"We are back with another chapter and the darkness is still looming over the Resistance, things are not gonna be fixed that easily..."

Chapter 40: A Fading Spark

Days had past since Evelyn and the crew had returned back to Last Horizon and hope was running thin, Leia had never left the Medical Ward and even with Evelyn's operation being a success there was a life changing problem that Leia found out from the nurses. Knowing Evelyn will be devastated with the news all Leia could do was wait for Evelyn to wake up, only four days had past since the operation and not once did she wake up.

Leia refused to leave Evelyn's side and would wait for her to wake up, no matter how long it would take. All she did was sit in a chair next to Evelyn's bed with her hand in her's.

-Command Centre-

With Leia taking time off to watch over Evelyn she allowed Poe who came to her and apologise for his words about Rey being gone, knowing the stress she was going through he offered to take over operations giving her some time off.

The two spoke into the night and soon Leia accepted Poe's apology and allowed him to take over operations and follow with any orders she deemed necessary, one of the orders was to begin the search for Rey.

Poe worked his ass off keeping things running and despite how frustrating it was he would use his free time to find clues about Rey's whereabouts.

A hologram of the galaxy appeared above the main console in the middle of the command centre and Poe was just looking at it with his arms crossed just trying to figure out where to start first.

"Where are you Rey?" Poe whispered to himself and then sighed pulling out his radio. "Finn, if you got five minutes come up to the Command Post".

After a few seconds Finn responded. "I'm on my way". Poe then placed his radio on the table nearby and rubbed his eyes which now had dark circles under them and nearby Connix could see how tired he was.

Hating seeing him like this she turned away from her console and approached him then gently placed her hand on his back. "Poe why don't you get some sleep, we can continue the search while you rest" She whispered in support.

Poe took his hand from his eyes and looked to Connix. "No I'll be alright, I'll rest when we find Rey".

Connix gave a small nod with a tiny smile "Just dont kill yourself Poe, we need you". Poe gave her a slow nod then lowered his head taking a deep breath before looking back at her. "You sure you want to do this? You just want to remain friends?".

He watched her take both his hands and rubbed over them for a few seconds before looking up at him."It's for the best Poe, you're always up there and I'm down here. We are worlds apart, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the small time I had with you. I hope you can understand".

Poe sighed and pulled her in for an embrace and she returned then they held each other for a little while. "I enjoyed what we had to, at least I still have you as a friend".

"We will always be friends Poe, always" Connix whispered and then they let go of each other and thats when they turned seeing Finn enter the room and thats when Connix turned and went back to work.

"Hey buddy, how you holding up" Poe asked and Finn shrugged his shoulders as he came to the main console looking at the galatic map. "Apart from Evelyn being severely wounded and Rey missing, yeah I'm fucking good".

Poe looked down to the terminal just trying to think of something. "I guess you heard about the damage done to Evelyn".

Finn sighed and looked to Poe. "I'm more worried about how Evelyn will react when she is told, not only that but how will she act towards Rey after knowing the damage came from her".

Poe then looked to Finn. "Be honest with me Finn, do you want Rey back?". Finn frowned. "Of course I do, Poe she wasnt herself".

"I guessed that, but we need to realise what she did has spread across The Resistance. There is a chance they may see her as a enemy, even with Leia's reassurance there is still a chance people may not agree with it" Poe explained.

Finn leaned forward looking at Poe. "If she comes back willingly that should be enough to show whose side she is on, right now her being out there is only gonna create doubt".

Poe turned his attention back to the holographic map of the galaxy and all he could do was slowly shake his head. "Thats the question Poe, where the hell is she".

Finn looked at the console in front of him and began typing away and soon the map of the galaxy faded and a sand planet, vegetated planet and another planet covered mostly in water appeared on the hologram.

"We have three places to start, Jakku, Takkadona and Ahch-to. We should start looking at these planets" Finn stated and Poe shut off the hologram and looked at Finn confused. "Whoa why would she return to those planets, if a person wants to vanish they wouldnt go to a fucking planet where they recently been".

"Its a start Poe!" Finn argued and Poe came around to him. "Unless we know exactly where she is we are wasting our time, lets say we go to Takkadona and we dont find her, she may have been on Jakku and by the time we head there she would have moved on".

Poe then sighed as he turned and walked away placing his hands on his hips just looking to the distance. "I am not Rey's biggest fan right now, but I want to find her just as much as you but we cant just guess where she is. We need solid information on her location...otherwise we will never find here".

All Finn could do was look at the holographic planets and all his attention went to Jakku, the place he first met Rey. "Then we find her, no matter how long it takes".

