Hey everyone! I thought I'd give you another chapter quick cause I didn't get to put everything I wanted in the last chapter. I know it's been quite Damerey heavy recently and this chapters kind of the same. Believe me, I'm a Reylo shipper all the way. I didn't want Rey to be alone in the Resistance and I think her and Poe can help each other figure out the kind of person they want to be. Poe will help Rey understand love and her feelings for both him and Ben and I want Poe to see Rey as the hero he could be.

I've not got much Damerey left in my bag and then it's Reylo endgame. Bare with me everyone!

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Her eyes darted around wildly underneath her eyelids, images flashing by. She didn't know if the Force had been showing her these images or if it was parts of dreams. She'd been so in tune with the Force over the past few days that she didn't know. But she couldn't escape the images, Kylo Ren removing his mask for her, Ben holding his lightsaber pointed at her chest, him kneeling in the cave while they escaped. It was showing her something, moments where Ben Solo's light came through, showing her that he's still there to be saved. She also kept seeing the little girl with her eyes and the little boys with his eyes and she wondered if this was part of the message too?

When Rey woke up, her entire body ached. She tried to sit up but her body fought against it. She felt breathless, winded but she was determined. If just meditating did this to her, she worried what more would do. She turned over and looked around the room, he was still here. Sitting on the floor, his head on his knees asleep.

"Poe." She whispered. Her throat hurt. It had been 4 days? That's what Poe said, she hadn't eaten or drank anything the whole time. Now that she thought about that, she wondered how she woke up at all. His head popped up.

"Hey, how you feeling?"

"Hungry." Rey croaked. Poe let out a small laugh. "Did it work?" she asked him quietly.

"Don't know, thought it was best if you found out. We put it back together but that's it." Poe told and handed her her staff, now only about a foot and a half long and … really beautiful. The metal hand been cleaned and was now shiny. All the new joints seemed strong and sturdy instead of loose. It was sleek and stunning, Rey loved it.

"It's … it's different." She said confused.

"Yeah, apparently Chewie thought a Jedi's weapon shouldn't look so 'ramshackle' I think was the word he used, he fixed it up for you." Poe said looking embarrassed.

"I quite liked our ramshackle one." Rey said smiling at him, he gave her a small smile back. "But this one is gorgeous."

"Yeah, it is." Poe admitted.

"Can you help me up?" She asked him softly. He got to his feet and put his large hands under her elbows and slowly lifted her off the cot. Her joints ached as they bent and straightened. She looked right at him now, he looked tired. He gave her his usual smirk.

"Let's get you some food." He said. He wrapped his arm around her waist and helped her to the door. When they reached it, she stopped him.

"I have to know." She held out the staff. "Please. Don't stop me." Her face was so close to his, he just watched her.

"Okay." Smiling gratefully, she removed his arm from around her and nodded at him. He was reluctant to let her go the way she was, she could see that. But he did because she asked him to.

She pushed herself, pushed her body to move, get past it's exhaustion. She needed a safe space, somewhere she could be on her own to witness the end result of all this pain she was in. She headed towards the forest, to her clearing. She pushed herself off the trees as pasted them, using them to keep herself upright. When she got to the clearing, she found it wasn't clear anymore. There were huge tree trunks lined up in neat lines with a path lined with delicate flowers down the middle. The path ended with an archway made of branches, vines and flowers. She had never seen one as beautiful as this but she knew what it was none the less. It was set up for a wedding.

She rested herself on one of the tree trunks and looked at the beautiful staff in her hands. She had never owned something so beautiful and she did own it, it was hers and no one else's. Made for her, the crystal inside resonating with her. She clicked the catch that controlled the extendable ends and they shot out and snapped in place with a loud, reassuring click. The ends didn't move or wobble as they had done before. She reminded herself to thank Chewie later. Her staff about now about four feet long. Shorter than what she was used to but she needed space for the lightsabers to ignite out the ends without doing herself an injury. She turned it over in her hands for a moment, bringing herself to push the button in the old hilt in the middle. This had to work. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and pushed the button. It ignited, she could feel the power of it vibrating in her hands but something wasn't right. She'd expected the low hum of the blade but instead she heard it crackling and buzzing. When she opened her eyes she expected to see blades of bright blue light but that's not what she saw. She dropped the staff and it hissed as the blades burned the grass around it. After a moment, the staff turned itself off and Rey scooped it up before anyone could see. What had she done wrong?

