Tuli Azzameen

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Chapter 12: Have Your Atonement and Your Fairytale Too

Summary: Now re-reunited in the mortal worlds, Rey and Ben will have to face this odd royalty idea. Finn apologizes for making yesterday’s weird situation weirder. Also, Rey is horny, and DONE waiting. And when Ben is finally about to start his trench run, he hears a ghostly voice. "Use the tongue, Ben."

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“I love you.” Ben’s warm breath glided past her ear as he whispered, “Do you know how much I love you?”

“I think so,” Rey said softly, running her fingers back through his hair. “But I’d like to hear it anyway.”

“I love you so much that -” he paused to place a light but lingering kiss on her lips. “I love you so much that -” he began again. After a few seconds, he sighed. “I love you so much that I wish I was better with words.”

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Chapter 11: Skywalkers are Drama Queens

Ben is mostly-dead after his run-in with the Sith artifact. Rey is losing her mind at the idea of losing him again. Meanwhile, a netherworld heart-to-heart with Leia clarifies a lot, and Ben finds that the "bond like life itself" is even more powerful than previously thought.

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“And what was it all for?” Leia asked, vehemently. “If you try and string the events of the last several decades together, all the death and sacrifice and impossible coincidence, what do you get? Just a bunch of space ships, laser swords and impractical hairstyles.”

His mother took his hand. “But it doesn’t have to be meaningless. If you and Rey make this choice, the choice to lead the galaxy to peace, then it will mean something. The battle between Skywalker and Palpatine created decades of war. An alliance, a partnership between Skywalker and Palpatine could create an era of peace.”

“Do you really think that is what the galaxy needs?” Ben asked thoughtfully.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/45767431

Canon-divergent AU in which Ben Solo was actually raised by Vader. Born following the Rebellion’s crushing defeat at Endor, Ben has spent his entire life under the assumption that his mother is dead and his father was some nameless deadbeat. The grandfather who raised him always seemed supportive and doting, even if he is more machine than man. But years later, Ben discovers that his grandfather may have lied about everything. Ben sets out to discover the truth about his mother, only to cross paths with a particular embittered old smuggler, his Wookiee sidekick, and their pretty new second mate. The Force has set Ben on a collision-course with not just his long-lost family, but his one true love.

Chapter Seven, In which there is a battle in the snow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/83009242

Rey’s first Force lesson doesn’t exactly go as planned. The now elderly Lord Vader is visited by the Ghost of Lifedays Past. Prepare for incoming Anakin/Obi-Wan shade-throwing.

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The memory was surprisingly vivid.

Ben, then aged about five, walked close to Vader’s side. The black-caped wizard cyborg and small boy entered the cantina. Conversation instantly went silent, the room filled only with the comfortingly familiar hiss of his grandfather’s ventilator. Ben could feel the curious stares of the patrons.  He reached for Grandfather’s hand, firmly grasping one large, black-gloved finger, the bumps and ridges of the mechanical hand palpable through the black glove.

Vader strode up to the bar, it’s attendant standing with his back to them. “Excuse me,” Vader said, in a deep, electronic rumble. “The boy needs to use the ‘fresher.” The boy was what Vader called Ben in public or around the untrustworthy, having explained that it wasn’t safe to publicly own Ben as his grandson. Some people might try to hurt you if they knew how much I love you; Grandfather had said. It’s safer if most people just think that you are my orphan apprentice.

Back still toward them, the barkeep gave a curt answer. “Customers only.”

Vader responded with deadly calm. “I see. Do you have any non-intoxicating drinks?”

“What?” The barkeep sneered, finally turning around. The sight of Vader wiped the nasty look right off the barkeep’s face, and his voice suddenly took on at least some perfunctory politeness. “Er, I could pour a fruit mixer, and leave out the brandy.”

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Chapter 10: Excessive Literary References

Some boring galactic politics, followed by juicy conflict and angst. All aboard the Ben Solo Pain Train.  Also, Leia finally adds her two cents to the Force ghost’s discussion of why TRoS sucked. 

And kudos to anyone who can identify the literary references!

