When Leia walked out to the tarmac to watch the ship Maz sent land, the last ship she expected to be watching was the Millennium Falcon. She hadn't seen Han in a very long time and wasn't sure if she wanted to see him now. While Han had been on her mind recently, it didn't mean she was prepared to actually face him. After he'd first left she had practiced what she would say to him when he came back. She had a sathing speech ready for almost any circumstance of his return. Had a reply for every argument he would try, and a variety of names she was ready to hurl at him. But then weeks turned into months, and months into years, and now as she finally watched that old bucket of bolts settle on the tarmac she couldn't remember any of it. Her heart began to race as she waited for the ramp to lower. What would she say to him after all this time? What did she want to say to him? She had no idea. All she knew in that moment, was just how badly she wanted to see him.

The airlock on the ramp clunked and hissed and then began it's slow descent to the ground. Moments later Leia watched as Han made his way down the Falcon's ramp and he smile when he caught sight of her standing there. It was one of his lopsided grins, one of his, I can explain everything grins, and she couldn't help but smile back. His hair was a bit more white and his body a bit softer, but he was still the most handsome, rugged looking man she'd ever seen, and her heart still shipped a beat at the sight of him.

"You've changed your hair." Han said when he was a few feet from Leia.

She huffed a bit of amusement through her nose as she said, "Same jacket."

"No. Different jacket." Han replied. After all the years apart, after all the heartbreak and distance, there she was. His Leia. He huffed a little when Chewie knocked into his shoulder to get to Leia, and watched as they hugged. He had never meant to keep Chewie and Leia apart, but Chewie had been unsure if his presence wouldn't be a hurtful reminder that Han wasn't around. When Chewie stepped away and Leia's attention was once again on him, Han moved closer. "We need to talk, privately, now."

There was something in his tone that made Leia nod without question. "Of course, Han, we can talk in…"

That's when Leia felt it, that overwhelmingly familiar presence in the Force. The one that had awoken her from her sleep and lingered just out of reach since. It guided her gaze back to the Falcon's ramp just in time to see a young girl with dark hair and dark eyes make her way down, alongside a young man and Poe's astromech. Before she knew what she was doing Leia was moving away from Han and towards the girl. Something about her was drawing Leia to her. But then she felt Han take her arm to stop her and she tore her gaze away from the girl to look up at him with a million questions in her eyes.

"She's what we need to talk about." Han told her as he looked into her eyes. Standing there looking into Leia's dark eyes again, he knew without any more doubt, that when he'd looked into Rey's, he was seeing Leia.

Leia nodded just as Poe cried out in the distance. "BB-8! Buddy! I missed you!"

"Poe! Poe! You're alive!" Finn cried out when he saw the man he'd helped escape.

Leia raised an eyebrow and turned to watch the young man who'd been with Han embrace Poe like they'd known each other for years and not simply hours. Poe had told her all about the Stormtrooper who'd helped him escape, and she looked forward to meeting him. But then her gaze shifted once more to the girl, and this time their eyes met. They just stood there for several long moment looking at each other, and as they did so the presence in the Force started to come into focus, and Leia gasped. When she had been pregnant with Ben, Luke had been training her to knowingly connect with the Force, which had allowed her to connect with her unborn child. She had done the same with her second pregnancy, often sitting in medication with nothing but the soft glow and warmth of her growing unborn daughter for company. Looking into the girl's eyes, seeing her face, Leia felt that warmth once again. She also understood why she hadn't known it right away. It had been so long since she'd felt it, she had thought it gone forever, and her mind simply could not fathom the possibility despite what her heart had been trying to tell her. "Han!?"

"Yeah, I know." Han said softly.

"How?" Leia asked breathlessly.

"Ben." Han told her. "He hid her on a nowhere planet and closed her off from the Force." He explained as Leia and the girl continued to stare at each other until Finn grabbed Rey's arm and gently pulled her over to Leia's young hotshot to introduce them. "He did something to her memories, some wonky Jedi mind trick thing, she doesn't know who she is, Leia. She doesn't know who we are, but I think it might be coming back to her."

Leia looked up at Han, her heart racing, her dark eyes glimmering with tears. "Han, she's alive, Breha is alive."

"Rey." Han told her. "She goes by Rey now."

She was older but the woman Han was talking to was definitely the woman from Han's memory. When their eyes meet, for those few seconds that had felt like hours, Rey had felt something oddly familiar about the woman. She felt it first in the strange sensation inside her that burst to life when she'd picked up the Skywalker lightsaber, but now she also felt it in a way that had nothing to do with that, and it was that feeling that seemed to draw her towards the woman. But Finn had other plans for her and she'd let him draw her in the other direction instead.

