The buzz and heat of the saber caused a shiver down Saeva's back. Her eyes closed, she tried to control her breathing.

She chanted to herself to be at peace. Take this moment as a final victory. Escape her oppressors, make this her chosen destiny.

The pause above her was telling her that Ren was hesitating. But the audience probably gave Ren the pressure to follow through on his words. She could sense him reading her mind, so she kept one thought in her head.

"Can't back out now, Ben Solo."

The saber came up as swiftly as she uttered those mental words and she heard Ren take a breath, preparing to swing down.

A massive explosion could be heard overhead, so massive it shook the ground. Saeva lurched forward, knocked unsteady by the blast. She glanced up from the ground to the sky.

A Star Destroyer was barreling down towards them, it had entered the atmosphere split in half. Parts of the ship starting to litter the ground around them. Ren had sheathed his light saber, staring up at the sky in confusion. Hux already screaming at troopers to return to their ships. An Officer scrambling up to them.

Fiery carnage landing all over Enarc.

The Officer was pale white, sweating.

"Supreme Leader...theres been a development."

Ren grabbed the man by the collar.

"There seems to be some members of the First Order whoo—-whooo"

"Spit it out, Dammit."

Saeva could eye Hux, who was behind Kylo, getting annoyed by the man's hesitation.

"They've defected, Sir. They've started firing on our own. We don't know-"

Kylo's saber sliced through the Officer, tossing the body aside.

Saeva pushed herself up, still staring at the impending Star Destroyer that was barreling their way. The groan of the machine sounding like a shrieking woman. The alarms from within the ship echoing in the sky at a closing distance.

Saeva side glanced at General Hux ordering soldiers and trying to use his comm link to establish some communication. His back turned away from them. The soldiers scrambling towards the ships and the city.

Kylo Ren finally noticing her on her feet. His eyes blazing. Taking a step forward, Saeva took a step back. Her hands still cuffed.

His voice seething.

"You did this."

Saeva nodded cautiously, but defiant.

"Amazing what a few words could do."

A giant piece of the Star Destroyer suddenly smashed near her and became too close to Saeva's comfort causing her to jump backwards. It was large enough to separate them.

Turning towards her childhood home, Saeva could hear Ren's roar at separation. She needed to reach the children.

Dodging and weaving through the rain of metal, the impending crush of the Star Destroyer coming. She realized it was heading straight towards her house, and their general location. The sheer size of the ship could crush the whole city.

They were going to be crushed. She maybe had 3 minutes before the impending doom.

Saeva was 50 feet from the house as she was stopped and diverted by debris.

As she tried to crawl over what use to be a Tie-fighter, that was half on fire, she paused at the peak of it. Her body sensed something that cause a pit in her stomach.

As she was looking down at her house a massive portion of the Destroyer outer control panel landed on the house. Demolishing it. The entire structure almost instantly disappearing within the walls of the house.

Saeva stilled for a moment, suddenly feeling the whole world fall silent. Her heart thrumming. A numb feeling consuming her. Maybe a second or two passed, but it felt like a thousand years.

A loud crash behind her snapped her back and she screamed out loud. As she scrambled down the tie fighter, she fell, slamming her head and body against the metal.

Shaking off the wounds, she pushed forward reaching what was left of the house. She climbed on top of what was left of the house wall, looking down into what would have been the house.

"No, No, No, No."

With her cuffed hands, she pushed weakly at the metal that covered the house. Her frustration and grief getting the better of her, that she began to punch her hands against the metal. Trying to break the cuffs, but simply cutting and bruising her hands.

Without the force she couldn't sense them. Without the force she couldn't move the metal. She couldn't save them.

Saeva fell to her knees and felt silent tears pour down her face as she looked to the sky. The Star Destroyer a minute away from striking.

She deserved this death. Her cousins did not.

Saeva suddenly felt a hand grab the back of her collar, pulling her down from the wreckage that was her home. Her body hitting the ground hard.

It was Ren again, he pulled her up, dragging her by the hair this time. She screamed at him.

"Let me die. Kriff, isn't that what you wanted?"

