Have any of you heard from Rey?" Fin asked as he burst through the doors to Poe's office. He had not felt her in the force and was terrified for her. Every morning he would meditate in his quarters reaching out in the force as Rey had taught him and every morning he could feel her signature, faint, and growing fainter each day the farther she traveled away from them, but he could still feel her in the force. Except for this morning. He reached out and there was nothing. He tried harder, even to get just a faint signature of her force and there was still nothing. When she was near and he would feel her, it was like a bright light that enveloped him in waves. He could sometimes feel a bit of darkness sometimes, but he knew his best friend and she was good.
"No, She sent us that transmission a couple days ago stating that she thought she had found something and she was going to check it out, that she would be going into the unknown regions, but you were there when we got that Buddy." Poe said. He wasn't worried at all. Rey was a Jedi, well as much as a Jedi could be now days.
"Yeah, but I can't feel her anymore Poe. I think something bad has happened to her." Fin said his face stricken with guilt and horror. He knew he should have gone with Rey on her mission. He was learning the Force from her, but she had been adamant that he stay and help Poe on Chandrila to help rebuild the Republic.
Once The Emperor had been destroyed along with his fleet, the Final Order was gone. There were stragglers of course, just as there had been stragglers from the Empire. But the Resistance wanted to make life better for all planets. That was their goal, to form a senate that made everything equal, but they were finding that it was harder in life than on paper. That as much good as they wanted to do for all sentient beings that there were still problems where the rich would get rich, and the poor would be forgotten about. Poe had wished every day that Leia were still around, that she could take over for him and he could fly around the galaxy without a care in the world.
"Listen Fin, I know you are worried about Rey, but we have a whole galaxy to look after, not just one Jedi. If anyone can take care of herself it's her." Poe told his friend. Though when he looked at Fin's face he regretted it. He saw the hurt in the man's eyes.
Fin turned around to leave not believing Poe would ditch Rey like he was doing. The galaxy be damned. Rey had died for the Galaxy, he knew she had, he had felt it. Though she wouldn't tell anyone what happened to her on Exegol he knew that it had pained her deeply. She killed the Emperor, and whatever she had to do it had taken her away from them, even if it was for a moment. They had a very happy reunion on the jungle moon of Ajan Kloss. And he had watched her duck away from the celebrations to retrieve what looked like clothing from the X-wing. He wanted nothing more than to go to her that night and let her know that they had won and she could now live, not in fear, but with her friends, and thought better of it after seeing tears streaming down her face, clutching the cloth to her chest. Fin had hurt for his friend, he knew she was going through so much, with so much loss. It seemed that her spirit had been broken, she wasn't the same girl that was wide eyed when meeting Han Solo, or the same girl that had levitated rocks to save them from Crait. His friend was changed, but then again, weren't they all? Poe was trying his hand at politics but it really wasn't his forte. Rose seemed be Poe's assistant, but it wasn't what she knew well. And him, he seemed more out of place than anyone. A former stormtrooper, turned resistance hero, turned Jedi padawan. There was plenty of help of course with almost all of it. Poe had former senators that had survived Hosnian Prime by being off world at the time of its destruction guiding him, but Fin wasn't sure that was even the right way to go. Who had it all right Fin wondered? He had seen all walks of life, the rich, the poor, the middle class. He had seen the hunger in people's eyes as a storm trooper on planets that were deemed useless to the New Republic due to there being no natural resources from their home world. He had seen how the rich would gamble their fortunes in Canto Bight.
"Fin!, Wait up buddy." Poe said jogging behind him trying to catch up.
Fin hadn't realized even where he was so lost in thought, but he stopped and waited for his friend.
"Listen Fin, I'm really sorry. I just have so much going on right now." Poe said raking his hand through his curly hair. "I just… I don't know. I didn't know this would all be so hard. I didn't realized that once the First Order would be taken down it would be so…"
"Much?" Fin ended his sentence for him.
"Exactly! I mean, how did Leia do it?" Poe asked.
"You mean the Princess? The Senator? Or the General?" Fin responded.
"Don't forget she was a Jedi too." Poe said with a smirk.
"Poe, you don't have to do this man. There are people surrounding you all day long that have done this all their lives practically. Haven't you done enough? You were great at the fight, but this is a way different fight that you aren't prepared for." Fin told Poe.
Poe knew that Fin was right, that he was great when it came to jumping in a ship and blowing things up, but politics was way out of his league. He was going to step away from the politics. "Fine, give me a week to get out of this mess and if Rey isn't back, or we haven't heard word we will go find her."
Fin didn't want to wait a week, he didn't want to wait a second, but he couldn't go alone so there was really no choice, and he was hoping that by the time Poe had walked away that they would hear from Rey.