Still, Rey watched them, Han and the woman, and even though she couldn't hear what they were saying, their frequent glances towards her let her know they were talking about her. It made her uneasy and she shifted a bit from one foot to the other. When she heard Finn say her name she turned her attention to him and the man in the familiar looking flight suit. It was almost exactly like the ones she'd found in the crashed fighters on Jakku, the ones she'd modeled her doll after.

"Rey's the one who got me and BB-8 off Jakku." Finn was telling him.

Poe smiled as he held out his hand to Rey. "Then I owe you one, Rey." BB-8 beeped and whistled at Poe's feet as he wobbled around, explaining how Rey had saved him from scavengers and scrappers. "I owe you more than one apparently."

Rey shook his hand and smiled softly. "I was just at the right place at the right time."

"That's kinda how the Force works." Poe said with a smile. "Putting the right people in the right places just when they need to be."

Rey's eyes went a little wide at the mention of the Force. "You believe in the Force?"

Poe nodded. "Of course I do, not as much as some, but it's hard not to when you've seen what I have. Mostly though, I believe in her." He turned to look at Leia who was heading inside with Han. The sight of the man made Poe's charming roguish smile falter a bit, but as he turned back to Finn and Rey it was once more big and happy, and a even a little dopey. "Now, let's get you two settled inside. I know the General will want to talk to you both once she's finished with Solo."

The way Poe said Han's name made Rey frown. "You don't like him much do you?"

"Solo?" Poe questioned. He shrugged as she replied, "No, I don't."

"Why?" Rey demanded, suddenly feeling the need to defeat Han.

Poe paused in leading them to the bunker to look at Rey. "Details aren't mine to share, but he hurt people I care about."

Rey narrowed her eyes at Poe, looking at him for a long moment and then said, "Leia."

Poe nodded. "When she needed him most, he ran. Thankfully she wasn't alone, but still, he should have been there too."

It was more then clear that Poe was very found of Leia, that he respected and cared for her a great deal, and that eased Rey's sudden concern about how he might treat Han. Of course she was having a hard time fully understanding why it mattered, why Poe's feelings about both Han and Leia even mattered to her. Rey nodded to let Poe know they were good and then followed him and Finn towards the bunker. Why did it matter? Why was she so drawn to these people she had just met? Hell, she hadn't even met Leia yet! Rey sighed softly. She felt like she was caught in a sandstorm and couldn't catch her breath.

"I'm going to assume Chewbacca will be staying with the Falcon?" Poe asked.

Rey nodded. "At this point I don't think you could tear him away from it."

Poe nodded and then called out to a crewman. "Make sure the General's friend gets whatever he needs or wants." Then he led Finn and Rey inside and smiled that smile again as he waved his hand at the people going about their day. "Welcome to the Resistance."

Leia's mind and heart were racing in opposite directions as she led Han to her quarters so they could talk privately and without interruptions. She was struggling with what was happening, with who the girl could be, clearly still having doubts in her mind despite what her heart believed. How was it possible? After all this time how had she not known she was out there? How could she have so easily believed her daughter was gone? How could she have believed Ben could have hurt Breha? Closing her eyes for just a second as the doors to her quarters opened, Leia remembered the feeling of loss in the Force, the cold that washed over her at the loss of Breha's warmth, the darkness that overcame her at the loss of her light. Stepping into her private space Leia took a deep breath as she tried to push past the feelings of the past.

"Leia?" Amilyn's soft, warm, tones called out from the bedroom.

And suddenly the cold and dark were banished. "Yes, who else would it be?" Leia called back with a chuckle. When Amilyn walked out of the bedroom she was wearing one of the mechanic crews' mustard yellow jumpsuits, with the top pulled down and hanging from her waist revealing a white tank top covered in some kind of fluid that should have probably been in her ship somewhere. Normally Leia would have laughed and teased Amilyn about finding her in such a state, but Amilyn's striking blue eyes weren't on her.

"Hello Han." Amilyn said softly and a bit sharply, not that anyone but Leia would notice the sharpness.

Han smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. He hadn't even thought about having to face them both. "Hiya Ams. How have ya been?"

"How have I…" Amilyn began as fire flashed in her eyes in her icy blue eyes.

Leia reached out to take Amilyn's hand before something was said that couldn't be taken back. While Leia had struggled with loving two people at once, Amilyn and Han had both come from places and cultures where love and relationships were much more open and fluid. They had both accepted that Leia loved them both, and wanted to have relationships with them both, and over time the two had formed a friendship of their own. What became of that friendship now would be up to them, but right now was not the time.