Ren pulled her harshly through the feild of debris in the direction of the city, his ship waiting. It looked much like his old command ship she stole.

He said nothing.

The ship in sight, Saeva began to push against him. Tears pouring down her face.

"I can't leave them."

Kylo looked at her, like he once looked at her when they were on Lianna. When she had hope in him.

"I know."

With that he force pushed her 20 feet into his ship. Her back slamming into the cargo wall. He entered the ship, the ramping closing behind him, just as the Star Destroyer slammed into her home and the area surrounding it.

She prayed the ship wouldn't take off, but to her dismay it sped off.

Her body suddenly aching and she felt blood seeping off the side of her face. Wiping it awkwardly with her dusty sleeve.

Kylo hadn't moved from the spot when he entered the ship. He merely stared down at her as she stared at the floor. Her thoughts thinking of her cousins.

How They were innocent in all this.

She killed them. Her actions and words killed them. Her body began to feel numb again. She could care less about Ren's presence. It was an empty cargo room with the two of them.

Her comm link in her pocket suddenly chirped. Her eyes shot up as Ren's met hers as he recognized the sound as well.

He moved towards her swiftly, but she kicked him in the stomach. He fell backwards. Her cuffed hands struggled at pulling the comm link from its hiding spot.

She felt Ren's weight on her suddenly, holding her face to the cargo floor, pulling the link from her. He used the force, freezing Saeva in place, her ability to speak stalled.

He clicked back on the comm link, but remained silent. Rey's voice chimed in.

"Saeva, Stars! Are you safe? We just saw what happened over Enarc... are you still there? Poe couldn't get back to you, there is some sort of Mutiny happening with the First Order ships. Where are you?"

Ren spoke in a still tone.

"She's with me."

The comm link went silent for a moment. The ship lurching for a second, the ship's alarms going off. Saeva began to wonder if they were in space.

"Ben?"

The ship lurched awkwardly again. Kylo turning his head towards the cock pit.

Ren seemed suddenly concerned, he spoke harshly into the comm link.

"We will contact you when the time is right."

He unfroze Saeva and dragged her into the cockpit. The ship had made it to space, but was in a sea of chaos. Tie-Fighters fighting Tie-Fighters, Star Destroyers shooting on each other. Hux was trying to manage the controls with a pilot. Colonel Mitaka getting sick in the left hand corner. He gave Saeva a weary look.

Ren pushed her into a seat behind the pilots un-cuffed Saeva for a brief moment, before re-cuffing her to the ship. Thankfully, her facing forwards to see the carnage outside.

Ren pushed the pilot of the seat and the two leaders began to operate the ship.

He spoke calmly, but loudly to Hux.

"General. Status."

"We have four Generals who have defected, Empire loyalists, and now using our own resources against us. Two compromised destroyers, 2,000 tie-fighters, and unsure amount of troopers."

"Supremacy?"

"Fortified, for now."

"Order it into light speed."

"But We aren't on board."

Ren glared at Hux, who gritted his teeth and gave the order. The Supremacy in the distance disappearing not long after the order.

The ship weaved in and out of battles. Blasting a few fighters that had tailed them. Saeva unsure what direction they were headed, it seemed they were circling the area to give commands to loyal parties.

Ren continued to pilot and bark orders at Hux, who was managing each command.

"Send a message to all First Order ships, We have Saeva Kenobi in custody. Traitors will be executed and those who have not defected on a First Order facility may execute at will the traitors."

Hux relied each message with equal fiery passion and hate.

The ship was suddenly struck by three oncoming tie-fighters and began to spiral out of control. Saeva's vision starting to blur. The alarms louder than before. She could hear General Hux yelling.

"WILL YOU GET US THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF HERE!?"

Saeva felt a lurch and her senses coming back.

The ship finally leveled itself and shot quickly into light speed. The situation fixed quickly probably due to Ren's piloting skills.

Saeva closed her eyes and tried to steady her breathing, As the shock of the situation seemed to lull. The clicking of autopilot and silence filled the cockpit.

The pilot and Colonel Mitaka slipped out of the room, snapping Saeva out of her daze. Her grief returning to her.

