Chapter 6

It had been so long since Ben had set foot on his father's ship but it looked exactly the same as when he was a child. Poe, Chewie, and Finn were all in the cockpit while Rey sat with Ben at the holochess table. Rey rested her head on Ben's shoulder and had not stopped holding his hand. She sighed as she felt Ben's thumb tracing circles around her hand. He rested his head on hers gently and Rey could feel his smile through their bond. Rey closed her eyes and settled deeper into his shoulder, squeezing his hand and smiling as he squeezed back. She only opened them again when she felt Finn's presence suddenly before them, thankful that he wasn't angry about what was going on.
"So, what's the plan?" he asked, looking to her and Ben.
"The Emperor is still a threat, but now he most likely knows of my betrayal," Ben began, rising his head to look Finn in the eye but still keeping his hand intwined with Rey's.
"I need to go and face him, to end this once and for all."
"We will face him, together," Rey corrected him, as she turned to look up at him. With his free hand, Ben pushed away a loose strand of hair from her face and placed it behind her ear while looking into her deep, brown eyes.
"I can't have you risk your life for something that I caused," Be spoke softly.
"You said so yourself. We are a dyad in the Force. We've always been stronger when we worked together. We're going to take him down together," she replied, not budging at all from her stance. Ben sighed and kissed her forehead gently, so thankful that he had her with him. No matter what, she was always the one who stood beside him and fought for him. He would do the same for her.
"So…we're going to Exegol then?" Finn questioned, trying to bring them back to focus on the task at hand.
"Yes, but we don't have the wayfinder," Rey answered.
"But I do," Ben replied as he pulled out the wayfinder he had collected from Mustafar. Finn was aghast at the luck. Well, it's not luck, it's the Force, he thought to himself. Rey beamed with pride and quickly lead them both to the cockpit. She hooked it up to the navicomputer and then looked towards where Chewie and Poe were seated. They both looked at each other and then stood up. Chewie clapped Ben on the shoulder and pushed him towards the seat his father took while ushering Rey to his own seat. Together, Rey and Ben helped guide the Millennium Falcon to Exegol as Poe and Finn watched in great awe. Chewie just sat back and grinned, knowing that Han would be so proud of both of them.