The trip home to Ajan Kloss was uneventful, and the following week was also quiet. Both Poe and Rey were kept busy with their individual responsibilities, but they managed to meet every evening in the mess hall for dinner. Though they didn't have the privacy a picnic in the meadow would give them, they were still able to talk quietly in private. Here, they weren't celebrities. They were among friends, even if they were called the General and the Jedi.

Just as Rey was about to release her class about six days after their return from Sorgan, an unfamiliar ship flew overhead, heading for the landing field. Rey and her students watched it curiously, knowing it wouldn't have gotten this far if it hadn't checked in with flight control, so that it must be friendly. Suddenly, Temiri's face lit up, and Rey felt the same thing the boy had that had caused his joy. Finn was home, which meant Rose was, too. "Go," she told the boy with a smile, and he ran off toward the field. "I'll see everyone else tomorrow morning," she told the rest of the class, then as they dispersed, she followed after Temiri.

The ship, an older but well-kept Corellian YT-2400, was now sitting next to its cousin, the Millennium Falcon, and both Finn and Rose stood at the base of its ramp with Temiri. Chewie was also there, but his attention was more on the ship than the reunited family. She smiled and headed toward them. She really wanted to talk to Finn alone before he starting mingling with the rest of the residents. He didn't need to hear about her and Poe second hand.

Finn saw her coming and grinned. He walked toward her and waved his arm toward the ship. "What do you think?"

"Yours?" she asked in surprise.

He nodded, and his smug look reminded her of when she first met him on Jakku, when he had been pretending to be a Resistance fighter to impress her. She laughed but looked at the ship with interest. "I like it."

"It's going to need some work, but nothing Rose and I, with Temiri's help, can't handle," he told her.

Rose had come over to them and gave Rey a quick hug. "You have no idea how much I missed this place and these people," she told Rey.

Rey frowned. "You guys didn't have fun?"

"No, no!" Rose told her. "We did! It's just that," she paused and looked at Finn. He nodded and Rose continued. "We got homesick. Can you believe it? Living on one planet for more than a year has spoiled us."

Rey laughed. "I get it. This place has definitely become home." She looked at Finn. "Can I talk to you in private?" She looked at Rose. "If your wife doesn't mind?"

"Of course not," Rose said. "Temiri can help me get our stuff to the house." Rose and Temiri had been living in a small but comfortable dwelling located just off base where most of Rey's students lived with their families. Finn was of course moving in with them now.

Finn and Rey started walking together toward the base and Rey could feel his concern. "Should I be worried?" he finally asked.

"No!" Rey told him firmly. "I hope you're happy with what I'm going to tell you, actually. But I didn't want you to hear it from someone on base."

"Okay," Finn said, but he still sounded a bit wary.

Rey took a deep breath. "I've been seeing someone since you and Rose have been gone."

"Seeing someone?" Finn started. "Like dating?!" he yelped.

Rey couldn't help but give a small laugh at his reaction. "I guess you can call it that, even though we've only had one real 'date'."

Finn stopped and looked at her, and she saw the protectiveness she expected in his expression. "Who?" he demanded

Rey bit her bottom lip and took another deep breath. "Poe."

Finn stared at her, almost as if she hadn't said anything. His brows furrowed after a moment and then he looked away, his face confused. When he looked back at her, he asked, "What did you say?"

"I know very well you heard me," Rey responded, getting just a tad nervous.

He opened his mouth, then shut it. "Yeah, no," he told her. "I thought I heard 'Poe,' but that can't be right. I must have misheard you."

She shook her head slowly, amusement fighting with anxiety in her mind.

"Poe?" he asked in astonishment.

Rey nodded.

"How?" he asked in amazement. "The last time I saw you guys together, you were arguing. Like always. About some stupid thing regarding the color of our wedding cake topper."

Rey laughed out loud. "Oh, yeah. That was great! I loved that one."

"You loved it?" Finn asked, aghast. "You love arguing with Poe?"

With a smile, Rey nodded again. "Finn, I love Poe." There. She said it. "Everything about Poe. Laughing with him, talking with him, flying with him, and yes, even fighting with him. I just didn't recognize it for what it was until your wedding night."

Finn stepped back and looked at her with his head tilted. "And does he love you?" he asked.

Right for the jugular, Rey thought. "I hope so. I think so." She sighed. "He hasn't said the words, but then I haven't said them to him, yet, either. I think I just admitted it to you before I even admitted it to myself." She looked at him seriously. "You just needed to know what was really going on before you heard the rumors going around the base," she told him.

"Rumors?" Finn cocked his head at her, still digesting what she was telling him. His two best friends? Lovers?

"A lot of people on base are under the impression that Poe and I are sleeping together," she said. "And have been since your wedding night."

Finn's eyes narrowed. "And are you?"

"No," Rey said simply. Just as Finn seemed to relax at her answer, she added, "No yet."

"Argh!" Finn ran his hand over his face in frustration. "Are you trying to make me feel good about this or not?"

"Hey, I didn't get upset when I found out you and Rose were… hooking up. " She winced. Her inexperience was showing.

"Rose and I were already engaged," Finn argued.

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, Poe wants to wait until we're married."

Finn perked up. "He does?"

Rey frowned at him. "So why was sex before marriage okay with you and Rose but not for me and Poe?"

"Because you're my…"

Rey's expression was sarcastically expectant. "I'm your what?"

"You're my baby sister," he told her softly, and Rey's expression softened as well. "And he's my best friend." He looked down. "That just means we'll all be family now," he said in wonder. "Wouldn't it? If you two do marry."

Rey smiled. "Yeah. I like that thought."

Finn took another breath. "Okay, I can handle this." He looked her intently. "But if he breaks your heart…"

Rey smiled. "I think he already knows the risk," she told him. They continued on, heading toward the mess hall, Rey's arm through Finn's. Rey noticed Poe waiting for them a few yards from the tent, BB-8 at his feet. Her heart thumped hard a couple of times as she looked at him, standing strong and imposing as he watched them come. Leia would be so proud of him, she thought. She would be proud of all of them, not only because they won the war and defeated evil, but because they were moving forward, living their best life, not taking one moment of their hard-won freedom for granted.

As they reached Poe, Finn stepped away from Rey and moved to stand in front of his friend, a hard expression on his face. "Something you want to tell me?" he said darkly.

"Yeah," Poe said. "Welcome home, Brother."

With that, they embraced. Rey's heart swelled.

Life was going to be a challenge in the weeks ahead, but it would all be worth it. And no matter what happened, nothing would ever change how she felt about these men, about Chewie, BB-8, and almost everyone on this base. This was her family and she was home.

The End

A/N Thank you all for reading! I just started writing fanfiction again after an almost 20 year absence (I wrote X-Files back then), but Star Wars has always been my first love and I adore the sequel trilogy despite the controversy surrounding it. I've always been back and forth between Reylo and Damerey, but knowing Reylo most likely wasn't possible, I focused on Damerey (when I wasn't arguing that Rey was perfectly fine by herself and didn't need a relationship to be complete, of course!), and their bickering in TRoS brought out the writer in me once again. I want to thank Star Wars, the characters and the actors who portray them, and any and all readers, for helping me get through this insane year. My work schedule is weird again this week, so I have hopes of starting to post my next story on Monday! Thank you all!