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Chapter 17: Truth

Elle sat in her seat, and leaned back after she landed her starship right into the hanger bay of the Raddus. Her mind buzzed with a million more questions. She unbuckled her seatbelt and looked off into her thoughts, focusing on the incident in the forest. She turned in her seat sideways and stood up, walking further inside her starship. It was a small size ship, perfect for a few people. It belonged to the Resistance fleet. But that's not what was on her mind right now. She was now focused on trying to connect to her brother's mind. Trying, key word. She could swim through the darkness, his darkness and poke at it with a light stick if she had to.

"Hey. What the hell was that back there?" she demanded once she entered his mind, seeing him meditate in his quarters on his ship. She'd pulled him out of his quiet reverie. Good.

"Now look who's invading inside my head," he said with a hint of amusement laced within his voice.

She felt him smirk, and she wanted nothing more than to wipe it off she was so irritable.

"That vision in the forest," she said. "What the hell was that about? What you blame Dad or something?"

"Or something," he said. "I have no idea what your talking about. I didn't do anything in a forest."

"Then what did I just see?"

He sighed. "You know, sis," she did not like the way he emphasized that and she suddenly had a bad feeling about this. "If you'd come back to the dark side, you'd understand how to control your abilities. You'd understand who you are. I mean one would think that the daughter of a smuggler's pilot, and a princess that she knows who she truly is. She'd understand her place in the galaxy."

"What does that mean?" She felt her fingers clench tight beside her.

"It means that things are not what they seem and appear. It means I know who gave you those visions. While I can very much see and feel your emotions and persuade you to join me, because I know what you want most in this universe… I did encounter a bit of blockage much to my dismay."

Elle narrowed her eyes and turned slightly, alarmed. "Blockage?"

"From my future nephew. Your son, a tiny thing starting to sprout inside your womb. Powerful enough, yes. And it made me wonder how a little thing could be so powerful and protect his mother from getting inside your heart."

Elle blinked. He?

"No…no. I….I can't be…" tears formed in her eyes. "It's too early to tell. No, you're lying!" Elle shook her head. There was no way. No.

"I had a vision, Elle. A bright future is coming, and your son is apart of it."

"Stop it!" Elle clenched her teeth together to fight the tears and the anxiety she was starting to feel within her.

"Check with Kalonia, if you must. And when your ready, I'll tell you everything you need to know of who you really are. It'll be helpful for the baby's upbringing, his true lineage. It should be commended because of grandfather's essence onto him, and of course, taught the right way, he'll be even more powerful. Hidden from me," he tisked. "Mother was very smart about that."

Elle fumed. Her mind was spinning again. Why? Why now? What the hell did he know? What was so damn secret that she couldn't know? Or was it another trick? Ugh. Knowing him, it was probably not a trick. He'd use everything against her to get him to join him and Snoke and come back. They'd get her to finish what she started. She wouldn't. Nope. She wouldn't do any of that. She was Resistance now.

She quickly closed off their connection, and stormed down the ramp of her starship, passing by anyone giving her far off looks of concern as she practically ran down the corridors of the Raddus, and straight to Kalonia's med bay where she treated looked over Finn's enclosed med table.

Next to Finn's table, she was working on Jess's injured arm, wrapping it up, and handling it with care.

"Kalonia," Elle demanded. Kalonia whirled around to face her. "It's urgent. I, um, need to ask you a favor…." She caught Jess's stare at her and she winced. "A private favor if you will."

"Sure. Let me just finish her up, and I'll see what I can do for you," she said.

~*TLJ*~

"Well…sometimes it is too soon to tell if you are pregnant, and sometimes you can tell right off. With this pregnancy test we could find out if you are," she said, waiting on the results as Elle clamped on the edge of it tight within her fingers till her knuckles turned white. They'd moved into another adjacent room to Finn's. She hoped he'd wake up soon. They needed him now more than ever. It was really sad seeing Finn like that. She missed him.

"Do you want me to tell you, or…"

Elle cringed a little as Kalonia beckoned her out of her musings on Finn. "Um…" she was nervous. After she'd calmed down a bit, she took the test, but she was still unsure. "What does it say?" Elle asked as Kalonia read the label on the test. Kalonia smiled brightly. It was the happiest she'd ever seen her.

