Complete 11/13/2019
Post TLJ - Rey is now part of the Resistance and Kylo Ren is the Supreme Leader of the First Order. Will their paths cross anew? Will the Force once again be able to unite these two beings for whom everything seems opposed?
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15 days after the Battle of Crait-New Rebel Base-Planet Arbra:
"I'm sorry," Finn whispered.
"At least I know now. I don't have to wait anymore," Rey sighed.
The two young people were sitting in the former stormtrooper's room. Rey had decided to tell him the whole truth about her parents. She had even shown him the brooch taken from the guy on Jakku, and explained to him how much she wanted to find out the whole story behind how her father had come to have it in his possession. Now she had a sad and resigned face. Finn hated seeing her like that.
"Don't tell anyone right now, okay?" she begged.
"I won't say anything," the young man promised.
Rey nodded in thanks. Finn could see she was shaken even though she was trying to save appearances. He was beginning to know her well. And the story of this brooch, which came from who knows where, was actually very intriguing. The young woman stood up and went to open the door to go out. Finn followed and caught her in the middle of the hallway.
"Hey!" he said, seizing her arm gently to make her turn around.
Rey kept her head down. He suspected she did not want to let him see that she was about to cry. With a tender gesture, he slipped a lock of hair that had escaped from one of her buns behind her ear, and she finally raised her wet eyes to him.
"Come here," he whispered before taking her in his arms.
She returned the hug without a word. This feeling of comfort she felt when she was with him was worth all the words exchanged.
At the end of the corridor, hidden by a large metal pylon, Rose watched without moving. The two rebels separated at last and shared a knowing smile before moving away from each other. The technician swallowed painfully before turning around to go to the shed.
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"Rose, I think you didn't connect the power cable to the input plug," Jenx pointed out, showing her the red wire protruding from the case.
The brunette sighed. This morning had definitely been very long.
"Sorry," she apologized before fixing her mistake. "I'm a little distracted today."
Jenx gave her a worried look.
"Are you okay? Maybe you should go back to the infirmary to rest."
"No it's good. I'm fine," she retorted a little sharply before immediately regretting it. "Don't worry, I ... I'm just concerned about accumulators. If we don't hurry up and find something to fix them, they won't last long and the base will be vulnerable."
She blamed herself for lying so shamelessly to Jenx. The fate of the accumulators was only a sorry excuse. She knew she should not falter now. But the miners' arrival, five days earlier, had been both a relief and a heartbreaker. She had hoped to find familiar faces. Shiro, Merin, Aluki ... Her companions in suffering when she and her sister Paige had worked deep in the tunnels on Hays Minor. But all the newly arrived survivors belonged to the Western sector, which meant that the others must have been killed by the First Order. She had hoped to see Dykar again. The old man had taken in the two sisters when their parents had died, and he'd taught them everything he knew. He had been an engineer in the service of the New Republic before the annexation of Hays Major by the First Order and his condemnation to end his days in the mines. He had organized their escape and saved their lives.
