AN: Thank you so much for your support! You guys rock! I simply had to dedicate another chapter to the awesome UnknownSeven7!

Thank you so much for your kind words! They really made me feel warm inside, especially when I have been crippled with self doubt. Truth is, I am an author and filmmaker (director and scriptwriter) in my homeland, but because of my mental illness (I got PTSD after some serious mental breakdowns), I haven't been able to pursue that career actively for some years. So writing and reading Star Wars fanfiction is my greatest therapy. No wonder I relate so to poor Kylo/Ben, who has a trauma (and PTSD) of his own! That poor boy was so terrified when Luke showed up on Crait! Still good that Luke did show up, since Ben was about to make some pretty big mistakes...

I really just want to see Ben be happy with Rey! And everything points to a happy ending (as a an author and scriptwriter I can see that, plus I have read tons of meta), but we have to wait for episode 9 for that epic conclusion (the recent script leaks on reddit, gimmie a break, are of course fake - some could be true like with TLJ, but I really call that a lucky guess, because most of it was far off like I knew...).

But, until we get to see the movie, we can read or/and write fanfiction! :)

Spoiler alert. this fic (or rather the sequel) will of course have the cheesiest, most glorious happy ending there is. ;) But first, lots of angst, fluff and silliness!

Some references to the EU/Legends, I have never read them, just read about them so there might be some mistakes...and there will be spoilers from them...

Enough blabbering and on with the story! This silly chapter got so long I had to divide it, so the next chapter shouldn't be too far behind. More Kylo tormenting Ben...and the other way around...that's only fair...

Happy Star Wars day! May the fourth be with you!


Chapter twenty eight - Dreams of another life

Little Ben was pacing outside his uncle's office, when the first light of the morning sunlight flooded through the window after the constant downpour of the night.


Is this really another day? How many days are you going to show me?

KR: As many as it takes.


The short bit of silence and peace was over, the minute the other padawans streamed out of their rooms, laughing and some bumped into him as they ran for the dining hall. Ben didn't move an inch, no matter how they tried to shove him away. However, one in particular, one of the little knights of Ren, couldn't leave him alone. It was the one called Ren Ren Ren, a mysterious padawan that always wore dark clothes and a strange mask with a voice changer, so no one knew how they really looked like or even their gender...or even it was their real name. They knight's name was simply Ren Ren and all the other little knights dressed the same, but wore different masks.

"What are you doing here, loser?" Ren Ren force pushed him against the wall, as the other five knights surrounded them. "Always Solo? You will die a virgin."


Will not!

KR: I'm not a virgin...you are...

Oh, right...that's so...

KR: Pretty sure bloodthirty violent murderer Ren Ren is a virgin...

And you think the virgin part is the worst of that insult...?

KR: What insult...?


The other knights laughed loudly at the poor joke, even though their children mind probably didn't even understand what Ren Ren was really saying.

Ben didn't answer or fight back. He didn't have time for that now. He focused on the light streaming from the window, like it was his lifeline.

"Did you sleep out here...? That's good you snore so loudly and..." taunted Ren Ren.

"And he smells!" added another one of the little knights.

"HEY! Did I ask you to butt in?" snapped Ren Ren.

"No...sorry...master Ren Ren..." answered the knights all as one.

"You better sleep outside, because I will not tolerate you screaming like a girl when you have nightmares...or when I torture you..." Ren Ren turned on its saber and held it closely to Ben's throat.

Ben still didn't answer and tried to block out Ren Ren's taunts and the lightsaber humming, by closing his eyes and praying to the force.

"Are you deaf?!" Ren Ren pushed him hard against the wall, just as the door to Luke's office flew open.

"Hey! Leave my son alone. Go to class, now! Or each of you will get a month in detention," threatened Luke and the little knights screamed in terror and scattered away instantly.

"Teacher's pet!" yelled Ren Ren, right before they disappeared around the corner.


KR: Stupid Ren Ren...brave like a mouse...afraid of detention of all things! Teacher's pet, how dare?! And I had a way cooler mask!

Hello...how many days are you going to show me...?

