Depositing Erinn on the bed in the Falcon, Poe knelt by her side and looked to her body. She was drenched from her time in the snow and her body was shaking as her lips parted and took in sharp gasps of breath as the pain in her side continued to intensify.

They had been picked up by the Falcon and Poe had merely shook his head at Han when he had looked to him and wondered what had happened. Sighing harshly, Han moved back to the cockpit and clenched his teeth, vowing to find his son and bring his granddaughter back to her home. He had ran away from his problems for too long and now he had to face them. He had to face Ben.

"Erinn," Poe whispered her name, moving his hands to her hair and sweeping it over her shoulder as she turned her head on the pillow to look to him. "I need to clean your wound and bandage it."

The tears in her eyes were enough to tell Poe that she did not care about the pain she was in. All she cared about was the fact that her daughter had been cruelly snatched from her. Erinn had done everything possible to protect Lanette but it had not been enough. She had failed to escape Kylo and his clutches.

"Poe," Erinn whispered his name as he stood and she reached blindly for his hand. He took it inside of his, holding her fingers around his as he bent down again, his other hand moving to her cheek ad stroking her skin softly. "I need to find her," Erinn said in a whisper. "I need to find my daughter…he can't have her…she is not his."

Nodding, Poe gave her hand a reassuring squeeze in his and kissed her forehead, hesitantly doing so and wondering if he had over stepped the boundary. But she said nothing and did nothing, keeping still and allowing Poe to mend her broken body. If only he could mend her broken heart.

…

A week had passed since the incident and nothing had changed within that time. She still said nothing. She refused to speak. She refused to acknowledge his existence. She even refused to eat the food he brought her until she grew too hungry to refuse it and even then she had put the tray near the door and said nothing.

She remained seated in the small chair and her eyes remained fixed on the window. There was nothing but rain outside and she had almost wanted to go outside and feel the drops. She missed the fresh air. She missed running around. She missed playing with Poe and hearing his stories. She missed her mother telling her not to wander too far.

She missed home.

She hated him for taking her away.

She had been locked away in the large room since they had arrived. She had been informed that this was where her mother had been born and her uncle lived. The room was large and had a control panel in the corner where she could ask for anything she wanted. A small bedroom sat through another room where a single bed rested against a wall and a wardrobe sat in the corner. An en-suite with a shower also sat through her bedroom.

There were chairs scattered around the room and a table to seat four on the other end. She never moved to any other seat but the one which looked out the floor length window and she stared outside.

She had no idea that her uncle tried to visit her every day, but she was under guard. At least three stormtroopers stood in the hall and refused to let General Hux in to see his niece.

"I see you tried to visit her today."

Andrew Hux sat in his office and looked to Kylo Ren as he walked into the room. Sighing, Andrew looked down to the blueprints before him with the plans of a new Starkiller Base. He was hoping to fix the faults of the previous one, but it would take years to build. For now they had no choice but to hide on his home planet. Arkanis was loyal to the First Order and Andrew had suggested it to the Supreme Leader who agreed.

They still had not found Luke Skywalker. They did not have the droid. They did not have his location.

"She is my niece," Hux snapped. "I needed to be certain that you had not harmed her like you did my sister."

Andrew was still under the impression that Erinn was missing. He had not had a chance to ask Kylo if it was true or false whether he had harmed her. He had not spoken to Lanette to ask her either. He was in the dark and he suspected the worse.

Kylo remained still. He knew that Erinn was still alive. He had seen the Falcon pick her up moments after he had left. He could not deny that he had tried to kill her, but he was too weak. He had been too pathetic to finish her off. As soon as his lightsaber had made contact with her skin and she had shrieked he recoiled. He had dropped the weapon and looked down to her, panting for breath at the sight of her.

How many people had he killed? How many lives had been ruined by him? Yet he recoiled and felt immediate regret when he had scarred Erinn Hux. He felt as though he had failed in his mission. He felt as though he was still weak and there was still the call to the Light Side.

The Supreme Leader had not been happy with him. He had yelled and roared when he heard how Kylo had failed. He had been angry with Andrew too. He had called both of them failures and traitors to the true cause. Kylo and Andrew had both tried to defend themselves, but the Supreme Leader did not want to hear anything from them.

He had demanded for Kylo to train his daughter and Andrew to stay away from his niece. Andrew had protested and demanded that Kylo be allowed nowhere near her, but the Supreme Leader had not allowed that to happen. He saw Kylo as the answer to Lanette. He was needed to bring the girl over to the Dark Side.

"She is my daughter and she is my concern," Kylo was the one to declare in a forceful manner and Hux rolled his eyes at the sound of his voice. "You did well to keep your head after your treacherous act."