Hux nor Ren looked at her, they sat in silence as data came piling into the computer. Ren adjusting the command ship at points. She preferred they not speak to her.

The flash of light speed captivated Saeva's mind, its numbness helping her recall all the bittersweet memories of Jace and Malle. Her soul felt like it was twisting.

The blood from her forehead had returned and she felt it drip on her collar bone. As she tried to wipe it, she forgot her hands were strapped to the seat with the cuffs. It made a noise breaking the concentration of Hux.

He looked over his shoulder and saw her. He glanced at Ren in a bit of disbelief. He hadn't expected to see her there, she realized.

She rested the back of her head against the seat, staring back at the light speed of space. Watching the General in her peripheral.

He had returned to his data pad, silent. But he seemed more aware of her now. Short glances her way.

Kylo was now sitting very still, watching the light speed flashes. Twirling her comm link in his hand.

He spoke suddenly.

"We go to the Resistance."

Hux looked up at him, dumbfounded. He scoffed.

Ren glared at him.

"We meet with them. Negotiate."

"Don't be absurd. We still have twice the army that they, even with the defectors—"

"The Resistance is an asset."

Hux stood up and he screamed down at Ren.

"Are you bloody mad?! The Resistance will destroy us, execute us."

Ren choked Hux calmly. His coughing a bit loud.

"The Resistance doesn't know what kind of rogue army they've just unleashed. Men with bitter, pent up anger from the Empire. They will obliterate more than the First Order ever could. The Resistance will need us."

Hux was released, collapsing in his seat.

Coughing, he glared at Ren, his eyes bloodshot. He spit out blood as he spoke.

"How do you know that for sure?"

Kylo went back to staring at the flashes of speed.

"I saw it, the future is being dictated. I can foresee this."

General Hux tightened his fists.

"You've gone mad."

Kylo still calm and cool as ever, glanced at Hux's data pad.

"We've lost the Supremacy to General Furo..."

Hux grabbed his data pad as a messaged chirped in. He seemingly read the message over and over. He suddenly slammed the data against the wall, confirming the take over of the First Order army.

He bellowed at the wall.

Kylo seemed very calm still. Saeva in a bit of disbelief at the situation.

"We meet with the Resistance. They'll take us as prisoners. But they'll soon realize that We are more of assets to them than as simple war prisoners."

Hux stared at the wall, seething. His voice mocking Kylo a bit.

"Did the force tell you that they'll welcome us with open arms?"

Kylo ignored him and turned his chair to face Saeva.

"No, but they'll follow her."

Hux glancing at her as well.

Saeva snarled at him.

"Why should I help you? After all you've done to me and my family."

Her voice faltered at the word family. Her heart aching. She willed herself not to cry.

"Because the fate of the galaxy is suddenly going in the very wrong direction. For all your beliefs of how wrong the First Order was...the Empire found ways to be worse."

"Worse than Star Killer base? Millions gone in one blow."

Saeva shot right back at Ren, who was unfazed.

"A victory for our goals, but unemotional. A technical need. Imagine if emotion was added to the efforts. Pent up resentment from the days of the Emperor."

Saeva laughed and laughed a maniacal kind of laugh.

"You, either of you? Without emotion? Do you hear yourself? I've heard Hux's speech on First Order archives before the destruction of the Republic. The hate that drips into every word of that speech."

Hux had his arms crossed and seemed unapologetic in the moment. Saeva focused on Ren. She mocked him.

"Every impulsive move you make is riddled in fear and anger. Resentment of your birthright or your bloodline...whatever parental mental defect you choose to ignore. Scared little angry boys wanted to play war and now they need help? The toys aren't yours anymore?"

She huffed and closed her eyes.

"You should have left me to die on Enarc."

Kylo stormed out of the room, igniting his saber as he went. Off to take his frustration out on some part of the ship.

Hux following him, leaving Saeva alone with her thoughts. Her grief creeping back. She started to sob, her chest feeling like it were stabbed. Her mind having trouble comprehending how the children were gone. Simply gone so quickly.

—-

Several hours passed and her exhaustion from crying lulled her to sleep.

