A/N: Fair warning, some non-Reylo mature content this chapter. This one's kind of filler, but I need to set the stage for these characters so it doesn't feel too rushed. Please, please, please, comment/review so I know if you're enjoying it!

A shadow from the darkness
Rising up again
Never knew it could be so cold
Fire underneath my skin
Can you hear the storm's a coming
I'm a silver in the lining
There's a spark in me
There's a spark in me

They say I'm a dangerous man
Better run fast as you can
Don't you look back
Every bone in my body's bad
Fire's burning, the skies are turning black
They say I'm a dangerous man

I'm coming out of hiding
Showing my face the sun
And the beast that I'm fighting
Well I'm not the only one
When the weak are getting heartless
I'm a light inside the darkness
There's a spark in me
There's a spark in me

They say I'm a dangerous man
Better run fast as you can
Don't you look back
Every bone in my body's bad
Fire's burning, the skies are turning black
They say I'm a dangerous man

-Dangerous Man by Little Dume

Chapter 1: Dangerous Man

Rey was back on fucking Jakku, a place she never thought she'd have to step foot on again. It had been 6 years since she'd been here last. She was a woman grown now, but still felt like a child, passing the wreckage of starships and stamping down the instinctual need to scavenge parts.

She wasn't alone this time, though. Poe Dameron was with her. Poe was the best pilot the resistance had, and they were friends…or something along those lines. They were the type of friends who sought comfort in each other's beds on occasion. Although, Rey felt their connection growing stronger.

They were on the planet today to talk to an old resistance friend, someone who may have a piece of the map leading to Luke Skywalker. There had been some debate on the command ship, about how many should go. Leia had decided, though, that only sending two people down was more inconspicuous and less likely to draw unwanted attention from the First Order.

So here they were, trudging through sand and unbearable heat, heading towards the only town Rey could think of that the old man Tekka would be in.

"You actually survived out here?" Poe asked, touching Rey's shoulder gently.

"Yeah," she said. "It wasn't easy. I was a slave, but I was treated better than most of the others."

Poe just nodded, not willing to argue the subject that being a slave inherently meant she was is a horrible situation.

"My AT-AT I lived in is just over here," she said, smiling to herself. She started walking in the direction she knew her old home was.

Walking through the doorway, she was taken aback – it had obviously been scavenged, not that she could blame whoever did it. Much of the equipment would fetch a great deal of rations, something she couldn't begrudge a starving slave. He hammock was still there, though, as were some of the books she'd hidden away.

Poe looked around in awe. The place was actually pretty homey. What took the air out of his lungs was the wall full of tick marks.

"For each day I waited on my parents," Rey said from behind him. "They said they would come back, and I just never thought not to believe them. There's one mark for everyday until the day my Master saved me from this place."

"I'm glad he rescued you," Poe said with an intensity that made Rey bite back the witty response she'd been about to say. "You're incredible, Rey, from nowhere."

Poe had her pushed back to the wall, and he began to kiss his way down the side of her neck. "Poe…" she moaned.

She felt him smile against her skin, and then she was being lowered to the hard floor of the makeshift shelter. Poe raised her tunic, and took a nipple into his mouth, causing her to arch her back into him. One hand played with her other nipple while the other ventured down to the waistband of her leggings. She raised her hips so he could tug them down her legs.

He returned his mouth to hers and she took the opportunity to get his shirt off of him, pushing his pants down with her feet. Checking to see if she was ready first, he quickly thrust into her, causing them both to moan. Her legs wrapped around his waist, and he grabs her hips. It doesn't take long for Rey to fall over the edge, calling his name in a strangled voice, and he isn't far behind, chanting her name. After, they lay together, him stroking her hair.

"If I knew all I had to do to get sex like that was tell you a sob story from my childhood, I would have done it a long time ago," Rey says smiling up at him, her head nuzzled on his chest.

"Rey, I'm falling in love with you," he told her, and she felt him holding his breath, waiting on her response.

She rolled over so she could face him. "I don't really have anything to go on. The idea of someone loving me is so new, but I think I'm in love with you too."

Poe grinned at her, and they got up to put their clothes back on.

"Let's go find this Tekka guy, and get back up the command ship. I'm not done with you yet," he told her, causing her to blush.

While Poe talked to the old man, Rey perused the market, taking in the wares. They were all dusty, and truth be told, not worth anything at all. Her heart broke for the little children scrubbing metal machinery at work tables, being slapped by their masters when they took even the shortest of breaks. She wished she could do something.

Her skills with the force were woefully underdeveloped. After Master Luke's temple was destroyed, he dropped her off with his sister Leia and disappeared. Consequently, her training had come to a skidding halt. He was the last Jedi, after all. She knew the basics, such as how to summon things to her and how to read the intentions and surface thoughts of those around her. Otherwise, she was hopeless. She at least was good with her staff, which had kept her alive and unharmed more times than she would like to know.

Rey made her way back to the tent with Poe and Tekka. She was only there long enough to watch Poe put the map piece into BB-8s container before she heard the tell-tale sound of an aircraft. She takes that back. Many aircraft.

"Take BB-8 and hide!" Poe yelled at her, pushing her from the tent into the city. "Go back to your AT-AT with BB-8."

She shook her head, "I'm not leaving without you," she told him, clutching his arm.

You must, and you will," he told her, smiling sadly. "Now go. I'll be back for you and BB-8."

Rey and the droid ran to a stall in the market, obscured by shadows and sheet curtains, and watched as Stormtroopers flooded from the ramps of the spaceships. They began shooting anything the moved, before making their way to where Tekka lived. They hauled him out, dragging him into the middle of the market.

The ominous black ship that sat in the middle finally opened, and Rey gasped. The imposing form of Kylo Ren sauntered down the ramp before coming to a stop in front of the old man.

"Where is the map?" the mechanical voice asked.

"Safe with the resistance," Tekka told him.

"The resistance will soon be dead, along with all of those who support it," the masked figure said.

"What would your father say if he could see you now?" Tekka asked.

Kylo merely looked at him before viciously swinging his cross-guard saber through the old man's body.

Rey thought that would be the worst part of it all, but then she saw Poe being dragged before Ren, and forced to his knees.

"You wear a jacket with the resistance emblem," Kylo said, squatting down in front of Poe.

"Yeah, great observation skills," Poe snarked, causing Rey's eyes to widen. Stop, what are you doing?! She screamed in her head. She swore the masked face looked up briefly, in her direction.

Rey could have sworn they locked eyes under the mask. And then, she ran.