Rumours had been going around for a few weeks that someone important would be visiting Niima outpost, but the more days that came and went, the less and less Rey believed the rumours. It didn't matter to her anyway, it's not like this 'important' person would make any real difference in any of their lives, and she refused to allow herself any hope that they would. If they ever actually came, that is, which she seriously doubted at this point.
She returned from a day of work when she noticed the crowd of other scavengers gathering near Plutt's hut. Someone probably managed to find some rare part that everyone wanted to get a look at or find out how many portions Plutt would give for it. Rey continued with pulling what she had found in the day from her broken down speeder, ignoring the fuss until she heard someone say, "it's Senator Ben Organa." She abruptly stopped what she was doing, a fuzzy memory at best, coming back to her, all but a flash of a young boy being introduced to her as Ben Organa-Solo. Another memory, fuzzier than the last returning soon after the first, of her playing with the same boy in a rather grand looking room. Perhaps a childhood friend from the childhood before she was left on Jakku that she practically had no clear memory of.
Her brows furrow as she immediately turns to move away from her speeder and push through the growing crowd to get to the front and see the stranger for herself. An immediate sense of familiarity hitting her when her eyes land on Ben standing there, but she couldn't place how or even why she knew him; all she had were those two very faint memories of him.
❝ Ben? ❞ Rey's voice filled with uncertainty as the name leaves her lips. She's been on Jakku since she was seven. There's a very good chance that he would not remember her at all, and she wouldn't even be able to tell him how she knew him if he asked. She wasn't even sure if the memories were real, but she didn't have them before she heard that name. In the seventeen years she's been on Jakku; she hasn't had a new memory of her life before. That fact alone told her that this was different.
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