Three days later, the door to the cell was opened.

Poe stood, expecting to see the guards, but it was Jacen. He slid back down the wall.

"Come to beat me up?"

Jacen stood in the doorway, the light glowing behind him. For a moment, he looked like the Jedi in fairy tales, who were fabled to glow with the Force.

The Lieutenant shook his head and stepped inside, closing the door.

For a moment, the cell was in almost complete darkness, and Poe tensed, waiting for Jacen to shoot him, or punch him.

But instead, he merely ignited a little light source, casting flickering shadows around the room.

Jacen's face was illuminated eerily for a second, before he placed the light in the center of the room.

"I didn't come to attack you," Jacen said slowly.  "I came to apologize."

Poe scoffed.  "Who put you up to it?  Jess?"

"No, Jessika didn't.  I made a fool of myself.  You were right.  Not even the First Order would do that."

Poe stared at him in disbelief.  "Are you sure nobody made you do this?"

"Of course I am!  I was just telling you that I won't be testifying against you, just to say that I was also in the wrong.  Maybe your punishment will be lesser then."  Jacen fiddled with his hands.

Poe nodded slowly, watching the light source as it flickered. "Thank you," he said, because he didn't know what else to say.

Jacen stood and left, taking the light source with him.

Poe was plunged into darkness again.

He fell asleep, for lack of anything better to do.

He awoke with a bright light shining in his eyes.  He blinked them open and was pulled upright.

They were more civil to him than they would be to a prisoner of war, but his arms were bruised from their hold by the time they got to the council chamber.

He was cuffed and ordered to stand on a platform, not far from General Organa, and Admiral Akbar, who'd come out for the trial from his home in Cloud City.

Leia Organa stood. "State your name for the records."

"General--"

She fixed him with a stare.

He sighed. "Captain Poe Dameron."

"Poe Dameron, you have been charged with assault of an officer. You will be defended by Jessika Pava. Jacen Grisal will be defended by himself. Jessika?"

Jess stepped forward, flashed him a reassuring smile, and began to speak. "As many here will know, Poe Dameron recently lost his mother. After the burial, Jacen Grisal, the persecutor, implied that Poe Dameron had made a mistake in bringing her body home, as it may contain a homing beacon for the First Order. Because of this, Poe Dameron began to defend himself and his honor and his mother."

"Thank you, Jessika Pava."

Poe hated this. He hated that he'd been imprisoned and put on trial for punching someone who'd insulted an officer, his mother.

"Lieutenant Jacen Grisal, please begin."

"As a persecutor, I should be defending myself. However, I am equally in the wrong. I provoked him by saying those things. They were minor injuries, and he should not have been jailed in the first place."

Admiral Akbar looked at Poe. "Do you agree with this?"

He nodded, thankful that Jacen had kept his promise.

"General Organa and I will discuss the matter. Recess for five minutes."

The people in the room broke into chatter.

Jess walked over and hugged him. Then she stepped back. "Phew, haven't you taken a shower?"

He glared at her.

"Sorry, sorry. That's the first thing you'll have to do once they let you off." She grinned. Then she looked confused. "Did you know Jacen was going to defend you?"

Poe nodded. "He came and told me, a day ago maybe? I don't know."

"Yeah, it's hard to tell time in the brig."

"The what?"

"The brig. The jail. The prison."

Poe nodded.

Just then, Admiral Akbar and General Organa came back in.

"By consensus, we have decided that the blame is equally spread. However, as this is his second offense, Captain Poe Dameron will be asked to step down from his position as Black Leader." Murmurs. "Quiet! Now, he will be asked to take the position of red four, as that position is currently vacant. Jacen Grisal will also be asked to step down from his position as a communications officer. Instead, he will be commissioned as a sanitation worker and work in droid repair."

More murmurs, and then they were dismissed.

Poe left to his barracks before anyone could stop him.

He took a shower, then sat on his bed. If he had gone in his mother's place, none of this would have happened. Perhaps he could have fought them off, survived, and come back. He'd have part of the transmission, and his position still.

Frustrated, he threw his helmet at the wall.

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Alrighty.  This note will be looooooooooooooooong so feel free to skip it.  Unless you've been tagged, of course.

I was nominated by @Kittenkoolness803 (it wouldn't tag you sorry I'll tag you in a comment or something) to do a thirteen questions thing, and there are rules so here they are:

1.  You must post all rules.

2.  You must post thirteen facts about yourself.

3.  You can't refuse.

4.  You must do it within a week or your nominee will punish you.  (Teehee *taps fingertips together evilly*)

5.  You must have a creative name.  (Wait what?  I don't understand.  Is it the chapter?  Whatever.)

6. You can't answer in the comments.  You have to do it in one of your own books.  (Which is why it's here and not as a message thingy.)

7.  Tag 15 people when you're done.

Thirteen facts:

1.  I am an amateur filmmaker and won Best Live Action my freshman year, beating out a senior who'd won it twice in a row.

2.  I cannot, for the life of me, actually do basically any Star Wars hairstyle, especially not Rey's.  I don't have the coordination I guess.   Or too much hair.

3.  I am in Spanish 3 at my school as a sophomore because I did Spanish in elementary school. But if you know me, don't come up and ask me to say something because I'll probably end up talking about dogs.

4.  Pizza is bae.

5.  I need to watch Dr. Who and haven't yet but because of tumblr posts I know a lot of the jokes and spoilers.  (I'll watch it someday Mei)

6.  To come up with some of the names in my stories I basically just keyboard smash.  I.e. Grisal, Afren, Anonra.

7.  Some of the others are names or nicknames of friends.  I.e. Mei, Aaron, Aura, Anina.

8.  I am in a play about the Salem Witch trials, and my character is Mary Warren, who accuses people of being witches.  Oops.

9.  I have a "magic pen" and Mei loves it.

10.  My full name is Katherine but I go by Katie and Rynne, hence the Kylo Rynne thing.

11. I lead worship for my Youth Group.

12. I don't like Reylo, mainly because she wouldn't ever be able to forgive him. He's hurt her too many times by killing Han and injuring Finn and other things like, you know, trying to kill her.

13.  I'm auditioning today for a solo and I'm thirteenth so I thought it was fitting.

Okay, time to tag.

AA bigilChick
fandomsoundsinnocent
Chic_Writter
TheWeepingAngel10
And at least 11 of you readers.

I'll be deleting this note in a week, once the tagged people do the tag.