Puns.
Summary: Finn discovers Rey's weakness to bad puns.
Ignore the OOC and bad whatever. I had this stuck in my head when I went to bed last night and couldn't get it out of my head.
I.
Rey was grumpy. More frustrated but still grumpy. Ever since she returned with Luke from the Jedi temple she'd been having trouble calling upon the force to do her bidding. Trying to lift a simple rock? Not so much as a twitch. Using the force to help balance herself? She felt as if it was doing everything in its power to unbalance her. So when Finn walked into her designated training area when she had just managed to make an object twitch with the force she gave a frustrated yelp and turned towards the source of her annoyance.
"Finn! Do you understand how long it took me just to get the thing to move?"
At first the ex-Stormtrooper looked confused, then a nod of understanding and finally one of slight exasperation.
"Wow Rey, you've been holed up in here for two days and that's how you greet your best friend? You sure are a ray of sunshine this morning." Finns tone was laced with sarcasm, especially towards the end.
There was about three seconds of silent before an indelicate snort penetrated the room. Finn looked towards Rey who was quickly using a hand to cover her mouth, small giggles still managing to be released. To be completely honest Finn was just confused.
"Are you alright Rey? I didn't mean to get angry at you It's just I miss-"
Finn never finished before Rey's giggles turned into laughter.
"No don't worry Finn, I just- I don't know why but bad puns make me giggle."
Finn was still confused until he realised just what he said. He mentally filed away the little bit of information Rey gave him before asking her to at least have breakfast with him before she returned to her Jedi training.
II.
The new Resistance base was located in the ruins of an old temple submerged deep within the forests of the planet with the majority of the base located inside the base of a mountain. Trees had been cleared near the entrance and a path had been cut to another area where more trees were cleared for a landing zone and maintenance area for the Resistance ships.
It was here that Rey was busy with a fixing up the Falcon. Chewie was surprisingly missing but she just assumed that he was busy catching up with Luke and Leia. Luke had given her a break from her usual training routine, telling her to 'relax and do what kids do these days'. At first she tried finding Finn but he was glaringly absent as well. Even Poe didn't know where he was. This left her with nothing better to do than tinker with the Falcon, not that it was a bad thing but she just hoped she could spend more time with Finn.
The distinctive roar of Chewbacca alerted Rey to his presence long before she could see him. Putting down the Hydrospanner and wiping her hands on a rag Rey turned around to face the Wookie, her lips forming a smile as she spotted Finn next to the other pilot of the Falcon. The two, despite Chewie's original hostility, had formed an understanding despite Finn not being able to understand the Wookie.
Speaking of Finn, in his hands she saw some type of blaster she had never seen before. It had a rather short barrel with no sight assistance and had a small computing unit attached to the underside just after the trigger.
"Rey!" Finn's shout easily travelled the distance between them and she responded in kind with a 'Finn' of her own.
Finns face showed nothing but happiness but his eyes were lit with mischief. Shifting her gaze towards her co-pilot showed that his eyes also shined with the same emotion. On alert, she warily eyed the obviously custom built blaster.
"Hi. So what have you two been up to?"
Finn looked sheepish, avoiding eye contact with Rey, ensuring his gaze was anywhere but Rey's face. He slowly extended his hand with the custom blaster towards Rey.
"Uhh… I made this for you." A 'light' whack from the Wookie on the back of his head made Finn quickly add a, "With the help from Chewie of course."
Rey looked up from the blaster then towards Finn, swiftly switching to Chewie and then flicking back to Finn.
"Thank you." Rey's voice was thick with emotion. This was one of the few gifts she had ever been given that wasn't given out of necessity.
After an encouraging nod from her two friends, Rey pointed the weapon towards the tree line and flicked off the safety. Taking aim at one of the trees Rey pulled the trigger with a satisfying click. To her surprise the blaster did not shoot a bolt of energy but played a feminine giggle; a very familiar giggle. She could hear Finn failing to hold back a laugh but was failing miserably. Slowly turning to him she stared him dead in the eye with what she hoped was her scariest face. It only made Finn laugh even harder.
"What. Is. This?" Her words were laced with venom and Finn could feel a drop of sweat slide down his cheek.