"Time has never been on our side Finn, but your right, we just got to keep trying" Poe then looked back to Finn. "How's Kaiden and his daughters?".

"Kaiden has been trying to keep Lydia occupied with Hope, but she keeps begging her father to let her see Evelyn" Finn gave a single chuckle. "Lydia has really grown to love Evelyn".

Poe gave a small smile "Evelyn has always had a positive effect on people, look at Rey".

Finn smiled as he turned and leaned on the terminal crossing his arms looking to the distance. "You got that right, I dont think Rey was into women until she met Evelyn. I swear as soon as she saw Evelyn there was something that awoken in her."

Poe came closer to Finn and leaned on the terminal crossing his arms looking at him. "Such as?".

Finn chuckled a little. "Well when Evelyn was shot by Bala she refused to leave her side and when Han treated her injuries all Rey could do was worry about her".

"That doesn't mean she didn't like her in that way back then" Poe suggested.

Finn looked to Poe "Oh it did, the way she looked at her said it all, even back on StarKiller Base I remember waking up for a few seconds as the Base shook. I was being carried by Chewie and in those few seconds I saw Rey kneeling in the snow holding Evelyn close".

"So it was love at first sight for Rey then, I wouldn't be surprised if Evelyn was the same way" Poe then looked down at the ground and then back at Finn. "Hows Rose?, haven't seen her in a while".

"Ah she's fine, with everything that's going on she just wants to keep herself distracted. I'm happy with that" Finn stated and then looked to Poe. "So, we gonna start our search or keep talking about the past?".

Poe gave a small smile "Lets get Rey back, I'll consider Jakku, Takkodana and Arch-to. Go to the Falcon and see if she left anything behind, may give us something to go on".

Finn tapped Poe's shoulder and then went off to the Falcon and Poe turned his attention to the captains in the room. "I need a Resistance fighters to scout Jakku, Takkodana and Ahch-To, as soon as they find any information on Rey we need to know ASAP".

-Medical Ward-

In a private room and sitting next to a medical bed was Leia looking down at a medical report on Evelyn's operation, what she saw in the report broke her heart, the damage Evelyn received to the stomach thanks to Rey will change her life forever.

Leia looked up to Evelyn still sleeping in the bed and not once was there any signs of movement, she was now in medical robes and had a breathing mask over her mouth. As the days past the bruises on her body slowly faded but Leia couldn't help but look at Evelyn's abdomen area.

Despite the medical droids amazing work of sealing the wound and knowing the wound will heal in a few days, Leia knew the damage done will crush Evelyn's soul when she finds out. In that moment Leia was afraid to tell Evelyn and all she could do was lower her head as tears fell down her face.

Leia was just fed up of everything, she believed the chaos ended on Endor and the galaxy was finally at peace. But now it was just as dark as it was all those years ago. Evelyn will discover what happened to her will change her life, and Rey had vanished.

Wiping her tears away she looked to Evelyn and that's when she saw her eyelids slightly flicker, Leia quickly go up and leaned over the bed looking down at Evelyn.

"Little Wing?, can you hear me" Leia whispered as she just waited to see Evelyn's blue eyes again and after a few moments, Evelyn grunted and her eyes slightly opened and she saw Leia looking down at her.

"Leia..." She let out a quiet whisper still severely weak and Leia gently pulled a bit of loose hair behind Evelyn's ear. "Shh, its ok your home now, you have been out for a few days".

"What happened..." Evelyn tried to speak again and it just broke Leia's heart so she decided to make sure the young girl would get more rest.

Leaning a bit closer Leia looked down at the woman she loved as a daughter and she placed her hand on Evelyn's cheek and she whispered. "Dont worry right now, listen I'm going to put you back to sleep...when you recovered alot more I will tell you everything".

"Leia..is everyone ok?...is..Rey.." Evelyn whispered and she saw Leia take a slight deep breath, at that point Evelyn knew there was problems. Leia didnt answer and then moved her hand up to the young woman's forehead and focused.

"Shh, go back to sleep" Leia whispered and she finally put Evelyn back to sleep, all she could do was watch her return to a peaceful state. All Leia could do was look at her, no matter how many times she said it she just couldn't believe the scared little girl she took in is now grown into a young beautiful woman, she just wished Evelyn had a better life than this.

Leia then gently placed her hands on both Evelyn's cheeks and placed a loving kiss on her forehead, then pulled back gently putting her forehead against Evelyn's.

"I love you Little Wing" Leia whispered then slowly pulled back removing a tear from her eye as she continued look at Evelyn finally resting again, and on a table nearby was BD-1 looking at the scene before him.

