#soloturned

Rey had stuck around the Resistance base for as long as she could. She’d pretended that she was fine, and in some ways she was. The First Order was finished, the Republic was coming back, her friends had survived, she knew her parents, knew that they saved her because they loved her. She’d become a Jedi and the Sith were no more. She was surrounded by the people that loved her, Finn at her side every day as they trained. By all accounts she should be the happiest she’s ever been in her life. 

But she was alone.

So alone it turned her insides to ice whenever she thought about it. 

She’d lost Ben, and everything after that, every victory every little bit of what should have been happiness meant nothing.

She needed to leave. So she said goodbye to Finn, Poe, Chewie and BB-8, and she packed up D-O and got on the Falcon.

‘W-where are we g-going?’ the Droid asked.

“I dunno,” she answered. She was following a feeling. The Force was pulling her to a planet she didn’t know until she reached it.

Tatooine. 

She set the craft down next to a farmhouse, one that had been abandoned for a very long time. She pulled up the information on her datapad. The place had belonged to a couple and their nephew, Luke Skywalker. She’d been brought here because it had been where he grew up. Where his legend started. 

Rey cleaned up the homestead and started working on the moisture containers and her lightsaber to pass the time. She’d managed to get everything online after a few curses and slams with a wrench she’d found.

‘S-staying?’ D-O asked after a few days passed. After she buried Luke and Leia’s sabers in the sand.

“For a little while,” she answered. At his question of ‘why’, she simply answered. “I feel like I’m supposed to wait for someone here..” 

          “ smash. ben. i don’t think i need to explain why “

   SO MUCH TIME HAD GONE BY SINCE DARTH VADER   had cease to exist, since his old Master had granted him one final lesson. A lesson that now allowed him the only thing he could have ever wanted since he heard her speak those words -- Something wonderful has happened... 

           His heart ached, even as One with the Force, to see all of that he’s witnessed since. The hurt DARTH VADER, and horrors he committed, had left behind long after he was gone. Not only with those he loved but across the Galaxy. And now, with Ben.

             get in, save the prisoners, and get the hell out. their escape ship was standing by, but they’d run into a bit of a snag. endor was still fresh enough that the remains of the empire was still fighting back. but the rebellion had almost won, and leia wasn’t willing to leave anyone behind, wasn’t willing to give the empire anyone else. last stretch, and most of the escapees were behind her, but she saw one wandering. she grabbed his arm, ‘ this way! ‘ as she dragged him toward the hanger. ‘ you fit to use a blaster? ‘

@soloturned​​     ᴀsᴋᴇᴅ       “ no, you ARE strong. ”      ✦° ‧      ғʀᴏᴍ ʜᴇʀᴇ

TO THE END OF THE GALAXY AND BACK ——- Rey had suffered, Rey had endured, and somehow she’s managed to make it HERE above all places. She’s terrified to reach out and touch him (horrified to think they may be another delirious mirage to send her into madness) but she must. There’s a fine line between what’s real and what’s a hopeful fantasy here, but the scavenger disengages her amber saber in good faith. SAFE. Somehow she’s made it safe here, a will stronger than anything the Force can muster of its own volition, so she runs her fingers gently along his outstretched hand.

A hut slick with a rainstorm of yesteryear. A fire barely lit. A promise to stay in this dyad, to keep the balance of fates, skin against skin. She remembers. (Please remember.)

Words caught in her throat, Rey draws in a sharp breath and closes her hand over his; translucent to the seeing eye, fading from the naked touch. “BEN SOLO, son of General Leia Organa and Han Solo ——” Please remember. “—– I’ve come to take you home.”

TRANSMISSION INCOMING FROM @soloturned​: Stolen moments. MEME: abstract prompts.

            REY OF JAKKU ─── JEDI , PALPATINE , N O B O D Y. her death would impact LITTLE across the galaxy. once the secret of her lineage got out , the resistance would rejoice ; families devastated by the empire would praise the jedi spirits of times long gone. blood of the sith flows through her veins , so what would stop her from TURNING down the road ?

            her death , had it remained , would mean the BEGINNING of a new life for the other half of the dyad ─── ben solo. torn apart since adolescence , kylo ren thrived while ben solo hid away in darkness. and now , thanks to a jedi , ren’s saber lie at the bottom of kef bir’s ocean. he could right all of his wrongs , harness the training he had received from master skywalker and serve as a new hope to force – sensitive individuals across the galaxy.

            but he had gone and SAVED her , transferring the remainder of his life force into her. why had he DONE that ? why couldn’t he had transferred only a bit and rushed her to a medical professional after the battle ? why hadn’t he given himself the PLEASURE of living ─── of living alongside her , where their dyad could flourish , and their love could grow . . .

            she is left without , now. not even a million repetitions of be with me could produce his force ghost. where he is is a MYSTERY to the last jedi , and it has torn her into two. without her other half , she is EMPTY , a shell of her former self. but still , she puts on a mask , not unlike that of ben’s kylo ren persona. though her mask is figurative , the cracks are there. she does not smile the same , nor does she laugh quite as often. instead , she trains and keeps to herself , hoping that , one day , his ghost will find its way to her.