Rey moved to Eris' side more because the other woman looked as though her legs might give out, and they stared down the hall at the tall broad shouldered dark man that was walking drunkenly toward them. As though he'd heard her voice and was following it. He stumbled too far left and his shoulder hit the wall knocking him off balance, and whatever strength he'd found to get here left him as he crumpled to the ground.

Eris was at his side almost to the second as she knelt over him, meeting his dazed confused eyes as he blinked up at her. Unknowing. "What happened to him?" Rey asked staying close to her, taking the role of her guardian.

Eris looked from his wet clothes that were the same as when he'd died, to the quick rise and fall of his chest as he wheezed, to his handsome face as he slipped suddenly back into unconsciousness. "Carbonite," Eris answered, the collision must've damaged it causing him to thaw. Kylo lied to her, somehow that both unsurprised and pained her all in the same go. "We don't have time for this." There was too much to do, Poe still needed her somewhere too far for her to get him.

"Eris," Rey said knowing how much this was hurting her.

But Eris was on her feet grabbing his arms and throwing him over her shoulder. "Come on, you lead," she told Rey jerking her head down the hall back the way they came.

Rey got the ship open and headed for the pilot's chair leaving Eris to lower Cal to the ground hearing the door snap shut behind her. Taking the metal device from behind her ears she fit them behind Cal's and watched as the helmet formed over his face hiding him from her. There was a quiet moment before she heard the ventilation system kick in, recognizing its host wasn't breathing right. It'd keep him as stable as she could make him for the time being, and she looked up to see Rey was steering them to the Falcon.

Chewy carried him this time, moaning first with joy at his old friend and then in sad understanding as he set him on the bed Finn had almost bled out on not long before. With a hand on his chest feeling its slow steady rise and fall she let her head hang for a moment not knowing what to do with this; she'd let him go as best as she was ever going to be able, what was supposed to do with him now.

Releasing a heavy tired breath Eris climbed to her feet and made her way to where Rey and Chewy sat flying them to the planet the Resistance fled to. "What's the plan?" Eris asked seeing the TIE fighters soaring over the white salt field aiming at the speeders racing toward them.

Rey jumped out of the chair and Eris followed her back to the door, already knowing she pulled the straps on the pack tighter over her chest. Their eyes met and a breath passed between them before they came together, their foreheads pressed against the others sharing a long look full of words neither of them really knew how to say.

"You'll come back to me," Rey said though it sounded more a question.

Getting a hand on either side of her face Eris raised her chin pressing a warm kiss to her brow, they didn't have a moment but she held them there for just a moment longer before pulling away. "Always."

Rey held her eye and they shared a brief nod before Rey ran for the gun as Chewy got them in position. Eris pulled the rifle from her belt and squared her shoulders cracking her neck as she steadied herself. She heard the distinctive scream of the TIE fighters, a loud burst that came with a cannon hitting its mark, and she waited until Chewy got them low and close enough before he opened the hatch for her.

The force of the wind ripped her hair from its braid and it swirled around her face as she watched the scene below, calculating her move down to the smallest decimal before she ran down the hatch and leapt out of the Falcon.

Something hitting the wing of his speeder had Finn flinching waiting for the blast to kill him, but he turned when it didn't to see Eris kneeling with a knife stuck in the metal and her eyes on the sky. While Chewy and Rey drew the TIE fighters far from this fight Eris hit the launcher on the jetpack and soared high in the air raising the rifle.

The beam hit the Imperial Walker too far to the right creating a wall of smoke that temporarily blinded them but little more as it cleared. "Rose on your left, catch her," Finn barked through the old staticy mic he wore.

Rose looked up in time to see a flash of turquoise and hooked a sharp left hearing Eris' weight thump loudly as she dug the blade of the vibroknife in securing her position.

"Catch who?" Poe asked as they raced forward toward the gun the First Order was getting into position to blow through the mine. Her form caught his eye and he looked up seeing the red glow of the pack and then followed her shot to see her hit one of the Walkers. He whooped loudly as he swung right to catch her as she fell. "Atta girl, Eris," he yelled proudly.