All the little droid could do was lower his head in sadness over what he witnessed before him, he lost his original Master, his friend Cal Cestis and now he was afraid to lose another good friend.

-Last Horizon, Hanger-

Finn walked through the empty hanger of the Resistance Base and his mind was just lost, everything went to shit in a matter of seconds but deep down he couldnt just sit around crying about it cause deep down he knew Evelyn would want them to continue on.

Taking a deep breath he marched toward the Falcon's ramp and into the ship itself hoping to find something that could give them a clue, before the mission to find a new home for the Resistance he remembered Rey talking about going to some planets which caught her interest. Rey always wanted to go to planets which were just covered in green, Finn only hoped she wrote something down somewhere as a reminder cause at this point finding her would be absolutely impossible.

Finn could only look at the walls of the hall he was going down just remembering everything they went through and voices of the past filled his mind, everything happened so fast and to think they got to this point was just unbelievable. Soon he came to the living quarters and on the table was a makeshift bag which he knew belonged to Rey.

With all the chaos and confusion no one checked the ship properly and of course it was understandable, how would people continue to work on as normal after know the hope they dreamed for had vanished.

"Rey, where the hell are you" Finn slowly made his way to the table and sat down near it just looking at the bag, he was almost afraid to open it cause all he felt was pain knowing what he saw in the temple was the thing of nightmares. Rey had turned to the dark side and what she did was just something he never thought he would see from her.

He continued to look at the bag for a few more moments and soon he slowly reached for it and pulled it closer to him, his heart raced as he gently placed his hands on the bag and began to open it and a few things fell out on to the table.

Finn gently put the back to the side and looked at the contents on the table and there were a few things he quickly recognised, among the items was the small white blaster that Han Solo gave to Rey when they landed on Takkodana, Finn knew Rey always cherished that blaster and of course it was the only thing she had left of her uncle.

Among the other items there wasn't much to go on, however his eyes caught another bag resting on the chair next to him, curious about what was in it he reached out for it and grabbed the bag then placed it on the table next to the other items.

This bag was different from the other one, the bag was white and was alot more secure and Finn knew what ever was inside was something Rey kept more safe then anything else, a part of him didn't want to open it cause it was possibly something invaluable to Rey but if he didn't there was a chance they wouldn't have anything to go on.

Soon he finally untied the top flap of the bag and took a peek inside, all he saw in the bag was junks of metal and plastic which really confused him, taking his curiosity further he gently poured the contents out on to the table and among metal and plastic was a tiny box.

Finn was really confused by this bags contents and his eyes never left the tiny box among the pile of metal and plastic. "What is all this?".

He slowly reached out for the tiny box and brought it close to him and all he could do was look at it, what ever was in this box was important. Taking a deep breath he slowly opened the box and resting inside of it was a tiny blue crystal, a beautiful crystal and shined from the nearby light and at that moment Finn knew exactly what the pile of metal and plastic on the table was.

Finn looked back at the pile of metal and plastic realising this was Rey's original lightsaber which was destroyed and Snoke's ship and of course belonged to her father and grandfather, he then took another look at the blue crystal sitting in the tiny box and then slowly took it out and just admired it for a few seconds.

He still couldnt get over that such a tiny crystal was the heart of the Jedi's weapon, the crystal carried a certain allure to it and was just a thing of beauty, but right in front of him was just the remains of what was once great.

Sighing in frustration, he placed the crystal back in its box and chucked it on the pile of metal and plastic and rubbed his face as he leaned back in his chair, there was nothing in the bags which could give him a lead on where to look, Finn was absolutely lost.

"Rey, please come back..Evelyn needs you" Finn whispered as he just looked at the dismantled lightsaber in front of him and he was lost, and silently rolling down the hall BB8 slowly peeked around the corner looking at Finn and witnessed him rubbing his eyes trying to stop tears from escaping.

BB8 could do nothing but turn back down the hall very slowly roll away letting of a quiet few beeps while keeping his head low as he rolled away.

Evelyn Kenobi was gonna be out of action for a while, Leia was afraid to reveal the damage done to Evelyn, Finn and Poe were lost on what to do next.

Rey Skywalker left no traces of where she went, there was a very high chance the Daughter Of Luke Skywalker will never be seen again.

The spark that will light the fire was fading once again...with everything that has now happened...the soldiers of The Resistance believed, Luke Skywalker was The Last Jedi.

"Evelyn's injury will be revealed and it will be heart breaking, next chapter will be Finn and Poe again as they figure out how to find Rey. Like i said things will not be fixed quicky...especially with what has happened to Evelyn"

"I am writing the next chapter right now, just don't expect light to shine through the darkness any time soon :( hope u enjoyed this chapter and are ready for more!"