🍂Show Me The Hidden Paths🍁
A Reylo/Shifter AU text fic
Situated high in the White Mountains there’s a small town with a story about a lone black wolf that prowls the woods.
And photographer Rey Kenobi needs a vacation.
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✨Reylo Shifter AU✨
🐺📸⛰🥾🐾🍂☕️🍁
💛rated explicit
💛language, blood/gore, smut
💛 some general spookiness
💛 🔞/CW will be added to posts
💛 timestamps don’t matter
💛mostly fluff w/little angst+smut
💛PLEASE INTERACT 🙏🏻
💛Enjoy! 🍁
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💛This is entirely inspired by my absolute LOVE of all things Autumn related. So expect gratuitous amounts of photos/mentions of pumpkins, hot apple cider, fall foliage, and crisp mountain air🍂
S/n: I know very little about Native American culture. No offense to anyone.
And here’s a playlist to set the mood🍁☕️
open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9d…
And the perfect quote🍂
0. Prologue:
The Algonquin tribes (of what is now New England) had many legends about supposed “skin walkers” or men that could change shapes in the woods. Some for good; others evil.
Perhaps over time that could have became a different name.
Skywalker.
1. Rey Kenobi, photographer for Alliance Travel Magazine in New Mexico and apparent workaholic.
Her best friend, Finn Storm-Dameron and his husband Poe Dameron 💁🏻♀️🤦🏾♂️💁🏽♂️ 3SS
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2. Finn moved up to Takodana after his wedding to Poe. He has not stopped nagging for a visit since.
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3. Rey hasn’t taken so much as a sick day in 7 years. She needs a break from the desert. Fall has always been her favorite season anyway.
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4. Rey gets the hook up from her work bestie, Kaydel.
3ss #pathspic
5. Rey tells Finn the good news
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6. The next day Rey is googling and finds some interesting stories about a wolf roaming the forest in Franconia National Park.
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8. Night before the flight.. some last minute messages.
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9. And Finn is 90% excited and 10% anxious - or maybe the other way around 🤷🏻♀️
2ss
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10. All her bags are packed and she’s ready to go….
The airport is a ghost town at 6am and Rey gets through security with plenty of time for a caffeine fix.
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11. Some airport pics
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12.
13. 🎶Reunited and it feels so good🎵
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14. Finn and Rey spend the whole 2 hour drive talking and catching up - mostly interrupting each other mid sentence with another thought. As besties do 😁
As they get further into the mountains, Rey makes Finn pull over to get a few pics 📸
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15. The array of colors are stunning. And she can’t wait to go explore in the National Park. Just knows there are secrets out there for her to discover.
16. But first, Poe’s famous chicken enchiladas 😋
17. Since, she can’t check into the B&B until Tomorrow - it’s crash at Casa Dameron for the night. But honestly Rey is jet lagged and after two tequila shots (Poe’s idea) She is ready to call it a night.
18. But not before she sneaks out on the back deck to grab a photo of the most beautiful night sky she thinks she’s ever seen.
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Author note: All photos of foliage and scenery are real pics from Franconia Notch State Park and the surrounding area and towns.
Takodana is inspired by the town of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire.
I will continue to add notes with the real names/locations 💛
19. Back to the story…
Monday Morning rolls around and Rey has zero chill.
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20. Paige’s Pancake Parlor is a staple in Takodana 🥞🥞🥞
It is always packed and it is ALWAYS worth the wait.
Oh, and there’s REAL coffee ☕️
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note: Polly’s Pancake Parlor (located in Sugar Hill, NH) is the real name and both pics are from the website 💛
21. Since Poe has to work nights - Finn spends the day showing Rey around town. With a population less than 600 - it doesn’t take long. It’s a “hold your breath” to pass it type town🤣
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22. With a few hours to kill before going to the B&B - they decide to go on a quick hike up to the Flume Gorge. Time to burn off those pancakes!
2ss
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23. Few more pics from the gorge.
Rey knows it’s only 2 miles but it’s ALOT stairs and her thighs are feeling it on the way back to the car.
2ss
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24. Finn checks in to make sure Poe isn’t lounging around in his unmentionables.
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25. The above mentioned Frankenjeep
-zero original parts
-hit 200k miles last summer
-Poe has driven it since high school.
He refuses to get rid of it.
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26. Let’s take a peak at our other main character
Benjamin Solo, SAR/K9 Certified Canine Trainer
34, Single
There’s also that Skywalker curse that allows him to shape shift into a wolf at will. Thanks Grandpa Anakin for that one🙄
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27. Han and Leia have run the Organa House Bed and Breakfast for the last 10 years. It’s their retirement plan and also something they’ve discovered they love doing.
Resident Old English Sheepdog, Chewie, welcomes all guests.
2ss
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28. Ben has no idea how his mother convinced him to cover at the B&B, one minute he was dropping off boxes and then…well here he is, cleaning behind the bar somehow.
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29. CW/ language
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30. CW/ language
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31. CW/ language
32. Room six boasts blue jewel tone walls, hard wood floors, a REAL fireplace with mantle, large bed with crisp white linens, and bay windows.
