I'm a castaway, and men reap what they sow...

"He has her in her own quarters on the Finalizer."

Luke opened his blue eyes, the Force ghost of his first mentor before him.

"She's not held prisoner?" Luke asked Obi Wan.

"No. Her room is not even guarded," he responded. Luke glanced over to the ghost of his father, pacing wildly around the room like a caged animal, before looking back to Obi Wan.

"So she could leave? Rey could try to escape?" Luke asked.

"She won't," Anakin answered before Obi Wan could.

"Father?" Luke asked for clarification.

"She's in love with Kylo Ren," Anakin answered, stopping and crossing his arms over his chest. "He's not going to tell you."

Obi Wan sighed, his eyes closed. "The relationship they had when they were children. It's grown tenfold," Obi Wan reluctantly advised Luke. He felt like a fool. Why would he agree to train Rey in the first place? Only to lose her like he had lost all his other padawans. He had failed again.

"What does Snoke have planned for her? And what about Ben?" Luke asked both of the ghosts.

Obi Wan Kenobi opened his eyes and turned to look at Anakin, who shook his head and began pacing once more in his anger. "Snoke is planning on using her like a parasite to keep Ben under his control."

"So all is lost?" Luke asked, feeling a twinge of anger himself, though it was extinguished as soon as it came.

"If you would let me talk to him-" Anakin began.

"We've had this conversation many times before," Obi Wan cut him off, turning to fully look at his old friend from the ground.

"If you had let me see him from the beginning this all could have been avoided. Snoke would have no influence over him," Anakin argued. "If he knew what Snoke has planned he'd help Rey escape."

"You think he would protect her and betray his master?" Obi Wan asked Anakin and the look he received back was near murderous.

Luke didn't get any further exchange from the two, however as he heard his name called from the door of the temple. He turned and saw his sister making her way through the door.

"Leia," he responded, glancing back to where Obi Wan and Anakin had once been but found himself unsurprisingly alone.


"You're learning fast," Zora stated, sitting behind Rey with her slender fingers running through Rey's dark hair.

"I've always had to learn fast," Rey answered her, wincing as Zora snagged a tangle in her wet locks as she combed her hair out.

"How long were you on Jakku?" Zora understood what Rey meant. "I don't know much about you."

"Fourteen years," Rey answered, keeping her chin up and neck straight as Zora started to section off pieces of her damp hair for braids.

"That taught you to be independent," Zora speculated. Rey felt her tugging at her scalp, forming tight braids on one side of her head. "And creative," She added, glancing from Rey's hair to the table through the archway, the Jakku System model sitting on the surface.

"We had to be to eat. There was this Crolute who ran the junk trade, the Blobfish," Rey said, grimacing at the thought of Unkar Plutt. Behind her, Zora chuckled. "He would trade us portions and water for salvage us scavengers would find on wrecked Imperial and Rebel ships."

"A Crolute on a desert planet?" Zora asked. "Blobfish indeed. So you had been left there by Luke Skywalker after he killed your parents?"

"Kylo killed my mother and father," Rey clarified. Oddly enough, the more she said it the more Rey felt at peace with it.

"Kylo Ren killed your parents and you aren't... Upset at him?" Zora asked, trying to look at Rey's expression as she moved onto her second braid.

"I barely remember them actually," Ray confessed, "I've been waiting for Kylo to come back for me my whole life anyways." She chewed on her bottom lip, her cheeks growing warm at that thought. Rey understood that what had happened between them was odd, of course, however Kylo was no longer that monster she had met back on Takodana.

"You've been training with him a lot... alone," Zora pressed, a sudden wave of shaking jealousy overtaking her.

"He's been trying to help me remember..." Rey trailed off as she noticed Zora's face, her lips turned down and her eyebrows furrowed together.

"Oh," Zora tried to ignore the sudden feeling and pinned the second braid into place on Rey's head.

"What about you?" Rey asked, making sure that the subject was changed, for her and Kylo's sake. "I know nothing about you or the other knights."

"I knew my parents about as long as you had before I was taken in by the First Order. I was Jhen Voss for five years, then I was FN-1989 for another nine until I caught the Supreme Leader's attention and he dubbed me Zora Ren." Zora's brief explanation painted a vivid picture for Rey, recognizing the number from Finn's past. She remembered the stories he would tell her, and Rey felt sorrow for Zora.

"You caught Snoke's attention?" Rey asked her.

"He was looking for anyone with superior abilities or Force sensitivity." Rey's hair was finished, braided up and close to her scalp. Zora's previously occupied hands fell to her lap and Rey turned in her seat on the edge of her bed to better face her.

"Are you Force sensitive?" Rey asked her, already knowing that Zora was a skilled warrior.

"I'm not like you," Zora took in Rey's appearance. She had her hair in Zora's braids, she was wearing Zora's clothes, and she had Kylo's full attention. Rey was taking over her life.

"I'm sure you just need-" Rey began, trying to reassure Zora and staying oblivious to the brewing jealousy growing in the other woman.

Zora stopped Rey from speaking as she rose her left hand, palm reaching for a glass left on the table in the other room. Her green eyes left Rey before she looked over at the glass, her face slowly contorting into something angry as she concentrated. Rey looked to the glass as well and saw it move, sliding across the tabletop, but only an inch or so.

Rey looked back to Zora, her eyes now closed, her thin eyebrows pushed together in concentration and her hand shaking, trying to bend the Force to her will. Rey watched Zora's concentration deepen until her face began to turn red. Rey could almost feel the Force shift and stayed silent as she watched Zora. The shift, however, suddenly grew into something powerful and dark and Rey stood up from her bed in shock, feeling the thickness of it blanket the room. She realized quickly, that it wasn't Zora that caused it, but Kylo.

