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"I know you're here." Kylo said, his eyes closed as he was trying to meditate in his chambers.
"You called to me." Rey responded, now appearing in front of him on her knees. "Luke's gone, you got what you wanted." She spat.
"I didn't call to you knowingly. I know he's gone, I felt it too. I felt it through the force, I felt it through… my mother, and I felt it through you." He told her, opening his eyes.
"And how does it feel? It's been your life mission since you were 15, hasn't it? Killing Luke? Now he's gone and you weren't the one to kill him." She practically yelled at him. Her eyes glazing over his form, shrouded in darkness with only one light reflecting off his face.
"How do I feel? How do I feel?! My own uncle tried to kill me, an innocent 15-year-old boy who was trying to distinguish good from bad! Does that sound like a noble Jedi to you?! Snoke didn't make me turn to the dark side, Luke did! So how do I feel now that my creator is gone?!" He took a moment to regroup himself. "Nothing… I feel nothing." He felt his anger reeling in before it got out of control.
"Nothing?" Rey asked, unsure she heard him correctly. She peered at his face for confirmation.
"I could have never been a full Jedi master. Jedi are meant to feel nothing. No fear, no love, no attachments, no passion. I've always felt too much. I was scared when my own parents looked at me, terrified of my power. I was angry when my uncle tried to kill me. I don't want a life feeling nothing. I have an attachment, even now. Which is why you can never be a full Jedi either. We are connected through the force. We have seen each other's futures. Future's that have yet to pass." Kylo Ren told her, and she listened. His dark eyes were searching hers, begging for her to believe him.
"The future I saw for you wasn't like this, Ben! You were using the light side of the force! You weren't the Supreme Leader of the First Order! You were Ben Solo, and we…" She halted, turning away, a blush rising to her cheeks.
He lifted his hand to brush a piece of hair from her face. "The future I saw for you, Rey, for both of us… I interpreted it wrong at first." Ben said, which piqued her interest.
"You said you saw me coming to the dark side." Rey muttered and looked up at him, as if begging him to explain.
"I saw you using the dark side of the force. I saw us fighting along-side one another, using both the dark and light sides of the force. We were something I had only heard in stories. Not Jedi, not Sith. We were Grey. I thought it to be a myth. The Grey Jedi were said to exist when the force was balanced, they are the balance. You see, the force is not dark or light, it doesn't distinguish between good or bad. It bends to the users will." Kylo explained to her. She stared at him, trying to determine if he was telling the truth. "Search through our bond, you know I am not lying."
"Fine. Say I believe you, what are the Grey Jedi?" She asked him, curiosity getting the best of her. She crossed her arms and waited for him continue.
"They use the entirety of the force, both dark and light. There are no boundries, there are no rules, there is no code. Grey Jedi always come in pairs, connected through a force bond, such as us. One dark, one light. Together they equal each other out and the force is once again balanced. No Jedi, no Sith. This is our future, Rey, our destiny." Kylo told her, offering his hand to her once more, to show her.
She reached out hesitantly and as soon as her fingers brushed his, with a spark of electricity and warmth, the images flooded her mind. All of it was true. They were destined to be the Grey Jedi. "If that is our destiny, then why didn't you come with me, Ben? Why did you become the Supreme Leader, order the attack on the Resistance? Why?" Rey asked, a tear now tracing a line down her cheek.
"The First Order is building another starkiller base. Construction is nearly completed. If I had just run off, the Hux would have taken the roll of Supreme Leader and the galaxy would have burned." She looked at him, silently asking him a question with her eyes. "It will be easier to take them down from inside. We are headed to the base in two weeks time. I can do what needs to be done to destroy it."
"No! I'm coming with you. It's a suicide mission alone." Rey immediately said, not hesitating for a second. His eyes flashed to hers in a frenzy with a nervous gaze.
"Absolutely not. You're too easily recognized and it is too dangerous. I won't put you in a position to be hurt or killed." Kylo told her, adamant.
"Take me in as a prisoner. It worked well enough last time. Ben, the way we fought together…it was like nothing I've ever experienced. It was like we were the same person with the same mind!" Rey said excitedly, remembering how they moved as one person.
"No. You are still mostly untrained. You have raw skill and power, but it needs to be honed. 99% of what you know, you taught yourself. I will not bring you in to this kind of mission without having trained with you first. Our bond is a big advantage, without a doubt, but we need to know each other, know how each other's fighting styles, more so than just what we've seen from fighting twice in person. Training through a mind connection is out of the question as well, it needs to be face to face." Ren said to her and her eyes lit up. He creased his eyebrows and looked at her, unsure of why she was smiling.
"We can meet and train together somewhere!" She said excitedly, very optimistic about the entire ordeal. She reached across and put her hand on his shoulder, feeling their bond coursing through them both in such an amazing and indescribable way.
"And how would we do that? Both of us sneak away and meet on an abandoned planet somewhere? You do realize I am the Supreme Leader now?" Ren asked honestly, relishing in the feel of her hand on his shoulder. Rey smirked as she looked up at him.
"Which is exactly why it would be easier for you to get away. No one will question the "Supreme Leader". You can force compel Hux if need be. No one will question me either. I can just say that I am going to train, and they can't stop me. They don't particularly care for me to be here anyways." She told him with a twinge of sadness, and he pinched the bridge of his nose, leaving that question for another time.
"Fine. But it will be under my terms. We will meet back on Crait, tonight. Get there ahead of me and wait for me in the cave. It is the safest location since both sides have left that system. They won't be looking somewhere we've already destroyed." He told her and she nodded with hope in her eyes.
"Don't be late." She said before disappearing from his sight. He was really going to do this, become a Grey Jedi alongside his scavenger. Wait his? When had he started referring to her as his in his mind? Oh right, when he asked her to rule the galaxy by his side. Her light, her hope would be either his salvation or his damnation, but he was null to do anything about it other than to see where it would now take him. He had been so lost for many years, thinking no one else in the galaxy could fully understand him, and now this scavenger, his equal in the force, was here and she was the most intriguing, perplexing creature he'd ever laid his eyes upon.
I hope you enjoy this story. I've been dying to post it since seeing TLJ (several times) and the fact that I cosplay as Rey brings it to life for me. It's kind of helped me get out of my writer's block. As always, please review to let me know what you think.
Bex