I awake again but this time time I am in a forest. My back and head ache as I remember being hurled backward into a large oak tree. My memory returns to me slowly but still my mind is foggy. Slowly I rise my head from the snow covered earth. I should be freezing but my heart begins beating too fast to feel the cold. I look forward and see Kylo standing a few feet away from me. There is something unmoving at his feet. I squint my eyes in the darkness and quickly realize it's FIn, laying there unconscious.

"What have you done?" I scream out at him, slamming my fisted hand into the ground. I'm suddenly very afraid that my friend is dead.

He finally looks up from Fin and back at me. He is taking short deep breathes as he watches me like a rabid animal, his teeth showing as he seethes and his dark eyes filled with what seemed to be some kind of animalistic hunger.

"I'm finishing this!" He yells back to me.

I immediately jump back up on my feet but then I am immobilized. I quickly realize I am without a weapon as he now withdraws his own red lightsaber. He is stepping towards me, taking in my frightened stare as I begin to back away into a large tree. For a moment I begin to think that I might actually die. But this fear quickly vanishes when I remember Fin. He could still be alive. No matter how defeated I may feel, I know that I must at least try for him.

Then it hits me.

The blue lightsaber.

Kylo is only a couple steps away from me when I decide to make the move to duck and roll out of his way. I don't realize until I look back and see the scorched tree that he was inches away from taking my head off. I feel his body and mind tense and I know he is now aware of what I am doing. I am running towards the light saber and am so close, but now he is using his own power to send it flying through the air towards him. I too, reach out for it with my mind and to my surprise it stops just before it can reach Kylo's grasp. I lift up my open hand and the lightsaber is now hurtling towards me, going straight into my palm. I feel a small smile dance at the corner of my lips as I power it on and marvel at the glowing blue. It feels so right to hold it. It suddenly feels so empowering to know I am with the Light Side. I look back at Kylo. He is furious with not only me but with himself.

"Fight me!" He demands. I watch as he brings his fisted hand to his side, hitting his rib cage with as much force as he can. Blood trickles from him and colors the snow below him red. His heart keeps pounding harder and faster as he continues to lose more blood. It gives him pain and fuels him with anger and adrenaline.

I take my stance and hold the glowing weapon in front of me. I wait for Kylo to make the first move and it doesn't take long. Before I know it he is inches in front of me and his saber now clashes with mine. I stumble backwards, taken back by his physical strength. But I just as quickly push forward and am able to get him far enough for me to try and slice his leg just enough to stop him. He blocks the hit but I quickly jump back before he can try to take a jab at me.

KYLO'S POV

I swing my weapon at her torso but she quickly jumps back just enough for it to miss her. She is faster than me, as I struggle to breathe. I'm losing so much blood. I feel like a I may wither away to nothing. Still, I use this physical pain to drive me to keep up the fight. I am determined to not let this scavenger girl best me. Not after all she has done.

I rush forward and bring my saber over my head to crash it down against the blue saber. Rey falls backward against the blow, landing on her back. I move to stand beside her as I watch her groan in pain. Though I try, I can not reach inside her mind as easily as I once did. I feel a mental wall that she has built from her anger toward me. I can only see her strongest emotions at this moment, nothing tucked deep within her subconscious. Her main concern is for her friend. The traitor who I had left for dead only a few feet away from us. I catch her glance over his way. She wonders if I've killed him. I move my red sabar to my side and power it off. For a split second, the girl watches me with confusion. Though her own light saber is deactivated, she holds it firmly to her chest, waiting for my next move. I bend down slowly, crouching beside her.

"You need a teacher." I tell her simply. "Someone who can show you how to use the Force probably."

"What will you teach me?" She spits out. "How to destroy lives, create chaos...kill my own Father..."

I feel my jaw immediately lock as her words hit me like a knife. For a moment, I feel the darkness in me begin to waiver. I look at the scavenger. The Light-the purity in her eyes pouring back into me. It burns me to my core. I feel the Dark side immediately retaliate.

