Rey woke up choking on heartburn as she lay on her side, still naked, next to Kylo. Wheezing a bit, she turned on her back and raised on her elbows willing the burning to stop. They certainly didn't advertise this part of pregnancy, she thought then snorted. They didn't really advertise pregnancy, the thought came then.

Your thoughts are so loud now that you're this close. Kylo's thought came across her as he rolled to his back and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Sorry." She whispered.

"What's wrong?" He looked at her concerned and annoyed. He looked at the chronometer and calculated they'd only been asleep a few hours.

"Heartburn." She said rubbing her chest, willing the burning to stop. The motion brought his eyes to where her breast were bare to the room, she watched as the heat started to build in his eyes again and she snorted. "Not again so soon. Force, you're like a horny teenager." She sat up further to try to get out of bed and get some water.

"Stay, I'll get what you need." He swung his legs to the ground and walked across to the refresher to get a glass of water. She watched his naked form barely visible by the light of the chronometer and the barely lit consul and wondered if she'd ever actually looked at him naked in there escapades. Deciding she hadn't, her eyes followed him closely.

"Well you can't look at me like that then." He said handing her the water and moving to put underwear on, clearly they were both easily distractible by the nakedness of the other. He lifted the thin gauzy shirt he wore over his training tanks and handed it to Rey. Pursing her lips she handed the water back to him and pulled the shirt over her head. "We should talk Rey." He placed the water glass on the bedside table.

"About what Kylo?"

"Well for one, that you can call me Ben if you'd like." He sat on the bed, raising one leg while keeping the other on the ground.

"You've never referred to yourself as Ben when I've been in your mind. I think I'll stick with Kylo for now."

"Well one of the reasons is I couldn't afford for Snoke to know."

"To know what?" She leaned forward as the silence stretched on, trying to drag from him whatever he was struggling to tell her then. He looked into the darkness and needed light. Raising from the bed he punched in commands to raise the light level to dim before returning to sit on the edge of the bed.

"I have to go back further." He commented, frustrated that he'd started this off wrong. "When I was about 14 Snoke felt the Force coming to me strongly." He sighed and took one of her hands then. "And he wanted to exploit it. Master Luke could feel him reaching out to me, which was odd since the dark side is usually cloaked. It was the first indication to me that my uncle had embraced a little more of the dark side than we'd thought. And I am thankful for that. Without the knowledge, what happened with Snoke would have actually turned me to the dark side."

"What are you saying Kylo?" She put her hand on top of the hand playing with the skin on the back of her hand, stilling the movement. He lifted his eyes to hers then.

"Luke sent me to Snoke with full knowledge of Snoke's intent."

Rey was silent for a long time, searching his face for any leaking humor or irony. There wasn't any. The emotions at having been handed over as a willing sacrifice were long burned from his memory. The anger had helped convince Snoke of his allegiance to the dark side.

"But you were only a child." She said the anger growing.

"But I was training to be a Jedi. Luke felt that if the Jedi training continued that Snoke would never believe that I'd deflected and would just kill me and my Uncle couldn't stand the thought of losing me. I was his weakness."

"Kylo, this doesn't make sense."

"I'm telling it wrong then." He sighed and stood, "The choice for Luke was to send me as a double agent or watch me be killed to try to get Luke to engage in the dark side. I was a boy of skill but lacked training and discipline. Luke was trained and disciplined. If he had been turned," Kylo paused taking a breath, "The entire galaxy would have been his for the taking."

"I can't believe Master Luke would have been tempted by the darkside."

"Imagine how protective you feel about the Little One, and tell me you wouldn't do anything for her? Send her where she would be best protected?"

Rey opened her mouth to argue, realizing he was right before closing it again. She nodded then a little miffed still at his admission.

"That is how Luke felt for me, that if something had threatened me that he would do everything within his power to protect me. One of those ways was to put me within striking distance of Snoke."

Rey was silent for a long time as she mulled over this information. It made sense why it was so easy to find the light in him and why they'd begrudgingly become friends through their bond.

"Does that mean you'll rejoin the Resistance?" She asked, looking away, not wanting to know the answer.

"No." His voice came out sure then. "But I would like to see my mother and Uncle again. Explain what happened with my father."

"So you meant that we could return to the Resistance to have the child?" Her attention snapped back to him then, head seeming to swim. He nodded. "Well then we'll pry the transponder off on Vaal and make our way back to the Resistance. Promise me, though, that we'll leave once she's born?"

"Rey." He said kneeling in the bed and putting a hand to her cheek. "The Resistance is not the place to raise a child. And I want to be there for our child. The reason I was so easy to target was because my family was non-existent and Luke didn't know a better way to protect me. I will leave with you after the child is born. We'll go wherever you'd like."

"Somewhere green." She said smiling then.

TBC...