AN:
Hello, lovelies. I am not the owner of these characters, also for characters that have yet to be introduced, but we will be meeting in The Last Jedi: I'm taking a guess y'all. I won't be going back to fix it after the movie comes out, I don't have time for that. I'm moving my upload time to eve so I have all day to work on the chapters cause I'm back in school. So, you get two chapters today.
unidash: Thank you!
Rey
The Resistance Base is flooded with people. Apparently, word of Poe and Ben's return had spread, and everyone wanted to see them. Poe holds his injured arm close to him and allows Finn to clear the crowd a little to keep anything bad from happening.
No one even attempts to talk to Ben. Several people smile at him, but that's it. He gets much colder, stands straighter, looks decidedly less approachable than he did even in the shuttle. His mother is very similar. "Finn, please accompany Poe to the hospital, Ben or I will stop by soon to show you to your new quarters. Rey, come with me. They were able to find you a roommate rather quickly. I'm sure that you'll want to change into something more comfortable." I look down at the clothes Han and Chewie gave me. Yeah, I need something that fits better.
"Yes, ma'am." Ben follows us for some reason, I guess he doesn't have anything else to do without his mom being there. The hallways in the Resistance Base are winding and confusing. I don't know how I'm going to find my way around this place.
Leia stops in front of a door and knocks briskly. A young woman with black hair and dark eyes opens the door. "General Organa. Lieutenant General Solo."
"Miss Tico, are you ready?"
"Yes, ma'am." Rose steps to the side and Leia leads us inside.
"Rey, this is your new roommate, Rose Tico. Rose, this is Rey." Ben introduces us. I take Rose's outstretched hand and shake it.
"It's nice to meet you." I smile.
"You as well." She smiles back.
"We're having a briefing at fourteen hundred, you have to be there Rey," Leia informs me.
"Where do I go?" I don't know how I got to here, I don't know how to get to anything.
"I'll come get you." Ben offers.
"Thank you."
"In the meantime, make yourself comfortable." Leia and Ben leave, and I am able to look around the room I now live in. There are two narrow beds, both with light gray sheets and dark gray blankets. Each is made pristinely.
"The first door on the left leads to a fresher we share with the next room, you need to make sure that both doors are locked before you do anything in there. The second is a closet, we'll need to take you to get your size checked. If now works, we should go. You've got two and a half hours until the briefing."
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It doesn't take them long to find me some fitting clothes, I guess they just have a storage facility filled with uniforms and such. Rose helps me carry the new clothes back to our room while asking ten million questions about my life and how I ended up here.
"So, Jakku? I don't think I've ever been there."
"Why would you? There's nothing there."
"You stayed."
"It's where I grew up. My family dropped me off when I was young with only a promise of returning."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I chose to stay as long as I did." And I can choose to go back anytime I want now.
"But you're here now, and that's what matters." That's what matters. "How did you get roped in with General Solo?"
"I found him on Jakku. He was on a mission with Poe, they got separated, and I found Ben wandering in the dunes. Thank goodness, I did, or he might not have made it. Jakku's weather is excruciating for any human even those who've lived there for years. Without water and shelter, he would've died."
"Ben? Really? The only people I've ever heard refer to him so casually are his mother and Poe."
"Not his father?"
"Han Solo's never really around." She shakes her head. "He comes back for a week or two every few months. Everyone looks forward to when Solo and Chewbacca come back because they always bring new supplies. I've never met the man, just the Wookie. Normally Solo goes off with his family as soon as they land, leaving Chewbacca to man the ship as we unload supplies."
"He's nice." I shrug. "Helped us a lot, though that's probably only thanks to Ben."
"Wait, you met him?"
"Yeah, he found us not too long after we got off Jakku."
"What was he like?"
"Interesting," too say the least, "He was very worried about how Le-General Organa was going to react once Ben returned."
"General Organa scares everyone. We all admire her, but no one wants to invoke her wrath."
"I can see that." She seems very passionate. "I'm going to use the fresher. I'm going to be working thirteen years of sand out of my hair for a long time." Long time.
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Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Ben's here.
I open the door to see him standing in fresh clothes: dark green shirt and dark brown pants. His hair is not wet, though I had expected it to be. "Ready?"
"I guess."
"More than likely you won't have to tell your whole side of the story, they may just want you to fill in some things and confirm others. Also, Poe and I decided that we're not going to tell everyone how his rescue happened. My mother would murder me for doing something so reckless."
"I understand." I look over my shoulder to Rose. "I'll be back later."
"You remember the code, right?" She doesn't look up from her datapad.
"Yes, I do."
"Okay, bye." Still doesn't look up. The door closes behind me as I leave, lock clicking firmly.
"I was able to get you a datapad. There isn't much on there right now, but there is a map, which you will probably want." He pulls out the sleek metal rectangle and hands it to me. He shows me how it works as we walk. This thing is a lot nicer and a lot newer than any of the technologies I scavenged on Jakku. "Did that make any sense?"
"Yes, I understand." Kind of.
"In the morning you are to report to General Organa's office to choose a job."
"Does every recruit have all of this?" A meeting with the General about my job? That seems beneath her.
"No, you are an exception. After all, if you do decide to stay, you will be trained with me to be a Jedi." A Jedi. I still haven't fully wrapped my head around that.