Slightly short but that's because if I was to keep going to the next plot point it would end up ridiculously long. Plus this felt like a nice place to end it *shrugs*

Did I ever mention that I'm not like 100% certain how the Force actually works (like rules of what you exactly can and can't do). Because I feel like I should mention that.

Also, still hate writing action scenes. And this one requires more description than the last...

So I discovered that one of my computers auto-corrects 'lightsaber' to 'lightsabre'… IDK but if it changes throughout the chapter that's why.

Still mourning them not being half-siblings thing.

Warnings: violence, this chapter is mostly fight.

Luke is easy to find.

There is little reason for him to be hiding on a ship filled with family and friends and if he wanted to avoid Ben he wouldn't have returned with Rey. Ben thinks he has probably been spending the whole trip waiting for his nephew to find him. Has been waiting for the confrontation or grovelling (Ben isn't sure which his uncle believes he will give). Ben isn't going to disappoint.

He can sense his lightsaber on his uncle. Sense it and grab it pull it back to him.

Luke's eyes widen as the lightsaber returns to its owner. They tighten when Kylo Ren turns it on.

"You don't want to do this Ben," he says calmly and that just isn't fair. How dare he be that calm. How dare he act like he is still in control of the situation. He should know how deadly Kylo Ren is; know it better than anyone else. He should be scared of what his student, his nephew has become. Scared or angry or something that is not the calm he apparently feels.

"I don't think you have any right pretending to know what I should or should not do."

Ben moves to attack. He moves and ignores Snoke's voice in his head that calls him a fool for it. He wasn't supposed to start with Luke. He was supposed to start with Han or Finn. Start with the weakest and use the weakness the grief from their deaths would cause the others to his advantage. He was supposed to work towards returning to the First Order with the child (and Rey if he was able to turn her but even she is able to be sacrificed from the return of him and the child). He is not supposed to attack Luke now.

He doesn't care what Snoke wants. Has had enough of being called weak. He will show the Supreme Leader exactly how powerful he is. Show him by taking out the biggest threat to the First Order.

Luke blocks the attack. The lightsabers spark where they meet.

"Ben, stop this!"

"No!" Kylo Ren pulls back before preparing for another attack.

Luke blocks that one as well.

The noise of the fight attracts the rest of the people on the Flacon. Good, let them bear witness. Let them see just how weak Luke Skywalker is. Just how strong Kylo Ren is. Let them see what he has become.

Han yells at his son to stop but Kylo Ren has not interest in listening to his father's words. He has lost interest in listening to anyone. He needs to do this, he needs to rid himself of this problem and he won't let anything stop him.

"Ben, no," he can hear the mutter out of his mother's mouth, hardly louder than a whisper. She seems to have already accepted his defeat, accepted that he going to lose something in this fight. She believes him so weak. Believes him weak just like everyone else does. He channels his anger at her words into his lightsaber. Channels it as he pulls back to bring another attack down.

A lightsaber blocks this thrust but it is not Luke's.

"Stop this," Rey says and he can see the quick glance she makes to his stomach. As if she is checking it for injuries before remembering that she needs to stay focused on his movements. Stay focused on him if she wants to avoid being struck down.

"Rey!" he is sure everyone else in the room calls her name. He can hear the echo of Snoke's voice in his head telling him how they like her more, how she has replaced him in their hearts. Snoke's real voice calls him a food. He has ruined everything because of his weakness. Tells him he should of just listened. That if he had listened and done as he was told he would be back at the First Order by now.

"Stop telling me what to do!" he roars as he goes to attack her. This time she parries the hit, forcing him back and away from Luke (into the open space of the area they are currently in).

"Then stop keeping secrets!"

"I am allowed to choose who to share information with."

"Not with stuff like that!"

He can feel her pushing into his head. Feel as she tries to force her way into this thoughts (is this what it feels like when he does it? This level of wrong). When she finds Snoke's voice there is a smugness to her presence that makes him fight and push back harder then he did before.

She has to jump back to avoid the swing of the lightsaber that accompanies him throwing her from his mind.

