[open] Here I am

[talentedscavenger]

who: Rey and OPEN
what: TDM Prompt (dreams), canon update, and February catch all
when: End of January through February
where: Dreams, around Quarantine.
warnings: Spoilers for The Last Jedi, and will update with more warnings as needed.


Splitting things up as not to bog down this area. If you want something different, feel free to PM this journal or reach out via plurk @riamix.

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[talentedscavenger]

Rey doesn't know. She doesn't know who shot first. What the circumstances were, and why...why he didn't ask her for help. It was stupid of her to think that. Stupid to think he'd want to open the door and walk right through. She needed to stop caring. Needed to stop seeing the good in him and accept things as they were.

Her movements come to a stop as the realization sinks in. There's only one other person to shoot Ben. One person with enough rage and for the life of her she wants to defend him. To deny what happened, but it's true. There's nothing she can sense otherwise.

"Poe." Her hand curled into a fist, upset that he would even think about adding onto the tension. That this was Leia's son--Poe doesn't care. He doesn't care who Ben is or was. To Poe, he was the villain who needed to be taken down...and she can't say she'll deal with him, because she's not his commander, not his superior--could she even say friend anymore?

"...I can't make any excuse for him, nor should I. He...he has lost his damn mind."

[killthepast]

She's angry on his behalf. He should be elated, but instead, there's only conflict inside him as he watches Rey ball her hands into fists.

"Has he?" he asks, his voice mild. Because the thing is, for as much as Kylo despises Poe-- and he does; he would kill him in a heartbeat and feel no remorse if he thought he could get away with it here-- he does understand why the pilot shot at him. After everything, of course Poe would take the shot at Kylo Ren, who tortured him, who killed his comrades, who commanded the First Order to finish off the remains of the Resistance.

No, as much as he doesn't enjoy getting shot at, Poe's actions make sense to him.

"What else should one do with a rabid animal?"

[talentedscavenger]

"I think he has. He should know better than to pick fights." Especially with Ben, especially with Ben. Both of them could've gotten hurt, but it's more than that. Did he not trust Rey to take care of things? Granted, she couldn't be everywhere at once. But there's also the fact that someone else could've gotten shot. Someone else would've died--and this Moon is small. Everyone knew mostly everyone else.

Damnit, she was going to have to talk to Cisco about this. Find a way to keep Ben and Poe from killing each other. Hell, she hates Hux, but she doesn't go out and look for a reason to shoot him.

"Name calling? Really?" Rey shot Ben a look. By now the butter was melted all the way through, but she didn't care. She did slip on an oven mitt and take out the bowl of melted butter to set on the small stove.

"I'm not putting him down. I'm not going to fight him." At least not now. She...needed to have words. This will strain their friendship, but she needed to talk to him.

"Has he done anything else?"

[killthepast]

"I was referring to myself," he snaps. Poe sees Ren as the animal to put down, and acted accordingly. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened; Uncle Luke clearly regarded him in much the same way. Hux, too, he's certain. He has no intention of letting anyone else attempt to put him down again.

"And I don't need you to handle Poe Dameron for me."

He'll deal with the pilot when the best opportunity arises. And Dameron's companion, who was the one whose bullets actually hit their mark.

[talentedscavenger]

"You're not a rabid animal," Rey snapped back, crossing her arms over her chest. He was....a monster at times, she won't deny that. But he could be reasoned with, at least she thought he could be. It was frustrating, very frustrating to be caught between those two. They were going to kill each other one way or another. They both viewed the other as the villain, and wanted to take the other down.

"I wasn't going to handle Poe for you. I learned my lesson from trying to deal with Poe's ...adventures." When he turned into a bird and she tried to apologize on his behalf and that blew up in her face. Nor did she have any right to ask Ben to not fight back against Poe. Why couldn't both men just leave the other person the hell alone?

"I can't ask anything of you, because...you don't owe me anything, nor do I owe you anything." Except her life...and his life. They worked together to fight off Snoke's guards after Snoke was killed.