So this fic actually comes with an accompanying soundtrack!

Here's the link, it'd be cool if you listened along while reading!

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I've also put in brackets where each song fits, if you don't wanna listen that's cool too but i hope it will enhance your reading experience.

( Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top )

"Audio link established." Ben says.

"Affirmative."

"Check." Finn and Poe, respectively confirm. Rock music plays subtly in their earpieces and the two exchange a knowing look and a smirk. Interference through their new earpieces wasn't technically possible but when they guy who invented them wants to play ZZ Top through them, Finn and Poe were going to listen to ZZ Top. Plus, they had to admit, it did get them a little pumped up. Especially doing the kind of thing they were doing tonight.

The guys checked their reflections in the hotel's mirrored windows, they buttoned their tuxedo jackets and gave each other a nod. They strutted through the hotel's lobby, in well-rehearsed synchronicity. With the music pumping in their ears, they felt invincible. Their egos boosted further by the sidelong glances and flirtatious smiles they received from the beautiful, gown clad woman they passed. Finn returned a small smirk to a couple of them who looked his way. Poe straight up grinned and winked at them all.

This was their dynamic. Both very handsome men, neither of them played this fact down. More often than not, they used their looks to their advantage. The Honey Pot manoeuvre being one of Poe's favourites. But that was Poe, gorgeous, charming and ever so slightly wicked. Finn on the other hand was more the quiet, mysterious type. But make no mistake, he could weaponise his looks just as easily as his partner.

"Remember guys," Ben's voice cut through the music in their ears, "We're here for information … no matter how beautiful the women are."

That's Ben Solo. He's the son of The Resistance's General Leia Organa. Don't be fooled by family connections though, Ben is highly intelligent. He graduated top of his class at M.I.T. three years early and since then he has designed and built all of Finn and Poe's favourite toys. Together, the three of them make up the top team in the agency, consistently producing results and that's mainly down to the fact that the three of them are such good friends.

Ben sits in the surveillance van around the corner from the hotel, on his screens he has several viewpoints of tonight's party. One from each of the cameras embedded in the boy's bowties, several from the hotel's own CCTV cameras and one from the tiny camera he planted in one of the optics behind the bar when he was there earlier in the week tapping into the CCTV. Ben would usually tell you that he got the best view of the operations but as he flicked through the camera feeds, he stopped on Poe's bowtie cam. Poe always had the best view. Two beautiful girls turned to look at the Resistance spy and shot him devastating smiles, their eyes flirtatious and burning into Poe so hard that Ben felt the tension in the van 50 feet away.

"I gotta get myself field trained." Ben mumbled to himself.

"Can you see Phasma anywhere Ben?" Finn's voice comes through. Ben flicks through the cameras. He has some surveillance photos of Gwendoline Phasma so he knew he was looking for a very tall blonde but he had no idea what she was wearing. Luckily for Ben, his hidden bar cam came in handy.

"She's at the bar. Silver dress, you can't miss her." Ben kept the screen on her, watching as Poe came into view, coming up to the bar beside her. Finn walked past the two of them in the background, keeping his distance further down the bar. Ben knew this move; he'd seen them do it many time before. Poe usually bought the target a drink but Ben knew that she'd just bought herself one and Poe clocked the full glass in the woman's hand. "She's got a Jura with splash of soda." Ben told him.

"Jura, just a splash of soda." Poe said to the bartender, Phasma's interested piqued, she turned to the man at the bar beside her. Ben stifled a chuckle at the height difference between the two of them. According to her file, Phasma was 6ft3 but she must have been wearing heels tonight because Poe looked positively minuscule.

"That's my drink." She said to Poe, her voice delightfully husky.

"I'm just amazed that they have Jura here, it's a rare find." Poe commented. Jura wasn't his favourite whiskey but he put that down to having an uncultured palette. Scottish whisky wasn't something to turn your nose up at so he slightly exaggerated his fondness for the drink.

"I had it ordered in specially." She told him as the bartender came back and deposited Poe's drink on the counter. Poe picked it up and tipped it to Phasma.

"Well cheers to you." She smiled softly and clinked his glass with hers.

"You're a new face, I've never met you before have I?" She remarked.

"No, I'm here with a friend." Poe told her. She nodded thoughtfully.

