A/N: I wanted to take a look at how these two damaged people would recover from the events in TLJ aaaaand that movie also awakened in me a serious Reylo fanatic :) So, though I want this story to mainly focus on character development, it's definitely gonna be heavy on the romance.
Let me know what you think!
After Starkiller Base there was loss, confliction and pain. It was the same after Crait, there was no solace, then or now. He had failed. In two of the most pivotal moments of his life, he had failed.
Kylo Ren watched in catatonic disinterest as the First Order pieced itself back together, constructing new ships to replace the hundreds lost in the last few days, forcefully recruiting new troupes and seizing new assets to fund it all.
As if any of their efforts mattered. The First Order was doomed, regardless of their industrious labor and the resistance sabotage. It was an empire built on the vanity of one Sith.
And with him gone, what was the fate of the galaxy?
Snoke had been a conniving, caustic and ineffective dictator... and Kylo Ren had no interest in continuing where he left off.
So then... what came next?
This was the deceptively simple question that had been plaguing him for days. Indecision was his constant companion. Without Snokes incessant, directional whispers in his mind, nothing seemed straightforward or simple. An angry chaos reigned, thoughts bouncing from one scenario to another, one possible future to another, making him more dizzy and disturbed than he could ever remember being.
But… Kylo could also never remember the Force being so clear and easy to access. It was a calm lake, a soothing pool he could submerge himself in and escape all his worldly dilemmas. There was no end to it and Kylo was beginning to realize the considerable extent Snoke had been limiting and manipulating his access to the Force.
And overlaying it all… a strange powerful tug in the flow of energy, a current he struggled to understand as he allowed himself to be pulled along. Straight to her.