She awoke to a still ship, light speed had ceased, and deep space stared back at her.

Hux sat in the cockpit seat to her front left, his hair disheveled. He looked like he himself had been screaming, a nasty black eye forming on his right eye. His lip cut.

She shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Her hands feeling numb in their position.

He glanced back at her. He silently stood and crouched down in-front of her.

"If I release you will you try to murder us?"

Saeva stared down at him.

"Yes. Probably."

He seemed to shrug his shoulders and unlocked her handcuffs. He turned away from her, plopping back down in his seat.

"We are dead anyways."

Saeva rubbed her wrists, feeling blood flow returning.

She slowly stood, loosening her body. Feeling the force flowing back to her. She prepared for a fight, but felt no fight in this room.

Hux sat defeated in his seat, not even looking at her. He spoke out loud.

"Its all gone. Everything he built...I failed."

Saeva stared down at him as he spoke. Her empathy and sympathy non-existent, but her curiosity peaking.

She sat in the pilot seat next to him. Hux looked at her, his eyes actually watering.

"Everything my father built, with Snoke...after the Empire. Gone. Just like he said I would. The bastard child trying to prove to his father his worth. Even after I killed him."

Saeva quickly realized Hux was drunk. Hux gestured to the exit door.

"I let the chosen one know he was equally a failure to Vader during his little tantrum. He killed Mitaka...then the Pilot. But somehow didn't kill me. Said I should suffer by the hands of the rebel scum.. wallow in my defeat..."

Saeva stayed silent as he spoke. He tilted his head and looked at her.

"I was bred to hate the Resistance...ever fiber of my body. Yet here we are...sending a distress call to the scum."

Saeva crossed her arms and swallowed.

"He used my comm link to contact Rey."

Hux awkwardly nodded his head.

"She won't respond till she hears your voice and your agreement. She says she'll know if its forced."

Saeva sat back, biting her lip as she thought to herself. Hux spoke softly again.

"I know that you could care less if We lived or died...you've just lost your family."

He looked at her.

"But I've lost my home."

Her heart did not break for him. It didn't not feel anything. She simply stood and looked down at him. Spoke very matter of factly.

"This is what we deserve. It is what you deserve. Punishment."

She turned to leave the cockpit, Hux's voice cracking behind her.

"Punishment is all I have known."

That stilled her a moment, but she brushed it away, darting into the hall.

She found Ren mediating in his quarters.

His eyes didn't open, but he spoke to her.

"Hux released you."

"He did. I've come for my comm link."

Kylo opened his eyes, tilting his head.

"I assume you want to help us now?"

"I want to get home, to my sister. I could care less what they do with you."

Ren stood and pulled the comm link from his pocket. Saeva noticing a bruise to his right cheek bone. Hux got one punch in it seemed.

"Hux is impulsive and foolish when it comes to you."

"You've been impulsive with me before, Kylo, so don't be so hypocritical." Saeva said it cooly back. She was alluding to their intimate elevator encounter.

Kylo's eyes flashed a moment of lust, but returned to their normal state quickly.

"Is the Resistance aware of how personal your relations have been with the Order?"

He was pushing her, despite his need for her to help him.

"Rey is aware. That's all who would matter."

"Ah, but no one else."

She scoffed.

"Don't be foolish Kylo, a mere speech of mine just disbanded and imploded an entire military system. The revelation of my relations with Hux and yourself would be like throwing a bucket of water on a forest fire."

She took the comm link from his hand with spite. He spoke darkly to her.

"I can sense it in you now. That hidden darkness, its emerging. It draws my darkness, I can feel its bend on your will to control it."

Saeva turned to leave the room dismissing him with a look, but He pushed her up against the wall, her front facing the wall, his front to her back. He hissed in her ear.

"Their deaths are on your hands. You were their protector."

Saeva felt her hands begin to prickle with dark energy. Her rage building. He held her intimately against the wall. His voice deeper and darker than she had ever heard him speak before.

"Rey will sense this darkness in you. She'll cast you out, like she did me. Then I will be the only one to accept all of you."