"A female friend?" She asked him, a tinkle in her eye. Ben snorted slightly watching the scene from the van, how did this work every time? Poe chuckled, feigning bashfulness before returning her mischievous twinkle.

"No, just a friend." Phasma slid a little closer to him to whisper in his ear, right into his ear piece.

"Glad to hear it." She whispered flirtatiously. Ben was almost about to mute Poe's earpiece. He still hadn't recovered from the last time a beautiful woman whispered in Poe's ear. Ben was too innocent for the things he heard that day. This time however, he saw Phasma nod her head at someone over Poe's shoulder. He flicked between cameras and saw the security guards stationed by the bar move towards Poe.

"Okay guys, we've got trouble." Ben told them through the comms. Poe looked around as the two burly guards swept him up under his arms, pinning his hand behind his back. At this, Finn sprung to attention. Finn's heart rate jumped slightly on Ben's display. Their earpieces did more than just allow the boys to talk to each other, they also fed back to Ben their current heart rate and their location. This last one often came in handy when Poe had disappeared with some girl.

"Don't forget his friend too." Phasma said, indicating towards Finn. Unlike his partner, Finn came quietly. "Get them out of here." Phasma said, waving her hand dismissively. As Finn is escorted out the back exit, Poe being dragged scrambling behind him, Phasma picks up Poe's whisky glass and swirls it around a little before drinking it. "No use wasting great scotch."

"Guys, want me to do something?" Ben exclaims into their ears, he can see them being taken out the back door of the hotel on his cameras. He started to shuck off his headphones when Poe talked back to him.

"No, stay where you are, we'll be out in five!" The burly guard shoved Poe, his huge shoulder in his back causing Poe to make a loud 'oof' sound. The first guard pushed Finn out the back door and into the alley that ran behind the building, Poe toppling out shortly behind him. Once the two agents were effectively deposited in the gutter, the two guards considered it a job well done and turned to head back inside. That was until Poe opened his big mouth of course.

"That's right! Walk away!" He challenged them, their bulky silhouettes pausing in the doorway. Finn rolled his eyes.

"You want more little man?" The guard asked Poe, who was now realising that their chance to sweep all this under the rug was firmly out the window.

"Come on fellas." Finn interjected as the guard took his ugly black blazer off and handed it over to his comrade, who seemed very excited to bear witness to the events that were about to unfold. "We're out in the alley now yeah? Job done, no harm, no foul." Finn tried further to calm the situation as the sleeves of the guard's ill-fitting white shirt were being rolled up past his massive forearms.

"It's the 'no harm' part that I'm having an issue with." The man said before socking Poe straight in the mouth. Had it been a lesser man on the receiving end of the punch, they would have probably dropped to the deck. Poe, however, slowly turned his whipped head back towards the guard, softly rubbing his beaten jaw.

"He's gonna make me do it, isn't he?" Poe remarked.

"It appears so." Finn sighed dejectedly.

Quick as a flash, Poe whips his balled fist across the man's face, the huge man bending over to clutch it in pain. Poe met this with a kick to the man's stomach and he dropped into the dirty alleyway. Poe looked to Finn and flashed him a satisfied grin, holding his hand out to his partner for a congratulatory high five.

While the two of them are patting themselves on the back for a job well done, the other guard lunges for Poe, eager to smack the smug look off his face. Poe turns to the man, just as he collapses and joins his friend in the street. Ben's frozen, wide eyed form stood where the man had. Poe huffed and rolled his eyes.

"I told you to stay in the van." He scolded Ben, who although much larger than both Poe and Finn, always took the telling off.

"You're welcome." He responded sarcastically. Poe didn't answer, he looked to the two men at their feet and nudged Ben's subdued one with the toe of his shoe.

"What did you even do to him?" Finn asked. Ben held up a black fountain pen.

"Tranq pen."

"What?! How come you keep all the cool crap?" Poe jumped in. Ben's eyebrows cross in confusion.

"There's literally one in each of your jacket pockets." He told them. Now they looked confused and patted themselves down, Poe scrambling into the inside pocket of his now dishevelled tuxedo jacket and pulling out a matching pen.

"Honestly, I just thought this was a pen." He told Ben and Finn. "I was like what in the hell am I gonna need a pen for?"

"To sign our death sentences apparently." Finn said snarkily. Poe gave his partner a playful punch on the arm and grinned.

