Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars. Just my OC. Writing for fun.
Chapter 35: Together
The Falcon swooped downward back to Janna's planet, Endor's moon. Lando let down the ramp so that Elle could slide right off and onto the fallen ruins of the old Death Star. She saluted Lando and Chewie thanking them for the lift to retreat back to where her cousin was found. She had to leave first flight. She didn't want to miss him. And there, that's where she found him, through the crashing waves of the planet's busy ocean, underneath his ship, trying to fix it.
There was a kind of airy light between the two of them as she approached him gently.
She paused a few feet away from him, looking at him with his knees perched upward. He was fixing his own ship.
"So, you don't have an endless supply of ships like I thought you always had," Elle said lightly.
"Evidentially not," he replied. Elle's lips curled into a hopeful smile. Ben. It was really Ben. Her heart lifted, filling with hope.
"I guess that's what happens when one decides to go against the Emperor?" Elle asked.
He crawled out from underneath his ship and looked up at her, resting on his elbows. Droplets of water fell from his face and his wet hair. His chest heaved up and down as though he'd been working all day and night to fix his ship.
"What do you want?" he asked. "Should you even be out here?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Elle replied.
"I don't need your guidance," he said, and went back to fix the final touches. "I know what I'm doing."
Elle walked over towards his ship and opened up the door. As it opened, she peeked inside, and slid into the cockpit.
"You don't know what you're doing. Elle, come on, get out of there. Go home."
"I can't go home, Ben."
"You want revenge?" he asked. He sensed a little something different within her. He slid back out to face her, giving her a look of concern. "That's not like you at all."
Elle shrugged her shoulders. "The Emperor tore my family apart. One by one. All of them. Gone. I have nothing left. Right back where I started. Alone."
Ben tilted his head to the side at her sympathetically, and grabbed her hand, pulling it in his, catching her off guard as she had nearly lost herself in the past. Ben felt it. The past that Leia lent her in her heart. It seemed so lonely though. Didn't she have more waiting back at home though? A future?
"You're not alone," Ben said with a shake of his head. "I made a promise to you didn't I?"
Elle's lips curled into a small smile.
"We'll do this together," he promised with a nod of his head. "Here, try to see if it works. You turn the ignition on like this," Ben reached over and showed Elle where the controls were to get the ship in working condition.
Elle pointed to the control button, "Here?"
Ben nodded.
She grinned slightly and turned it while he ducked under to check to see how it worked and then felt the roar of the ship's engine buzz to life.
"It's working!" she exclaimed excitedly. "Ben. It's working."
Elle smiled brightly. "Great. Now we just gotta…figure out a space for you."
"I can squeeze in the back," Elle climbed into the back's very small space.
Ben wrinkled his nose not liking that idea. "This is not going to be a fun ride."
Elle shrugged. "Better ride than no ride."
Ben closed the hatch and then put everything back together and got into his ship. He closed the door and put the ship into the planet's atmosphere. "For the record. I didn't need you to come talk to me."
"I know," Elle said, huddling in her spot. "I wanted to anyway."
"Typical Skywalker," Ben teased, making her laugh as he flew into space, and headed towards Exegol. "Hey how far out was she?"
"Rey?"
Ben nodded.
"She was pretty far out from what Poe told me. We'll get there in time. Don't worry," she gave him a gentle squeeze of reassurance of his shoulder. "Um, we may have a slight problem. I don't have my saber."
"Neither do I."
"What?"
"I, uh, sort of tossed it."
Elle sighed, and leant back. "Great. Where's R2 when you need him?"
~*SW*~
A/n: So, I wanted to write a short Ben/Elle moment in there. I felt like one last good hurrah moment was needed before the final battle on Exegol. So, ah, definitely Leia's/Han's theme and Anakin's themes were thought of in this chapter for sure in case you were wondering what soundtrack I was listening to during this moment, haha. Anyway, follows, favorites, and reviews are loved and welcomed and appreciated! Thank you for reading and thank you for the recent reviews and follows and favorites. Updates soon! Be well!