You are Kylo-Ren

You killed Han Solo

This is who you are

The voices hiss at me. I feel the darkness quickly move through me to reclaim my mind, to take back what is there's from the light that is now burning like a tiny flame inside me. I think of Han and the look on his face before he fell. As this image flashes through my mind I hear the voices laugh in amusement as another, much smaller part of me screams in agony.

REY'S POV

I watch in confusion as Kylo begins to tremble in front of me. I fight to search his mind but when I try to get in, I am forcefully pushed back out. I gasp when I feel the darkness in him touch me. It's cold hands leaving a terrifying mark.

"Stop." He growls under his breath as clenches his eyes shut.

For a split second, I think he is talking to me. Demanding I stay out of his head, but he is not looking at me. His eyes seemed glazed over as he looks ahead. Past me and over into the trees.

"I-I don't understand." I say to him honestly.

I watch as he brings his hands to his hair to dig his fingers into his skull. I imagine if not for the sudden mental block between us that I would feel his seemingly unbearable pain. I slowly rise up, half expecting him to stab me in the back the second I walk away. He doesn't. Instead he continues with his internal battle as I quickly rush over to Finn. He is still unconscious. I immediately check for a pulse, moving my finger over his neck. To my relief, I feel his blood pumping underneath my finger.

"Oh thank God, you brave idiot." I let out a small laugh, overwhelmed with relief.

I begin to try to move Finn over my shoulders. He is so heavy but I think I can at least get us out of the forest. I lift him but I am frozen in place when I hear Kylo scream out. My head snaps back around at the sound and I suddenly feel conflicted as I watch him. He is still bent over in agony. I glance back at Finn. He would kill me for what I am about to do.

"Forgive me."

With that, I gently place Finn back down and rush back to Kylo. I crouch in front of him. As I look at him I am reminded of the way I felt in the interrogation room. The Dark Side of the force searching through me so brutally. I'll never forget that pain. I recognize it in his face.

KYLO'S POV

"Kylo?" I hear her say shakily. "Ben?"

Ben is pathetic

He died with Han Solo

Kylo is who you are

The darkness that surges through me is powerful as it battles to keep me in line. I feel Rey, trying so hard to push through it to get inside my head but she fails.

REY'S POV

I feel something. A sudden switch that has been flipped. It changes the air around us. I look around the forest and somehow it seems everything has grown darker in the already black forest.

I look back at Kylo and immediately notice the change in his eyes.

They are dark, cold and again filled with rage. He is no longer shaking and I no longer see that he is in any pain.

I scream when I feel his hand quickly snatch for my neck. He holds me as he begins to stand, lifting me up with him.

"My name is Kylo-Ren." He tells me slowly. His voice is low and firm. Though his grip on my throat is tight I still manage to rasp out:

"You don't want to hurt me." I warn him. "I can help you."

KYLO'S POV

She lies

No one will help you now

Han's death sealed your fate

No one will accept you

No one but the Dark Side

The voices all talk at once. It feels as if my head may explode.

"Liar!" I scream back, before throwing Rey backward. I feel him. Kylo-Ren beginning to resurface. Any hope in me, that for a moment flickered inside now burns out. I hear the voices snicker as they vanish back into the corners of my mind.

I see the girl, already back on her feet as she activates her Lightsaber. This time it is her who charges forward, crashing her weapon against mine.

REY'S POV

My blood is rushing through me as I repeatedly smash my sabar against his. I feel the Force fully within me. Guiding me. Helping me anticipate Kylo's every move. He is taken aback by this as he continues to stagger backward. I finally hit him so hard that he lowers his weapon to catch himself from falling. I take the opportunity to slice up the side of his leg. As my sabar goes up, the tip goes against his face. I hear him scream out as his free hand reaches to touch the wound. I quickly rush forward and grab each of his wrists. I push down the arm that holds his weapon.

KYLO'S POV

My sabar breaks against the freezing ground, the girl is driving it into. I grind my teeth together as I watch this small girl overpower me. It is evident that the Force is very strong with her.