"Come on, I would have gotten us out of it easily." He said. "It was basically already over."

"Again, you're welcome." Ben said again, even more sarcastically this time making Finn smile. At their feet, one of the men in the heap made a small grumble. "We should probably go." Ben added.

"I was gonna say that but you'd probably just ignore it." Poe said pointedly, smacking Ben in the chest as he strode past him into the street and around the corner. Ben pressed his lips into a line, closed his eyes and took a breath. When he opened them again, Finn was giving him an amused smile.

"One of these days, I'm gonna smack him." Finn chuckled.

"I'd give you 50 bucks to do it." Finn told him and Ben laughed slightly. Poe came back into view at the end of the alleyway, throwing his hands up in exasperation.

"Hurry up! We need to get lost pronto! If only there was someone who's sole purpose was to stay in the van for a quick exit!" He exclaimed facetiously. Ben's mouth twisted in annoyance and Finn gave him a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

"Finn, get your wallet out."

The following afternoon, Finn sits perched on Ben's desk. His and Poe's office sits on one of the higher floors with full glass walls that overlooked the bullpen that housed Ben's desk. However, being the General's son was not without its perks. While yes, Ben had measly little cubicle desk in the bullpen that lacked the opulence of Finn's and Poe's office, Ben's little desk allowed him to essentially be his own receptionist.

Behind the cubicle was Ben's lab. Always locked, highly secured using security systems of Ben's own making. No one had tripped the system yet, mainly out of fear of what would happen to them. Ben's intellect was well known but he was also very secretive in his projects so the mystery was security enough.

Finn observed Ben, trying his hardest in the bustling coffee area to get a date with Connix ... again. Ben was nice guy sure, brilliant too but for some reason when he spoke to beautiful women he took that big brain of his and threw it in the trash. This was the umpteenth time Ben had tried to ask her out, often putting his foot in his mouth so bad that he never actually got around to the asking part.

"Morning." Poe says in greeting, approaching Finn with a very large cup of coffee.

"Afternoon." Finn replies. Poe joins him perching on Ben's desk and turns his attention to the same place that Finn's was currently engaged.

"Connix again?" Poe said and Finn nodded. "Have they exchanged more than six words this time?" Finn groaned.

"Yeah but barely, she's really not giving him much to work with, one word answers." Finn informed him.

"Ouch." Poe said and took a gulp of his coffee, wincing slightly at the burn in his mouth.

When Ben gave in and started walking back towards them, they stood up straight and busied themselves with bit and bobs on Ben's desk.

"Afternoon Poe, slept well I take it?" Ben said.

"Well," Poe started "not at first but I popped Ben's magic sleep pen and it worked a treat."

"What?!" Ben exclaimed. Finn starts to laugh and Poe just grins at the two of them. "Jesus Poe, that's not what that's for! That's a high dose of knock out drug!"

"Well, I feel fantastic so thanks man." Poe smacks the irate Ben on the shoulder. Ben huffs out an exasperated sighs and walks around his desk to plonk his large body in the chair. "So, what happened with Connix?"

"Same as usual," Ben said, his ears flushing a little pink. "Absolutely nothing." Finn pats Ben's shoulder comfortingly.

"Sorry buddy." He said and he genuinely meant it. Ben was one of his closest friends and for some reason Ben just could not articulate to women how brilliant he was. It sometimes made Finn a little sad leaving the office late at night and seeing Ben's lab light still on.

"Nah, it's cool. It's not like Kaydel is the one. I haven't had that moment yet." Poe brows furrowed in a mixture of emotions; confusion, disgust and disappointment.

"What is this, an episode of Hannah Montana?" He said mockingly. Ben shot him an annoyed look.

"What do you mean? What moment?" Finn asked, attempting so sound far more supportive than his rather blunt partner.

"Awh you know, I just always thought that when it was the one I would be left speechless and hear 80s love songs when I saw her and all the cheesy crap you see in movies." Poe scoffed but Finn paid him no mind.

"That's just in movies though buddy, it's not something that just happens." Finn said softly.

"I know." Ben sighed and smiled at his friend. "It'd be nice though." He added and Finn gave him a reassuring smile back. They could almost hear Poe rolling his eyes.

Ben's monitor burst into life and they were startled by a rather furious looking General Organa.

