Close to Me {Poe Dameron}

seventeen

She brought the entry ramp up and soon she was back in the sky. Just in case Ren waited for her, she took a leisurely path towards an asteroid belt. She fully planned to jump to lightspeed to get back to base as soon as she crossed it. Autopilot set, she finally called Poe. "So, I'm going to be a little late." She said as soon as he answered.

"No shit. We were starting to worry."

"I'm also coming back on a different ship. I lost my A-Wing." Maybe if she slowly worked her way towards the real reason behind all of this she wouldn't get yelled at as bad.

"Then how, wait did you steal another ship?" Poe had been worried the second she didn't make her check in to let them know she was on her way back. His emotions were honestly going from one end to the other.

"Not technically."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well, it's a family ship, I just don't know if I'm supposed to know about it."

Now she just wasn't making any sense. "I think you're gonna have to start at the beginning there, Kat. Maybe even with why you didn't call me sooner?"

She bit her lower lip, preparing herself for the worst. She knew if he had been able to see her face he'd make her say whatever she was stalling for. "Uh, because I was unconscious. Let Kalonia know I need treatment for a concussion, please?"

"Kat, what the hell happened? This was supposed to be an easy run. One you've done plenty of times before. Your contact didn't turn, did they?"

"No!" She was quick to defend Darby. "No, my contact didn't turn. I just, uh, well, I just..."

"Kat just tell it to me straight."

"I ran into Ren." She whispered, ready to hear her own words thrown back at her or even Leia's voice come through. She didn't really get either.

"Kriff," Poe muttered, letting out a heavy sigh. He was relieved that she was coming back to him seemingly with only a concussion. He knew from personal experience a run-in with Kylo Ren could have been so much worse. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, like I said. Just got a concussion. Didn't even lose what I had come to get. My A-Wing is now cut in half though."

The pout could be clearly heard in her voice. "There's another A-Wing here for you except I'm tempted to make sure you stay grounded."

"You can't give me orders, commander."

"Yeah, but I know the general who can."

"How is she?" She asked, wondering if Leia was just as worried about her as Poe seemed to be.

Poe looked over at Leia who was standing at the command center. "I think she's worried but hiding it pretty well. You might want to call into base though."

"See you soon."

"Yeah, I better. We're not done talking about this."

"I'm still in one piece and I'm not going to need a whole bacta suit."

She struck a nerve, she must have for he didn't respond right away. She let out a sigh, knowing how she was when he had faced off against Ren. She didn't have any communication with him though.

"He's lucky you don't." He answered before ending the call.

Well, this was about to be an interesting conversation. She took a deep breath and set the commlink aside so she could use the freighter's comms system to call to base. "Navy leader to command, do you copy?"

"Kat, where the hell have you been?" Leia's voice came over the comms.

So she was angry too. Kat wondered if there was a way to sneak by both Leia and Poe to get to the med bay. "Well, I had a bit of an unexpected family reunion."