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They put down at their camp and Ben leaves her to quickly grab supplies and Porg1 and then they're on the move again. They head to the closest ship parking and manage to barter passage of planet with a cargo ship that looks like it definitely operates on the wrong side of the law.

The ship is leaving in fifteen minutes so Rey and Ben bundle up their meager belongings and Ben half carries her into the ship and the berth he'd managed to procure for them. It's not much and after a moment Rey realizes that he's only gotten one room from the both of them.

"Sorry," he says as he settles her on the bunk. "We didn't' have enough for separate rooms."

"It's okay," she says wincing as she jostles her ankle. Prog1 churrs inquiringly at her and she takes him into her lap and smooths down his feathers.

"It's okay little one, I just hurt my ankle that's all."

"You hurt a lot more than that!" Ben growled. He ripped open a bacta patch and wrapped it around her ankle, hands working gently in direct contraction to his rough words.

"Where else?" he asks curtly.

"That's the worst of it," Rey told him. His head shot up and he glared at her.

"Is that what I asked?" he said voice silky with anger.

"My back," Rey says after a moment. "I fell of the ladder."

She shifts on the bed to put her back to him and he rolls up the back of her tunic and supplies bacta numb and then slathers more patches across the blue-black spots blooming on her skin. She tugs down her tunic when he's done and was about to turn when he stopped her and pushes searching fingers through her hair. She hisses after a moment and he pulls his hand out and shows her the smear of blood on his fingers.

Porg1 lets out a horrified little chirp at the sight of the blood and buried his head in Rey's chest. Then he moved back and began bouncing up and down on her lap, flapping his wings and chirping furiously at Ben as if to say, 'Fix it! Now!'

Ben sneers at him but is already moving, sorting through their limited med kit for sterilizing wipes. He cleans the cut out thoroughly and then uses their limited bacta spray to seal it. Porg1 watches the proceeding with a laser focus and rubs his head against her cheek every time she flinches even a little. When Ben is done, Porg1 gently threads his beak through her hair to see her injury. He studies it and then gives a little chirp as if satisfied that she's taken care of. He hops of her shoulder and back into her arms and keeps rubbing his head against her cheek reassuringly.

The ship vibrates and Rey braces herself for takeoff. To her surprise Ben's arms slide around her from behind and he holds her firmly against his chest, bracing both of them through the g-forces of cutting through atmo. When they finally glide through space Rey expects him to release her but he doesn't.

He rests his forehead on her shoulder and says, "Don't you dare to anything like that again. If you leave me running from your resistance with only the bird I'll find you in the force and kill you myself." His arms tighten around her but not so much that he hurts her and Rey feels the fear from him. He'd been terrified that she'd died, that she'd left him alone, when she was the only person who did not make him feel alone.

"I won't," she says, covering his hands with hers. "I won't." Porg1 chirps softly and nuzzles at their connected hands.


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