AN:
Took long enough, didn't I? I am not the owner of any of these characters.
Poe
"We can't follow them. They're Force people, they'll sense us." I argue. "Ben can sense someone from miles away."
"But we have to know!" Rose argues.
"You really should've just had BB8 follow them without permission." Finn states.
"He can't make it on that ground stealthily."
"So, what do we do?" Rose asks.
"I guess we just have to sit here and wait for them to come back." I look at the blank pad.
"And interrogate them once they get here? You know that they won't tell us anything." Finn scowls. I can't believe how calm he is being about all of this. I know he's kind of liked Rey since they met, I'd be blind not to notice, though apparently, she hasn't.
"Well, I know I can get Ben to tell me. I may not be a Jedi, but I can be extremely persuasive. If you two can get Rey to tell you, then we can compare stories."
"It'll be hard, Rey doesn't want to open up about much."
"Who knows, maybe she's different when it comes to this sort of thing." Finn shrugs. We sit in silence for a few minutes, staring at the wall.
"You think he's done it yet?" Rose wonders aloud.
"No." I shake my head, we're relying on Rey to do this.
"You think she's done it yet?"
"Yes." Finn and I say together.
-oOo-
Ben
Rey and I didn't stay in the forest for too much longer after that. It was starting to get dark and the Resistance Base has a curfew: everyone has to be on base, inside by sunset. Can't have the General's son and Lieutenant General in his own right breaking curfew to make out with a Sergeant.
That would be bad.
Her room is much closer than mine, so I'm dropping her off. No one is in the hallway, but I know that Rose and Finn are waiting for her, even if I couldn't use the Force to sense them. So, we say goodnight in the hallway. "I had fun today."
"So, did I." She smiles. "We'll have to do it again some time."
"Yes, we will." I tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear before tilting her chin up and kissing her. Her arms wrap around my neck, and mine go around her waist, pulling her closer to me. It's just a few simple pecks, it's a goodnight, a goodbye for now. My forehead rests on hers as my eyes lazily open. "Goodnight, Rey."
"Goodnight, Ben." She kisses me one last time before entering her room. For the brief moment that the door is open as she slips through, I see Rose and Finn sitting patiently, waiting to drag every detail out of Rey.
And I know that Poe is in my room, waiting to do the same. I sigh, raking my fingers through my hair. I look around the empty hallway and-shit. There's a security camera right there, pointed directly at where Rey and I just were. And Poe has a droid. Poe probably saw that, and even if he didn't, the security monitors certainly did. Shit.
I quickly walk out of that hallways and towards my room. I might as well get the interrogation with Poe over with.
"So…" He wiggles his eyebrows at me as I enter.
"So."
"How was the date?"
"Fine." I kick off my boots.
"Just fine?"
"It was good."
"Just good?"
"I'm not doing this, Poe." I sigh. "What do you want to know?"
"Did you do it? Did you kiss her?"
"Yes." Poe throws his arms in the air, and BB8 beeps happily at me.
"You need to give me a play-by-play."
"No."
"Why not?" The thirty-two-year-old man pouts.
"Because some things are meant to stay private, despite what you, Finn, and Rose seem to believe." I lean against the wall with my arms crossed. "I assume you were able to get into the security cameras in Rey's hall."
"What kind of friend do you take me for?" He scoffs, mockingly offended. I give him an unamused look. "Fine, yeah I did."
"What exactly did you see?"
"Just two people making out in a hallway."
"It wasn't making out." I snap.
"Fine, kissing in a hallway, in public, where anyone could stumble across them."
"Your other spies were in her room. We preferred to say goodbye with a possible audience rather than a confirmed one."
"I guess." He shrugs.
"You told my mother."
"Yes, she needed to know, and you didn't tell her."
"She went to Rey this morning to talk to her about our plans."
"I am so sorry, I did not mean for that to happen." His eyes grow wide.
"So next time, I suggest keeping quiet."
"There will be a next time?"
"I hope so."