AN: As always, there's a little bit of truth in Legends :) But in all seriousness, what's about to come is 112% AU and most definitely not canon. I hope you enjoy. Ships are Luke x Mara, Han x Leia, Anakin Solo x Tahiri Veila, Kylo Ren x Rey, and Finn x Kelly Marie Tran's Character. And a little past Tenel Ka x Kylo Ren.

Maz Kanata had lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. Han, as always, had the eyes of a man who had lost everything. He may have regained the Falcon, and he still had Chewbacca, but he had lost what he loved most. Both of his children and two of his best friends. She'd seen those eyes before in the man who settled in Tatooine thirty-five years prior, and waited for the next generation to come and ask for his help.

In the young man who went by Finn, she recognized the distinctive eyes of one who wanted to run. But not of a man that was a coward, no. They were the eyes of a man who would run from being used so he could become the person he truly wanted to be. She'd seen those eyes in a red-haired woman who thought she lost everything when the Empire fell - only to discover her story was just beginning. Maz had faith in Finn. He would use his father's lightsaber well.

The girl, however, the girl. . . She had both eyes of her parents. She was a weapon, a force to be awakened like her mother and father. She had both their pain and their abandonment. Neither of them wanted to leave Rey, Maz knew it as well as Rey did. But Maz knew that the operatives called Fulcrum and Stardust would have come back if they still lived. Rey had only truly begun to grasp that idea.

Maz Kanata was proud to see two of the new heroes who would save the galaxy yet.

Rey held the Skywalker lightsaber out to Luke. It had felt like forever, her standing there, tears welling up in both of their eyes. Her hand was starting to get tired. She remembered this man, she thought. He had nearly faded from her early memories, but he remained still. She'd known Luke Skywalker-but how?

"Put down the saber," Luke ordered as he strolled forward hesitantly. "It hasn't been mine for some time, anyway. Who are you? What is it you want?"

"I'm no one," Rey admitted. "But we need you- the Resistance needs you. Kylo Ren is growing stronger. Someone needs to stop him."

Luke laughed bitterly. "I couldn't stop him when it mattered most."

"Then train me!" Rey cried. "Leia sent me. She couldn't leave her post, but she told me to send you back- you have a duty to the galaxy!"

"When the galaxy turned on me?" Luke demanded. "All they see me as is Vader's son. Nothing can change that."

"We need someone to save us!" Rey cried. "Or at least, teach me, teach me so I can save us, if you can't do it!"

Luke sighed. "I was like you once. You'll see. But Leia sent for me?"

Rey nodded.

"I always did tell her that it was her."

He looked up to the sky, which was clouding over. "It looks stormy. I wouldn't leave now. We'll go when it stops."

"I'll get Chewie," Rey said brightly, happy with what looked like her success. She headed down the steps to find Chewbacca. Luke turned back to Mara's grave.

"You always told me that one day Leia would be begging for training," he muttered. "You never do stop being wrong, my love."

"General, a message for you," Lt. Connix said eagerly as she approached Leia's quarters. Leia looked up from her holos of Han and Ben, and quickly shut them off. They hadn't seen her grieve for Alderaan-how could they see her grieve now?

"You may give it, Lieutenant," Leia said, composing herself into the princess she usually was.

"Rey was able to send a transmission-it's a little warbled, however," Lt. Connix said. "She said Skywalker agreed to come back and teach you."

"Good," Leia said, holding back a sigh. She wanted nothing to do with the Force. She got along just fine without it. Sure, she could do little things-a light switch here, a premonition there, and her telepathic bond with her twin. She never wanted more than that. She was not meant to be a Jedi, as far as she had been concerned. Han's death at her Ben's hands changed everything. She would train to do the unthinkable, even now. Not that she would be alone. Rey and Finn were strong in the Force-she could sense it. And she had backup, even now.

There is another, she thought. Another who could do it.

It was horrible, what she was thinking, but there wasn't another choice. Lt. Connix was watching her carefully.

"General?" she asked, her Nubian features concerned.

"Send a reply thanking her for it," Leia said, now focused. "And I want you to send a transmission to the private comm. You know the one. Tell them to come to D'Qar."

Lt. Connix nodded. "And this transmission does not go in the records, correct?"

"Correct," Leia said.