"There is a chance… and I don't know how great a chance that is… That you may be force sensitive, son." Poe gaped at his father. He could scarcely believe what he was hearing.

"Are you actually trying to convince me that mom had a magic tree…" He looked at Finn, who was masking his disbelief quite admirably. "Are you actually high right now?! A magic tree?!" Kes gave his son a rap on the knuckles with the spoon he was stirring his tea with. Poe withdrew his hand and flinched.

"That's no way to speak to your father!" Poe made a hasty apology, realising he had been disrespectful. "But in any case, I don't know much about that tree. She just said something about the force. You know Shera didn't like talking about her missions." Poe nodded and peered around his father to glance at the tree. He had climbed all over that tree as a child. He'd built a swing out of it at one point. When he was a kid, he'd wanted to live in the tree. Had this tree affected him? Poe knew his talents as a pilot were exceptional, but couldn't that just be down to his own merit? Why did he have to be special all of a sudden? Couldn't he just be a talented guy and leave it at that?

"Dad… I don't understand. How can a tree have the force?" Finn was looking at him with wide eyes now. He wished he'd stop.

"Goddam it son, how the hell am I meant to know? It's a living thing I guess? Look the point is, that's why your friend… What was her name… Dana. That's why she took it, I expect." Poe sat back, and crossed his arms. This was all so bizarre. But a large unwieldy branch of a tree wasn't the most practical piece of luggage. What was she doing?

"Let's forget about what sort of mumbo-jumbo tree I've been exposed to. What about Dara? Do you know where she went?" Finn idly drank the tea that Kes had pushed in front of him. Poe caught the comical moment when Finn, spluttered and looked into the mug after tasting the stuff. He eagerly gulped some down, and Poe couldn't help but let a little smile escape onto his lips. He caught his father looking between the two of them. He similarly crossed his arms and gave his son a smug look.

"Well, it may have been the middle of the night, but I caught her in the act. Son, she looked so scared. She's young. And I feel like she's doing this completely alone. She's not letting anyone help her or support her. There was just something familiar about her. So I helped her. She said she needed to get to Jakku. So I set her up with a ship and a pilot." Finn put his mug down a little harder than was necessary.

"Why does everyone want to go to Jakku?! Seriously!" Kes chuckled, and shrugged.

"She had these big brown eyes. I couldn't say no." Poe understood exactly what his father meant. He couldn't ever imagine anyone having it in them to say no to Dara. His own father said so, it wasn't because Poe was biased.

"But what is even on Jakku?" Poe looked over at Finn, who it appeared, really hated that planet. This wasn't the first time he had heard him complain about it.

"Rey was on Jakku." That seemed to stop his complaints. Poe was starting to see some similarities between Dara and Rey. Poe actually couldn't ever imagine being able to say no to her either. Maybe it was a Jedi thing. Maybe Poe just had a thing for brown-eyed girls.

"She said… She said they were coming. Did she mean you two, by any chance." His father sounded a little bit nervous. Instinctively Poe knew why Dara had appeared to be so scared.

"She didn't mean us dad. She meant them." Father and son shared a significant look. They both realised what was going to happen. The First Order were going to come to this planet. The Knights of Ren would be here soon. Ben Solo was going to chase down his sister.

"You need to get the word out and go underground." Poe said, standing immediately. Finn looked startled but stood also.

"Wait, what's happening?" Poe gave his father a quick hug.

"Thank you for helping her. She's Han's daughter, dad. He would have appreciated it." Kes looked quite sad all over again, but he nodded sagely. "Finn, we need to leave. The First Order are on their way. Might even just be Kylo-Jerk and his boyfriends." Finn thanked Kes for his hospitality, and hastily made for the door. Poe understood that he was afraid of the First Order. He would never go back.

"He's got an eye for you, mark my words." Poe resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

"Well… He's seeing someone else." His father harrumphed.

"Never stopped you in the past." he muttered. Poe decided now was not the time to have an argument with his father.

"Please stay safe dad. I'm sorry I don't visit more… I'll try to do better in future." His father pulled him into a tight hug. Poe closed his eyes and felt an unwanted feeling of foreboding. "You don't have to be a hero anymore dad. I'm enough of that for the two of us." He really didn't want his father risking his life.

"Poe… Come on. Don't you know me? You can visit when there isn't a First Order to worry about." Parting with his father was always difficult. He was all Poe had in this world. BB-8 nudged old-man Dameron fondly.

Poe had swiftly set off from the surface of Yavin 4, trusting that his father would alert the rest of the inhabitants of the moon. Their take off was smooth and they saw no sign of trouble yet.

"Finn, contact the General. Tell her where we're going." Poe said gruffly, trying to hide the knot of tears in his throat.

"Are you okay, man?"

"I'm fine." Poe snapped. He regretted his tone instantly, but focused instead on pulling off from the planet. Poe swiped at his eyes, rubbing them quickly. Finn raised his eyebrows and looked to have a sassy retort on the tip of his tongue, but instead sat down and started to make the communications to the base.

"Uh…. Yeah. Hi. This is Finn. The Stormtrooper. I'm with Poe Dameron. Can I speak to Leia?" Poe was surprised Finn couldn't hear the rolling of Poe's eyes. But despite himself, he smiled. The situation was becoming more dire, Poe thought. Dara had trapped herself in an intriguing position, and here he was smiling at the beautiful black boy. "We tracked down Poe's dad and he says your daughter is gone to Jakku…. Of all the damn places. Uh… Sorry General." Poe could hear the slight tone of amusement in the General's voice as she told Finn to go on. "Well… We're on our way there now. And the First Order is looking for her too…" There was silence on the other end of the line. Any sort of mention of her son was like a dagger through the General's heart. He knew that now. Poe gazed out the cockpit window into the dark depths of space. There was a speck moving in the distance. Poe flooded with panic. There was more than one speck. Once Finn had signed off from speaking to the General, Poe changed the transmission frequency immediately to the one he knew his father used.

"Kes Dameron, this is Poe. Enemy inbound. I repeat enemy inbound." There was static on the other end of the line for a moment. Poe's heart was on his mouth.

"Roger that Poe."

"I love you dad."

"I love you too, son." With a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach, Poe jumped to hyperspeed, leaving Yavin 4 and the First Order ships that might kill his father far behind.