I do not own star wars or the charcters

Post TLJ spoilers please do not read if you have a light heart and dont like mature themes.

I have been tied up in thoughts of kylo and rey and reylo so to speak. Literally cannot get them out of my head. I hope you like my adeptations and ideas with this story. (:

Chapter one

She was in the grip

The soft splinters of icy cold flushed through her veins as she pulled her jacket closer to her, trying to grasp the warmth that it would bring. As snow pillowed around her calves sinking into her trousers and melting into the fabric she knew the parka wouldn't do much good.

A small shiver racked her small body as she pushed forward, doubting the layers did much good but to keep hypothermia at bay, the boots she wore and triple layer of socks were soaked to the skin, And ice dangled off of her limbs. Still she coursed on.

The path she left behind her being covered up and pelted with new snow from the storm that ensued around her, whipping her hair about and covering her goggles as soon as she wiped them.

A man standing behind her shouted among the wind "Rey! This is too strong! We have to turn back! We can course forward when the storm lightens up!" His dark hair carried icicles at the tips and his lips were a light blueish color.

"Poe, we have this one chance! Without this crystal i will have no line of defense against him! The caverns aren't very far now! We can warm up there!" Her voice was harsh from the winds. Hands covered in layers of chiilak fur and lined with cloth grasped her staff as she pushed further into the storm, poe on her heel.

After another few feet a cavern came into view, almost a sight of a dream, they pushed into the cave. Once far enough in where the cold couldn't sweep them from their feet again, poe instinctively started a fire. The warmth was welcoming for Rey. She striped her soaked clothes off and hung them to dry as poe did the same. Her parka she used as a seat as she gathered herself in-front of the now billowing flame that warmed her. Heat danced on her bare skin.

Both in trousers and wraps to keep them warm. They had traveled through the mouth of a storm that had been ravaging this region for years. Never moving, never stopping. Around them in the cave, large icy pillars stood, magnificent and bold. The sparkle of the inner diamonds and treasures littered the wall. This journey was abet for nothing if she couldn't find they kyber crystal. After her last run in with the new found supreme leader of the first order the lightsaber entrusted to her by none other than Luke Skywalker had been destroyed. The resistance-what was left of it-had fled to this icy tundra escaping the grasp of the first order.

For now.

They had selected this deserted planet of snow and ice for one reason, the hidden holes and caverns that once held many kyber crystals, even now after they had been so depleted that the planet had been abandoned, still held hope for the small group of resistance.

General organa sent her on a mission, retrieve the kyber crystal that calls to her. Form a bond, build a lightsaber. Simple? Yes in words, the only problem being the storm that raged around this cavern threatened to wipe them out before they could make headway of this assignment. Poe ever alert grasped his tunic to his body, a shiver expelled through his midriff.

He yawned loudly, but shook it off as if he were ready to continue course.

Ray sighed at the sight of the poor boy, "sleep, poe, we have a lot to accomplish between now and the crystal. I need you on high alert." Her raspy voice echoed off the caves walls, as it settled between them.

"But rey-" he looked around the dark damp walls, pulling his blaster to his side "we have no idea what has taken refuge as we have in this place" worry flickered though his eyes, darting around the vast emptiness.

A small smile played at her lips so chapped from the wind they threatened to split. "Ill take first watch, just sleep."

He nodded but still seemed restless as he pulled his pack to him and grabbed out his bed roll.

A few hours past as she tended to the fire, taking a few coals aside to used for her pot, boiling water. The rations the resistance had made jakkus look very appetizing. She missed the heat more than anything. The open sky's and the treasure that lurked below the sand dunes in the wreaks.

That hell was her home. Her broken down AT-AT was a safe haven. Waiting for her parents was her life's goal. That one day they would return and save her from the diminishing scandalous figures that stole and enslaved her life.

The mirror, the darkness. They were drunks, they sold her. They lay dormant in a mass grave in that desert. She waited for ghosts.

Waving the thoughts from her mind she sat crosslegged in front of the fire heat unwavering, rations devoured, she focused on the recess of her mind reaching with the force. The cave was empty, beside a few lopers Scurrying about. Something was calling though, unnerving her. She could feel the force pulse from it, her minds eye forced its way into the crevices finding that she sought. A crystal glistened against the wall unbarring. She felt its power. So strong. So distant.

'So it seems you are almost worthy scavenger.' His voice was deep, low and threatening. Her eyes shot open matched with a green hazel tint through the fire.

She grasped her staff in her hand on her feet in a moment, he rose slowly. Thats when she realized. He was a figure, a figure flowing to her in her mind throughThe bond. It survived snoke. Relief flooded her. He could not harm them.

'Oh, but i can scavenger.' His arm reached out through the flames and touched her cheek. She swiped her staff through his arm and into the flame. Causing the coals to lash out onto the makeshift beds. Ripping her staff back and jumping out of the way of falling ash she steadied herself.

Don't let his mind games work, she chanted to herself peering down at the sleeping poe. Her friend, completely exhausted from that blizzard they had managed to fight through slept peacefully on the ground.

Pushing with the force she burst him from her head, not completely, but was able to block fragments. 'Leave me be kylo. You are not welcome here, go back to your army. Go back to your dark.' She spat the words in her mind full of venom.