Just one...I just remembered what I wanted to show you really happened another night. But, first you had to see the part where Luke nearly killed you, so you would understand the context...

What for? It's my brain.

KR: I know...but you need a little help sometimes...or well great help...you are that stupid...

HEY! I really...really don't see any point in hanging around here anymore! We can't even do anything but watch...without my Rey...

KR: You think it's frustrating for you? I'm have been looking all over for this guy and he's right here...and I can't even touch him! Just a kriffing illusion! Stupid Jedi!

When you put it like that...

KR: I don't even have my lightsaber to try to poke him with! Or impale...or slice or...

I get it...you hate him...

KR: When I have killed him, I will have killed the last Jedi!

And then what? What do you plan on doing after you have done that...?

KR: Oh, I will figure something out...like ruling the galaxy!

I thought Snoke was the one in charge...

KR: For now.

What?

KR: Nothing...


"Ben...are you alright...did you sleep out here in the hallway?" fussed his uncle over him, as he took in his disheveled clothes and the dark circles under his eyes. "But I...I thought you were afraid of thunder...oh, no I forgot to mute your window. Did you sleep at all?" His uncle shook his head tiredly. "What should I do with you?"

"Yes, I can," said Ben darkly, like he was answering a different question, when the truth was that he done his best to fall asleep by muffling the sound by his pillow, but the thunder only seemed to get stronger by the second until Ben had enough and went to stand in front of his uncle's office, to guilt trip him for leaving him alone and not allowing him to go home like he so desperatly wanted.

"What?" Luke stepped away from him, as he studied him carefully.

"I can get a girlfriend, you don't control what I do." Ben looked at him stubbornly. "I don't plan to stay here forever."

His uncle sighed and went to get on with his day. "Of course not..."

"So I can get married when I leave here?" Ben followed after him.


KR: Married? Someone is in a rush...you don't even have a girlfriend...

You mean I don't have Rey...and that's just something all kids say...

KR. Jedi kids too? What about the code?

I must admit that's a bit unorthodox...not that I did ever follow that stupid code...

KR: That was wise of you...

The knights also hated the code...

KR: Thus we became "friends" or rather frenemies...

Whatever you say...


"Married?" Luke scoffed. "Maybe...but while here you only do the things I tell you, because I am your master..."

"Only master of evil..." muttered Ben under his breath.

His uncle turned to him with wide eyes. "Excuse me?"

"I said nothing." Ben avoided meeting Luke's furious eyes, by looking at the wall at his side.
"Master of evil...you say? I will show you master of evil." His uncle grabbed his ear and dragged him inside his office.

"No, no, I take it back!" pleaded Ben as he struggled against his hold.


Okay, he did punish me.

KR: Prick.

Cue, this stupid memory ending!

KR: Nope...just a another time skip...

Timeskip...that's better than nothing I guess...

KR: And...maybe a montage...

What...is this a film? Are you editing my memories...?!

KR: Don't worry, I won't censor anything.

Of course you won't...


Little Ben pouted as he scrubbed and cleaned thoroughly the painted robes in a big washbasin. His uncle watched his every move sternly through the window and would use the force to make Ben go back to work again, each time he dared to take a nap in the soft, warm grass.

Usually Ben would relish in being outside, especially in a sunny weather like this, instead of inside the stuffy classroom and being forced to listen to his uncle's dogmatic lectures, but today, he would have done anything to switch places with the other padawans. Mainly because he was so deadly tired. He pictured the stupid knights slaving in his stead and that made him feel somewhat better.

He wiped sweat of his brow, it was unbelievably hot all of a sudden or maybe his body temperature was rising due to his night adventures and the fact that he hadn't slept a wink thanks to the thunder. Ben was so exhausted that he wanted nothing more than to dip into the cool water. The sunlight sparkled on the water and suddenly he felt like he saw the face of the girl of his dreams, smiling at him from the surface. It was like the water held a whole new world and she was beckoning him to join her, at the other side...her side.

The water was so hypnotizing, it danced before his eyes, as he touched her reflection tenderly and then there was nothing but darkness...

