The Force of the Dyad

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After the initial shock of the revelation of Rey's pregnancy, she and Ben were ecstatic. Ben was astonished; he hadn't even considered fathering a child as a possibility, and Rey had never seen him so inflated with happiness and emotion. He looked like he was going to burst with pride. His eyes sparkled with love and tears as he gently lay his lightly glowing blue hand upon her stomach.

The thought had crossed Rey's mind once or twice in the beginning of their union; was pregnancy a possibility? She had quickly dismissed the idea as something inconceivable. Now with the startling news, her heart raced and she felt breathless, in awe. It filled up and satisfied an empty place inside her that she never had never known existed before this moment. She caught a fleeting vision of the future, a dark haired baby snuggled contentedly at her breast, both of them enveloped in Ben's protective arms. She knew then, that nothing was more important to her than this child was, Ben's child. Everything was perfect! She glowed with pleasure. 

After much laugher, exclamations, tears and questions, they found the baby was just exactly 5 weeks along. It was still too early for Rey to have noticed her slightly late period, and her stomach lay flat, giving no indication of the growing presence. The tiny heartbeat wasn't even detectable yet by machine, and only the blood analysis and the droid's standard body scan had picked it up. But Ben and Rey closed their eyes, and searched through the force, until the felt the minuscule brush of a tiny glowing presence.

As Ben looked with heartfelt delight into the eyes of Rey, Maz knowingly left the room to give the couple some privacy.

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"How ever did you know Maz?" Rey asked her perplexed, as the three sat down together in a snug little room of the castle. Maz chuckled in amusement. "Child, you don't get to be as old and experienced as I am without having a sense for these things. The story written in your eyes made me suspicious. All I needed to do was listen to the Force, and it soon told me the truth."

"We had no idea!" said Ben exclaimed. He was exited, thrilled; he sat up eagerly on the couch, tenderly supporting Rey in his arms, a hand resting against her lower stomach. He looked at Rey, with a burst of feeling, "I can't bear to take away my hand for a second! Every moment I can sense the baby growing stronger."

She looked at him tenderly, one hand resting on her stomach above his, and other cupping his cheek. Then she yawned.

"I HAVE been abnormally tired lately, other than that I've felt perfectly fine," she mused, breaking eye contact with Ben to look over at Maz. "Yes, YES!" (Ben's nerves were still heightened to a pitch of feverish excitement) "She's been sleeping a lot lately! And she's been absent minded too, I noticed it since our last days on Naboo, I keep catching her zoning out and daydreaming. And her appetite has increased."

Rey smiled, pleased that Ben had observed so much, and Maz laughed, "Well then, I advise you to get some rest. More time to talk later." She then sent Ben a sharp, sudden look, "You too young Solo. We want you to be as (she paused) present as possible." Then she left the room, and the blissful couple fell asleep in each other's arms, cradling the baby in their hands.

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Over the next few weeks, the couple excitedly started making their plans for the future. They had spent 8 days in the castle with Maz, until Rey's leg was completely healed. After she was cleared by the medical staff and had heard the baby's heartbeat on the ultrasound, the decided to take a little second honeymoon while they still had the chance. They flew lazily from place to place across Takodana; spending a few days at an ancient site here, then a week in pastoral village there.

They had many questions about this blessed pregnancy, their force miracle. Ben had rummaged through the Ewok to collect all the Jedi Texts, which they still had in their possession. He poured over the stale pages with Rey, looking for answers to their miraculous pregnancy. They knew it was possible theoretically for someone to manipulate medichlorians to create life, if the legends of Anakin Skywalker's virgin birth were to be believed; but there were no real answers to be found in any of the old books.

Ben and Rey finally came up with the simple conclusion, that their dyad bond being so unique, and their love for each other being so natural and selfless, their life force somehow combined to give them a baby. Rey DID have Ben's life force flowing through her after all, as her's was swirling inside him. That's what was keeping HIM with HER. Content with that answer for now, Rey and Ben started eagerly preparing to put their plans into action.

... to be continued.