"Amilyn, I need you to do something for me." Leia said gently as she looked up into her lover's eyes. "I need to know that I'm not losing my mind." Amilyn instantly looked concerned, her gaze shifting from the heated glare she'd been giving Han, to something much softer as she looked to her. Leia continued. "I need you to reach out and tell me who you see."

"Leia?" Amilyn asked for clarity in that simple word. She was Force sensitive, but not nearly as much as Leia was. She would know Leia's brightness and warmth because it had been apart of her since they were sixteen. She might be able to detect Han because they had once been close friends. She could seek out Poe because he was important to Leia, therefore he was someone to watch over. She could sense the overall well being of her crew because they were her people to look after.

"Please." Leia said softly as she held Amilin's hand tightly.

"Of course." Amilyn replied. She smiled at Leia, shot Han a suspicious glance, and then closed her eyes and took a deep meditative breath. After several more deep breaths Amilyn reached out as Leia had asked and sure enough right there beside her was Leia's warmth and magnificent brightness. Surprisingly, Han was more than just an echo to her, but his presence was much dimmer than it use to be. There was Poe, safe and sound, but again his presence was much dimmer than Leia's. The new presence she sensed however was not dim, in fact it burned almost as brightly as Leia's and felt almost as familiar. When Amilyn opened her eyes they shot back and forth between Leia and Han as she asked, "Who is she?"

"Berha." Leia said in disbelief.

For Amilyn, Leia had always been her sun, the center of her galaxy, the warmth and light that nourished her soul. When Ben was born, his light in her life had been softer, but no less important. His bright eyes and charming Solo smile could influence her as easily as the moon could influence the tide. So he had become her little moon or her little moon beam. But Amilyn had given Leia and Han space with Ben so they could become a family, so her connection to Ben was as more of a auntie. It was different with Breha. Han hadn't been around for most of Leia's second pregnancy, through no fault of his own. The majority of Leia's pregnancy had been during the peak of the racing season, and had limited the amount of time Han could be on Hosnian Prime. He had wanted to be there for the birth of his second child but the baby had come early, while Han and Chewie were in the middle of a two week relay and hard to reach. Amilyn had been there. She had been there through the pregnancy, the birth of Leia's beautiful daughter whom she'd named after her late mother, Berha Organa the last queen of Alderaan, and the first few weeks of little Breha's life. Bay, as Ben called her, had been so bright and precious in Amilyn's life that she had become as important to her as the stars.

Amilyn's eyes went wide as she gasped. "How?"

"Han was just about to explain that to me." Leia said as she turned to look at Han.

Both women turned their focus on him and Han rubbed his neck again. "Well, Chewie and I were on a delivery run when we picked up the Falcon's signal. When we found the Falcon we found the kids and the dorid on it. Rey had used it to escape the First Order morons on Jakku."

Han told them about how Rey was a natural with the Falcon, and all about what happened at Maz's castle. He told them what she had told him about what happened with the Skywalker lightsaber, about her vision, and about her seeing his memory. He admitted to not knowing what to tell her, how to explain things since he wasn't really sure what the hell was happening himself.

"There's a way to know for sure." Amilyn said softly. "It's a simple test any medical droid can do."

Leia nodded. "I don't know enough about the Force to undo what Ben did to her."

"Luke could do it." Han said.

Leia frowned. "We don't know where the hell Luke is."

"Apparently that little droid has something to help with that." Han replied.

Leia nodded. She squeezed Amilyn's hand, which she'd never let go of, and then gently dropped it before heading towards the door. They needed to know what Poe had been given, what he had hidden in BB-8, and they needed to know for sure who Rey was.

After getting a comm message from Leia, Poe took Finn and Rey down to medical. He watched them both and smiled reassuringly as they stepped into the bright, white, sterile domaine of the medical droids and Dr. Kalonia. "This will only take a couple of minutes and it'll be painless I promise." He told them as both of them looked at the medical droid as if it were some kind of torture device. "You've both been through a lot of trauma and excitement the last few days. It's a good idea to check in and make sure you're both alright."

"I'm fine." Rey said as she crinkled her nose at the droid. "I've never needed one of these things before." BB-8 beeped at her and Rey laughed. "I did not catch anything from Unkar. Teedo bit me once though."

BB-8 explained to Poe who Teedo was, and told him all about the nightwatcher worm and the chases through the desert, and about how smart and kind Rey was. Rey blushed. Poe smiled at her. "Sounds like you two had one hell of an adventure."

