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It is late one night when she breaks into his cell, using the force to open the multi-locked door. He is lying on the floor of the windowless room, looking just like he did in her dream. Mostly naked, broken. He senses her and opens his eyes.

"Rey, Rey," he rasps.

She leans down, just like in her dream. "I've come, Ben."

"Thank the Maker," he breathes, relaxing like a boneless fish. He waits. "Do it, Rey, do it." His words are calm. There is no fight in him at all.

"I can't kill you, Ben."

He looks up, horrified. "Rey," he gasps desperately, "Rey, you promised. You promised, Rey."

It is a testament to just how broken he is that his eyes well up. He is like a young boy again, a child. In that moment, Rey decides that she will do whatever it takes to put him back together again. Piece by piece, she will weld him together. She will abandon the Rebels. Finn, Poe, Leia, all her little makeshift family. She can't follow the Jedi ways. She will be neither dark nor light. She will give it all up to take him away and mend him.

"We're leaving this place forever Ben. I'll put you back together. I'll give you what you need. I'll be yours, and you will be mine."

He looks baffled at this statement, looking at her like she has grown another head. He doesn't resist when she helps him up and puts a cloak around his bare shoulders. Or when they sneak down to the Millennium Falcon. It is hard work getting there, with him leaning heavily on her. A few times she has to cloak them with the force to prevent the guards from spotting them. But then they are there in the cockpit.

"Do you even know how to fly this thing?" Ben asks, skeptically.

"Yeah, I've done it before."

A long time ago. With his father. She feels sharp pain, reliving the moment when he was stabbed through. She can still see him falling. By the way Ben tenses, she knows her feelings have leaked through. Rey enters the coordinates to a system where the Rebels will never find them. There's a little backwater planet with cheap housing. It takes a long time to get there. As the hours slink by, Ben grows sleepier and sleepier. The next time she looks over, his eyes are closed and he is breathing deeply. Rey wants to sleep too, but stays up to fly the ship. She lands next to a ship yard.

"Ben, Ben, wake up," she says softly, carefully shaking him.

He looks out the window.

"Where are we?"

"Adavan."

"What the hell is Adavan?" He asks, looking perplexed.

"A planet they'll never find us on. " She hands him a dark blue long sleeved shirt and some jeans. "Here, put these on. I'm going to try to get a good deal on the ship."

"You're… you're selling the ship?" He looks stunned.

"Yes." She looks sad. "It's a sacrifice we'll have to make."

He looks at her, and can read in her eyes that those words have to do with more than just a ship. Ben goes to the back and puts the clothes on. When he comes out, Rey has to resist admiring how much nicer he looks when he's not dressed like a crazed megalomaniac. She lowers the gangplank. It's humid outside, and there is a strong tropical smell in the air. It is plants and salt water and life. A greyish creature with long, stringy limbs approaches them.

Ben looks apprehensive. "Do you even know how to speak their language?"

"Yeah, don't worry."

He watches on in surprise as she bargains heatedly with the creature. After twenty minutes of strong debate, the being hands Rey a stack of currency. She carefully counts them and nods to it. The being waves them over to a small transport shuttle. It is open air, just a small thing.

"Luckily they offered me a good price on this shuttle. The nearest house broker is several miles away. That would have been a real pain if we had to camp in the jungle for days," Rey comments as they get in.

"How do you…" he pauses, not knowing where to start.

She starts the shuttle up, and begins cruising along.

"It's weird, really. There was this magazine I had. It showed different places around the galaxy, giving snapshots of the culture and weather and such. When I saw this place, I wanted to go there more than anywhere. It was so green and beautiful. I pretended I would, and I prepared for it, even though I didn't really believe I would go there. I did that with a few places. The very green places."

"But how did you learn the language?"

"One of the old ship databases. I didn't pick up a huge amount, but it was a hobby for me. At night, or when it was too hot to scavenge, I would practice four different languages."

The shuttle cut through some thick rainforest, and they glimpsed colorful birds and lots of weird flowers. Then it pushed out onto the beach. The water was clear, and small fish were jumping out.

"Ohhh, I think I saw a Karna!" Rey said, leaning over and pointing.

Her face lit up as she smiled. It was like drinking in the sun, Ben thought. Her name was fitting after all. Rey… sunlight.

"So, is there a plan, or is this just an impulse decision?"

"There's a plan, don't worry."

"And what would that be?"

"To stay here as long as we want to. Which may be forever."

"You're not going back, then."

"No."

"And what about me? How am I involved?" His voice was soft, unsure.

"You're staying with me, so I can keep an eye on you. Even with that," she said, pointing to his force-inhibiting bracelet, "and without the First Order, I have a feeling you could still cause some trouble. I've taken it upon myself to make sure that doesn't happen. And to take care of you."

"Take care of me?"

"Yeah. You need someone." She looked into his eyes seriously. "You need me. You're broken. I'm going to put you back together."

"I… I don't know if that's possible," he replied, looking away from the intensity in her gaze.

"It is. I've spent all of my life putting things together." They were silent for a while.

Finally, she said, "Don't you know what you're going to do?"

"What am I going to do?"

"Remember what you said to me? You said you could see my loneliness. And I can see yours too. You're going to be my companion. So I won't be lonely."

He looked surprised at that. "Strange companion you've chosen. A mass murderer." Shame laced his voice.

She gently turned his face to look at her. "Ben. I could feel there was light in you. I can still feel it. Yes, there is darkness too. There is a bit in me too. But I won't let it control you, and I won't let it control me."

"So you'll no longer be a Jedi, then."

"And you will no longer be a Sith. "We'll be just us. Ben and Rey."

He looks hesitant, but replies, in a soft voice that could be mistaken for the passing wind, "Okay."