"Where are we headed?" Rey finally asks, turning to look up at Ben, seeing him wince.
"Are you ok?" she asks, concerned at seeing Ben flinch.
"I think my leg is broken." he admits catching her wrist as she goes to reach for it.
"We're going to Corellia, We'll be able to hide out there. Don't waste your energy well be able to find a back alley healer once were there." he explains pulling up the world on the nav screen for Rey to see.
"Corellia? I've heard of it but i've never been their" she tells him and he chuckles.
"I've been once, It's Han Solo's homeworld. The planet is home to smugglers and thugs, keep watch of your saber." he tells her, and she can feel the pain common through the bond at the thought of his father. She takes his hand in hers hoping it helps.
"Land at hangar 26." a voice instructs through the consol.
"On it." Rey returns, taking over the ship's controls and bringing it into land climbing out of the ship and helping the much larger Ben out of the ship letting him lean on her shoulder as the owner of the hanger walks over to them.
"Were paid up for the week.'' Ben waves his hand forcing the thought into the man's mind before he can even ask for it, the man nodding.
"Nice doing business with ya." he says with a grin.
"The ship is for sale, do you know anyone looking for one?"
"Of course I do, am I right to guess this ship is less than legally acquired?" Ben grins, and Rey can see Han Solo in him more now than she ever had.
"If i had paid for this ship you'd have to steal it or me to give it up." the man chuckles.
"Spoken like a true corellion, you two enjoy yourselves i'll set something up.'' He waves them off walking towards his office as Rey helps Ben limp out of the port, the two heading down the street.
"We need to find a medcenter soon, we don't want you to make your leg worse." she says and Ben can feel the force calling him towards a back alley.
"Over there" he tells her.
"I felt it too." She agrees and the two of them make their way down finding a metal door with a red cross painted on it rey ducking from under Ben's arm moving towards the door and knocking hard on it an eye hole opening up blue eyes surrounded by blue skin looking out.
"What?" they ask shortly.
"This is a corellian med center isn't it?" Ben asks and he can see the eyes scanning over them from inside.
"Can you afford us big guy?"
"Not yet, but we're selling a Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop, we'll be able to pay." He can see her thinking.
"Fine." The peephole closes and he can hear lock after lock being updone until finally the door is pulled back and slid to the side.
"Come on in." she says and ben limps forward rey walking in before you.
"You both look like hell."
"We've been through hell." Rey responds as the woman leads them through a skinny hallway, Ben's shoulders almost skimming the wall until she leads them into a room full of medical equipment, picking up a scanner and scanning Ben and then Rey reading over the data.
"Broken leg, exhaustion, dehydration. And for you lightning burns what the hell have you been getting up to?"
"Nothing you need to know." Ben tells the twi'lek who nods.
"Fair,nothing a few hours in bacta won't fix. Through that door are a few shower stalls, clean yourselves off and change into the white bacta shorts.
"The..The same room?" Rey asks and the girl sighs.
"You're a couple of adult sentients, you can handle a little nudity." he tells them before almost shoving them through the door closing it behind them and going to prepare two bacta tanks, rey glares at the door before turning to ben seeing him pulling his shirt over his head, the second time she had seen Ben Swolos chest, and she may be seeing more of him very soon.
"The faster we get ready the faster we can try to find out why the force sent us back in time." he tells her setting his sabre on a stand and stepping into one of the stalls and pulling the curtain closed, she hears him hiss feeling his pain through the bond as he struggles to kick off his boots kicking them out, blood pooled in the soles of one of them, she starts undressing herself down to her wraps setting her stolen saber next to his before stepping into the stall and removing those two turning the dial surprised when real water starts to flow through it instead of a sonic.
Ben winces as he drops his pants and undergarments feeling them stick to his leg, he looks down at his thigh seeing a deep gash, the bone visible inside, he leans against the wall turning the water with the force and letting it run over him as he forces himself to stand wincing as water runs over the wound.
"Are you ok ben?" Rey asks from the stall next to his and he realizes that the love of his life was nude inches away from him.
"Im fine." he calls over to her grabbing the disinfectant soap from the shelf and starting to wash himself feeling it burn at the wound on his leg hissing as it does, he can see the grime from exigol running off of him along with the blood, feeling clean for what feels like the first time in weeks. Finishing his shower far too quickly and grabbing a towel drying with it, careful of his thigh before wrapping it around his waist and opening the curtain walking to a locker opening it and pulling out a pair of white shorts, dropping the towel and pulling them on. He hears the water stop and Rey throws open the thin curtain giving Ben an eyeful before he covers his eyes with his hand..
"Ben." she chides moving over to her towel and wrapping it around her body.
"You didn't even try to look away."
"I couldn't, you're beautiful" he says, seeing her cheeks redden.
"Hush, now turn around so I can dress." she tells him and he turns away from her hearring her oppen one of the lockers dressing.
"Now you can look." she tells him and he turns around seeing her dressed in the white shorts and a small white top designed for modesty in bacta.
"We should go find her.'' Rey tells him, her eyes lingering on his chest for a moment before she shakes her head clear pulling her lightsabre to her and turning to the door Ben taking a moment to return the favor glanding down at her backside before pulling his sabre to him and limping after her. They walk out and down the hall finding the blue twi'lek waiting on them.
"Bactas ready, Let's get you lovebirds in." she says leading them down the hall and into a room with two bacta tanks embedded into the floor.
"Big guy first." she says and Ben hands Rey his sabre letting a breathing mask be fixed to his face before he's settled down into his bacta tank, a sedative being pumped through his mask to put him under.
