Everything happened so suddenly and yet so fast that Rey could hardly keep her thoughts straight. The thoughts that were her own in the first place that is. Images of a beautiful woman, herself laughing, and the pained expression of the man before her blew through her thoughts like a sandstorm, scattering particles of feelings, reactions, emotions, and sorrows. Rey thought she might collapse, there was so much entering her brain at once - like a lightning bolt striking across the sky.
“Stop…” she pleaded for a moment, but as her own childhood screams filled her ears once again she added her own scream and she flung herself away from Luke - away from those memories. “STOP!!”
And like a flash it was over. Rey collapsed to the ground, covering her heart with her hand as stinging, hot tears fell down her face. For several seconds it was all she could do to kneel there gasping for air and shaking so hard she thought she might be sick. And still the images wouldn’t leave her. Still she saw the woman’s face, the pain in her eyes as she died, and the agony she felt from both this man and herself as he flew away.
“D-Don’t…do that…again,” she panted, curling in on herself. That was all she could think to say. What else was there to say? It was all so much and so fast, Rey was just scrambling to come to grips with what she had seen.
Luke watched his daughter in pain and he immediately regretted his decision to show her all that he had. But it’s not like he had much other choice, she had to know the truth.
“I’m sorry...” Luke whispered, kneeling down beside her and putting a hand on her shoulder. “What I did, I did out of love. I didn’t have any other option than to give you up. I feared that if you stayed with me, the First Order would find you no matter how far we traveled. I couldn’t lose you like I lost your mother.” He explained with a shaky voice.















