From the previous chapter: When Sara opened her eyes, she was back in her room in D'Qar and it was morning – judging by the sun coming through her window.

So she jumped out of the bed to get dressed and left her room in less than five minutes going straight to Leia's office. She knocked on the door and waited, fidgeting. After what seemed an hour but had been just a minute, she heard Leia's footsteps approaching the door.

"Good morning, Sara." said Leia, looking as distressed as the day before. "What can I do for you?"

Sara was certain that the news she carried would be more than enough to cheer the woman up. So she couldn't stop herself from smiling openly and hugging Leia without saying a word, taking the General by surprise. Once they stopped the hug, Sara finally spoke:

"He didn't do it."

Leia looked Sara in the eyes, confused by her smiley attitude. "What are you talking about, dear?"

"Ben found me last night."

Leia froze, her mouth set in a hard line. "Come in." she ordered, "This is not the kind of conversation I'd like us to have in the corridor."

Sara blinked in surprise at Leia's disapproving tone but obeyed, walking into the room. Leia closed the door and continued: "I thought you couldn't reach him."

"And I couldn't. I've been having nightmares with him, actually. And last night I was expecting to have the same nightmare again, but it didn't even start. As soon as I began dreaming I found myself in a bedroom, Ben's bedroom in the Upisilon ship. And when I turned around he was there; I was mad at him, so I hit him and called him a liar and a murderer. Then he started to explain..."

"Explain what, Sara?" interrupted Leia, walking to her chair. "There's nothing to explain."

"He explained to me how he didn't kill his father."

Leia looked at her with weary, hopeless eyes. "Sara, are you listening to yourself? That's not possible. We felt it, the moment Han's life was taken, we both felt it."

"I know. And I was there, I not only felt it, I saw it happen. But Ben said he had already had everything planned out with his father for two weeks prior to that."

Leia looked at Sara with compassion. "Dear, can't you see that your feelings for him are clouding your judgement? You're letting him fool you."

"That's exactly what I thought too. And I told him I was afraid of believing him again. But he ensured me he was telling the truth, that he has always told me the truth. And I chose to trust him. Again."

"Sara, if Han is alive, where is he?" asked Leia with despondency.

"Crait. Ben said there's an old Rebel Base there."

"Well, at least that part is true: there is really an old Rebel Base in Crait..." Leia conceded.

"I think we should go there." interrupted Sara. "It's been two weeks already, your husband must be losing his mind, being alone all this time."

"Sara, if Ben's lying..." Leia began, the longing to believe in Sara's words was evident – but she was also fearful.

"He's not." said Sara.

"He's my son, Sara. I want to trust him too. But I can't risk the Resistance. If this is a lie..."

"It isn't." Sara interrupted, again, getting annoyed.

"But if it is." replied Leia, equally irritated. "We'd be risking to lose all that we have fought so hard to accomplish; if there's a trap in Crait, we'll be delivering the Resistance into Snoke's arms like a present."

"Ben's not lying. He can't be." Sara's heart was pounding. "I trust him."

Leia stared at the younger woman for a while, pondering what she should do next. Sara knew Ben better than Leia, apparently, and he had joined Snoke to save the young Jedi from a terrible future – which he was currently enduring in her place. What he had told Sara had to be true. Leia sighed and felt she had come to a decision: "You have saved the Resistance twice so far. So I feel it's just right that I trust you. Therefore, half of us we'll pack and go to Crait, while the other half of the Resistance will remain here and make sure our operations keep going smoothly. We'll leave this afternoon."

"I understand, General. Thank you for your trust." and Sara turned around to leave the room.

"Know this, dear:" spoke Leia, stopping Sara from leaving – making her turn around to face her again. "I wish – with all my heart – that you're right, Sara. For if you're wrong, I'll have taken to their deaths half of the Resistance members who trusted me, on top of having lost my husband and my son forever."

