1st.: Bits and pieces
Her dress was black, and there were so many laces.
Oh.
So it is a nightmare. She would only dress in a gown if she was forced to...
In front of her was a young man, almost begging her with those blue eyes of his. She wanted to touch him so bad, instead she was just asking one simple question. It is for the best. For him. For her. For everyone. Even if she dies a little inside. It only needs one question, but the young man kept tempting her.
- It doesn't have to be that way. We could keep it a secret.
She needed to remind herself to focus. Even if she likes the man way to much more than it was allowed to her. If she shuts down the forming bond, it will be alright. He will be on journeys, so he won't have time for her anyway. Now, she has to have a straight face and lie, as best as she could.
- We'd be living a lie. One we couldn't keep, even if we wanted to. I couldn't do that. Could you? Could you live like that?
The man seemed to be in equal pain but after one last look, he shook his head.
- No, you are right. We would be crushed under that secret.
Rey awoke to the feeling, that someone was watching her. She recognized a few things. First and foremost, she was on a foreign ship, with the very one man (or sith knows what), who captured her. The thing was just sitting, and watching her, but sill, the creeps went up on her spine.
- Good. You are conscious now – stood the black clad creature – Tell me what you know about the BB-unit.
Rey looked at the human-like enemy again. She was met with the familiar darkness, but something was pulling her towards this thing. Is it a robot or a man? Is it even a human being?
Lie to him! - came the thought.
- The unit is an astro droid, from the BB series. Formerly belonged to the Resistance. It has a carbon-fiber shell and...
The creature stormed close to her, and steadied itself on the interrogation chair, just inches from Rey's face.
- Do not play any games with me – it hissed – Show me the map, what you saw. I know for a fact, that you saw it.
- Why would I show anything to you? - Rey spat back. She wanted to look brave, but it is really hard when you are strapped to a metal chair, and the only thing you can do is to look very-very angry – I cannot even see your face. Are you human? Are you a robot? What are you?
Her interrogator straightened itself and reached behind his head. A soft swiss could be heard, the mask loosened on the creatures face and it revealed itself to Rey. She barely kept her gasp. Coal black irises looked back at her from a face that could be of an angel. So lost, so afraid, so... Beautiful...
Not blue? Why not blue, they were blue! - she thought first, only to ponder, why she was expecting eyes to appear in the first place.
For a moment she just stared at him, drinking in the sight, feeling the weight of his gaze on her face, and again, Rey could feel the darkness pooling from him. A part of her whole being wanted to touch the strange young man, as if that could solve the problems, but a much larger part of her being was deadly afraid.
- You will tell me, what I want to know, willing or not - stated the man, and he extended his right hand, almost touching her forehead. Rey only felt a sharp pain in her head, and her vision was immediately clouded.
The earth was hot, and glowed red. The stink of Sulphur hung in the air, and she was standing before the black haired young man. How can that be? They were on the sip just moments ago.
- You're with him! He took you away from me! - he shouted.
- Dearest... - she begged - Love, why do you say that? Please, come to your senses! I love you, only you! You know that! We wanted to get away from all this! Or the Dark has already invaded you so much, that you don't even recognize me? Please, I love you...
- LIES!
She could feel her feet leaving the ground as he lifted her. She tried to gasp for air, but it did not get t her lungs. Rey's vision blurred partly because of her tears and partly because of the lack of oxygen.
- NO! - Rey screamed on top of her lungs.
Ren stumbled backwards, as a surge of power sent him to the wall. What was that? Memories mixed in his mind. He could see the girl's past, as she was left alone on a desert planet, and he could see a planet, on which lava was flowing like a river, but he could not remember ever being on one.
He looked in the girl's eyes, and for a flash, he saw her in a light yellow-purple dress, standing on a balcony on a foreign planet, brown hair flowing around her.
My angel...
Ren struggled to keep his head in the game. He tried to read her mind again, but he could not enter into it. He met a granite wall, which ran around her subconscious. She closed him out.
- Who are you!? – Ren asked eyeing the girl - FN-2187 called you Rey. Is that your name?!
- Why should I tell you that? – spat the girl, tugging at her restrains angrily.
Kylo steadied himself on the interrogation chair, and looked deep into Rey's eyes. Her breathing became erratic, as she wanted to have some distance between them.
Sshh, Angel, please don't be afraid of me...I won't make the same mistake again, I promise. Believe me... Back off, you scare her! Don't you see?! – Kylo almost slapped himself out of frustration.
It was no news to him, that the Light and the Dark always battled inside of him. He was already used to the constant whispers, images flowing around in his head, but this time it was different. She could taste the girl's fear and anger, but he also tasted the strange completeness, she gave off since they've met.
Like old acquaintances, better yet...
He did not dare to express that.
He searched for any sigh from Rey's side. Just a spark, a realization, that she may have recognized anything. She was - after all - also Force sensitive. How else could she resist the further mind reading?
He took off one of his gloves to feel her skin under his palm. Rey tried to flinch away, but as she was still tied up, she had no chance for it. Ren touched her cheek, and where he did so, he could feel the Force jumping off of them, like sparkles.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth...
Kylo looked at Rey again. These words are not his. The thoughts, the pictures, everything.
And even so... even as he still gets the fact, that something went really south in the moment, they saw each other, he could not deny the fact, that the scavenger girl was indeed pretty. Beautiful even, after a little refreshment. He needed space from her. Distance.
He needed to clear his mind to focus on the task at hand.
He could not get the map from her, as his path was blocked to Rey's mind, and the Supreme Leader wants Luke Skywalker. He needs to forge Plan B.
On top of all that, the more he was in ne room with Rey, the more he talked to her, the more he felt the pull to the Light.
He needed a solution. He needed his grandfather.