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Rey tried to explain.
“It’s not that I was a bad
person, I just didn’t do those things we saw. It was an honest mistake, but we
don’t have to tell anyone, right? I mean, I was probably good enough to be here
anyway. Let’s just keep it between us, okay?” She realized she was babbling,
and clamped her mouth shut.
Ben just blinked at her.
“Say something,” Rey begged.
“Something,” Ben mouthed.
Rey rolled her eyes. “You know what I mean. It’s not like I asked to be put in this situation. It’s just up to me to, I don’t know, find a way out of it. Cope with it. Get better.”
Ben frowned. “That’s actually not a
bad—”
A lightbulb went off in Rey’s head.
“Hey!” she interrupted him,
grabbing his hand, “you were an ethics professor, right? Well, why don’t you
teach me how to be better? Like, good enough to have done those things,” Rey
clarified brightly, gesturing in the general direction of where the extra-dimensional screen-thing had been.
Ben’s lips quirked, and Rey found
her eyes drawn to the action. Sure, the guy had a weird personality, but he was
hot. Those lips…
“I don’t know if it works that
way…” Ben began, breaking Rey’s obsessive reverie.
“Why not?” Rey asked, a little
offended.
“I…”
“Please, Ben? Please?” Rey asked,
fluttering her eyelashes at him. It had never really worked while she was alive
but what the hell, right?
Ben’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and
down, his expression pained.
Finally, he croaked, “Fine.”
Rey grinned. “Really? You’ll do it?”
“Yes, Rey, I’ll teach you ethics,”
Ben said.
“Great! When—”
A knock sounded at the door, bright
and quick ‘rat-tat-tats’ that only could have belonged to someone who never had a care in the world.
“Come in!” Rey called, a little too
quickly. She looked at Ben quickly, begging him with her eyes to not say
anything.
Ben looked uncomfortable but nodded
stiffly.
The door opened.
It was Leia.