Sara nodded and, without another word, left the room. She could feel that her whole body was tense with fear – a paralyzing feeling that she might be leading them all to their deaths on the hands of the man she loved and who she was too naïve (maybe) to still trust.

Crait

They landed on the white planet undisturbedly. Sara was the first one to walk out of the transport ship that had taken them from Raddus to the planet's surface. She looked around, noticing how eerie quiet it was; no matter what side she looked, it was all empty and covered in white; the sun reflected on the ground making it almost painful to look down. However, after a while, Sara was able to begin admiring the strangeness and enjoy the silence.

"This is beautiful." Sara whispered to Leia when the woman stopped by her side. "So quiet and white."

"Yes. It's been decades since I was last here." Leia spoke, softly. "This is where I discovered that my father was not only involved with the Rebels, but he had actually been one of the founders of the Rebellion." she smiled weakly. "That is the door to the Base." Leia pointed at a massive metal door on the side of the mountain to their left. "If there's someone inside, they already know we're here."

Sara looked at the door and walked towards it, feeling Leia follow right behind her. When they were about five meters from it, the door gave a loud clanking noise and started to rise; Sara ignited her lightsaber and Leia got her blaster ready to fire.

The door stopped before reaching halfway up and a single man walked out.

Leia's sharp intake of breath could be heard by everyone, close and far from her, before she let her blaster fall to the ground and she ran towards the man – who opened his arms to hold her.

Sara turned off her lightsaber, her chest filled with a desire to laugh, Ben was telling the truth. Ben was telling the truth. She thought over and over again as she watched the hugging couple. Then the Resistance members began asking one another:

"Isn't that Han Solo?"

"How is this possible?"

"He died, didn't he?"

Sara let out a chuckle, the inner happiness she felt was immensurable. She attached the lightsaber to her belt and walked closer to the hugging couple. Leia turned around to face her and exclaimed:

"You were right, dear! From the start, you were always right about Ben. You trusted my son when I couldn't." tears were running down her cheeks. "Thank you." and she hugged Sara.

Sara looked at Han Solo standing beside them and smiled.

They settled into the Base very easily; although the place was dirty and some crystal creatures, called Vulptices, had turned it into their home, it was all fine, the animals were friendly and loved to play with other creatures so they took the invasion of the Resistance members as joyfully as possible and the dirt they cleaned in the first afternoon they were there.

Sara found the old dormitories inside the mountain and claimed one room for herself; the bed was very comfortable, more than the one's at Luke's Temple. And its comfort was very welcome after a full day of training, hunting, fishing, cleaning game meat, cooking and wiping the Base; Sara lay down and fell asleep in a heartbeat, felling hugged by the mattress.

Showering on the Base was awesome too. There were five shower stalls deep into the mountain and the water that fed those showers came from a very hot spring; the water so hot that it turned the skin of anyone who showered bright pink; its hotness also meant that after a hard, tiring, day, those waters worked like medicine, helping Sara and the others to relax before bed.

After a week living on the salt planet, Ben contacted Sara through sleepwalking.

"Ben!" She exclaimed, so happy to see him – but quickly realizing something was wrong for he seemed to be favoring his left side. "Are you hurt?" She asked approaching him and lifting his black shirt.

"Yes. I fear Snoke is suspicious... he tortured me earlier for no apparent reason; and when I asked him why he was doing it, he simply said he wanted to let me have a taste of how bad an idea lying to him could be."

Sara looked at the injury, it was ugly, burnt flesh around a bloody open wound.

"He hurt you with a lightsaber." she recognized the weapon used.

"Yes. He used the one he thinks is mine. But I think because it's yours, the damage was not as bad as it could have been had he used a different lightsaber. The crystal recognized it was me who it was hurting and I felt it lessen its strength. I had never seen anything like it before."

"That's good. The crystal recognized you and tried to hurt you less. I am glad. I don't think you'd have survived if it had used its full power. This looks so ugly, Ben." She put her hand over the wound and focused her energy, trying to heal him. After a while, Ben let out a relieved breath and smiled at Sara when she looked at his face.