Pristine white tile en-suite, even a fluffy bathtub and slippers.
Notes: Organa House is actually The Inn at Sunset Hill (Sugar Hill, NH)
And yes, there’s really an English Sheepdog that lives there. His name is Dudley and he is the sweetest biggest boi 🥺🐶
And yes - I’ve stayed there and met him.
33. CW/ mentions alcohol 🍷
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34. The library and dining area fireplace #pathsfic
35. Did Rey change into leggings and crop sweater before coming down to dinner?
Yes, but only because it’s comfy and not because the leggings show off her bum.
Sure, Rey. Sure. 👀
Of course the food doesn’t disappoint.
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36. And, of course, Chewie has to make the IG feed. #pathsfic
Notes: this is a my own pic of Dudley from when I stayed in Sugar Hill.
37. Finn helps Rey unpack and settle into her room before he heads home.
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38. We see you, Rey 👀👀
39. Tuesday morning: Rey has breakfast with a red headed Doctor named Amitage Hux, and his adorable and very pregnant wife, Rose.
The couple is on something called a “baby moon”.
Rose and Rey exchange numbers to make a plan to go antiquing later in the week. #pathsfic
40. Rey and Finn spend all day exploring the museum at Castle in the Clouds.
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41. Tuesday evening
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43. CW/ language
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44. CW/ language
Ben has barely washed the dirt off his skin and shrugged into his clothes when his phone dings.
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45. Wednesday morning: Rey takes off from the B&B to do some exploring on her own.
But first, coffee (and a cider donut)
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47. CW/ language
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48. CW/ language and mentions of blood
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49. Messages that Rey hasn’t gotten because of the shitty cell service.
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50. BFF Finn raises the alarm. And by alarm, he frantically texts his husband and wants an BOLO issued stat
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51. The weather in New Hampshire is notoriously unpredictable and as it gets dark the temperatures drop quickly.
Poe is taking no chances.
3SS
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Literally just noticed the typo - clearly I meant fluffy BATHROBE 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
52. The search begins.
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53. CW/ mentions of blood
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54. CW/ mentions blood
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56. #pathsfic
57. Nope, you aren’t dreaming Rey 2 ss
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58. 🚨🚨🚨#pathsfic
59. Where ARE Ben’s clothes? Why IS he barefoot?
Poe is looking out - otherwise there would have been a lot of explaining to do.
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60. CW/ Blood and gore image
Dr. Hux gives Rey a look over at his wife’s insistence.
Leia takes some beef and vegetable soup and tea (with a shot of bourbon) up to her room.
Finn stays to help bandage her cuts after the hottest shower Rey has ever taken.
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61. Just like the nights when they were in foster care together, Finn crawls under the covers and wraps Rey in his arms.
This is where she has always felt safest.
Now it feels like the second safest place.
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62. CW/ Language
Sometimes he’s a good guy and not just “Fucking Dameron”
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63. Rey can’t sleep. Her dreams are haunted by shadows and wild animals. So she sits in the window downstairs with her tea. Tries to make sense of yesterday and watches the light of the moon play on the trees until the first rays of sunlight peak through.
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64. It’s late (or early depending on perspective) and Ben finds himself prowling the grounds of the B&B again. Just close enough to scent her. Just make sure she’s safe. Then he’ll go home. Then he’ll be able to sleep.
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65. Her eyes track the wolf across the tree line. No light tricks or possibility of hallucinations this time. Slowly, she raises her camera 📸 #pathsfic
66. Later that morning, she reaches out to thank her rescuer.
She has many questions she wants to ask.
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67. It doesn’t matter because Finn hovers over her for the next two days. First with a visit to the pumpkin patch…
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68. Then the mountain aerial tramway…
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69. And finally the Cog Railway up to the summit of Mt. Washington…
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70. We see you Benji 👀👀
And Rey immediately follows back.
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71. By Saturday, Rey is exhausted. She knows Finn trying to be the best host and show her everything, but she’s here for 3 weeks. No reason she can’t take a day or two to actually relax on vacation. Maybe she can catch Ben - she hasn’t seen him since the “incident”
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72. After breakfast with Dr. and Mrs. Hux - Rey decides she’s not waiting. It takes her about 5 mins to talk Han into giving up Ben’s address.
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73. CW/ Language
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74. 3ss
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75. Ben’s cabin 🏡
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76. You aren’t crazy, Rey 🐺
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77. It’s only taken 77 posts but they have kinda kissed 🤷🏻♀️ these idiots🤦🏻♀️
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78. Rey sits in the Jeep in front of the B&B, head on the steering wheel.
Great. Just great, Rey. Kiss the man and then run. Way to send mixed signals. 🙄🤦🏻♀️
Chewie comes to check on her.
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79. She does what she does best. Hides behind her camera and takes a few shots of Leia to use on the website.
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80. And back behind the B&B the black wolf watches.
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81. It’s just hiking guys, calm down.
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82. Damnit, Poe. He does have a point though. Lost River trail DOES have nice views and a waterfall.
Ben will just never tell him.
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83. Ben and Rey set off down Lost River Trail.
Neither of them say anything about the “kiss” yesterday.