He had barely registered that he had fallen in the freezing water, when he heard screaming and suddenly he was flying several meters into the air. He threw up the soapy water and coughed and coughed till lung hurts. The water burned his throat and tasted terribly. Ben looked through watery eyes to see his uncle run towards him.

"Really, Ben. Only you could drown while doing the laundry."

Luke caught him and took him inside, just as he passed out in his arms.


I nearly drowned! What was Rey doing down there...?

KR: And your uncle saved you...so from my point of view...you owe him a life debt...

Really? And Rey...?

KR: No. He tried too many times to kill you, so I would say that negated the life debt...

That's not how it works...but you have a point...what about Rey...?

KR: Of course I do...stupid, you were just imagining there being someone there...there wasn't anyone...and not necessarily...not Rey...

Oh...and now there is...?

KR: Another timeskip...

What about the montage?

KR: I'm still working on that...maybe I don't need one...

Good to see you have your priorities straight..

KR: Oh, like you are one to talk!


"Noooo, come back! Dada, come back!" Ben woke up startled and disoriented after the dream, until he saw he lay on his uncle's sofa under the softest and the warmest blanket. The sun shone through the window on the top of his uncle's head, where he was working at his desk.

"Oh, you are awake." His uncle smiled at him, despite his desperate screaming like he was far too used to them.

Ben tossed off the blanket, sat up and stared like a madman into his uncle's eyes. "Where is he?!" Like he was expecting his uncle to hide his dada under his desk.

"Who...?" asked his uncle without looking up from his work and added. "Are you feeling better?"

"Where is dad?" asked Ben firmly and crossed his arms with a fearsome scowl, without acknowledging the other question.

"He isn't here..." replied Luke, as he picked up the blanket from the floor and tugged him in. "Try to get some more sleep." He patted his head and was about to return back to work when Ben gripped his arm.

"I know that! I mean when will he come back?" He was going to throw the blanket dramatically off again, but his uncle stopped him by putting a comforting hand on top of his hand.

"I don't know," he replied honestly. "And he never came here...so..."

"Where is the girl?!" asked Ben, before they could go back into the argument whether or not it was a dream.

"What girl?" asked uncle surprised over the sudden change of subjects.

"The chosen one!" shouted Ben like he was explaining something important to the most dense person in the galaxy. "I saw her! She was right there!" He pointed into the distance at the light shining inside.


KR: You know there is no way that can be Rey.

And why not!

KR: She wasn't even born yet, how can you dream about someone who didn't even exist back then...?

Erm...have you never hear of prophecies? Grandpa Ani had lot of those...and I thought you were Vader fanboy number one...

KR: Of course I know that! What I mean is...it's possible...that you made her...

What?


"Calm down. It was just a dream..." Luke picked up Ben's book and his calligraphy set from his duffle bag. "You really should get working on your essay...to take your mind of your dad and her..."


What do you mean made her?

KR: Like gave her a name and such...

Are you trying to tell me...that I created Rey...? Named her...?

KR: I never said it was Rey...it could just be some girl...

And what happened to that...girl?

KR: How should I know...or maybe that girl never existed in the first place...or maybe we were that girl...the dream was just about us...symbolic...

I'm getting a headache!

KR: Good!


"What essay?" Now it was Ben's turn to be surprised. He stared between his book and his uncle.

"You know, what I'm talking about. Your punishment essay. I want you to work on it now." Luke handed him the calligraphy set.

"But...I too tired in my arms," whined Ben, since he had been scrubbing robes all morning and nearly drowned because of it.

His uncle huffed and took his seat behind the desk. "Fine, then let's talk about your...adventures last night." He steepled his fingers with a grin.

Ben gulped when his uncle trapped him like that. "Wait, before you do that...can I call dad..?"

"Are you going to tell him how naughty you have been?" asked his uncle, knowing well the answer to that question.

"No... I just want to talk to him," muttered Ben. "Please..."

"About what? He can't bring you home until you have gotten ridden of the darkness...and he is far too busy to go and pick up some random girl for you." His uncle shook his head and went to work.

"She's not random!" cried Ben insulted. "She is the most awesome person in the whole world!"

"Whatever you say...you are grounded," stated Luke and Ben knew better than to ask for what, so he asked instead. "For how long?"