"What in the hell was that ludicrous display last night!?" She snapped, her gravelly voice commanding their immediate attention.

"Should we be sitting for this?" Poe said, a little too light heartedly, Ben and Finn shot him wide eyed warning glares.

"Shut up Poe!" She snapped, fury flaring momentarily in her eyes. She took a breath to calm herself before speaking again. "Let me get this straight. According to your report, you not only got zero information, you caused a scene, got kicked out, were seen by the target and left two bodies in the alley!?" Her sentence started out calm and progressively got more agitated towards the end.

"Well…" Poe started, clearly about to attempt to talk himself out of his mess. General Organa held up her had to the camera before Poe could start.

"Don't even bother Poe, you had cameras in your bowties, any lie you spout will be thoroughly quashed." Poe conceded nodding in surrender.

"To be fair though, the bodies weren't dead. Just sleeping, really sleeping."

"I should bloody well hope not!" She snapped. She huffed and squeezed the bridge of her nose, a common move whenever she spoke with Poe. "Get your act together sharpish. I'm bringing the new recruit to you in 5."

"What?!" Poe exclaimed. "Look, I know last night was a mess but I ain't no babysitter!"

"First of all Poe Dameron, if I say you're babysitting then you better learn to braid hair, cause you're god damn babysitting son!" She snapped at him, shutting him down. "Secondly, she's clearly not the one who needs babysitting!" The General shut the call off before Poe could fire cheek back at her.

Ben had come to think of Poe and Finn as his brothers, as such Ben took great pleasure in seeing his mother berate and scold one of them rather than him. His and Finn's satisfied smirks only annoyed Poe further.

"She's punishing us isn't she?"

"She's punishing one of us." Ben remarked, earning himself a very pissed off glare.

"You can't just add a new person to the team, it'll ruin our whole … dynamic." Poe argued.

"You mean you shooting your mouth off and getting your partner in trouble? Don't forget who had to save your asses." Ben countered, their bickering amusing Finn.

"Yeah, dynamic." Poe said, Ben shaking his head.

"Hang on," Finn stopped chuckling to interject. "Did she say 'she'?"

( Do You Believe in Love – Huey Lewis & the News )

Ben must have dosed off at some point because any other explanation other than him being mid dream sequence seemed improbable. It was surely the only explanation for what he saw next.

The most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his whole life walked towards them, almost in slow motion, almost as if there was wind blowing through her hair. Ben's breath stopped. About 5ft10 in her heeled ankle boots, her long legs stretched for miles. She glowed, as if she were made of pure light and Ben felt a shiver run up his spine. Her bronze hair, curled to her shoulders, bounced when she walked and she flashed him the most devastatingly gorgeous smile.

"Well, well, what do we have here." Poe's voice said from somewhere outside of Ben's dreamscape, Ben not even acknowledging him as the girl drew nearer, his mother at her side directing her towards them.

Finn noted Ben's immobility almost immediately, this was going to be interesting. Certainly, the girl was gorgeous but Finn was more worried about keeping Poe's flirtatious nature in check. Poe's interest was definitely already piqued.

"Rey, these are my best boys." Leia started with her introductions. "Although sometimes they make me doubt it." The General eyed Poe, Poe who was leaning past his superior to take the hand of the new girl.

"Poe, Poe Dameron." He held his hand out to the girl and she took it, a light blush flushing her cheeks when Poe kissed the back of her hand.

"Rey Johnson, I've heard a lot about you Mr Dameron. Not all good things." Rey gave him a quick wink. Unknowingly, Rey was playing to Poe's already massive ego.

"I'm glad." Poe said, his voice lowered the way he does when he's feeling seductive.

"Watch it Poe," Leia cut in. "Rey could wipe the floor with you."

"I'd like to see that." Poe drawled with a grin, Rey seemingly unfazed gave him a smile in return. Finn took the opportunity to cut in.

"Finn Storm." He said, holding his hand out to her and she shook it eagerly.

"It's great to finally meet you Mr Storm." She grinned at him and he chuckled.

"Please, it's just Finn and that's just Poe by the way, I don't think he said." Finn nodded his head at his partner who was eyeing the newbie up and down.

"You can still call me Mr Dameron in private though." He said with a wink. Finn rolled his eyes and shook his head disapprovingly.

