Chapter 2: How Surrogacy Works

Jakku is a weird destination for any wedding. Rey certainly would have vehemently opposed it as the setting for her and Ben's nuptials, despite it being her homeworld. So she feels almost bad for Finn and Poe when they decide to get married on the desert wasteland. Yet Rey tries to be understanding when her best friends explain that it was in the skies above Jakku that they met and began to fall in love.

The last Jedi graciously agrees to show the wedding party around. And she proudly serves as the Maid of Honor - no... Matron of Honor, prompting her to once again pinch herself and remember that she is married now herself. Rey doesn't think she will ever get over the giddy feeling of being referred to as Ben Solo's wife.

Despite the desolate locale, Poe and Finn's fame elicits a swarm of paparazzi. Rumors are flying almost as soon as the ceremony has concluded, with reporters shouting out questions:

"Commander Dameron, is it true you and your husband want to start a family right away?"

"Finn! Finn! Will you go the route of adoption or surrogacy?"

"Will you raise your kids on Yavin IV, Commander?"

During the reception, the gossip does not let up. Only Rey knows for certain her best friends' intentions, and her fierce protectiveness over them helps her cast Jedi mind tricks over any snoops as she drags the grooms into a darkened corner, away from prying eyes. She tells Poe and Finn breathlessly:

"I want to be your surrogate... if you'll have me."

Poe crushes Rey in a hug. Finn bursts into tears. "Yes, yes!" they both sob. "A thousand times Yes! We would be thrilled to have you be the baby's mother!"

A few months after Finn and Poe return from their honeymoon, Ben and Rey are summoned to meet them on a remote asteroid called Pollis Massa. Ben shifts uncomfortably in his seat as he waits in the waiting area. He knows the stories of this place... how his mother and uncle were born here... how his grandmother died here...

"Ben? Ben?" His wife's voice drags him back into the present. He cannot remember if he had his mental shields up around their Force Bond or not. Maybe it doesn't matter. If she has read his thoughts, she will bring it up if she wants to. "We have to go over the paperwork."

"OK. So:" and he clasps his hands together, peering over her shoulder at the documents. "What are we looking at here?"

"This is the license we have to sign for me to be Finn and Poe's surrogate. And as the surrogate, I will..."

"... carry the baby," Ben finishes.

"Yes, I'll carry their baby."

"I'm sorry, I'm confused, are you supposed to be having sex with these guys?" Ben asks. "Because I don't want you having sex with either of them." It's not that he doesn't like Finn and Poe. He just doesn't know them as well as Rey does. Besides, having once tortured the young Dameron has made pleasantries awkward.

Rey gawks in offense. "No, I'm not supposed to be having sex with them!" And she begins trolling him by pointing at passing men at random. "What about him?" she asks of a doctor. "Or him? Oh, look, he's holding a blaster - we could hit some target practice and then do it in his X-wing!"

"I don't want you having sex with anyone in an X-wing! I don't want you having sex with anyone... ever!" Ben huffs in frustration.

"Except with you," Rey shoots up an eyebrow. "Yes, darling, I recall our wedding vows, too."

"Rey, why are we here?" Ben sighs exasperatedly.

But before she can answer, a nurse leads them back to an operating room. As Ben watches, one of Rey's eggs is extracted to mix with the sperms of both Finn and Poe. Then, the embryo is injected into Rey's cervix. The resulting fetus will be Finn and Poe's baby, but since it now shares some of Rey's DNA, it will also be her baby. She will be the biological mother as well as the surrogate.

It is several weeks later when she receives positive proof: she is pregnant.