Rey's POV:
I carefully walked down the hallway as to not be noticed. There was only one problem to me finding Ben; I didn't know how to get around the ship.
Ben? Where are you? If I could get him to tell me how to find him, then maybe I could talk to him before he did anything.
How did you get out of the room? Ben asks.
I'll tell you when you tell me where you are, I say in response.
I'm in my room, trying to figure out what to do. Ben looks incredibly stressed out. If he let me help him, maybe he wouldn't be so distraught over the situation.
How do I get there from here? I question.
We're supposed to be enemies. I'll have a trooper bring you back to your room. You can't help me with this, Ben says to me.
We don't have to be enemies right now. Please let me help you, I beg.
Fine. I'll tell my guards to leave momentarily. Turn right at the next hallway. Knock on the first door to your left. Finally I have a chance to help him. I picked up my pace, and started straight towards Ben's room.
Then, I stopped. Yes, finding Ben, standing by his side and working through possible solutions was an option. But, the best option may be getting Avlin and getting off the ship via an escape pod. I stood right in front of Ben's door, about to knock. I didn't even know where Avlin was. Avlin and I had no force connection, and thus it would be practically impossible to find her. I shook off any thoughts of leaving, knowing that it would hurt Ben, and that he'd only feel the need to attack The Resistance even more than he already did. I knocked on the door.
"Hi," Ben said softly as the door opened. He stepped to the side, allowing me to enter. His room was completely black. Except for a few lamps, there was very little lighting. It felt cold and uninhabitable in the room. I didn't understand how he could live the way he did. His bed was to the back of the room, directly across from the door. He walked towards his bed, and sat on the edge of it. I followed him and sat down next to him.
"I don't think I've ever been this close to you without threatening you, waving a lightsaber in your face, or having you locked up in some sort of a chair," Ben said. I laughed a little, and a small smile formed on Ben's face.
"You need to let Avlin and I go," I say, looking up at Ben. He looked away from me, and got up. "Please don't walk away," I begged.
Ben shook his head, and started to pace back and forth, similar to the way he was pacing in the interrogation room. He quickens his steps, and walks with more fury. I can see his anger growing.
"Ben, calm down," I say. He stops pacing and sits down next to me. His eyes are glossy. A single tear frees itself, and trickles down his cheek. He looks up towards me.
"Help me, Rey." He grabs my hand with his. I look down at our hands, and then back to Ben.
"The only way I can help is if you let us go," I say to him. He shakes his head. "Or, you could come back to The Resistance." Ben immediately lets go of my hand.
"I can never go back with you," Ben says. He goes to get up, but I grab his arm, pulling him back on the bed.
"There's good in you, I know it," I say to him. I watch as anger fills Ben's dark, brown eyes.
"Stop saying that. I'm a monster, and everyone knows it," Ben says, pulling away from me. He gets up, and begins to pace back and forth again.
"You aren't a monster. I see the humanity in you. You aren't completely cold hearted," I say, getting up and walking towards Ben. I grab his arm and stop him from pacing. "Stop pacing so much."
"This shouldn't be happening," Ben says, trying to walk away from me. I held onto him harder. "I'm supposed to hate you. In fact, I do hate you." He breaks away from me instantly, and walks to the other side of the room.
Ben was trying to result to using his anger. It must have been some sort of coping mechanism for him. He was taught to let his anger fuel everything he did.
"Don't let your anger control you, Ben. Please." I beg. Ben turns around and stares at me. Suddenly, he ignites his lightsaber. "Ben what are you doing?" He storms towards me. I don't have my lightsaber. All I have is the blaster that I made the Stormtrooper give me. I aim it at Ben, hoping he'd stop before I would have to shoot him.
"I'm doing what I need to do, what I was destined to do," Ben cries out.
He stops right in front of me with his saber over his head, as if he was about to cut me down. The fury in his eyes subside, and he lowers his saber.
"What the hell was that?" I scream, enraged at what Ben was about to do. He walks away, and sits on the edge of the bed again. He rests his head in his hands. I hear him begin to sob. I walked up to the wall nearest to the door and leaned up against it. I was too scared to sit back down next to him.
"I'm so sorry," He mutters.
"Why did you do that?" I question angrily.
"I didn't know what else to do," Ben says remorsefully.
"So you resulted in practically killing me?" I said back. He looks up at me, tears pouring out of his eyes.