"And this is Ben, he's my son." Leia said, indicating to Ben who was borderline catatonic. His eyes hadn't left Rey since she arrived and he wasn't sure if he'd breathed since then either. Even his mother's brief introduction didn't snap him out of his bliss, love songs playing in his head as he gazed at Rey. "Ben." Leia said again, attempting to snap him back to reality.

Finn nudged him hard on the shoulder and he didn't as much as snap back to reality as he did crash back. The eyes of his mother, Poe, Finn and Rey's sparkling ones all baring into his soul. His mouth was dry, Rey's pretty features growing puzzled, waiting for him to say something.

Say something Ben! Anything! Say anything! His brain screamed at him.

"I'm Ben. I do tech." He almost barked. All coherent sentences completely escaped him. Poe snorted from somewhere to his right but Ben's entire focus was on Rey, his breath baited. She giggled.

"It's a pleasure Ben." She said lightly. Her smile for him was so warm and genuine that Ben didn't bother to try any more words, save himself the embarrassment. It was only now when she said his name that he finally noticed her accent. She was British. And his name on her tongue did something extraordinary to him inside.

Finn couldn't be sure but there was something … affectionate about the way that Rey looked at Ben.

"Well that was bloody disastrous." Leia told them, addressing mainly Poe and Ben. "Come Rey, I'll show you the training room while this lot gets a grip. I want Rey properly briefed by the end of the day."

"I'd be happy to debrief Rey, just us, my office, around 4, yeah Rey?" Poe quipped with a flirty wink, his words dripping with sexual innuendo.

"I swear Poe, don't make me smack you." Leia warned as she leads away the now fully blushing Rey. Poe grins wickedly until they're out of ear shot and turns to Ben and Finn.

"You didn't even make it to six words this time Ben!" Poe chided him and all at once Ben felt like he was able to breathe again. He gasped and dropped his head into his hands and groaned. "I don't even know why I tried so hard, you two basically knocked yourselves out of the running." Poe laughed.

Finn however, watched Ben. He'd been in a trance the entire time Rey spoke to them and now he was practically screaming into his hands.

"What song was it Ben?" Finn asked knowing full well what ailed his friend. Ben didn't look up from his hands, just groaned again before answering.

"Huey Lewis." Ben mumbled into his palms.

Finn grinned at his partner who watched them annoyed and wide eyed.

"No." Poe said in disbelief. "Does that mean she…?" He didn't finish. Finn nodded and grinned. Poe huffed in exasperation. "Damn it."

Despite Poe's obvious intentions beforehand, now his exasperation came from those intentions being well and truly dashed. Despite their very frequent bickering, Ben was like Poe's brother and even though Poe thought Ben's ideas of women and love were absurd, if Ben thought this girl Rey was the one Poe would not try anything with her. Much to Poe's disappointment.

Rey wasn't sure when the guys were going to get back to her about her briefing, she hoped they still would. It'd be pretty humiliating to be hosted on day one of the new job. However, she was now very glad that she thought to bring work out gear when she saw the high tech training room at the Resistance facilities. She tried out all their state of the art gym equipment and now that the training room was empty, she took advantage of it and moved over to her yoga.

Considering how much effort she had put into choosing her initial outfit, she was glad to shed it for some comfort. However, she was glad she put the effort in, if Dameron's comments were any indication, she looked great. She honestly hadn't planned to get bogged down with all the dating malarkey but that was before she met tech Ben.

"You really think she's the one?" Poe asked Finn as they leaned against the window looking into the training room observing their new recruit practising her impressive yoga skills in leggings and a sport bra.

"Honestly? I have no idea." Finn admitted. "But Ben thinks she is so hands off." He warned his partner. Rey demonstrated her flexibly by bending over, essentially folding herself in half. Poe groaned at the sight. "Hands off!" Finn warned more forcefully this time.

"She was flirting with me though!" Poe defended himself.

"Was she?" Finn said, unconvinced.

"She winked at me." Poe retorted.

"She was more than likely using your over inflated ego to get on your good side, she is trained to read people, you know, as should you be."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Poe sounded insulted.

"If you didn't have your head so far up your own ass you would have seen that it wasn't really you that she was making eyes at." Poe scoffed.

"Ben?" Poe said and Finn nodded. "Pfft. No chance. She was flirting with me." Poe's eyes light up mischievously. "I'll prove it." Poe sauntered off towards the training room door. Finn groaned.

