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4 years later...

He was staring out to the horizon. It's been four years since-no he can't think of it.

He heard someone coming up behind him.

The slightest gasp escaped their lips.

"You're back."

He nodded solemnly. No matter what anyone said, he still felt guilt for what happened.

"Come on, she's been expecting you."

She grabbed his hand and led him back to the school.

The academy was going smoothly with the occasional tantrums. But that's what they get for having a bunch of Force-sensitive kids and promoting both sides of the Force.

"Daddy!"

"Ah, Princess!"

The little blonde girl ran up to her father with open arms. He swung her up and pulled her into his chest as he stood.

"Has your teacher been giving you a hard time?"

The small girl shook her head with a giggle.

"I'm right here you know. It is time for lunch."

"Oh."

He leaned down and kissed his bride.

"Ew!"

His daughter hid her face in his shoulder.

He smiled turning his attention back to his little girl.

"I brought you back something sweet."

"You did!"

"Mhm. Go to the dining area, I'll meet you there."

He let her go and she went running.

"You know you can't keep making her happy with sweets."

"I can try," he laughed.

She poked him in the ribs.

"Hey!"

"You owe me too! You were gone for too long this time. And the Bond didn't connect us. I missed you."

He grabbed her into his arms.

"I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you tonight."

He leaned down to her lips but found air because she pulled back.

"You better Ben Solo."

She wasn't happy when she said his first and last name, he knew that. He's going to have to work tonight.

Ben squeezed Rey close. "Okay but let me go fulfill my first promise."

He jogged into the dining area where a bunch of little ones were stuffing their faces.

His baby girl was like a blot of sunshine in the dark.

She reached out with grabby hands when she saw him.

"Where's this one from?"

"Corellia."

He gave her the perfectly packaged sweet cake he found. She gasped at the swirling blue and red in it.

"Yay!"

He watched with amusement as she opened it.

Just watching her, brings back memories to the day he woke up.

Rey was sleeping next to his bedside. She said he'd been asleep for almost two weeks on a medically induced coma as they gave him blood and his body healed. But how he survived is a mystery. He felt himself die. Or so he thought. He could feel Light finally breaking through him and the Force extending past him in his body.

He felt at peace.

Rey said the ship blew up and she thought she was a goner too but when she woke up, they were both in a ball of metal. She used the Force to get them to the closest ship and break them out. The rest is history.

They both should be dead and yet here he is, watching his little baby stuff her face with Corellian cake.

She must've gotten the blonde from his grandfather. A more recessive gene but it's there.

Maybe she'll grow out of it. But she is pretty darn cute.

Poe and Ben came to an agreement and kept the First Order but the tyranny and fighting would end. Resistance fighters became a part of the new order and the stormtrooper program ended. Finn was Poe's secondhand man and babysat their daughter when both him and Rey were away.

Rey had the idea to start a new academy that accepted both Light and Dark sides of the Force. Ben helped those that had Dark side tendencies as he did, reassuring them that it was okay to have.

Once word was spread that a new Force-sensitive academy was opening, little kids from across the galaxy made their way here.

The oldest was maybe twelve and the youngest was his four-year-old.

Everything was going smoothly but every now and then he still had that gut feeling of shame and guilt.

He felt eyes burning into his back. This feeling is something else...he hasn't felt since he was a teenager...

"Daddy, you're not leaving again right?"

Ben shook his head, facing her again. "No. I'm not going to leave."

He grabbed a napkin and wiped her cheek.

"Daddy!"

"Padmé you have stuff all over your face."

"Alright kids, come on."

A boy immediately got up and ran past Rey. Everyone got up and walked out. What's up with him...?

"Ben. Let's go."

Rey lifted up Padmé onto her hip and reached for him with her other hand.

He took in the image. He never thought he'd have a child because of the fear his master gave him, that he'd torture and manipulate the child as he did to Ben. He didn't think someone would love and devote their life to him as Rey has.

"Come on."

He took her hand and kissed her knuckles.

Padmé rested her head on Rey's shoulder and he stood, walking out with them. Once they were out of the dining area, their little one slid out of her mother's arms and ran after everyone else.

Rey turned to him immediately.

"Ben-"

He grabbed her face and crushed his mouth to hers.

"I'm sorry. I'm here. You'll never be alone."

"Neither will you," she breathed.

Her hand reached up his neck as the continued to mesh together.

Her hand pressed to his chest as she pulled away.

"Welcome home, Ben."

Warmth always flooded through his body when she said that. And every time she said it, he knew he truly was.