Poe and Lorelai were making their way inside the Resistance when C-3PO caught them.

"Master Poe, Miss Lorelai!" he called out to them. "Come quickly! R2 is awake!"

Lorelai scrunched her face. "Wait what?" she asked. "I thought he was dead?" She turned to C-3PO. "No offense."

The droid stiffened. "None taken. But he is awake and he has something he'd like to show everyone."

Lorelai and Poe looked at each other and followed the droid to the control room where other Resistance officers, pilots, and Leia were standing. Leia along with Snap and Jessika took note of Poe and Lorelai holding hands and made faces.

"So what's going on?" Poe asked Leia.

"We could ask you the same thing," Snap remarked.

Lorelai rolled her eyes as Leia answered. "R2 has something to show us."

R2D2 rolled up in front of everyone and presented what looked like a large digital map. Everyone stared in awe and in confusion until Poe looked at the map on Leia's control table. "It looks like the map to Skywalker," he said.

"But there's a missing link," Leia pointed out at the empty slot in the map.

BB-8 beeped and rolled to Poe. "Yea buddy, hold on," Poe said. He grabbed something from the table and gave it to BB-8. BB-8 put inside one of it's compartments, rolled up to the map and presented what was the missing piece. Everyone gasped as the piece fit the missing spot.

"The map, it is complete! C-3PO exclaimed.

"Luke," Leia whispered to herself.

Everyone marveled at it as it even brought a smile to Lorelai's face. "But now who's going to go get him?" C-3PO asked.

The room went silent. Poe cleared his throat and attempted to raise his hand when Lorelai smacked it down. "Don't think about it," she mumbled. "They need you here."

"Oh? And you'll go?" he whispered back.

"Yeah because they'll send a girl with a concussion to get him."

"I'll go," a voice offered with determination.

Everyone turned to see Rey holding up her hand. Leia put a hand on the young woman's shoulder. "Are you sure you want to?" she asked.

Rey nodded confidently. "I can take the Millennium Falcon there."

Poe looked at Lorelai and went to say something when Lorelai grabbed his forearm. "Don't worry about it," she mouthed with a small smile.

"But you said-."

"He'd want her to have it. Besides, she'll have Chewie with her."

Poe nodded understandingly.

As everyone started making preparations, Rey approached Lorelai. "I'd like for you to come with me," she offered. "I need a second-in-command and since you were Han's, I figured you could be mine."

Lorelai smiled and shook her head. "Although it would be a honor, I'm afraid I have to stay here. Doctor's orders."

Rey nodded as Lorelai went on. "For the record Chewbacca was Han's second-in-command so you'll be in good hands."

She gave the young woman a hug. "Best of luck on your travels."

Rey smiled and thanked Lorelai as Lorelai turned to walk away. She found Poe talking to her parents and made her way over.

"Am I interrupting something?" she asked folding her arms across her chest.

Poe turned to her. "As a matter of fact, your dad and I agreed that since the doctor said you would be ok and since I would be checking in, I think they're good to go home."

Her father pat Poe on the shoulder. "I couldn't agree more."

Her mother marveled,"I really like this one, Lorelai."

Lorelai side-eyed Poe as she tried to fight back a smile. "Well, I'll be happy to escort you back to your ship, Mom and Dad."

Her parents gave Poe a warm goodbye and Lorelai said she'd be with them in a moment. She looked at Poe. "Thank you," she sighed.

"I just figured maybe we could get some alone time before the celebration."

"Speaking of which, meet me in our normal spot later tonight. Depending on how things go, maybe I'll join in on the party later."

She pat Poe on the shoulder and made her way to send her parents off.

Lorelai stood outside the Resistance base, gazing up at the night sky. Knowing the day was coming to a close brought relief. To say it had been the longest day of her life was understatement. She'd never admit it, but a part of her secretly had hoped to one day return to the Resistance ship. She had her reasons for why she had waited to do so and maybe one day, when she was comfortable, she would explain. For now, she was prepared to address only one of them.

"Been awhile since we've done this."

She looked over her shoulder to find Poe coming up from behind her. Her lips curved into a slight grin as a she hummed a quick "hmm". "I'm surprised you're here without BB-8," she said.

Poe stood in front of her. "Surprisingly he didn't put up much of a fight like he normally does. I think he knows something's up." He sighed. "So what is going on?"

She reached into her back pocket and pulled out the letter. "I found this earlier today."

He didn't flinch, much to her surprise. He acknowledged it with a quick glance before returning his eyes to her. "I meant everything I said," he stated.

"I'm not doubting your sincerity, Poe. I believe you but that doesn't mean I don't have questions."

He sighed. "Are you sure you want to do this now? After everything that's happened today, you want to throw this into the mix?"

