Note: Sorry Guys this is a really short chapter. Ive been really busy with a musical I'm directing.
Rey hadn't seen much if Ben that day. They both had been busy with their own problems. She had been with Bennet in the medical wing all day studying ancient Jedi texts and he had been working with Finn.
"What are you going to do when you leave Jedi Rey?" Asks young Bennet.
"I'm going to go on a picnic with Ben Padawan"
"Ok cool... you love him right"
"Yes I do Padwan... and you don't have to call me Jedi Rey. Just Rey is fine"
The boy smiles rubbing his eyes with his fisted hand. He smiles.
"Ok... you can still call me padawan through... I like that name" Bennet says. Rey nods and smiles gripping the little boys hand. She feel a strange connection to him, as if a mother would to a small child.
"Now you go to your picnic, I get to see both of you tomorrow for training" says Bennet happily. Just then Bennet remembers something that strange pilot said to him once.
"Is it true that Jedi... Ben was once... Kylo Ren"
Rey sighs, she has to respond.
"Yes, he was but he saw the light and followed it... who told you that" asks Rey. Bennet pauses for a moment as if thinking.
"His name was Drew, he said he liked you"
Rey doesn't know how to take this information. Then she remembers the man that attacked Ben. That was Drew wasn't it, she decided it was.
Rey just shakes it off. It doesn't matter.
"Well you rest... I have to go padawan"
"Ok... have fun"
"I will"
Rey has a hour to get ready, the problem is she has never worn anything other then her scavenger cloths before. That and something related to it. Not the bright yellow dress that rose hang up for her to borrow.
Reluctantly she puts it on, she has to admit she looks pretty good in it.
Now it's time for the picnic.
Rey leaves her light saber behind.
—
He has everything set up perfectly. He was hoping that she would not talk about the problem with Bennet and possession. He was hoping that they could just be Ben and Rey.
His mouth dropped when she arrived, he didn't know she even owned any dresses.
"You look beautiful" he says as she sits down on the blanket. She seems embarrassed as she says.
"Thank you"
"No really you do"
This makes her blush more.
"I brought some sandwiches if you want one" Ben Asks awkwardly Holding out a sandwich. Rey takes it thanking him, he watches her eat it's not odd at first but after a while She starts to feel weird about it. He notices this.
"Sorry, your just cute when you eat"
Rey blushes taking her time to look at him and nibble her sandwich. He just turns away and laughs, rubbing his face with his hand.
It's a while before the two finish their dinner and pour a little glass of wine.
"Your acting weird, is something wrong?"
He replied with a quick shake of his head and a strangled no. Rey let's the subject rest for now, although still suspicious.
Ben sighs and lays down on his back looking up at the quickly appearing stars.
"I can't believe I missed all of this for so long"
"With the order" Rey asks, Ben nods.
"I never let myself think that I'd ever fall in love... I thought of it as weak and distracting" Ben says quietly. He shoots over closer to Rey and pulls her into his chest. She cuddles there for a bit before he speaks again.
"I have to ask you something Rey"
He sits up and she soon follows. Rey just look into his eyes allowing herself to get lost in them. He looks down and so does she.
The first think she sees is a tiny little wooden box. He opens it.
"Rey will you marry me"
She can't speak, tears just roll down her tan cheeks. A big goofy smile is spread out across her face.
"Ben... I... YES!"
He slips the ring on her finger just before she attacks him with kisses.
—
Leia sits at the table with her husband working out a pile of papers that need to be sorted.
"When is Lando coming?" asks the very familiar cocky pilot voice she's grown so fond of.
"He said he'd land tonight, he wanted to speak to his son" Leia says, this certainly confuses Han.
"Lando has a... kid?"
"Yes... he does"
"Finally he can feel my pain!" Han sighs
"Han Ben wasn't that bad... and he didn't have to raise this boy"
"Oh that makes sense, Lando makes a kid and doesn't raise him... lets mommy do all the work"
"Han don't be so negative, the mother died in childbirth and the son was taken for the stormtrooper force... Lando has been searching for this boy for his whole life"
This shut Han up, well at least the negative part of Han.
"Who's the kid"
"You know the ex-Stormtrooper that Chewie has grown so fond of"
Han thinks for a moment trying to recall.
"Finn...ya...that's him?"
"Yes"
"When is Lando arriving?" Han asks as if he hadn't just been told.
"I said tonight... you'll see your buddy scruffy calm down"
"I am calm! And we're not 'buddys' just two smugglers with a alliance"
Leia laughs at her husband.
"Ya sure"
—
Finn and Chewie had spent most their time together. Finn respected the old Wookie, he had such knowledge of ships and how to fix every problem. He listened to everything his new mentor said, as much as he could anyway. Finn was proud, he had become quite good and speaking Wookiee. Han was normally around, working on the inside of the ship, but they almost never saw him. Chewie said that Han was probably jealous that in just a few months that the ex-stormtrooper had become better at fixing the Falcon then the pilot ever had been.
This was one of the times when he would see Han but this time the pilot was with someone, a darker man dressed in fine linen. The man looked slightly like him.