The base was astir with the excitement from the world around them. Whispers of the war were abuzz and the rumors about what happened on the Star Destroyer were trickling up from the workers to the head of the operation. Poe however was not in the mood to grieve like most of the others were. Of course he was sensitive but there were things to celebrate and if the last few days was any sign of their future, he was not ready to put life on hold. "There you two are!" Poe sling his arms around Rey and Finn who were talking outside the medbay. Finn was up and walking again after his run in with Kylo Ren, and Rey was still grieving the loss of her mentor. To be short both of them had looked better in the times that Poe had known them. "I don't know about you, but I'm in the mood for some lunch."

"You're always in the mood for lunch." Finn pointed out.

"It's the greatest meal of the day." He said with a crooked smile.

Finn loved that face he made. The crooked smile, his mischievous eyes… "I could eat."

"Isn't it wasteful though?" Rey took Poe's arm off her shoulder, "You're constantly eating."

"We have the resources for it. We're on one of the most bountiful planets in the sector!" he gestured to the walls as if there was a window for them to see the lush greenery outside… but there wasn't, it was just a wall.

"I don't know, I should get back to working on the Falcon.." Rey looked at Finn a bit hesitant to what they were going to do. It didn't seem right to just eat when they wanted it. In all her life she never remembered a time where she wasn't hungry, and she'd carried out that mentality at the Rebel base. She blamed it on Han's death - her loss of appetite and no one had the heart to disagree with her. Everyone gave her space, which of course was what she was used to. Everyone except for Poe.

"That thing's not going anywhere." Poe stopped her, "Just come get lunch with us."

The three of them walked through the base until they got to the mess hall where the other pilots and workers were, "Smells good." He said to the droid serving lunch.

"Thank you- - - Mr. Dameron."

He took his plate and lead the parade to an empty table and Poe immediately started eating. It was fresh fish from the river with a thick sauce made out of sweet berries drizzled over the fish. Served with it was bright pink rice. Rey examined the fish with a fork that she held awkwardly in her hand, "What… is it?"

"Fish." Poe said with his mouth full.

Finn trusted that it was good since Poe was eating it and it was hungry. He took a bite and nodded, "Way better than Stormtrooper meals."

"What did you eat?" Rey questioned.

"I don't even know what it was, it was highly nutritious and tasted like nothing really. I guess in that way it wasn't terrible.." He took a second bite, "But nothing with this amount of flavor in it!"

Rey still wasn't convinced, "Fish comes from the river correct?"

Poe nodded, "I guess you haven't had it before have you?"

She shook her head, "I haven't had anything on this plate." Rey looked at the way she was holding her fork and the way the other two were. She didn't even know how they did that, and she looked ridiculous. "I think I'm just going to go eat in my quarters I don't feel well." She started to stand up.

"Rey-" Poe reached out for her but didn't grab her. "It's okay that it's new to you." He said gently, "No one here is going to judge you because this is different."

She sat back down looking at the strange meal, "I've never eaten anything that needed…" she picked the fork up to point it out. "this before." She didn't know the name of the thing.

"It's a fork." Finn moved his chair around and moved her hand so she was holding it the way they were, "If you can eat with it, you're using it right." He moved her hand to take off a piece of the corner, "Then you eat it."

Rey hesitantly took a bite. She was immediately amazed at how good it was, "This is incredible!" Like a door holding back a gush of water her hesitation was thrown aside as she ate the greatest thing she'd ever had in her life.

The two watched her for a moment. Poe was trying not to think about the things she was used to eating, but Finn's curiosity broke through, "Can I ask what you're used to eating."

"Ugh.." Rey stopped eating for a moment, "We just called them Portions we got paid in rations blue jelly that kept you from starving. And there's this bread too, that was dehydrated and then puffed up. It was tough and tasted terribly."

"That's it?" Poe asked, "That's all you've had to eat?"

Rey shook her head, "I imagine I had other stuff before I got to Jakku but I don't remember it. Kids aren't really concerned with remembering how things taste I imagine."

Poe looked down at his food and shook his head, "I hate it. I hate what both of you had to go through." He kept eating his lunch, "It's not fair that someone like Kylo goes to the dark side when he was fed with a silver spoon. What does that punk have to be angry about?"

"He was lonely." Rey said quietly, "I don't know how that's possible considering the family he had." she started to push her food around seeing that it was dwindling and she couldn't shake the feeling to save some for later, "What I saw in his head in the torture chamber, he just doesn't understand." They both nodded. They knew that Rey wasn't defending Kylo, simply bridging the gap, "But that doesn't seem like a good excuse to me. I grew up without anyone, with a hollowed out AT-AT walker to sleep in. You don't see me joining The First Order." she caved in and finished her plate.

"Because you're good." Finn said as he pushed the extra food he didn't want onto her plate. Poe smiled and did the same taking a few scoops of rice over to her plate.

Rey looked at them both the same way someone would look after receiving a gift that was far too valuable. "You two don't have to."

"We know we don't have to." Poe finished his fish.

"Friends share food." Finn nodded, "At least, that's what I've been told." He shrugged and looked at Poe for clarification. Poe nodded.

"I haven't had a whole lot of those either." The thought made her smile, that Rey the girl from Jakku was friends with the runaway Storm Trooper and the Rebellions best damn pilot.