"You're scared of me now, aren't you?" He asks. I glance off to the side, not knowing how to answer. I knew I was the only person who could truly help Ben, and telling him I was scared of him wouldn't help the situation.
"No, I'm just a bit shocked is all." That was a lie.
"You're terrified. Rey, I'm so sorry. Please, don't hate me," Ben says, looking up at me. Suddenly, I saw the kind, conflicted, and scared Ben Solo I had seen when I searched through Ben's thoughts. I wasn't so terrified anymore
Kylo's POV:
I had officially ruined my chance to get Rey's help in all of this. I didn't want to let her go, but I knew she couldn't stay.
"You're right. You need to leave," I say, looking down at the ground.
"It took you all that to agree with me?" Rey says.
She didn't know the affect she had on me. Rey made me feel things I don't think I'd felt since I was younger. When I was a teenager, I let the darkside consume me. Since then, I haven't felt much emotion for anyone. However, I felt something for Rey. Those feelings clouded my judgement, and thus she couldn't stay.
"I'm sorry," I say, looking back up to her.
"Why do you want me to leave now?" Rey questions. I give her no response. I didn't want her to know how I felt. "Ben?"
"We'll get you on an escape pod as soon as possible," I say to her.
"You didn't answer my question. Why do you want me to leave?" Rey was relentless. She was stuborn, but I was too.
"Ben, tell me now," she said. "Ben!" She grabbed my shoulder, forcing me to turn around towards her. I didn't realize how beautiful she looked. Even in the darkness of my room, her eyes glistened with intensity.
"I can't tell you," I say to her. She shakes her head.
"Yes you can." Why did Rey want to know so bad?
"It doesn't matter. My reasons don't change the fact that you need to get out of here and go back to The Resistance," I say to her.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Rey questions.
"You saw my thoughts in the interrogation room, did you not?" I responded, trying to get away from Rey.
Before Rey can say anything, I feel the ship begin to shake. The lights flicker.
"What was that?" Rey asks fearfully.
"I'm not sure," I say. "I don't think you have to be afraid of anything."
"Who said I was afraid?" Rey says defiantly. I could tell she was scared, so I grabbed her hand and made my way to the door. In the corridor stood General Hux. He looked incredibly distraught.
"What happened?" I ask. Hux doesn't respond right away, and instead looks down at my hand, which is interlaced with Rey's. "Hux what's going on?"
"Supreme Leader, The Resistance is starting to attack. They are threatening to send people onto the ship to retrieve the girls if you do not give them up," Hux explains. The ship shook again, and the lights flickered. I felt Rey squeeze my hand tighter.
"Give me some time to think about our course of action. Report back in five minutes," I command. Hux bows and walks down the corridor.
I turn to Rey, in search of some sort of answer as to how to proceed.
"The First Order, they expect me to keep you and Avlin. I know what you want, but I have to do what I'm supposed to do. I can't show weaknes," I tell Rey.
"So you're going to kill your own mother?" Rey questions. She made me rethink every little thing. Rey made me want to leave everything behind. I knew I couldn't, but Rey made it feel completely possible.
"I don't know Rey," I respond. "I just know that you can't help me."
"Why can't I help you?" She asks, looking a bit upset.
"Because, you make me feel like-," I stop myself. She couldn't know that she had any sort of power over me. If she knew, I wouldn't be able to do what I needed to do.
"I make you feel like what?" Rey wasn't going to ignore what I said. I knew she wouldn't stop asking until I told her.
"Nothing. I'm sorry but I have to defend The First Order. We'll warn them, but I will command General Hux to aim every sort of blaster or gun we have at their fleet," I say to Rey.
"Ben, please. You can't" Rey says, squeezing my hand tighter. I let go, and pull my hand from her grip. "Ben," she says angrily.
"Take her into an interrogation room," I say to two Stormtroopers walking our way.
"Ben!" Rey screams. I walk back into my room, and I grab my helmet. I put it on, and walk back out.
I see Rey trying to get the Stormtroopers to let go of her. She spots me.
"You're a coward!" She yells out.
She was right. I was too scared to tell her how I truly felt. I was a coward. I felt guilty for letting her go, especially since I could tell she was starting to trust me.
I watch as the Stormtroopers drag Rey down the hallway. I feel my stomach form into a knot. I had to look away. It hurt too much to see her screaming like that. I walked in the opposite direction of Rey, and began to head towards the bridge of the ship.
