REY SAT on her bed. She had just woken up from her slumber. The young woman rubbed her eyes and then halted. Sensing something. No something. She looked around. She was on high alert. She knew this presence, she knew it well enough. She looked around until finally, it was like her eyes landed on someone. Once she felt he could see her as well, Rey couldn't reached for her blaster and fired at the wall.

She sat there, breathing heavily, anxious. She held her blaster still firm in her hand, pointing aim at the wall to strike it again. Although, she stared at her target, the wall, has a newly fresh hole in it. She drops the blaster on her mattress and ran out of the hut. She didn't get too far when she still sensed him again.

She turned around and she saw him. Kylo Ren. On a Star Destroyer hallway. But, he wasn't physically here, on the island, this was something was not familiar with.

Kylo Ren extends his hand, "You'll bring Luke Skywalker to me."

Rey doesn't comply. She doesn't move. She merely just stares at Kylo Ren, somehow seeing him from across the galaxy.

Kylo Ren lowers his hand, "You're not doing this. The effort would kill you." He says.

Rey still says nothing. Whereas, Kylo Ren was slightly impressed. He turned around in the hallway before turning back to address Rey.

"Can you see my surroundings?" Kylo Ren asks.

Rey glares, "You're going to pay for what you did!"

"I can't see yours. Just you." Kylo Ren looks at her, "So no. This is something else."

Rey is nearly startled by the sound of a door opening. It was Luke. Rey turns her head in the direction.

"Luke," Kylo Ren says.

Rey looks back at the direction of Kylo Ren, only hearing a muffled coming from Luke. She turns around to the former Jedi and heard his question.

"What's that about?" Luke asks.

Rey noticed he was pointing to the hole in her hut, "I was cleaning my blaster." Rey says, "It went off."

{THE LAST JEDI}

LYING WAS not something Amara found quite easy.

"Commander Solo," Vice Admiral Holdo addressed in the bridge, "How is Captain Dameron?"

Amara saw some eyes on her. Some of her fellow colleagues she had worked with since she was fifteen were looking in her and Vice Admiral's direction.

Amara shakes her head, "He is sulking, ma'am." She says.

Holdo looked at Amara stiffly and nods, "I see."

Amara nods, "He was with my mother at her bedside, but told me he was going to his quarters to freshen up."

Amara watched the Vice Admiral turn from her. Amara wasn't sure if she had been caught in the lie. Amara's eyes slowly drift to Connix, who did not believe Amara's claims at all.

Holdo nods, "Very well," She smiles at Amara, "You are dismissed, Commander Solo. I am certain you want to be at your mother's side right now."

Amara nods, "Yes, ma'am."

Amara glanced briefly at Connix before leaving the bridge.

She walked down the halls leading to the medic in a quick pace. After her second chat with her brother, she felt a little on edge and it didn't help that she was alright with lying to the highest ranking member of the Resistance at the moment. Amara walked into the room that housed her unconscious mother. Amara found herself sitting by her mother's bedside. She reached out and held onto her mother's hand. Leia looked so weak, so unlike herself.

Amara frowns.

This was not how her mother sold her the idea of helping the Resistance when she was fifteen. Amara was a loss soul. She lost too much. Her brother dying, but in reality being apart of the First Order. Her father leaving her and her mother, only to die by the hands of her brother. Amara felt a tear slide down her cheek. She felt numb. She felt cold.

She used the hand that wasn't holding her mom's hand to wipe the tears away. She moved her gaze from her mother to the window. She could hear the echos of the blasts hitting the shield. Time was limited.

{THE LAST JEDI}

HE SENSED something. Briefly. Luke and Rey were walking up the hill in the direction of a large mountain on the island for her first lesson in learning why the Jedi need to die. Luke stopped for a moment. Rey glanced at the former Jedi master's back.

"Everything okay, Master Skywalker?" Rey asks.

Luke only nods, "It's nothing."

As they continued up their hike, Rey kept catching up to walk next to him and continue on how she and the Resistance needs him.

"Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force." Rey says, "Without the Jedi, we won't stand a chance against him."

Luke gave her a side glance, "What do you know about the Force?" He asks.

They had finally reached the location on the mountain where Luke wanted to bring her. It's through what seemed to be an old Jedi temple or something. But he brought her to the outside, by a cliff.

Rey looks at him, "It's a power that Jedi have that let's them control people and make things float."

Luke nearly chuckled, "Impressive," He shakes his head, "Every word in that sentence was wrong."

Rey looks at him confused. Luke gestures to the rock in front of him, overlooking the sea. Rey looks from the rock to the old man.

"Lesson one, sit here, legs crossed." Luke says.

Rey nods and does exactly what Luke had told her.

"The Force is not a power you have. It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things, a tension, a balance, that binds the universe together." Luke explains.

Rey looks at him, "Okay." She says, "But what is it?"

Luke looks at her, "Close you eyes. Breathe. Now, reach out."

After he said that, Rey extended one of her hands. She was reaching out literally. Luke just rolled his eyes at that action. He reached over and grabbed a leaf and rubbed it against her palm.

"I feel something." Rey says with a smile as her eyes remain closed.