Her eyes were good but they weren't that good, they weren't close enough for her to know exactly where she was aiming. She knew what Poe was leading them to, that this was more or less a desperate hope that'd turn suicide mission if they had any chance of taking that gun out. But she glanced down at where he sat, dark eyes blazing. She had to wonder if that wasn't why she was there, wonder if there was an end to the lengths she'd go for this man.

Steeling herself she looked up at the Walker she was most in line with, the first shot had been a test to see how close she was, the second had been an effort to correct her first mistake, but the third one she hit the mark dead center. Her blast tore through the bridge with a violent explosion and the Walker's head drooped low before the whole thing collapsed on itself.

Inside the ship that hovered above the salt field Kylo Ren stared darkly down at the speeder his bounty hunter was perched on, his hand in his pocket holding the ring she'd tucked in it before she left him. "Take her down," was his quiet order, one he had to force past his teeth.

Sneering with crazed glee Hux commanded in a louder voice, "take the traitor down the next time she flies."

But Eris didn't budge this time. She knew if he hadn't had them shoot her yet he'd give the order the moment she took one of his vehicles down, she made too much of an easy target and she wasn't willing to chance it.

She waited patiently as the rickety speeders continued forward with too much ground and not enough cover. The weapon was in position and was being fired up, she noticed that first and then the heavy assault that followed taking several of the speeders out.

Her eyes narrowed straining to make out the bridge, she got one leg prepared to launch herself when she caught subtle movement and she looked just right of her to see the gun drawing aim. "Shit," she cursed again and launched herself up hearing the explosion beneath her, feeling a chunk of metal hit the back of the pack killing one of the jets.

She landed hard on the wing of Poe's speeder and if not for the magnets in her boots she would've tumbled over the side and hit the ground. There was another explosion followed shortly by another as the speeders were picked off. Dragging herself close to the cockpit she yelled over the roaring wind, "what's the plan."

"You stay with me," Poe called back without turning to see she was alright. He'd seen her get hit, saw the pack's beam stutter before going dark; she was stuck with him, which is exactly where he wanted her. "There picking us all off, we're not gonna make it," Poe said knowing they couldn't keep going. He hadn't known when to stop before, but he knew it now. So when Finn's voice came over the comm in his ear telling him he had the target in sight Poe shook his head. "No, pull off."

He gave them the order to retreat, something that was new to him and weighed heavily. "Hold on," he yelled for Eris as he cut a sharp left and turned the speeder around racing back for the mines.

She could hear the cannon behind them knowing the blow that was coming, they needed to be in those mines when that happened. Without a word shared between them they moved together, as he came closer to the trench she pulled herself up on her feet so that when he brought the speeder down she jumped the same time he did. It skidded on the salt behind them as they ran and slid into the trench.

He caught himself with a hand on her shoulder looking at the couple of men that had stayed behind to let the inside know what was going on. "Move! Go quick! Lets go, lets go!" he cried urging them inside the tunnels. Grabbing her hand he pulled Eris with him shoving her through the dark tunnel ahead of him, and she kept his hold on her as she pulled him with her faster.

The ground beneath them trembled violently as they burst from the tunnel hearing a crack in the rock as it collapsed behind them. They stood breathing heavily looking at where they'd been only seconds before, her hand clenching his shirt and his tight around her arm. With a breath of a laugh they turned to each other not finding any part of it amusing except that they were together.

She tore the useless heavy pack off her and threw it aside finding she didn't care for the credits still in the pocket, there was so much more on her mind. Poe's eyes crawled down the expanse of her bare back and back up as she turned. He blinked giving a quiet, "hi," as the corner of his mouth curled.

"Tuck your tongue behind your teeth," she told him seriously, though her eyes gleamed with a familiar teasing.

He pulled at the slit in her dress, his knuckles grazing her cold thigh. "That's a good color on you, I like it."

"Shouldn't you be commanding your troops?" she asked as she scoured the dark caves around them. It'd be their tomb if they didn't have a plan, and standing with Poe she found that she wasn't ready to die anymore.

His hand was gentle on her chin as he turned her to face him, having seen the boot print on her back and the nasty bruise only beginning to darken between her shoulder blades from where she'd hit the outside of the Supremacy. Her knees were scraped up and there was a slight darkness in the creases of her eyes that came with having been punched in the face, she looked like she'd gone through hell to get here. "Good thing I can multitask," he said as an overwhelming fondness for her had his thumb raising to brush her cheek "Seriously, you look beautiful," he told her reaching a hand to her arm as he turned and headed back to where the few that remained of the Resistance were waiting with no other plan.

