A/N: I'm going to be doing something a little different for this chapter, so brace yourselves.
Third Person POV
Kylo Ren marched with great speed to the throne room. He needed answers and he needed them now. Why wasn't I aware of her capabilities? Why couldn't I sense the girl's sensitivity? Why?! The doors opened swiftly before him as he made his way towards the large hologram of Supreme Leader Snoke. The old master looked at his pupil with expectation, and could sense a wave of confusion flowing through the boy.
"Well?" Snoke asked.
"I was unable to retrieve the information about the map, master. She was able to resist me in her mind." Kylo informed him.
"The girl- resisted you?!"
"Yes. She is completed untrained, but strong with the Force."
"And, what of the droid?"
"He believed that we had no more use of it, and that all we needed was the girl!" General Hux exclaimed, bursting into the room. "Your apprentice has failed you."
The general's words cut through Kylo with an icy blade. The young man could feel his master's anger and disappointment, as Snoke glared at him.
"Bring the girl to me. If she is as powerful as you claim, Kylo, then she will make a great ally." He instructed, before the hologram disappeared.
Ren now resented his decision to leave the droid. He put his mask back over his head, and walked quickly out of the throne room. I must amend this mistake… As he made his way to the girl's cell, his felt a sense of interest at the mere thought of her. She was his enemy, yet he could relate to her feelings of alienation. He, too, felt alone amongst the people in the First Order. No one was capable of the things that he could do, therefore they did not understand him. And, everyone fears what they don't understand. Except for her.
Kylo could tell right from the moment the auburn-haired girl had laid eyes on him that she was afraid. But, she wasn't of him directly- she was afraid of the pain that was to come. Yet, what fascinated him was the fact that she attempted to hide her fear with sarcasm and sassy remarks; this told him that her defense mechanism was to be humourous. He found her ruse pathetic, at first. He felt differently when he began to probe her mind. Kylo saw the many cruelties that she had faced: being called a freak when she had an uncontrollable outburst of power, people treating her like a servant and beating her, and the state of isolation they kept her in. And yet, she always attempted to remain kind to those who were inhumane. How she did so, he had no idea. But, when he felt the overwhelming sensation of just plain loneliness when he reached the girl's more recent memories, he felt something else that seemed imbedded in the alienation: the knowledge that she did not belong there. The feeling that, instead of being in a place in the moment, she was really just an outsider looking in. When he felt that, he almost felt pity for her. A mistake that I caught.
When she began to resist his mind probe and turned it against him, Kylo was able to feel her full presence in his mind. For a moment, just a single moment, he felt true peace. He felt like there was no need to fight this girl, and that she was the answer to his struggle. The feeling quickly faded as he realized that he had let his guard down and let her into his thoughts. Kylo Ren shoved her presence out of his mind, and was astounded by her reaction to using the Force. It was almost as if she knew that was going to happen…
The whole experience really rattled his cage, and it aggravated him to no end: the fact that a girl, a Resistance fighter, was able to get through his own power and into his mind. His only comfort was the fact that she would be delivered to Supreme Leader Snoke, and would be brought under his discipline. He approached the cell at a great speed, but was shocked to find that the door was opened. No. As Kylo entered the room and found that the rack was empty, a great rage began to fill his entire being. This was my fault; my mistake! MY WEAKNESS! The Knight of Ren ignited his red-blade, before swinging it at the chair with a yell of fury. He hacked at the metal in front of him with pure anger coursing through his veins; an anger directed at himself. As this happened, two Stormtrooper patrols started walking down the corridor, before seeing sparks flying from the cell. A collective thought of "nope" went through their heads, before they backed away slowly out of the hall.
When Kylo finally calmed down, he stomped out of the room and started asking for security alarms that had been tripped. I will find that girl. Even if I have to shut down every section on this planet. He ordered for a group of Stormtroopers to do a patrol around the area in search of her. Within a few minutes, one of the commanders reported back to him.
"We found nothing, sir. But, an alarm in sector 7 has been tripped."
"She is just starting to use her powers. The longer it takes to find her, the stronger she'll get. Shut down the sector." He ordered, before conducting a patrol himself.
Kylo Ren began to try to feel her presence, but it seemed like she was being clouded by something. He knew that she was just an arm's length away, but he couldn't reach her. A good amount of time passed, before a different commander approached him to tell him that Sector 7 had been shut down.
"She'll be trying to find a ship to escape in. Sh-" He cut himself off at the feeling of a presence he had not felt in years. "Han Solo…" At last.
A/N: It feels so great to write this! Sorry if it sucks; I'm not too good at writing in the third person. Hope you enjoyed it!