"Life."


KR: Prick.

Prick.


"So I can never talk to my parents...?" asked Ben appalled, like Luke had declared life prison sentence.
"Not unsupervised."

"Not even mom...?" pleaded Ben.

"Well...of course...I can trust her, so..." Luke's glanced around wildly like he was expecting Leia to show up and yell at him for even entertaining that idea.
"Trust...? To do what?" asked Ben and looked for his mom as well.

"You can talk to her whenever you like..." Luke opened his desk drawer to get the com-link, but snapped it shut."Oh, no scratch that...I will talk to her first. Explain something...important." He gulped at he tried in vain to find a good enough explanation for why he nearly killed Ben. "But, Beex did it as well...maybe she will understand..." pondered Luke.

"When are you going to call her?" asked Ben and interrupted his musings.

"Right before your bedtime." His uncle looked out the window behind him. "Which will be soon." He turned back to Ben with a smile.

Ben frowned at him, because the sun was still high in the sky, which meant that he would be getting a way too early bedtime on top of a lifetime grounding. "Why not, now?"

"She's busy...and I'm busy," said his uncle as kept working.
"With what?"

"Watching you," said his uncle as he looked sharply up from his work and glared at him.

Ben gulped under the accusing stare. "You don't need to watch me...I will behave, I promise." He gave him the most innocent smile and opened up his book, to pretend to work on his essay.

Luke scoffed. "I will believe that when I see it."

"Don't you have some kind of a mind-link? Like you have with me...can't you just contact her that way?" pointed Ben out, as he used his pencils to write in the notebook.

"I only use that in emergencies," His uncle nodded, happy that Ben was working on his essay at last.

"Can you call dad?" asked Ben innocently without missing a beat in writing.

"The same rules apply to him. I'm still busy with you...and I don't have his number remember, just your mother's. He never came here, remember...and gave it to me..." he muttered.

"Oh...I guess him coming here was just a dream, then..." muttered Ben dejectedly, as he dipped the pencil into an ink and on the paper again.

"It was."

"But what about the toy Falcon...no he took it back...but the lollipop...I lost it...I have no proof...anything happened. It must have been a dream." With one mighty swipe, he hit the ink bottle and it spilled all over the paper. "Oh no." He bit his lip hard and looked to be about to cry.


KR: Did you even go and look for the lollipop in the grass...?

No...it was raining and it could've been an old one...

KR: True the Knights were always munching on one, like that was cool and littering...such vandalism...

I still can't believe it was all just a stupid dream! Too many things don't add up! It felt too real! You are lying to me!

KR: You don't add up! And I didn't say anything, it was Luke! Blame him not me...and your brain, but not me for making you think something was real that was obviously false...but really this isn't even all of the truth...

It isn't...?

KR: No, there is something more, as you said. Something that will explain everything...

Can't we just go back? Please, I have seen enough!

KR: You can't return...yet...

Figures...it better be a information about Rey's origin, so I can bring her some news...

KR: You really just care about her...?

Kind of...I wonder if she is the dreamgirl I speak of...she better be...

KR: You are beyond pathetic...what if she is just that...a dream?

Then she is a wonderful dream!

KR: You are hopeless...what if she is Vader...?

That's...how could that even be...?!


Luke removed the ink soaked book before Ben could burst into tears. "My dear padawan...I am too tired to understand anything you are saying...when was this? Dream?" He ripped the page out. "Maybe you should just use a pencil..." He handed him the notebook back and a pencil. "That's far safer."


KR: I could stab you with it!

Did we...?

KR: No.

What a shame...

KR: But, he did get stabbed...

Huh...what...how...?


"It doesn't matter, it was all a dream anyway...right?" wonders Ben sadly and exhaled dramatically.

"Yes, but...maybe the dream was trying to tell you something...since you lost those things. To represent something you hold dear...? It could help with your training...and give you inspiration for your essay." Luke pointed at the book. "You can go back to work."

"What do you dream about?" asked Ben without starting again on his paper.
"Me...it depends...a family," said Luke in a dream-like voice.


But he has a family...

KR: Not of his own...

