Large hands engulf her, pulling her closer to the merman that pursued her relentlessly. She lets him. She lets the large man rest his head in between her bare breasts. He lays on his cheek, hair spilling everywhere. Fingers brush against her nipple, touches her up softly, lazily. She brushes his hair away, brushes into neatness before lifting a lock to bring his attention to her face opposed to her breasts.
He lifts his head. "Yes?"
She follows the outline of his scar then, follows them by her finger tips. He tilts his head down for her and brings himself closer, allowing her to explore him, familiarize herself with him. Fingers trace down to bone and then follows another trail of scars and tissue. He winces and she stops. "Are you alright?" she asks.
"I'm more than alright," he assures and lays his head right back in between her breasts. Soft touches from her, he can barely fathom that. He flicks his tongue out and glazes her nipple, her soft nipple, her soft nipple that was becoming hard and aroused. He brings her nipple to his mouth and began to lazily suck on her as she traced his scars once more.
"Do they hurt? Your scars?"
"No, your touches hurt. Pushes me like a gust of wind."
Rey raised her eyebrow and frowned. "Does it really hurt when I touch you?"
His eyes flickered up at her as he still sucked on her nipple. "No it hurts when you stop."
Her eyes widened as a blush developed. "How did you get your scars?" she asks. She knows she's supposed to reciprocate but she doesn't know how yet.
"Which ones?" he asks. He had scars all scattered about from his stomach to his back.
"All of them."
"There's so many stories on my skin. I can't answer all of them in one night."
"How about two a night?"
"One per night."
"Well this, I got from a ruthless scavenger mermaid," he points at the one that was etched on his face.
She glared. "That shouldn't count."
"Fine. You have another scar to ask about."
She pushes him off gently and has them sitting up, facing one another. She stared, eyeing all the choices. She settles on the one that appeared to be carved into his left wrist. It seemed faded, old but permanent. "This," she points out.
He freezes but then he returns to her. "I gave this to myself."
Rey frowned. "When?"
"When I was seventeen. I didn't feel like I belong in the sea."
"What was your life like before? Before you left."
"I was learning. I was learning about everything - about how to be a good ruler and about the world. I was being educated and trained by Master Skywalker, my uncle. But I was more of a scholar than a fighter."
"That explains why you are so -" she ends herself.
"So what?"
"Inquisitive. In tune with your surroundings."
Kylo gave her a lopsided smile. "As my father puts it, I learned too much about the human world that I became enamored it."
"Well, he's not wrong."
"I know but still it hurts to hear."
"What made you leave the sea?" Who made you leave she wanted to say.
"Contrary to all the myths about me, I didn't leave the sea for a pure female. I left because of our kind."
Rey blinked. "What?"
"Our kind are more creature than human."
"But we're not more than the other, we are half. We are both. We are one."
Kylo nodded. "I left when I found out what my final exam was."
"And that was?"
"To sink a ship." To drown humans. To kill them.
Rey's heart skipped a beat. It was common practice by the merpeople, had been ceremonial for centuries until a decade ago when it became banned. It startled Rey how this was not long ago but recent. She didn't know what was more brutal, the tactics of mermen or mermaids. Mermen would swim underneath the ships and break it apart, leave crevices, wrap rope and drag the ship down into the water. Mermaids would use their voices and song to hypnotize the humans to steer directly into their deaths.
"I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill innocent pure humans."
"I understand why you left."
Kylo lifted his head and stared at her. "Do you think I'm a traitor?"
"No," she meant it with all her heart.
"Do I think of me as a coward?"
"No."
"I'm sorry I'm not the merman you always wanted."
She reaches for him and runs her fingers through his hair. "I may not show it often but I am fond of you."
Kylo wakes up to sound of crumpling fabric. He finds her trying on clothes, attempting to decipher how to put the pieces together. "Morning," she says, buttoning up a cream cotton dress with thick straps. It was a long dress, mid length with copper golden buttons trailing the back. The dress was slightly loose and so she wrapped a white sash around her waist to tighten it.
