AN: Thank you so much for the reviews, follows and favorites! This is the last part of the chapter before...poor Ben is in for a world of hurt...


Chapter seven - A painful family history

"WHAAAT! THAT IS THE CRUELEST THING...! How dare you?!" Rey looks at her staff in the corner and back at Ben, who waves his hands desperately in front of him when he sees her intention: "But, I'm going back! I swear! I'm going back!"

Rey's worst memory plays repeatedly in her head, whereas she is a small girl holding Unkar Plutt's hand and watching a shuttle leaving her behind and shouting:,,No, come baaack!"

No, come back...No come back...Come back...COME BACK YOU KRIFFING JERKS! I HATE YOUUU GUUYS SOOO MUUUCH!

Rey frowns at him and gets her staff. "You better! You have no idea how it hurts to have your family leave you!" She hits him several times over his head to really knock that statement in. "YOU, NAUGHTY, EVIL, BRATTY, BAD, BOY!"

Ben grimaces and covers his head from the onslaught of her staff. "OW, OW! YES, I DO!"

"You do?" Rey's anger deflates as quickly as a sun being drained on the Star Killer base. "Maybe I overreacted a bit..."

"YOU THINK?!" growls Ben at her, just as Poe walks into the cockpit. "Is everything alright? Ben, what did you do?" He frowns at Ben, as if he is a instigator in a sibling rivalry.

BB-8, who follows him and chirps angrily: "I told you, he couldn't be trusted!"

Finn nods, where he sits at the chess table and Poe shakes his head. "Really, I can't leave you alone for..."

"Hey, SHE hit me!" Ben points at Rey who is still holding the staff, as a evidence and Rey's survival instinct, makes her quickly hide it behind her back.

"You must have said something rude...or really pissed her off in some way..." says Poe matter-of-factly.

More like...painful...

"Apologize to her!" snaps Poe at Ben, but before Ben can retort, Rey interjects: "No, it was my fault...I'm really sorry about that...my temper got the best of me..." She shamefully throws the staff back into the corner.

"It's okay...I'm really sorry for what I said...but you! Do something useful for a chance and find me some bacta patches," Ben commands Poe like he's an emperor.

"Sure thing. Finn, BB-8 make sure he behaves while I'm gone, "says Poe before he disappears in the back.

"Yes, sir," says Finn and BB-8 chirps in agreement as he returns to the chess table, while Ben hold his head and grimaces in agony and grumbles something audible, that sounds a lot like ,,Rebelscum."

But, I was the one who hit him...

"Umm...how did your family abandon you...?" asks Rey tentatively. "Do you want some ice on your head...?"

What if he was also left on some desert rock...screaming after his family to return?! And I was so mean to him?!

"I was sent away to Jedi training with my unca Luke when I was ten. I haven't meet my parents since...not that they were ever home anyway..." mumbles Ben, rubs his sore head fervently and pouts: "I wouldn't mind the ice, but I doubt there is any aboard this stupid ship..."

Oh...that's somewhat similar, but yet extremely different to mine...at least he was left behind with his cool Jedi uncle! Not some stupid scavenger that hates you and makes your life miserable! And at the very least he remember his parents...he got to know them...he's meeting them again...right...?

"Then how exactly did you abandon your family?" ask Rey in the vain hope of doing some damage control and justifying somewhat her earlier cruel treatment of him.

"Six years ago I found my own path...I joined the darkside...and the First Order...until I realized my mistake...that's why I'm going back home...after all this years...to make things right..."

Oh...of course he abandoned his family by turning to the darkside and joining the enemy side...it's not like he could keep personal life and work separated behind the enemy lines...or maybe he didn't even want to, which is even worse!

Hopefully my own family will one day come back to it's senses as well...I just hope they didn't turn evil and that's why they left me...that would suck...

But, I feel a little less guilty about hitting him now, he had it coming for turning evil! His family must have been so hurt over his betrayal and they must have been waiting forever for him to return. I can't wait for their reunion, they will be so thrilled...but there will probably be some yelling too and some, hopefully not too harsh, punishments...their relationship will most likely take some time to heal...hopefully not too long!

But, what I don't understand is why they send him away in the first place...does a Jedi training take such an awful long time? Didn't he want to become a Jedi and was send away anyway? That would suck...

"Is that why you don't like it?" asks Rey and looks around the ship, which is supposed to be his family heirloom.

Too many hard memories?

