Visibly crestfallen, Rey can't help but look away from Finn when she sees the incredulity and confusion written all over his face. At least it's not resentment, she tells herself, but this isn't even the hardest part. Something dark seizes upon that look on his face and tries to tell her that maybe it's too much at once, that he needs time, and she needs to figure out how to present it, but that's the paranoia and mistrust that she has worked hard to burn out of her, to purge, nearly at the cost of purging her relationship with Ben. She can't succumb to it now.
They're hard questions to answer, not least of all because she lacks the experience still to have a strong awareness of her own feelings, but that doesn't mean Finn doesn't deserve a clear answer. ]
I told you that we grew closer.
[ The weight of this statement seems to set aside the efforts to answer the rest. Finn already has the answer, anyway. He's the one who had been so insistent that actions were what mattered. She looks back at him. Because this IS a shounen anime and Naruto is NOT giving up on Sasuke just because he did some really fucked up shit to Sakura that one time. ]
The Dark Side feeds on pain and loneliness. I've seen how easy it can be to give into that, and how hard it is to root it out once it's there. But he still has a chance to turn away from it. As long as there's light inside of him, I'll choose to have hope.
[ She needs there to be a chance for him. If there's not, it means being alone like she was before. It seems too cruel the that Force should lead her to him like this, entwine them, only to rip him away. ]
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She was doing so well.
Visibly crestfallen, Rey can't help but look away from Finn when she sees the incredulity and confusion written all over his face. At least it's not resentment, she tells herself, but this isn't even the hardest part. Something dark seizes upon that look on his face and tries to tell her that maybe it's too much at once, that he needs time, and she needs to figure out how to present it, but that's the paranoia and mistrust that she has worked hard to burn out of her, to purge, nearly at the cost of purging her relationship with Ben. She can't succumb to it now.
They're hard questions to answer, not least of all because she lacks the experience still to have a strong awareness of her own feelings, but that doesn't mean Finn doesn't deserve a clear answer. ]
I told you that we grew closer.
[ The weight of this statement seems to set aside the efforts to answer the rest. Finn already has the answer, anyway. He's the one who had been so insistent that actions were what mattered. She looks back at him. Because this IS a shounen anime and Naruto is NOT giving up on Sasuke just because he did some really fucked up shit to Sakura that one time. ]
The Dark Side feeds on pain and loneliness. I've seen how easy it can be to give into that, and how hard it is to root it out once it's there. But he still has a chance to turn away from it. As long as there's light inside of him, I'll choose to have hope.
[ She needs there to be a chance for him. If there's not, it means being alone like she was before. It seems too cruel the that Force should lead her to him like this, entwine them, only to rip him away. ]