to think before you speak when you were taken prisoner by the first order?"

Nathan frowns. "No, why?"

"Oh, nothing." Rose replies. "Just wondering."

The silence returns.

I watch Nathan, who seems to have shut himself off from the rest of us. Sometimes I wonder if force sensitives can mute people so they don't have to hear them. That, or their just really good at ignoring people.

I can't shake the feeling that Nathan knows something. He's been weird, lately. He's always cold, never considerate of other people's feelings. Which is not like him at all. I remember when he was younger he always put others before himself.

He was a sweet kid, really.

But then he changed, just like everything else.

A thing that angers me about Nathan is how, if he does know what's happening, he's not telling us anything. He's acting all innocent, acting as if he's a victim.