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Rey
Lucretia Greenstone what a beautiful name it is, even after five teen years it still foreign for me. Yaa, five teen years life in mask, is it what Ben feel? I try to enjoy my life but still it feel empty, since he gone I feel empty. Even after being reborn the feeling still the same, we are DYAD two that one. I did not notice it first when he just gone in fact I'm in autopilot since Exogol. I let the resistance Rey take control of my self, the Rey that they know but not the real Rey that only him know. For five years after Exogol I live in mask, and no one know, that inside the mask is broken and hollow girl, a half soul with numb heart. How cruel fate is, to set us together only to separate us.
I kept wondering from my seat in the compartment looking out to the Platform 9 3/4, looking to my fellow schoolmate parting with their parents. I also arrive with my parent but they already left, we arrive early because my parent did not like crowds and me also. Besides arrive early give lot of advantage, the compartments still empty so I can choose with ease without competing. Parent, I always wondering the feel having parent in previous life, I thought this is peace gift from the cruel fate, they not bad parent though, but they just like any other parent. Sometimes I grateful, sometimes I hate it, and i understand Ben more now. Sometime having no parent actually the best after experiencing it first hand. They love me of course, I love them and they love each other but there is so many tensions and fight also, but there is more happiness in our family, just like what Han said sometimes life is going zigzags. For what I know, Han and Leia marriage life always Zigzag rarely in straight line. I know that Han and Leia trying to be good parents but they not trying enough. Han always away, because that is how he lives, to run in the first sign of trouble, meanwhile Leia always away because she put her priority in the wrong place, at the end because she trying to save galaxy so hard and neglect her duty to the family become the cause of galaxy destruction.
"Hey Rey!"
I got awoken from my thoughts and move my head toward the source of the voice, looking to the entrance and there is Daphne and her little sister Astoria Greengrass
"Hey! Come in, nice to meet you all"
I reply cheerfully, we are come from the same root that can be trace up to Salazar Slytherin it self, so we are family and technically with lot of generations before us and cousins intermarriage each other, well we can be consider cousin.. hell all the pure blood in Hogwart now are cousin with each other or at least they parent are cousin Astoria boyfriend, malfoy, also our cousin.
"Halo Rey!"
Speak of the devil here he are. I talk to myself. when I heard the voice behind them. Of course he will joining in with Astoria here. He actually good guy, he just spoiled.
"Hey Draco!"
I reply back uninterested. He is the bad face of the Slytherin. I always wondering why everyone hate us so much, so many prejudice about us. Even though lot of dark wizards come from us but also the other houses. Merlin it self come from our house. Lot of the times when the other student provoke us and we retaliate we will be the one being blamed. Of course in the case of Malfoy and his gang it is true that they always looking for trouble.
They move in and join me in the compartment, I start talking with Daphne, her sister and malfoy are on their own now. Daphne start telling about her summer vacation after the camp. Every year during summer, just week after the start vacation, there will be new world order conference, meanwhile the adults attending the conference the young one will have summer camp near the vicinity, there will be lot of propoganda ingrain to us but also lot of party, games and some magical workshop to make sure we are ahead. That two weeks long event and every year the venue are moved, this year was in Mexico. I heard some noise from the platform and my head automatically turn to the source of noise. Then my gaze fall to the black hair boy pushing trolley with white owl on top of his luggage. I forgot the noise immediately because of the owl. The owl that supposed to be mine, I longingly watch it. I remember that day four years ago in diagon alley, I wondering alone to stretch my knees then I spot that white owl, in instance I fall in love in it and I run toward my dad, forcefully tug him to the store, but when I arrive that owl no longer there. Few days after I spot it again in that boy possession. My scavenger instinct from past life still kick in, I dislike him in instance not hating him, because even I see it first he the one to get it first in which is fair enough, but still it left sour feeling every time I remember it. Good thing I found another handsome owl, the fur is jet-black, remind me of Ben hair. Seeing the cloudy sky, make me miss the heat and dryness of Jakku, especially when the season got so wet,damp and the sky dim for months.