"She's gonna knock him out." Finn mumbled and couldn't help the small smirk that crept onto his lips. Would serve him right.

When Poe pushed through the door, Rey was currently balancing on one hand with her legs straight up in the air. He would be lying if he said that he didn't think some truly dirty things in that moment and while he was sure he could probably beat Ben in a fight, he's assured Finn that's he'd keep his hands off. This was merely and experiment to see if she'd flirt with him again.

"You seem very acquainted with the training room." Poe said, casually checking Rey out as she righted herself.

"Now's as good a time as any while I wait for my briefing." Rey jabbed. Poe smiled at her. He stalked closer to her.

At the windows, Finn watched on with eager interest and bang on time Ben rounded the corner.

"Hey, are we having this briefing not?" Ben asked and Finn held a finger up to his lips and shushed him.

"Wanna witness something amazing?" Finn asked and motioned to the windows. Ben wandered over curiously and looked down into the training area. Poe was so close to Rey now, his fingers reaching out to stroke the skin of her upper arm.

"I don't want to see this." Ben exclaimed, his brow furrowed, clearly annoyed at Poe's lack of respect for Ben's earlier revelation. Ben turns to depart when Finn grabs his shoulders and turns him back to the window.

"Just wait a second will ya."

Poe slowly stroked up and down Rey's soft caramel skin, pleased with the goose bumps he was able to produce in her.

"I was thinking, y'know while we wait, we could maybe spar a little bit? Just us two?" He suggested seductively.

( Woman – Wolfmother )

Rey's lips curled upwards slightly into a devilish smirk as she looked up at Poe through her lashes.

"Y'know, I would love that." She drawled in almost a whisper. Poe grinned gleefully. Rey reached up to touch Poe's hand that was caressing her bicep and stroked her fingers down until she took hold of his wrist. In one swift move that Poe didn't see coming, Rey had flipped him over and he landed on the mat beneath them on his back with a thud.

"Oof!" Poe groaned.

"Holy crap!" Ben exclaimed in amusement.

"Oh! That's gotta hurt." Finn said watching on in delight.

Poe slowly rolled himself over like an overturned turtle and climbed to his feet. Rey was circling him like a predator, the smile on her face wicked.

"Oh, so, we're really sparring are we?" He said, only allowing a tiny amount of disappointment to seep into his words. Rey shrugged nonchalantly.

"That's what you wanted wasn't?" She smirked again and Poe took that as an invitation. He gave her a courteous nod before swinging his arm at her. She gracefully dodged underneath it and swiped her arm to bat him across the face with the back of her hand. Poe's bottom lip started to drip blood, he swiped it with his tongue, continuing as if it were nothing.

"Agile." Poe commented, impressed. "I like that."

"I bet you do." Rey quipped and shot him a wink. It was like she was taunting him, knowing that he wanted a flirt from her but sure that no one now would believe him. She was wicked, he could see it in the glint in her eyes and if he were an Average Joe, he could see himself being as besotted with her as Ben was.

Poe whipped his leg up, his kick intended for the middle of Rey's stomach but her nimble hands caught his ankle mid swing and pushed him backwards. He stumbled and almost landed on his ass but caught himself. She was quick but still dainty, the advantage Poe had here was brute strength.

With all his power, he barrelled at her, his shoulder colliding with her stomach and knocking her off her feet. Poe panted, looking down at Rey who clutched her stomach and gasped for air.

"Now's usually the time where you would yield." He tells her gloating. He turns to look at his audience of Finn and Ben the latter of whom is waiting with baited breath. Finn however just smiles. Poe opens his arms wide, grinning, clearly pleased with himself. His gloating completely distracts him from Rey's leg swiping his out from under him. As soon as he hits the deck, Rey flips over and straddles his hips, her forearm across his collarbone pressing down hard.

"You weren't winded at all were you?" Poe groans. Rey grins. She leans down, pressing into his chest with her arm as she brings her lips to his ear.

"Now's usually the time where you would yield." She whispers, her breath brushing Poe's earlobe sending a shiver down his spine.

"God, you're hot." He manages, Rey's response is to press harder into his chest. He groans again.

"They look cosy." Ben comments, disappointment dripping from every word. Finn chuckles.