"Something like that." Rey replied. She gave Poe a small, soft smile in reply to his own. Did he always smile like that?

"Don't forget the bomb." Finn said, jumping into the conversation. He was familiar with medical droids and the need to follow medical procedures on a military base, so he wasn't to concerned with having a check up.

"Bomb?" Poe asked, eyes wide.

Finn nodded. "Unkar, was that his name?" He looked at Rey who nodded and then looked at Poe again. "Unkar had put a tracker on the Falcon. Rey was able to find it, but when it was removed it turned into a bomb, she had Chewie throw it out an airlock."

BB-8 felt the need to inform Poe that Finn had been the one to remove it. Poe laughed again. "I really can't wait to hear more. Once we're finished here and we've meet with the General, rations are on me."

Finn agreed easily. "I'd like to know how you ended up here. Man, I thought you were a goner."

Rey had been engrossed in the conversation and hadn't even noticed the medical droid scanning her until she felt a prick on the exposed skin of her bicep. She yelped more in surprise than in pain. "Hey!"

"I have finished my exam of the humanoid female." The medical droid reported and then moved on to Finn.

Rey muttered something about scrapping the droid for parts as she made a show of rubbing her arm. Once it was finished with Finn, Poe began leading them through the base again. This time he was taking them to Leia and Rey wasn't sure how she felt about meeting the woman. There had been a moment as she was descending the Falcon's ramp that her eyes had locked with Leia's and it felt as if they were being drawn to each other. This strange new feeling inside her felt as if it somehow recognised Leia, but Rey had never seen the woman before outside of Han's memory. She wished she understood what was happening in her life right now, but she'd barely had time to catch her breath let alone deal with everything that's happened. One minute she's sitting with her back against her home eating her portion for the day, and now here she was on another planet with strange people, having strange feelings, and coming face to face to with myths and legends.

Poe smiled as he escorted them into the room where Leia was waiting. "General, Admiral." He called out. "This is Finn, the guy I was telling you about, and this is Rey. Guys, that is General Leia Organa and Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo."

"What am I?" Han asked from where he leaned on a consoul. "Chopping bantha meat?"

"Solo." Poe greeted dryly.

Han smirked. "Dameron."

It wasn't Leia or Han that Rey saw first. It was a tall, slender woman in a long flowy copper colored dress with bright blue hair. Rey was hit with another strange feeling in her chest, that same pull from whatever Maz and the lightsaber had done to her, the feeling that something inside her knew this woman. She closed her eyes as she tried to chase the feeling away, and when she opened them again the woman was standing closer looking concerned. She also looked radiant, as if a warm light surrounded her. Rey gasped softly. "Wow," She said as she looked up at the woman. "You're bright."

When Poe had led the pair into the room it had taken all of Amilyn's training and experience not to react to the sight of the girl. She looked just as Amilyn had thought a grown Breha would look, though perhaps a bit thinner. When she noticed Rey's hair, her mind flashed back to just a few days ago when she and Leia had been reminiscing about Han's lack of skill in doing a girl's hair. She turned to look at Leia who just gave her a look that said she saw it too, the three knots of hair down the back of the girl's head. Amilyn turned back to the young trio and was about to speak with the girl suddenly closed her eyes as if in pain. She quickly took several steps towards the girl but stopped when she opened her eyes. She smiled at the girl's words, not fully understanding her meaning. "This color is rather bright to previous colors I've had in recent years."

Rey blinked, forcing her gaze from the woman's eyes to her hair. "Oh! I didn't know hair could be that color! I like that!" She said excitedly and then shook her head. "But that's not what I meant."

Leia noticed the twitch in Rey's eyes when she looked at Amilyn, herself, or Han. Stepping up to stand beside her lover she smiled at Rey warmly and said, "Rey, are you seeing a light of sorts around Admiral Holdo?" Rey nodded. "And around anyone else?"

"You." Rey said as she looked at Leia. "And Han, you're both as bright as she is."

"You're seeing our auras in the Force." Leia explained. "Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and focus on something that isn't that strange feeling in your chest."

As if he knew somehow what Rey needed BB-8 began to beep softly at her. Rey smiled and took a deep breath. When she opened her eyes again the lights were gone. She sighed softly in relief and then asked Leia, "You know what's going on with me? What's happening to me?"