"Thank you, pet. I feel better already."

"But it's not fully healed. This will take a few more days to be completely close. And there'll certainly be a scar."

"No problem. In a few days I expect to be already by your side."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm planning my escape; it'll probably happen tomorrow night during a shift change."

"That we'll give you only six minutes to get into your ship and leave unnoticed." She sounded worried.

"I won't go with the Upisilon, love. I'll be in the Silencer, at lightspeed."

"You'll crash-land!" She exclaimed, her worry increasing.

"Yes. So have the medkit ready." he tried to joke.

Sara looked at him, fearing for his life.

"Please be safe, Ben."

"I've been doing my best for the last three years, pet."

He put his hand under her chin and tilted her head up, claiming her mouth with his in a deep loving kiss. Then he vanished.

Sara didn't tell Leia anything during the next day, she didn't want to worry the other woman as much as she was already worrying over Ben escaping Snoke.

True to his word, in the following night the proximity alarms blasted in the middle of the night. Sara ran out of her room and shouted: "Open the door!" making Leia and the others stare at her, in shock.

"What are you talking about, Sara? They have found us! That door is the only thing between us and..." said Leia.

"It's Ben!" interrupted Sara. "I knew he was coming, I didn't tell you anything for I was afraid he might not survive his escape from the Finalizer."

Leia stared at her for two seconds before shouting: "Open that damn door!"

And a couple of minutes later, Ben's ship came crashing into the Rebel Base from under the door. Sara ran forward, shouting: "Do not fire!" Then she turned around to watch as the door of the Tie Silencer opened and Ben jumped out of it, scaring everyone around for he was wearing his Kylo Ren uniform.

Sara didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she set her eyes on him for real for the first time in almost three years. She ran towards him and threw herself into his arms.

Ben hugged her tight and she looked up into his eyes before they kissed in front of the entire, clueless, Resistance who was shocked to see one of their own hugging and kissing a man they all feared and hated.

Their kiss was interrupted by Han clearing his throat and saying:

"I think that's enough now, kids."

And Sara let her hands fall from Ben's neck, but his hands didn't move from her waist. She had to put her hands on top of his to make him let her go so that Leia could hug her son next.

"I am so glad you're here, Ben." she whispered.

"I'm sorry for causing you grief, mother." he said.

"I know your reasons. I understand them, it was all for love. And I owe you an apology too. Sara was the one who made me have faith that you were not lying to us." she looked at Sara and then back at Ben, saying: "You couldn't have chosen better, son."

Sara blushed at those words.

"You look tired, kid." said Han after hugging Ben too. "You'd better rest, 'cause now that you've escaped, it won't be long before Snoke finds us."

"Resting is a really good idea." said Ben.

"Come with me." said Sara, taking his hand, leading him through the large group of people that had gathered in the main area, going to her small room, where there was only a double bed and a small desk with a chair under it. "This is even smaller than our cabins in Yavin, but the bed is very comfortable."

Ben closed the door and smiled at her.

"So my mother adores you already."

"It seems I have saved the Resistance twice already; one of them for fighting you and another for trusting you."

"I'm so proud of you." he walked closer and held her in his arms; Sara was a full head shorter than him, so she laid her head on his chest, touching him.

"Can't believe you're really here." she whispered, touching his arms and back. "I missed you." she rubbed her nose on his shirt-covered chest, smelling his scent.

He put one hand under her chin and made her look up, then he stared into her beautiful blue eyes and kissed her lips, caressing her tongue with his, feeling her shiver in his arms; he let her lips go to focus on her neck.

"Ben, you need to rest." she said, breathlessly.

"I need you far more than I need rest." and he took her mouth again, his hands going under her shirt, pulling it out of her body.

"I really like this uniform..." she said, her hands opening his black pants. "It makes you look so dangerous."

"I am dangerous." he replied with a smirk.

