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After they discussed their plan elaborately in the group and afterwards split up, Rey and Ben went back to the base finally and entered her room,
as they planned to depart really early the next morning to not get discovered by any other rebels.
Once again this was such an extraordinarily long day, absolutely crammed full with action and things to plan, important people to meet, as well as having the most breathtaking sex Rey ever experienced in her whole life and finally also finding some time to train lightsaber combat somehow in between,
while making plans to free a whole system from the First Order occupation by founding a small, more radical rebel group inside the Resistance itself.

Since Ben betrayed the First Order shit was going down extremely fast and they had to react to everything in an instant to still have a chance to bring balance and in the end plainly survive this whole war. There was no more time to dawdle around, but more so over everything was planned out throughout the day and their schedules were completely full from early morning to the late night. So Rey was extremely exhausted and yawned the whole time on their way back, while Ben was cautious as always but she saw him blinking more often than he usually would.

At some point, Rey asked Ben about how he communicated with Poe, which was exactly like she thought he did. Prying into the pilot's mind, while he then thought his answers in return, so Ben would be able to read them. This was actually a good way of communicating in secret if Ben was the one who'd initiate the conversation,
but no one was able to get through to him like that when someone, or to be exact Rey, wanted to talk to him.
While they were both finally getting ready for bed, Rey just pulled her big sleeping shirt over herself, not minding her nakedness in front of him anymore at all,
as he already had seen every inch of her body today by now and asked:

"Ben, you often listen to my thoughts. I know you can't do anything against it. But what if I want to talk to you for an instant?
I can't hear your thoughts, but what if I need to tell you something? What if we are in a dangerous situation tomorrow and I need to warn you or ask for help?
I don't want to pry into you with the force like we did to each other on Starkiller Base back then.
And you can't possibly concentrate enough to hear my thoughts all the time. Which I actually don't want anyway. So how do you do it?
Talking in my head without hurting me?"

He sat on the bed and flipped through the pages of the old Jedi bocks as if he was searching for something until he looked up and answered a little cryptically:

"It's not hard if the one receiving it has an open mind to the one transmitting it."

Rey pondered about what he just said and then knitted her eyebrows together as she stated a little disappointed:

"So, you are saying you don't have an open mind to me, while I have an open one to you?"

Ben clasped the book closed in his hands and held it between his knees as he looked down for a second, then exhaled and looked up at her again as if it was somehow hard for him to answer to this question, while he laid the book aside:

"You remember how Snoke said, that he can see my mind, my very intend?
Back then when I joined the First Order it started out slow and less often, but over the years it grew constant.
I couldn't hide any thought from him anymore. He knew everything about me. My beliefs, my emotions, my conflicts.
I started to learn how to cloud and alter my mind. Never enough, for he would have noticed it, never enough to shut him out completely.
But I built up a constant defence against his prying into my head.
It is so constant, I have to focus on not defending it, as I do it automatically by now.
I am aware that you sometimes can feel my emotions, but you'll never hear my thoughts or talk in my mind except when I deliberately let you.
So - yes, your mind is open to me, my mind is closed to everyone, including you."

Again a new horrible thing she learned about Ben's past. Of course, she heard Snoke saying this line back then and she understood that he pried into Ben's mind at this very moment he ordered him to kill her. But she never knew it was so regular that Ben had to live through it every waking hour, so far that he had to build a defence which became a constant companion in his mind. So he heard people thoughts, while simultaneously tried to fend off the mind prying from Snoke.
No wonder he was so incredibly torn when she first met him. Who wouldn't be torn by this?

Also, the realisation hit her that he would never have been able to get away from his former master with Snoke clawing through his mind the whole time,
as he would have known beforehand if Ben ever planned on abandoning the First Order.
She slowly walked towards him and their eyes were fixed on each other until she kneeled before his sitting form and laid both her arms on his knees and her chin on top of them as she stared up at him.
He looked down at her with a slightly troubled gaze and she had to fight back tears after hearing about what he had to live through these past years until she asked in a hushed voice:

"Ben? You can let your defences down around me. I will never hurt you, or pry into your mind without you allowing it. I want you to know that.
I know we can do that. I talked in your mind when we melded our force together because you let me because we were at balance.
I tell you that because I am nervous about tomorrow. We never went on a mission, we were only in extreme, life-threatening situations together which weren't planned before. I just want us to...I don't know. Understand each other tomorrow? Work as a team?
Make sure we both get out there alive, not just me. I want you to be alive tomorrow too. You remember? No suicidal stunts without me anymore. "

Ben listened to her explanation closely while slowly pulling out all the three hair ties from the buns on the back of her head, to rake his fingers slowly through her brown,
silky hair. Then he blinked two times and his thumb brushed over the length of her nose until he reached the tip of it. Eventually, he leaned down to brush his lips against her forehead and prompted her in a low voice:
"I understand. Try it - right now. I'll let you in."

