I don't own Star Wars.
But I did see the movie yesterday, and I thought it was great, especially because I wasn't actually expecting it to be much better than Episodes I-III. And I couldn't get this out of my head. So here it is:
When Finn woke up he was cold. And everything hurt. Everything. Finn wakes up after the battle on the Starkiller Base.
When Finn woke up he was cold. And everything hurt. Everything.
They hadn't trained for the pain with the Stormtroopers. They were expendable and so if they were broken enough to be in this much pain it was just easier to put them down. Plus the Stormtrooper armour helped.
But he'd been hit with a Lightsaber. Right in the chest.
A Lightsaber.
It's not every day that happened, especially with so few Jedi left. Finn was so sure he was dead. How did he survive? Had Ren just walked away without checking that he or Rey were dead? When he left Rey, she wasn't dead, yet, but with a fall like that... Could she have even survived?
He recognized the base as the base on D'Qar, the rebel base. Maybe Chewie had gotten them out of there. Maybe he'd found them after he'd gotten out and blown the Starkiller to hell. Maybe he'd thought that he had to save someone after Han died.
Han Solo was dead. How was he supposed to tell General Organa that?! That their son had killed him? Was Ren even their son?
Was Ren destroyed? He doubted it. The bad guys had a nasty habit of staying alive.
Finn had so many questions, too many for a regular Stormtrooper. Were there even any Stormtroopers left? By being on the D'Qar system, they must have destroyed the Starkiller Base along with everything on it. Was it possible that FN-2187, a rogue, was the only Stormtrooper left? There must have at least been a few on other planets, but all Stormtroopers were supposed to have been there for the death of the republic, which was only a few days before.
Finn didn't want to tell anyone he was awake yet. Surely they'd come to check on him soon, but he just needed a moment. So much had happened in the past few days that he no longer knew what day it even was. He'd turned against the First Order and helped the Resistance's best pilot escape. He'd gone to Jakku and found a droid and a girl. He'd become an expert with aiming missiles at opposing ships. He'd blown up the Starkiller base. He'd turned to the Resistance.
Finn opened his eyes once again. His, or rather Poe's, jacket was lying across a chair next to his bedside, there were plastic curtains separating his bed from others, there were medications and heart monitors, there were doctors and nurses in white coats. They were looking after him. By the mass of others in this makeshift hospital, it was obvious he'd not been the only casualty of the battle.
Trying to sit up alerted two people to come to his bedside. The doctor mumbled something about his condition and how serious it was, but Finn was too preoccupied with the nurse who was pushing him back down. He could just see the gold coloured droid, was his name C-3P0? The red arm was being replaced with what looked like the original, which matched the rest of his body.
Finn tried to slip silently back down on to the bed, but it was too painful and he groaned, loudly, which alerted everyone else on the ward that he was awake.
They golden droid also stood up and crossed the floor. Finn tossed his head around desperately. He couldn't see the Scavenger or the Wookie. "Where's Rey?"
"Miss Rey is gone, sir." The escort droid told him.
"Gone?" Finn replied, with a heavy heart. Had Rey sacrificed herself so he could live?
"Yes. With that Wookie." Chewie too?
"No..." Finn breathed.
"Yes." C-3P0 replied. "If my calculations are correct, they should have reached their destination about two days ago."
"Destination?" Asked Finn, confused.
"Yes. They, with R2-D2, are on their way to find Master Luke. R2 and BB-8 managed to complete the map!"
"She's alive?"
"I believe so, although with Chewbacca flying that Falcon, anything could have happened. He has almost crashed. On more than one occasion. I believe he may actually have..." Finn tuned out the droid's voice. Rey was alive. Chewie was alive. The Starkiller base had been destroyed. Hell, even the Falcon had made it. They were okay.
Captain Han Solo was dead.
That was a painful reminder to him, especially when General Leia Organa arrived in the makeshift hospital. The General crossed the floor to Finn's bedside.
"Captain Solo didn't make it." Finn said after a moment of silence. In some way he wished that Leia would contradict him, tell him that Han had made it back, tell him that it had all been a dream and the only reason that he was in this hospital was because he'd fallen out of bed or something.
"I know." Leia said with a small, yet sad smile.
"He tried to talk to your... son." Finn realised he was probably making the pain worse for her and decided not to speak.
"Thank you. Your service to the Resistance has been invaluable."
"I need to see Rey." Finn said.
Leia contemplated his request for a moment. "Why?"
"Because I need to know what happened. And Rey was there. And I need to know if she's really okay."
It took Leia 27 heartbeats to reply. Finn hadn't been aware of the monitor bleeping previously, but now it was so tense that Finn could hear each one of his heartbeats, although, the volume was turned down.
"No." Leia turned to the window.
"Why?"
The doctor squeaked out, "He needs to rest. Not go to a distant planet." Leia nodded, silently, agreeing, although it was obvious that this was not her true reason.
Finn stood up, ignoring the screaming from all parts of his body, especially his chest. He blinked. "I'm fine."
"We've lost a lot of fighters in the last few days. We can't lose anymore. We don't even know if they made it. They haven't made contact in three days."
"No. Rey's alive. She has to be alive." Finn breathed heavily, which set his ribs on fire. He sat back down on the bed. "Where's BB-8?"
The orange and white droid rolled down the hallway. He tilted his head to the side. "Where's Rey?" Finn whispered, his voice shaking. Rey was the first person who had convinced him that he was an actual person, however inadvertently. He couldn't lose her now.
"BB-8 says that he has received several transmissions from R2-D2 in the last few days, the latest was just a few hours ago. They seem to have found Master Luke."