"Here's a better question." She took a step closer to him. "Did you honestly think that when I back came to you, I would forgive and forget everything that happened?"

"I figured we'd eventually talk about it."

She folded her arms across her chest. "Poe, I love you and I want to be with you more than anything else, but I also don't want to act like I didn't run away for two years because you made me believe you didn't love me."

It was Poe's turn for tears. She watched him try to fight them off, but even the best pilot in the Resistance wasn't immune to tears. She would be lying if she said she didn't feel her own heart break by watching him, but she wasn't going to go easy on him.

As for Poe, he knew she was right. It was the one thing that haunted him from the moment he did it. He never forgave himself for it and it was punch in the gut whenever he was reminded of it.

"I know you're sorry," she went on. "I believe you when you say you would take it back if you could. But I also know that if you really loved me and you would do whatever it took to have me, you'd talk about this so we can work on this."

Poe took her hands in his. "What do you want to know?" he asked.

She had to fight off the urge to smile when it became clear he was all in. "Why didn't you talk to me about the Tatooine disaster?"

He closed his eyes for a moment, wishing she had worked up to that question. "I didn't want you to think I ever regretted saving your life." He opened his eyes. "Before then, I never had to choose which pilot's life was worth saving. I saw how Jensen's death impacted everyone and I was afraid people would find out about you and I and think that the choices as make as a leader come are personal."

"Which is why you pushed me out," she concluded.

He nodded. Lorelai let go and folded her arms across her chest. One statement answered so many other questions she'd had, except for one.

"You tried to get me suspended, Poe."

"Because you were acting out recklessly and it started to show in your work," he reminded her. "Not to mention, you started putting the lives of your co-pilots in danger."

"Why didn't you at least talk to me about it?!"

"You shut me out too, Lorelai!"

Silence fell as Lorelai processed what had just come out of his mouth. Deep down, she knew he had been right. There had been times where he tried to check in, tried reaching out, but the grunge she held against him prevented them from every being civil. She sighed. "You're right."

Then the realization came crashing down on her. She ran her hand through her hair and shook her head. "What are we doing?"

Poe furrowed his eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

"This." She motioned the space between the two of them. "All of this. We had too many issues before I left and clearly, they're not ones solvable enough for us to be..." she stopped, fearing she was sounding too cheesy or over dramatic. She waved it off. "This, us...we need to just be friends."

Poe grabbed her forearm. "Not happening," he said shaking his head.

She shook her arm away from his hold. "All we're gonna do is fight and argue about every little thing and at the end of the day, what's the point of being with someone who makes it a battle for you to be with them? You have so many people you could be with-."

"No."

"-who will make it easy for you to be with them-."

"No."

"Dammit, Poe! You know I'm right on this one!"

Poe shook his head. "You're not." He took a step closer. "You know damn well you're all I want and I'm what you want and for either one of to see each other with other people would kill us inside. That's worse than having to work this shit out between us. No we're not perfect and you are right - we have a lot of issues. But if you think for one second that either one of are walking away from this, you're wrong."

He placed the palm of his hand on her cheek. "I don't want anyone else. I want you," he told her. "If we have to work a little harder than most people to be together, then that's fine because at the end of the day I just want to be with you. Do you want to be with me?"

She couldn't fight the smile that was forming on her lips. "Yes."

He shook his head. "No, I wanna hear you say it in full."

"I want to be with you."

"And do you accept that we're not gonna be perfect but that we love each other and that we're gonna work as much as we can to sort out these issues?"

"I do."

"And do you accept my apology for trying to get you suspended and for being an asshole when I should have tried harder to talk to you?"

She chuckled. "I do."

He took another step closer, close enough to where they were face to face. "So kiss-."

Before he could even finish, she pressed her lips to his. Poe smirked as he deepened the kiss, his hands cradling her face. He pulled away for a moment and rested his forehead against hers for a moment.

"I love you so much," he murmured, just loud enough for her to hear.

She grinned. "I love you too."

"So are you still up for going to the party the pilots are throwing or...?"

"Depends, are you ready to be seen with me?"

Poe pressed his lips to her temple and wrapped an arm around her. "Not funny."

She giggled. "Just a little bit though."

And as they walked inside, BB-8 was there to greet them. Seeing the two of them together made the little droid roll around excitedly.

We're a family again! We're a family again!

"C'mon buddy," Lorelai laughed as she rubbed the droid's head.

The three of them headed off to the party Lorelai resting her head on Poe's shoulder and for the firs time in the longest time, there was nowhere else she wanted to be.

A/N: Yay! They're together! Thank you guys for the lovely comments and follows! It's been so fun to write such an imperfect character for a change and I'm so glad you all liked her. So I did see "The Last Jedi" on Monday night and I made mental notes for when I write the next story with these two. Hopefully that will be up shortly.

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