"Yes, you are." she whispered in agreement, nipping his bottom lip; she pulled his pants and underwear down his thighs and smiled at him, mischievously. His hard dick sprung free and Sara kissed his lips one more time before going down on her knees, rubbing her nose all the way down his still covered chest until she reached what she wanted and, without any warning, just sucked all of it into her mouth.

Ben groaned, feeling wet heat engulfing his dick to the hilt before he could utter any other word; her tongue swirled around the head, hitting the sensitive underside spot at every turn. He ran his fingers through her soft hair and grabbed a handful of it, controlling each move of her head.

"You look so good, sucking my cock." he groaned. "I missed you, pet."

Sara hummed around his dick, the vibrations making him moan; Sara loved the way he twitched in her mouth as his hands clenched in her hair.

"So fucking beautiful." He whispered, looking down at her, her mouth and hands working him, playing with his balls, her tongue circling around his girth nonstop, touching him in every way she knew would make him crazy.

His hand tightened in her hair and he pulled her mouth away from him. Sara's lips were red and wet from sucking him. "You look delicious, pet." He helped her get on her feet and took her lips again. They walked towards the bed, never stopping the kiss, his hands working on pulling her pants down. Sara fell on the bed and Ben took her pants and underwear off of her body, she threw her bra at him and he stopped a moment to admire her naked form on the bed, ready to be fucked.

He took all his clothes off, never taking his eyes from her. Sara watched his every move as he undressed for her, the many scars on his skin gave him a dangerous look; she wanted to lick him all over, to bite him, marking him as hers forever.

"I can hear what you're thinking, pet." He spoke, his voice heavy with desire. "And I like it. Although you must already know I am yours, forever. But I want to lay my mark on you too." he kneeled between her sprawled legs, his member pointing up, the leaking tip a red-purplish color, looking painfully hard.

"And how are you going to do that?" she asked, needing to hear all that he wanted to do to her.

His hands caressed her breasts, his fingers pinching her nipples just hard enough to make her moan, the moisture between her legs increasing. Then he put his body on top of hers, letting her feel his weight, something he knew she loved, the head of his member teasing her entrance, making her arch uselessly against him.

"First I'll touch you, get reacquainted with every inch of your skin." He kissed her neck, biting her shoulder, leaving his first mark of the night.

"Fuck me, Ben." she pleaded.

He ignored her words and nipped at her bottom lip, drawing blood. Then he trailed kisses down to her breasts, giving her nipples the attention he knew would make her cry out. He bit, pinched and licked them. Sara tried to pull his mouth away from her breasts as her legs encircled his hips and tried to make him penetrate her body. She was desperate to feel him, and he could tell. But he had waited years, endured countless torture sessions for her, so he was going to take his time. Using the Force, he pinned her arms above her head onto the mattress. Sara was panting, her eyes staring at him as if he was a feast and she had been starving for years.

"I love seeing you like this." his voice hoarse with desire. "Begging for my cock." Then he sat on his ankles, between her legs and touched her belly, lightly, making her arch from the bed, wanting more. He caressed her thighs, going close to her pussy but never really touching her there. He could see how wet she was, and the need to dip his tongue between her folds and eat her surged instantly. He put her legs over his shoulders and plunged his tongue into her, hearing her breathless gasps as he lapped at her greedily. Sara moved her hips upwards, offering herself up to his invasion, needing him to take more, to do more. He inserted two fingers inside of her and licked a path up to her clit, feeling her pussy clamp on his fingers, so he quickly stopped all he was doing.

"No!" she complained breathlessly. "Don't stop!"

"I'm not stopping, pet. We are far from stopping." He let her hands go from the Force-hold and positioned himself between her legs, ramming his thick cock to the hilt into her pussy, making her cry out, clutching the sheets in her hands, as an orgasm tore through her immediately. Ben closed his eyes, savoring the feel of her walls massaging his hard dick. "I never want to leave your body. I'll fill you up with my cum and then I'll keep fucking you, until neither of us can take it anymore." then he slammed into her repeatedly.