Leia nodded. "I do, and I'll explain everything as best I can." She wanted so badly to reach out and touch Rey, to touch her daughter's hand, because now that Leia was seeing her up close there was no doubt she was looking at Breha. She could see herself in the girl, she could see Han in the girl, and she could also see hints of her birth mother in the girl, which Leia wasn't expecting or willing to deal with at the moment. "But there are other matters we must deal with first." Turning from Rey, which was not an easy feat for her, Leia smiled as she closed the distance between herself and Finn. "Finn. Poe told me what you did. Renouncing the First Order, saving his life, I know it must not feeling like it right now, but what you did, it took a lot of courage." She took his hands in her own and was holding them tightly as she smiled warmly at him. "You're welcome to stay with us for as long as you wish, Finn, wither you join us or not. You'll be safe with us while you figure out this new life of yours."

Finn looked absolutely shocked. This was not how the commanders he was use to acted, and it certainly wasn't what he was expecting from the leader of the Resistance. He'd been expecting an interrogation, to be thrown in a cell, to be put on trail, not to be welcomed. Leia was warm, kind, and caring. Leaders were allowed to be that way? "Thank you, General."

Leia nodded, gave Finn one more warm smile and then stepped back to look at them both. "I know you have both been through a lot the last few days and you have a lot to work through." She looked at Rey, her heart aching, but then continued. "But I need to know as much as you can tell me, about the First Order, about what they're working on, and what if anything you've learned along the way to getting to us."

Poe threw his arm around Finn as he said, "Finn here worked on their new base."

"You must tell us everything, Finn, please." Leia said.

"Of course." Finn replied with a nod.

Then Leia turned her attention to BB-8. "And what about you my little friend? Do you have something for me?"

BB-8 whistled and beeped, and wobbled on his base before rolling over to Leia and opening the secure compartment where Poe had hidden the map.

Leia reached for the data chip and wrapped her hand around it. She smiled and pat BB-8's dome with her hand. "Thank you, BB-8. Job well done. I'll make sure you get a nice hot oil bath as a reward."

BB-8 whistled and twirled happily. He had sand in places a droid really shouldn't have sand.

"Threepo, will you see to it please." Leia called out.

From the shadows of the room a tall gold driod with one red arm stepped into view. "Of course, Your HIghness."

Leia groaned and rolled her eyes.

"I mean, General, of course, yes General." Threepo corrected himself. Then he sighed and looked down at the little BB unit. "Come along BB-8."

A flicker of hope fluttered in Leia's chest as she plugged in the data chip but that hope faulted when she realized, "It's only part of a map."

Amilyn walked up beside Leia and put her hand on her back as she looked over the display. "Perhaps it is enough for me to find these stars."

Leia smiled warmly, grateful for Amilyn's presence and quite reassurance. "It wouldn't be the first time you saved the day with that astrology crap of yours."

"And yet you keep insisting on calling it crap." Amilyn teased back, a hint of a smirk on her lips.

"Only because it annoys you." Leia replied. The smirk tugging at her own lips told Amilyn the rest, that she found annoying her charming because Leia thought she was cute when she was all flustered and annoyed.

"Wow, when did you two start flirting so openly?" Han asked from where he stood watching them.

Leia just shrugged. "Right about the time I realized I'm too damn old to worry about being so proper and princess like."

"It looks good on you." Han told her with a warm genuine smile.

After the debriefing ended and they were all dismissed Poe snagged some MREs and his own private stash of beers and lead Finn and Rey off to a place where they could catch their breaths and decompress. He figured they needed it as much as his leadership did. He'd known Leia long enough to know something was going on, something that had her rattled, and that it somehow involved this girl. So he might have had a little bit of an ulterior motive for getting them away from things.

Sitting in the grass outside of the bunker Rey sniffed at the contents of the can Poe had handed her. Her nose crinkled as she asked, "What is this?"

"Beer." Poe answered. "Don't they have beer on Jakku?" Just as he'd asked, Finn had taken a drink of his and then quickly began to sputter and spit. Poe laughed as he pat the other man on the back. "Clearly they don't have it in the First Order."

"That's disgusting!" Finn choked.

"I'm sure they have it in the cantina." Rey replied as she watched Finn to make sure he was ok. "But I've never had it. I managed to put together a small extractor so I would have extra water, and sometimes if I managed to find something worth it, Unkar would give me electrolyte powder with my portions."

"There's a nutrient drink in the MRE." Poe advised. "But at least try it, you might like it, and if not, it's a new experience."

"I think I'm reaching my limits on new experiences." Rey admitted but tried a sip of the beer away. She couldn't tell if she liked it or not, it was just overwhelmingly strange like everything else she'd encountered since leaving Jakku.

Poe nodded his understanding, and smiled as Rey tried it anyway. "You been on Jakku your whole life?"

Rey shook her head. "I was left there when I was a girl. Don't remember anything before that."