Saeva paused, her raging subsiding at the mention of Rey. She realized he was trying to make her lose control. Pull her towards his side.

"No, She's only disgusted by your darkness."

She pushed back against him, untangling herself.

"I will contact her, alone. Maybe you can reflect of what you truly want. You will not find comfort in my darkness to ease your own."

With that Saeva left and stationed herself in the cargo bay. She stepped over the wrapped bodies of Mitaka and the pilot. Her disdain for the situation growing.

She hit the comm link as she settled in the corner. Rey's voice perked through.

"Ben, I am not-"

"Rey. It's me."

"Saeva? Thank Stars. Are you okay?"

Saeva paused at the question, wanting to unload for her sister. But it felt disconnected through a comm link.

"I am safe for now. You won't believe what they want."

Rey's voice shined through the comm link. Saeva felt like she could sense her practically.

"It is unreal, the First Order is imploding. And the Resistance is growing stronger—"

"Rey, Kylo wants to negotiate. Hux and Him, they want to meet. They want to believe what has happened is much worse for the galaxy."

There was a pause.

"What do you think?"

Saeva paused, her body numb still.

"It doesn't matter what I think. Its just them, they are out here wounded, blind. Do you want to meet them at the table?"

Rey could tell that Saeva was speaking freely. Giving her reign of choice.

A few moments passed.

"Bring them to Jabba's. Are you alone?"

"Yes, I am."

"They must be restrained. Force binders on Kylo, if they are serious about meeting."

"I agree, I will inform them."

"Saeva, are you okay?"

Saeva's voice broke a bit as she replied.

"I just need to get home."

"You'll be here soon, Sister."

Saeva nodded and wiped a few tears from her face. She rose and walked back to Kylo's quarters. She could hear him tossing furniture about.

She entered as he smashed a chair up against a wall. He stilled at the sight of her.

"They'll meet with you. Force cuffs on or no deal."

Kylo tightened his fists, but relaxed his shoulders.

"Very well, where is the location?"

"I'll pilot there myself, hopefully Hux hasn't passed out on the hyperdrive."

She left him and entered the cockpit.

Hux was sitting on the floor finishing a bottle of whiskey off. His uniform off and a white undershirt on. He looked more drunk than before.

She ignored him and punched in the coordinates to Tatooine, slipping them back to hyperdrive.

He watched her do it, tapping his fingers on the bottle. She clicked away at the controls.

"What are you doing?"

"Bringing you to the Resistance."

"Oh... to my death."

She rolled her eyes at his dramatic slurring of words.

"Unlike the First Order, the Resistance offers real chances to its enemies."

Hux scoffed and burped.

"Like you said...I murdered millions of people...their people...and was happy about it. Still proud of it. That's going to slide?"

Saeva glanced at him, but continued operating the ship.

"I'm not naive. You'll be in a cell, like him. But your knowledge of the equipment and strategies will keep you alive for some time."

"Not you, you won't try to keep me alive?"

Saeva turned her chair and looked at him steely. She spoke mockingly.

"As hard as you tried to keep me alive back on Enarc just earlier today... I'll keep it at that effort level."

Hux burped again and banged his head against the wall. As he tried to pull himself up, he stumbled and fell back down.

Saeva became increasingly annoyed with him. He was going to stumble into the controls and kill them all.

She grabbed the force binders before crossing the room to Hux.

Grabbing him, she held him steady, walking his stumbling self to Kylo's quarters.

As they walked towards Kylo's room, Hux held Saeva tighter suddenly. He slurred a bit.

"You would...woulda have been a magnificent Supreme Leader."

Saeva opened the door to Kylo's quarters, ignoring Hux's mumbling. Kylo stared at them from his mediation position.

He stood as she allowed Hux to fall into the bed in the room. Hux grunting at the harsh landing. Kylo stood, looking like he was to protest.

"He's drunk, useless, and in the way in there."

Tossing the cuffs to Kylo, she continued.

"Put these on in 20 minutes, We'll be arriving at the base."

"Rey agreed?"

Saeva nodded.

"Someone still has hope in you."

With that Saeva turned and walked out the door.