Without my weapon I am almost defenseless. As soon as I even think to also use the Force against Rey, she has already kicked me back on the ground. Now it is she who stands beside me. For a moment we just look at each other as we try to catch our breaths. If I wasn't so caught off guard by her strength, both mentally and physically, I might have stood to attack once more but I don't. I am spellbound by her power.

"Well...what are you waiting for? Kill me." I say to to her fiercely. Her light saber still shines it's brilliant blue into the darkness.

She suddenly gives me a look that I never expected to see from her. Her eyes narrowing on me as her upper lip rolls over her teeth.

"Maybe I should kill you." She says lowley. "End this all right here. Right now."

She tips the weapon level to my neck. I let out a weak laugh at her attempt to be threatening.

REY'S POV

"You wouldn't dare." He says back to me. His face is covered in dripping blood from the cut my sabar made when it went across his forehead to the bottom of his cheek. He doesn't move to wipe it off, instead he lets it roll down to his chin, where it drips onto the snow.

"And why not?" I seeth. "I'd be doing everyone a favor."

He smirks. "You plan on training to be a Jedi, is that it?"

I stay silent, still holding my weapon to his throat.

"You better rethink your methods, scavenger." He continues. "These emotions you feel-the hatred the anger and the yearning for vengeance. That's not a Jedi."

He grits his teeth before he continues on bitterly. "They take all your emotions away from you. You'll be reduced to nothing. You'll become numb and be void of anything worth living for."

"Is that your excuse for all of this then?" I say back angrily. "Because it's shit."

"What's your excuse?" He shoots back. "You think you're any better than me holding that weapon to my throat?"

Suddenly I realize just how easy it would be to push my arm forward and end Kylo Ren. I feel my anger rush through me as my blood races.

This isn't right.

Quickly I recoil from the thought and deactivate my weapon, not giving into the Dark Side.

"I do not want to kill you." I say. "Not if I don't have to.

I sigh and under my breath I say quietly. "But you already know that..."

"What is it that you want then? Because as long as I'm around the First Order will keep fighting. I'll be sure of that."

"I want to bring you home-for Leia."

"Why?" He scoffs. "So I can tell her in person of how I killed her husband."

"Your Father."

"No." He corrects firmly. "He wasn't my Father. A Father doesn't send his only son away at seven to train for twenty years on an island."

"To make you a Jedi-"

"To make me what they wanted me to be!" He screams at me. For a moment, I swear I feel the earth beneath my feet shake, as Kylo's voice breaks through the cold crisp air.

KYLO'S POV

For a moment I wonder if it is the anger within me that causes the world around me to tremble, but I soon realize it is the earth quaking beneath me.

I brace myself, digging my fingers through the snow into the hard dirt as it shakes. Rey begins to fall back but she quickly catches herself against the bark of a tree.

I look to her and she looks back at me. Our expressions both filled with panic and confusion. Though we are silent, we are asking what exactly is happening. Neither of us has the answer.

A loud crackling sound erupts into the air and now the shaking becomes almost violent as I watch the ground split the land into two. It driving a perfect wedge between Rey and I. I am breathing heavily as I pull myself against the ground, away from the cliff. The cold has seemed to numb my wounds because I no longer feel any pain as I pull my body weight. Or maybe it's because I've lost so much blood. Suddenly it occurs to me that I might be dying.

A strange feeling washes over me as the idea swirls around in my head. The earth is still moving as it separates. It leaves a deep black scar that I doubt anyone would know where it ends unless they were to fall into it.

I hear her in the distance. She is calling for her friend. "Finn" is what he calls himself now.

For only a moment I look up into the dark sky. The stars and planets above me are spinning. That strange feeling that swept through me returns and it is warm and inviting.

The lights in the sky fade and darkness begins to cloud my vision.

I'm numb. I'm weak. I'm slipping.

But I can still see her in my mind. The scavenger. She follows quickly behind Chewie, who is now carrying the traitor in his arms to the Millennium Falcon.

I am alone for what seems like hours until the stormtroopers find me covered in a dusting of snow. As they carry me onto the ship I black out from the lose of blood.

I sleep for days. That is what they tell me.

When I awake I am distraught, as I recall my dreams of Han Solo.