16 Bookmarks by Laburd

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    Leia hasn't seen Alderaanian braids like these in ages, but the real surprise is who wove them into Rey's hair.

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    Towel still draped over his face, the man paired his silence with almost inhuman stillness, as if he were listening intently. She’d never been as adept at reading the Force as Luke, but even she could perceive how it quivered around them. Was he Force-sensitive too?

    Rey’s hand snaked out lightning-quick and circled the span of his wrist.

    “It’s okay,” she murmured as if calming a skittish animal. “It’s okay. Don’t go. I’ve—I’ve already told her everything.” She stole a glance at Leia, lower lip caught between her teeth. “Well, almost everything.”

    ***ON TEMPORARY HIATUS***

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    23 Jun 2024

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    “There’s no shame in it, by the way,” Ben murmurs over his shoulder, the barest hit of teasing creeping back in along the edges of his low voice. An unmistakable downward dip of his eyes that she does not understand nor wish to analyse.

    “What?” Rey mutters quietly, feeling as though all the fight has left her mind and body.

    “Not knowing certain things… and needing a teacher.”

     

    (In which Rey tries to navigate her new life on the Resistance’s base while the newly-defected Ben Solo makes himself the bane of her existence)

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    16 Jun 2024

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    After an argument over Star Wars fandom with a "gatekeeping, entitled monster" with the cryptic username of KyloRen, Rey finds herself stuck in a series of unavoidable video calls.

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    15 Jun 2024

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    "I guess–" She doesn't know why she keeps talking – maybe it's the wine loosening her tongue, or maybe she wants Ben to know, she can't tell. She only knows it's surprisingly easy, trusting him with her deepest secrets. "I never had someone to take care of me, and that's what I miss the most. What I want out of a relationship. Feeling like there's someone who cares about me".

    -- or: Rey misses the little things of a relationship that make her feel like there's someone who cares about her. Her best friend Ben listens.

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    10 Jun 2024

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    "Her saber was a physical manifestation of her soul, and half of it was bleeding."

    Kylo Ren and Rey meet in battle once more, two years after the events on Crait. He told Luke he would destroy her, and that's what he intends to do, but she isn't going to make it easy for him.

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    10 Jun 2024

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    The text—'What’s up, daddy?'—was originally intended for Finn.

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    04 Jun 2024

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    She comes over the following Friday morning, wearing a pencil skirt and looking frazzled but happy. She stands on the porch and doesn’t appear to want to come in.
    “Can’t stay. Debate approaching, you know it. But I made this for you.”
    She drops a Tupperware in his hands, pushes up on her toes to kiss him on the cheek, and then runs down his gravel driveway and ducks back into her Uber.
    He waits until the car has turned around the corner to take off the lid, finding a small square cheesecake with some raspberries wedged inside the corners. He eats it sitting on his doorstep, sharing it with his neighbor’s obese cat, who will take up visiting him every morning in the vain hope of a repeat.
    It’s maybe a little too sweet for Ben, but by the last bite it has grown on him.

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    Leia dies.

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    03 Jun 2024

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    “Do you regret it?” she asks. His hand pauses on the doorknob. He whips his head back to her, brows slightly knit—a question there. “Do you regret walking away that night?”

    She needs to know. She needs to know so, so badly. Because she's been so full of regrets and guilt since they’ve met again. And it might be stupid and naive and dangerous, but she can't help but long for all the "what ifs" she’s conjured in her mind. It's been driving her mental.

    “No,” he finally answers.

    Her heart finds a new home in the bottom of her stomach.

    "But," he starts, then pauses for an agonizing moment, "I do regret not finding you sooner.”

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    01 Jun 2024

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    “Ani is in jail!”

    “You keep saying that like it’s going to change.”

    “Go get him!”

    He rolls back over and looks at her.

    “No.”

    When his son is arrested, Ben Solo is forced to decide whether to repeat his own father’s mistakes or chart a new path.

    A heartwarming (I promise) story about fathers, sons, mistakes, and maybe-not-mistakes.

    Edit: (It's my first fic! Apologies for formatting weirdness while I figure everything out.)

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    28 May 2024

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    When oil tycoon Sheev Palpatine formally announces his long lost granddaughter as the sole heiress to his empire, his estate planning attorney, Ben Solo, seems to be the only one who notices the cracks in Ms. Palpatine's story.

    Takes one to know one, they say.

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    A modern AU inspired by Taylor Swift's cowboy like me.

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    26 May 2024

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    When Rey loses her job, she jokes at a night out with friends about entering into sugar baby work. She doesn't consider that Ben Solo, the occasional addition to their friend group and mild stone in her shoe, is listening.

    Or that he'd be interested.

     

    Or, a Sugar Daddy / Sugar Baby AU Among Friends

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    25 Dec 2023

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    Every year on his birthday, Ben Solo's mother takes him out for a family dinner at a local restaurant. Bartender Rey would like him to take her. Period.

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    19 Dec 2023

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    Rey is a master of handling crises—except for the Alpha-shaped wrecking ball that is her latest client, tech mogul Ben Solo. As determined as he is demanding, it seems Solo has focused his obsessive nature toward a single pursuit: making Rey's job as difficult as possible.

    So when Rey pairs with a partner on an anonymous Alpha encounter service, she decides to roll the dice. After all, their algorithm has apparently found her a perfect match.

    A night of mind-blowing sex should be the perfect distraction from her nightmare of a boss.

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    15 Dec 2023

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    "I don't know," Rey murmurs. "I think home is still quite a ways off for him."

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    Kylo Ren faces his sentence at the hands of the Resistance: a year of off-world solitary confinement, no communication with the outside world.

    But it's never that easy to leave old wounds behind.

    Or such deeply-forged bonds.

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    05 Dec 2023

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    “My son's room is always made up,” Han had said, hitting a light switch as Rey clung to a dirty backpack in the dark hallway, “he never comes home. Warm bed might as well get some use.”

    Rey spared Han some of the dignity of his own longing assessment of the space that clearly hadn’t been looked at in a long time. An empty room in a quiet house. As gruff as he was, handing it off to some runaway nobody just because she was helping him rebuild a car was one of the kindest gestures she’d ever experienced, and had a hidden weight that she knew needed a respectful amount of privacy. Mysteries were often about unresolved sadness, and were usually only solved by the people who didn’t feel it.

    Rey is offered a place to stay: a spare bedroom once belonging to the mysterious Ben Solo. What does she do when she wakes up with him wanting his bed back?

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    04 Dec 2023

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    She buries bodies, he buries financial secrets. Drifter gravedigger Rey meets big-shot accountant Kylo. Love, death, taxes. Or: small town Jersey romance.

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    Chapters:
    15/17
    Comments:
    438
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    476
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    121
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    12,172

    02 Dec 2023

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