"I don't know why you saved her"
"It was the right thing to do. I saw her before on Star Killer base, I don't think she was apart of anything."
"She is part of the First Order! She is-"
I let out a groan. Everything hurts. Where am I? What happened? I try to open my eyes and the first thing I see is a very bright light, I immediately shut them. I'm dead aren't I? Wait, no I can't be. There wouldn't be this much pain in death, right?
"Hey there, you wanna try opening your eyes?" I heard a voice gently ask. It's male.
I try again, slowly at first then I give time for my eyes to adjust. I'm in a dark brown room with a bright light hanging from the ceiling.
I turn to the side to see where the voices were coming from.
There are two men watching me. One is kneeling towards my bed with dark hair and olive skin. The other, a man with dark skin and hair, is in a hover chair.
"Hey you took a pretty nasty fall there. You have a concussion, a few broken ribs, and some burns. Do you remember what happened?" The man kneeling next to me says.
"I-" I stop, my voice is horse. I clear my throat. "I was flying here"
"From Star Killer Base" the man in the hover chair interjects.
I nod in confirmation.
"Why did you follow us?" The man in the hover chair interjects again. I get the feeling he really doesn't like the fact that they saved me.
"I-" This is going to be hard to explain to them my story. How or why I got here. I don't know if I can trust them yet, if they will let me live. I don't know how much I should tell them. They probably know my story, but I know they don't know all of it. "I'm here to join the Resistance"
The man in the hover chair lets out a sarcastic laugh "Do you think we honestly believe you? We know exactly who you are."
"And who is she?" a woman says as she walks into the room.
One look at her and I know exactly who she is. I am in the presence of General Leia Organa. It wasn't her trademark imposing presence that gave her away, it is her eyes. They are exactly like….like his.
This is his mother
"Her name is Braelynn Sera. She is the wife of General Hux" The man in the hover chair informs the General Organa.
The General just stares at me, and then I feel it. The familiar brush of the force in my mind.
She is like him, She is force-sensitive.
She just stares at me, the brush of the force growing stronger. I'm not one of the weak minded, she can't read me easily. I have also been trained to resist any attempt at mind readying from a force-sensitive. She realizes this slowly, when she knows she isn't getting any sort of information. She isn't trained, she doesn't really know how to do it, I conclude.
"Would you like to inform us on why you followed our fleet?" She finally asks.
I sit up slowly, my head and body still pounding.
"I couldn't be part of the First Order anymore. The moment I saw what that weapon did to those planets; I knew I had to get out of there. When the planet started to collapse I saw my opportunity and took it" I answer truthful.
"You expect us to believe that? You've grown up with the First Order, you have been Hux's wife for the past five years. You've seen first hand what they have done to the galaxy, the millions they have slaughtered. You never seemed to have a problem with it. The-"
The man with the dark hair cuts the man in the hover chair off.
"Finn, you did the same. You grew up in the First Order and you left it."
"You were in the First Order?" I asked the man- Finn. I don't recognize him.
"I was a storm trooper. I served under Captain Phasma. You probably wouldn't know me."
"You where those helmets all the time. I only knew a handful of troopers that were assigned to protect me"
"Well I remember you, always trailing after your husband or Kylo Ren"
The General's face falls at the mention of her son's name.
She knows who is he, what he has become.
"What's your number?" I ask
"I have a name now, not like the First Order cared to give me one"
"I'm sorry Finn, isn't it?" I apologize. I need to show them I'm not a threat.
"FN-2168" He replies.
Then it dawns on me. FN-2168, the one that helped the Rebel escape.
I turn to the dark haired man still kneeling by my bed. Now I recognize the men "You are the rebel who escaped" I turn to Finn "and you are the storm trooper who helped him escape"
"That's us, the dynamic duo" The main with the dark hair smiles "The name is Po by the way"
"Nice to meet you Po" I try to smile back, I am in still so much pain.
"Ok enough with the pleasantries" The General has seemed to recover from the mention of her son's name. "How can we trust you? You are obviously very high ranked in the First Order, and the wife of the top General. You could be here to get information to give back your husband, to infiltrate the Resistance, to wipe us out"
"Believe me- I want no part of the First Order. I can't sit by and watch this suffering continue through the galaxy. I want to help you all, I want to put an end to them. I have information on the First Order, I have money, I can help you."
"How do we know you won't contact your husband?" Finn asks.
"Believe me my husband wants nothing to do with me. He probably thinks I am dead anyways. He's the one who did the damage to my head" Everyone's eyes go wide at the mention of that.
"Why did he attack you like that?" The General asks in a slightly softer tone.
"Because I refused to follow him, because I didn't want any part in the First Order anymore" They can't know the other reason- especially General Organa.
"And so he attacked you?" Po asks gently
"He hit me against the tree until I lost consciousness. He left me for dead. I was able to gain consciousness and get to a ship and followed the Millennium Falcon here."
"What a monster" Finn says grimly.
"You can stay here provided you give us all the information you have on the First Order. And just to be clear we don't fully trust you" then the General leaves.
"How is your pain? On a scale from 1-10?" Po asks gently.
"9" I answer weakly.
He summons the medical droid who gives me a shot of what I can assume is pain medication.
I lay back down on the bed, relived to feel the drugs working in my system.
"Just take it easy, ok? I'll be back later to check on you. Just rest." Po gives me a small smile and him and Finn leave me alone.
I'm grateful to be alive, to be given a chance to make things right.
I think back to him. I know he is with my husband and the Supreme Leader by now. I remember the cry; I wonder how bad he is hurt. I wonder if Hux has done anything to him in his anger at what he discovered. I wonder what the Supreme Leader is doing to him right now. Pushing him further and further into the dark side, corrupting his soul.
I wonder is he is thinking about me.