Authors note: Hey everyone! Yaay Chapter 10! I love seeing all your reviews and I'm having so much writing! I'll update again tomorrow! -Cork

Rey started the morning will a new sense of purpose and yet somehow even more uncertain. She couldn't wait to start her search for her crystal, but she was still unsure of her decision. Last night was really weird she didn't think either of them sleep more than two or three hours on their small beds built into the opposite sides of the cargo area. And when Rey woke this morning Ben was sitting in the cockpit tinkering with the control panel. Everything about the situation was weird and all she wanted was some distraction.

She quickly got dressed, pulled on her boots and coat, and walked to the cockpit, "So when do you want to start searching?"

"Um we'll let me show you how to locate the force or we'll be searching the planet for months." Rey swore she saw him smirk a little. He was still just wearing the pants he slept in, and Rey could help but feel a little uncomfortable with him half naked. It made her think of their force connection and she felt the blood rush to her face as he led her back to the cargo area, "Okay so first thing I want you to do is reach for the force inside yourself."

"How will that help find a crystal buried in this dead planet?" she was already getting impatient with this process. She had been surprised how quickly she became dependent on her lightsaber, she felt empty without it.

"Rey, to find your crystal you need to know your own signature. You have a lot of raw power, but you need to learn to understand the force in you as well as the force around you."

She sighed, "Fine." She closed her eyes and focused on the Force around her, like before she felt his force, that little light drowning deep inside him. She also felt that weak energy of the planet itself, but this time she tried to feel the force inside herself as well. She wasn't sure what actually she felt, she felt light but there was darkness in herself as well. Just like the universe both light and dark were in her.

"Okay great now I want you to see if you feel anything similar here."

This time she focused on that weak signal in the planet. Just like her it had so much light in it but there was darkness there as well. She couldn't help but think the source of it wanted revenge for its destroyed planet. "I think I feel it. There's something deep in the planet and its signature is very similar."

"Perfect, now focus on it, remember it. It will lead you to it's location."

Rey sat there for a long time becoming completely familiar with what she was sure was her crystal. And he was right, she was beginning to sense its location. It wasn't clear, but she could feel its surrounding almost as if she was there. she smiled wide, it felt like it was a missing part of her and she knew she could find it if she tried. When she opened her eyes, she saw something she's never seen before, a smile on Ben Solo's face.

It lite up his face in a way she didn't know was possible and she couldn't help but think he looked so much like his father. "I think I can find it."

"All right, then let's find it." With that he quickly dressed back into his thick tunic, pants, and boots, it was the same ensemble he had always dressed in except now he added a thick cloak bundled over his shoulder. It was not unlike the one he wore the first time she met him. she tried to shake that idea from her head as they walked out the shuttle.

Rey let the crystal led her just as Ben told her to. She couldn't lie it was hard and she wasn't even sure she was going the right way not to mention the caves were a maze all on their own. And whole parts of them were just gone for the extreme mining that was done during the empire. There were at least a few times that had to back step just to find away around the craters.

After a few hours of silence, something was starting to bother Rey as they sat and ate a small meal. "So, when you left did the First Order know?"

"What do you mean?" He knew exactly what she meant.

"I just mean are they after you? Are we in danger?"

"Well probably, I kind of just left in the middle of the day, but I'd definitely say I didn't leave on good terms with them." He said quietly as he picked at his lunch. Rey thought about that for a while. She wasn't sure if she could trust him yet and she felt like she needed to be on guard around him, but what would he get out of waiting to kill her?

"I'm not going to hurt you. You can relax."

"Oh yeah, that's super easy when you're reading my mind." She shot him a dirty look. What else had he heard her think? She was immediately embarrassed.

"Sorry, you're basically screaming. But I can promise you if the First Order is coming here its for me not you. I'm sure at least Hux has caught on by now."

He seemed to be telling the truth, not that it made it any less concerning. "What happened?"

"I basically left with what possession I could and took my shuttle by any means necessary."

She knew what that meant. He left a trail of damage, and surely some bodies in his wake and she was sure they would want revenge for what would be seen as his betrayal.

"Well the Resistance probably isn't my biggest fan anymore either." She was certain by now Finn had told at least Leia and Poe of her connection with their enemy and she was sure they would not be very accepting of her choices and she didn't blame them either.

He stood up from where he'd been sitting and looked down to her, "I guess its just the two of use then." He reached out his hand, she grabbed it and let him pull her to her feet as they set out to finally find this crystal.