Her training was going just great, even Luke had told her she was surprisingly skilled in the physical part
"Back in Jakku I had to take care of myself" she had explained him
When she first arrived he hadn't said much to her, right after she had explained him all that had happened with the map and Starkiller base including Han Solo's death, he had looked the other way so she continued and told him that General Organa had sent her to take him back as soon as possible but he only said that he had been expecting her, Rey guessed it had something to do with the force so she thought it wasn't a good time to ask questions. Luke had told her that her presence in the force was really strong so she blurted out that she wanted to be trained
"I'm not a teacher, at least not anymore" he had said
"I learn fast!" She had argued and before he walked away she almost whispered desperately "please"
He scanned her with his blue eyes what appeared to be a decade and finally agreed, since then, they hadn't had an actual conversation that didn't involve the classes, until now.
They sat down in his small house which was more like a cave really, it had a small improvised kitchen, a table with stones that were used as chairs and a bed which had been made with the seat of an x-wing, she had to admit that in a way it felt kind of cozy.
"What did you do exactly?" He asked her
"Well because I couldn't do much honestly, I used to go inside the destroyed ships from battles to try finding useful pieces and then sell them to Unkar Plutt in exchange for rations. I even managed to save some money and build myself a speeder, it was junk but pretty fast"
"Who's Unkar Plutt?" Luke asked her suddenly interested
"An alien" she explained "he had this huge collection of engines he would sell to anyone that he could. He wasn't exactly a nice fellow, but he was one of the few people that you could do business with, not many people live and stay in Jakku"
He nodded and offered her some sort of tea, she accepted and he moved to the kitchen to begin making it "Tatooine wasn't that different, my uncle and aunt had some sort of farm, ever since I was a child I knew I didn't belong there but they loved it, after all it was the planet they had been born in"
She stared at the table, Luke was actually telling her something personal, she didn't want to look too eager to hear his biography, which she was.
He returned and gave her the mug, she reached for it and took a zip, a flavor of plants filled her mouth, it wasn't that bad but it could have been better
"You didn't like it" her Master pointed out
She blushed with embarrassment but he smiled and told her "Don't worry, I myself hate it, but I guess I have gotten used to it"
"How long have you been here?" Rey asked
His gaze darkened "Quite a while"
She didn't push the subject and tried a different thing "Chewbacca told me you are a really good pilot"
He smiled "I was, there's a chance I still am but I need to practice, what about you?"
She smiled "I don't like to brag but I'm pretty good. When my friend Finn and I scaped from Jakku I had to fly the Millennium Falcon while he dealed with the shooting"
He arched his eyebrows impressed "By yourself?"
She nodded and took another zip of the tea.
He looked down at his mug with a smile, he was probably remembering something "Han loved that ship, he never let me fly it and I couldn't bribe Chewie into letting me try without Han's permission, he's too loyal"
Both their smiles became melancholic, Rey had known Han Solo for a very short time, much more shorter than she had wanted it to last but he had meant so much to her.
He suddenly stood up "Do you think I could go to the Falcon and look for something?"
"Of course" she answered right away, Luke hadn't wanted to go near the Millennium Falcon and only waved to Chewie from a long distance, she slept in the ship so she had asked the wookie the possible reason but Chewbacca had said that Luke probably felt guilty for what had happened to Han obviously Chewie told her he would never blame him.
Luke suddenly stopped, likely because he remembered his reason to stay away from the Falcon but Rey knew that it was now or never so she practically pushed him out of the house "We should hurry!" She started saying
The Jedi and his padawan began walking down the stairs
"Did you build the stairs?" she asked trying to distract him
"Some of them" he answered coldly
She decided it wasn't wise to test his good disposition so she stayed quiet
The Falcon was now visible, and it looked like Chewie was fixing it or at least trying to do so.
Luke stopped walking as if he wanted to turn around and return to his cave but after several attempts to make him go down she wasn't going to give up, not when they were so close
"Chewbacca!" She shouted high enough to get his attention
The wookie looked over at them and shouted a greeting.
Luke waved slowly and before he could do something about it Rey took his arm and pulled him to the ship.
Now that he was face to face with Chewbacca he realized he should have come down way before, his old friend did nothing more than hug him and tell him he had been missed, the Jedi should have known that Chewie would have never blamed him, maybe it was the memory of his past he was truly scared to confront.
Rey stared at them grinning, she was so proud of her success "so what are we going to look for?"
The Jedi turned to her "There's a chance that my old training device is still in the Falcon, I never took it out"
Chewie mentioned there were a few things that he hadn't been through around the hangar and that they should try there.
Luke waited for her to enter first, after all he hadn't seen the inside of the ship in a while, when he was finally in a wave of memories flew around him. He saw Rey staring at him, she quickly looked away
"So, what does the device look like?"
Luke walked to the hangar and saw several bags, he lifted one up to start searching "It's a small metallic ball"
She frowned and sat on the floor to be able to search easily.
Almost immediately R2D2 rolled from one door and beeped excitedly at Luke, the Jedi dropped the bag and walked to his old friend "R2!" he called grinning
The droid beeped an answer and he laughed "Yes, it has been a while my friend"
Rey, half searched half stared at the scene in front of her, finally she gave up on the bags and looked around the room, suddenly she saw an object that looked like the device Luke was searching, it was right below the seat, she reached for it and stood up "Is this what you were looking for?"
He smiled "Yes, thank you" and took it
She saw him pressing some buttons and then the object began to fly
"Take the lightsaber out" he told her
She obeyed and as soon as she activated it, the sphere shot a laser at her, without thinking twice Rey hit the laser with her weapon.
"It's for practice, they aren't actually lasers" Luke told her
She nodded and continued to hit the lasers not even missing one
"Hold it for a minute" Luke told her before he moved to another room just to return a few minutes later with what appeared to be a helmet. "Put this on your head" he instructed
"But I won't be able to see" Rey added
"That's the point"
She shrugged and put it on, yep, she couldn't see a thing.
"I want you to do the same thing now"
She was going to protest but he interrupted "Remember the force Rey, feel it around you, let it guide you, let the force be your eyes"
So she followed his instructions, she managed to hit 25 out of 30 lasers.
The padawan took her helmet off excitedly, training was going great! She started to feel confident, she might be able to defeat Kylo Ren after all.