"She's messing with him." He explained to his friend.

"You think?"

"Poe always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Seconds into meeting Rey, he dove right in with the cheesy flirts and she figured him out instantly. Then all she had to do was play on his ego."

"And he fell for it."

"Exactly." Finn smirks. "I think Poe's met his match in Rey."

"She's really something." Ben says, Finn isn't sure if Ben even knew that he'd said it out loud but he didn't mention it.

"You should try talking to her." Finn said.

"Yeah, 'cause that went so well last time." Ben huffs sarcastically. Finn looks down at his feet, hiding the small smile on his face.

"Don't think about it so hard. You got something you wanna say to her? Just say it."

"What if what I wanna say is stupid?" Ben asks, insecurity pouring out of him. Finn pats him on the arm.

"Honestly Ben, I think she'll be into anything you say, no matter how stupid." Ben looked at him, eyebrows knotted in confusion. Finn gave him a wink and Ben's expression starts to brighten at his sudden enlightenment. "Now let's get down there before she kills him." Ben chuckles.

Poe groans under her pressure but Rey refuses to let up until he yields to her. Establishing her dominance in this matter is very important to her. He flirted around with her, thinking he was going to get by her with a flash of a smile and some naughty words. No chance. She wasn't going to be lead around by a man because of her pretty face.

The doors to the training room swing open and Finn saunters in with Ben following closely behind him.

"Ben!" Rey exclaims, startled as she scrambles off Poe and back to her feet. She quickly tries to sort her hair, her chest and cheeks flushing red in her embarrassment. Poe takes a deep breath at her feet, couching and spluttering to get the air back into his lungs.

Finn shoots Ben a quick smirk and Ben, emboldened by both Finn and Rey, finally managed to speak his first full sentence to her.

"Hey Rey, we're ready for the briefing whenever you are." He said. Rey smiled, a genuine warm smile and nodded. She walked towards him, walking right past Finn paying him absolutely no notice. Ben motioned towards the door and he followed Rey out.

"That was impressive." He told her honestly.

"You saw that?" Her cheeks were already flushed but her tone suggested that if it were possible, she would have blushed more.

"Yeah, it was great."

"Think he learned his lesson?" She asked him and Ben scoffed.

"Not a chance." Rey laughed and the sound made Ben smile.

"Oh, I uh… should probably get changed first." Rey said.

"No, no, you look great." Ben attempted to reassure her. She giggled and Ben winced when he realised that he was complimenting her on what was essentially her bra. "Sorry. I didn't mean- uh, here." Ben shrugged off his orange zipper and handed it to Rey.

Rey slipped her arms into the massive sleeves and zipped up the front. She tried her absolute hardest not to let her eyes wander over the large body that usually fitted into this hoodie but when Ben turned away, shaking his head at himself, she found that she really couldn't help but stare.

As Ben and Rey wandered off together, actually exchanging words, Finn held his hand out to his partner. Poe grasped his hand and allowed himself to be pulled to his feet.

"Come on. You can't tell me you didn't see it that time!" Finn said. Poe nodded.

"Okay, I saw that." He said, still little breathless. "She couldn't have gotten away from me any faster if she tried."

"I told ya." Finn said gloating.

"Damn." Poe sighed. "I thought I was in there as well." Finn scoffed.

"At what point when she was kicking your ass did you think you were in there?"

"Hey! You didn't hear her! See the little winks." Finn shook his head disapprovingly and walked off. "I swear to god Finn, she winked at me again!"

"Sure she did." He brushed Poe off sarcastically.

The team assemble in Ben's lab. It's huge, pristine and looks like someone smashed together a high tech industrial lab with a comic book store. A still sweaty Rey sits herself on an oversized, puffy couch beside Finn with Poe settled on his other as Ben brings up photos on the display screen.

"Okay." Ben started. Rey's warm eyes watched him intently and he found it much easier to speak if he didn't look at her. She looked beautiful. Her cheeks were still flushed pink, her hair was tied back, the small flyaway hairs at her neck curled into ringlets from her sweat and his hoodie positively drowned her. He couldn't look at her anymore. "Sheev Palpatine, I'm sure you're familiar with him Rey?"

"Yeah, notorious crime boss and arms dealer." She confirmed.

