Author's Note: Hey everyone! Sorry it took me a while to update work has been crazy. Anyway I'm super excited for these next few chapters so let me know what you think. Thanks for all the support -Cork
Ben awake leaning against a cold metal wall, his head was pounding and felt so weak. Slowly, he remembered what had happened, the fight on Rishi, the shuttle, Rey being captured and him surrendering. Suddenly he was on his feet, search every inch of the room for a way out, the door was barely visible in the sea of blackness. He used all his strength and any force he could muster to try to breakthrough the door.
He had to get out of here, he had to get to Rey. He couldn't fell her at all and it terrified him. How could her signature just being missing, he could always feel it? How could this happen? How could he lose her? Why did he go to that stupid city? He could have prevented this if he had just stayed there with her.
He had failed her. Rey was probably dead or hidden away somewhere being tortured, he hated that out of those two options he wished she was dead. He couldn't get the image of her struggling from the bounty hunter out of his mind. It was as if she was right in front of him, eyes still wide with fear and pleading for his help. He slammed his fists again the door and released all the anger in him.
After he exhausted himself even further, he slummed in the corner and just let the sobs over take him. What was the point of all this? He should have never met Rey on Ilum, she'd be safe if he hadn't been so selfish. Out of nowhere, he felt his legs pinned to the ground and knew it was a force hold.
"Too afraid to face me equally." He said as the door opened. Viveca stood in the doorway staring at him with a look of disgust.
"You're pathetic." She spat out after a long silence. He didn't even try to fight the hold, she was right he had no fight left in him. She leaned down and lifted his chin to look at his face and he jerked away. "Who are you?"
He looked back to the wall with his face still wet from tears. "What, am I not what you remember?"
"What happened to the boy who lead us from the Jedi temple, who struck down the light side and whose force was as cold as ice? You would strike down anyone who stood in your way and that's why we followed you. Now you're just a traitor."
He tried desperately to ignore her, he didn't like to think of any of his time at the Temple. "You know I don't know anything about the Resistance, right? So, there's really no need for all of this." He said as he gestured to the room around them.
"Yeah. But I think she does and I'll get her to tell me." She said with a wink. Rey was alive, but that just meant she'd be tortured. "True, she is but not for long, your both scheduled for execution."
Kriff, she's in my mind. He used the little energy he had to slowly build a shield around his mind. He couldn't let her see how worried he was for Rey, he knew it would only make it worse for her, Viveca could be incredibly cruel. Oh stars, he just hoped she was okay. He needed to pull himself together, he couldn't just sit here in his own desperate and wait from them to get executed. "She doesn't know anything either. She's been with me this whole time."
"Well, I guess we'll see about that." She said as she turned to the door. "See you soon, Kylo." And with that the door slammed shut and the metal locks made a deafening clack.
Where am I? Rey thought as she looked around the small metal room. It was empty, just black steel walls that seemed to swallow her whole. She swallowed hard remembering what had happened on Rishi, however, she couldn't remember anything after seeing Ben's unconscious body hit the ground. Ben. She reached out through their bond but felt nothing. She was able to feel him on Rishi when he was knocked out, fear starting to sink in. Maybe he was just very far away, she tried to communicate through the bond but felt nothing. She tried not to think of what that could mean, she needed to focus.
She looked all around them room, it was just black metal on all surfaces except for a small drain in the middle. She knew that could only be a bad sign. It was only then that she truly noticed she was only in her light pants and her breast band. They'd taken everything, even her boots, they wanted her to feel vulnerable and it was working.
She reached out through the force and felt almost nothing but darkness, and that's when she was certain she was in the custody of the First Order. She knew she was about to be tortured and she could feel her heart beating in her ears. The tears were hot in her eyes, but she refused to let them spill, she had to get it together. She couldn't appear weak, not here, not now, Ben may need her, she had to be strong.
She sat up, took a deep breath and tried to reset her mind. She relaxed a little and closed her eyes, she would not waste this time. Rey reached out and began to mediate, she tried to work on shielding her mind as Ben had taught her. She let the pure darkness of this place flow through her, she focused on the pain and fear that occurred in this room, but she also tried to focus on the people that had past through here.
She truly believed at least half had to have been good people. Prisoners of war, captured rebels, people who were just trying to do what they believed was right. She would fight this, she wouldn't give in and she would find Ben. She knew he had to be alive, she would know if he wasn't.
Rey just wished he was here with her now, that they could find this together or that she could at least feel his force. It had to be painful for him to be here in the First Order custody and she was sure it would just make them even more ruthless.
Suddenly the heavy metal door slowly creeped open, and the figure in the door made her blood run cold. There illuminated by the light of the hallway was Viveca. She looked just as threatening as she had on Ilum and her force was dark it sent another shiver through her body. Rey was paralyzed and was unable to do anything but stare at her in fear.
"Nice to officially meet you, Rey." She spoke sarcastically. "So, lets get to the point, you are going to tell me everything I want to know."
"I'm not telling you anything." Rey responded as confidently as she could.
A sinster smile creeped over Viveca face. "I was hoping you'd say that."
Before Rey could react, her arm flew up and Rey could feel her burrowing her way in to her mind. Rey used all her strength to keep up the weak shields she'd barely managed to build in her mind, but it felt as if Viveca was carving her soul to pieces. She still didn't let go of those shields, she used all the force she feel to try to fuel her strength.
Then Viveca quickly threw a hard punch in Rey's exposed stomach and it took the last of her strength as well as her breath away. She lay on the floor curled in a ball, and that was when she felt her finally make her way past her shields. "Perfect," Viveca hissed.