Chapter 4: A Past Lived, A Future Seen
Armitage and Kira where glued to each other, and it seemed in the couple, that Kira was the only one who talked. Armitage would silently watch his sister babble on and light up the room with her smile and humor. The next morning, Ben emerge from his chambers, and like everyone else, was drawn to the light of the young girl, but everyone kept their distance from Armitage. A few times throughout the day, Luke asked Ben to get to know Armitage and make him feel at home.
"No way." Ben would answer, "I'm not spending my time with someone who waddles in the shadows."
After asking a few more times, frustrated Luke shouted at Ben, "He isn't too different from you when you can here Ben! Can't you show a bit of compassion?"
After that, Ben walked into the large training room and watched Kira and some of the other younglings sparring with small sticks. He rolled his eyes and searched the room, know that Armitage was close by. He found him lurking in a corner silently watching his sister run around with other kids.
"Hey." Ben greeted Armitage. The red-headed boy's blue eyes flicked to Ben and then back to Kira.
Annoyed, Ben turned and was about to walk away, when a voice said, "Do you know why Master Luke killed our parents?"
Ben turned to find tears brewing in the boy's eyes, he sniffles and drove his hands into the pockets of his hands.
"What where their names?" Ben asked.
Armitage bit his lip and turned his full attention to Ben, "My father's name was Gevirade Rey and my mother's maiden name was Kevïanda Palpatine."
"Palpatine?" Ben questioned, "The Emperor?"
Armitage nods and turns his attention back to Kira. "Before Master Luke came, Kira had just realized she was Force Sensitive. Mother began teaching her how to control it, and one day in school a boy struck her, and he was sent flying back, and broke his neck. He died seconds later." Armitage shook his head. "I just want what's best for her, I just want her to be safe."
Ben nods, "I could never understand you pain, but I understand the need to be there for someone, to change for them, and if you tried really hard, I think you could do that. For Kira."
"For Kira." Armitage agrees.
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When Rey woke up, she was dressed in a white dress that fell below her ankles and swept across the floor. Her shoulders, arms, and feet where bare, and her hair was flowing freely down her back. The room she awoke in had four walls, tiled floors, and bright fluorescent lights. Squinting she stood up and flattened out the dress. Where am I? She thought, looking around the bare room. She stood there for a few moments before the wall behind her began to shake, and a door materialize in it. The door opened swiftly, Kylo Ren walked in flanked by General Hux. Kylo's mask was nowhere to be seen, and she could easily read his expressions. He smirked and held out a hand to her.
"Come." He whispered. Hux stood behind him frowning and said, "The tests are complete Supreme Leader, may we proceed with the plan?"
Rey took his outstretched hand and he lead them out of the white room. "Yes, you may proceed." Said Kylo Ren.
As soon as they exited the room, the scene changed, they sat on a blanket in a grassy meadow with purple wildflowers. Kylo-or Ben she should say, wore a dark blue button up shirt and black pants. Rey's dress had shortened to thigh length, and she wore shiny white flats. Her hair was still down and flew free in the wind. She smiled at Ben and looked down at the feast in front of her. There were two sandwiches, a large bowl of lettuce, a bowl of fruit, and two tall bottles of water.
"It's hardly a feast." Ben responds to her unasked question. "Just a measly lunch."
Rey smiles at him and brushed her hands over the rough, sharp edges of the grass. "To me, Ben and meal that isn't tasteless meat and vegetables will always be a feast."
Ben turned toward the horizon, and tried his best to hide his smile, "Anakin and Padmé came here once, back then, Naboo was beautiful, green grass, blue skies, rolling waves. Everything and anything was Naboo. But that all changed."
The landscape suddenly turned barren, the grass withered and burn to charcoal black. The food on the blanket slowly rotted and flew away like ash in the breeze. "You can save Naboo, Rey, you can save the Resistance, and all you have to do is give yourself to me."
