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I had to divide the chapter again...but the next chapter shouldn't be too far behind...

This chapter is dedicated to Flowergirl! Thank you so much for your reviews, they really light my day and encourage me to keep going and update faster. :)

Glad to hear you're still enjoying this silly, crazy, but cute and angsty fic. It's only going to get crazier from here on out, but also cuter and also a bit darker...(thanks to Kylo Ren...he hasn't given up yet!)

Han and Leia are separated, but will of course still meet! Family reunion...;)


Chapter twelve - Father's embrace and the voice of darkness

Father hugged me...dad hugged me...daddy...finally hugged me...

It takes a while for Ben to come back to reality and he looks speechless at the big, surprisingly soft arms wrapped tightly around him, who hold him close to his father's warm and beating chest.

Ben isn't the only one who is shocked over this development, his whole gang is. Rey gasps and covers her mouth as if she's about to cry out of joy and it's probably reliving her own imaginary family reunion, Poe just grins as if this was his plan all along, Finn is stunned, but after seeing Poe's reaction he smiles, BB-8 chirps something loudly and Chewie, who has a small tear in his eyes, wipes it away with a handkerchief and sniffles.

"A hug...?" Ben asks his father bewildered, when at last he can speak again.

KR: He took care of your wound, gave you candy and now he hugs you...not to mention, that scolding and corner time was something you richly deserved for acting like an idiot...seriously what were you so scared of...?

My feelings...

KR: True...feelings are scary...

"What did you think I was going to do? Attack you? You know, I would never harm you in any way, kid," replies his father and his voice sound as soft as the hug. "My precious son."

He's way too trusting of me...doesn't he realize how dangerous I can be..? I even tried to kill him...why does he trust me? Why did he hug me in the first place?

KR: Beats me...maybe because he's your father...you idiot...that's how they are supposed to work...according to their job description...

Being a father...is not a job.

KR: Then what is it...?

I don't know...family?

KR: And what is family...beside a weakness...?

So...according to you, if something isn't a "job" then it's a weakness?

KR: Pretty much...

That's just something Snoke lied about...I don't answer to him any longer.

KR: And look where it got you...

I...think...I like it here...

KR: I will never understand your taste in things...

Same, I will never understand yours...

KR: Except Darth Vader.

Except him...

KR: And our saber.

Okay and that...

KR: And our cool dark clothes and helmet.

Fine...we do have something in common...

KR: Otherwise I would've left already.

You can leave?!

KR: Of course..but as long as you need me. I'm not going anywhere...

I don't need you! Now go away!

KR: You need to do way more than that...


"Why did you want to hug me?" Ben looks puzzled at his father, who smirks.

"Do I need a reason to hug my son...but if you must know, I'm glad...no happy...to have you back. You remember how to hug, right?" asks his father and looks suddenly worried.

They weren't exactly lot of hugs..or well any in the First Order...and uncle only hugged me when I was really, really homesick or rather after he punished me for breaking his things...but those were only brief and awkward Jedi hugs...not real hugs...

Suddenly Ben feels like he's ten again, where he was staring forever at the horizon, waiting for the Falcon to appear, but this time it does and his dad appears from it, picks him up into his warm embrace and brings him home again...

KR: Just shout daddy and hug him back, you know you want to...

It's too humiliating to do it in public...I mean! No, I don't want that! I told you I'm still angry with him for not picking me up!

KR: From your uncle...or the First Order?

Both...


Ben pushes him away with the force, shocking his father, his gang and Chewie when he knocks his father into them and they all go down like bowling pins.

KR: Did you just use...forcepush...? Isn't that a bit excessive?

What's the point of having the force, if you can't use it?!

KR: I doubt the others see it that way...especially your father...

"No! I don't want to...and not in front of them..." Ben frowns and crosses his arms stubbornly, as his father, Chewie and his gang scramble to their feet and look murderous at him.

Poe will laugh at me, Rey will be jealous...Finn...BB-8...Chewie something and well I don't want to!

KR: Sigh...why must you always be so difficult...?

Do you want me to hug him...?

KR: No...but he's not giving you much of choice and sometimes, you just have to do, what you have to do...to survive...this is only temporary anyway...

Temporary?

His father walks threateningly to him and roll up one of his sleeves. "Look son, either you hug me back or... "

"Or what?" asks Ben in a challenging and a cheeky voice, as he had just shown what he's capable of with the force, but his father, who has had enough of his attitude and isn't in the least frighten by his display of awesome powers, pulls his ear and drags him to stand in front of his gang and Chewie, which shocks Ben out of his power trip and makes him feel like a little helpless kid, instead of a powerful force user.

