A/N Ok I have a rough idea where I wanna go with this, but the characters may have different ideas. We won't know until it's on *paper*. Hope you are all enjoying it! Let me knowwwww! Cheers.
When Rey starts waking up with a clearer head, a few days later, it's to the feeling of tiny movements around her fingertips. Rey slowly opens her eyes to find Rose at the side of her hospital bed, hunched over Rey's right hand, putting some sort of blue paint on her fingernails.
"Rose?"
Rey grinds out with an unrecognizable gravelly voice and she watches Rose's head snap up in surprise. In a heartbeat, Rose's face lights up and she lunges forward to hug her friend.
"Rey! You're awake!"
After Rose jumps up and calls for a medical droid she hurries back to Rey's side.
"We were really worried about you there for a few days. How do you feel?"
She asks excitedly as the medical droids join them and start examining Rey's wound, making her flinch.
"Ouch. I feel alright, I suppose. Did you say that I have been out for days? What is happening? What have I missed?"
Rey gets a sinking feeling in her chest and that feeling triples in intensity when Rose responds.
"Don't worry, the entire base is on lockdown and you have been on constant guard. There is talk of pre-emptively moving locations again. If Kylo Ren can get to you then I guess we aren't as safe here as we thought."
Rose's expression saddens suddenly as Rey struggles against the rising panic in her chest.
"We had a resting ceremony for Edwards. He must have been so brave, trying to save you from Kylo Ren."
The panic threatening to overcome Rey is making the room spin and a medical droid places a metal hand on her chest to take Obs.
"You need to calm down to reduce your heart rate."
It drones on at her, but Rey ignores the droid and reaches a hand out for Rose.
"I need to speak to General Organa. Immediately."
She says to a confused Rose as the medical droid spouts more warnings to her.
"If you do not reduce your heart rate, a sedative will be administered."
Rey ignores the droid again and grips Rose's hand harder.
"Oh, okay. But the General isn't here. She's gone with Commander Oslic to scout another location."
Rey can feel her anxiety rising and suddenly feels a small pinch and a rush of fog over her mind.
Rey desperately grapples for Rose's hand as she feels consciousness slipping away again.
"I need to talk to Leia."
She manages to say before the world goes dark.
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Kylo tries, for the hundredth time, to connect to Rey through the force-bond, but all he can feel is fog with flashes of pain. He felt a small episode of anxiety earlier, but it was quickly gone by the time he managed to get alone.
REY!
He shouts through their bond, but she does not respond and Kylo hangs his head as he sits on the edge of the bed in his new quarters.
He's lost her.
She's injured and in pain somewhere and it is all his fault.
He can't stop seeing the look of horror on her face when he killed the Rebel who shot her: he showed his rage and she was repulsed by it.
The temptation is there to, once again, ignite his lightsaber and lay waste to his surroundings, but Kylo tamps down on the urge this time.
The comm in his room suddenly buzzes and he absently answers it.
"Supreme Leader. We believe that we may have found the Rebels, sir. Your presence is requested on the bridge."
Kylo's punches the comm button with more force than necessary as his anger rises once again but a surge of panic rises with it.
Rey is on that base and he has no way to warn her of their discovery.
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Rey wakes again several hours later and, as she comes to, she immediately calls for Leia.
Finn races in from an outer room when he hears her voice and his expression of relief is almost comical.
"Rey! We weren't sure when you would wake up again."
He settles into the chair beside her bed and smiles widely.
"The General is still away. What do you need?"
With a grimace, Rey sits up, causing Finn to stand up in alarm and try to stop her.
"Whoa, whoa! Rey you need to rest and take it easy. You were skewered by a lightsaber. You need to stay in bed."
Rey is getting angry as she pushes back against Finn and manages to get her feet on the floor before grabbing at tubes and wires surrounding her and beginning to unattach them from her body.
"Rey!"
Finn shouts with concern as he flusters around trying to stop her, but Rey is determined.
"Finn! I need to speak with the General!"
She yells with an angry expression as she untangles herself and tentatively puts some weight on her legs. Finn holds up his hands to caution her and catch her if she falls.
"Okay, okay. We can get a transmission to the General. Just calm down and sit back down please."
He says warily and Rey sits back down on the bed as her legs give out.
"Fine. It needs to be as soon as possible though."
She tries to not seem as exhausted as she feels while the medical droids start rushing into the room in droves and she relents.
Finn backs out of the room slowly, worry etched over his face.
"I'll go find a comm so you can send that transmission. Just… stay there."
Rey falls back onto her pillow and juts out a hand as she uses the force to push all the droids back through the door of her medical bay and shuts it behind them.
She catches her breath for only a moment before closing her eyes and reaching out to find her end of the force-bond.
Ben!