Palpatine's Back

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"It's on fire, everything's on... fire," Poe stated with an exasperated sigh, staring at the falcon with his hands placed firmly on his hips, leg jutted out slightly. Rey slowed down to a jog, taking in the visible wisps of smoke and flames on various parts of the ship.

"There's a spy?" She called out, catching his attention as he turned away from the Falcon.

"Yeah, there might be a spy here as well," He stated, his tone insinuating and in response Rey pursed her lips confusion visible on her features.

"Why didn't anyone tell me this before, I could've gone with you," She proclaimed trying to hide the annoyance dripping from her voice as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"You're training, we didn't want to be a bother," He fibbed as if that logic made perfect sense. She scowled in response to his comment.

"Okay, how'd it really go?" She ignored his offhand comment, mimicking his movements as he clenched his jaw looking away from her.

"Really good actually," He lied through his teeth again, bringing his gaze to hers in a challenging way which caused her brow to raise quizzically.

"Han's ship," She started, her eyes raking over the falcon and the resistance members scurrying to try and put the fires out. It seemed like complete and utter chaos.

"What did you do to the falcon?" She reiterated since he lacked to reply. It was like talking to a brick wall, he'd either ignore her or give her one-word answers. It was infuriating beyond belief.

"Tell me what happened," Rey huffed as he began to stalk off in a mood, causing her to follow behind.

"You tell me first," He gestured with his hands at her angrily, turning to face her. She let her shoulders droop unsure of what he meant by the remark.

"You know what you are?" She remarked, her lips upturning into a sarcastic smile waiting for him to bite back at her with his own words.

"What?" He huffed out, waiting for her no doubt venomous reply.

"Difficult, you're a very difficult man," She dragged out the 'very' to put emphasis on how fed up she was with his behaviour.

"You-," he pointed his finger at her before storming off towards BB8 who had rolled his way toward the trio.

"Finn, you made it back in one piece," She exclaimed, running towards him to engulf him in a warm embrace. He reciprocated with just as much emotion in the hug.

"Barely," He chuckled as she pulled away.

"So, bad mood?" The question caught him off guard and he tilted his head slightly.

"Me?" He asked, pointing at himself.

"Him," she gestured with her thumb behind her back to Poe.

"Always," He responded, his voice getting higher towards the end of the word sassily.

"Do we have a spy?" She questioned him, eyes widening in curiosity as she removed her hands from his shoulders.

Chewie roared back in response instead of Finn, throwing his arms up in the air as if he was explaining what had happened.

"You lightspeed skipped?" She shrieked out of disapproval, walking toward Poe who kneeled Infront of his droid.

"Yeah, well it got us back here," He argued back as Rey bit back a response. She shook her head unable to believe his stupidity, stupid flyboy.

"You two..." Finn began to speak, rolling his eyes at the continuous bickering.

"Poe, the compressor is down," She informed him, concern painted her features for not only them but the falcon. She hid her anger well, keeping her expression blank.

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