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“No offence, sweetheart?” The smuggler trained his blaster on the woman staring him down. His finger over the trigger, Han was ready to apply that tiny bit of pressure it would take to remove the obstacle from his way. “But the ol’ pretty face act isn’t gonna work on me. Again. It-- That doesn’t matter. Just get out my way, would ya?”

Awhile later, she hears footsteps and senses Rey’s presence, she seems troubled. “What’s wrong?”, Leia asks, swiveling around to face Rey from the chair she was sitting in. 

             “ if anything, i’m glad that you’re not alone. ”  while luke knew that he’d failed her as well as failing his nephew, he was too tired to fight with anyone, still recovering wasn’t an excuse--but he had nothing else.

“You won’t,” she said calmly, but only just. A prayer more than a declaration. 

“I’m sorry,” Kylo replied almost too quickly, hanging his head and averting his eyes to fix on the ground between them. “I shouldn’t have...”

‘  Snoke  brought  you  in?  ’  there were not many left that had power but apparently she had been one of them, small but certainly not fragile in any standards. Like anything left in the desert there were elements of her being chipped away, parts that would forever be there for whatever reason, or perhaps that was just him projecting. Ever since the events at Luke’s temple it’s hard to consider how anybody would end up in the First Order who hadn’t been in need. That desperation having formed from feeling empty or incomplete. His garb drapes gracefully against the cold shiny floor of the base, everything melding into one as if he were part of the ship. He waits for her response though he’s found the more time spent here the less patience he has.

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