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Rey and Finn talk via a holo-projector whilst she's training with Luke and he's in hospital on the Resistance base.

"Hi," Rey waved, even though the picture was really very fuzzy and she was awake that her arm most likely not in any type of focus at all. There was a really bad signal for holo-messages on the unknown planet where Rey was training with Luke Skywalker (Skywalker!) And it didn't help that the Falcon had an age-old holo-receiver. Rey hadn't even known what one was until she'd been wondering about how Finn was doing and Luke plucked it out of her thoughts and showed her the holo-machine.

Finn waved back. Obviously it hadn't been too out of focus then. "Hi yourself."

"How are you?" Rey had asked him this every day since they'd started holo-messaging (three days ago) because he still had the Resistance hospital in his backdrop. Rey was worried. Shouldn't Finn have been a lot better? Maybe Rey was worrying for nothing as he always replied with-

"Fine. And you?" But occasionally BB-8 popped up and told her he was lying (so what if that was only once?).

"Quite tired actually. He keeps making me Lightsaber-duel him." Rey wasn't the best at Lightsaber fighting. Sure, she could hold her own, but apparently her fighting style was all wrong. She kept jabbing and 'fighting like a girl' as Luke put it. Rey had resisted the temptation to point out that she was, in fact, a girl. Moreover, whenever Rey tapped in to the Force she could feel it everywhere. Flowing through every blade of grass, every rock on the mountain. It distracted her a little. Occasionally.

"Well it's what you signed up for." Finn was kind of jealous and he was pretty sure Rey could tell. Rey got to train with Luke Skywalker (Who, admittedly, Finn had never heard of before he met Poe, but the amount he was talked about… Finn felt like he knew Luke already) to become a Jedi! That was like… the coolest thing in the galaxy.

"I guess..." Rey said, "Wish you were here, though."

"Me?" Finn spluttered. He'd never been wanted by anyone before. But to Rey… She felt he was like a piece of home, because he was the only one in this world she'd been there with. Plus, he was her first friend (aside from BB-8) and the first person she had actually wanted to speak to for as long as she could remember. And, of course, she hadn't seen him since he had almost died. Not looking alive at least.

"Yeah. This would just be another crazy thing. Like shooting some TIE-fighters in a stolen ship with a broken gun. Or fighting a Jedi with a Lightsaber without being trained at all." Finn smiled. It looked good on him. And stretched some muscles in his face that he hadn't even known he'd had.

"Just another crazy thing…" Finn turned his head to the left, and Rey couldn't see what he was looking at, but soon enough an orange and white droid rolled into the picture. His head barely made the shot but it was BB-8 sure enough. "You know, I hardly see this droid. But when he hears your voice, he comes… rolling."

Rey grinned. "How are you BB-8?" People were very surprised that Rey could speak so many languages, what with being stuck on Jakku for all her life, but for Rey it was obvious. There were always new people passing through the junkyard all the time, and she picked up things very easily. Still, she was no C-3PO who was 'fluent in over six million forms of communication'.

BB-8 bleeped back at her that all his circuits were intact.

Rey smiled as BB-8 rolled away again.

"Poe called him." Finn said by way of explanation.

The two sat in awkward silence for half a minute.

"How are things going? With the Resistance?" Rey asked.

"I don't think they've found any communications through the First Order channels, but, uhh, that doesn't mean the First Order is dead. The Resistance is training new pilots, Poe said, and they're gathering as much ammunition as they can." Finn replied. Rey cringed at how out of time the audio and visual were. She could do a little lip reading and the words Finn mouth was saying weren't actually being heard until much later. It was painful. They really needed to update the Falcon's holo-communication unit.

"So no one's come to find you?" And kill you? Rey added silently. Ever since Finn told her about being a Stormtrooper at Maz's place, she'd been terrified that the First Order would come and try to take her first friend away with them. (Although, her initial reaction had been to run into the forest with BB-8, which led to her capturing by the very people she wanted Finn to avoid at all costs.)

"No." Finn replied. He felt safest that he ever had on the Resistance base. And yes, the First Order would have survived, but severely decimated. They wouldn't be coming after him any time soon.

"Good." Rey looked determined as she heard Chewie in the distance. "I have to go."

"Okay." Finn replied. "I probably do too." That was a blatant lie that Rey could probably see through. He was lying in a bed with people coming to talk to him about his dire injury of being stabbed in the shoulder with the end of a Lightsaber (apparently he had been lucky not to lose his arm) and then knocked out for a little while.

"Bye then. Talk soon?" Rey replied hopefully. It was still a new concept to her, people actually wanting to see her and talk to her.

"Yeah." Finn breathed out. "Let me know how training goes."

"I will. Bye." Rey smiled before ending the call and hurrying out to meet Chewie.

Finn smiled before putting the holo-receiver down and lay back on the bed. They would talk tomorrow.