"It's a Rey-Gun." After no immediate reaction Finn actually started to get slightly jumpy. Chewbacca had already retreated what seemed to be a safe distance. Traitor. "Get it? 'cos it makes Rey sounds and is a gun. So that makes it a Rey-Gun."
The Jedi-in-training's angry façade lasted milliseconds before she burst out in a fit of giggles. Finn let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, glad that he wouldn't be spending any more time in the infirmary.
III.
Rey was mad. No, that was too light a term for what she was feeling at the moment. She was downright furious and a certain ex-Stormtrooper would feel her righteous vengeance. The reason? She had been pranked. Pranks were fine, she loved pranking people. She didn't mind too much if she was on the receiving end of a prank but she did mind if the person who pranked her was her usual partner in crime when it came to these activities.
So when she returned to her room to get her lightsabre and start preparing for her training session imagine her surprise when she found it no longer in the box she had kept it in. Instead she found a data-pad next to the open box with a note saying 'Look up'. Doing so revealed where her lightsabre was.
She could see it, attached to the roof with electro-magnets and just out of her reach even if she jumped. There was only one person who would come in to her room and mess with one of her most prized possessions. It all made sense in her head. Finn was six minutes late to breakfast. Six minutes. That was the latest she had ever known him to be late for something. Even the boring weekly debriefs he was on time, not a second early or late. It must have been a habit that stuck from his time as a Stormtrooper.
Marching back towards the mess hall like a woman on a warpath, members of the Resistance parted before her, some even scurrying away. Striding quickly towards the door Rey pushed it open; ready to deliver some vindictive justice. Her eyes swept across the room, narrowing when they passed over the source of her anger. He was innocently oblivious, laughing at something Poe Dameron had said.
Despite her small stature, she reached Finn's table quickly grabbing him by the collar of his brown jacket and dragging him out the room. Finn gave a startled and totally manly yelp when he felt warm fingers brush against his neck, still too surprised to struggle against the familiar grip. All chatter stopped after Finn's startled cry but one look at Rey's face and everyone averted their eyes, quickly trying to return their attention to what they were doing before.
Once out the door and away from prying eyes, Rey shoved Finn up against the closest wall. Despite the time since his recovery, Finn's back was still quite sensitive to any pressure and after his pained cry Rey loosened her grip slightly.
"Get it down now!"
The words slipped through her clenched teeth and in spite of her smaller physique Finn could imagine for a moment this is what she must be like when someone tried to double-cross her in a deal on Jakku. At the moment Finn's only hope was to win her over with more bad puns. It had a one hundred percent success rate so far.
"Who Rey-ned on your parade?" His words only seemed to agitate her further and the loosened grip tightened again.
"Finn, now is not the time. I'm already late for Luke's training session and I need you to deactivate the magnet holding my lightsabre to the roof."
Understanding flashed in his eyes and now he now realised that he should of listened to the voice in his head screaming that is was a bad idea.
"C'mon Rey. Admit it was funny. I can just imagine you jumping to try and get it and it being just out of your reach."
Her grip tightened even more.
"Not. Helping."
Maneuvering his arm towards his back pocket, Finn pulled out a small remote.
"Ok, ok. I have the remote here. Just promise me after I give it to you that you'll stop your Rey-gn of terror?"
Her angry face cracked a bit before the mask was firmly back in place. She let go of Finn, grabbing the remote from his hand and taking a step back.
"These Rey puns need to stop. To be honest they've gotten old." Lie "And I'm done. Finished."
Finn locked eyes with Rey as she just realised what she had said. Because in the end it wasn't even his bad puns that were her undoing and made her a giggling mess.
A/N: So this spawned from an interview I watched of Daisy and John and how they would play pranks on other cast members. And it just made me think that after the Rey returns with Luke or whatever that she and Finn would be the resident pranksters. Finn never had a proper childhood so he would find quite a bit of amusement in this, same goes for Rey and how pranking the residents of Jakku would probably not be in her best interests. Well Merry Christmas, even though by the time this gets posted it'll be the 26th in Aus.
If anyone has any prompts don't be afraid to PM me. Only pairing that I'll write is Finn/Rey (sorry other shippers). This is one of my first fics so I'm not confident tackling OT3s and I'm not a big fan of Finn/Poe Kylo/Rey (No offence to people who ship those, just not my cup of tea.)
Feedback would be nice in anyway.
-Nic