The apartment shook.

"Do I want to know what they're doing?" Dex asked himself. "No. I don't think I want to know what they're doing."

He smiled. "But I bet Amy would."

..**..

A week before the US release of The Last Jedi, Amy came down with something. While she normally would have avoided doctors like the plague she went right away because there was no way she would have missed the premiere. Isaac was out of town for work, so she asked Dex to go with her.

He did, of course.

Fortunately, it was just a cold so after a quick trip to the pharmacy Amy went back to bed for a nap while Dex made some chicken soup. He wasn't entirely surprised that she was drawing in her sketchpad when he went to check on her. "Thought the idea was for you to nap."

"Can't sleep. Too excited." She smiled girlishly at him.

"What are you drawing?" he asked even though he had a pretty good idea.

Amy held up her sketchpad. It was a picture of Rey and Kylo Ren done in that anime style she favored. She was sitting on his lap with one of her hands against his face. They looked to be seconds away from kissing.

"You do know that you're shipping people who are probably cousins?" Dex finally asked her with a smirk.

"Are not," Amy said defiantly, sticking her tongue out.

"Are too."

"Are not."

"Who else can she be?"

"She could be a Kenobi."

"Amy, in the entire prequel series Obi Wan didn't so much as look at a woman in a romantic way. There is no way he could be a father. Remember the whole 'Jedi avoid attachments' thing?"

"You're forgetting Satine."

"Animated series. Doesn't count. And she died."

"Maybe he met someone before A New Hope."

"Then the kid would have been younger than Luke, and Obi Wan would be a deadbeat dad for leaving him or her behind. She's probably Luke's kid."

"You really think that Luke would just abandon his kid?"

"She could have been kidnapped."

"And who could he have had a kid by?"

"Mara Jade?"

"Books." Amy stuck her tongue out again. "Doesn't count."

"Fine. She's not a Skywalker. Come on. Your soup's getting cold."

She held her arms up. "Carry me?"

"You've got a cold not a broken leg." Nevertheless, Dex bent down and picked her up bridal style and carried her into the living room and set her down on the couch. He glanced suspiciously at his shirt. "Amy, did you just rub your nose on my shirt?"

"Maybe. It's runny."

"You rubbed your runny nose on my Days of Future Past sweatshirt?"

"You have six of them."

"This is my favorite one. It's my day off Days of Future Past sweatshirt."

"You just like it because it has a picture of Jennifer Lawrence on it."

"Maybe. Next time use a tissue. And one with lotion. If your nose gets any redder I'm going to start calling you Rudolph."

"You wouldn't dare. And I don't have any."

"Yes you do." Dex tossed her a box. "I picked up some at the drug store." He tucked a blanket around her. "I'll be right back."

He brought her a bowl of chicken soup and some green tea with honey added. "After this, you're going back to bed."

"You're not the boss of me."

"No one is the boss of you, Amy. But if you're good I'll put The Force Awakens in your DVD player for you."

"You'll watch it with me?"

"Of course I will." He brushed the hair back from her face.

Amy smiled at him.

It had been nearly a year, and they hadn't talked about the kiss. Dex was beginning to realize that they were never going to talk about it. Maybe Amy had forgotten it happened. He kind of wished (but not really) that he could too.

Amy ate and finished her tea and he carried her back into the bedroom. He put the movie in and pulled up a chair beside her bed.

"Uh uh." Amy patted the bed. "Up here. I need my cuddle buddy."

"You know if I get sick you'll have to wait for Isaac to get back to go see The Last Jedi."

"No I won't. You'll come with me anyway." She smiled sweetly at him. "Now up here. I'm cold. And take off your shoes."

Dex rolled his eyes, but took off his shoes and laid down on the bed beside her. Amy laid her head on his shoulder. It wasn't the first time they had done this. Whenever Amy got sick, she was very needy, and Dex tended to be her usual target. If she acted the same way with Isaac, he didn't know because watching the two of them together wasn't something he went out of his way to do. "Mm. Much better. You're so warm."