"Did you sleep at all last night?" he asked.
Rey crossed her arms. "You're supposed to say I look beautiful. And yes, I did. A few hours, I think."
He laughs and ignores her statement and instead, he examines her. He stares at her in great detail, making sure she had the clothes on correctly. He takes a step into the closet and slid his fingers underneath her straps. "Are you wearing a bra?" he asks.
She nodded. "It's much more comfortable than wearing bandages."
He waits until he feels it before he pulls away. He went on his knees then and pokes his head underneath her dress. He expects her to be upset or at least a little startled but she wasn't. She already knew he was doing this for practical reasons and not sexual on-
She feels his tongue lick her. He presses his tongue flat in between her folds and then swirls his tongue around. She kicks him out off her dress. "What are you doing?" she screamed. He keeps going, leaning his head closer to her sex. He gripped on to her legs tighter as he tried to gather all her sweetness from dripping on the floor. He pressed his mouth together and sucks at her bud hard before moving away.
He gets out from under her skirt and smiles at her cheekily. "This is why you wear underwear. So no pervert can do that to you." He wipes his face first and then reaches for the drawer that he stored the underwear. He puts on a silk pair on her and smoothed down her dress.
"You're a pervert," she glared.
Kylo smirked and kissed her on the cheek. "Yes but I'm yours. Only yours."
She watches him get dress. He puts on dark trousers and a dark plaid shirt. Rey watched intently, trying to figure out the whole mechanics of clothing. Of course she knew of dresses and tunics and breast coverings but the clothes for the lower half was a completely mystery. She was amazed how pants worked, zipper and button and loop to loop.
After they get dressed, they brushed their teeth together. In the sea they brushed their teeth too but the substance the human world has is better, her teeth feels cleaner and less of plaque. It was amazing - Rey was quite afraid of trying it but he assured her it was fine. The slimy substance when she brushed turned into a watery foamy texture. It was interesting. Funny. Especially how hard Kylo brushed his teeth. He brushed vigorously and so she imitated that. She even spat out loudly too.
Floss she recognizes too from home, it's pretty close.
"Human world is kind of trippy," she stated. "So similar and yet off."
He laughs again. "You'll get used to it." He scoops her up then, holds her close to his chest and carried off to the kitchen. He knows that walking doesn't hurt as much for her but he doesn't want to let go just yet. He was about to show her the human food in this contraption called a 'fridge' when the door knocked. "Who could it be at this hour?" she asked.
Kylo shrugged and placed her on top of the counter. The banging on the door became louder. His heart skipped a beat but he keeps a relaxed façade. "Stay here, I'll check the door."
Rey thumbed her ring nervously, making sure it was still on.
The knocking became louder and louder. The house was shaking.
"Open the goddamn door Ren!" a voice from the outside screamed.
"I'm coming!" Kylo hollered, unaffected the second he heard the voice.
Familiar, this person must be familiar to Kylo, Rey gathered. Rey wanted to hop down and see but she wasn't sure if her legs were in pain still. She can't see him anymore but his voice is clear, his voice is carried through the walls. And so she stays on the counter, listening intently.
"There you are!" the voice said in annoyance.
"Morning to you too. How can I help you at this bad hour?" Kylo responded dryly.
"It's ten in the morning, people should be up anyways," the voice sneered. "Where have you've been for the past month and a half? I've been calling you and texting you! I know you had to find your own damn way and all and blah, but man I'm in knees deep in the lawsuit and it's kind of hard to defend myself when my lawyer went missing!" the voice was angry.
Rey realized then that it was a male voice that was just shrill and low. She assumed it was a female's voice.
"I'm sorry. I've been busy. I did tell you before I left -
"NO. You didn't," the voice corrected. "Last time I saw you, you were sulking after breaking up with your girlfriend. And you said you were going to need some time alone and find the love of your life and will be back with her -
"So you were listening. So what you just wanted me to repeat it to you?"