"Are you done?" she asked feeling his arm brush hers they walked.

He turned to her with a smile; granted it was thin and it didn't stay on his face long but if this was end, and as selfish as it was, he was glad he'd gotten to see her one last time. "Were you on assignment or did you wear that just for me?" he asked instead chuckling at the way she rolled her eyes muttering an exasperated curse.

Even she had to smile, as faint as it was, though she had no plans on dying. She had too much to do and three too many people counting on her. "Yeah, the guy who picked it out thought I looked nice in it too," she said watching his mouth fall to a straight line as his brows drew together. A laugh left her in the form of a breath and she told him, "well that shut you up."

His steps faltered and he stood staring the couple inches up at her a quiet few moments before a grin spread on his face. "You're getting funnier," he said seeing the twitch in her cheek and knowing she'd meant to smile, but it wasn't reaching her eyes. "You wanna tell me now or later?" he asked surprising them both with how well he knew her, and how much she trusted him that she really did wanna tell him.

"Later," she answered and he nodded pulling back. "Go be a rebel hero, I'll pretend to be impressed."

A hum of a laugh warmed his chest as they stepped out of the hall into the main room. "Oh you'll be impressed," he said casting her a sly look and a cheeky grin she wasn't impressed with. Yet.

When his expression fell, because there was too much at stake and not enough odds to carry it, she clapped his arm and pushed him forward sending him back to the Resistance. With him gone her own expression melted to a fierce determination as she snuck along the back wall and headed to the back of the mines. The front wasn't an option, so there was either a second exit or one was gonna be made.

"Where are you?" Eris asked over the commlink she'd swiped off the Falcon.

"We're circling your position, I'm not seeing anything," Rey told her as she and Chewy scanned the rocky mountainside for any sign of an opening.

At the sudden barrage of gunfire Eris turned listening intently, deciding the blasts were coming from outside. Feeling something brush her leg Eris looked down to see the foxes had the same idea, they could probably smell the open air. Pushing through she finally found the second opening, and she sighed deeply annoyed watching the foxes slip through the cracks in the rock pile barricading it. "Found it," Eris told Rey irritable. "Look for the stupid foxes, come be a Jedi."

A series of quick desperate footsteps sounded behind her, Poe came up on her with a hand that slid around her bare back as he moved past her. "No no no no," he pleaded seeing the exit walled off.

"Took you long enough," Eris muttered glaring at the rubble.

Poe watched the ice fox that'd led them here slip through the rocks and disappear. "Yeah I don't wanna hear it," he grumbled back knowing whatever Skywalker was doing wasn't gonna last forever. Eventually the First Order was going to come after them, and they'd just lost their last hope.

There was a great rumbling beneath their feet like the earth was being split in two before the dark was filled with a white so bright they had to close their eyes. When they opened them they were left gaping at a young girl standing in salt as she held the boulders above her with nothing more than her outstretched hand.

Eris was momentarily stunned at the sheer power contained in this girl, seeing even Rey was surprised by it. But her eyes fell on a familiar face that had her heart stuttering, and Finn rushed to Rey gathering her in his arms. A smile curled half of Eris' mouth seeing the two together again, but it slipped away as her thoughts and her head turned to the people behind her.

"Which one of you's a medic?" she demanded, and waited as a small birdlike woman reluctantly stepped forward. "You're with me," Eris told her with grave severity as she charged towards the Falcon expecting her to follow.

"What happened to him?" she asked moving to Cal's side, waiting as Eris retracted the mask.

Eris looked at his achingly familiar features that left her feeling like her chest might cave in from too much pressure. "He was frozen in carbonite, the system was disrupted when the Raddus hit the Supremacy."

She looked up at the Viderian woman with wide eyes. "He wasn't thawed properly, that's not good." He needed a med bay, to be scanned and properly treated, and they didn't have that.

"What does that mean?" Eris asked, but what she meant was what were his odds.

The ship filled quickly and it swayed beneath them as Chewy got her in the air. Another medic came seeing there was in fact a patient, one that wasn't Eris because quite frankly she scared them. "I'll start with what we know: if he was going to go into shock he would have already, his breathing's stabilized, his pulse is steady. Those are the big issues and he seems to be stable."

