Chapter 4
Ben closed his eyes, taking a deep breath in, the memories filled him with hate as he swung his saber. The saber cut through the fabric of his cloak. He now held a long piece cloth and he carefully bent down lifting her limp body just enough to slip the cloth around her ribs. He wrapped it tightly around her wound to help slow the bleeding. Kriff, Ben checked her vitals, her heartbeat was weak, he stood up and paced the floor, Kriff. He was running through all of the possible situations in this head. Only one choice, he sighed and calmed his minded searching the force.
Ben? The voice rang in his head. What's wrong?
Ben scoffed, the fact them at she immediately thought that something was wrong annoyed him. It's Rey.
What?! What happened? He could feel her panic.
She's hurt.
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Leia was going as fast as she could for a woman at her age now "Poe get a med team and meet me in Rey's room!"
"What's going on?!" Poe said running next to her.
"Just go!"
Poe sprinted of to the med bay.
Leia was almost to Rey's door when she heard the med team coming down the hall. She stepped inside Rey's room to find her son pacing back and forth. He looked up as Leia dashed to Rey's side after hesitating. "You should go," Leia said without looking up. "Poe and the med team are almost here."
Ben nodded and he faded just as the door opened. Poe looked at Rey's limp body in astonishment. "Wh-what happened?" Poe stuttered.
"Blaster bolt," one of the med staff said, "we presume it happened during the raid considering how much blood she lost. Thankfully this cloth was tied around her wound and has been preventing her from bleeding as much."
"She clearly didn't put this on herself," another med staff said.
"What do you mean?" Poe looked at Leia who stayed quite.
"Someone put the cloth on her considering she wouldn't have had the strength to do it herself without her left arm."
Poe turned to Leia but she shook her head. "Then who?" The med team stood up and carried Rey off to the med bay leaving Leia and Poe in the room. "Who wrapped the cloth around Rey?"
"Poe, now isn't the time," Leia was walking to the door when Poe stepped in front of her.
"Who wrapped the cloth around her?" He hissed.
"I think you already know," she spoke calmly and with that Leia stepped around Poe and started to walk out the door before stopping, "You should tell the others. And don't forget we leave in 3 hours." She let the door close.
000
Ben was back in his room taking his cape off, No point in wearing this anymore, he through it onto his bed and stared out the window, ungloved hands clasped behind his back. There was a knock on his door, "Come in" He said without thinking.
The door opened and Hux took a step into his room. "We are closing in on the last few planets in this region and if your intel is correct…" he stopped in mid sentence, "What happened?"
"What?" Kylo turned to face Hux now.
"Your hands," hux nodded in the direction of his hands.
Kriff, he looked down at his hands, there was blood on them from when he wrapped rey in part of his cloak. "Oh," he said as calmly as he could, "training accident."
Hux shot a sceptical look towards Kylo but them shook his head and said, "anyway, the resistance isn't on any of the planets that we searched so far. We still have two more planets to search."
"Let me know if you find anything." Kylo said and Hux knew it was a clue to leave.
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Kylo was on a ship heading to a old rebel base they had found of one of the planets. The shipped landed and the hiss of the ramp dropping was enveloped by the sound of stormtroopers. He made a swift exit from the ship, eager to get inside the rebel base. Hux walked briskly beside him, "They don't have the doors ope..." Hux was cut off by a loud bang.
"What was that?" Kylo asked smirking as he walked toward the hole in the hagger doors.
Troopes ran in the hole weapons warm. "Clear!" one of the lead stormtroopers yelled and the began to branch off heading to different parts of the base.
"Someone has been here," Hux said noticing the lack of dust.
Kylo walked down a hall wandering for any sign that she had been at that base. He used the force to open a door to a person's quarters. Hux followed Kylo curiosity written on his face. They check several rooms and then Kylo stopped and walked to the room at the end of the hall, waving his hand the door opened. He took in a sharp breath, there was smeared blood on the wall, this was her room, he walked in while Hux stayed in the doorway.
"What are you looking for?" Hux asked as Kylo started to look through the draws.
"Proof," he replied simply. Kylo's eyes lit up as he found what he was looking for, under the matrice there was a small piece of folded paper. He grabbed it and tucked away.
"What was that?" Hux was now standing up strate trying to block Kylo from leaving the room.
"My proof,"
"Proof of what?"
"That this was indeed the scavenger's room and that this indeed was where they had been hiding out."
Hux was in awe "how could you tell it was her room you didn't search the other rooms?"
"Force users can leave behind small signatures in the force."
After thoroughly searching the base they left, and returned to the ship
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Kylo was alone in his room sitting on his bed when he pulled out the paper. The note read, She's stable and will be fine, scaring will occur and minimal use of her left arm for a month. -Leia. He sighed and laid back on his bed letting his eyes close drifting off to sleep.
000
The nightmare played in both their heads, but this time for Kylo it didn't stop. He saw the person steps away and then… he was back holding his father's dice and Rey was about to close the door on him.
