Chapter 2: The Bond

I just think about my baby

I'm so full of love I could barely eat

She found him there, lying in the rubble of the broken Tie-Fighter. Had he been looking for me? Is that why he is here? She wondered to herself. She saw his ship heading to the planet, she saw it burn in flames on entry, and she saw him crash. Surely he's not that bad of a pilot. Why is he here though?

She could kill him right here and there, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She wanted to kill him in a fair fight, not when he was down, not when he wouldn't fight back. She should though, she thought, he killed thousands without blinking an eye, he kidnapped her, hurt her friends, and worst of all he killed his father. He was cruel and evil, yet she could not kill him, at least not yet.

She dragged his body from the still flaming ship, he looked considerably well given what he had just been through. He had a blaster shot on his right arm, a cut on his forehead from the crash, and a piece of shrapnel in his torso; but it was nothing she couldn't fix.

She half carried him half drug him to her small cabin in the sand, she set him down on the med table where she had cleaned herself up a time or two. She cut the thick fabric of his robes away from the wounds on the side and his arm; she cleaned them and bandaged them. She did the same with the injury on his forehead. Moving his hair away from his face she noticed how peaceful he looked, almost handsome. How could one who looks like this be so cruel, she wondered.

Once she snapped out of her daze she left her cabin, leaving him to sleep. She found his lightsaber on him and took it with her, just to make sure if he woke up no harm would come to her or her home. She sat in the sand looking upon the ocean tide rolling in. Never once had she imagined something so blue in her make shift AT-AT on Jakku.

She trained with Master Luke on Ahch-To before heading to her small little island on this abandoned planet in an unnamed system. It was hard for Luke to train her so late in her life, after darkness might have planted a seed in her soul. But he did his best and so did she. He thought that a small trip to clear her head would be good; he sent her here, a small place he took refuge once before he solitude on Ahch-To.

Sitting on the sand, legs folded in front of her, Rey cleared her head and started to meditate. She did this many times a day when she felt stressed about her training or about anything; right now was no exception. But she couldn't clear her mind, she just kept thinking of the castaway in her small cabin. Kylo Ren.

She couldn't begin to fathom why he was here of all places. Was he looking for her? Why did he crash? Was this entire incident one giant mistake? She could not figure it out for the life of her. And how could he look like a human being after all he has done; how could he look at peace with the world, and how could he look almost handsome? Sleep, she thought.

He woke up around two hours later, pondering how he was still alive and who saved him. Looking around the little hut gave no answer to the thousands of questions swirling around in his mind. He reached for his saber but found it missing, he got up to move but found his side to be incredibly sore. He grabbed his torso noting it was bandaged, he looked to his right arm and the same again; who did this, he wondered.

Getting up proved a task but he was Kylo Ren and it was nothing, he thought, trying to boost up his ego. He hobbled to the makeshift door; it was just long grass strung up on the top of the doorframe. Being momentarily blinded by the sun's reflection of the crystal clear waves, he noticed how quite it was here. No sound of civilization, if there was any.

Ren walked a few more steps before he noticed her sitting on the sand meditating; something Luke frequently made him do when he was training under him. So she had found him, he realized, and here it is the map to him, to Luke Skywalker. But how to get it back to the First Order? Supreme leader will like this though, he smirked.

"Where am I?" he called out to her. Realizing for the first time he was there she got up and instantly grabbed her faithful staff. He chuckled to himself, she was afraid of him, why else would she grab her staff.

Seeing the slight smirk on his face when she grabbed her staff, she saw that the peaceful man was gone and replaced by the cruel lunatic. She did not answer his question though, she just starred at him. "Where am I?" he called again with more urgency that almost made her flinch, almost. "Where is my lightsaber?"

"Why are you here?" she called to him refusing to answer his question. "Why are you really here?"

"I will answer one of your questions if you answer one of mine."

"You are on a small planet in an unnamed system. I don't know the name of the planet and if I did I wouldn't tell you," she answered that one question not at all wanting to share off where his lightsaber was, it was probably one of the only things keeping her alive at this point.

"My ship crashed her after you rebel scum decided to attack the Finalizer." Now it was her turn to smirk. They stood there, not one daring to move, just staring. She felt him poke into her mind like he did six months ago, looking for information that was not his to take.

"Get out of my head!" She pushed back with the force, and invaded his mind yet again. He pushed back and they fought a mental battle 20 feet apart, a war of the minds. Two minutes passed and the only thing either of them gained was a mountain of a headache; till Kylo let go of her mind and Rey almost fell into the sand from shock and force.

"Why did you save me?" he asked, she could have killed him yet here his was. Why?

She waited considering her options of what to say to this beast, "It wouldn't have been a fair fight." This earned a confused look from him; after all he's done she could have ended him, right then and there. But she didn't, for what a fair fight? He was bloodied and bruised, almost dead a few hours ago, and yet she wanted a fair fight. A strange being this girl is, he thought.

"Hey I heard that!" she barked at him, "If anyone's strange around here it's you! You are the one who doesn't know how to fly a simple Tie-Fighter without crashing it"

Damn was he perplexed, he didn't say that aloud, did he? It's not my fault you rebels attacked or base and shot my ship down, he retorted in his mind. She noticed then how he didn't move his mouth to say those words to her, yet she could hear the faint whisper of his voice in hear mind.

How is he doing that? She thought. And he heard her then, she too did not move her mouth to speak; yet he too heard a whisper in his mind. One thing popped into his head, Force Bond. What, she said in her mind.

He did not reply he just stood there starring at her wondering why this had to happen. She plagued his dreams, brought the light to his surface, and now this. He could sense her confusion, and she could sense his dread.

Authors note: Hope you all liked it! Did yall like the twist? Please review. Thank you all for reading. More coming soon! :)