Ch 55

Rey

"What do you mean tomorrow morning? We haven't heard anything about a trial! Ben?"

"No, this is the first I'm hearing about this! Don't I get a-a lawyer or a representative or something?" Ben asked, I could sense he was… not angry but he was definitely scared.

I was terrified, if they ever took Ben away from me…

Finn sighed and rubbed his temples as he spoke "Look guys I… I'm sorry really. I talked to Poe and he said it was out of his hands. As far as having a lawyer or whatever, there is someone who wants to speak you both, you'll meet with him in a few hours." I felt Finn tense up a little bit when he mentioned this, like he was trying to hide… something about this person.

"Wait Finn, where are we?" I asked him, I assumed a trial meant we were on land.

"Um… I'm not sure I'm allowed to tell you as prisoners of the Republic… but I can tell you we are on the Mid Rim at least. I'm sorry I don't have much more as far as 'good news' goes" he said with a solemn look.

I walked up to him and wrapped my arms around his waist, taking him by surprise.

"Finn, I, we, are both grateful for the information you were able to give us. It may not be much, but it's a start. We're just hoping whoever wants to talk to us will be able to help us somehow." He sighed and rubbed my back.

"Yea… I hope so…" he said pensively. We parted, and he left immediately.

I sighed and went back to sit on my cot, Ben joined me and wrapped an arm around my shoulders. I put my head on his shoulder and I felt him grow a little stiff.

"I… does this bother you?" I asked him.

"No, I think I partially, am not used to physical affection from someone else. I also just feel like, maybe there was someone better for you in life. When I see you with Finn, I know you don't see each other that way, but sometimes I wonder if things had gone much better with you should I have stayed dead"

I sat up so I could look him in the eye and try to search his mind for more, but there wasn't much more than what we had already discussed.

"Ben, I don't think that's how this works… even if you hadstayed dead I don't think I could have… had feelings for anyone else ever. That night on Exegol, I felt like I had found the place where I belonged when we connected. You were in the light for the first time since we'd met and… I can't even begin to describe the feeling, but when you died I knew in my heart I would never be able to connect with anyone the way I'd connected with you. I have always only belonged to you, from the moment we met"

He gave me a sad smile and kissed my forehead. When he was about to pull away I raised my hand to his face and pulled him back in for an actual kiss. It didn't feel the same as it did in person, it strangely felt… better? Maybe it was because we were completely connected through the Force.

I felt him think the same thing and our kiss suddenly deepened and the next thing I knew I was laying on the cot with him on top of me. His arms at my sides to hold him up and not crush me under his weight. He pulled back and we were both breathing a little heavy.

"How much time do you think we have?" he asked between breaths.

"Finn said tonight, I'm not sure what time it is, but we haven't gotten our last meal ye-" he crushed his lips, silencing me, and I remembered how easy it would be given the very skimpy dress I was wearing.

As if reading my thoughts, he moved a hand to lift one leg up and the fabric on the skirt rode up easily.

In this moment more than ever, I wished we had a room to ourselves and prayed with all my might that things might soon be normal.

We lay next to each other in pure bliss for what felt like hours, in each other's arms and just reveling in the feeling.

"Do you think it'll be like this for the rest of our lives?" I asked him.

He smiled "No, I think it will always be better and better. Until the day we die, I could never get tire of being intimate with you. If we could make love for days without end, I would ravish your body and worship you like the goddess you are."

I blushed hard, I could feel my cheeks grow extremely hot.

"I'm not used to anyone saying something like that to me Mr. Solo, but I would want to do the same to you my love" I told him. He cupped my chin in his hand and pulled me in for another kiss.

Suddenly, we heard someone jingle some keys outside of the cell I was being kept in and we broke out of the connection immediately and sat up. I pulled whatever pins I had in my hair and tussled my hair and left it lose, making ti seem like I had just woken up from a nap.

You look so sexy with your hair like that…

I blushed again and ran my hand through my hair to try and tame it a little more.

Shut up!I sent back and merely chuckled.

Three guards stepped in with blasters and a pair of cuffs. One of the women among them was Rose, she kept looking down at the ground, avoiding my direction the entire time I was being put in cuffs.

I was led out of the room and I partially wished I had some shoes on, for once we followed Ben and his escorts off the ship, Poe was among them. There was a lot of mud and rocks and it was hard to avoid stepping on them.

Ben could feel my discomfort and tried to send some form of a soothing feeling to almost no avail.

Whatever planet we were on had a temperate climate, not too hot and not too cold, and it was heavily forested, with hundreds and hundreds of mountains in the distance.

We were led to some form of encampment. We walked for a while, on my feet it felt like hours, until we reached a huge bunker and were made to wait outside until Poe and a few other people went inside.

I don't like this Ben…I told him as I swallowed hard.

Wait… search, the person inside… I know him. He said, I could feel the mix of both fear and excitement as we waited outside the tent.

As if on cue, the door opened and Poe ushered us inside.

"Rey! I'm so glad to see you! After Exegol, I didn't hear much about you, only that you'd gone to Tattooine. And Ben… my boy…how I've missed you" he said as we walked inside.

"It's good to see you too… Uncle Lando"