Hello my faithful followers! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter...I know I did! :D I'm trying to update as frequently as I can as Star Wars has taken over my life recently and I've found myself watching endless Reylo videos. Glad to see some of you guys are still sticking with me through all these long chapters! Enjoy!

She made it back to her tent safely and crawled into her cot and under her warm blankets. She couldn't sleep though...her head was still spinning from her secret meeting. Something about this whole situation excited her. Like it was some forbidden romance she couldn't tell people about. She rolled on her back and lifted her shirt up, placing her hands on her small belly. Some dark secret part of her relished at the idea of being pregnant with his child. It was almost intoxicating to think he had claimed her entirely in that way. A baby that was half hers and half Ben's...she grinned in spite of herself and closed her eyes. Eventually she succumbed to sleep and for once it was semi peaceful.

Poe Dameron looked at his watch. It was nearly noon and he still hadn't seen a sign of Rey. He considered himself responsible for her in a way now and she was always up by now.

"I'm going to check on Rey," he told Finn. They had just finished refueling a few of the ships and it was time for a break anyway. Finn nodded at him, getting a drink from his canteen.

Poe walked towards her tent and slowly peeked inside. She was sound asleep on her cot, one arm above her head, the other on her bare belly. He instinctively tried to keep his eyes off her skin for respect for her.

"Rey," he called over to her, not wanting to step closer to her I'm this state. She twitched a bit and moved her other arm up over her head. Poe swallowed hard as she revealed a bit more skin.

"Rey!" He said louder. She opened her eyes just a crack and saw him standing there. She blinked a few times trying to comprehend what was happening.

"Poe?" She said confused.

"Yeah it's me, it's noon just thought you may wanna get up some time today."

She ran her hands through her hair and realized her shirt was pulled up almost to her chest and quickly pulled it down and sat up.

"Sorry...I'm awake now, I promise," she said sleepily.

"Okay...I'll uh...be out here if you need me."

Poe was never very good at small talk and quickly went back over to the ships with Finn.

"She okay?" Finn asked.

"Yeah...I think it's just the pregnancy hormones. She's more tired now you know..."

"Pregnancy hormones?! Who!?!" A short stout middle aged woman Poe had seen around camp must have been right behind him when he spoke.

"Oh um...nobody...I was just...talking-"

"I'm not stupid you just went to check on Rey and are now talking about pregnancy! Oh boy the resistance will be so excited to hear! We haven't had good news for so long! Are you excited?! It is yours, right?" She asked smiling.

"Umm...yeah. Yeah I'm...so excited. I can't wait..." he tried to grin at her. Shit Rey was not going to be happy.

"Listen, if you could maybe try to keep this a secret-"

"Oh don't worry about me darling," she made a sign like she was zipping her lips up.

"Thank you," he said. The woman trotted away happily.

"You know she's going to go tell half the camp now..." Finn said, arms crossed.

"Yeah I know," Poe sighed. Oh well they were bound to find out sooner or later...

By the time Rey dressed and fixed her hair, everyone in the vicinity of the camp knew. She walked out of her tent and a small group of women surrounded her.

"Is it true?"

"Are you really?"

"Tell us, tell us!"

Rey was a bit confused at first but quickly realized someone must have let slip about the baby.

"Oh, um, yeah it's true," she fake laughed, "I'm really pregnant."

The girls squealed in delight.

"Oh a baby! The first baby the resistance has seen in so long!"

"And from two of the best members we have!"

"This child is gonna be a hell of a pilot!"

They droned on and on as Rey walked quickly towards her group of friends that were trying to hide the embarrassment their faces. As she approached them the group of rampant women wandered off talking excitedly.

"Okay who's fault was this," she said annoyed.

Finn and Rose both pointed fingers over at Poe who was biting his nails nervously.

She shot him a disapproving look.

"What?! It was an accident!" He said defensively. Rey sighed, there was no use arguing about it now.

"They think it's yours at least..." she said quietly.

"Exactly, see? Everything is fine, it's better it's out in the open now," he said more to reassure himself than her.

"Your lucky you're my fake secret lover or I'd kick your ass right now," she grinned. He gave her a dashing half smile back.

