Sorry this took so long guys. School has been killing me lately, and not to mention my laptop broke. Also, I decided to add one more chapter to this story so there's one left plus a prologue. Hope you enjoy and as always your reviews/faves/follows are always appreciated!
Poe watches in horror as Finn gets torn from his arms by two other stormtroopers that had followed Phasma into the room. "No!" He yells, moving to grab Finn before they can take him away. He's seconds too late, and millimeter off with his grab and the door slams shut in his face, barely missing his finger tips.
Pressing his face into the space between the bars, Poe can see Finn struggling against his captors as they drag him to the door. Somehow, he manages to get one arm free and takes a swing at the smaller of the two. Before his fist can even make contact, the tail end of Phasma's blaster hits him on the back of the head at full force.
As his body hits the floor, Poe lets out a loud yell. "Stop!" He calls after Phasma causing her to stop in her tracks. She motions for the two stormtroopers to continue on without her and turns back to the cell.
"This is my fault." Poe tries to explain, desperately clinging to the bars separating them. "I seduced him, he shouldn't be held accountable for this."
His words actually make Phasma laugh. Who knew she was even capable of it? "It doesn't matter whose fault it is you fool." She shakes her head still chuckling. "FN-2187 has proven that he's faulty, and the first has no faults."
"What's going to happen to him?" Poe whispers sadly.
He can't see the maniacal grin on her face, but he can hear it when she speaks. "He will be interrogated and terminated by morning."
Poe's heart drops to his stomach and his head falls forward to lean on one of the bars.
Phasma lets out another barking laugh. "Don't worry, you shall join him soon enough." With that she makes her exit, leaving Poe with only his thoughts.
A short while later, Poe is sitting with his back to the wall and his head resting on his knees which are pulled up to his chest. A new guard is standing watch in Finn's usual spot and Poe can't even bare to look at him.
When the door to the room opens, Poe feels like he could throw up. He's expecting Phasma, or maybe General Hux, (possibly even Kylo Ren if his day just really sucks that much) to walk in, drag him out of the cell, and lead him to his death.
What he's not expecting is a very short stormtrooper to walk in and without a word blast a hole straight through his guard's stomach. Yeah, that was quite the surprise.
He stares, his mouth hanging open as the short troopers helmet is lifted up to reveal a very familiar face. Jessika Pava's face to be exact.
Poe can honestly say he's never been this excited to see someone in his life, and considering he's met General Leia Organa that's saying something.
"Jess?" He exclaims, scrambling to his feet.
"No, Luke Skywalker." She says sarcastically, stepping over the corpse on the ground to grab the ring of keys that had fallen out of the troopers hand. She quickly unlocks the door and steps into the cell. "Did you not recognize me Poe? How could you forget a beautiful face like mine? Are you feeling okay? Did they brainwash you?" She questions, reaching a hand up mockingly to to his forehead to check for a temperature.
He slaps her hand away. "I'm fine, I just thought you were the stormtrooper coming to take me to my death."
"Oh." Jess says, for a second it almost seems as if she's gone serious but then "Did you piss in Phasma's caf or something?" comes out of her mouth.
Poe grimaces. "Something like that."
"Well come on hot shot, we need to get the hell out of dodge." She goes to walk out of the cell but Poe grabs her arm.
"Wait Jess, we have to find Finn."
She narrows her eyes at him. "What the hell is a Finn?"
"A friend." Is the only explanation Poe offers. He knows there's emotions written over his face and prays Jess is kind enough to just leave it for now.
Much to his luck, her face softens a bit and she just asks "Is he the one that warned us?"
Poe nods solemnly. "He got caught."
Jess sighs sadly at him. "Poe, I only came in a two person jet."
"Then it'll just have to be a tight squeeze because I'm not leaving without him."
She groans. "I hope you know that your loyalty and just general goodness is going to be the death of me."
He just quirks an eyebrow up at her in response. Throwing her hands up, Jess relents. "Fine! Let's go save your boyfriend."
With a gring Poe walks out of the cell ahead of her. "By the way, what happened to BB-8?"
"So much." Jess replies. "I'm sure you'll hear the whole story when you get home but let's just say it involves a jedi no one knew existed and Han Solo almost getting eaten by a wrathtaur."
Poe just stares at her disbelievingly. She shrugs. "Fine don't believe me. Now what's our plan?"
Ten minutes later, Poe and Jess are making their way through the long and winding hallways of starkiller base. Jess is following Poe, gun pointed at his back. Poe is pretending that his hands are tied behind his back, and is stumbling along like he's being forced to keep walking.
He really hopes they're heading in the right direction. He's almost positive Finn is being held in the usual interrogation room. Considering he's only been fully conscious for one trip there he's honestly not sure he knows where they're going.
"Can we get a move on?" Jess hisses from under the helmet. Her anxiety is growing by the second.
Poe just flips her off behind his back in response.
Just seconds later they encounter a stormtrooper patrol rounding the corner. Jess just nods her head in a silent greeting, and Poe tries his best to just stare at the ground and look as depressed as he possibly can.
By some miracle, none of the troopers say anything and they pass by without incident. Poe lets out a sigh of relief as soon as the coast is clear. He makes a mental note to thank the maker for that one later. That is if they manage to make it of here alive.
As he leads them down another corridor, and around another corner, he finally sees the door. There's a stormtrooper positioned outside.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" The trooper exclaims, pointing the blaster in his hands at them.
Poe opens his mouth to speak but doesn't even get a word out before Jess shoots the trooper with her own blaster. Poe just turns to stare at her, and she shrugs. "I just really like this thing okay?"
Shaking his head, Poe picks up the blaster now lying at his feet.
The door to the room opens and suddenly blaster fire is being aimed their way. They take cover around the corner they had just came from, and start to fire back. There's three troopers shooting at them, and with one shot Poe takes one of them down.
The other two continue to fire as he ducks back around the corner. He hears one body hit the ground as Jess leans forward, shooting.
Poe quickly takes care of the last one and they walk up to the door. One is on either side, as the door swishes open. They enter gun first, but everything seems to be clear.
"Poe?" Finn exclaims.
The blaster drops to the ground as he rushes over to loosen the straps binding Finn to the interrogation chair. "Hey, buddy."
As soon as Finn is free of the chair, he launches himself at the older man and wraps his arms around his neck. Poe chuckles. "What, did you think I forgot about you?"
Finn's hand comes up to touch his cheek. "I thought you were dead."
"I thought I was goner too there for a second." Poe replies, with a grin.
Finn leans forward and quickly presses their lips together.
Then of course Jess has to interrupt.
"As touching as this is boys, we have company." She tosses a gun Finn's way just as the door opens and blaster fire erupts on all three of them.