Am I the first ghost you’ve seen? - Chapter 1
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23114365
Pairings: Rey x Poe Dameron (future chapters)
Warning: None
She felt her Life force drained from her, by her grandfather no less, in his twisted scheme for power.
Pain. Pain. All she could feel was pain. And then nothing.
But then all at once, she suddenly could feel again. She could feel. Ben had woken her up.
But when Ben sacrificed his Life Force for her, she discovered that something else inside of her had woken up too.
Rey felt a strange uneasy feeling settle in her belly. She was attempting to meditate, the same way Luke had taught her on Ahch-To. She had tried to meditate on the base, but there were just so many people wandering around, the noise and disturbance was distracting her.
Worse still, whenever she closed her eyes, she could still see, in her mind’s eye, the blue display of electricity lighting up the dark sky.
To try and escape everything, Rey had gone out into the woods. After a hike, she had found a cliff overlooking a valley. It was perfect.
Rey closed her eyes and tried to think back to Luke’s first lesson.
Life.
Death.
Decay that feeds new life.
And in between, a balance.
The force.
The energy that thrums in her, right down to her fingertips.
Rey was dreaming. She had to be. She blinked her eyes open. Han Solo sat in front of her, not bathed in blue light like Luke or Leia whenever their Force ghosts appeared, but a solid figure. And grumpy.
“How?” Rey found her voice.
“How am I here? How can you see me? Or how am I doing?”
“All of them, I guess?” Rey ran her eyes over the man, the man who was truly her first father figure. The man who sacrificed his life to try to bring Ben home.
“I… don’t really know.” Han scratched the back of his head. “You were about to join us, until you came back to the land of the living.”
“Exegol.” Rey breathed. Han nodded in agreement.
“But how are you here? Are you… back from the dead?”
Han threw his head back and laughed. Rey could see the laugh lines on his face, the outline of his profile, the features that Ben so obviously took after.
“No, no. Sometimes we can come back just for a short while. You’re the first person who’s ever seen me though. The first living person I’ve talked to.”
“You’re a ghost.” Rey already had an inkling of that the moment she saw Han, but the little part of her that hoped against hope shattered. Han was nothing more than a ghost, he would never roam the corridors of the Millenium Falcon, he would never argue with Chewie, he would never walk into another cantina.
Han was speaking again, and Rey pulled her thoughts away to listen to him.
“You were hovering, in the plane between life and death. And you were so close to joining us. But my son gave his life force to you, after you died. My guess is, you sort of never really left the plane between life and death... so now you can see us.”
Han looked at Rey. “Am I the first ghost you’ve seen?”
Rey nodded. She had been visited by Force ghosts, like Leia and Master Luke, but this was different.
“We are usually in the afterlife.” Han explained. “But once in a while, we can roam in this plane, just to visit. Just to see.” the people we love, Han didn’t add.
“How long can you stay?” Rey asked.
‘Not too long,” was his answer.
They talked about everything they could, Rey trying to squeeze every bit of time with this man whom she had so little time with together when he was still alive. And for every minute that passed by, Rey felt her heart lighten.
“Take care of Chewie for me.” Han says awkwardly. “And don’t let that Dameron kid fly the Falcon again, I saw what he did to it last time!” Rey stifled a laugh, she could remember the day Poe had lightspeed-skipped the Falcon and ended up with the Falcon on fire.
Rey tried to give Han a hug goodbye, but her fingers dropped right through Han’s shoulder. Ghosts don’t get hugs. Sadly she smiled at him, then turned away. She wanted to be the one to leave, only because she didn’t want to watch him leave. Like everyone else.
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