"I could say the same for you," Hux declared. "You failed to kill my sister…you harmed her…but the Supreme Leader wanted her dead and now she has gone. Perhaps my own head was not on the line, but yours was?"

Kylo sneered in a low tone and Hux relished in seeing the man get worked up in such a manner. He hated Kylo more than he cared to admit. He hated him and he hated everything that he stood for. Hux enjoyed order and Kylo liked disorder. He was reckless and impulsive. He was a fool too.

"Do not push me, Hux," Kylo seethed. "You tried to test me once and I almost choked you to death."

"Don't you dare-"

"-Don't you presume to tell me what I can and cannot do," Kylo snapped. "Your niece is now none of your concern. Stop trying to see her and stop trying to involve yourself in her life. She is my daughter and she shall train under me and learn everything she needs to know."

Shaking his head, Andrew glared to Kylo and remained silent. He was not going to engage in an argument with a man who was unstable. He had no interest in talking to him. He preferred to do anything in his power to get him away from his niece, whether or not he went behind the back of the Supreme Leader.

Kylo remained silent as he watched Hux and he smirked before leaving the room to attend to his daughter. He walked through the corridors at a steady pace, stormtroopers moving out of his way as he went. He came to his daughter's door and opened it up, stepping inside as she remained in the seat she had been sat in for ages.

"Lanette."

She didn't turn at the sound of her name and he sighed once, knowing that he should remove his helmet. He clicked it out of place and pulled it from his head, depositing it down on the table in the corner before he moved over to kneel before his daughter.

She was curled in a ball on the chair, her arms wrapped around her knees as she dropped her chin to rest on their caps. She barely managed to look down to her father as her eyes remained red rimmed. She was dressed in a simple grey dress Kylo had acquired for her and her hair hung in loose curls down her back. Kylo couldn't help but think how it felt to have her stare at him. It was like having Erinn stare at him.

"Have you had anything to eat today?"

Her glare increased down to him and she sniffed, moving a hand to wipe her eyes as she shook her head. "I want my mother."

"You shall have your mother soon," Kylo declared.

And that was no lie. Kylo had been told to find Erinn and finish the job he had started. He needed to bring her back and kill her. Yet Kylo knew that he couldn't. He had been given the chance and he had not done it. Killing Erinn was no longer an option. She was his only weakness and he had to ignore her. So long as she was nowhere near him, he could do that. His efforts into finding her were minimal. Besides, the First Order had bigger things to worry about.

"Why did you hurt her?" Lanette demanded from him. "You're supposed to love her. Why did you hurt her like that? I want her back."

Kylo felt his teeth clench together and then he looked to his daughter as she stopped her glare and she now looked confused and pleading. Kylo sighed and folded his arms at the bottom of her chair as he looked up to her, his eyes seemingly wider than usual and his hair ruffling as he ran a hand through his.

"Your mother was a good woman," Kylo informed Lanette. "She clearly cares for you dearly."

Lanette frowned, her small hands turning into fists. "That doesn't answer my question."

Kylo did his best to think of some coherent answer. Weakness was not an option to show this child in front of him. She had to be disciplined and she needed to learn not to show her feelings. He had to teach her that. He was going to teach her.

"Your mother means nothing to me," Kylo hissed.

"Then you're stupid," Lanette declared and Kylo almost looked amused at hearing her talk in such a manner. "Mother still loves you. She told me that she didn't want to, but she does. She said you were kind and caring before you were mean. Poe said the same. Why are you mean? Why did you leave us alone?"

Kylo shifted from one knee to the other. "You ask too many questions for someone so little."

"And you don't answer them," Lanette replied.

Kylo cocked a brow and tilted his head, admiring his daughter's feistiness and he shook his head. He could tell her the truth about one thing that did not involve Erinn. Remaining still, Kylo looked down to the floor as he spoke and Lanette watched him intently.

"I never knew you were born," Kylo admitted to her. "I never knew that your mother was pregnant or that she had you. I only found out before I met you. I was angry that I never knew…angry that I couldn't have seen you grow up…help you…be there when you were lonely. I know what it feels like to grow up without a father. My own father was never there when I needed him…I never wished that for you. I wanted to be there and now I am."

He looked up to his daughter and he could see that his words had made her uncomfortable. She had moved her chin further along her knees and Kylo slowly moved upwards again to stand, knowing that he had work to do instead of trying to persuade his daughter to talk to him.

"You are the spitting image of me, yet you are your mother," Kylo informed her. "But never doubt that I shall keep you safe now, Lanette, no one shall hurt you."

Moving a hand to his daughter's shoulder, he felt her tense under his touch as he awkwardly squeezed her shoulder before he began to leave. He picked his helmet up under his arm and he only stopped moving when he heard Lanette speak.