"Okay love birds lets get work," Rose said. "we still have a few ships left to refuel and one of them is leaking oil somewhere, Rey if you could get on that, your the only one small enough to get in there to look."

"Of course," and she quickly got to work. She liked staying busy, it made the day go by faster and took her mind off of everything. Plus hidden in the engine of a ship she couldn't be bothered by anyone else about the baby. She was a damn good mechanic and loved working on ships, quickly finding the problem and spending the next couple hours fixing it as if it were second nature, then came out to help carry heavy jugs of fuel to the last ship the others were working on.

"Rey! Put that down you shouldn't be carrying heavy stuff like that!" Finn said when he spotted her.

"I'm fine, Finn, I'm not handicapped..." she rolled her eyes lugging the heavy container over to them where she handed it to Poe.

"Excuse me for worrying about you..." Finn said. He was hot and irritated, sweat pouring down his face.

"She's fine, Finn," Poe said lazily grabbing the container from her.

"Oh and you know that? You can guarantee that her doing manual labor won't hurt her?"

Poe, Rey, and Rose all stared at him. He never had angry outburst like this. Finn looked around at all of them and turned back to his work.

"Sorry," he said quietly, "it's just hot."

Rose spoke this time, "were all hot Finn and were all worried about her but we can't start fighting. We have to stay together."

"I know," Finn said roughly.

"And I'm not going to sit around, while you guys work, feeling useless," Rey added.

"Fine Rey!" He turned on her, "Do whatever you want! Maybe if we're lucky that bastard will die in the womb before it has a chance to live and become like its father!" He threw the wrench he was holding and stormed off. The three of them stared incredulously after him absolutely in shock at his words.

"He didn't mean that Rey," Rose said touching her arm.

"No, I think he did..." Rey said angrily.

Poe seemed to snap out of his daze and jogged over to Finn, roughly grabbing his shoulder to turn him around.

"You need to apologize!" He said angrily staring at Finn.

"No! I meant every word!" Finn yelled shooting Rey a venomous look. She stared angrily back at him. Poe pushed him.

"You can't talk to her like that!" He yelled. People in the camp were noticing the fight now. Finn pushed him back.

"Don't put your hands on me!"

"Then don't be a dick!" Poe retorted. Rose rushed over to them.

"That's enough! Finn, go to your tent and cool off! Poe, get back over here!" She said loudly. The two men stared at eachother hatred radiating off of them. Finn broke away and stormed into his tent.

Poe walked quickly back over to Rey and ran a hand threw his hair.

"I'm sorry, Rey. He will apologize for that if it's the last thing he does." He said roughly.

"Just let it go," Rey said, "it's how he really feels. He was being honest."

"It doesn't matter he should never have said that out loud to you. It was disgusting." The three of them worked in silence for a minute. Rose went to take the empty containers back to the storage tent and Rey sat next to Poe on the wing of the ship they were working on.

"Thanks for sticking up for me," she said quietly.

"Yeah...anytime," he said and grabbed her hand.

"You don't want it to die do you?" She asked, "it's okay if you do...I'm sure you won't be the only one..."

"No of course I dont, Rey! Look at me." He lifted her chin gently, "I'm serious! I'll defend you and your baby as long as I live. And I'll claim it as long as you need me to..."

Rey could cry she was so touched. She lay a head on his shoulder.

"Thank you..."

Rose came back and interrupted them.

"Aww what a beautiful family portrait!" She teased. Rey laughed and threw her oily rag at her.

"Well looks like we're done here for the day," Poe said standing up. He offered his hand to help Rey stand and she gladly took it.

"Thank god I'm starving," Rose said excitedly. They all washed up and met back up for dinner. Finn was nowhere to be found but Rey thought it was probably better that way. They ate, joked, laughed, and Rey felt her worries disappear when she was with her friends. She never felt more appreciated and at home than when she was with them. It was just a shame Finn couldn't join them. Rey went back to her tent that night more tired than she had been in awhile. She lay back and planned on waiting until people went to sleep to go see Ben again, but she closed her eyes and sleep overtook her almost immediately.