Rey turned quickly back to Zora, who was still on the bed, her eyes glassy and her breath coming in long heaves, the glass clutched in her left hand. She looked up to Rey as a drop of dark crimson fell out of her nose, Zora quickly wiped it away with the back of her hand.

"It's Kylo," Rey said and Zora got off of the bed quickly, discarding the glass. "Something is wrong."

"Stay here," Zora didn't bother looking back to Rey as she rushed out of the room.


The control panel was ripped out of the wall with sparks that should have been satisfying for Kylo, instead it failed to kill off the weak, foolish boy that he had found still clinging to life inside of him.

The red, chaotic blade ripped through the wall, puncturing burning hot holes where Kylo thrust until it was nearly destroyed. His chest heaving, Kylo stopped his assault on the wall and destroyed electronics, taking in the view. Impossibly, he felt as if his rage hadn't reached it's peak and he dropped the lightsaber from his grip, the fiery blade disappearing as the hilt fell to his floor.

Kylo stood still for a moment, feeling the will to let the anger he suddenly felt subside, before he turned quickly and assaulted the wall behind him with his fists. He let out a scream as he created a sizable dent in the opposing wall. Eventually, as his fist grew numb, he slowed and stopped punching the wall all together, his fist staying in the hole he created for a moment.

The room was silent now and Kylo's rage had turned into something entirely more dangerous, as he turned and fell down, his back sliding down the wall.

Kylo didn't have time to feed off of the overwhelming fear he felt, as he noticed a strong presence around him. Like a reflex, Kylo looked to the other room, where he could see Darth Vader's burned helmet upon its pedestal. Nothing, however, was there. His gaze fell to the floor for a moment before he turned his head and quickly looked the other way. Standing in the corner of the room, with his arms folded in a dark robe, was a man Kylo had never seen before, yet he seemed eerily familiar. He was bathed in a translucent blue aura as he stared back at Kylo, a solemn look on his face.

"Ben," he said, breaking Kylo's daze. He suddenly had no doubt of who was before him, whose ghost this was.

"Anakin," he breathed, keeping his dark eyes on the man as he slowly walked around the room, observing the wreckage Kylo had caused. This wasn't right. Kylo had seen Darth Vader before, he had spoken with his grandfather but this man... This wasn't him.

"I don't have much time with you," he explained, turning back to face Kylo. "Snoke has deceived you." It wasn't a question, it was a statement of truth, and Kylo felt a quick flash of anger. "It's not the first time. What are his plans for Rey?"

Confused, Kylo answered his grandfather, "She's not becoming a Knight of Ren like I was told. Snoke has different plans."

"What are his plans?" Anakin asked again, remaining solemn, standing before Kylo who was still on the ground. Kylo didn't know what to say, he had no idea what Snoke's plan for Rey was. "Don't pretend you don't know, Ben," Anakin told Kylo before he answered. "His goal is to bring back the Sith rule over the galaxy. He's the master and you're the apprentice. Where does that leave Rey?"

Kylo thought he understood where his grandfather was taking this. "He won't replace me with Rey."

"He's not replacing you," Anakin told him, confusing Kylo more than he already was. With the rule of two, there was no place for Rey. If Rey wasn't replacing him, she had to be replacing...

"The rule of two has its flaw. Every Master and Apprentice there's been have murdered and betrayed each other to gain or keep power." Anakin knelt before Kylo now. "What's to keep you from killing him?"

"Rey," Kylo breathed, the name barely leaving his lips.

"Get her out of his grasp," Anakin stressed and Kylo jumped up, his mind still in shock.

Before he could ask any further questions, the ghost of Anakin was gone.

"Kylo?" He heard Zora's voice call out in the same moment, she entered his room without any discretion. She glanced around the room, taking notice of the carnage Kylo had caused to his walls.

"Snoke has been lying to me," Kylo responded to her shock.

"Lying to you?" Zora stepped towards him.

"He's been lying to us, I don't know how long," Kylo's aching fists tightened at his side.

"Why would Snoke lie to us? Kylo, it doesn't make sense-"

"You're blinded by his power," Kylo's voice was a near growl.

"What happened?" Zora took a different approach, unfazed by his anger.

"Rey, she's not becoming a knight. He has other plans for her," Kylo began to explain.

"Do you really think she's ready to become a Knight of Ren?" Zora asked, not understanding what he meant.

"She's not becoming a knight at all," Kylo wasn't sure how to explain what he knew, how to make her believe.

"Kylo," Zora attempted to calm him and reached out for him. With his anger, he swatted her hand away and left into his other room. Though hurt, Zora followed him.

"You don't understand, I can't make you understand," Kylo paced back and forth in front of his bed.

"Try me," Zora watched him, her green eyes not once leaving his scarred face. She remembered when he had first gotten out of the Bacta tank on Mustafar, his body had healed but he was still humiliated and furious. This betrayal Kylo was feeling, maybe she could help him past this as well.

Kylo had stopped pacing and was standing at the foot of his bed, staring at Zora and trying to slip into her head without physically trying. "Where do your allegiances lie? Who are the Knights of Ren loyal to? The Supreme Leader?"

Zora felt her mouth go dry. Not much could scare her, but the treason Kylo was hinting at was enough to worry her. In silence she stepped towards Kylo before kneeling.

"They've always lied with you, master."