84. The view from the top is amazing 🤩
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85. The Lost River waterfall
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86. It’s finally here. Of course, Ben would kiss her under a waterfall.
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87. Eventually, they have to break apart and have to begin the hike back.
Along the way, Ben points out bear tracks. 🐻🐾
89. Parked in front of the B&B, Ben leans over to give her one last kiss.
It turns into several kisses and before she crawls over the arm rest and embarrasses herself. Rey pulls away, a sweet smile on her face when she’s says “see you later” and goes inside.
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90. Of course, Leia wasn’t peeking from the window. No way.
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91. Inside Rey waits less than a minute to text Ben. She feels giddy and she can’t stop smiling.
Plus she’s pretty sure Ben’s mom was spying on them.
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Hi All!! Sorry haven’t updated recently - real life stuff has been kicking my butt recently- work and family stuff mostly - but I promise new updates in the next few days! 😘😘😘
92. During Sunday breakfast, Rey and Rose make a plan to go antiquing on Monday while Dr. Hux plays golf.
Rey grins when Maz sets down her plate with a full English loaded on it.
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93. Rey takes the rest of the day to actually … well, rest. All her scraps and bruises are healing nicely. She watches one of her favorite comfort movies in her room.
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94. It’s not u til almost 4pm that she starts to get nervous.
Rey also forgot to mention to Kaydel the events of the past few days
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95. Kaydel keeping it cool 😎
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96. Rey’s “date night” outfit
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97. cw/ mentions alcohol
👩🏻❤️👨🏻🍁🍻
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98. Schilling Beer Company
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99. 🥺🥺🥺
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100. Rey is slightly disappointed when Ben drops her back at the B&B later than night. He leaves her with a slow kiss that has her mind going hazy.
She is still smiling when she falls asleep.
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101. Monday morning 🥞🥞
3 ss
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102. Nutella Pancakes are a gift from heaven 🥞🍁
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103. Paige Tico has a wealth of things to say on the subject of Benjamin Solo
2 ss
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104. The women make their way downtown to browse the antique stops.
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105. Rose tries to smooth things over…
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106. cw/ mentions of abandonment and language
Rey just has more questions…
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107. cw/ language
Poe really has no chill 🤷🏻
3 ss
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108. Ben does what he’s told and texts the pretty lady
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109. After dinner, Rey thinks it’s only fair to tell him that she knows.
It doesn’t go the way she thinks at all.
2 ss
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110. cw// language
She reaches out for help on how to deal with this.
Because Benjamin Solo is, in fact, an idiot. 🤷🏻♀️
3 ss
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111. Now Poe has to spill some secrets 🤐
4 ss
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112. Rey spends a few minutes just staring at her phone. Thinking about what Paige has said …
And then Poe…
She knows what she needs to do
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113. cw// sexual content and language
🔞🔞🔞
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114. cw// sexual content
🔞🔞🔞
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115. cw// sexual content
🔞🔞🔞
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116. cw// sexual content
🔞🔞🔞
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117. cw// sexual content
🔞🔞🔞
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118. cw// sexual images 🔞🔞🔞
Ben barely lets Rey sleep that night, he wakes her at least 4 times.
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119. cw// sexual images 🔞🔞🔞
When he’s not inside her, he draws patterns on her freckles and whispers secrets into her skin. Rey feels like he’s branded her very soul.
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120. cw // post intercourse
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121. Ben speaks Rey’s love language
Food ☕️
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122. cw// language and abandonment mentions
Rey has some things to say
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123. cw / abandonment mentions and addiction mentions and childhood trauma
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124. cw// language
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125. Over the next few days, Rey just enjoys her vacation.
Days hiking and sight seeing with Finn. Shopping with Rose.
Happy hour and delicious meals from Maz.
And, of course, her nights are spent wrapped up in Ben Solo’s bed.
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126. But - because there’s always a “but” in Rey’s life - she knows this is all just a vacation.
Temporary.
She’ll have to go back home soon.
And then what?
Will Ben want to keep in touch? Are they just a fling?
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127. The week of Halloween arrives faster than Rey thought possible.
And Leia was absolutely insane with decorations.
Apparently there is a long standing Organa House spooky bonfire on Halloween night.
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128. Kids from all over the county come to the House for candy, homemade treats, and - usually - a good scare.
Locals and guests alike part take.
A large bonfire with spiked cider for the adults.
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129. Rey loves every minute of it. Even helps decorate around the B&B 🎃👻
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130. Treats made by Maz 🤤😋
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131. Rey and Ben make a plan for after all the festivities
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132. Of course, Rey says that she’ll bring snacks and goes a bit overboard on her mission.
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133. Halloween night comes and goes, the bonfire is a raging success as it always is.
Several people make note of how Rey and Ben are so cuddled up.
Even Paige Tico shares a secret smile with her sister over the couples head.
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134. After all the treats are handed out.
The movie night begins with Rey’s favorite and annual tradition of Hocus Pocus.
She is almost outraged that Ben has never seen it.
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135. And here we go folks. Hold on to your butts
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136. 🐺🐺🐺
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138. 😭😭😭
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