Rey's warehouse- Friday

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had been around for the last time this happened, but she didn't have anyone who would have come for her. Sensing a familiar presence was kind of a shock, and one she didn't quite know what to do with. She still didn't feel anything bad, but as far as she knew Luke hadn't exactly been a big fan of hers, so she wasn't sure what to expect.

So she went to the warehouse early, and sat on a crate, waiting. She'd set another nearby just in case. She could meditate, or something, while she waited, but she knew she didn't need to. If he was here for her. he'd find her.

(Also she was too anxious to actually meditate. Details.)


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[noonesreallygone]

The porgs came in first, falling over themselves and making babbly porg noises. Luke followed at a more sedate pace and with zero babbly porg noises.

Or any noises. He stood in the doorway and stared at Rey.

[thatwaslucky]

This was weird. She'd felt him die, and here he was, just like normal. She did jump to her feet, greeting him with, "Master Skywalker."

And maybe giving one of the porgs a tiny little smile.

[noonesreallygone]

"Rey," Luke said, blue eyes taking in the warehouse's set-up. "Interesting place you have here."

[thatwaslucky]

"It was built for me," Rey explained, realizing that the answer of who built the course was probably not going to make her worry him less. "For training."

That was probably obvious.

[noonesreallygone]

"It seems...comprehensive," Luke said. "Who built it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"That's complicated," Rey hedged. "Do you know this place?"

If so, answering that question got easier.

[noonesreallygone]

"Despite the porgs, no," Luke said. "I'm sensing several presences that feel familiar, aside from you, but the place itself doesn't feel like anywhere I've been before."

[thatwaslucky]

"It's a place called Fandom," Rey said, he's turning to the other crate in case he wanted to sit. (Did dead people need to sit?) "It's a dimensional thing, people from all sorts of universes and time periods come here. Including our Galaxy."

[noonesreallygone]

Luke was happy to sit. Well, okay to sit. Luke was rarely happy these days. "Ah," he said. "That explains portions of this. So someone from our galaxy designed this for you to train? Another Jedi?"

Maybe the Yoda-shaped presence he was feeling?

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes," she said, firmly, because the Jedi part was important. "Anakin Skywalker."

She knew, okay? She knew.

[noonesreallygone]

"I'm sorry, I just thought I heard you say Anakin Skywalker," Luke said.

[thatwaslucky]

"I did. He's from... after everything," she said.

[noonesreallygone]

"So he's a Force ghost?"

Marginally better than actually being Darth Vader, but only marginally.

NFB!

[thatwaslucky]

"A clone. I'm not sure how it all works."

Which, there'd come a time fairly soon she really would want to know all that.

"In that universe, you brought him back. And he's very insistent I don't be like him."

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

"Of course you shouldn't be like him!" Luke said, raising his voice. "He destroyed an entire galaxy! Not being Darth Vader is the lowest bar to clear!"

And yet Kylo Ren couldn't get over it, which was something Luke was not dwelling on. You could tell by how he was yelling about Darth Vader.

Re: NFB!

[thatwaslucky]

She'd almost missed that sort of reaction.

"I know," Rey said calmly. "Leia knows about this, too."

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

Luke crossed his arms over his chest and glared. "She can't possibly be all right with it."

Re: NFB!

[thatwaslucky]

"She's not thrilled," Rey admitted. "But she allows it."

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

Luke didn't pleased about that at all. "Why does she allow it?"

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[thatwaslucky]

"I think she sees the same thing I do. That he's trying," Rey said. "And she trains me, too. Plus she can threaten him."

She'd never seen that side of Leia but she knew she didn't want to.

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

Luke knew better than most that Leia was the scarier of the pair of them. "I'm almost sorry to have missed her threatening him," he admitted.

Re: NFB!

[thatwaslucky]

"I missed it too," Rey said with a tiny smile. "I know it's hard for her, but she tries to not let me see that."

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

Luke nodded. "How is she?"

He'd come back around to the Vader thing.

Re: NFB!

[thatwaslucky]

"She's Leia. It's all been hard on her, but she pulls it together to do her job anyway," she told him.

Re: NFB!

[noonesreallygone]

Luke's lips pressed together in sympathy. "She's shouldering a lot."