We've Done It All Before (And Now We're Back to Get Some More)

If I trust in you (Would you let me down)

The storage closet of the Millennium Inn was never one you would want to clean out. It had never once been thoroughly cleaned, and piles upon piles of junk had been thrown on top of each other, making the task of organization and cleaning an impossible feat. Of course, Anakin being Anakin, had to do something to occupy his mind from the inevitable snowball of events that would soon catch up to him and his mother once his dads arrive. 

Anakin began sorting through a couple of boxes he found in a grimy corner of the closet. Most of them were slimy with mold, and smelled putrid. 

"Boy, I would not want to be you right now!" an unrecognizable voice remarked. 

Anakin turned around to the source of the voice, eager to find out who was behind it. Instead of seeing one man, he saw three, slightly familiar faces that he could have sworn he saw before, in his mother's scrapbooks. 

The man who spoke earlier stepped forward, grinning brightly. He extended his hand for Anakin to shake.  While the two shook hands, the man spoke. 

"Hello! The three of us are here for the wedding! My name is Finn Storm," he pointed to the man wearing birdwatching binoculars and an Indiana Jones style getup standing next to him, "this is Poe Dameron," Poe replied by giving a small wave and a smirk, while Finn continued, "and Mr. Tall, dark, and grumpy over there is Ben Solo. You must be Rey's boy. Anakin, right?"

Anakin nodded almost too fast for his liking, then looked over to where the third man was standing, further away from the others. He was cautiously staring at the Inn, as if he was trying to commit it to memory. When his eyes met Anakin's, he quickly darted his eyes from the place and suddenly became very interested in his shoes. 

Anakin felt like he was about to faint. He did not expect any of them to show up, let alone all three. Now that they were here though, it caused a larger problem. Rey may come at any minute to check on Anakin, and he did not want her to see all of her exes at once. Quickly, he made the decision to move them secretly to another location. 

"Here, let me take you to your room!" he brightly said to all the men. Finn looked excited, and Poe let out a whoop of delight, saying something about the adventure that was just beginning. 

And Ben? 

Ben did not seem interested at all. 

***

"Well, here it is!" 

Anakin tried his best to be convincing, but nobody could make the old goathouse look hospitable. With wallpaper coming down from the walls, creaky floorboards, and a half-deflated air mattress, it was the furthest thing from a nice, relaxing place to stay on vacation. 

"That's it?," was Finn's confused reply. "I have a bad feeling about this."

"C'mon Finn!," exclaimed Poe, "It's an adventure!" 

While Finn muttered something about not being a spontaneous person under his breath, Ben took the moment of silence to speak up.

"When can we see her?" 

"Her?" For a short moment, Anakin forgot about writing the letters under his mom's name. "Oh, you mean my Mother?" 

For the first time during the whole trip, Ben actually looked excited. 

"Yeah, um, when can we see Rey?" 

Anakin grinned sheepishly. 

"I actually have a secret to tell the three of you... You see, mom didn't send the invitations. It, um, it was me." 

The three men looked shocked. 

"You mean, Rey doesn't even know we're here?" asked Poe, trying to wrap his head around the situation. 

"No, and I'd prefer it to stay that way. Then the three of you could be her lovely surprise at the wedding." 

While Finn and Poe seemed to be in agreement with the plan, Ben did not seem as delighted. He quickly reached for his suitcase, and practically bolted out of the goathouse, just to be stopped by the younger boy. 

"Please stay! It would mean so much to me, and my mother!" Anakin pleaded. 

"Listen kid. The last time I saw your mother, she told me she never wanted to see me again!" Ben practically growled at the boy, pushing past him to get to the door. 

He was once again stopped in his tracks when he heard the sound of a not-so-distant feminine voice humming.

Ben turned around to face Rey's son and his travel companions, the three men all having the same name at the tip of their tongue. 

Rey.

They all began to walk towards the door- towards the sound of her voice- when Anakin stopped them in their tracks. 

"No, no please stay! Promise me you'll stay! It would mean so much to me. And promise me that you won't tell anybody that I invited you here." After he was finished his pleading, he turned away from the men, and ran out the door, far away from his mother, and his dads. 

He had to find Paige.