"Like what...to be beaten over the head? I thought nobody like that..." snaps Ben at her, who is still rubbing his sore head and Rey shakes her head. "No, this ship. I thought it was your family heirloom..."

"It's his father's ship." Poe returns with bachta patches and hands it over to Ben who rips them from him and puts them over his head.

"Oh... so sorry that I called garbage..." says Reys.

First I insult his father's ship, then I beat him...he sure must hate me now...

"It's okay...though my...father would have fit had he heard you talk about his precious...baby like that...Poe, you idiot, these have to be ice cold or they don't work!" He throws the patches at Poe who grabs them and adds to Ben's explanation as if that would explain everything: "It's the Millenium Falcon."

"WHAT? Rey looks excitedly around the ship she thought up to this point was only a garbage. "NO, NO WAY!"

I'm flying the Millennium Falcon! I'm living the dream! But it still a garbage...ancient junk...this belongs in a museum!

"Wait...the Millennium Falcon...so your dad really is the legendary smuggler Han Solo?!"

"The war hero?" ask Finn in the back, who looks up from the chess table and BB-8 chirps something similar.

"Don't remind me." Ben huffs and whines: "Poe..."

"I will put these in the freezer, your highness." Poe gives him a mock bow and walks away.

"Why not? I thought you were going back home?" asks Rey.

"To my mom, not and never ever to him. I don't even know where he is...not like that is anything new..." mutters Ben bitterly.

"That's not nice!" Rey reaches over for her staff, but decides against it at the last moment.

I really have to control my temper...

Poe returns with the bacta patches. "Here you go."

"Thanks..I mean about time!" Ben snaps them away from him and puts them on his head. "Now, leave us in piece."

Poe smirks and leaves them so they can be alone together in the cockpit, despite the fact Rey just attacked Ben.

Not a very good guardian...

"You have to go back to both of your parents, or isn't a family reunion! Wait, do you have a sibling too?" asks Rey from where the left off before Poe arrived.

Considering how everyone important seems to be related to him, it wouldn't come as a surprise...

"No and I have my reasons for not wanting to meet him..." before Ben can elaborate what he means by that, Poe, the very bad guardian, returns with the words: "I just realized it not exactly wise to have you as the co-pilot. Go and lie in the sofa, but don't fall asleep! You might get a concussion."

"Yeah...yeah...dad..." Ben stagers on his way to the sofa, flops down into it, opposite from Finn who's playing chess with BB-8 and seems to be losing and Ben rambles: "Stupid dad...where are you...? Why are you never there when I need you...?"

I hope he's alright...


"Daddy! Daddy!" shouted Ben as toddler and ran into the embrace of his father.

"What is it kid?" His father picked him up and Ben pouted. "My head...hurts."

But, this was no ordinary headache. However, his mom had told him couldn't tell his dad the truth about the voice tempting him to the darkside, as his dad wouldn't understand and it might anger him needlessly as he couldn't do anything to stop it.

"I'm sorry to hear that. Do you want a painkiller?" His father furrowed his brows in worry over his constant headaches.

"Yes, but first...mom always does this..." Ben dipped his head and pointed at the top of it.

"Okay, kid." His father kissed the top of his head. "Is it better now?"
"Much better! Thanks daddy!" Ben hugged his father and kissed him on the cheek to repay his debt.

"Any time kiddo..." His father smiled and kissed him on his head again.


KR: You miss him...

Do not.

KR: Maybe your mom already contacted him...

I doubt it...he's always been hard to get a hold off...

KR: Haha, I knew it, you miss him!

"Okay fine...maybe the tiniest bit. I just wish I could at least send him a voice message. It would put my mind at ease...so he wouldn't come after me...

KR: Come after you? Are you a fugitive or something?

I was a prisoner of the darkside.

KR: Hmm...

But no I mean, in bringing me home...like he always did when I ran away in the past, the only thing that caught his attention and brought him home...for a short time.


"Kid, this is your last chance. Stop running away!" His father grabbed him where he found him hiding in a bush in front of their house. With a scowl he carried him inside.

"But, you're never home!" shouted Ben, as the walked up the stairs to his bedroom.

"You have to stay with your mother," said his father.

"She's never home either! Always on some stupid endless meetings!" shouted Ben and that made his father stop in his track.

"You're home alone?" he asked in utter bewilderment and looked around the seemly empty apartment.