O, no! Not the corner again!

However, his father lets go of his ear and turns to him with a scowl. "I will put you over my knee, right here in front of your friends..." He points at his furious gang behind him, as if he wouldn't otherwise know who he was talking about and continues merciless with his lecture, while Ben just wants to sink through the floor and disappear into space, as he so embarrassed over being lectured like this in public.

"...which is something you deserve far more for being such a pain in the galaxy these past years!" His father starts to count on his fingers, by lifting one for each of his crimes. "...and for trying to kill me and Chewie...with poisonous gas, throwing me away with the force, your endless bad attitude about everything...and last, but not least, for being naughty by giving me a fake identity, lying to me repeatedly and trying to run away...that was just pure naughtiness, son..." His father shakes his head tiredly after having listed his crimes on two hands, as one wasn't enough for them.

KR: Woah, that's a long list! You have been so naughty!

Stop calling me naughty! And please no more stupid, empty and childish threats...I'm not ten anymore!

KR: Yet you act like one...or well more like seven...or five...

"I wasn't trying to kill you...just scaring you away..." replies Ben in a small voice, more fitting for a small child in big trouble than an adult in one.

KR: Tell yourself that...if that makes you feel better...

Rey's stern expression milds somewhat, Chewie thinks it over, while Poe, Finn and BB-8 seem mildly satisfied with that explanation.

His father lifts an eyebrow. "Scaring my away? Clearly you were worried about some kind of punishment for your past actions...so I wonder which option is more humiliating and more...deserving to do in front of your friends."

"Poe is not my friend...he's a...frenemy..." says Ben and glares at Poe, for being witness to his scolding as he enjoys it way too much, while the other just think it's richly deserved and don't necessarily enjoy it as much.

"Which is it?" presses his father on, though the answer should be obvious to everyone.

KR: He really wants that hug...

"Come on, kid. Stop being so stubborn. I'm not giving up on you," coax his father him, as if he is just a small child stuck up in a tree that refuses to come down. He opens up his welcoming embrace and smiles at him encouragingly. "You can do this, son."


I can...do this...I understand now what this is...this is a test...a rehabilitation...a rehab from the darkside...

KR: Rehab?

Yeah, don't you hate all this sweet stuff? Love, cuddle, family, sugar...?

KR: I don't hate it...I just think all of it is weakness...except sugar, I like candy.

You do...? Well, anyways, this is important for me to move on. To forgive and move on...if he could forgive me, I should be able to forgive him, right?

KR: There is nothing to forgive on our side...we did nothing wrong...well at least not I, you did a plenty of things wrong and continue on doing it!

So this aggravates you? That's good, then I'm doing something right. Too bad, it's so kriffing difficult to take the first step! My feet could just as well been made out of lead!

"Just hug him already!" yells Poe suddenly and the other chip in and cheer him on, like they are audience in a sports game and surprisingly it helps Ben move forward, bit by bit...to the light.

"Stop, being so stubborn!" yells Finn.

BB-8 chirps something loudly.

Stop being so naughty, little Ben!" growls Chewie.

"Please Ben..." pleads Rey and as he only needed to hear it from her, he at last hugs his father, who instantly hugs him back, as if otherwise he would fall and inside Ben is cheering like he had just won a marathon.

Yeah! I did it! I crossed the line! Finally, I can get rid of the darkside!

KR: Congratulations...not...you are such a fool, if you think this is enough...

Well, at least it's a start! A great start!


"I did it...I did it, dad..." mutters Ben in small voice, to let his father know that this had been a big breakthrough for him and his father smiles proudly, as if he had known that.

"Good boy. You're save now," says his father softly.

"Huh...? Save?" asks Ben bewildered. "Save from what?" He looks at his gang as if the answer could be found there.

Sure Poe could be an ass, but he wasn't exactly dangerous...

KR: What about Rey?

Nope.

"From the darkside, the First Order..." continues his father and looks tiny bit worried, that he had to remind Ben of the danger he was in.

"Oh..." says Ben and turns back to him. "Right..."

Then why didn't you try to save me from it?! I don't understand...

KR: You aren't safe from those things yet...this "peace" is only temporary and you know it...

That's your fault, now leave me alone...so I can enjoy this...in peace.

KR: You like this...? This...blergh...sweetness..I thought you hated sugar!

I kind of like this...now leave. You're ruining the moment!

