Rey's warehouse- Friday from afternoon on

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had been here a lot this week. She was long used to dreams and feelings about people, and it wasn't like she'd fully dealt with a lot of things since last year's events, but these had been insistent. Do the warehouse was an easy distraction, whether it meant training, or cleaning up the woodchucks' latest mess.

That mess was silly string, which had seemingly been birthday party-related (?) and had sprayed much farther than she'd have thought. The woodchucks were unapologetic.


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[not_palpatines]

It was dark out now, and the warehouse district was not the easiest place to figure your way around, but they found the right place anyway, and there was a slow creaking of the burnt door opening.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had been about to leave finally. She'd gathered her things and was throwing her things in her bag when she heard the door. She felt the presence, too, but she didn't immediately recognize it for what it was.

It had been a while.

But she looked over at the figures standing there, and while it was still dawning on her what was happening, she'd already dropped the bag without realizing.

[not_palpatines]

Somehow Miramir had still been expecting to see a child. Rey had been tiny the last time she saw her in the moments before they had to leave her on Jakku, and yet here she was, fully grown.

Even if her hair was exactly the same.

They'd missed so much.

"Rey?"

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had literally dreamed of this moment for seventeen years. Losing them was her primary source of trauma, the thought of them had kept her tied to a dying world for most of her life, and they were here, and she couldn't do anything. She couldn't process it. She felt her eyes filling with tears but she couldn't move.

[not_palpatines]

She didn't need to say a word. Both Dathan and Miramir immediately went to her, holding her as tightly as she would allow. They needed the moment too, really.

[thatwaslucky]

It was a while. When Rey did finally pull back it was mostly to look at them. She didn't have an actual memory of them. She'd only had impressions, and then a memory of a vision where she'd seen their faces for not nearly long enough.

Somewhere in there she managed, "How are you here?"

She knew how. This wasn't her first rodeo. She'd just never expected them.

[not_palpatines]

"We had to see you," Miramir said, reaching to brush some of Rey's tears away with her thumb.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't..." she said, not so much stumbling over her words as much as the absence of them. "I should know what to say."

[not_palpatines]

"It's all right, Rey," Dathan told her, with a tiny smile. "We have some time."