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Finn went on. "He was on the Dark Side, Rey. And did some incredibly dark stuff. Even if Jedi are allowed to marry now, you shouldn’t marry him! He’s going to bring that Dark Side ideology with him! Is the new Jedi Order to be so polluted? If you were sensible of your own good, you wouldn't want to violate the Jedi principles you've committed yourself to.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/45767431

Canon-divergent AU in which Ben Solo was actually raised by Vader. Born following the Rebellion’s crushing defeat at Endor, Ben has spent his entire life under the assumption that his mother is dead and his father was some nameless deadbeat. The grandfather who raised him always seemed supportive and doting, even if he is more machine than man. But years later, Ben discovers that his grandfather may have lied about everything. Ben sets out to discover the truth about his mother, only to cross paths with a particular embittered old smuggler, his Wookiee sidekick, and their pretty new second mate. The Force has set Ben on a collision-course with not just his long-lost family, but his one true love.

Chapter Six, in which there is some sexually tense mind probing. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/71411616

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“Ready when you are, but... Is this going to, um, hurt?”

“Only if you fight me.” Ben damn near shuddered at his own semantics. How did you do this with a pretty girl, without seeming creepy? “Just relax.”

He allowed his consciousness to slip past the surface of her mind. Strange. Other times he’d done this, he always felt this pervasive sense of wrongness when he was in someone else’s mind. A sense of being both repulsed and repulsive.

But not now. Not with her. Her mind felt so open . Familiar and yet excitingly novel. Like visiting some place that you’ve only ever seen holos of. He felt himself instinctively leaning closer to her.

He sank through the surface thoughts toward her memories.

“So lonely,” he murmured, gliding through her recent past. He paused to investigate her meeting with Solo, her initial refusal to join the crew. “So afraid to leave.”

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Rise of Skywalker 2: The Search for More Money (Part Two)

Rey and Ben pay a visit to the banking clan, where Rey will have to finally face her own heritage. The Force ghosts continue debating why TRoS sucked.

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The ghostly Jedi continued their heated discussion.

“Let’s not forget that there was a lot of other stuff that didn’t make any sense,” Luke pointed out.

On this, they all seemed to agree, and nods were exchanged.

“What the hell was with the dagger thing?” Mace Windu asked no one in particular.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22635688/chapters/67423495

                                  Chapter 8: 

Rise of Skywalker 2: The Search for More Money (Part One)

Ben comes up with a plan to patch things up with the Resistance. Then smut.

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Rey’s pants and top came off, leaving her clad only in undergarments. Ben heard himself let out a quavering sigh. He was fairly certain he’d never seen anything more beautiful. The skin of her naked shoulders, her collarbone rising and falling with each breath, and the impressive contours of her subtly defined muscles. Perfection. A  vision of loveliness no poet could capture.

She stood expectantly for a moment, and he realized that he had not started undressing himself. He quickly obliged, and with no particular insecurity either. On some level, Ben was aware that while there was plenty wrong with him, there was nothing at all wrong with his physique. Rey’s eyes gave him an appreciative once over.

With that, Rey seemed to wrap her arms around herself in a sort of embrace as she unfastened her support garment, lovely hazel eyes still locked on Ben’s, rosy lips parted. And her support garment came off.

BOOBS!

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Chapter 7: Ben Solo, Hero of the Resistance 

Ben and Rey have a little chat about sexual matters, Rey gets a very creepy present from Babu, and Ben pulls out all the stops when it comes to impressing the Resistance.

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And so Ben Solo strutted onto the bridge of the star destroyer, as if he still owned the place, his dream girl on one arm, and a de facto honor guard trailing behind them. 

More slack-jawed amazement. A few hands twitched toward side-arms, but once again, not a one had the suicidal nerve to defy him. Ben acknowledged the stares with a slight, cocksure shrug. Several officers gave tremulous salutes. 

Just then, a loud, distressed-sounding voice echoed from the corridor. “Where is he?! I’ll believe it when I see it!” A vaguely familiar-looking man appeared in the doorway. He had a sickly, sallow pallor, and a huge, blinking life support belt strapped to his chest.

“General Hux,” Ben named the newcomer. “Aren’t you supposed to be dead?”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22635688/chapters/61833877

Chapter 6: The Thirst Intensifies 

Ben is voluntold that he’ll be helping to train Finn, Rey has to navigate the resulting interpersonal tension, followed by sexy Reylo times in the forest. Meanwhile, the Force ghostly debate on why TRoS sucked continues.

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Rey decided that further hints were needed. “I think we’re completely alone.”

His eyes widened slightly at that, and there was that charming, toothy, silly smile. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that was an invitation.”

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Chapter 5: The Thirst Awakens

Rey and Ben both have to wrestle with their grandaddy issues, and Rey later discovers that her dark shadow on the Death Star was just a metaphor for the “dangers” of female sexual empowerment. 