KR: Cuteness and sweetness only exist so you can destroy it...there wouldn't be any fun otherwise...

I'm not listening to you!

"I have you now." His father kisses him on top of his head and hugs him tighter before Ben can escape that upgraded cuddling.

"Don't kiss me in front of Rey!" shouts Ben in desperation.

KR: That is your only complaint?!

...the headache got a little better...

"Why...not?" asks his father surprised and looks at Rey, who look as surprised, but smiles and says:"I don't mind."

She looks happy and bit jealous, not over the kiss, but over the family reunion, while Poe laughs at this sight into his hand, Finn looks clueless over what Ben's overreaction meant, Chewie smiles and BB-8 chirps.

"See, she doesn't mind." His father gives him another kiss on his head. "You're mine...forever."

Forever...is he afraid Rey will steal me away from him...?!

KR: I doubt he has even noticed your way too obvious feelings for her...he only sees you..his returned son, for now...

Ben grumbles and yet wants to melt into the hug and be one with it forever, but of course would never admit that out loud.


After a way too long a hug, only three are left aboard the Falcon, as Chewie left with Poe, Finn and BB-8 to check out the other ship, after having inspected the Falcon. Only Rey remains as an audience or witness to their father-son hugging that is still ongoing.

At least everyone has left...except Rey, why is she still here? She needs a hug too, I want to hug her...can't we have a group hug?

KR: Your dad doesn't want to share you...

This is so embarrassing...how long does he wants to do this? We must have broken some galaxy record by now...he has never been a hugger...

KR: Maybe he's waiting for you to take the first step...? I mean, without using the force to push him away!

I wouldn't try that again...I'm not stupid...

KR: I beg to differ...

"Umm...I'm sorry I tried to kill you...father..." begins Ben and adds. "And Chewie of course, as well."

Can you please let go of me?!

He looks at Rey for her approval, who nods glad, that he at last gave an honest apology.

"I know." His father lets go of him.

Finally!

But, when Ben plans on leaving, his father pulls his ear and pulls him straight back to him.

"More importantly, what about lying to me and trying to run away?!" he growls at him.

He thinks that is worse?! And I already said I was sorry!

KR: You didn't mean it...

"I'm sorry too..for lying to you..and trying to run away..." replies Ben and grimaces in pain over the ear pulling and hates that he's getting lectured in front of Rey, even though she thinks he deserve it, for the way he acted earlier.

KR: Like an idiot...

"About what? What did you lie about?" continues his father without mercy and Rey frowns at him, as if she is scolding him as well just by being there.

Please don't make me recount...!

"For lying about...who I really was..." says Ben.

"And...?" presses his father on and Rey nods her head firmly.

"That I was lost forever...ow, dad it hurts!"

His father at last lets go of his ear. "How could you do that to me?"

Rey frowns at him sternly.

"I'm really, really sorry...I wasn't thinking straight..." Ben pouts while rubbing his ear and Rey looks a tiny bit sympathetic.

KR: You never do...thinking I straight I mean...

And whose fault it that?! Leave me alone!

KR: Never...you need me...

Do not!

His father sighs. "Why did you do it?"

"I was...scared..." replies Ben honestly and his father looks a bit shocked over that revelation.

"Scared of what...?" He looks at Rey, as if she would know the answer, but she looks as lost as he is and shrugs.

"I...don't know..." Ben shrugs, as well.

Everything...

KR: Chicken...

"What's your real name?" asks his father sternly.

"Ben...Solo..." replies Ben hesitantly, as if he isn't sure that is the right answer to that question.

KR: No, Kylo Ren.

"And...? I'm your father and you are my...what...?" his father point between himself and then back at him, as if they are playing a strange game or a in speech therapy, or rather doing more of the darkside therapy.

KR: You are not my father...

Shut up! I'm trying to concentrate here!

KR: It's not like the answers are that hard...I already told you them...

Well, they were wrong! You are trying to sabotage me! Stop it!

"You are my what? Come on, son...you can do this." His father pats his shoulder encouragingly.

KR: This is a bit pathetic...your father is helping you...that's cheating...can't you do anything on your own anymore...? Well, not without my help...

"Ben...?" says Rey worried. "Are you okay?"

"Son?" asks his father and Ben feels as if he's under water and he gasps for air.

"Son...I'm your...son." he answers and pants heavily." Your son, Ben Solo..." he adds for good measure, even though it's still hard for him to utter those true words and his father smiles sadly and pats his shoulder again.

"Correct. Now swear to me, that you will never do this again." He frowns at him sternly.