Rey suddenly felt excited as she mostly did not know what he was thinking or feeling, while he, on the other hand, was able to know it from her nearly all the time.
She didn't want to invade his privacy, but not understanding him or his actions right now as well as not being able to talk to him,
while he was able to talk to her would maybe play out to be fatal in upcoming situations like tomorrow, while he still was not a stable personality at all.

Her eyes darted back and forth between his, as she again searched for allowance, but his gaze was so determined she lost her doubts in an instant.
So she tried to focus, as she did back on Starkiller base when she accidentally slipped into his mind while he tried to torture her.
Rey didn't want to hurt him, as she knew from the experience with Snoke that it can extremely hurt if someone invades the mind of an individual,
as well as she didn't want him to be reminded of Snoke's claws which were hovering over his mind all these years.
Rey tried it with such a soft approach as if a feather would brush over someone's skin while surrounding herself with light, focused on his breathing and kept her eyes fixed on his while he too stared back at her's from above with these brown orbs she learned to love so much.
Suddenly she felt as if she was falling - then floating - into a deep, dark pond and she started to shiver as her skin instantly got goosebumps from the sensation,
while somewhere far away shreds of his voice were suddenly to be heard, telling himself:

'...Don't let her fall...side...my mind.'

'Ben?'

She asked tentatively in his mind, while she heard his muffled thoughts spiralling around in his head like an underwater turmoil and she just understood snippets of it,
while his direct answers to her were clearly to be heard. So she tried to focus on what he answered her, not on all these other thoughts surrounding his mind as it was too overwhelming.

'...Yes?'
'...Using this name...still odd...'

He asked a little hesitantly, confirming that she indeed entered his mind and he was right now adjusting to it while his eyes darted back and forth between hers.
Again Rey heard these snippets, obviously, he found it still odd to be called Ben by her, which was understandable, as Snoke forbid everyone in the whole First Order to use his birth name since he joined. The first one who had ever spoken it aloud to him after years was his father when he called for Ben on the bridge.
Even then he forbade his own father to use it, whilst Rey was the first one he ever allowed to call him like that again.

'Why did you think right now, you would let me fall? Where to?'

Rey asked again while she slowly brushed his arm, as she felt him tense up by her roaming around in his mind,
probably feeling uneasy as she heard something he didn't want her to hear.
It still felt extremely dark and he sounded as if he was far away and still only pieces of his mind came forward,
but she was somehow shining her own way through this complex and partly tangled mind of his to better understand him and keep the connection stable.
After some time he thought his answer aloud, so she could hear it while he balled his hands into fists on top of his knees:

'Fall to the dark side. I am aware of the state of my mind and I don't want you to get tainted by it.'

Rey grinned a bit and just stuck her index finger between his balled fists as she slowly pulled them apart, so he'd be more relaxed again while he watched her with knitted eyebrows doing so. Then she leaned forward, kissed the knuckles of each hand until his tensely pressed together lips opened a little to let out a quiet huff, followed by the smallest smirk while he simultaneously looked at her cheeks and obviously thought about her freckles as she heard by more snippets of his mind which just flew past her like a cool breeze.

'Stars...the freckles...does she know how sweet...'

Rey answered with a grin playing on her lips, by hearing how he thought about her appearance:

'If anybody is tainting anyone here, it's me tainting your mind with light. Do you actually realize how much you started to smile since you came here?'

'No.'

He plainly answered. Then he bit his bottom lip a bit, probably to hold back the smile, so his two slightly crooked front teeth showed again which still was the sweetest thing in the whole galaxy she thought. She pulled herself out of his mind, grinned too and tugged him down, to cup his face and kiss those full lips of his, as she mumbled against the corner of his mouth:

"You are smiling right now actually."

