*Last time on WO: Ben had to explain more to Rey, both verbally and hands on… About orgasms.*

"Ben?" Rey poked him but when he didn't move, she said more urgently, "Ben! I think I'm dying."

Ben bolted out of sleep and sat up on the bed. He felt panic and embarrassment from Rey, but no real pain besides a low ache in her abdomen. He looked her over and seemed satisfied with what he saw. "What do you mean Rey?" he asked, still unconcerned but not quite as much after his scan of her body and her pain level.

"I think I'm bleeding internally," she whispered, pointing to a blood stain on the bed.

"Stars, Rey," he said, the level of concern rising a bit. "What makes you think it's internal bleeding if we can see it?"

"I don't know. It feels like my organs are sort of being crushed," she lifted the shield that Ben hadn't really noticed and sure enough there was an intense cramping, contracting in her lower stomach.

"Where's the blood coming from Rey?" Ben asked, an idea crossed his mind.

"Um, down there?"

"Where Rey?" he asked, needing her to clarify in case it wasn't what he expected.

"Where you touched me. Oh, does that usually happen?" The embarrassment kicked up a notch.

"No," Ben answered, his own embarrassment coloring the bond. She seriously needs a girlfriend. I'm not cut out for this. "You could talk to my mom, maybe?" he said. She would be much better at dealing with and explaining this.

"Why? No, I don't want to tell her what we did," Rey said, a bit panicked.

"Rey, it's not from that, sweetheart," Ben said again. He sent reassurance and calm through the bond.

"Then what? Am I really bleeding internally? What aren't you telling me?" Rey crossed her arms and gave him a look.

Force! She'd been hanging out with Leia far too long. He knew that look, and Han did as well. "It's natural Rey."

She huffed and replied "It doesn't feel natural."

He resisted the urge to laugh, he knew that wouldn't help anything. "It's a part of growing up."

"I've never seen you bleed. Or feel like this over the bond," Rey said, frustration clear in her tone. She broke eye contact realizing that there was really no way of knowing if he did bleed. But still, he knew something and he was holding out on her.

"Uh, no I don't." Ben wanted to smack his forehead. Better yet a hole could form right here for him to fall into and get him out of this conversation. He shook his head and realized he was being a wimp. Rey was scared and he should be mature enough to explain. "It's something that happens to women. It means their body is maturing and is ready to have a baby."

"Kriff, Ben Solo. We have to have a baby, now?" she said, eyes wide.

"Uh, no. Not now, it just means that if you wanted to, if we did, then we could." He was botching this, but at least he was trying now. "Actually this happens when you aren't with child. Your body prepares for it, and if it doesn't happen you have the bleeding."

"Oh. But does this mean we can't have a child? If I missed that chance?"

Force. "No, Rey. You will have plenty more chances. To have more than one child if you want. This happens every month standard calendar."

"Every month? But it hurts. And it's embarrassing. There's blood everywhere. I've never seen anyone else walking around bleeding."

"There are things to help, so it's obvious and not so messy. Have you seen the supplies in the fresher?" Ben had come on them, looking for extra toothpaste, but he didn't realize that Rey didn't use them.

"Um, okay. But why hasn't it happened before?" she asked, her eyes still averted.

Ben pulled her close and rested his head on the top of her head. She looked so confused, frustrated and he felt sadness mixing in from the bond. "Well, I guess because your body wasn't ready to have a child? You didn't have much to eat, so you had to conserve that energy for yourself? I'm really not sure, though. "But surely you've noticed that your body has been changing now that you have enough to eat." he said, gesturing vaguely at her chest. He sure had. Maybe Mom would know more? I'm a guy so I only know the basics. . This time he wasn't trying to shirk the conversation he truly didn't know much else about it. Except that him and Han treaded lightly when it was time for Leia's cycle.

"So, there's something to help keep me clean?" Rey asked.

"Yes," Ben said. He led her to the fresher closet, and handed her the supplies. "Do you know how to use them?"

"Do you?" she sassed.

Maybe he would have to be careful about what he said and did during her cycle too. "Uh, should I get a med droid?"

"No, I think I can figure it out. Can you get me fresh clothes? I'm taking a shower," Rey snapped.

Finally, something he could do. Once he delivered the clothes and shut the door, he went to find a cleaning droid for new sheets and to take care of her clothes. He ran through other things Rey might not know, so he could ask Leia to talk to her about it, so she would have a women's perspective. But he couldn't thinn of anything, at least until they were closer to having sex.

Rey was determined to make him die by embarrassment.

*AN: I can see this happening. Rey is fairly isolated, no real women in her life that might explain it and who would have a holo on menstruation on a military display/computer thing*