She flicked the latch that made the staff shrink back down to its standard foot and a half length and she clutched it tight to her chest as she sprinted hard back to the base and onto the Falcon before anyone could stop her or even see her. Her lungs were burning fire as she burst into her little chambers and she came to a halt when she saw Leia there waiting for her. Leia's eyes widened in surprise when Rey came bursting in and Rey could do nothing but stare at her. What could she do, she certainly wasn't going to tell the General of the Resistance what just happened. Leia's face softened into concern.

"I was going to ask you what was wrong but I get the feeling you don't want to tell me." Leia said. Rey still said nothing. "It's okay. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Poe was concerned." Leia's words hit her like a punch in the gut, there were people that cared about her here and she'd betrayed them. "Come, let's get you ready."

"Ready? Ready for what?" Rey asked. Her silence giving way to confusion.

"We're glad you came back to us when you did, Carr and Lieutenant Lisbon's wedding is today and you have a very important job for it." Leia said.

"I do?"

"They've asked if you would officiate their wedding, being the Last Jedi and all." Leia gave her a small smile, obviously trying to make her feel comfortable enough to take on the job. It wasn't working.

"Me? But I don't know anything about that, I've never even been to a wedding." Rey sat down on the cot, all the running and lack of eating was catching up to her. "Can't you do it?" She pleaded with Leia.

"I'm giving the bride away." She told her, sitting down beside her. "Rey, you can do this. This is your chance to show people that there's no reason to be scared of you."

"They're scared of me?" She sounded … a little amazed actually. She'd spent a lot of her life being scared of strangers that people being scared of her sounded ludacris.

"You have to remember Rey, very few of them have any experience with Force users beyond Ben. That scares them. Show them the Light in you." Leia tried to reassure her but her guilt was gnawing at her insides. "So, first we'll get you fed and then cleaned up for the wedding."

Poe was nervous. He hadn't seen Rey since she left this morning and she was in a bad way. He should have never let her go on her own. His worry was only multiplied when he got to the clearing and saw scorch marks in the grass. She'd been here and the staff had worked but something about it didn't make him feel better. Poe paced around as people made their way past him in the clearing to find places to sit amongst the tree trunks. Some of them shook his hand and some didn't, he didn't really notice or even care. Finn came bustling up to him, he was wearing Poe's old jacket but he'd obviously tried to clean it up and bit and he had on his nicest shirt. Poe was dressed much the same, his nicest clothes. They were nothing compared to the wedding clothes on Naboo or Canto Bight but many of them didn't have nice clothes set aside for things like this. Leia had kindly donated a dress from her youth to the bride for the event. She was the only one who had nice things like that, she may be their General but Leia still dressed like a Princess just as she had done long before Poe was even alive.

"Did you find her?" Poe asked Finn.

"No. No one's seen her but she probably wanted it that way." Finn told him.

"That isn't reassuring Finn."

"I know but I've got nothing else." Finn shrugged defeated. The groom had appeared by the altar and the people around them started to quieten and take seats.

"Okay, go sit with Rose. After this is over with we'll go find her, okay?" Poe said to him, ushering him over to where Rose sat.

"Yeah, yeah. Okay." Poe took a seat too. Near the back so he could scan the crowd in front of him in case she'd slipped by him. Leia emerged from the trees, the bride on her arm. As they reached the beginning of the aisle, everyone stood and turned to look at the bride and the General but something in the corner of Poe's eye caught his attention and he turned and looked the opposite way from everyone else. It was Rey. But Rey in a way he could have never have pictured in his own mind. She was beautiful. She was always beautiful but this, was different. Leia had clearly worked some magic on Rey because instead of her usual sand beaten wrap across her tunic, she wore a long, blue coat. The bottom of it fell like a dress with slits all the way up to her hips, her grey bottoms showing through the gaps. The top buttoned up the front, with a wide collar showing off a necklace of silver squares linked together around her tanned neck. Her unmistakable scruffy grey boots sticking out the bottom. Poe couldn't take his eyes off her. She looked nervous, she had no reason to be. She had never looked so powerful as she did up there in front of the entire Resistance. The bride reached her groom and Leia gave her a kiss on the cheek and sat down at the front. The crowd sat down, their murmurs silencing and Rey cleared her throat to speak.