"What about your parents?" Poe asked as he watched her. He could see the whirlwind of emotion in her eyes and felt like a heel for asking about things that caused her pain, be he had to make sure she wasn't a threat to Leia.

"Don't remember them." Rey said with a shrug.

Finn noticed the sadness as well and gently bumped his shoulder to Rey's. "It's ok, Rey. I don't remember mine either."

"You don't?" Rey replied, looking up from the ground to look at Finn.

Finn shook his head and explained. "I was taken from my family by the First Order when I was really little, old enough to train but young enough that I don't remember who my family was or where I was from. Hell, for all I know there's a colony out there somewhere full of people who are forced to have baby stormtroopers. I really wouldn't put it past them."

This was breaking Poe's heart. He couldn't imagine not remembering his mother, sitting on her lap in the cockpit of her A-Wing, listening to her stories about the Princess, the Smuggler, and the Jedi; or reenacting Pathfinder missions with his father under the old tree Commander Skywalker had given them. His heart swelled with pride every time Leia, or Holdo, or Ackbar mentioned how invaluable his parents had been to the Rebels. "I'm sorry guys."

"It's alright Poe." Finn said reassuringly. "You can't miss what you don't remember."

"Yes you can." Rey said softly. Standing she handed what was left of her food to Finn, and then turned to head back inside.

"Rey?" Finn called out after her.

"Leave her be, Finn." Poe said gently. "She needs time to herself. She'll be alright."

Inside the bunker Leia had been given the medical results from the medical droid. Her knees nearly buckled as she read them. There it was, the truth, Rey was their daughter. Tears welled in her eyes as her emotions swirled around in her head and slammed into her heart. She could sense Han take a step closer and she went a little ridged. "You were right. I'm…"

"Don't." Han said as he reached out to put his hand on her shoulder. "You felt her go, Leia, you felt the connection you shared with her through the Force since she was inside of you, suddenly cut off and disappear. And we never really had a reason to believe she was still alive, to think anything other than she was in the temple were she was meant to be that night."

"He couldn't do it, Han." Leia said as she turned to face him. "He couldn't kill his sister. He hid her to keep her safe. Maybe… Maybe there's still good in him after all."

"Maybe." Han replied, giving her one of his crooked smiles.

For the first time in a long time there was hope in Leia's eyes and she didn't feel quite so bone tired anymore. "We could still save him. You, and me, and Bay."

"Rey." Han reminded her. "She doesn't remember being Breha Solo."

"But she will." Leia replied as she took his hands into her own. "She'll remember, and we'll get Ben back, and…"

"If Luke couldn't keep Ben from turning to the Dark Side in the first place, what makes you think I can bring him back from the brink?" Han asked, cutting her off and shaking his head.

"You're his father, Han." Leia smiled as she reached up to caress his cheek. "Bay… Rey, is proof that we're the link, we're the anchors keeping him from completely turning."

"And what do we do if he decides to cast off those anchors?" Han asked.

Leia sighed softly and took a couple of steps back from Han. "When did you give up on him?"

"I haven't." Han replied. "I'm just trying to be real about this."

"Our daughter is alive, Han! She's alive and somehow managed to find us without realizing what she was going." Leia said as she looked into her eyes. "I think it's alright if we have a little hope that maybe we could get our son back as well."

Han gave her a sad but adoring smile as he reached up to cup her cheek. "Always full of hope aren't you, your worshipness."

"I am now." Leia replied and then slapped him in the chest. "And I told you a lifetime ago to stop calling me that."

Poe waited until Finn was busy with the General, helping her and the officers and techs by telling them what he knew. Then he slipped off to find Rey. He figured she'd needed time alone to deal with everything, but he didn't want her to be alone for to long. He wanted her to know she didn't have to be alone at all anymore. After asking around a bit he was directed towards the Falcon. When he stepped inside he saw her working on some wiring and knocked on the doorframe. "Permission to come aboard?"

Rey looked up, surprised to see Poe standing there. When he asked if he could come closer she shrugged. "Sure."

"I just wanted to make sure you were ok." Poe told her as he walked closer to her.

"I'm fine." Rey lied. She wasn't. She was overwhelmed, confused, uneasy, and those were just the emotions she could name.

Poe smiled at her, a soft, genuine smile. Then he reached for a roll of patching tape and held it out to her as if he were trying to help. "I can't imagine what the last few days have been like for you." Rey took the tape, and held it in her hand as she looked at him with an oddly familiar look that he somehow knew meant to get on with whatever he wanted to say. "I get that you're probably use to being on your own, alone, but you don't have to be anymore."