"No...with Threepio...as always..." said Ben with a frown, not that he disliked Threepio, he just wanted to have his parents with him too.

"Sorry about that kid...but I've to work, your mom too. You will understand when you're older." His father ruffled his hair and Ben shouted: "No, I won't as I will never leave you or anyone!"

"That's nice to hear kid." His father smiled, put in bed and tugged him in. "I can stay with you for now," His father read him a bedtime story until he fell asleep.

"I love you dad," mumbled Ben in his sleep.

But he was long gone when I woke up...

"Fuck you dad!"

"Language, Ben," said mom who had returned. "And that's no way to speak about your hardworking father..."


KR: He didn't try to bring you home from the First Order.

No, he didn't...I'm kind of pissed of that he didn't...I don't understand why...he never even picked me up from uncle Luke either...I was waiting forever for the Falcon to show up on the horizon and bring me back home!

KR: So you really do miss him...

"I...it's been too many years...and if I could send him a message I would say this."


"Hi, dad. It's me Ben. I've come back to the lightside and I'm on my way to mom. No thanks to you! But no need to worry, I will take care of myself as always!

Bye forever.

P.S I have the Falcon not YOU! Haha...in your face!


KR: Wow...someone is bitter...

He was never there for me in the past. It's too late now...he most likely disowned me when I turned to the darkside.

KR: That's not what your mom said...

Stop acting like my counselor, you're an evil voice in my head. I'm not listening to you!

KR: Often I am the voice of reason..

Shut up...and wait I thought you said that family makes you weaker...why are you bugging me about my dad?

KR: It would be so funny to see the look on your face if he were to show up unexpectedly...

You're so evil...

KR: It's in the job description...

What's that awful sound!

KR: That's just my voice...

No, there is something else!


A sizzling sound, kind of like in boiling kettle rolls around in Ben's skull, as loud as alarm bells.

Oof my head..who is making that sound...I bet it's Poe, probably whistling some god awful songs like the Hub Nub song or Jedi Rock, my least favorite songs! Just to annoy me! I better chop of his head so he knows how I feel in my head!

KR: I strongly advise against that...

Did she have to hit me this hard...? My head is still spinning...

KR: How about not hitting you at all? She could've killed you...

I don't mind her killing me...

KR: Sigh...I expected as much...but her temper is way way worse than yours, and I didn't even think that was possible, but that is really good for the darkside. I wish I could transport over to her and ditch you for good.

You can...transport yourself?

KR: No...

Thank the maker...but who's making that awful sound?!

"Knock that off!" shouts Ben, startling Finn and BB-8 who are playing Dejarik battle, but on mute and in complete silence.

"We are not even talking," replies Rey surprised from the cockpit and Ben sits up, still holding his head.

"Then what's that sound?" he asks frustrated.

Is it just inside my head? Great...just what I needed, a terrible noise on a top of a terrible voice.

KR: I wouldn't call myself terrible...

"What sound...?" Poe perks his ears, where he sits in the co-pilot seat and his puzzled expression says he hears something strange as well. Finn, BB-8 and Rey do as well and Rey, who at last figures out where the sound is coming from, jumps up and run to the lounge. She shouts when she has found the culprit: "This whole place is going to blow up and fill everything up with a poisonous gas!"

Ben groans. "Okay, this is a piece of junk...don't tell my father that I just said that..."

"Ben, help me fix this!" shouts Rey and Ben, takes the bacta patch off, puts them on the holochess table and reluctantly stands up from the sofa, his head still spinning, as he staggers to her.

Why me...?

KR: You know the ship...

Poe jumps into the pilot seat. "I will take over the main controls while you deal with this. Finn, be my co-pilot." He buckles himself in.
"What! But, I don't how to fly this...thing!" shouts Finn and BB-8 rolls after him.

"It's only temporary. Relax...it far more worrying if they don't manage to fix that in the back..." says Poe.

"That does not make me feel better," shouts Finn alarmed and BB-8 chirps something loudly.

Why does everyone have to shout everything?! Even BB-8!

"Hurry up!" shouts Rey, even though she's is the reason Ben is so slow at the moment.

"Please don't shout..." Ben feels like he has the worst hangover in the galaxy.

"Sorry, but we don't have much time!" Rey continues shouting, despite her apology.


In the lounge, Ben helps Rey lift up the grating where burst of steam is coming from under. She jumps down into the grating area.