"Hi. Um. I don't really know what I'm doing but the bride and groom requested that I officiate their wedding today and I'm so honoured and thankful that they wanted to include me in their special day. However, I will keep it short so I don't mess it up" a small chuckle rippled through the crowd as Rey paused and took a deep breath. "I don't know much about love, I'd never really experienced it before and it around much back where I'm from. From what I'd learned through Master Luke, the Jedi thought of love and marriage as a weakness. Something that was there to tempt you to the Dark Side. So much so that entanglements were forbidden in the Jedi order. You see, I was trying to learn the ways of the Jedi but this was something I just didn't understand. Since being here with you all, what I've learned is that love isn't a weakness, it's strength. You all love and care for one another so much that even though there has been so much loss, the Resistance is still so strong. And it will always be if you let love be a strength. I guess that's what I want for the couple here today. However hard it gets, however scary, heart-breaking or messed up it gets, remember that your love is your strength, it's your comfort, it's your home. Take these rings to remember that and nothing can break you." Rey held out two rings to the pair and each of them took one. "Do you take each other for as long as you live?"

"I do."

"I do." The couple smiled at each other placed the rings on each other's hands. They looked at Rey expectantly.

"Oh, by all means, kiss your bride." She said and the couple embraced causing the crowd to stand up and cheer. After a moment or two, Rey spoke again. "Now that I have you all standing, please be aware of the logs behind you." Rey raised her hands and all the tree trunks that had been lined up neatly were raised into the air and moved to the edges of the clearing. She was amazing, in two seconds she'd undone 4 days of the Resistance moving and hauling massive logs. The crowd applauded Rey now. A couple of Resistance members started up playing some music and people started to dance. Poe moved through the crowd, heading straight for the Jedi in the blue coat.

"You're looking much better, one might even say stunning." Poe told her on approach. Her cheeks flushed a light pink.

"Yeah, I don't even know how I made it through 4 days. I could barely move this morning. The outfit's a bit much but who am I to tell General Organa no." Rey smiled slightly.

"I'm glad you didn't, you're really something." Poe said. All he wanted to do was tell her how beautiful she was but he was worried that he was making her uncomfortable. He held out his hand to her. "Will you dance with me?" Rey's eyes widened.

"I, uh. I don't know how." Poe smirked and took her hand.

"I'll show you." He swooped her out into the crowd and stood in front of her. He put her hand on his shoulder and took her other hand. "Put that there and put these hands together. You can even put your head on my shoulder if you want to get flirty." He winked at her.

"Poe." She said in a warning tone.

"Alright, alright. I'm kidding. Kind of." He put his hand on the small of her back and pulled her close to him. They swayed slowly. "I liked your speech. You seem to know a lot more about love than you think you do." Poe said.

"Apparently. I didn't know what to say and Leia gave me some really good advice." Rey said looking up at him.

"And what advice was that?" he asked, trying not to sound too eager.

"She told me to think about someone I care about and what I would want to tell them." Poe nodded softly.

"That was some pretty powerful stuff you wanted to say." He said.

"Isn't that the idea?" She asked him. He nodded. "If dancing is just swaying, I think I'm going to be pretty good at it." She said. Poe nodded.

"Yeah. Eventually, the music will slow down and we won't look like such idiots." Rey laughed.

Dameron. Kylo was getting sick of the sight of the pilot. Every time he saw Rey, the pilot wasn't too far behind. He'd felt her a lot recently. He'd been trying to avoid her. Between her showing up in front of the Knights of Ren and his dream about her, he didn't know how to be around her. Was he still angry with her? Or was he feeling something else? Her presence had been in the Force for days and the first time he'd reached out to her, he'd understood why. She was meditating with the crystal, she was fixing the lightsaber. A strange pang of pride came over him, she was figuring it out. She didn't need Luke, she was doing everything on her own. Except she wasn't, Dameron was there. Day and night, he was there, like a lost pet. Kylo tried to ignore him, several times he'd sat down with her and urged her to keep going. When her strength wavered, he provided her with his. She needed to know that she could do this. But Dameron's insistent presence was infuriating him.

Now here he was, watching Rey. He had to admit to himself that she was beautiful. No one could deny that. But his fury burned in him as he watched her swaying in his arms. And the thing that angered him most was that she hadn't even noticed he was there.

Kylo's getting there, being a wee softie! a smidge more Damerey to come and then it's Reylo straight through to happy ever after ... or will it be happy ever after? :P xxx