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[pedanther]

I was poking nostalgically through old files and came across my drafts for "Old and Young Together", the fic about Rey and Luke that I wrote for the Star Wars Rolling Remix after The Force Awakens came out. The drafts all still had the details in the final scene that I ended up deciding to take out at the last minute to reduce the chances of it being contradicted by the sequel that was about to come out, which was cowardly -- and also, as it turned out, entirely ineffective, because all the details I took out were fine and it was the ones I left in that have been contradicted.

I wish now that I'd left those details in; they gave more texture to the scene, and I never did find a good replacement for what would have been the closing dialogue exchange, which comes after Rey recalls the folk tale about an entire village working together to solve a problem, "old and young together":

BB-8 remarks that between Luke and Rey they already have old and young together, without needing other people.

"No, I don't think that's true," says Luke. "If there's one thing I've learned, it's that we always need other people."