"That is the golden boy of Dumbledore."
Malfoy pointed out and he start to badmouth him and start his lecture on how unfair Hogwart is. I agree with all his words. I always wondering how the professors and headmaster always close their eyes on every deed he done. They not even trying to be subtle on their favouritism toward him and in extend the Gryfindor. Since his first year until recently he had breaking hundred of rules and disobey direct order, but yet instead of being punished he being rewarded. No wonder lot of Slytherin hate him and the other Gryfindor in general. I try to distant my self from them, they have habit to provoking or hit our button perfectly. I just want to enjoy my life that given by that cruel life to me, but how hard I try to enjoy it there is still something empty in me that couldn't be satisfied, my other half, my DYAD, it feel that my soul is incomple, but this feeling also gives me hope that maybe Ben also reborn in this world and the cruel fate still separate us waiting for the right time to unite us, to complete each other.
I continue my conversation with Daphne for sometimes. When the train move and entering the rural area, we stop because other Slytherin girls calling us to join them, but I did not, I want to enjoy the scenery in peace, I like the sight of green thing, I will never tired on it. Unknownly I fall asleep gazing the scnery, until I got awoken by Daphne who must be return when I fall asleep. She woke me up for the food cart which pass by our compartment, she knew that I love to it and will be grateful to be woken up for food, I buy some chocolate and candies, my most favourite delicacies in this new world. Then I heard some commotions from the outside of our compartments, some students running and noisily shouting to announce something interesting in the sky beside our train. I'm always curious person, beside Daphne drag me out, so I follow her to the hall way and direct my gaze to the direction of the finger of other students pointing.
Then I saw it a black motorbike with side car flying following the rail to the north. The driver must be a man he massive, tall and in all black attire just like Ben, then the smaller one in his back also in all black with her hand circling the center of the male infront, glued her self to his back, yes I'm pretty sure it is she. I don't know why but I feel upset and jealous suddenly seeing how intimate they are. I going to return my compartment when I heard some students gossiping about the new professor from MACUSA and the new subjects in Hogwart, they wondering if what we just saw are the two new additions. Surely they heard two new Professors and the fact newest model of motorbike with two figures just flying past us to the same direction we go, they jump to conclusion immediately.
I continue to my compartment and make myself comfortable, have a chat while consume the snacks we just bought and planning to sleep again, but my thought wondering once again.. MACUSA.. from the Muggle entertainment I covertly acquire, I come to know that the accent of people from that place are the same with Ben, just like my accent similar with the people in this country. I don't know why something warm come from inside of me. I start to wondering if today is when the fate will reunite us? That I will possibly met Ben again soon? Somehow I'm assured that I will met Ben soon. Unknownly I fall a sleep with smile in my face.
I got awoken by soft touch from daphne, the sky already dark and Hagrid calling the first year for their ritual. It is good that the sky is clear unlike last year when the first year forced to cross the lake under the rain. When I step out from my carriage, I saw Hagrid at the end of the paltform talking with five adults, three males and two females. It is to far to see the detail about them but one of the male and female are dressing in full black just like the rider of the flying bike we saw earlier in train, Im pretty sure they are the same one they standing closely. The male so tall almost two meters with broad frame, just like Ben and the female quiet tall also with stunning figure, in the Muggle world she will be one of those supermodel I'm pretty sure. I didn't like how closely they standing together somehow.
I'm also quiet tall, five centimetres taller that my height in previous life. Of course Im growing up with plenty of real food now. I got all the nutrition my body needed to properly grow. My boobs even bigger, still small but bit bigger than the one in my previous body. Big for small boobs category. Maybe if bit bigger I will fall under mid size. How funny of how conscious about my appearance now. Growing up in prestigious family bring in lot of new attitudes. They raise me up to be a proper lady, not only body conscious also fashion and manner. I'm call as Slytherin ice princess for some reason. Even though my family are prestigious also, I'm granddaughter of the emperor of Galaxy spanning empire, which family can beat that? But the empire had fallen and my family not there to raise me up.