"You don't know if he'll wake up," Eris said for the small medic with the sharp thin nose.

She shook her head having little to offer but sympathy, and Eris had no use for that. "We won't know until he's scanned, and I'm gonna be honest the likelihood of brain damage and memory loss is high."

From outside of the room they occupied Rey sat looking at where Finn was kneeling by his unconscious pretty new friend. They'd gotten off the planet, they escaped the first order, granted it was in fractured pieces but it was a victory. And yet it felt hollow.

"Who's that?"

Rey turned first to Poe then followed his gaze to see Eris standing against the wall as far as she could get from where the unconscious man was being examined. "Her husband," Rey answered softly. She couldn't imagine how Eris was doing, she could feel her turmoil and pain, she'd figured out how to live without him and now she might have to lose him all over again.

"What?" Poe asked as he straightened with surprise. "I thought he was- " He didn't even wait to finish his own sentence before he rushed to Eris' side, placing his hand lightly on her back. "Hey," he breathed softly realizing this is what she'd wanted to tell him.

Seeing it was him a breath left her as she turned into him wrapping her arms around his shoulders. He was quick to throw his own around her back hugging her fiercely. "I'm so sorry Eris."

His shirt was balled in her fists as she held herself to him, her breaths were deep but they came too quick. Seeing Cal had upended her world and fighting had been enough to keep her from spinning out of control but now there was nothing to ground her. Except Poe. And slowly, so very slowly, he felt her breathing level out as her grip loosened.

She pulled back wrapping her arms around herself instead of him as she stood with her back to what was left of her husband. "He doesn't remember me," she said looking at Poe's kind sympathetic eyes, looking like he'd hug her any second.

And he wanted to, he hadn't been ready to let go because it was such a relief to have her back and because he knew how much this hurt. She wouldn't let him so he didn't push. "You don't know that," he told her not wanting her to start this having already given up.

"I saw it in eyes."

He shrugged showing more optimism than he actually felt. "It could come back to him, and if it doesn't you'll make new memories." Even he couldn't make that sound better, like there was anything to actually hope for. He could see it on her deeply unhappy, almost angry, face that if Cal didn't remember her then he wasn't her husband. Six years was too long for her to want to do this again. If he didn't remember her she was gonna leave.
Poe really didn't know what to say to that, if there was even anything to say. So he looked for something easier and glanced down at where Cal lay studying his features. He had very dark skin, broad shoulders, a slender waist, he was taller than her, and very handsome. "I thought he'd be younger." It wasn't what he wanted to say but that at least felt safe.

"He's ten years older than me," Eris responded, her eyes on Poe.

Poe's face morphed into one of surprise as he looked from Cal, who was somewhere between forty and fifty, and to Eris who didn't even look thirty. "How old are you?"

Her head tilted a little to the side and a small, very small, smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. "You and I are the same age," she told him seeing the way that hit in how many times he blinked as he tried to process that. "I age at half the rate you do." Full blooded Viderians lived longer than that, but her father had been human.

She was always going to live twice as long as Cal, and she'd loved him enough to risk that. Yet here she was with the faintest grin as she looked at Poe having somehow convinced herself he was worth risking that again. "Thank you for coming," he told her with quiet stark honesty knowing she'd only come for him. That understanding came with a heavy weight.

She raised a nonchalant shoulder with a casual roll of her eyes. "I already told you," she stated in a forcibly monotone voice, "if you need me I'll be there."

A bright smile spread wide on his face at hearing those words again, from this impossible to love woman. "That's my girl," he said in a low mumble seeing the barely perceptible curl of her mouth. Out of nothing but selfish unexplainable care for her he took her hand in his and held it gently, and though she huffed rolling her eyes heavily she let him.

And so ends part two of the Renegade Series. It's not quite where I wanted to leave it but I really wanna see where they're going with the last movie before I make any big decisions. So I'll say now, I'm not decided either way whether I'm gonna have Cal remember Eris or not, that'll come after the last movie: although if anyone has any opinions on that I'd love to hear them. But have plans for both and they both have their charms. Also, if any cares I am imagining him as Idris Elba. But that's all for this one, and I will see you all sometime at the end of this year when the last movie comes out.