"I always wanted to know my father," she declared and he saw her little head peering around the chair to look at him. "I wanted him to be at home with me…with me and mother…why can't we go home?"

Home. Kylo had no home now. He served the First Order, but he had no home. He had places to live, but nowhere he could call home. What did home consist of? Was it with Lanette and Erinn? Was it in a small hut by the lakes he spent with her? All three of them together? The thoughts brought nothing but memories of the light back to him and he knew that he couldn't think about it.

He had to push the light away. He couldn't let it take over.

Looking back to his daughter, Kylo almost felt his chest pang at the sight of her small face. "Eat something…I'll be back later."

….

Erinn was slowly recovering, but she was struggling to walk after the stitches had been put in her side. She had been on bed rest while Leia and Han did their best to find Lanette and bring her back home. Erinn had demanded to help, but Leia had assured her that she was doing all that she could and Erinn had to rest. She needed time to sleep and come to terms with what had happened.

"Hey."

Erinn had grown used to daily visits from Poe. Every morning he would bring her food and a fresh bunch of flowers to put in the vase on the side of her bed. Erinn wore her light blue pyjamas on her body and she was sat up, playing on the communication pad Leia had given her as she checked up on the progress at base.

"Morning," Erinn managed to speak to Poe and the pilot sat down on the edge of her bed, moving his hand to her cheek and pushing her hair behind her shoulder as he moved a hand to her cheek, drawing her gaze to his and away from the screen beneath her.

"Have you eaten since yesterday?" he demanded from her.

Erinn rolled her eyes and sighed. "I didn't eat yesterday. I'm not exactly hungry, Poe. I just need to find Lanette."

"I know," Poe promised her, "but starving yourself will not help her or you. You need to keep your strength up, Erinn."

"No," Erinn denied, "I need to bring my daughter home and get her away from Ben…Kylo…whatever he wants to call himself."

Poe had seen Erinn go through a range of emotions. She had sobbed. She had been angry. She had thrown things across her room. She had collapsed to the floor and let Poe hold her for hours on end. She had gone through every single emotion and nothing eased the pain she felt.

"Erinn," Poe warned her. "We are doing everything possible to bring her back home. It isn't easy. The First Order have scattered…we think that they have set up base on your home planet, but we need to confirm it. We don't know how we can even infiltrate their ranks."

"Just send me back," Erinn declared. "Send me back to her."

"No chance," Poe said, almost laughing at her ridiculous suggestion. "There is a reason why you are bed bound, Erinn. The last time you were with Kylo Ren he almost killed you."

"But he didn't!" Erinn snapped back at Poe. "He didn't have it in him to kill me."

"And you want to give him a second chance?" Poe asked from her. "What is this, Erinn? You want to go back and get yourself killed? You want to die at his hand? Or do you still think that you can bring him back? Is that it?"

"Oh, be quiet," Erinn demanded from Poe and he stood up, shaking his head as his hands flapped by his sides and he glared at the woman before him.

"No," he responded. "I've seen the way you look when you think about him, Erinn. You are lost to him still. You need to stop this. You need to stop thinking you can be with him. It has been ten years. It is ridiculous."

Erinn's cheeks turned red and she balled a hand into a fist and tossed the tray of food aside and onto the floor, moving delicately from the bed as she pointed at Poe.

"Do not tell me how I feel," Erinn responded in a snarl. "I know who Ben is and I do not need you to tell me how I feel. Do you understand that? I have no interest in Kylo Ren…no…but I want to make him suffer. Do you know how I felt when I saw him take Lanette from me?"

Poe kept silent, his gaze challenging as he waited for her to continue.

"I want to make him suffer like he has made me suffer," Erinn said and Poe saw a rage of emotion inside of her. "I want him to feel pain. I want him to hurt, Poe. I want to cause him that pain. I no longer want to change him. He is lost to me. Lanette is not. She is my only concern and he has ripped her away from me. I feel lost. I feel nothing but anger and misery. I want to make Kylo Ren hurt like that. Do you understand me?"

Poe said nothing as Erinn moved a hand to her aching side and sunk down to her bed again, panting for breath after her outrage. Watching her, Poe felt his leather jacket squelch around him as he took a seat on the bed beside her.

"Then we make him suffer," Poe informed Erinn as she looked to Poe and he nodded. "You're not the only one who wants revenge, Erinn. You know how much Lanette means to me…and you…I want him to suffer too."

Erinn let out a deep breath and Poe moved a hand to hers, holding it tightly and letting her rest her head on his shoulder as she closed her eyes and did her best to control her breathing.

"The question is how we make him hurt." Erinn said. "Before he hurts Lanette."

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A/N: Thanks to everyone as per usual for reading and reviewing! Do let me know what you think!