AN: Buckle up and enjoy the Reylo. In this Rey is not a Skywalker/Solo/Organa. Not related to my other Reylo fic.
Two years after Starkiller bases' destruction...
Rey stood angrily between the two storm troopers as they escorted her to him. She'd come willingly out of the transport, which she'd been on for too many days lamenting that she wished she'd taken the x-wing knowing that in her state there was no way she could have withstood the g forces on her body. The blasted battle cruiser felt even more like a maze than when she'd scavenged the ones on Jakku as they wound through the corridors. Rey's breathing was beginning to increase in anticipation of seeing him and she wasn't entirely sure it was all anger. To be sure she was aggressively angry with him, with both of them, for getting her to the state she was in now. Absentmindedly she stroked her swollen stomach trying to calm herself a little as she felt the little one moving around, likely riled by her anger.
The blast doors opened and one of the troopers shoved her in. Rey caught herself with one step, coming to stand with her head held high as she looked around the small quarters, no it was an office, her mind corrected as she felt his presence press upon her then. His back was to her as he pressed buttons on the computer, likely watching her approached. Rey huffed then, realizing that he likely already knew that she was storming her way here to tell him.
"Ren." Her voice rang out then, dripping with suppressed anger.
"Rey how nice to see you." He said turning. His mask modulated the voice and he sounded both pleased and sarcastic all at the same time. He shifted slightly his head moving up and down to take in her form. Cocking his head to the side he froze as he noticed her pregnant state. Who did this to you? His mind screamed across hers.
"You don't get to be angry." She pointed a finger up at him as he stalked across the room. "I'm the one who is pregnant." Her breathing was coming in ragged gasps as she tried not to think about murdering him right then. He started to take the helmet off as he walked, wanting to see her without the red haze of the visor. Dropping it to the ground carelessly, he took the last two steps to her and glowered down at her.
"Who did this to you?" He asked, bringing a hand out to probe her mind. She threw up her mental shields then, not wanting him in her mind.
"Don't." She warned as she balled her fists next to her. It had been two years since he'd entered her mind without permission either in their shared dreams or when they'd come face to face on rare occasion.
"Who. Did. This. To. You." He hissed as his chest and shoulders began heaving in anger. Rey stood below him looking up into his face, the face she'd looked into a thousand times, in a thousand dreams and clinched her jaw. This was why she came and yet she was having trouble getting the words out. "Rey." He warned raising a hand to her chin.
"You did!" She shouted as she watched his features closely. Confusion flashed briefly as his hand dropped away.
"That's not possible." He said as he moved to circle her then, as though he was a shark and she was something to eat.
"Well evidently it is because I haven't been with anyone else, in this world or the dream world." She stayed facing forward as he moved around her back, close enough that the overcoat touched her legs as he whipped around the other side of her.
"How?" He moved to stand before her again, not touching her, although he would love to gather her to him like he's done in their dreams or the farseeing they've done together.
"I don't know. No one knows." She growled out. "But the doctors took some of her DNA and she is yours." She watched his features lighten briefly when she told him that it was a girl then watched the darkness seep back into where the light had made room.
"It's a girl?" The thought stopped the ramblings in his head that said this clearly couldn't be happening.
"Yes." She mumbled quietly.
"So why are you here then?" He was cautious. Clearly having her and their child around on a battle cruiser was out of the question, so what exactly did she want from him?
"I'm heading to Takodana and thought you might accompany me." She said feeling ridiculous.
"You shouldn't have come." He said putting his hands on her biceps and lifting her slightly. "Now I know about her, Snoke will too."
"Come with me, help me protect her." She said moving a hand to grasp his. The past two years of training as a Jedi would help immensely but she knew she didn't want to raise a child in the Resistance. The little one began kicking vigorously then and Rey pried Kylo's fingers off of her arm and placed it on her stomach then.
Kylo felt like the entire universe stopped then, as though time and space and breathing didn't have any purpose as he felt the child move against his hand. Looking down at his hand he looked petrified before his eyes turned back towards Rey's.
