So this one takes place right after The Force Awakens ends.

Also I tried to make it a little bit funny but... let's just say comedy is not my strongest strength (and neither is sentences making sense it seems).


Her eyebrow was itching. Rey's first encounter with Luke Skywalker.


Her eyebrow was itching.

Rey couldn't look away from Luke Skywalker's stormy blue eyes. As soon as he'd turned they'd locked eyes and Rey couldn't break the contact. Holding out his Lightsaber had been a stupid idea. He'd taken it as a challenge. She'd presented it as a challenge. That was idiotic.

Why couldn't he just "Use the force" and whisk it out of her hand? Why couldn't he just walk over and say "Thanks, what's your name?", "Why are you here?" or even just "Go away!". At least then she would be able to itch her eyebrow.

The corners of Luke's mouth titled up.

No! He was reading her thoughts like Ren had on the Starkiller. He knew that she wanted him to take the Lightsaber. And that her eyebrow was itching. Maybe she could Jedi mind trick the Force into itching her eyebrow. But whenever Rey used the Force she closed her eyes and couldn't afford to do that with Skywalker. Did the Force even work like that?

That's why she needed a teacher – him, to tell her what the Force was all about. What it could do and what couldn't. And she was pretty sure it could do something as measly as itch her eyebrow.

"I've got my own." He said finally, and Rey put his first one, that she'd somehow now inherited, back into her belt.

She'd inherited Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber. He was the legend of the galaxy, a myth that she'd only heard fragments of in the junkyard. He was the reason that the entire galaxy was free from the Empire and its tyranny.

And Rey had his Lightsaber! She was just a little girl, a nobody, who wasn't even from Jakku, but had spent all of the life that she remembered there.

"What's your name?" Luke finally broke the silence again.

"Rey. I'm Rey. And you're Luke Skywalker."

"Yes. Why are you here?"

"Because the Force has awoken. That's what General Organa said to say anyway. But she also said that you would be able to feel it. And to get Luke back because it's about damn time. And she sent us because she thought you would need convincing and also a ship. I mean you probably needed one to get here, but it might not work anymore. I mean," Rey tried to rub her eyebrow unsuspiciously. "A lot can change with ships in eighteen years. Sure we brought the Falcon here and that's been around… well it was in the Junkyard almost as long as I was there and it wasn't exactly new then." Rey rubbed her eyebrow again. "It's definitely had a lot of upgrades… Are you even listening to me?"

"Leia sent you?" Luke asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah."

"And who else?"

"Chewbacca and R2-D2."

"But you came in the Falcon?" Rey nodded slowly. "Then where's Han?"

"Captain Solo is dead." Rey said, finally giving in and clawing at her eyebrow.

"It was Ren." Rey nodded again. "I can't come back." Luke said, turning away from Rey again.

"Then I guess you'll have to train me here." Rey's itch was gone.

"What?" Luke turned back, quickly, and his hood slipped slightly. He wasn't expecting this little girl to demand anything.

"The Force has Awakened. It's time to fight back against the First Order and we're going to need at least on Jedi to take down Ren."

"The Force Awakened in you?"

"Yes. Can't you feel it?" Rey could feel it. Luke had so much Force. Leia had next to nothing compared to him, and Rey guessed that this was because she hadn't been trained. Ren had a little more, but overall, Luke had double his power. He must be able to feel hers. Or maybe his was overpowering everything else. Probably not.

Luke stared at her.

"Just because I'm a girl who has been abandoned on a sand planet most of her life, who doesn't even know her real age. Doesn't mean I'm not capable of possessing mit… midi… Jedi mind powers. I beat Ren in one battle already." Luke didn't question anything she said, but turned away again. Did he like the view? He had 18 years to stare at it. Why couldn't he just look at her?

"Tell Leia I'm coming back." He spoke to the water, and it was lost in the wind, but it echoed in her mind as Luke turned back to her.

"Oh. Good." Rey had not expected him to want to come to D'Qar. She had expected him to refuse everything, after being alone for so long, Rey thought that she would have to persist for days, maybe even weeks, to get him to even train her.

"I'll train you here, and then we can go back to the Resistance. Just a couple of week on how to use the Force before we go to… where's Leia staying these days?"

"The D'Qar system. That's where the Resistance base is." And where everyone was waiting for her to get back to with the person that was going to save them all. Finn was going to be there too. Rey hoped he was okay, but they couldn't risk the First Order getting to Luke before them, and as the Jedi with the Lightsaber, Rey had to go and find him.

Luke nodded and smiled.

Rey felt proud of herself. She'd convinced him to help them. The Resistance. She was part of that now. A couple of weeks had changed everything. She now had a friend in Finn, she'd finally left Jakku and even had met a little droid who had taken a liking to her. She had found out she was a Jedi and had a master in Luke.

And you know what?

Her other eyebrow was itching.