She is quick to re-stance (she is clearly still early in her training, her stance solid but awkward, something she has learnt but not yet become comfortable with) but she smiles like she knows something. "Knew it."

Snoke yells at them both in Ren's head. Kylo Ren is weak and Rey is stupid. They are both useless.

That was why Snoke wanted Rey, Ben realises. He had already been reaching out to the girl, possibly had been from when Kylo went with his father. Trying to see if he can replace Kylo Ren with someone else. The part of Kylo Ren that is loyal to him believes he was only trying to turn her in case the worst happened, the part that holds his doubt (and is raising in power with each day he spends back with his family) knows that if he had of been successful with her he would have left him to rot in the resistance.

Judging from where Rey stands she has denied him. She has listened to all his promises and still said no. She is a fool.

"Why didn't you accept him?"

"Why did you listen to him?"

"Because he is right." Ben could do so much better than he would ever achieve with Luke as his teacher. Ben was special, destined for greatness, like his grandfather. The child will inherit his greatness. Will be strong like him and help to complete his grandfather's mission. He just needs to stand down for now, stand down and listen to Snoke's instructions as to how to clean up this mess he has foolishly gotten himself into.

"Shut up!" he roars and realises that no-one in the room had been talking. That a silence had filled the air to all but himself.

Even Rey has stepped back, out of reach of his lightsaber. He stands alone in the middle of the room with everyone's (pitying, weak, pathetic, useless) eyes on him.

"Ben," Luke says and he starts to walk forward, walk towards his nephew. Ben snarls and goes to raise the lightsaber but Rey is there blocking it as Luke comes closer and closer to him.

A hand clasps around his own and the lightsaber is turned off. "Ben, let go."

"No," Ben says as Snoke screams yes.

"Why not?"

"Because that is what he wants me to do."

"Who?" Han asks, looking desperate to be filled in. To know what is going on with his son. Ben really should have told him about the pregnancy before his father left to get Luke – it would only be one secret for him to find out today. One piece of information about his son that could change everything for him to find out at a time, instead of two in such short succession. He briefly wonders whether his father is even able to process it all.

"Snoke," Rey says softly but her stance is still firm, will probably stay firm until the lightsaber is out of his hands and the danger passed.

"Ben trust me," Luke says making sure to keep eye contact with his nephew. Making sure Ben can see the honestly in his expression.

"Why should I?"

"Because I want to help you." Ben knows he does not deserve it. He knows what he has done and how much it hurt his uncle. Yet he still wants to believe the words. Suddenly he understands how Luke Skywalker talked Darth Vader down. Kylo Ren is not stronger than his grandfather.

He lets go of the lightsaber and Luke takes it. "Thank you," his uncle says as he passes it over to Rey and Ben can see in her face her distaste for it.

He brushes against her mind and finds a thought of throwing it out the airlock. "No!" He feels his power quickly growing at his distress. Feels the lightsaber ready to come back to his hand should he call it.

"Ben don't," luke says but it is not a warning or a command, merely a request. "Rey, give it to Leia."

Rey nods before doing so (she seems glad to have it out of her possession) and Ben feels relatively certain his lightsaber isn't going to end up floating out in the vastness of space. His mother would not risk him being weaponless should he need to defend himself. At least she wouldn't in his current condition.

He finds himself centring back onto the heartbeat that is not his own. It is slightly rushed, probably in response to his own raised heartbeat (pumping adrenaline through both their bodies). It is calming though, now that he is calmed. It is returning to its normal rate. He does not need to worry.

Luke's eyes seem to focus on him before they glance down. Ben watches as his uncle's hand reaches out as if it wants to touch but can't.

"You didn't know." He thought his mother would have told Luke the second she saw him. That was what would of happened when he was a child. There was no secrets between them, especially not when it came to Ben.

"No… I didn't."

"Does it change anything?" Of course it does. It changes the reason Ben defected. It changes his motivation to behave while in enemy territory. It changes what can be done to him as punishment for his crimes. It changes everything.

"Not it doesn't," Luke says and Ben can see no lie on his face. "It just adds something new."