In the end, she has to hand it to him— he’d always been an expert in taking her by surprise, and it would appear that he’s chosen not to shake the habit even in death.
“Rey Skywalker?” There’s a vaguely sardonic twist to the corner of his mouth. “Does that make you my cousin now?”
“It seemed like a fitting tribute,” she says in wooden tones. Be it dream or vision, she might as well play along— draw this out until reality comes crashing back. Who knows when he’ll come to her again as solid and as vibrant as this?
“I see.” Suddenly he’s leaning into her, their faces so close together. “Tell me,” he murmurs, his lips almost brushing against hers, “have you ever heard of the term kissing cousins?”
She registers the smell of alcohol on his breath at the same time that his eyes flutter shut and he slumps face-down into her lap, snoring softly. You’re alive, is all she can think at first, staring down at his head of lush black hair.
Alive and very, very drunk.
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Rey emerges from slumber when they’re a quarter of the way up the Corellian Run. It’s not a gentle process; she jolts back into waking, his name torn from her lips in a gasp as her eyes fly open, wide with panic— only when they land on him does she relax, slumping back into her chair with the oddest mixture of relief and defeat.
“I was afraid it had all been just a dream,” she mumbles.
He suppresses a wince, recalling what she’d said about always waking up to find him gone. Force, there’s so much that they need to figure out, and he’s not helping the situation one bit— not while he still carries the baggage from his previous life. He reaches over to tuck a stray lock of her hair behind her ear.
“It’s not a dream.” He says this with more conviction than he feels. “I’m here, ma sareen.”
She hides her blushing face in the backrest of the seat. Cute, cute, cute, bleats his single brain cell despite the gravity of the moment. He just wants to squeeze her.
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