'I hate this,' Poe says, and Rey hums in frustrated agreement.

After years of constant strategising and warfare, it's the waiting that does his head in. The Resistance may have won, but the First Order's claws sank so deeply into political rhetoric and systems that restoring peace isn't as simple as just killing Palpatine. There are laws to reverse and minds to change, and that takes time.

And patience. Bucketloads of patience. They're campaigning for massive reform, which means constant speaking engagements that are annoying enough by themselves. Between speeches and information sessions… they wait.

And wait.

And wait.

They have other priorities — Rey finding other Force-sensitive people, and Poe auditing the Resistance's assets to determine what to store and the what to eventually redistribute to planets and people impoverished by the war. So they're never truly idle. But knowing there's this massive task to accomplish and that they can't do anything to speed it along — that they have to just do their part and trust that the people in power will see the truth in it — it irks him.


A/N: Prompt: 'We sow our truth, wait patiently.' from Nolita Fairytale by Vanessa Carlton