What are we then...next door neighbors?

KR: You know what I mean...


"A family? But, you have a family. You have me, mom, dad, Lando, Threepio, Chewie, Artoo, right...? You even call me...son. Even though I'm just your nephew," said Ben.

Luke seemed to stare into the distance. "I know that and you are not just my nephew...but, I dream about a different family. Some are the same yes...but you don't exist there..." He said the last part in a mystified voice, which made Ben grow colder than when he fell into the wash basin.

"I don't...is that good...for you? Would you want that?" Ben's teeth shivered and his eyes looked for way out, as if his uncle has plans to make that into reality.

Luke, who saw his fearful expression, sat down next to him and wrapped his arms around him. "Of course not, silly, even though you drive me crazy sometimes...or well you do exist there...you are just different...two people. Light and dark. Ben Skywalker and Jacen Solo."


I am two different people.

KR: I am only awesome me...and Vader.

That makes no sense...I thought Rey was Vader...logic error...

KR: It means you don't exist...

Oh come on!

KR: Just listen to Luke...

So silly...


"Ben...Skywalker. He's your son...in this dream?" asked Ben, as he tried to make sense of what his uncle was saying, like it was a new study material instead of just a dream world.

"Yes...and the best kid ever." Luke smiled, but with hint of sorrow, like he lost something dear to him.

"Oh, then nothing like me," said Ben sadly.
"I didn't say that." His uncle cupped his chin and he stared deeply into his eyes. "I will always love you, kid."

"Light and dark...you mean like me and Kylo?" asked Ben in his best student voice and to force his uncle to go back to being a teacher, instead of being so kriffing mushy.


KR: What are we best friends forever?

Never.

KR: Exactly.


"No, hang on..." Luke looked deep in thought and then he rambled on: "I think it would be better to say you are like Jacen and Darth Caedus, as they were one and the same, while Ben and Jacen are two separate people...from two separate families...but I also like to think about you as my son, Ben Skywalker...and maybe even, Jacen's twin sister, Jaina and his little brother Anakin Solo...no that's too far fetched, they might exist elsewhere...as someone else..." he finished, as he tried to make sense of his dream world as well.


KR: Rey is probably like Jaina in his world...

She's not my sister! She's my dream girl! I think...I mean that I literally dreamt about her...she is my dream girl...I'm sure of it! And she is not Vader!

KR: Are you sure Rey is the girl of your dreams...?

YES!

KR: Then you might be in a shock for lifetime...

Shut up...she is not Vader.

KR: I didn't mean it like that...she could be someone else entirely...

Who?


"What?" Ben looked lost after his uncle's ramblings.

"Don't worry about it...I'm just rambling, it was just a dream and some of it was even a nightmare...that's is never going to repeat itself." His uncle frowned at him sternly.

"Oh...okay..."

"So don't turn to the darkside like Jacen, he killed my wife when he turned dark."

"You don't have a wife..."
"That's beside the point! Don't turn ever. It's dangerous...for you and us..." He shook a finger at him. "EVER!"

"Okay...what happened to this Jacen...?"

"He was killed by his twin sister, Jaina," said Luke grimly. "So don't turn to the darkside, ever."


KR: The joke's on you Luke. We did turn! Mwhahaha!

And Rey's not going to kill me...not literally anyway...

KR: I thought she wasn't your sister...

She's not...she's my dream...not Vader...don't know...I'm so confused! Why is uncle rambling about some dreamworld? Why does it matter? It didn't happen...or well not like that...I did betray him...eventually...

KR: It clearly matters to him...


"Oh...okay...weird...killed by his family...that's kind of sad..."

"Right? And you nearly experienced that...like me," said Luke in a hollow voice. "So horrible."

"Wha..." Ben looked around. "What family member has tried to kill you...mom?" he whispered conspiratorially.

"No! It doesn't matter. That's why I don't want you to kill your enemy in your essay. It's way too sad...and your made up rival is family. You don't kill family. I don't kill family..." Luke whispered like it was some holy rite, or something had to remember.

"Not even if they turn against...or betray you...?" asked Ben innocently and his uncle hugged him tightly. "What kind of question is that, no! What happened tonight was an accident! An accident!"