The scene changed again, and she was in the same dress, only now it was knee length and her shoulders were covered with lacy material. She was sitting on a beige throne in a large room. A man with red hair, "Hux." Some voice reminders her, stands in front of her reading from a notepad, he takes no notice when the doors to the room burst open, and Kylo Ren strolls in, his cloak billowing behind him.
"Queen Rey." Hux says.
Instinctively she responds, "Armitage, please it's Lady Rey."
He nods and says, "The shower will be a huge success, the last thing we need is Emperor Ren's approval for the cake you requested."
Rey nods and looks to Kylo. She opens her mouth and closes it. She can tell he's in a bad mode, so she waves Hux off and says, "We'll get the signature later." He turns and sees Kylo face and without another word exits then Throne Room. Kylo climbs the steps to his black throne and begins to pace.
"Ben, what is it?" She asks sweetly.
He rakes his hands through his hair and says, "My mother will not falter, she wants everything to be pink! I just want her to leave me alone!" He shouts pacing faster. He stops and advances towards her, he places a hand on her stomach, and in that moment, she realized that she was pregnant.
"This isn't real." He whispers, "Rey, I'm sorry but it never will be."
"Ah!" Rey shrieks sitting up. She looks around and realizes that she is laying in her bed on the Millennium Falcon.Leia sat by her bedside holding her right hand. When she saw Rey's, wide eyes staring back at her she screamed and then covered her mouth quickly. Rose comes rushing in flanked by two stormtroopers. Rey looked worriedly at Leia.
"Why are they here?!" Rey shouts, trying to inch away from the troopers.
"After you collapsed, The First Order found us. We've been at there base since then."
"How long have I been out?" Rey whimpers.
"Not for long, a week at most."
Rey began to hyperventilate as Rose rushes to her side and grabs her other hand, "Rey...are you okay? We've been so worri- "
"Time's up!" The first stormtrooper shouts, he grabs Rose by the arm and yanks her away from Rey. The other lightly grabs Leia by the arm and pulls her out of the room.
"Don't fight!" Rey shouts after Rose, hearing the girl screaming in the hallway. A few long moments pass, probably hours, before the door opens again, and Kylo Ren waltz's in. In his silk gloved hand, he holds something metallic, and it catches the light, blinding Rey momentarily.
"What is that?" Rey questions, motioning to the object in his hand.
"It's an heirloom, and only you can open it." He states, like it's obvious.
"What do yo- "
"My mother had it hidden away on the ship, the dice were the key. She took it from Luke before my betrayal. She never told anyone about it." He sneered and turned it over in his palms.
"When I confronted her about it, she said that 'I wasn't ready for the truth.' Do you know what truth she refused to tell me all those years ago?" He questioned, an evil gleam in his eyes.
Rey shakes her head and bunches the cover up in her hands, "That one day, Luke came back from Coruscant, he brought two children with him. One was red haired and blue eyed, and the other was brunette with sparkling hazel eyes."
Rey shakes her head almost on the verge of tears, "No...no it can't be."
"Your family, the ones who left you in Jakku, your brother is standing right outside this door, his hair slicked back my gel, his British accent strong an- "
"Stop!" Rey shrieks, tears rushing down her face. She jumps out of the bed and tackled Kylo Ren. She snatched the object out of his hand and took a long, hard look at it.
"It's a lightsaber." Rey breathed. At that word, the saber activated showing a shimmering purple blade.
"Mace Windu." Kylo Ren breaths.
Rey unsheathed the saber and tossed it aside.
"You knew!" She screamed punching at anything she could get her hands on. "You knew who they were and you lied!"
Rey screamed for a total of twenty-five seconds before stormtrooper came facing in and pulled her off their Supreme Leader.
"Gah!" Rey shouts kicking Kylo in the face. He held he left side of his face as he stood up and motioned to the two stormtroopers holding her.
"Take her to the Medbay, have Hux run some more tests, we need her blood it's the key."
Rey settled down and asked, "The key to what?"
Kylo Ren just smiled, making the scar on his face glisten. "To the ultimate weapon, of course."