"Deceased notorious crime boss and arms dealer." Ben said. "Or at least, so we thought. His company Empire Ltd. was suspected to be at the centre of a major arms dealing ring, syphoning off charitable donations and money from the board of directors to do so. His sudden death made it far more difficult to prosecute. When his company reported his death 6 years ago, the company's subsidiaries Snoke Industries and Phasma Tech broke off with some reportedly bad blood between them and unsurprisingly, things seemed to calm down. Both companies were suspected in participating in Empire's criminal dealings, mainly dealing with the movement of money and export and import of weapons etc. etc. so with the dissolution of the organisation there was nothing to go on."

Rey listened to Ben with rapt attention. Despite her awkward first meeting with him, she was beginning to see that he really was intelligent and her eyes sometimes wandered around the lab taking in his tools and workstations, his surprisingly beautiful penmanship on whiteboards depicting things that she had no understanding of and his video games that he had piled up next to the couch. He was an impressive man and the fact the he was also incredibly beautiful and his voice made her hair stand up on end was a bonus.

"Recently however, Snoke Industries and Phasma Tech seemed to have buried the hatchet and have joined together under a new parent company The First Order."

"Just a tad suspicious then." Rey adds and Ben nods.

"Exactly. Suddenly they've been getting huge amounts of shipments from various countries across the globe and we can never intercept them. Their paperwork is always flawless, their workers are well paid and their security is even better paid. Our recent angle has been to worm our way into one of the companies in an attempt to join the production line."

"Hence Poe's flirting getting us kicked out of Gwendoline Phasma's monthly party last night." Finn commented, eyeing Poe's annoyed face. Rey giggled.

"I take it you didn't find out anything then Mr Dameron." Rey drawled, giggling slightly. Poe bits his lip in annoyance much to the amusement of the rest of the group.

"She throws a massive party every month." Finn explained. "We were hoping to use one of them as our way in but we had no idea how she was inviting people to them. We found no mail correspondence, no e-vites, nothing. So we just showed up."

"Well at least now we know that you don't get invited back when you saunter in, order a glass of her favourite scotch and flirt disgracefully with her." Ben chided and Rey laughed. He liked making her do that.

"And we know that for next time." Poe finally said.

When Ben wrapped up his brief, Poe and Finn filed out of his lab, eager to get out of work and to a bar most likely. The boys rarely went home alone. Ben gave Rey a rather hefty manila folder full of all the information they'd talked about over the past hour. Rey gave him a rather bashful smile and turned to leave before stopping suddenly.

( Did I Say That Out Loud – Barenaked Ladies )

"Oh, I almost forgot." Rey unzipped the bright orange hoodie that she'd gotten ever so comfortable in but Ben shook his head and waved his hand at her.

"No, don't. Keep it. Looks much better on you anyways." He said, the tips of his ears flushing a little pink. Rey nodded and smiled up at him.

After a moment, Rey broke the silence.

"What you playing?" She nodded at the TV set up by the couch, video games piled next to it.

"Outlast, at the moment."

"I love Outlast! Can I watch?" Rey said excitedly.

"Watch me play Outlast?" Ben questioned, slightly baffled.

"Yeah, is that okay?" Ben smiled and nodded. "I'll order us a pizza if you like. Can I order a pizza here? Is that allowed?" Ben chuckled.

"It's cool, I know a guy." He told her.

Rey sat with a large pizza on her lap, offering Ben slices every so often in between jump scares. As she scoffed a huge slice, Ben took a moment to sneak a glance at her. The situation that he found himself in was truly absurd. In his lab, playing horror games with the most beautiful girl in the world curled up next to him eating pizza in his hoodie. He was starting to think he'd gotten himself with one of his tranq pens because this was the best dream he'd ever had.

It's the cold air on his face that wakes him. He startles awake, realising he's not at home in his bed. No, he's lying on the uneven walkway that lines the river, the bracing breeze coming from it bringing goose bumps to his skin. He's still in his clothes that he wore to work that day and judging by the height of the moon, it was only after midnight. What the hell happened? He went to the bar with Poe after work but he called it a night around ten and Poe quickly found a young lady to spend the rest of the evening with. He couldn't remember what happened after he left the bar. Did he get home at all? What had he done in the past few hours? Finn scrambled to his feet and made his way back into the city. How he had ended up here, he had no idea but no one was going to find out about this until her figured it out.