They saw that, and their five children. First, they had twin boys, followed by three little girls in succession. Ben dotes on all his children. The twins are Han and Luke. The girls, in order are Leia, Padmé, and Hope, all sporting their father’s black hair, but Hope looks the most like her mother, out of all the children.

They raise them on Ahch-To, where Uncle Chewie visits them regularly. The children greet him with their best Wookie howls, and he brings them presents from other worlds. The children are all good with their hands. They have an eye for parts, and nimble fingers for tinkering. Ben is immensely proud of his family, and his wife, for bringing him back to the light. The family gets together once a week, with Uncle Luke’s Force ghost. Sometimes he brings friends. Hope likes Yoda the best, but the boys like listening to Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s war stories. They want to be pilots, and Jedi when they grow up. Leia and Padmé want to be Jedi like their parents, and explore the galaxy, and little Hope wants to be a princess with a pink light staff (like the blue one Mommy Rey uses). Ben and Chewie are working on making that possible.

For each child’s tenth birthday, Ben built them their own light saber, after tutoring them with sticks for sabers, ever since they were old enough to hold one aloft and show interest in it. Leia got a lightsaber with a hilt built just like her father’s for her birthday. She was delighted. Padmé’s was shaped like a rapier, perfect for her agility-based fighting. Han and Luke got sabers that mirrored the other, like a yin and yang, since the two are inseparable (Ben swears they came out of their mother holding hands)

As Ben sits by the fire pit, his brood of children all gone to bed, Rey sits beside him, and holds his hand. Her happy, content sigh is enough to remind him that everything they went through, has been worth it.