I walk onto the bridge, and Hux approaches me.
"Supreme Leader, have you made a decision yet?" He questions.
I knew I couldn't destroy The Resistance Fleet. If I truly wanted Rey, then I couldn't start by betraying her like that. The other problem was that I couldn't handle the guilt of killing my mother. I regretted killing my father more than anything in the entire world. I simply couldn't live with myself if I killed my mother too.
"I'll destroy the tracking devices on the girls, and then we'll go into hyperdrive. Understand?" I command.
"Yes, Supreme Leader," Hux says, "But you don't think that destroying the fleet is a better idea?"
"Hux, I do not have time for this," I say turning around and igniting my lightsaber.
"I'm sorry, Supreme Leader. We will get started on launching the ship into hyper drive," Hux says, bowing.
I walk back towards the interrogation rooms. I see two Stormtroopers standing outside one of the doors.
"This is the girl's room?" I question.
"Yes, Supreme Leader," The one to the right responds.
They open the doors, and I walk in. Rey looks as though she loathes me.
"I need to know where Leia put the tracking beacon on you," I say.
"Take your mask off first. You look like an animal with that thing on," Rey says angrily. I comply, and take my helmet off.
"Now," I say, putting my helmet on the ground, "where did she put the tracking beacon?"
"It's the necklace I have on," Rey says. I walk up to her, and put my hands on the back of her neck.
Rey's POV:
I feel Ben's cold hands on the back of my neck. He's incredibly close to me, closer than he's ever been. A chill runs down my spine.
"I can't get it," He says.
"Well maybe you should see what you're doing," I say back to him. He moves closer to me. His face is so close that I can feel his breath on my neck.
"Got it," He says, and his hands leave my neck. He lets the necklace fall to the ground, and he steps on it. The crystal shatters. Ben collects the pieces and slips them into his pocket. He steps outside, and after which I assume he gave the pieces to a Stormtrooper to throw out.
"So you're not blowing up The Resistance?" I say defiantly. Ben shakes his head.
"No. I destroyed the tracking device so they can't find us. Jania will destroy Avlin's tracking beacon, and then we'll be safe to go into hyperdrive," Ben says.
"Why aren't you just letting Avlin and I go?" I was still on the fact that Ben felt this need to keep me around.
"Avlin will most likely be killed," Ben says.
"And why not me?" I ask.
"Why do you want to know so badly?" Ben questions, his rage increasing by the second.
"Because I know there's a reason," I say back.
"I," Ben pauses, "I care about you," Ben looks away from me and down towards the floor. "I feel more than just care for you," Ben stops.
Did he love me?
Jania's POV:
I stormed back to Avlin's interrogation room.
"Open these doors immediately!" I screamed to the Stormtroopers guarding the doors. The one to the left pressed a button, and the doors slid open. Once I was inside, I pressed a button to close and lock the doors.
"So you came back to get me?" Avlin says, spitting at me.
"Actually, I came back to destroy your tracking beacon. Where is it?" I question harshly.
"I'm not telling you," Avlin says. I shake my head.
"You're going to regret that," I snicker. I squeeze my right hand into a fist, and begin to force choke Avlin. "Now tell me where the tracking beacon is."
"Bra-celet," Avlin struggles to say. I let her go from my hold, and I grab her wrist forcefully. I rip the bracelet off her rist. Avlin groans in pain. I bring the bracelet outside.
"Dispose of this outside the ship, immediately. It can't be on board the ship," I say to a Stormtrooper.
"Yes, Ventress," The trooper responds, bowing and walking away. I go back into the room. I realized I would have to kill Avlin now.
"Well, I suppose this is where your journey ends," I say to Avlin.
"Please don't kill me," She begs. I ignite both of my lightsabers, and cross them in front of her neck. Tears pour down her cheeks. I wasn't sure if I could do it.
Suddenly, I hear a commotion outside the doors. The sound of a lightsaber cutting through something pierces my ears, and the doors to the interrogation room open. I turn around, and hold my lightsaber out to whoever entered the room.
"Corran?"
"Jania."
A/N: AAHHH PART TWO OF ME IGNORING MY HOMEWORK TO POST A CHAPTER! I hope you guys enjoyed! This one took me a while to write even though I don't think it's the longest chapter yet. I probably should have posted sooner, but oh well. Comment, favorite, and follow if you feel like it! And thank you guys for all the support, I really do appreciate it! I'll try and post really soon!