Through the Darkness || Finn&Rey

Chapter 59

All my nightmares have ever known is Kylo Ren, and what is capable of or what he has done. However, it is not he who haunts me now.

I am alone walking through the darkness. I see a single light shining to the side of the path I'm on. Poe is pacing across the grass. I try to step from the road but I can't. There is a cliff and I can't reach him before he slips from the edge of a precipice, falling into the abyss.
My feet keep me walking down the path. I see Rey standing at a cross intersection, as I approach her she turns from me and walks down a different road, to follow the old Jedi ways.
I step further down the road and see a stall, I walk up to it, about to ask for help out of this place when I notice the display of BB-8 completely dismantled, his pieces and hard drives scattered for sale.
The man in the store lightly shakes my shoulder in encouragement. I open my mouth to speak to him but can't form any words. I feel my shoulder shake again and this time I wake from my heavy slumber.
My eyes adjust to the dim light and see Luke looming above me. I move to sit up and my leg cramps, so I end up staying slanted and gazing up at him.

"You've been out of it for a while,"

"Are Rey and Poe okay?" I immediately ask, and he nods once. "How long is a while?"

"10 hours," my lips part in shock, I look around the room frantically, trying to find the nearest exit to find them. "Stop," he presses my shoulder back against the chair. Then I notice the two occupied beds and the rhythmical beeping of many machines. "Rey has a few broken ribs which punctured lung but they were able to operate, she's stable," he points to the right bed. I'm too slouched down to see her face but I know it's her. I sigh.

"What about Poe?" Luke's stoic expression wavers slightly.

"He's critical," my ease over Rey's condition drops away at the words.

"What happened?" I look at the other bed observing the increase of machines, more monitors and more wires.

"The steal punctured his spinal cord."
I am curious as to why Luke is retelling these messages to me, but I assume he was seeing Rey.

"Why didn't he eject from the cockpit? He would have been okay..." I mumble half to myself.

"The connections were lodged, he tried but they didn't release," I stay silent, an unease that I think I witnessed the tampering occur eats at me. I remembering how I watched Koden tighten parts of the cockpit, Poe would never have realised until he needed to use it.

We are silent for a long moment, Luke looks in the distance, and I relive what happened on the battlefield. I attempt to make sense of everything, but one thing in particular stands out.

"Luke," I request his attention and he waits for me to continue, "How did you know you had the Force?"

"It was always a part of me, in my blood so to speak, it isn't something that you can know; it just is."

"Do I have it?" I whisper, restraining the hope that Rey and I could be similar.

He laughs to himself, not in a mocking manner though, and shakes his head, "Sorry to disappoint you, Finn, but no."

"It felt like I did, while I was fighting against the knights, it was unlike anything I've experienced. What else could it be?" I ask, searching his expressionless features.

"I think you'll find the answer is in your hands," I look down and notice how I still hold Rey's saber.

I look at the detailing on the hilt. I start at the top, the metal is shining silver and a thick band of it has no markings, but a bit further down I see two deep grooves that criss-cross over each other, creating small circles all the way around. In the middle of the saber is a strip of black metal with no markings at all. I look down at the next etching which is a series of a few lines running parallel and around the entire saber. The metal fades to a dull gray with small markings and swirls which wrap around the bottom of it. I look back up at Luke, then back down. For the first time I see a glimmer of a smile in his eyes.

"I don't understand," I admit. It's beautiful, but I don't see how this would explain anything.