000
Rey breathed in deeply shooting upright, then immediately wincing at the pain coming from her left side. The nightmare still fresh in her mind. She was on a ship, alone in a small room. She was on a makeshift bed made up of blankets. She turned her head as a small movement caught her eye. Next to her laid Ben, he was a sleep, his eyebrows were knitted together and his face showed that he was having a nightmare. Rey placed her hand cradling his face as she rubbed her thumb on his cheek. His face relaxed.
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He was running for the door even though he knew he wouldn't make it when suddenly he felt warmth flowing through him. His eyes snapped open, he was awake. In front of him he saw Rey her hand was stroking his cheek. She stopped as soon as she noticed he was awake before retracting her hand from his face. Ben longed for the feel of her hand back on his face, the spot were her hand had been turning cold. They just stared at each other, neither knowing what to say.
000
Rey soon became aware of of how close they were. If she moved her hand a inch towards him she could feel the warmth of his skin. She had a small tank top on and a pair of sweatpants while he was shirtless with a blanket covering him from the stomach down. Her face tinted red as she broke eye contact.
"How are you feeling?" Ben asked, she could feel him staring at her.
"Good," she nodded her head while replying.
"Do you remember what happened?"
"Umm… no not really, I just remember coming back from the mission and going to my room and arguing with you. Everything after that is fuzzy."
Ben nodded his head he then proceeded to look around.
"Well there's one thing I remember." She said catching his eyes. "I think I was unconscious but I remember the sound of a lightsaber," she paused and then continued, "there was also this voice, it…" her voice caught in her throat "it sounded like you and it said time to end this, then there were these images of someone looking at my limp body, imagining what it would be like to just kill me then and there, get it over with," a tear fell down her cheek. "I felt so cold and so alone." Rey was shaking looking at Ben searching for his eyes, but she was met with only the top of his head. He was looking down wringing his fingers. "Ben?" She placed a hand on his cheek.
His head snapped up and she could see the tears forming in his eyes.
"I'm sorry," he started to fade the bond was going to end soon.
"What?" The tears were being to dry on her face even though her eyes looked overwhelmed with tears.
"I should have never…" He was gone, and she sat alone in a room quietly while her insides boiled with unanswered questions.
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"I should have never thou…" Ben sat alone in his room. No, no! "No!" He yelled as he through his pillow across the room. Why? He thought why does the universe do this to us. He sighed moving to a sitting position. You're a monster. He shook his head, creature in a mask. He sighed, he would worry about that later right now he had to get dressed.
000
The door opened as BB-8 and Poe walked in. BB-8 chirped in excitement as the little droid rolled over to Rey happy to see she was awake. Poe stood in the room quietly, just enough to let the door close behind them.
"Yes, yes I'm fine." Rey replied to the last few chirps before turning her attention to Poe.
"Why didn't you tell us you were hurt?" Poe broke eye contact with Rey.
"I didn't know,"
"What do you mean you 'did not know'"
"I think the addrenalen was taking the pain away, okay?"
"Okay," Poe opened his mouth to say something before closing it.
"What?"
"Nothing, it's just…" he paused "there was… when the med team found you you had a cloth wrapped around you. At first we thought Leia had wrapped it around you but…" he trailed off.
"What? But what?"
"The cloth had absorbed too much blood for it to have been put on by her considering the med team and I came in no less than a minute after leia told me to get a med team."
"Okay so did you consider that I could have put it on myself?"
"Did you?"
"No, but,"
"Rey… Finn recognized the cloth, it was Kylo Ren's." anger flickered in his eyes as he said Kylo's name.
The room was quite as Rey struggled to find a way to respond while trying to avoid Poe's gaze.
"We know for sure that yes it was a blaster that caused you wound but we don't know when you were hit."
"What are you implying?"
"I think you know,"
"No, no he didn't do this,"
"How can you be sure!"
"Because we can't hurt each other through the force bond!"
"How do you know that?"
"Because the first time the force bond was activated I tried to shoot him!"
Poe was surprised by this, "you what?" he said calmly.
"I tried to shoot him."
"You shot him?" Poe chuckled, "okay then, well that's,"
He was interrupted by Finn barging in, "Poe! The First order they're here."
000
Kylo stood looking at all of the ships coming in and out of the hanger. He let his mind trail to the morning before when he had woken up next to Rey, when he hadn't had time to finish his sentence. He was pulled from his thoughts as he watched Hux's ship landed. The ginger haired general left on a "personal matter" but it hit Kylo even before he saw who he had brought into the ship excitement rushed over him then a wave of fear. He spun on his heels and walked swiftly down to the hanger.
A/N: Sorry for the long wait just been really busy. I hope you guys like this chapter and sorry if the time jump was confusing but In will be going back and explaining what happened in that time in the next chapter. Not sure when I will get to it. Thanks for putting up with the wait and I would love to hear feedback.