"I...swear...father..." says Ben and can't believe how hard it was to answer those questions.

This is so humiliating!

KR: Your fault alone...why didn't you use my answers? They will ends this farce..and you will be free again...

You mean you, you will be free again...and I would be prisoner of the darkside once more...

KR: Bit dramatic, if you ask me...


"Son, if you ever lie to me again, I swear...I will wash your mouth out with a soap!" threaten his father.

What! He never did that when I was a kid!

KR: He must be upgrading for a...bigger kid...

"Son, do you understand me?" his father frowns at him.

Did he read some questionable out of date child-rearing books after I was gone... as he screwed up with me...in case he would get a second chance...?

KR: To raise you...?

"Are you listening to me?" asks his father in an impatient voice.

No! I mean if he would get another child, you idiot!

KR: Hmm, personally I think I am right.

"You better be listening...or I will get a bar of soap right now!" his father barks at him.

You always think that...always...wait, what did he say?! That's pure torture! That's brutal!

KR: I kind of agree with that...but maybe you should voice your objection aloud instead of just bickering with me...though I think this all just an empty threat to scare you into...future...obedience...

Well it's working!

"I recommend using fish oil instead," says Rey helpfully and comes to his "rescue". "Also it's healthier and way better for him."

Why are they suddenly conspiring about how to punish me?!

KR: Haha, Rey has totally turned against you...

She hasn't turned against me! She just seem to think she's my mom or sister or something...which is horrible!

KR: Haha, that's even funnier!

"Hmm, good suggestion. I will do that...do you understand son? No more lying, it is wrong," his father waves a finger at him sternly and Ben blushes over endlessly being treated like a child.

But...wrong...? Lying is wrong...but then why was it okay to lie to me?!


"That's not fair," says Ben and glares at his father.
"Fair?" asks his father in disbelieving voice and looks at Rey, like she's suddenly his co-parent. "Can you believe this, kid?"

Rey shakes her head and frowns at Ben sternly. "Ben, it's always wrong to lie!"

"Oh yeah, then what about you and mom lying to me about Darth Vader?" asks Ben in a cold voice to his father.

Rey looks startled while his father's eyebrows draw together in one line.

"Excuse me...?" he growls at him, as he can never hear that name without getting angry.

KR: Look...there is always a time and place to talk about our cool grandad...except now! Do you want to go back to the corner...?!

"You heard me, what about you and mom lying to me for all these years, about him being my grandad...you never told me that he was my grandfather..." says Ben, who doesn't want to give this up and crosses his arms and regards Rey, now his ally as she looks pissed at his father, as well.

"Lying is never okay," she says sternly to his father.

"We did it to protect you nothing else..." says his father honestly and looks between Ben and Rey, as if he has to convince them both of his good intentions.

Rey's expression softens and she looks at Ben pleadingly, who soften his as well.

"Well, it wasn't a nice thing to do...lying I mean," mutters Ben in a hurt voice.

Even though you did it to protect me...it had the opposite effect...

KR: Not knowing that Darth Vader, the coolest of the coolest of them all! Was my grandfather, sucked. I would have started my collection of his things way earlier, had I known! A lot of it, is lost now!

"I'm sorry...if I could turn back time I would...you were never supposed to suffer like this...never..." says his father, who has got his soft voice back and he rubs Ben's cheek gently. "Can you ever forgive me...us?"

I did not expect him to fold like that..though mom send my apology letter when the truth came out, six years ago...but it had the opposite effect on me...

KR: You kind of turned...because of it...

It really send me over the edge...but, that was in the past...this is now...

Ben nods and takes his hand. "Okay...you're forgiven..." He lets go of his hand and regards Rey, who smiles as if everything is alright with the galaxy again.

We still have the matter of abandoning me with uncle to discuss...that's way more difficult topic...

KR: That can never be resolved.

You don't know that. I want to least...try!

His father smiles and ruffles his hair like he is puppy who had done something right. "Thank you, you are a good boy. You just forgot it...for...well years..."

KR: He's joking, right? A good boy?

But, this can't be it...who are you and what have you done with my father? You were so furious with me, few minutes ago...one minute you are ready to yell my head off and the next cuddle me to death...are you mad at me or happy...which it?!

KR: Probably both...

Well, it's stressful...never knowing if he's going to yell at me...or cuddle...

KR: I think his reaction depends most on you, to be honest...or rather your behavior...

Behavior...?


His father's expression suddenly turns to worry as he rubs and inspects his head. "You have bump...a lot of them...did you hit your head? I thought you wore your helmet...most of the time..."