"Just curious, so you wouldn't try to kill me if I turned dark?"

His uncle jumped off the sofa and paced in front of him with a thunderous expression.


Oh, o...

KR: Pfff...


"You will never turn dark! What do you think I'm trying to do here? What do you think your training is for? Why do you think I'm much harder on you than my other students?"

Ben jumped down as well. "That didn't answer my question. Don't answer my question, with more questions, that's just rude." He crossed his arm with a frown and his uncle lifted him back onto the sofa.

"I'm sorry. No, of course I wouldn't do that. I love you. I will never hurt you. Your family will never hurt you."


KR: That's bullshit.

True...


"Ow." Luke grimaced as the pencil stabbed him in hand, where it was hidden under the blanket, as he put it over Ben. "And you will never hurt family," his uncle said sternly as he removed the pointy object and put it into Ben's hand. "This is only to write with."

"Of course," replied Ben solemnly.

"Of course, what?"

"I will never hurt family."


KR: Ahahaha...see I told you he would get stabbed by that pencil!

Wow...that was anticlimatic...

KR: You're anticlimatic!


"Good." His uncle ruffled his hair and took his seat behind his desk, as he got back in teacher mode:"Let's go back to your essay. The girl that you will fight...only in fiction, is your family."

"How is she family?" asked Ben as he drew up a family tree.

"Up to you. She is fiction anyway."

"So she is family...my dream girl..." said Ben in a daze as he stared out the window.

"You are going to use your dream girl after all? I told you she was family...you don't even have a name for her!" yelled his uncle like that was the biggest problem.

"She will be family and I do have a name for her!" shot Ben back.

"Oh, yeah, then what is it...?" challenged Luke.

"Erm...the girl...that's her name..." muttered Ben as wrote the words, the girl next to himself on the family tree.

"That is not a name."

Ben erased the word the girl and wrote another. "Scavenger...?"

His uncle frowned at him. "That's very rude."

Ben looked up from the book with a scowl. "Why? That's what she does for a living...or will do for a living...unless I go and pick her up and give her a different life. She could learn to be a Jedi." Ben sighed contently and added Jedi to the word Scavenger girl. And the thought better of it and added future wife before Jedi.

"Yes, but don't call her scavenger. It would be like you had no name and would just be called Jedi Padawan...or naughty nephew..." said Luke, who had no idea about what Ben was really writing in his book, or he would be most displeased by the breaking of the Jedi code and see how the word naughty fitted him extremely well at the moment.

"Oh...she would be Jedi Padawan as well." said Ben as he started drawing a picture of her over her supposed title.

"Still not a name. Do you want me to help you find a name for her...?" offered Luke.

"NO! She is mine." Ben held the book close to his heart.

"Just...asking..." muttered Luke, a bit taken back by his possessiveness. "And you don't own her..."

"The chosen one...?" said Ben and added those words to his dream girl already long title.

"A bit better...but that is still not a name..." pointed his uncle out.

Ben looked up from his book and pursed his lips."Do I have to name her?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"It makes it more personal. Like how I found out Vader's real name..." Luke stiffened.

"Oh...? What was that...? I didn't know he had another name aside from Darth Vader."


KR: He didn't. Luke is just bullshitting like always.

His real name was Anakin.

KR: NO! He killed Anakin!

But, doesn't that mean that Anakin killed Vader by coming back?

KR: Yes, just so he would die again...what a loser!

Don't you dare call my grandfather a loser!

KR: My grandfather is greater than yours!

It's the same guy!

KR: IS NOT!


"Erm...and he called me Luke. It really changed the dynamic in your relationship...so it's very important you know what your...future enemy name is. Even, if it's just for this essay," said Luke hurriedly, but he was in luck since Ben had no interest in Vader at the moment as he was too busy thinking about and drawing his dream girl.


KR: Blasphemy! There is always time to think about Vader!

No, Rey! This is about Rey...right?

KR: You think about her twenty-four seven!

Erm...I don't think I have even known her that long...

KR: And you don't see the problem...with that...

You never even knew Vader!