"You're pregnant."

Elle blinked at her and she turned the test around to show her the positive sign. A tiny flip-flop swirled within her and she beamed a little bit.

But then she felt her smile falter. She can't be pregnant. Not now. This was the worst possible time to be pregnant. They were fleeing from the First Order, and Poe was…wait, where was Poe? Was he not back yet from the diversion?

"Kalonia. Where's Poe?"

"He's…" she cringed, not wanting to tell Elle. "Probably on his way to getting a reprimand from your mother. We lost a lot of the bombing fleet, Elle. Something has to be done."

Elle chewed her bottom lip sadly. So, that's another reason to add to her list of why she was extra, extra sad. Poe had to be in distress. She'd talk to him in a bit for sure. It'd been a heavy loss for sure, no doubt. Their bombing fleet gone...Elle closed her eyes, as the sadness dwelled for their loss before she wiped the tear away from her cheek, and looked over at Kalonia, listening to her tools clink together as she cleaned up her space, busying herself from Elle's stares.

"You've heard the whispers, Kalonia. The rumors. When I was with Kylo, I'd fallen deep into the dark, and I couldn't find my way home. I couldn't climb out of the black hole that just sucked me right in. Ben…Kylo offered me friendship, treated me like a princess, and gave me a home."

"We all thought you died, Elle. But now, you're back and you're about to become a Mom, that's one of the best news I've heard in a long time, something the Resistance desperately needs right now. We just lost an entire bombing…"

"That's not what I meant," Elle said.

"We lost an entire bombing fleet, Elle. Now isn't the time to reminisce. I'm sorry…I have work to do," she said, walking out of the room, leaving Elle to mull over her thoughts of what Ben wanted her to know.

Elle sighed. Kalonia was right though. They lost an entire bombing fleet. And they were loosing numbers bad. They were loosing good people in this dying war. Elle wasn't sure how much more of it she could take. And a baby? How could she let this happen? Now, was not a good time for such things. She didn't even know if she could survive this if she were honest with herself, like she'd seen the grave look on her mother's face every now and then. Was Kalonia right? Was it a good time? Elle wasn't so sure.

"Told you," her brother said, poking back into her head.

"Ok. So, you were right," she hated to admit it. "Tell me all you know."

"I think it's best if it came from our dear princess."

Elle frowned. "Why?"

A mere smirk sent shivers down her spine once more. "You'll see."

"You can't just tell me?"

"Because they worked such great lengths to hide you from me, from the Dark Side, and from your grandfather's legacy to come into fusion."

Elle frowned. "Hide me from you? But, I still ended up going with you, Ben. You were my brother, of course I was going to go why wouldn't I?"

It was silent for awhile. That made Elle nervous. "Ben?" she prompted, hoping to catch him, but it was pure silence. Damn it. Elle sighed in a huff. She was getting closer to the truth. Maybe that's why he pulled away from her. Great lengths to hide her from her own brother? That made no sense at all. Hmm. Maybe she was missing something. Maybe that's what he wasn't telling her, and she had to find out for herself. And his voice sounded tired, real tired, like he was just tired of it all. Maybe she was getting through to him? Elle had a spark of hope left within her. It did feel like she was finally getting her family back. She needed them now more than ever, especially if another addition was coming to the family.

"Oh….Force!" she heard Kalonia curse, making Elle jump off the table and meander her way into the room where Finn was supposed to be, but clearly wasn't. Good. She needed a distraction from Ben, from being pregnant, from everything else.

"Damn it. Where did he go?"

"You want me to go find him?" Elle asked.

"Yes. And give the poor man some clothes!" She pulled out a pile from out of the cabinet and handed it to Elle. "He's going to need them!"

Elle took off, and went to go find their missing patient.

~*TLJ*~

A/n: Teehee, my little reasoning of why Finn was alone when he woke up, lol. Poor Finn. Thank you all so much for reading! Follows, favorites, and reviews are always welcomed and loved! Enjoy! Also, I hope you don't mind the plot twist & a tiny summary change. It's a good plot twist, I promise. And, I promise explanations are on their way very soon! Hope I gave enough hints in this chappie! Also, I know this story has been a bit of a work in progress and I am so thankful for all of your support! Anyways, finally found my niche with this story, and I think I'm excited about it! :)