KR: Yes...that's the reason we wore a helmet...not to get closer to the darkside or anything like that...far from it...

Rey stiffens up over his father's inspection and looks guilty as charged and turns quickly away from them, but Ben isn't angry with her from hitting him, but annoyed over his father's words.

Come on, I'm not a kindergartener! I've been through something far worse than bumps on my head. Like having TIE-fighters trying to blow me up...

KR: You could tell on Rey...get you out of trouble and her into trouble for hurting you...unlike Poe, your dad will take your side...and yell at her...and send her away...send her back home...

"Son...?" asks his father, as he still waiting for an explanation for his head injury, but Ben is too shocked over what Kylo Ren said, to answer him right away.

Why in the...! I'm never doing that! She's been through enough and I deserved it anyway...

KR: But she wants to go back home...her mission is finished...you're back with your family..or at least your father.

"Son...are you okay?" continues his father and now Rey looks worried, as if she's the reason he keeps zoning out like that, because she hit his head so hard.

Why do you want to get rid of Rey? She must be some kind of threat to you...!

KR: No, no...nothing like that. I'm only thinking of what's best for her...

"Is he okay?" asks Rey and tries not let her guilt show, even though she just lectured Ben about how wrong lying is, not minutes ago.

You liar...you don't care about her, you hate her! I'm not losing her...I'm not letting her return to that hellish waiting again for her family to show up when they are never going to...I still bear the scars after that torture...that might never even heal fully...even though I got my family back...at last...

KR: They will never heal, that's why I'm never leaving you...I'm the only one you can trust to stay...

I DON'T WANT YOU TO STAY!

"Ben...?" asks his father and shakes him lightly, as if that would help him return to them and it works.

"Yes...but I'm okay now..." replies Ben, even though it's lie, but it's a lie to help Rey, so it should be okay, at least she exhales relieved, that he didn't tell on her, as his father was mad enough with her biting him. How he would react to hearing about her beating him with her stick, Ben wasn't in any hurry or had any interest in ever finding out.

I can always blame Poe, if dad keeps pestering me about it...

KR: You're far from okay and never will be, unless you give me control again!

Please stop...torturing me!

His father is not buying his lie and he frowns in worry.

"You don't look so good to me. You need something to eat, drink and well, rest. Come, I will show you my new ship." He grabs his wrist, so Ben has no choice, but to follow him as he leads him out of the ship, followed soon by Rey who went into the Falcon to get something.


As soon as they get out of the Falcon, Ben is greeted with a dangerous and monstrous aura through the force, but when he lies his eyes on Rey, he sees something far more dangerous as she fixes her staff, she got back from the Falcon's cockpit, behind her back.

Ben covers his head unconsciously, with one hand, as his father still hasn't let go of his wrist and doesn't seem to have the slightest intention of doing that, and Rey looks first surprised over that gesture, but then guilty.

"It's my weapon," she says apologetic, as she didn't mean to frighten him by getting it back.

KR: She was only fixing it.

I know...but better be on the safe side...she might still be mad at me...

"What's wrong? A headache?" asks his father who thankfully didn't see any connection to Ben covering his head and Rey fixing her staff.

"Monsters...huge...and a lot of them...Can you feel them too, Rey?" says Ben hurriedly, while still grasping his head dramatically with one hand and Rey nods and looks on guard, around the huge ship, that swallowed the Falcon.

"They are in cages...don't worry...and don't you dare come near them." His father stops him from turning in their direction by pulling him back to him. "Stay close to me at all times...unless I tell you differently." He holds his wrist tightly and pulls him along with him.

Usually, Ben would be annoyed by being dragged along like that, but as he has enough trouble keeping a track of what's happening inside his mind, he doesn't mind getting some help to get from one place to the next.

At least he's not holding my hand like a toddler...

KR: He probably wants to put you in harness and tether him to himself so you can never wander into danger again...or leave him...

Never! I would die of shame!

KR: It would be funny to see...you would be his prisoner then...you kind of are his prisoner now...why is that any better than being a prisoner of the darkside? That's not humiliating, only cool...

For you...you mean...not for the galaxy...and what do you mean by I'm his prisoner? I'm not in a cell...I'm not wearing any cuffs...I'm surprisingly free considering everything I've done...he hasn't even grounded me yet...not that he's going to! That would be silly...

KR: There exists more prison than one... you will see...

"I thought you were going to show me the ship?" asks Ben, to ignore the ramblings of his dark self and Rey nods in agreement.