"Where did you go?"
"That's what I exactly did," Kylo remained calm. "I went back to my home town. I didn't get your calls because they're not good reception there - but anyways I went to home and I got married."
There was a silence. Rey's skin tightened. Something must be wrong. She hopped down and went to them. Her legs felt a bit wobbly but the pain was manageable. Unnoticeable almost.
The silence ended with snorting. The outside male voice was laughing, cackling. He sounded like a bird. "Okay stop playing games. Seriously what happened? I know you were upset with your breakup and I understood you needed space but man you have to come up with a better excuse why you didn't pick up your damn phone. Do you know how hard it was for me to reschedule the court case? It looks really bad to the judge that my lawyer disappeared for the last month and a half."
"I got married," Kylo responded again.
The voice scoffed. "Quit joking around -
Rey appeared then and shyly hid behind her husband. She wrapped her fingers around her husband's bicep as she stared at the voice. It was a pure human, she could tell by the scent. The pure human was tall but he wasn't as tall as her husband and he was white and scrawny with fiery red hair. He long sharp features set in a miserable frown but he had nice eyes though. His eyes are greyish blue. He was wear a long sleeved shirt and slacks.
The pure human noticed her and examined her too. He looked at her in confusion while she stared at him blankly. She had never been this close to a pure human before or seen one since she was a toddler.
"Rey," Kylo turned and put his arm around her. "This is Hux. He's my client and long time friend. Hux, this is Rey. She's my wife."
Rey hid her face then. She felt suddenly embarrassed, intimidated by the angry grumpy looking pure human.
"You got to be kidding!" Hux exclaimed. "This must be a joke. She's a kid - she must be your cousin or something."
Kylo shook his head and sighed. "Hux, this isn't a joke. This is my wife," his tone became stern and relaxed. He stroked Rey's hair, keeping her face buried as he shot a death glare at Hux. He mouthed to Hux: Listen you better not make her fucking cry. I'll fucking kill you.
"Wait what? You just got out of a five year relationship with Mayra three months ago - and now you're married? No this doesn't sound like you - this doesn't sound real at all -
Hux became quiet as Kylo stroked the girl's hair. Kylo stroked her lovingly, coaxing her to look at Hux. She manages. Rey was staring at him with wide brown eyes as she was holding Kylo's hand tightly. Kylo squeezed her hand and kissed her cheek. Hux blinked several times, trying to register what he had saw. "Okay I can believe this is your girlfriend but not your wife." Kylo lifted Rey's hand to Hux. Hux bent down and examined the ring. Hux shook his head. "There's no way you two are married because that's a shitty ass ring." It was just a silver band and a pearl. It was no diamond. The ring looked to be at most three hundred dollars.
"Fuck off," Kylo and Rey both said in unison.
Rey chuckled from being in sync and kissed her husband's cheek.
"That's my grandmother's ring, an heirloom. It's worth more than a diamond," Kylo emphasized.
"I still don't buy it," Hux crossed his arms. "I know you would at least have a small wedding with me as your best man and not a quick one - wait did you knock her up or something? That would make some sense if you did."
Rey raised her eyebrow. "I'm not pregnant but we're planning to have a child in a future," she chimed in.
"Give us one moment," Hux said, painting a smile. Rey saw through it and watched as Hux grabbed Kylo by the arm and dragged him into the kitchen. "Are you out of your fucking mind?" Hux slapped Kylo on the shoulder. "This is too fast and she's a kid - wait how old is she?"
"She's eighteen -
"What the fuck are you doing getting married to eighteen year olds? Kylo -
"You guys know I can hear you guys?" Rey hollered.
Hux went red and lowered his voice then. "You have to be shitting me. Kylo, you can't be serious - this can't be real."
"Do I ever joke around?"
"Well - no."
"So I'm serious. I know the situation is hard for you to wrap your head around, but she's my wife."
