When Jaina awoke, she felt still just as terrible as she did when she went out of it. She sat straight up, despite being covered in bandages and having wires hooked up to her, putting fluids in.

"Jaina, it's alright, calm down."

Her stomach sank as she recognized that voice from the HoloNet. She looked to her left, and saw Kylo Ren, the Supreme Leader of the First Order, sitting there. Her thoughts were a wild mess, driven to even more insanity when she realized she couldn't feel Jacen at all.

"Where is he?" Jaina demanded, "what did you do? I can't feel him anymore!"

"Who?" He was confused.

"My brother!" Jaina shrieked hysterically. She reached her hand up to her head, and smacked herself. "I don't understand it, we're always connected— I've never—"

"Jaina, stop." He grabbed her wrists before she could smack herself again. "This isn't your fault—"

"Let go of me!" Jaina screamed as she tried to twist out of his grasp. "You probably were behind that ambush!"

"Jaina, none of this is my fault either," He said, struggling to remain calm. "I've done many things, but I would never attack you or your brother—"

"Yeah right!" Jaina spat. She managed to yank her hands out his grasp. "I know you're a monster, Kylo Ren! This sounds exactly like something you'd do!"

"Jaina, you are going to hurt yourself," He said. "Just sit down and listen. I'm just asking for a minute. Let me explain everything, and then you can scream at me for as long as you'd like."

"No," Jaina said, resembling a toddler throwing a temper-tantrum.

He had to admit that Jaina reminded him a lot of him. He just raised his eyebrows. "Do you need for me to go get your mother?"

Jaina paled. "You got her, too? What, are you going to torture her until I listen to you—"

"I wouldn't do that either," he said.

"That's not what Uncle Poe said," Jaina said. "He said you—"

"Okay, Rey and I have a. . . complex relationship," he admitted. "But I would never hurt her now."

"Why should I believe you?" Jaina demanded. "Why should I believe anything you say?"

"Reach into my mind and pry," he said. "You can sense my intentions."

Jaina bit her lip, before doing so. There seemed to be no harm in what he was offering.

Then she saw it. He was telling the truth because he loved her mother, because he loved her brother and her. And just a little further revealed. . .

Ben Solo was her father.

So was Kylo Ren.

Ben Solo hadn't disappeared.

Ben Solo had become someone else entirely.

"Oh my God," she said aloud. "You're my father!"

"Yes," Ben said.

"Mum wanted me to go with you," Jaina realized.

"Jaina, trust me, I've wanted to be in your life for a long time now," he assured her. "And I'm trying to find Jacen now. I know you've heard a lot of things about how wicked I am. Some of them are true. But some of it isn't."

"I can't believe this," Jaina admitted.

But the more she thought about it, the more she realized that the signs had been there all along. They all lined up perfectly to reveal the truth that she had been searching for.

Then she did something even she hadn't anticipated. She hugged her father.

"I forgive you," she whispered.