of nightmares and pipe dreams

"You can’t just soldier through the rest of your life like you have been through this war. You need to sit down and talk it out.”“Isn’t that what I’m doing?”She shakes her head and offers him a kind smile. “Not with me, Poe.”That night, he talks with Kare for the first time in ages. He doesn’t expect the loving hug he gets from her, or to be sobbing into each other’s shoulders for the rest of the night.The next night, he talks with Rose about Paige and the dreadnought. She smiles and tells him that Paige would have died to save just one person. It helps to know she died saving so many.The third night, he talks to Finn. Actually talks instead of noncommittal grunts and fleeting kisses. They talk every night after that, too.He starts feeling less numb, little by little.(Or: Poe gets a little less lost.)