Searching For You

Chapter 28: Joined Forces

Ben's POV:

I watched the outside world through the Falcon windows trying to figure everything out, this is all so confusing to me. 'Why is Hux here, what is his plan?' I asked myself. Finn told me that Hux didn't actually die, he came pretty dang close though; once he recovered enough he went into hiding. Apparently, Poe had found him and was helping him out by hiding him in his private quarters. He felt like he owed this to Hux for leaking the information The Resistance about the First Order once I took over. Since then, Hux has been feeding Poe all these lies about me. Like how I never really died and how I am puppeteering Rey this whole time just like what Snoke did to me. This whole situation is insane, It was too much to take in at once. Finn slipped back into my mind. 'Ben they are talking about teaming up. The Final Order and The Resistance's new agenda is to take you out by any means necessary and if Rey doesn't join them they are planning on taking her out too since she is so close to you. This all might even get worse since we aren't done unraveling everything that Poe has hidden from us yet. Got to go, just stay there, we have a plan for at least this first part. Right now we just need you to trust us.' I sit in silence just taking in everything I just learned. What is the real goal here? What is actually going on behind the curtain? "So much for some peaceful time alone with Rey" I sigh quietly to myself. I sigh yet again and sick back further into the chair. All I could do was try to make plans of my own and wait for Rey to return. "I have a bad feeling about all of this."

Two hours later Rey returns to the Falcon in a rush with a few people chasing after her. I immediately start getting the ship ready for take-off so there is no delay. There is not much time for talking as we focus on flying off the planet. We have been flying for about an hour and I just can't take the silence anymore. I looked over at Rey, still feeling the intense anger rolling off of her. I gather my courage and ask. "So, what's the plan now?" I am still not sure what else to say. "We need to figure out what Hux's overall plan is so we can end all this. I do want to be at war again, not right now." I watch her face turn into one of sadness as she glances down at her ever-growing stomach, lightly rubbing it with one hand back and forth. The way her words sit on my chest as I watch her whole demeanor change breaks my heart. 'Why can't this be easy? Didn't we deserve our happily ever after by now? Don't our children deserve to grow up in a galaxy where the light and the dark sides are not at war with each other?' "I say let's go to Maz, I have a few questions for her on some old Jedi legends." She sighs as if relieved to not be making any more decisions for the time being and enters in the coordinates.