"It's all I've known." Rey told him. "For as long as I can remember."

"Might be nice to know it differently." Poe said carefully. "You're off to a pretty good start." When she gave him another look he smiled reassuringly. "You seem to have hit it off with Solo, and despite my personal option of him, he really is a good guy to have on your side. You and Finn have a bond, I'm pretty sure he'd follow you anywhere. Leia's taken a liking to you, and trust me, you can't have a better person in your corner. BB-8 adores you, he thinks your pretty amazing." He paused for a moment and then added, "And if you don't mind a hotheaded flyboy hanging around, I'm here too."

Rey didn't trust people, except she trusted Han instantly, and she had the same feeling with Leia, and even Holdo. This was different, it wasn't the immediate feeling she'd had with them, but something told Rey she could at least give Poe a chance. "Thanks Poe."

There was his charming dopey smile again. "Anytime Rey." Then his whole face lit up as he said, "Now, I am going to tarnish this moment by freaking out a little because I'm standing in the Millenium Falcon! I'm. Standing. In. The. Milenium stinkin Falcon!"

Rey laughed, a warm sensation swelling in her chest spreading out through her body. "Hey flyboy, you wanna see the cockpit?"

Poe's eyes went wide and he nodded his head comically. "Yes! I promise not to touch anything."

"Come on then." Rey said as she jerked her head in the right direction.

He took it all in with such awe that Rey couldn't help but smile as she watched him. He was sitting in Chewie's seat, and she was in Han's. He had the biggest smile, and his eyes were bright and wide. She could tell he wanted to reach out and touch the controls but he kept his word and didn't.

"This is amazing." Poe said softly, his head swirling with all the stories he knew by heart about this ship and the people that belonged to it.

There was a moment of silence between them where words weren't needed. Then that silence was broken by a loud grumble of, "What the hell are you two doing?"

"Nothing!" Rey squeaked.

Poe damn near jumped out of his skin as he jumped to his feet, wacking his knee on the seat as he went. He stood there staring at Solo who was glaring at him.

"Dameron." Han grunted.

"Solo." Poe replied with a nod of acknowledgement.

"Don't you have something important and resistancey to do?" Han asked the younger man as the urge to protect Rey bubbled in his chest. Damn kid, just because Leia liked him didn't mean he got to sit alone in the Falcon's cockpit with his daughter.

Poe nodded. "Yes, of course, I should…" Turning to Rey he smiled at her and said, " Come find me and Finn for the evening meal later?"

"Sure." Rey replied and then watched as Poe practically scampered away. Then she turned a questioning look on Han.

"What?" Han replied.

"You two really don't like each other much, do you?" Rey asked.

"Who? Me and Dameron?" Han replied. "I don't dislike him, he's a good man, great pilot, a little hotheaded, way to cocky sometimes, but he's loyal to Leia and that makes him alright in my books." He understood Poe's feeling towards him, respected him for it even, but Han didn't want to get into that right now. "Your butt is in my seat." He said instead, shooing her out of the pilot's seat. "Chewie's on top of the ship, go help him out. He's old as dirt and his eyesight's shit. Make sure he doesn't wield his fur into something important."

Han trusted Poe, sort of, and that meant something to her. "Yeah, ok."

Their fight against the First Order wasn't going to wait for Leia to deal with her family issues. With Finn's help they were piecing together information on what he had called Starkiller Base, including a possible first target. The First Order's primary goal was galactic domination, and in order to do that they would need to take out the New Republic. Hosnian Prime had been her home, where she had raised her family, and she couldn't bare the thought of losing it the same way she had lost Alderaan. She sent word to Korrie to warn who would listen and then to get the hell off the planet, and to take anyone willing to come with her to one of their safe bases.

As she made her way through the base towards her quarters Lena heard a sound she hadn't heard in years. She followed the gentle chiming to an out of the way storeroom full of old bits and parts from various ships in various stages of disrepair. Amongst the open crates full of and shelves stacked high with arrays, injectors, turbines, and compressors sat Rey. Leia had seen her earlier that evening sitting with Poe and Finn in the mess hall and couldn't keep from staring. If she hadn't been needed in the command center she might have joined them just to be close to the girl.

She knew that Rey had been given a room in the bunker, though she'd assumed the girl would stay on the Falcon with Han and Chewie, so it was a little surprising to find her here of all places. Rey sat with her back against the wall and had her rucksack in her lap, and a small ornate box perched on top of the bag. Leia approached carefully, her heart squeezing at the sight of not only Rey looking so sad and lost, but the box she had in her lap. "I haven't seen or heard that in a very long time."