"Do you know how to fix this?" asks Rey, when she sees what the problem is.

"A little..." Ben remember vaguely when a similar problem came up in the past, but what his tired and sore brain doesn't remember is how his dad and Chewie fixed it.

Rey sees his hesitation. "Well, I'm used to fix things. We will be fine." She gives him a reassuring smile. "Just hand me the right tools." She extends a hand to him, with her palm up and that single gesture, sends a wave of memories into Ben's head.

He remembers exactly how to fix this and rapidly he hands Rey the appropriate tools, before she even has to ask for them. She looks at him surprised, but doesn't comment on that as they work together in quiet, which something Ben is extreme grateful for, on fixing it.

Soon the problem has been solved.


"FIXED IT!" shouts Rey so the guys in the cockpit can hear, making Ben ears ring, while she wipes sweat of her brow.

"You're brilliant Rey!" shouts Finn back.

"Well, done Rey!" shouts Poe as well.

BB-8 chirps something happily.

"Great job, Rey." Ben helps her climb out of the grating area.

"Do you guys have to praise me for everything?" Rey lifts an eyebrow and wipes her dirty hands on her pants.

"Yes..it's a nice thing to do..." replies Ben awkwardly and returns to lie back in the sofa.

"But, it was mostly you who fixed it." Rey sits beside him, which surprises Ben as he had expected her to return to piloting by hopefully kicking Poe out of the pilot chair.

"I wasn't down in the grating area." replies Ben matter-of-factly, though his heart is about to burst to have her so close to him.
"Okay, then it was a team effort," says Rey and Ben shrugs. "I guess..."

"I'm really sorry about your head." Rey hands him disregarded bacta packs from the table and Ben gratefully accepts them.

"Don't worry about that...I kind of deserved it..." Ben puts the batcha patches, but they have gotten to warm from being on the table and don't work any more, and as Ben is too tired to yell at Poe to do something about it, he lies back down.

"Yeah, you kind of did...for turning evil I mean. You better not turn evil again..." says Rey warningly as if otherwise, she would hit him again with her staff.

"I'm not turning evil...to the darkside again. What happened at the marketplace didn't count...it wasn't pure darkside," replies Ben pitifully.

KR: No, you were just you having a jealousy tantrum because they were talking about the girl you like...

"How do you turn evil...?" asks Rey and the question startles Ben, who sits up and stares at her. "Why do you want to know?" He puts the useless batcha patches away on the table.

KR: There is great darkness in her...

But also great deal of light...

KR: Darkness is way cooler...

"I'm afraid...of some feelings..." Rey rubs her arms, as if she had gone cold and Ben is tempted to wrap his arms around her, but decides against it and only pats her shoulder.

"I don't want to turn to the darkside..." Rey looks him straight in the eye. "Can you help me avoid it?"

KR: But it's so cool!

"That's good to hear and I've been down that path...but, do you mind if we talk about this later? I'm kinda...worn out..." Ben gives her a pathetic and apologetic smile.

I'm not in the mood for teaching...

KR: I can teach her!

You leave her alone!

"Is your head getting worse?" Rey puts a hand on his forehead to check for temperature and Ben, moves away from her as if her touch is burning him.

"No, no is better...I'm just tired..." he mutters shamefully.

It's tiring having to wrestle with a voice in your head...

KR: And not die of love sickness...

Rey stands up. "Okay...try to rest. I will try to find some painkillers..."

"Thanks..." He smiles at her and lies back down.

Ah, finally I can rest in peace...

"Did you fix this with your dad?" asks Rey suddenly.

Did she have to bring him up?!

"Yes...and Chewie..." replies Ben sourly, as he really doesn't want to talk about any of this and just rest.

Rey's eyes grow wide in wonder. "You, know Chewie?"

"Of course...I do..." replies Ben.

"That's so awesome!" she exclaims.

She's such a fangirl...

KR: We are Darth Vader fanboy.

That's different...he was our gramps...

"Do you think I could meet them...before I return to Jakku?" Her eyes are shining with so much enthusiasm, that Ben can't say no to her, so he lies.

"Uuu...I can't tell."

I hope not! Chewie will rip my arms off for betraying them! And dad well...maybe he won't be as mad if I return the Falcon to him? Same with Chewie...?

"Rey, do you have a cute boyfriend at home?" asks Finn out of the blue from the cockpit, enraging Ben.


How dare he?! And I thought he was over Rey! She's mine!