"Watch the sweatshirt."

"Don't be mean. I'm an invalid."

"Obviously. You're a regular Beth March."

"Oh hush." She sniffled and started to rub her nose again- but took the tissue Dex held out for her. "You'd make someone a fine mother some day, Dex."

"The thing every young man dreams of hearing."

"Hush. Movie time."

A few minutes in. "I still don't get where you're seeing romantic tension. Look. He just killed an old family friend and ordered a village to be slaughtered."

"It's Snoke's fault. Hush." And later on. "Look. He asks about her. Somehow he knows about her."

"Probably because he knows his cousin was left on this planet."

"You ship Professor X and Mystique. I don't think you have any ground to stand on. They grew up together as brother and sister."

"One, they're not blood related. Two, she obviously had the hots for him as you can see from First Class. Three, it's Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy so your argument is invalid."

"Whatever, freak."

"He keeps the ashes of his enemies as souvenirs. And he puts his mask in it. That's not only gross; it's unhealthy. Every time he picks that thing up he's breathing in dead people."

"He argues against destroying Hosnia Prime. And he still feels the pull to the Light." And during the scene where Rey finds Anakin's light saber. "It's not Luke Maz is talking about. It's obviously Kylo."

"He kills his own father. That kind of puts him off the redeemable list, doesn't it?"

"Harrison Ford only agreed to do the movie if Han was killed off. And look how nice he is to Rey during the entire movie."

"You mean when he scares the heck out of her in the woods? Or maybe when he says some creepy things to her during the interrogation? Or when he tries to kill her with a light saber?"

"He wasn't trying to kill her with a light saber. He was just trying to convince her to join his side."

"By slamming her into a tree and then by nearly killing Finn. And then attacking her with a light saber when she tried to defend herself and Finn."

"Okay, I admit all that stuff makes him look bad. But just look at the way he looks at her. He's obviously into her. I can tell. Girls can tell when a guy likes someone."

"Oh really?" Dex asked innocently.

"Yes. Really. Girls always know."

"Right." Dex smirked and took his glasses off. And then sat up.

"Hey! Get back here! You're too comfy to just walk away."

"I just don't get it, Amy. I don't see the whole chemistry thing. How is this romantic?" He placed his hand to where it was almost but not quite touching her face and stared intently into her eyes.

"Dex?"

"You know I can take what I want," Dex said in his best Kylo voice.

Amy didn't respond the way he expected. She didn't roll her eyes. She didn't laugh. She just licked her lips in a slow, tantalizing way. "Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

Amy half closed her eyes. Her lips parted.

Dex found himself bending down towards her …

And then her phone rang.

They both gasped and pulled back. Amy fumbled for her phone and picked it up. "Hello? Oh, hi, Isaac." Her eyes flickered towards Dex- was that guilt he saw in them?

"I need to go to the bathroom," he whispered and he got up, leaving her to talk to the man she was going to marry in just a few weeks.

..**..

There was a knock at his door.

"Hm. I bet that's Kylo- I mean, Ben- coming to tell me how his date went. Hope he told her." He walked over and opened the door.

It was Rey.

"Um … hi?" Dex murmured uncertainly.

"Hi, Dex. It's good to see you … in person so to speak. Can I come in?" Rey smiled at him, but he didn't like what he saw in her eyes:

Doubt.

"Sure," Dex stepped back.

Rey came in and looked around curiously. "This is your home?"

"Well, my memory of it. We're inside Ben's mind. But you knew that already."

"Yes." She looked around uncertainly. "Dex, I really did want to meet you- but I have something to ask you."

Danger, Will Robinson, Dex thought. "Yes?"

"Who gave me my light saber back on Snoke's ship? Ben- or you?"

Author's Note: I originally planned to include some more in this chapter- and have Luke appear- but I thought this was the perfect place to end it. For those who don't know, Beth March is the sister who dies in Little Women.