"You feel it?" Luke asks her.

Rey nods, "Yes, I feel it." She answers him.

"It's the Force," Luke tells her.

Eyes still closed, Rey seemed shocked.

"Really?" Rey asks.

Luke continued on, "Wow, it must be really strong with you." Luke says.

"I've never felt anythi-," Rey cut herself off.

Rey then was slapped by a branch. She opened her eyes and yelped a little from the short lasting pain from the branch slapping her hand. She looks at Luke.

"You meant reach out like," Rey understood, "I'll try again."

Luke watched her close her eyes once again. This time not reaching her hand out like she did before. She was relaxing.

"Breathe," Luke tells her, "Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see?"

"The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence." Rey answers the man.

Luke leans a little close to her, "And between it all?" He asks.

"Balance," Rey says, "And energy. A Force."

Luke kept his glance on Rey, "And inside you?" He asks.

"Inside me the same Force." Rey says.

Luke moves and now stands in front of Rey. A sense of nostalgic rose through the older Skywalker, only briefly. A feeling of being a young boy being taught the ways of the Force by his mentors.

"And this is the lesson," Luke says, "That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you fee that?"

Rey's face changes despite her eyes still being closed. It was like she sensed something. Something beyond the light and warmth.

"There's something else beneath the island." Rey says, "A place. A dark place."

Luke nods, "Balance. Power light, powerful darkness."

Rey moves her head, "It's cold. It's calling me." Rey says.

Luke's eyes widen, "Resist it, Rey. Rey?"

Just then he saw the small pebbles around them lift in the air. Luke looks at that, looks at Rey sort of lift into the air through her mediation. Luke could not allow for this to happen again.

"Rey!" Luke yells.

Suddenly Rey was back. She had fallen off the rock. She looked shocked. Stunned to say the least. She looked to Luke.

Luke looked at her in disbelief, "You went straight to the dark." He says.

Rey tries to get up, "That place was trying to show me something." She explains.

Luke walks away but halts, "It offered you something you needed and you didn't even try to stop yourself." He looks at her.

Rey's brows furrow, "But I didn't see you. Nothing from you."

Then a realization came to her.

"You've closed yourself off from the Force." Rey says, "Of course you have."

Luke kept his eyes on her, "I've seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo. It didn't scare me enough then, but it does now."

Luke walks off, leaving Rey stunned and alone. Yes, he closed himself off of the Force, but every now and then he picks up a Force. He senses something or someone. He can't ever be sure who or what it is. Was it Ben? Was it Leia? One thing is for sure, Luke Skywalker can't be for sure, because it could very well be Amara.

{THE LAST JEDI}

HER EYES turn. What was this that Amara was sensing while in space. She moved from her mother's bedside and directly to the window. She saw the escape pod sneak away. Poe managed to get them out without being caught. She knew Poe probably convinced Connix to keep quiet to Holdo about the pod leaving the ship. Probably using some sort of lie like debris or something.

Amara shakes her head. That wasn't what she had been sensing. The sound of water escaped her ears. She lifted her head and turned around her. Her eyes darting around. She sensed him. Her eyes widen.

"Luke," Her voice was low.

She felt him look in her direction, but yet it seemed as if he didn't see her or hear her, but just looked at her. Amara frowns when the feeling of Luke faded from her reach. She turns to the window again.

"I always wondered as a child," Amara found herself saying to herself, "Why Ben always seemed to be close to Luke."

Amara pushed herself away from the window. Her eyes turn to her mother.

"You were always away, mother. You and father were never around." Amara claims looking at her, "It was only us growing up. Sometimes we had Luke visit but- but he never seemed to want to be around me."

Amara frowns.

"Did I do something as a child? Did I offend him?" Amara asks.

She shakes her head. She ran her hands through her hair, almost wanting to pull it out with frustration.

"I understood when- when Ben was showing signs of Force sensitivity that Luke would take an interest in him, but- but when we were children?" Amara asks.

She doesn't know if she should continue her rant. No one was here to help guide her. Her father, dead. Her brother, practically dead to her. Her mother, close to death but still breathing. Her uncle, apparently closed himself off from reaching her. Tears slid down Amara's cheeks. Amara stepped forward and stood next to her mother's bed. She looked down at Leia and kept her frown.

"I just- I just want to know why?" Amara says.

{THE LAST JEDI}

LUKE FELT it. He sensed her briefly. Like he did before. Luke looked behind him. No it wasn't Rey, but it was female.

Leia?

No. That wasn't it. He heard the sound of crying. He turned his attention and could see her, Amara. She was holding the hand of an unconscious woman. Luke couldn't tell, he wasn't certain. He sensed a brief pain and sorrow through this moment, before she faded from his sight and sense. Luke stood by his hut. His home. And he hesitated on going back inside his home. He glanced back in the direction he looked before and saw his niece, but now only sees the caretakers of the island.

Luke frowns.

That sadness and pain was what Amara had been feeling. Was Amara aware of Ben turning to the dark side? Was Amara aware of Han's passing? Where was she? And how has she been able to send some sort of Force presence to him despite blocking out the Force.

"She is strong," Luke says to himself, "But is she stronger than her brother? That's another story."