[ This storm is picking up in full force now and it's really extremely terrible timing, given how delicate the personality chip is and how integral it is to bringing BB-8 back to him as they know and love him (Or, perhaps, as Rey knows and loves him and Ben tolerates him).
It seems like every time she steels herself with both their strength the world shakes around them even more stronger. It keeps going until she can't stand it anymore, her hand slipping into his chassis regardless of the rumbling, and she pops in the personality chip as soon as the wind subsides for a millisecond before it can give way to another screeching gale.
She doesn't even bother to close up his exposed panel before activating him. She can't wait, she has to know.
It seems like even the storm quiets when she's holding her breath waiting for his boot-up sequence to complete. A long moment when nothing seems to happen.
Dread starts to fill her mind.
And then his ocular lens adjusts.
And he beeps. It's a little distorted, but beeping.
He begins to roll around, slowly and jerkily whining about how he's INJURED.
And Rey is just so relieved that tears that she had held back before spill out now as tears of relief and she throws her arms around the droid. ]
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It seems like every time she steels herself with both their strength the world shakes around them even more stronger. It keeps going until she can't stand it anymore, her hand slipping into his chassis regardless of the rumbling, and she pops in the personality chip as soon as the wind subsides for a millisecond before it can give way to another screeching gale.
She doesn't even bother to close up his exposed panel before activating him. She can't wait, she has to know.
It seems like even the storm quiets when she's holding her breath waiting for his boot-up sequence to complete. A long moment when nothing seems to happen.
Dread starts to fill her mind.
And then his ocular lens adjusts.
And he beeps. It's a little distorted, but beeping.
He begins to roll around, slowly and jerkily whining about how he's INJURED.
And Rey is just so relieved that tears that she had held back before spill out now as tears of relief and she throws her arms around the droid. ]