KR: I'm not going to answer that!


"Ben, have you found a name for your future enemy?" asked his uncle.

"Enemy? My dream girl is not my enemy," snapped Ben at him, as he drew a line between his name and his dream girl, to indicate that they were married in the family tree.

"Your enemy doesn't have to be your dream girl, she could be someone else...like one of the knights here...like Ren Ren...though I don't know what gender..." said Luke, like that was some kind of a problem until it clicked. "Of course your enemy doesn't have to be a girl..."

"No, I only want her even as...some kind of an enemy..." Ben drew a line from his dream girl and him, to mark their future twins, Kylo and Padmé.


KR: You have thought about the name of your future children...but not her own name...?

I must admit that's...very...unorthodox...

KR: I call that creepy...

Yeah...it is...but I was just a stupid kid...

KR: Still is stupid...and a kid...but thanks for naming your kid after me.

That's not going to happen!

KR: It was worth a try...


"Okay, fine mister stubborn. For the sake of the argument, let say your dream girl is your enemy...at least at first. Like enemy to...friends...?"

"Lovers," corrected Ben.

"Fine, what is her name? Just make something up," pleaded Luke, like Ben couldn't begin his essay until he had sorted that out.

Ben stopped drawing and looked deep in thought, like it was the hardest thing he had ever had to come up with.


The name of the dream girl slash might have been, but will never be my enemy, will never be revealed and that's why I didn't know who the girl was, until I met Rey...or maybe it was some other girl...no definitely Rey...it can't have been another scavenger and she is definitely the chosen one. But, I never knew her real name and thus I always just called her...the girl...even though I had already named our children...!

KR: Or you called her Vader...grandfather...

I certainly never called her that! I most likely never found a name for her...or maybe some placeholder name but at least not...


"Rey," breathed Ben out at last.

"Ray...?" said Luke surprised.

Ben nodded and pointed at the sunlight that was streaming through the window. "Yes, like a ray of light, except it is written with an e and not an a." He smiled happily.


Sith no! How could I forget her! I even named her! Wait...named her...? Is she a pet?!

KR: You didn't just name her! I told you, you are her creator! You created her for your stupid essay! You can say to her: "Rey, I'm your father...no creator! Or maker!" Just like how you created me! That's way worse than her just being your sister! I told you the truth was shocking! She is Vader! Reborn!

I have no idea how you jumped to that ludicrous conclusion...

KR: Haha, just messing with ya...but still weird that you knew her name...very suspicious...kind of like you really made her just for your stupid story...like a manic pixie dream girl...or a Mary sue...

Rey's not a Mary sue! This is just a coincidence...nothing but a pure coincidence...you are just messing with me! I only got her name...by a chance...somehow...in a dream? Way before she was...born...?

KR: Maybe...

I DID NOT CREATE HER!

KR: Are you sure she even exist...?

I dreamt about her...right...right? She told me her name in the dream?! Even before she was born...I didn't make her! I'm not her maker!

KR: But, if you were...would you stop loving her...?

Of course not!

KR: Then what is the problem?

She will hate me if she ever finds out that I'm the one responsible for all her misery!

KR: Won't she anyway?

Why?

KR: You are a very hateable guy.

Thanks...not! I could say the same thing about you!

KR: Hey, that hurt!


"Rey? That is a really cute name...but why is she light side, I told you you are not turning dark!" scolded Luke, but it fell on Ben's deaf ears who hummed and doodled hearts around the now added name Rey.

"But I already have a darkside name, Kylo Ren, and it's way too much of hassle to come up with a darkside for her...unless..." He glanced up and nodded. "Vader...yeah, I can call her that...Darth Vader Rey." Ben went back to his drawing, like he hadn't said anything earth shattering, so he missed it when his uncle got white in face and looked like he was sick.

"WHAAAT?!" shouted Luke and fell back in his seat, like Vader has just risen from back from the dead and was waving at him with a smile.


KR: What?!

What...? How dare I call Rey...Vader...?

KR: Yeah. She's below him...

She's way above him!

KR: Or is him...?

WHAT?

KR: Nothing...

Not this again!


Next up: Dreams of another different life...