Last On: A part is missing from both shuttles. Rey refuses to listen to Kylo Ren if he's going to order her around. Ben stormed off, then gave serious thought to what his mother told him about Rey.

Chapter 8

"His Prisoner!" Rey shouted at no one. She stood in the forest a little ways from the ship looking up into the branches of a tree. "He thought I'd be his prisoner!" Rey reached up and climbed into the tree. She went to one of it's low but sturdy branches, and perched her legs onto it, gripping a higher branch to hold most of her weight. "The arrogance! He thinks I'm so desperate for his company that I'd just follow him and do whatever he says." She made a motion as if she were jumping, but her legs didn't leave the branch below her. Then she Pushes down with more force and hears it snap as the large branch falls to the forest below. "I'll show him. I can defend myself." Rey drops out of the tree, and picks up the large branch. It wasn't as well made as her own staff, but it would be an effective weapon.

She walks back to the ship with her new staff in hand. When she gets there she pulls it up in a defensive position. She hears someone.

"Glad to see you've started collecting firewood," Ben said coolly from her left. She spun around to face him, keeping the new staff in front of her. Ben stood leaning over, clearing brush from an area on the forest floor. There was a small pile of firewood started, and one of the bags he carried was open revealing pieces of a tent.

"Come take it then," Rey would not be tempted. She turned her staff in a threatening way, preparing for a fight.

Ben stopped and looked up at her, then he turned his face again to hide a smile, and said, "What do you expect to do with that, Fight off a team of thugs with a stick."

"I've done worse," said Rey.

"You want a weapon, try this." Ben reached into one of his bags and pulled out a lightsaber.

Rey's Eyes went wide when she saw this. "It's the broken one from my room. You were going to steal it!"

Ben reached out to offer Rey the lightsaber. "Technically, you're the one who stole it first. I repaired it, thanks to your friend Rose."

Rey took the lightsaber, still holding her staff defensively. When she had it she leaned the staff against a tree and turned on the lightsaber. She twisted it around and mock attacked a tree to test out the blade.

Meanwhile Ben tried to pretend he was working, even kneeling by the bag with the tent, but his eyes kept straying over to watch Rey move with the lightsaber. Each time her eyes moved in his direction he looked away, down to the tent below him, or off to the distance.

"Have you never put up a tent before," Rey's voice interrupted one of these escapades.

"No, Uh, I have," Ben flustered.

"When they showed it to me, it was as simple as pulling this loop right here." Rey used her staff to point to a brown metal and fabric ring, right in front of Ben.

"Yes, well I was just thinking about it's placement. The ground here is loose, and I want to make sure it has enough for the stakes to hold onto," Ben tried to sound serious.

"Well, it's enough to hold all these trees up," Rey said as Ben pulled the loop. Suddenly the tent unfolded, and it's pieces mechanically snapped into place. They heard a loud crack as stakes on all four corners of the tent were shot as if from an invisible gun into the ground.

While the tent was opening, Ben stood and turned to glance at Rey. She had attached the lightsaber to her belt, and had attached the staff to a unique clasp on the back of her belt, keeping it within arms reach.

"What are you thinking?" asked Rey.

Ben quickly diverted his eyes, and gave her the first answer that came to him. "Firewood, we need to gather firewood."

Rey rolled her eyes, and turned to march back into the forest.

Later that night, firewood was gathered and a fire was started using a bit of Rey's tech skills, and a broken piece of the ship. This was when Ben surprised her by pulling out the food he saved earlier.

"Where did you get that?" Rey asked.

Ben pointed to the downed craft beside them. "I think it was stocked up for someone's date night at that resistance of yours. Then the General locked me in it and had it bring me here."

"So you didn't crash land. Good, I was a little worried. I almost let you pilot me out of here."

Ben opened the container of steaks, and placed them onto a salvaged piece of metal grating that was positioned over the fire to make a grill.

Rey continued, "Then with Han as a Father, I…" Her voice trailed off, when she realized who she'd brought up.

Ben felt a lot of emotions surge up at once when she said his name. Then there was several minutes where the only sound between them was the cracking of the fire or the sizzling of food. Eventually he let a small laugh escape. "Han would've blew a gasket if I did that to one of his shuttles." Rey laughed in response to this, and Ben felt the weight of the moment lift away.

"Is this all the food we've got?" asked Rey.

"No, There were a few days rations in the First Order shuttle, but this is all that is fresh," Ben answered her. After a minute, he asked, "Odd thing is, it's code to have a whole weeks. Plus a full med kit is missing. How did they let you even leave in that thing?" Ben asked.

"Well, They didn't exactly let me leave. There was a battalion being sent out, and I kinda snuck into the hanger and left when they did."

"A battalion, we were in a First Order system!" Ben looked confused. "Hux wouldn't send an army anywhere without consulting me first, anyway. What did he say was the problem?"

"He never spoke to me. It was all thanks to Luke that I avoided him to get out of there anyway," said Rey.

"Luke, you didn't tell him what was going on, did you?" Ben looked worried.

"I did. He's the one who told me where to find you," answered Rey.

Ben winced. "Of course, that's how my mom knew. Of course, by now she knows all about the… too. Why did you have to tell Luke anything!"

"Oh, I don't know. I was alone, in a strange man's room. In the body of my enemy, and I didn't know how to get back." Rey shouted back at him.

Ben huffed. He took a portion of the food onto his plate, and stormed into the tent, shutting its door behind him. Inside he struggled with tears, that seemed to want to pour out. He was surprised the words that bothered him most were 'strange man,' and 'my enemy,' and his mind kept repeating them to him all night long.

Rey was both angry and shocked. Angry that he would make such a big deal over who helped her, and shocked that he would turn and retreat. She took a portion of the food, and retreated into the shuttle to spend the night. 'He wants to be alone, let him be alone,' she thought.

Well that did not go well. Looks like they did not get to the Wine. But, the Date is not over yet. In the next chapter I'll show what the Force Ghosts have been planning. It will start a bit before this chapter.

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