A/N: I don't own Star Wars. Thank you Guest for your review on the last chapter and thank you to everyone who read, followed and favorited!
"You may try," the old man told him, "but you cannot deny the truth that is your family."
"So true."The monster within Kylo Ren came to life as his temper erupted into an orchestra of brutality and flames, killing the old man in front of him. Beneath the mask, Kylo struggled to gain control and was suddenly willing to kill all around him. In the next moment, he stopped a weapon's discharge in mid-air, the man was brought before him and made to kneel by two stormtroopers. As he looked at the clothing of the man and the expression on his face Kylo knew. Resistance. "Who talks first?" The man sneered, "Do you talk first? Do I talk first?" As though tempting Kylo to kill him before he could be searched, he was tempted.
"Search him," Kylo ordered the stormtroopers when they found nothing, he ordered them to send the man alive and intact onto the ship. He would question him about where the map was when he had regained more control as he feared he would kill the man before he could search his mind and find the map's location.
"Sir, the villagers?" Phasma questioned.
He could sense Rey but she was far away, she would be safe, "kill them all" he ordered.
The village would soon become a carcass; its futile remains a symbol of the fragility of the Republic and the evil which lurked within Kylo Ren.
Rey scratched a mark on the wall showing another day gone by still trapped on Jakku. She ate her food sanguinely as she looked out into the sky and watched ships leave the junkyard of Jakku. Soon. He's coming back for me.
He still hadn't told her his name and during her childhood she would always just call him 'voice' but after she met him she realised that he wasn't just a 'voice' and was a living, breathing person. It felt strange to call him 'voice' while they were speaking to each other and so Rey only referred to him like that in her thoughts and when she reached out to find him in the force.
Wanting to talk to the 'voice' about how long it would be until he came back for her she put on the Resistance helmet she had found as a child, it made her feel closer to him, knowing that he was out there fighting for the Resistance. She thought that he was a member of the Resistance because he would often talk to her about his annoyance at the way the Resistance was being led and what it was doing, Rey told him to change the Resistance and the voice had replied that he would. The week before he had told her that he was trying to find a map to Luke Skywalker and Rey knew that with the return of the last Jedi, it wouldn't be long before the First Order was destroyed. Then when the galaxy had become a better place, the future they both saw when they touched hands could become a reality. She began to reach out with the force but then she heard...
A droid. It needed help. Rey removed her helmet and grabbed her staff and rushed over to the droid. Teedo had captured a BB unit and she instantly knew that he would sell the droid for parts. She told Teedo that the droid belonged to her and told it to shush when it asked who she was. Rey spoke to the droid and fixed its antenna while explaining who Teedo was and what he had planned to do to the droid, before telling the droid how to get to the Niima Outpost.
The droid refused and asked if it could instead stay with her, at first she refused but then reluctantly she gave in to the droid, telling it that it could stay for one night. Talking to the voice could wait.
The next day Rey scavenged with the droid's assistance and found that it was useful in helping her to find important parts. When they went to Niima Outpost later that day, she told the droid not to give up on his owner as he would come back for the droid, BB8 asked who she was waiting for on Jakku and Rey replied, "I'm waiting for a friend. He's coming back for me though, once the First Order has been destroyed."
BB8 asked if he was with the resistance and Rey told him he was but that he most likely didn't know BB8. The droid didn't ask for her friend's name though and Rey was relieved. She wanted desperately to ask BB8 if it did know him, but she didn't even know his name. How could she ask? The droid would think she was mad waiting for someone whose name she didn't even know.
As Rey went for her portions Plutt offered to pay for the droid and at first she instinctively went for the portions however within seconds she knew she couldn't sell the droid. Telling Plutt that she was not desperate and that she valued the life of others.
Once they were away from Plutt, the droid began to beep madly at Rey, telling her that the man opposite them was wearing his master's jacket. Running towards him and raising her staff, the man began to run away but Rey soon caught up to him, causing him to collapse to the ground. "What's your hurry thief?"
"What?" He asked looking up at her.
"The jacket. This droid says that you stole it from his master."
"Poe Dameron?"
BB8 beeped at the mention of Poe's name. He told the droid that he had rescued Poe from the First Order but their ship had crashed and Poe hadn't ejected safely. "I tried to help him. I'm sorry BB8 but he's gone."
Rey looked at the man and saw that he was truthful, BB8's master had died and she became overwhelmed with sympathy for the droid. At the thought of losing the voice, Rey immediately searched the force for the feeling of warmth she felt which she associated with the voice, she found it and knew he was alright.
Then she realised. "So you're with the resistance?" Rey was stunned, she had heard legends and stories about them from travellers and sometimes from the voice. "My friend's a resistance pilot," at least I hope he is.
Whenever she thought of him, she always imagined him as a Resistance pilot. He never revealed who he truly was to her but he had taught her so much about flying and was so passionate about ships that Rey thought he had to be a pilot. He knew ships better than anyone she had ever met and had told her where to find the most valuable parts of a ship could be found and what to do to find them. Without that guidance Rey did not believe she would have survived.
"Yeah, I'm with the Resistance. Obviously. I'm Finn." He said smiling at her.
"I'm Rey," she replied, "BB8 says that he's on a secret mission and needs to get back to the Resistance base."
"Apparently he's carrying a map to Luke Skywalker." Before Rey could reply BB8 began to beep wildly at them both.
The sequence of events which followed was like a dream, a terrifying, vivid and paralysing First Order was firing at them and all she had to escape was garbage.
When they had all escaped the First Order and were safely inside the ship, she told BB8 and Finn that she would take them to the Resistance base but then she would have to return to Jakku.
"Jakku?" Finn cried, "why would you want to go back to Jakku?"
The voice's words echoed in her mind. "As long as you are on Jakku I can protect you, I can come back for you but if you leave I won't be able to help you find your parents. I have to go now but soon, I'll come back sweetheart I promise." If he realised how she had fought against the First Order maybe she could prove to him that she didn't need to stay on Jakku, the First Order had tried to attack her there anyway. She could defend herself against the First Order. Maybe she could stay at the Resistance base.
"You got a boyfriend?" Finn said, pulling her out of her thoughts.
"No, but I've got to get back to Jakku. My friend told me to wait there but maybe when I get to the Resistance base I can stay. " She knew she would like it there, Finn seemed nice and she would be grateful to have another friend at the base.
"But that's your decision, not his?"
"He's going to help me find my family."
Finn looked at the floor and his voice lowered as he said: "And if it's not what you expect?"
The future she had seen with him would come true even if she didn't find her family. "Then we'll figure it out."
A/N: This chapter was supposed to be a bit longer but I didn't want to go into great detail about the parts which are the same as in the Force Awakens.
The next chapter will be longer and I'm just going to skip over the part were Rey meets Han Solo, sees the map and goes to Maz's castle (including the force vision) as they would be just the same as to how they are shown in the movie and in the novel.
Chapter 3 will start from when Rey meets Kylo Ren for the first time on Takodana and will be different to how it is shown in the movie and this is where this fanfic will change from the movie/book. Chapter 3 will probably be uploaded by the end of this week. Please review and thank you for reading!