"Yes...but, not the monsters..." says his father sternly, as if Ben had intended to run straight to them and check them out.

Of course I won't get to see the fun part...

KR: Lame...


They walk through the spacious ship that reminds Ben, somewhat of a Star Destroyer.

KR: Except star destroyer are much bigger, much cleaner and much cooler...

Can't argue with that...

"Impressive ship," comments Ben to say something, after they haven't said anything for a long while and the only sounds is their footsteps, echoing loud in the great corridors.

His father gives him a strange look.

"What...did I say something wrong?" asks Ben and looks to Rey for help, as if he had forgotten how to socially normally, so small talk wasn't exactly his forte, but she looks as lost as he is, as she's not good at small talk either.

But, before Ben is certain he has gotten a failing grade in small talk, his father lets go of his wrist, just to sling one arm around his shoulder and with his other hand, rubs his knuckles on his head teasingly. "What is far more impressive, is getting you and the Falcon back at the same time, kid!" He beams broadly and Ben looks at him stunned and rubs his head after the intense rubbing.

Rey just smiles happily.

He put me first...?

KR: Well...duh...he's your father...of course he puts his...ugh...kid first.

If he cares so much about me...why didn't he get me while I was still a kid...?

KR. Because he's an idiot...just like you...

Well, then you're an idiot as well!

KR: Great comeback..not...

Come back...something is coming...I can feel it...


Ben grabs his head when he feel something approaching them through the force, something dangerous...

"Is your headache getting worse...? Oh, sorry. I forgot about your head..." his father looks shameful and pats his head, as if that would make the pain go away.

Rey's panic skyrockets until Ben shakes his head.

"I sense something coming..." says Ben and his father steps protectively in front of him before he can even finish the sentence.

"The First Order?" His father takes up his blaster, as if that alone would stop an army of troopers or the knights.

Rey takes up her staff with the same intention and a fierce glare, which Ben think is adorable, but, also thinks it a very wishful thinking that the staff can be used against any...real threat.

She needs a lightsaber, it such a waste, that she doesn't have one...

KR: Don't you dare give her ours!

"No...something else..." replies Ben and his father and Rey look relieved and put away their weapons.

"Whatever it is, I will deal with it," his father grins confidently, grabs his wrist again and drags him further into the ship, with Rey following quickly after them.


"Just you..how?" asks Ben in disbelieving voice, as he tries to keep up with his father's fast pace, but he is so tired that he really just wants to lie down somewhere.

I've a lightsaber...and the force!

His father shrugs. "I will talk my way out of it, like I do every time."

Oh, like he did...for instance with Jabba the hut...?

KR: If that story is even true...

"Are you trying to have bounty hunters on your tail again?" asks Ben annoyed.

KR: Maybe we are being hunted by bounty hunters...?

No, we are...most likely being hunted by the Knights.

KR: That's much worse!

"That was a long time ago," says his father carelessly, though knowing his father, that could just be the case.

"And get frozen again in carbonite?" asks Ben, to remind him of the consequences of not taking such a threat seriously and his father stiffens and stops as if that had just happened.

"Carbonite...?" asks Rey stunned, who stops too, and Ben nods, as his father has trouble answering that question.

KR: That's a low blow...and it was grandad who did it...and he was going to put Luke into one. That would've been so funny!

Funny...? We would not even exist if that had happened...and dad might still be in carbonite to this day...

KR: That's a bit creepy...even for my taste!


"That won't happen again..this is very simple, you won't do a thing except following my orders," says his father sternly and starts walking again, pulling Ben with him and Rey follows his lead.

Ben shrugs with the same carelessness as his father. "I can just take whatever is coming out with my lightsaber and the force."

KR: Personally, I would let Rey handle this instead...I don't trust you for our safety!

Well, no one asked you!

His father looks far from impressed. "You will do no such thing. I'm not putting you in harm's way...ever again, kid."

"I'm not a kid!" snarls Ben at him and his father frowns at him and says: "You are my kid." They have reached the cockpit after the long walk. "I will protect you and that's a final."

Ben grumbles.

"I will protect you too," says Rey, pat his arm and smiles confidently.

"Thank you Rey... thank you... dad," Ben says, though he feels humiliated that they don't seem to realize, or are willing to admit, that the might of his powers are more than enough to protect himself and everyone on board, despite both having seen or even experienced it, first hand.

I'm not some helpless child...

KR: No one can protect you, except me...

Shut up, Kylo. No one asked you to.

KR: I'm a volunteer...then..

Shut up...


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