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so that he may sleep without his fists clenched by irridesca

“Please don’t cry, Rey,” he pleads, voice laced with sorrow. “I won’t be able to walk away from you right now if you keep this up, and you know Dameron will kill me if I miss that plane.”

She lets out a watery chuckle against his collarbone, squeezing him even tighter as she glances up at him.

“He’d have to go through me first. And he would lose. Miserably.”

Ben and Rey have been married for just over two years when Ben gets deployed overseas.

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