Hux opened his mouth but sighed. He rubbed his neck, trying to settle his nerves. "Okay Kylo...how did you meet your...wife?" he asked slowly, trying to be accepting as possible.
"I met her when I came back to visit my parents. I met her in town and things happened. Long story short, she's the one. I didn't want to waste anytime and so we got married."
"You know you could have waited at least a year. You barely know her Kylo. This isn't -
"Like me? You know me. Whenever I feel strongly about something I go along with it. Nothing can change my mind whenever I get an idea."
"No kidding," Hux mumbled. He stood there like a deer in headlights as Kylo brought Rey in the kitchen with them.
Rey clutched on to Kylo's hand and stared at Hux inquisitively. "So what's the case about? If you guys mind me asking," she said. She watches as Kylo pour water into a pan.
"It's kind of confidential, dear," Kylo says as he turned the stove on.
Rey became transfixed by the small flame. So this was how fire looked. She immediately changed her focus onto the fiery red hair man. She sat down on a chair but it wasn't smooth. She sat down as if her limbs and joints were sticking together.
Hux raised his eyebrow but sat down as well. "No, it's okay I don't mind talking about it," he says, suddenly his blood was boiling with the reminder of it. His temper ignited just like the flame and boiled at him until he was steaming. "One of my patients months ago made some advances on me," he spat out, anger seeping through every word. His eyebrows were furrowed and his teeth were caught in a grit. "I turned her down and now she's suing me, falsely accusing me of sexual assault." Hux rolled his hands into tight fists and clenched hard. He ranted then, releasing all the frustration he had accumulated over the past few months. "Somehow that bitch is finding ways to make what she's 'gathered' as 'evidence.' I don't even know why this is even a case. If there was solid evidence that I'm asexual there wouldn't be a case."
Her eyebrows furrowed. Asexually? "So you...reproduce on your own?"
Hux stopped himself from ranting and raised his eyebrow. He was startled by her comment.
Kylo laughed loudly. "Oh Rey, you and your jokes."
Rey shook her head at Kylo. "No I'm not joki -
She cut herself off the second she see Kylo shook her head at her, mouthing that he would explain it later. Once the water was boiling Kylo turned off the pan and poured the water into three cups. He placed little small brown squares in them that had string attached.
"Well yeah. I have no interest in partaking in the vile act called sex. It's fucking disgusting. The human body is utterly disgusting. I don't want to be anywhere near it."
"What is your profession?" she asks then.
"I'm an obstetrician."
"Wait so you're an obstetrician and you're asexual?" Rey blinked. She rests her elbows on the table in wonder. Kylo handed them cups of tea. He was careful with placing it down in front of Rey.
"Just wait until it cools, okay," Kylo instructed, pressing a kiss on her lips.
"What the fuck are you, her dad?" Hux said smugly. He blew his tea and drank it before answering. "Well what can I say? I like playing god. I love bringing life into this world. I'm actually the best in my field. I graduated early and have years of experience," he says with pride.
Kylo sneered. "He's a real people person, Rey. He's all sunshine and smiles isn't he?"
Hux rolled his eyes. "Fuck off. Anyways lawyer, you have a lot of catching up to do. We have to do a lot of paper work today. You can bring your wife along if you want. No way am I eating your vegan crap. Let's go get some breakfast first and have real food. I'm feeling steak and eggs, the whole American experience."
"Well Rey and I are both vegans."
Hux raised his hands in the air out of shock. "Why?"
"Our bodies can't handle meat."
Hux made a disgusted face. "Is that a symptom from whatever town you guys are from?"
Kylo and Rey exchanged smiles. "You can say that."
"So Rey what do you say? Are you okay with tagging along with us?" Hux asked. He's only doing this to figure this girl out, to interrogate her. Kylo was his best friend and he doesn't want anything bad happening to the idiot.
"Are you okay with that?" Kylo asked her. He lowered himself so he was at her eye level. "There will be a lot of walking."
Rey nodded. "I think I can handle it."
Hux painted a smile. "Great. What are we waiting for? Let's go."