It would go down in history as something Kylo would always regret. Two newly anointed Jedi Knights looked at the class of Padwans that Master Skywalker had given them to teach about the Force or something like that while he was in a meeting with General Solo and Supreme Chancellor Fey'la.

"Look," Luke said to the distressed couple. "I wouldn't be letting you teach if it weren't for the fact that Leia and I've both got to go to this, Poe and Finn are in a flight-training session with the rest of the Black Squadron, Tenel Ka's got a parenting class in fifteen minutes, I still haven't gotten Ben to go more than five feet from his bed, the last time I left Anakin in charge, there was glitter everywhere, and Tahiri scares them."

"Still, you want a former Sith Knight to teach younglings?" Kylo deadpanned.

"Remember, you have my niece to help you," Luke pointed out.

"Princess Vader?" He asked, and Rey elbowed him a little more sharply than was necessary.

"We've got this, Uncle Luke," she said, rolling her eyes. "Come on, Ky, let's see if you've secretly got a thing for kids."

Kylo scanned over the rows of Padwans, most of which were younglings, but there were a few adults, such as Kyle Katarn and Clighal. He took in a deep breath.

"Today we will be discussing the dark side of the Force," Kylo declared. Immediately, a boy with blond hair and dark eyes sitting next to a whiny boy Kylo had singled out as Rosh Penin earlier raised her hand.

"Yes-"

"Jaden Korr," the boy said. "And I was wondering, weren't you a Knight of Ren eight months ago?"

Kylo blushed furiously. His former involvement in the First Order was a weak point that people kept bringing up again and again.

"Yes," he admitted. "But I'm a Jedi Knight now-"

"But doesn't that make you a bad guy?" A red haired girl next to Jaden asked.

"I was," he admitted. "But now I'm a good guy because I've switched over?"

"Say it with a little more confidence," Rey hissed through gritted teeth of a smile.

"How else am I supposed to say it?" He hissed back.

"Just get on with it," Rey said, and she looked at a holocron. "This is a rare holocron of Revan. He was both Jedi and Sith and had the deepest understanding of the Force ever known."

The masked man that looked a lot like how Kylo once did appeared.

"I am Darth Revan. Both savior and conqueror, hero and villain, Jedi and Sith. Some of you will be one of those things. It will be your destiny to choose which," the figure explained.

"But what about Kylo Ren?" Jaden Korr continued. "Didn't he kill all of the last Padwans?"

The whole class went silent, and Rey turned off the holocron as the Padwans looked at each other nervously.

"I'm not here to kill anyone," Kylo said, looking tired as he said it.

That didn't stop everyone from lunging at the exit, which Rey darted to and used her old staff from Jakku to bar. Uncle Luke would kill her if she had a bunch of panicked Force-sensitives running around the ship.

"Would you all calm down?" Kyle Katarn demanded as he stood at the place where he'd been at the beginning of the class. "This man hasn't tried to hurt you, and he won't, or else Skywalker wouldn't have left you in a room with him!"

The Padwans began to see the sense in this logic, and settled down, but a middle-aged woman by the name of Callista Ming still eyed Kylo suspiciously.

"I can feel the dark side. It is strong within him," she said. "We would do better to take care of his threat now."

"Madam Ming," Rey said, putting on her sunniest smile. "With all due respect, I can assure you that Kylo wants nothing to do with the Knights of Ren. Now if we could get back to our lesson-"

Rey felt a buzz from her commlink. She lifted it to her ear.

"Commander Solo reporting for duty," she said.

"We need you down in the hanger bay," a gruff male voice that sounded a lot like Jagged Fel's said.

"Fine, I'll be there in five minutes," Rey said. She looked to Kylo and passed him the holocron. "I have to go take care of an emergency in the hanger. Good luck."

Kylo watched after her, and as soon as the door closed, Jaden Korr and his friends burst into laughter, but then most of the Padwans took an evil look in their eyes, except for Kyle Katarn, who looked very annoyed. The Padwans surged up faster than Kylo could blink, and they tackled him to the ground. After a very confusing five minutes, his lightsaber was gone, and everything was vaguely fuzzy. He felt a bit disoriented as he was sure that they were dragging him somewhere, but he didn't have the strength to fight back.

Rey rushed into the hangar, slightly out of breath. Several pilots looked at her, obviously disturbed. Wedge Antilles went from the debriefing board and came over to Rey, and gently put his hands on her shoulders.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Someone called me down here," she said, distressed, and then she slapped herself in the forehead. "Certain Padwans aren't going to like it when a certain Jedi Knight finds them. Sorry, General Antilles, I gotta go."

Rey ran back to the classroom, to find it vacant except for Katarn, and Kylo's lightsaber lying deserted next to the holo-board.

"What happened?" She demanded.

"One, Jaden Korr has a surprisingly deep voice," Katarn began. "Two, the class ambushed your boyfriend, and three, I think they all went to get lunch."

"Where did they take him?" Rey asked as she picked up the junk lightsaber.

Katarn shrugged. "Who knows? Is class dismissed?"

"The others dismissed it for you," she snapped. "Thank you for staying behind to let me know."

Kylo decided that he'd had better days. He was hanging upside down, tied up by a bunch of midgets a few adults like Callista. He'd also decided that he was never teaching any class of Skywalker's ever again. He sighed as he tried to figure out his way out of this one.

Rey stormed over to the younglings' table.

"Alright, what did you do with Kylo?" She demanded.

"We gave him exactly what he deserves," Rosh Penin, Jaden's whiny friend said.

Rey's heart rose to her throat. "Tell me where you put him."

"He's in the sewage system, tied up in the room where it all goes," the redheaded girl said.

"Not the compression room!" Rey groaned. "You all are in big trouble when I get back!" She started running, hoping that she wasn't too late.

Kylo was feeling light-headed when the walls started closing in. At first, he hadn't really panicked, just thought it to be some illusion caused by all those surprisingly hard knocks to the head. When he felt the trash piling up, he started panicking and screaming.

Just as he could feel the metal on both sides of him, the machinery stopped whining. He sighed in relief as the walls retracted. He felt the ropes untie, wondering why the Living Force he hadn't thought of that as he fell rapidly towards the sewage water, only to be stopped centimeters from it.

He felt his body hover towards a fierce-looking Rey, who took him into her arms.

"You dropped this," she said as he stood up straight, and she handed him his lightsaber.

"Thanks, Princess Vader," he said as he gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Would you have preferred I left you there?" She asked, arching her eyebrow at the dreaded nickname.

"Aw, you'd miss me," he said as they walked out. "I doubt Anakin would cuddle you at night."

"Hey, I still haven't told my parents about that," Rey said with a playful smack on the butt.

"Why would you?" He asked as he slipped his arm around her.

"Apparently they knew when Tahiri moved in with Anakin," she explained. "And when Jacen moved in with Tenel Ka."

"Well, they don't have to know about that part of our relationship yet," he said. "But remember, you're mine."

"I wouldn't have it any other way," she said cheerfully. A little prick of darkness from the other side of her twin bond forced its way through, and Rey looked down at her shoes as she tried to regain control of her emotions.

"You miss Jacen, don't you?" He asked, picking up on her emotions and deliberately misreading.

"Jaysa is gone," she said stonily as she regained enough control to look at him. "Caedus is the monster in my brother's body."

"Don't tell me you really believe that," Kylo said.

"It's the truth," she said, looking disturbed.

"It wasn't for me," he said softly, stopping in front of her and holding her chin up.

The two were silent for a moment.

"I love you," she said, almost crying.

"I know," he said, holding her close as she let her tears flow.