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Snuggling against his shoulder, Rey again began scheming for how she could tactfully contrive to touch his package, this time actually asking herself why she needed to pretend it was an accident. But Rey had absorbed the same cultural messaging that most human females did. Good girls did not touch penises. Perhaps, if the penis’s owner was nice enough to said good girl, she might allow herself to be touched by the penis, but a good girl did not initiate such interactions. Even though Rey intellectually knew that it was gender-biased nonsense, the notion was a little too internalized to shake easily.

Always Aligned

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/45767431

Canon-divergent AU in which Ben Solo was actually raised by Vader. Born following the Rebellion’s crushing defeat at Endor, Ben has spent his entire life under the assumption that his mother is dead and his father was some nameless deadbeat. The grandfather who raised him always seemed supportive and doting, even if he is more machine than man. But years later, Ben discovers that his grandfather may have lied about everything. Ben sets out to discover the truth about his mother, only to cross paths with a particular embittered old smuggler, his Wookiee sidekick, and their pretty new second mate. The Force has set Ben on a collision-course with not just his long-lost family, but his one true love.

Chapter Five now posted!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19246348/chapters/57910642

Preview of Chapter Five

“Just go,“ Ben said, making free to give Rey a little shove, his hand on the small of her back. He could feel the curve of her spine, the echo of her skin’s warmth. The torso feelings blazed up again, now neither warm nor cool. Hot. Hungry. Like there was a gravity well in his gut, longing to pull her in.

His mind wandered to that thought. Of pulling her to him. And all the things they could do with such proximity. He willfully snapped himself out of it, when he felt his body responding to the idea. Both that weird chest feeling, and a certain other body part.

“Who’s the kid?” Ben heard Captain Calrissian ask.

“Him?” Solo gestured dismissively at Ben. “No one. Indenture we randomly picked up to move cargo.”

The other captain was looking at Ben intently. “Have we met?” he inquired, eyes narrowed.

“I doubt it,” Ben replied.

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Chapter 4: A Well Deserved Tongue Lashing

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Ben was unable to meet her eyes. “I understand,” he said in a pitiful whisper, hoping that would keep his voice from cracking. His dearest dreams were dying before his eyes, and because of his own idiocy, as always. He was about ready to fly into the Maw and die. But so powerful was his shame, and so powerful was his love, that he couldn’t bring himself to do anything but agree with her. “One word from you, and I’ll never -”

Rey cut him off. “No, no, no !” she actually shouted at him, obviously frustrated. “That wasn’t what I meant at all! Not the reason I can’t - you got me sidetracked!” She paused, gathering her bearings. “What I was trying to say, was that men think that young women are incapable of knowing what they’re doing. And if I tell Finn and Poe that we’re together, that will call everything else I say into question, including your redemption! They’ll automatically assume that I’m just blinded by infatuation or -”

“Or what?” Ben asked eagerly, cautiously optimistic that she didn’t actually hate him after all.

Rey flushed.

“Or what?” he persisted.

New Chapter for Take My Damn Hand!

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Chapter 3: Hello. Ben Solo here.... Anyway, I’m Good Now

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Meanwhile, Maz was still talking. “...when you combine psychic child abuse, several tragic misunderstandings, a genetic predisposition toward being a hot mess, and a war, you get one hell of a monster. But a monster is a living being. And by definition, living beings grow and change." She paused again. "And you don’t know what Leia did, at the end do you?”

And so, Maz told them that too.

Take My Damn Hand

Chapter Two: Salty Bickering

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"Who are you to lecture me, about taking a new name?!" Rey demanded.

“And look how that fucking turned out!” Ben then resumed ranting about the dysfunctionality of the Skywalker family, and the undesirability of the name. "... And why would you want Luke's name?! He taught you next to nothing! He wasn't even nice to you! If anything, it should have been -"

He stopped short, dark eyes widening. She could feel that he had realized something emotionally salient. She had a feeling she knew what it was, as she'd only just realized it herself. After several seconds of bashful silence, she decided that she would have to be the one to articulate it.

"Maybe it's because I think of YOU as a Skywalker!"

Their eyes met. There was such a softness to his expression, eyes very slightly narrowed, as with a smile, but his lips remained serious, pressed together tightly, as if he were afraid of what he might say.

"Say something," she murmured.

"I don't know - what I'm supposed to say to that."