Yup Rey was pissed. Which is understandable. Here you go with the next chapter:
So obviously their connection was still there. Coming out of nowhere after weeks. Exactly what she did not need nor want. This didn't uplift her already darkened mood at all, but more so over dragged her down even deeper.
Several days later she was welding some metal tubes, responsible for the cooling system in the Millenium Falcon together, as she was crouching inside one of its smuggling holds. The tubes were extremely rusty and on the verge of breaking open, as pretty much everything on the ship. So she had to renew them at once.
Even if this ship was a legend and was still one of the fastest ones in the galaxy it really was to some point garbage. Every time she was finally done repairing one problem, another one was to be found and she sometimes wondered how they all survived to this day flying around in this ticking timebomb of rusty pipes, exploding electronics, malfunctioning deflector shields and missing radar dishes. Nonetheless, she loved the ship and so did Chewbacca of course, as it was the most memorable thing they had of Han Solo.
The sparks Rey produced while welding the metal pipes sparkled right onto her protective mask and she squeezed her eyes together from their brightness.
Then she felt it. The link between her and Kylo Ren has opened once again for whatever reason. The sparks were still hurling at her face and she saw him standing right behind these metal pipes as if he was in the Falcon too. He was mere inches away from her, she could only see his back and he suddenly flinched together as if he was startled by the noises her welding was making.
Kylo swirled around, stared slightly distressed at the tool in her hands and took a step forward to her, the sparks glimmered in his dark brown eyes and he looked at the instrument in her hand. Then his gaze wandered upwards and around her, as he was probably trying to see her surroundings where she was tinkering around.
Rey turned the welder off and pulled off the protective mask to glance at him. After looking around for some seconds his lips twitched down in disgust and his eyes fell back to her as he had recognized exactly which ship she was repairing right now. Han Solo's ship. His father's ship. The man he killed.
There was a voice in the background talking to him now, but she couldn't see enough of his surroundings to know to which person it might belong:
"Supreme leader Ren, is there a problem of some kind?"
Rey heard shuffling and faint talking now, there were obviously several other people, apart from Kylo Ren and this other voice in the room.
He still had his eyes fixed on her as he was standing lesser than an arm's length away from her and answered with a pissed off face: "I felt a disturbance in the force."
Then his lips formed a thin line as he squeezed his eyes together slightly and watched her while blatantly lying to a room full of people. One other man asked shyly:
"A disturbance you say? Does it have anything to do with the preparing of our attack on..." Kylo Ren bellowed out so suddenly the other man who was talking before instantly ceased speaking as if he had choked on his words. She could feel his breath brushing her hairline as he screamed: "NO! IT DOES NOT. You will continue this meeting without me and will keep to the protocol!"
"But...But we still didn't decide on how we want to approach the..." Finally, Kylo took his eyes of Rey and aggressively turned around to the other talker:
"Yes, General Hux. We didn't. If you feel like you are not capable of deciding about this procedure on your own, I advise you resign from your current position and let another general take over your space. " Kylo snarled at the other man. Rey was listening closely as she knew they were talking about something important and Kylo Ren was trying to hide it from her ears. Never before she thought of the possibility to extract information like that through their bond.
"I will make the decision as I see fitting to its current status which will ultimately aid the First Order in taking..." the man started but was immediately interrupted again: "Well. That's what I wanted to hear. Sent me the decision with full detail on the planning later to my holopad. I will look through it."
Kylo ordered as he went out of the room, where she saw him passing several chairs with different people, obviously all of them highly decorated generals and commanders.
He walked fast through these dark triangular corridors with the bright unnatural lights, she knew from the few times she was on one of these First Order ships.
After some feet, Kylo stepped sideways into a small room and closed the automatic door behind him as he leaned against it with his arms crossed in front of his chest as he was staring at her with anger written all over his face.
Rey knew he was extremely pissed that she nearly heard some of the First Order plans.
"You didn't need to disrupt your meeting because of me." She smirked slightly at him in triumph.
There was a pause before he said something as his eyes grew darker with every second until his deep voice echoed angrily through the room:
"You didn't need to stop setting this piece of junk on fire." He kind of mimicked what she said.
Her brows knitted together in annoyance. Was he trying to make fun of her? As if she didn't know what she was doing! She pulled her protective mask down again and was about to ignite the welder once more, trying to ignore him not even knowing why she started talking with him at all, when she saw him taking a step forward to her, eyeing her through the glass of the mask. He squeezed his eyes together as he bowed down slightly and Rey suddenly felt him diving into her mind, just a bit but she pushed him out in an instant, scared that he tried to steal information about the Resistance.
"No. You don't know what you are doing." he sneered at her.
Then she heard a growl above her head and looked up. It was Chewbacca who kneeled on the upper level, asking what she was doing.
"I'm repairing these old rusty pipes Chewie!" Rey glanced forward again to Kylo whose eyes had wandered up to the Wookie, then again down to her.
He pushed his arms behind his back and walked some steps backwards without saying anything, still staring at her intensely.
Chewbacca now jumped down to Rey and roared infuriated. Rey understood what he was saying, but didn't understand why he asked that.
"Why should I turn off the gas? These are pipes contain cooling water Chewie. I turned off the water."
Kylo still stood there and watched them bicker back and forth and something like the smallest hint of a smirk appeared on his lips.
Then he was suddenly gone.
The Wookie ripped the welder out of Rey's hands and held it up in the air while he frustratingly explained her about the pipes being cooling pipes, but also contained the gas pipes inside of them, which she wasn't able to know because it was a modification no ship normally has.
"Of course no other ship has this! This is dangerous as hell! Why did you and Han even build this in here?"
Chewbacca groaned and pointed with his paws at the pipes on the left and above him, then motioned something like water and roared again.
"Because it simultaneously cools down the gas? Oh, Chewie, that is on some level a good and effective idea, but on the other hand, if someone like me is working on it, without knowing about it first, the whole ship would have exploded. This is really dangerous for other people, you should put a sign on it or something!"
The Wookie threw his hands in the air and groaned out something as he walked away with the welder in his paw.
"What...Little Ben said the same thing to Han?"
Little Ben...Little Ben. Oh! Chewbacca meant Ben. Of course, he must have known him back then as he always was a close friend to Han and Leia. He probably has even known him from birth to his teenage years.
So Kylo said the same thing about it being dangerous and that Han should put up at least a sign. Which they obviously never did. Having the same thoughts as him felt disturbing for her and still, she wondered why Han didn't put a sign on the wall. Or maybe it fell off or something like that. She put away the mask in defeat and decided to make a new sign, so nobody would set the whole ship on fire accidentally as she had nearly done right now.
Just now she realized she suddenly understood what Kylo...or Ben...she was confused with the names again, not knowing how to call him - was meaning when he said, she doesn't know what she was doing. He actually saved her by interrupting her welding on the pipes. But he wanted her dead. Didn't he?
He should have been happy if the pipes would have exploded right between her hands, killing her instantly, destroying the Falcon with it.
So maybe he meant it entirely different. Maybe he meant it about her teasing him with trying to get information from his First Order meeting through their bond.
She didn't know what his thoughts were, but right now she was happy the whole ship didn't explode in her face today.