Then I saw the bike, in my way to the carriage. That is BMW, color black with some patern of chrome and red. Just like his TIE silencer color pattern. The crowd of the students push me forward and I follow the streams. I trying to calm my self, trying to not putting my hope high.
I'm already very bored and hungry, and that made me very dangerous I think, all my friends now better to not disturb me. They know to stay away from me if I'm hungry or I'm in my monthly period. The cycle is regular in this life, in the past because I always busy, hungry, and tired the chaotic cycle easily forgotten even after Jakku, I always busy training, fighting or in missions until my demise. Bringing down a regime is easier than maintaing one. Food is always my weakness, and empty stomach make me impatient, after luxurious life for fifteen years, hunger and suffering become alien for me. Thankfully the selection ceremony almost finish, this year Hogwart saw another new big batch, with two hundred something new first year and almost fifty new transfers, half of it from north America and another half from another countries also in turmoil looking for peaceful environment in england, they did not know that we are ticking time bomb also. The political condition in magic world are in turmoil everywhere since the fall of Voldemort decade ago. His ideology unexpectedly spread around the world with some new modification and here the birth place of Voldemort ironically we look immune of it in the surface.
The rise of the New World Order ideology had destabilise lot of magic governments around the world, the worst is in MACUSA, they are split into three faction with their own vice-president and working government, even the ilvermorny are also split into three, the the west, the south and the central. The west are under Muggle friendly faction which believe that magic community should integrate more with the Muggle world, they are the smallest between the tree, the south they believe that the magic community should be the overlord of the Muggle, they are the most active one, my family was one of those from many families in britain who sympathize with their cause, hell the fact we always attending that ideology conference every year, was the prove that my family is not only sympathize but strong supporter of the cause and lastly the central, they are the biggest actually but also the most passive one, well they just want to preserve status quo and afraid of full scale war. Everybody knows that open war will erupted anytime soon, the shadows conflicts and small scale skirmish already happening all over north america. Their situation comparable or even worse than what happen in Muggle world, the coldwar. Everyone sure the five of the open war in MACUSA is the old sickly president, no election held since the split and no one protesting, he just figure to show the world that their still one single body, the vice-presidents are the real power holder there.
UK still cool though, but everyone know that it just time when the conflict will come. The rumour of the return of Voldemort make the situation here worse. Everyone know that someone buildup an army and war inevitable. Proven by the ever increasing abduction of young magic user case every year in this isles, this is the cause why the parents now a days are over eager to send their child to Hogwart, and ministry incentive on tuition fee also helping a lot. Now the poor wizard family can afford to send their children here. As a result the number professor are doubling since I first step in. For now we had two professor for every subject, one will handle the year one up to four and the other year five to seven. The parents know that their child are saver here that in their own home, because in Hogwart they properly protected. What's more with two squads of Auror assigned to protect Hogwart's plus half of the new addition professors are retired Auror. Strong opposition of this move sarcastically call us as the Azkaban of the Northland in daily prophet comparing us to the real one in North sea. I have fighting the war for six years and I strongly agree that over protection for the children are important.
In the past I have joining the war that I didn't understand and fighting the enemies I didn't know. I'm to occupied in the force things to really saw the bigger picture. I never realized until the last year of my previous life that I fighting for the corrupt and rotten systems that failed me and galaxy. If I just know or bother to learn more about the galaxy maybe I will take Ben hand in supremacy regardless he is or not. I learn to late that actually the vision and mission of first order is noble, but they execute it poorly. Ben have no interest in leading just force things same like me, Hux is psychopath and pryde tyrannical like my grandfather. The officers are practically on their own and they just did what they know, fighting.