'You and i scavenger, we share a bond that could rule them all, i will not stop until you are mine.' His eyes enveloped in black, a sinister hand reached out again. This time inviting her. 'I will find you, and i will convince you. Its just a matter of time.'

'I will never join you! You are a murderer. You threaten my friends, darkness has taken you, i will destroy you!' Eyes full of rage se seethed clenching her teeth.

'Just a matter of time scavenger.' He repeated.

His body slowly faded hand still outstretched. Shadow cast on the wall. The fire licked at her, and the heat that came from the flames traveled up her spine. But the chill remained. The dark called to her.

His words echoed in her mind.

'I will not stop until you are mine.'

After poe awoke and swallowed his rations, they cleaned up camp. He had all but begged rey to sleep, her wary mind to frazzled to process such a demand. How could she sleep when that devil would invade her thoughts? She opened her pack and opened a small bottle of dark brown liquid, drank and stood against that idea. He could find them, he could eradicate them. What was left of the resistance a mere memory in a flash if he could find the location.

No she couldn't risk it. The bottle she downed gave her energy quickly, almost as if she had taken a full nights rest.

A gift from rose, she had made it warm over a fire before they left. Said something about a late nights shift in akiva and the wonders from the market her and her sister had visited. What ever it was it was bitter and tasted like some type of sweetness she couldn't place.

They pushed on into the cave, the farther in they went the more the darkness arrested them, bringing them to almost a sudden halt. Rey closed her eyes and opened her thoughts to the force. Grabbing poes hand she spoke low"let me navigate now, until it lightens up a bit."

She felt the walls in her mind, as if she were playing a game. She could sense the rocks and gravel at her feet, and the drapery above as if shed been there a thousand times. The stalagmites dripped down in long pikes barely leaving enough room to walk.

In her mind she could see the path as if the lights were turned up bright, she guided them forward for what seemed like hours eyes never opening.

After the long grotto finally ended, a large opening came into view. Light shined through giant gem stones that cluttered among the floors and walls, a magnificent lagoon glowed bright blue with water so clear you could see the fish within. The air moist and warm.

This would be camp for a small rest stop.

"Rey, this is beyond anything I've ever seen. Its untouched." Poes gaze scanned the large cavity. "Bet you've never tasted anything like that before!" An ear to ear smirk could be spotted as he pulled out a knife and began sharpening a large switch he'd snatched from the ground.

Rey almost laughed, "no poe," she retorted, "i don't think Ive had cave delicacy's before."

Immediately poe went to work trying to catch lunch, as rey collected timber from a dead tree for a fire. She wondered looking to the tree, how it could have grown in such a dark place. Her hand rested against the trunk as she slid it up to the branches. A flash of the trees life passed through her mind. Seeding dropped through the hole in the subterranean floor from a once beautiful forest, as the tree grew in size so did the space around it, roots gathered into the pond, and the grotto formed.

Rey ripped herself from the vision falling on her bottom. 'I really need to learn to control that aspect of the force' she thought to herself.

'I can teach you, scavenger.' His words echoed through the walls of her mind, she almost screamed popping up her defensive walls to block the villain from entering her deepest thoughts.

'You will teach me nothing. I don't need training from a dark lord.' She continued picking up bark and twigs from the ground making her way back to the small makeshift camp.

'You lack guidance, discipline, and control. Your mind calls to me. Even at this distance i can appear to you.' He mocked her. 'Without my instruction you will be hopelessly lost in aspiration.' A grunt could be heard but she ignored it

'Hopelessly lost it is, at least i wont be despairing your Tutelage day in and day out, and who are you to tell me I need discipline?' Her words as sharp and nasty as she could think them. Hoping to put an end to his bantering. To her dismay it would be to no avail.

She could almost feel his eyes shooting daggers into her back.

'You cant avoid me scavenger, eventually the lack of sleep will catch up to you, and your defenses will be down. I will find you, and i will take you, forcefully if i must.' He chuckled. He actually chuckled. Rey almost laughed too. If not for the fact this was her mortal enemy tied to a string of fate connecting them in an endless repartee of taunting, she might have found his laugh enjoyable.

'Ill just ignore you, you'll disappear sooner or later' she'd cast away the thoughts of trying to expel him from her sight and fixated on the small flame she had started.

He circled her like a bird of prey, looking down at her frail body. She continued blowing on the flam until it caught the branches and consumed the small gathering of dry grass, dropping a large piece of bark on top and waiting for it to catch before dropping another. His presence lingered and she never looked up.

'Scavenger. I will take you. Heed my words. If i have to find you, your friends will be the first to pay the price' he spat the word harshly from his lips 'your allegiance to this rebel group will be your downfall.'

She could feel his manifestation dissipate. She let out a breath. After she found the crystal she would have to leave. She held nothing but a beacon lighting up the way for kylo ren and the first order. The resistance would gather in number and strength, then, maybe then she could return.

"FIVE!" Poe screamed. "FIVE FISH REY!!!"

She turned her head alarmed, as he held the sharpened staff up, and beheld the five wigging fish pinned through it. Poes face lit up with a smile, no idea the man who threatened their very continuance was just within the confines of her thoughts speaking about murdering them all. For all he knew was he held their Dinner in his hands.