She felt his lips curling upwards even more while he brushed some strands of hair behind her ear and kissed her back softly.
When their heads parted his eyes searched hers and where he was tense before, he now looked totally relaxed as he obviously didn't perceive it as an intrusion anymore when she did it, in comparison to when Snoke did it all these years. Then she asked out aloud again, what she wanted to ask from the beginning and why she actually started this conversation in the first place:

"Thank you for letting me in. Will you allow me to do this tomorrow too when I need to talk to you? Just in case something happens?"

"Yes. I might not open my mind immediately as I need to be balanced for it, but I'll try to.
You were right when you said it's unfair that I can talk into your mind, while you can't talk into mine. We shall be equals."

He answered while she laid her head sideways with the cheek on his knees as he let his fingers gently brush through her hair.
She 'hmmhd' in acknowledgement to him saying they shall be equals while his stroking made her suddenly really sleepy and it just felt so gentle right now,
she closed her eyes and just savoured the mutual feeling of trust they both shared at the moment, hoping everything will work out the next day how they planned it to be,
while she still kneeled in front of him. It was nice of him to say they shall be equals, but she knew they weren't if it came down to knowledge and usage of the force.
If she would break it down, he'd be of course superior to her, as he had years and years of training in Luke's academy, as well as he was under Snoke's tutelage and she held a lightsaber in her hands the first time just months ago - and managed to break it as well as nearly make it explode too.

But she liked the idea of him trying not to see them on different levels, but more so over as equals while he was helping her to become stronger every day and find out more about herself and the force, while she too helped him to find his way back to the light and keep balance in his tormented mind.
She yawned once again, as she already felt sleep crawling into her mind while he still slowly brushed her head as if he too just savoured this mutual understanding they shared right now.
After some time he suddenly raised her up from the kneeling position and pulled her body on top of his, so she lied directly on his chest as he let himself fall down onto his back, laid his arms around her and scolded her jokingly:

"Being equals also means not sleeping on the floor Rey!"

"Stars...I am so tired right now. Let's just sleep - aaand not die tomorrow. Please."

Rey mumbled out and nuzzled her head into the crook of his neck, while he just held her close to him.
Somehow she had the feeling, he too was a bit frightened for the next day as still everything about the plan sounded just as insane as it could possibly be.
She knew from her previous missions he was scared for her life several times and tried to talk her out of it, while she too was scared for him after learning about these assassination attempts on him.
But this was the first time, they'd be together on a mission and she was absolutely certain they both will do everything in their power to protect each other's lives.

It was really early in the morning when they woke up after she had fallen asleep on his chest, embraced in his strong arms, while they didn't even care to get a blanket or anything anymore as they just slumbered away seconds later after their conversation yesterday.
They stood up together and everything happened really fast afterwards as if they acted completely on autopilot.
Got dressed, clouded their presence, slipped out of the base without anybody noticing, met with the others outside, stole a ship where everybody fits in and jumped to hyperspace.

Everybody seemed nervous, except for Poe and Ben. Poe was in a good mood, joking around, while Ben seemed concentrated and serious.
They had to fly for one hour until they'd reach Coruscant and once again talked through their plan, so everybody knew exactly what each one's task was.
Rey understood now why Ben always mocked the Resistance for their lack of information they were granting their pilots as he on the other side was extremely determined for everyone to be aware what they were doing, how they are going to do it and gave them a clarification of the possible dangers they are going to encounter.
She was glad he did this, as it made her feel safer, knowing what would be happening if everything went according to plan, instead of wildly jumping into the action like she usually did with the Resistance sometimes.
Rey and Ben were controlling the ship, sitting next to each other in the pilot's chair and the time came, where they finally had to somehow land it right under the Nihilus by jumping out of hyperspace.
For once Rey was the one who was more experienced when it came to landing a ship like this and she announced to the others with a somehow nervous voice:

"Okay guys, we are going to jump out of hyperspace now. This will nearly crush our bodies by the G-forces when we'll decelerate, you might become unconscious for a few seconds or at least feel extremely bad. So buckle up and hold on to...actually anything...Can somebody get a hold of BB-8? He'll shoot around like a cannonball if he's not fixed somewhere!"

BB-8 bleeped around and fixed himself as well as all the others with several metal wires he shot out of his small droid body.
Rey looked amazed at it while she heard Finn muttering several swear words as well as prayers as he obviously was a second away from losing his shit,
while Poe gave her a thumbs up and a wide grin and Rose announced:

"May the force be with us."