Look like I lost on my thought to long, dumbledore just about finish talking.. At least the time for supper. Then the main door suddenly open, and all heads are turn to the door. Walk-in side by side are the same pair we saw earlier in the flying bike. Now I can saw them closely and clearly then before. The two figure are in all black, stars they look like blacksider wizards. I heard lot of giggling, murmur and gasp from the higher year students of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw girls and boys alike, as their table are in the middle between us and those haughty Gryfindor which give them front seat of the center alley. Thanks maker those Gryfindor far away from us, but it unusual for the boy to act like that. My gaze fall to the smaller figure, I can see why, she stunning, even as a woman myself I see her beautiful, her hair is long and wavy golden blonde, she had sharp electric blue eyes, her body is fit and curvy, she quiet tall as I guest earlier I think one hundred eighty if her heels is standard. But the next figures are bigger and taller, her head only reach up that big ear under the long jet-black hair. His face, wait.. those ears,,, nose,,, lips,,, and eyes..
Unknownly I standup from my seat, I can feel all the eyes start move to me, I couldn't move my head, I frozen in my position staring to him, after fifteen years I never forgot that face. For many years I dreaming the fist moment I saw him and the last moment I saw his face. It is no wrong.. his gaze now also move to me, our eyes are now on each other, I can see he is also shock.. I'm pretty sure, he is who I'm waiting for, who I looking for.
Dumbledore voice bring my sense back, and seeing many eyes on me as I sat back quickly, but my eyes still following him. Then I saw the woman linking her arm to his arm and close the gap between them. I hate that women immediately and murderous aura unknownly come from me
"I introduce you Professor Benjamin Sorne and Professor Philomena Thorne, they will be our new professors for our new subject Magical weapon and Physical defence art"
Dumbledore introduce to us, he continue his speech, they sit together side by side and she still continue to seduce Ben. That make me more angry some how. I return to my sense when the food suddenly pop out in front of me. I saw him going out toward the side door. For the first time I didn't mind the food, for the first time I didnt care I'm hungry, I move towar main door calmly, when I'm out I start running to the are side of main hall, after few years living here, I didn't even paid attention to the hallway I choose, then I start yelling
"BEN! BEN!"
All Infront of me are dark and empty, I didn't know that my cheeks already wet. I kept running, calling, and looking for any sign of him.
"Rey...."
I stop suddenly in moment I hear my name spoken, the voice, it is the same, I turn my body fastly to the source of the voice. I met the his eyes, his hands are moving slowly to my cheecks, cuping them then tracing my face with those big palms of him. My hands also similarly move to his big face. I trace his face, once again, softly I call his name
"Ben....."
He reply softly
"Rey...."
I didn't need affirmative words to know that he is my Ben, and he also know that I'm his Rey.. his left hand move to the back of my head and his right to my back, my hands move to his shoulder, I tiptoeing, I used my hands to stabilise my position, his hands pull my body up and closer to his body, our face become closer and closer, the tip of our nose are touching now, our body press each other now, I can fill his warm come to my body, his scent, and now our lips meet each other.. it is the longest second I ever want and the shortest minutes I ever experienced, we stop for air to fill our link, we still maintain our eye contact.
I didn't even worry if someone see us, I didn't even care even if the entire world see us. I now what we did will put him in big trouble, biologically I still fifteen years old girl, a child, even though mentally I'm fourty years old woman, this condition is the reason why hard to me to mingle with my peers, I saw the others as a child, and they saw me as an arrogant and pompous girl, my family background not help even cemented it, whole school even the professors, I guess think that I saw my self as royalty and they are commoner.. it is true though that I'm a royalty. In this new world I got etiquette lesson ingrain to me since the first time I can walk from my parent. how funny I think, born as princess, grew up as scavenger, died as Jedi, reborn in noble family and accused as princess wannabe and now in embrace of a man who is born as a prince of dead world, raise up to be a Jedi, grew old as knight of darkness then died as unknown hero then reborn again as.. hmm I thinking to much. I put my thought aside, adjust my position, planning to drag him to a certain secret and safe room in seventh floor, with exciment and fluttering stomachi said to him "follow me, I know a place"