"Why did you wait this long to tell me?" He whispered. "Is this why you've been blocking me in your sleep?" The anger that was just below the surface, always seething, began rising again.
"Yes." She placed her hand over his then, trying to keep it there. He pulled back as if she burned him and sighed. "I waited until I could get the DNA test. If this was something like your grandfather's birth then there would be no reason to let you know. In fact if it was immaculate, like Anakin, I would have wanted to keep this from you entirely." Her words were coming fast then. She'd sussed out long before the doctor told her that the child was his, she could feel it through the Force and wondered why she hadn't thought about the consequences of taking him to bed. Even if it hadn't ended with her in this state it was extremely naive to think they would have any sort of normal life together. The addition of the little one didn't help Rey's thoughts at all and when she came up with her plan, she felt she at least owed telling him to his face and she could only hope that he wouldn't decide to keep her imprisoned and take away the child. Luke and Leia both felt the plan was foolhardy and so Rey had stolen the freighter and escaped one night a week ago. "But she is yours and so I wanted to give you the option to participate in her life."
Kylo Ren stepped back then, turning away from her. She'd started coming to him, by dream, or vice versa within months of Starkiller bases' destruction. At first all they did was fight, with sabers, with fists, with the Force but since it was a dream neither could die. Eventually Rey started asking questions about his fighting style which eventually led to more civilized conversations about life, the Force, the bond they seemed to have accidentally forged on Starkiller, the anger he felt at being bested by someone so inexperienced, the reason they both joined the side they were currently on and finally after over a year of fighting and talking did they come into contact.
"Do you know how dangerous it was coming here to let me know this information? To give me this chance?" He asked staring out the window of the office as the hyperdrive blurred by, thinking about why she was there and what it would mean if the Supreme Leader or the General found out about the baby. It is likely they would want to drag it into the First Order, make it a Stormtrooper or Knight of Ren. As the thought pressed against Kylo he started to see how wrong it would be to raise a child in either world. "So you're leaving the Resistance? Why? You would have been well cared for there."
"Because I don't want to raise a child in the military. Not with the Resistance and not here. And yes I realize how dangerous this was but wouldn't you rather know about her?"
He turned back to her then and looked at her. She looked tired, likely from the baby interrupting her sleep or maybe the worry of having to come here and tell him about this new development in their non-relationship. Hell they hadn't even kissed in reality and yet they were paying a price for something they hadn't yet done. Growling again in frustration the young Ren forced his hand away from his saber then as he would like nothing more than to destroy something right then but feared that it would end up being her if he even ignited his weapon. He walked over to her then and felt something spike in the bond, some threat that wasn't there before and he wondered if she had felt the rage he'd just felt and was prepared to defend herself. Reaching a hand behind her neck, he pulled her to him then and crashed his lips down on hers for the first time in real life.
His other hand moved around her back and he pressed her into him, feeling the swell of her against him then and he liked the feeling. It was a heady experience kissing the woman he'd impregnated from afar for the first time, the proof of their dream coupling pressing against his abdomen. Rey gasped at the suddenness of it and allowed him to kiss her more deeply then and a hand moving to his face while one rested on his chest briefly before struggling to stop him.
"Don't." She said pushing him back. "Not until I know if you're coming with me." She said softly. Perplex his brows came together trying to puzzle her out.
"Why not?"
"Because if you aren't coming with me, then this is goodbye. Forever." She said dropping the hand that was on his chest from pushing him away. "Because I don't want to know what this might really be like if I have to walk out of here without you and raise this child alone."
"Rey…" He started, realizing that whatever reason he was about to give would just come out lamely. "Give me some time to think about it?" He asked without emotion.
"Two days." She said stiffly.
"Two days." He nodded before moving to pick up the helmet and replace it on his head before calling the troopers back. "Escort her to my quarters, post two guards." He nodded to the troopers who grabbed her by the arms.
"Hey. I can walk just fine thank you." She said wrenching her arms away. Kylo lifted a hand to tell the two that it was ok. They exited the small office and directed her towards the Knight's quarters a few decks up and through another maze.
TBC...?