Rey's head snapped up, her eyes wide. She'd been so focused on the music box, needing the feeling of peace and security it offered her, that she hadn't sensed Leia coming. "General Organa!"

Leia waved her hand at Rey to make the girl stop when she saw her shuffling to her feet. "Just Leia is fine, Rey."

Rey nodded and settled back onto the floor. She looked down at the music box, reluctant to close it and cut off the music, but she did so as she watched Leia sit on a crate across from her. She ran her hand over the surface of the box and then her head snapped up again. "Wait, you know what this is?"

"I should, it's mine." Leia replied with a nod. "It was a gift from my mother when I was very small. She use to sing me to sleep while the melody played." She watched as the thought of having to give the music box up broke Rey's heart and it broke Leia's to witness. "When my daughter was born I gave it to her, and I would sing her to sleep." Reaching out Leia opened the box so the song would play and began softly singing. "Mirrorbright shines the moon, its glow as soft as an ember. When the moon is mirrorbright, take this time to remember. Those you have loved but are gone, those who kept you so safe and warm. The mirrorbright moon lets you see those who have ceased to be. Mirrorbright shines the moon, as fires die to their embers. Those you loved are with you still. The moon will help you remember."

That strange feeling in Rey's chest swelled at the sound of the voice from her dreams and suddenly she wasn't in the storeroom on the Resistance base but a room with warm colored walls and a big window that looked out over a park, and a sparkling city beyond that. There was a small white bed with brightly colored blankets and pillows, and nestled into those blankets and pillows was a small girl with long dark hair braided to the side. Tucked into the crook of her arm was a stuffed toy that kind of looked like Chewie. The little girl's eyes fought to stay open as the young woman perched on the bed's edge brushed gently at the edges of the girl's hair. Like the little girl's, the woman's hair was long, brown, and braided. Her eyes were brown and sparkled with joy as she smiled with amusement as her little one continued to fight sleep.

"Bay, sweetheart, you must sleep and get your rest if you want to go to the senate gardens to have tea with me and Ammy tomorrow." The woman says softly.

"I'm not sleepy, Mama." The girl says as she tries to hide a yawn. "Jedis don't need sleep."

The woman laughs. "They do to, everyone needs rest. Even Threepo and R2 need to recharge." Reaching over to a small ornate box on the bedside table the woman opens it and a song begins to play. The woman tucks the little girl in and begins to sing. "Mirrorbright shines the moon, its glow as soft as an ember. When the moon is mirrorbright, take this time to remember. Those you have loved but are gone, those who kept you so safe and warm. The mirrorbright moon lets you see those who have ceased to be. Mirrorbright shines the moon, as fires die to their embers Those you loved are with you still. The moon will help you remember."

"Rey." Older Leia's voice sounds distant and it draws Rey's attention away from the little girl and her mother to the window. Rey moves towards it and looks out over the park and then up into the night sky. The moon is full and so very bright. "Rey." Leia's voice calls out again and Rey realizes it sounds as if it's coming from the room. "Rey." This time it wasn't just older Leia's voice, but the woman's from the bed as well. Rey jumps when she feels the woman's hand on her shoulder, turning her slowly to face her. Rey blinks, confused and a little frightened as the woman, as Leia, reaches out to hold her face in her hands. "It's time for you to wake up, sweetheart. It's time for you to wake up and remember." Leaning in young Leia kisses Rey's forehead and whispers. "Wake up, Breha Organa Solo."

Rey gasps hard, painfully, as she is thrust back to the present. Leia has moved from her crate and is kneeling in front of her, hands on her cheeks and her concerned eyes staring into her own. Rey's panting, desperate for air as she stares back into those now familiar eyes. She had been that little girl in the small white bed with colorful blankets and Leia had been the woman singing to her. Tears well in Rey's eyes and roll down her cheeks. "I remember." She says in a soft whisper. "I remember."

"You remember what sweetheart?" Leia asks as she tries to wipe away the flood of tears.

"You." Rey sighs in a mix of confusion and relief, heartbreak and joy. "I remember you." She looks at Leia, takes her in, the familiarity of her face, the warmth of her hands on her skin, the comfort of her voice.

The shock Leia felt washed over her features instantly. She had felt the power of the Force swirling around them before Rey seemed to fall into a trance. She'd rushed forward and instinctively reach out to touch Rey. The moment she had she'd felt their connection flare. "Breha?"

Tears welled in Rey's eyes as she softly whispered, "Mama."

The two stared at each other for several long unbelievable moments before falling into each other's arms.