[Poe]
They settled in around the table in the half-furnished ready room – Kylo, Leia, Lando, and Chewbacca. Kaydel bustled after refreshments. Finn, Rose, and Rey started to head out the other exit to the room, probably imagining this was a private discussion between old friends and family. Poe didn't budge, not even when Finn tugged on his sleeve and said, "Come on."
Leia cut in to say, "Rey? Join us, would you?" Rey moved back into the room.
Poe shook his head a little at Finn. "You go ahead. I'm staying."
"She didn't mention you," Finn pointed out unnecessarily.
"Yeah, I know." Poe turned back to see his delay had cost him. Rey had claimed the chair next to Chewbacca, leaving exactly one empty seat – the one next to Kylo. Poe blew out a breath and sauntered over like that was precisely where he wanted to sit. The door shut behind Finn and Rose.
There was an awkward beat around the table as he sat. Poe assumed Leia was weighing her options for disinviting him. He turned to Kylo and extended a hand. "Poe Dameron."
"Kylo. I remember you." He shook the hand, his own wearing the gloves that seemed standard for upper-level First Order uniforms.
"Yeah," Poe said, "I remember you, too." And not fondly. "Are you on our side now?"
There was a long pause as Kylo looked around the table. At his mother. At the man he'd showed up with, General Calrissian, whom he obviously trusted. At Chewbacca, who'd already settled things with him. At Rey, whom Kylo had been making eyes at earlier. Not a one of them was his enemy, or should be. Lastly, his gaze settled on Poe, who was the only person in the room he didn't have a personal stake in and thus, oddly, the only one who could ask him a question like that.
"Yes," Kylo said.
Poe nodded. "Glad to hear it. Welcome." He leaned back in his chair, trying to mentally rearrange Kylo from 'enemy' to 'friend' or at least 'ally'. It was a harder transition than it had been with Finn, but he figured he'd get the hang of it.
Kaydel came to the table with a pitcher of water and a tray of glasses, setting both between Chewbacca and Rey. As she went back to get a similar pitcher of erdel juice, Rey took a glass, then Chewbacca did. He passed the tray to Lando, who did the same, and the tray circled the table, with Poe getting the last one. By then Chewbacca had poured himself water and Kaydel had dropped off the juice. Kaydel left the room.
Lando, Leia and Rey took juice. The rest of them had water. The water here was good – not mineral-heavy or salted. Poe downed a third of his glass and waited for the conversation to begin.