"Ok girl, you can put the laser swords on the bench, not sure what a jedi needs with me but as long as you pay i don't ask questions.'' She says and Rey can't sense a lie so she complies, letting her do the same thing she had done to Ben before putting her in the tank and into a dreamless sleep.
ben and Rey allow themselves to be shoved back into the room with the showers, finding their clothes from the previous day, their clothes now clean and folded, set on the chair in the center of the room. They shower again before dressing and walking out of the room with sabres clasped to their hips.
"Here." she says shoving a chip into Rey's hand, the amount you owe me and the place to send it, pay within the week and i won't have to hunt you down yea?"
"We will." Ben tells her and she nods, opening the doors peephole scanning the alleyway before unlocking the locks again and throwing it open.
"Don't come back unless you're dying." she tells them before slamming the door behind them.
"I like her." Rey tells Ben, looking at the door.
"We should search Dooku's ship for credits, other stores won't let us skate by on credit."
"I've been itching to get a look at the insides of that ship."
"I'm sure you have Scavenger." he says, calling her that old nickname.
"Scavenger?" she says her lips turning up into a smirk.
"Should I call you a murderous snake then?" Ben lets out a chuckle.
"As long as we're together, what you call me doesn't matter very much." he says enjoying seeing her blush.
"Let's just go back to the ship." she says grabbing his hand in hers heading towards the
Hanger, Rey letting go of Ben's hand to open the door of Dooku's ship walking inside. They had spent most of the first trip slipping in and out of consciousness until Dooku's servant droid had awakened them, warning them they were approaching the planet.
"This may be the cleanest ship i've ever been in.'' Rey mutters as she starts pulling open containers. Ben moves towards the galley, finding a large store of expensive food.
"We should take everything out of the ship, we can put it in the next one we buy."
"We're getting a ship?" she asks ,coming up to the galley.
"Something medium sized would be nice, we can travel the universe together." he offers seeing her face light up.
"That sounds amazing ben." she smiles before heading back towards the back of the ship.
"Would you like me to prepare a meal?" the droid asks and ben hmms reaching towards it with the force and hitting a kill switch in the back of its head, dooku would have put protocol into it to protect the ship so he'd need to tear into its code later. His stomach growls and he sighs, knowing he'd need to prepare his own food, missing the premade food on a first order flag ship. He manages to make something edible, using the force in a way none of his master would have approved of to guide his hands at certain points,platting two meals.
"Rey, are you hungry?" he asks, hearing a thud and a very creative curse.
"Yes." She answers back and he can hear footsteps as he sets the plates at the table sitting down, rey walking in and sniffing at the air.
"That smells great, I didn't know you could cook." she says sliding in next to him and starting to eat.
"I can't, this was mostly luck." he she laughs, the two settling into a companionable silence.
The next week passes quickly ben and rey selling the ship off to a rich collector and passing it off to one of his servants after stripping everything that wasn't actually part of the ship from inside, Ben glad to have found a holo library fit for a count and rey happy to have enough food to last months.
Ben had changed out of his torn clothes into black pants, a grey shirt with openable buttons near the neck and a leather belt with a clip for his sabre and a holster for the Blaster he had bought. Rey had bought an outfit similar to what she had worn to Ach-to now that she had no reason to be the jedi poster child for the rebellion, also having bought herself a new blaster.
Currently the two of them are searching the Third shipyard searching for the perfect ship.
"Now how did they manage to get a J type 327?" Ben wonders aloud rey coming up next to him, looking at the sleek grey ship, the chromium having long been replaced.
"Someone found it crashed and scavenged it, they spent a number of years repairing it before they lost it to me." The man who owns it tells them, coming up to stand besides them.
'What do you think?' ben asks rey from inside their force bond
"Can we take a look inside?" Rey asks and the man nods.
"Course you can." He opens the landing ramp for them and they walk up finding the queen forward quarters removed and combined with the room atop the boarding ramp modified into a partial storage bay.
"Modified for transporting goods," Ben notes as Rey opens one of the doors, walking into the main hold and walking through into the cockpit, two seats side by side ben following after her as she activates the computer starting a up shipwide diagnostic finding ben opening up the room on the other side of the cockpit finding a massive bed he and rey share a look before they move back to the pilot and co pilots seats sitting down and seeing the diagnostics, seeing a few things that would need to be repaired but nothing pressing. They share a look before heading down towards the lower levels to inspect everything by hand, spending the next hour going over every part of the ship.
"I like it," Rey tells Ben who smiles at her.
"I do too." he agrees and they head out to the man, talking him down a few thousand credits before paying him and flying the ship over to the hangar they had stored the supplies from dookus ship in hover crates loading them on and beginning the repairs on the ship ben and rey making quick work ready to take off the next day, the two of them sitting down to a meal in the galley.
"I know we've been avoiding it, but we need to talk about what we were sent back for."
"It's been a nice few days."
"It has." she agrees with a hesitant smile.
"There are three Sith alive, Maul, Dooku, and Palpatine." He can see her wince at her grandfather's name.
"The clone wars have begun and if the order is given they will turn on the Jedi, but the Jedi don't trust the clones yet and if we force his hand now they will survive." he can feel Rey's dislike of that idea through the force.
"What if we go to the Jedi and tell them, Palpatine couldn't stand up to all of them."
"The Jedi wouldn't trust us, If they felt any trace of the dark side in us they'd ignite their sabers and attack us. You may be the last Jedi of our time but the Jedi of today would consider you a grey Jedi at best and a dark Jedi at worst," he warns and she places her head in her hands.
"I'm tired of old men deciding what i am, What gives them the right to decide I'm not a Jedi."
"They decided they had the right a long time ago, and have become stuck in their ways. We should hunt down maul first but before that we should go to illum."
"Illum?" Rey asks, having heard that somewhere.
"The planet the Jedi get their crystals from, it's time we construct our own sabres."