The Flight Before Us | FanFic/Damarey/ Before Ep 9

Chapter 8 - Both

"So... your eyes were closed..."

Poe trailed off. Rey rolled her eyes, dreading having him bring it up.

Poe began again, "And Luke took a blade of grass..."

"Yes, and hit my hand with it, and I said I felt the force and... Stop it!"

She had trailed off because he was laughing again.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I can't stop..." he bit his lip, but then started again.

She moved the lightsaber practice drone slightly so he didn't have time to block it.

"Hey!" he shouted, then smiled. "Watch where you're aiming that thing."

She shook her head. "Well, that wasn't the most embarrassing of moments-"

"You mean you trying to shoot Kylo with a blaster a million light years away?"

"Something like that," she said, but she was distracted by the control board on the Mon Calimari. The tools lay scattered around her. She remained focused on it, but as they couldn't make much progress before the field test, Poe had decided to let her try to fix it and he would take a turn with the droid again.

Which he wasn't exactly thrilled about.

"Try again," Rey said.

Poe sighed and put on the helmet.

"It's easy for you to say," he said.

"No, it's not. Remember... I thought the Force was a blade of grass and I'm not sure where else I must have messed up..."

She trailed off, focusing on the board. She needed a tool but wasn't sure what.

She was lost in a confusion he couldn't understand, and she didn't know where to start.

She didn't even know what tool she needed.

Until it was hovering three inches above her hand.

She turned back to Poe. "It'll connect the wires , up over the-"

"I got it," she said, smiling at him. Just when she was about to lose herself in the hole, with the vines, she would find herself pulled back by him.

Pulled back to the light.

Kylo would have pushed her down there, so she could be his.

She glanced behind her, looking at Poe eye up the droid and put his helmet on again, nervous.

"You don't have to be scared, just because you got close to the dark," she said.

He blocked two lasers and then the next two hit him.

He pulled off the helmet and turned his head, letting it fall on the ground.

"Then why do you always think of the cave and the mirrors... and him?"

He didn't say his name.

He was already worried and fearful while doing these exercises. It made his jealousy louder in his mind, and he was desperate to hide it from her.

She saw the cave again in her head, hearing the voice say, "You have no place in this story."

"It's a lie, Rey," he said.

She threw her tool down and stood up.

"Stop probing my thoughts!" she yelled.

"Stop thinking so loud!" he snapped back.

"I wouldn't have to be thinking this at all-"

"I shouldn't even be here, training to be-"

Her voice echoed in their minds.