"None of your business." Rey looks at Ben, blushes and turns away.

She looked at me!

KR: You were imagining it...she tried to kill you...remember...

We are long past that stage...

"Does that mean you are single?" asks Ben, suddenly wide awake.

I didn't see any boyfriends when I invaded her mind...

KR: You can be so creepy...

"Yes, now stop asking stupid questions and try to rest," says Rey sternly.

Why is it a stupid question...?

"I'm single too," replies Finn without being asked.

Shut up, Finn!

"Me too, but I bet, Ben is a virgin..." adds Poe unnecessarily to the conversation and Ben sits up in anger and reaches for his saber.

I'm going to kill Poe now...nothing can stop me...

"Really...?" Rey looks curiously at Ben, who wants to die at that moment and withdraws his hand.

I will kill Poe later...

"Of course he is," replies Poe like he knows everything about Ben.

Even BB-8 comments on that by chirping something and Finn laughs, even though he is definitely a virgin too.

"Hey! That's none of your business! Stupid Poe, where is your base? ask Ben.

How far to I've to travel with this..this clown?!

Poe looks over his shoulder. "Look, even though you're my adoptive son, I don't trust you for this information, sorry."

This is all a test...all a test to see me resisting the darkside...how far I can go without killing that rebel...

Poe leans to Finn like he's about to whisper to him.

"Hey, Finn is a former trooper!" shouts Ben and Poe shrugs. "He joined unwilling, you joined the First Order on your own terms..and left them."

"Well..." begins Ben.

From a certain point of view...

"The Illenium system?!" shouts Finn after Poe has whispered to him and he blushes when he realizes he just shouted it over the ship."Oops..."

"The Illenium system," says Rey, looks intrigued and ready for adventure before heading home again.

Ben grins as he got the information he wanted and Poe turns sharply to him. "Yes, that is what I said...you better not take this information to the First Order or I swear...oh no..."

All of the ship's power goes out.

Just what I needed...to make this day better...what a piece of junk...

"What's wrong?" asks Rey and Poe replies while clicking on the controls: "Someone has locked on to us. The controls are all overridden."

Great...


Ben walks into the cockpit, expecting to see a Star Destroyer hanging over their head.

Has the First Order found us...?

KR: Nope...

Ben watches as massive freighter gets closer to them, with a giant hangar like a huge mouth, ready to swallow them.

Then who...

Ben grows cold when he recognizes the force signature.

You've got to be kidding me! The minute I step on the Falcon he finds it? The kriffing...

KR: I thought you wanted to meet him...

Not like this! I need more time!

"What is it?!" asks Rey, worried when she's that Ben has gone white and looks to be ready to pass out.

"I knew it, it's the First Order!" shouts Finn.

"No, it's something far worse!" shouts Ben in panic and runs away.

"Worse?" asks Rey and Finn at the same time and BB-8 chirps in panic.

I need to hide!

KR: You really haven't changed since you were kid...

"There is something worse than the First Order?" ask Poe and Finn replies: "Not that I know of..but if Ren...I mean Ben is so scared...something must be."

Ben's mind is racing and paces around the lounge in the Falcon, as the tries to think of an escape plan.

KR: How come you felt his presence nearly instantly, but not the Tie-Fighters? The trooper felt it, but not you! Seriously, is your dad a more threat to you then bombing Tie-Fighters?!

I could've taken the Tie-Fighters easily out with the force! But, he...

Ben looks at the grating area as a thought comes into his mind. "Rey, the poisonous gas..."

"But I fixed it," replies Rey, who, along with the others had followed panic-stricken Ben to the lounge.

"Can we unfix it?" Ben points at the gas masks hanging on the wall and Rey catches on his plan right away.

She nods and each of the gang, grabs a gas mask and climbs into the grating area.

KR: You are trying to kill your father. There is still darkside in you.

I'm not trying to kill him! Just trying to scare him away...

KR: With poisonous gas...

Don't you question my methods!

Poe hands BB-8 over to Finn, who nearly misses him and Poe jumps into the grating area. He pulls the grating over them, when everyone has gone down there.

"Hurry up!" shouts Ben, through the gas mask at Rey, who snaps back at him through her gas mask. "I am going as fast as can!"

Any minute he will come here...


Next up: Father and son (new) meeting...

The next chapter will most likely not be posted, until after the holidays, happy and merry Sithmas!