Sara whimpered at each of his thrusts and opened her legs further apart; his thick length filling her up, hitting all of her sensitive spots at once, throbbing inside of her. She looked at him, taking in how sexy he looked fucking her like an animal. She touched his shoulders, his back, feeling how his muscles moved with each of his powerful thrusts.

He pulled all the way out and slammed into her again, making her feel his whole length going in and out; he grinded his hips against hers, stimulating her clit every time he buried himself deep into her – the feeling of her tightness, hotness and wetness around his sensitive member driving him mad.

"This, oh, pet, how I've missed this." he tried to get deeper, pinning his weight onto her; his lips biting down on one nipple as his fingers pinched the other. "So fucking tight, so delicious."

Sara was reduced to a quivering, uncoherent, pile of lust. Lost in the feeling of that powerful man fucking her, making her body his to pleasure. Their bodies, covered in sweat, rubbing against one another, his lips on her nipples. She moved her hips upwards, trying to make him get even deeper inside of her.

"I can sense your thoughts, pet." he spoke hoarsely. "How you love being under me."

"Yes." she whimpered.

He held her chin up, his thumb on her lower lip, pulling her mouth open. He licked her lips and plunged his tongue into her mouth on the same rhythm he thrust his dick into her pussy.

Their powers connected and they felt the room quake around them. Sara closed her eyes shut, the feeling of being totally owned by him was overpowering, she arched her back, swiveling her hips; she dug her heels onto his lower back and, with a loud moan, she was taken by pleasure, her pussy closing around his thick cock as a shattering orgasm took over her body; but Ben never stopped his moves, he held onto her hips tightly as she bucked and convulsed under him, never stopping fucking her, taking her from one climax to the next until it had all become too much for him, her drenched hot pussy tightened and clamped down around his swollen dick, so he came inside of her, hard, feeling every jet of hot cum that left his body to fill her channel.

He kissed her lips, slowly, enjoying the feeling of completion they both felt in that moment. Sara caressed his hair and shoulders, feeling his skin as wet as hers with sweat. He moved his hips slightly, trying to get his bulky frame from the top of her, but Sara was having none of it, she held him against her body.

"We're not done here." she spoke breathlessly. She wrapped her legs around his waist tightly and rolled them over on the bed, sitting on his half-hard dick. "Until neither of us can take it anymore, like you said."

Ben sat up on the bed, his arms wrapping around her waist, his dick quickly hardening again as Sara sat on him and rotated her hips.

"The dreams helped..." she whispered, her eyes closed, just focusing on the feeling of him inside of her. "But this... oh, this is so much better. To really feel you," she touched his sculpted chest, sitting on him slowly, to the hilt. "To have your sweat on my skin, your cum inside of me." she finished in a moan.

And his hands were on her hips, helping her up and down on his hard dick. Then one hand went up to her face, his thumb caressing her lips; she took his thumb into her mouth and suckled on it. He brought her face close to his and kissed her savagely, forcing her down on him with his other hand, hitting deep into her. Sara moaned, her hips moving in a circle, rubbing her clit against his pelvis every time he got deep into her pussy. It didn't take long for him to have her arching her back in pleasure on top of him, her breasts bouncing as she rode his dick. He lay back on the bed and pulled her towards his chest, one finger going to tap on her asshole, prodding her tight hole. Her pussy clenched and her orgasm exploded through her, taking him with her, he spilled his cum once more inside of her as she was still riding her climax.

Sara laid her head onto his chest, feeling his cum dripping out of her as his dick softened still inside her body.

"I love you." she murmured, raising her head to touch her nose to his.

"I love you too, pet." his arms encircled her body, and he rolled them onto their sides.

After a soft kiss, they fell asleep, their bodies glued together by sweat, cum and love.

Notes: And they're finally together!

And Snoke is coming (no pun intended, for goodnesssake).