Then she turned her head around to Ben as he looked back concentrated and stated in a low voice:

"Let's connect our minds."

Her eyes widened at his offer as he was the one who had problems to bring himself yesterday night to open up his mind and now he even invited her into it.
But well, she wouldn't say anything about it as she too felt this was the best way to get this ship down without crashing it.
Rey nodded slowly and felt him opening up, as well as she did. Then she explained to him into his mind:

'The board computer will tell us the moment we hit the atmosphere, afterwards it's just us who can feel when to jump out. No technical help anymore'

'We'll need to concentrate on living things. There will be thousands of people on the ship and you'll feel their presence. The moment before we'll come into contact with them,
we already need to pull back. You need to feel it before you would normally sense them. Like a foreshadow. The same way you felt it before our bond connected every time.'

He answered as she listened closely and nodded it affirmation:

'We will both sense them together.'

Both now buckled their seatbelts on and readied the ship for jumping out of hyperspace and their hands acted mirrored to each other on the ship's controls.
Rey heard the others holding their breath's and she as well as Ben closed their eyes to concentrate as she heard the beeping sound of the ship,
telling them that they just hit the atmosphere.
Suddenly her skin started to prickle and her heart made a small jump in her chest, but this wasn't the right moment yet...not yet...not yet...not yet...there it was!
Total silence and then - a heartbeat, a small heartbeat - which was not hers. It was just the small heartbeat of a birdlike creature which was right now landing on the outer hull of the First Order ship. She saw it clearly and the moment before it's little feet touched the surface, she screamed into Ben's mind:

'NOW!'

As well as she heard him scream it back to her at exactly the same moment.
Both pulled the ship out of hyperspace so hard her hand nearly slipped off the handle and she could hear the ship's metal hull arch from the sudden jolt.
She felt such a strong yank going through her body all the air was pressed out of her lungs and she groaned in pain while pressing several buttons at once,
partly crossing hands with Ben as they operated each other's command boards while simultaneously also controlling their own to reroute energy to different parts of the ship.
The ship got finally slower while the engines were creaking under the strain they put them under and they had to put even more pressure on it to bring it to a complete halt.

Rey opened her eyes, while she heard some of the rebels screaming behind her and she already saw the hull of the First Order ship coming dangerously close to their front window - too close actually. With this speed, they are definitely going to crash against it. So she did the only thing she could think of to still save them all.
She completely let go of the controls and reached her hand out to the front window, as she talked into Ben's mind:

'Use the force.'

He too instantly let go of the controls and reached his hand out next to hers while somebody in the background screamed at them if they were crazy,
but they found their breathing, their balance and released the force directly in front of the ship and it slowed down more and more until it came to a complete halt just inches above the metallic surface of the Nihilus.
Then Rey suddenly saw it. The birdlike creature she saw before, landed in the space between their ship and the dreadnought.
Exactly as she had seen it before as if she had a force vision.
It hasn't even realized while it landed that it's nearly going to be squished between two ships, it just realized it as soon as its small feet touched the ground.

Then it let out a startled: 'krahaaraaaaraaa' and flew away into the sky in an instant.

Rey and Ben panted next to each other from the pent-up tension until he suddenly pointed forward to the bolting bird and screamed:

"THAT FUCKING BIRD! KRIFF THIS FUCKING PIECE OF BANTHA FODDER SHITBIRD! FUCKING CREATURE!"

Rey's eyes widened at his outburst until she laughed out in absolute relief as she realized they somehow survived this insane manoeuvre because of this little mammal as she watched it fly away into the horizon.

"You saw the bird too didn't you?"

Ben stroked his hand through his hair and seemed totally stressed suddenly as he hissed out with as many swear words he was able to squeeze into one sentence:

"Yes I saw these fucking small feet of this kriffin creature landing on the fucking ship. I couldn't concentrate on anything else anymore."

"Stars end! We are freaking alive! What's with you two and that bird suddenly? Why was that damn bird in front of the ship?"

Poe suddenly asked in disbelief and stood up a little wobbly from the pressure they were exposed to before, so he clutched a wall to not fall over.
Rey and Ben turned around in their chairs and glanced at the others, as she saw Finn looking somehow unconscious, as well as someone puking in the background and the others looking absolutely shocked as if they were still going to die, while Rose suddenly explained really calm:

"It was a Kiro bird. It's said to be a highly intelligent creature, which can understand human language and allegedly also is a force sensitive creature."

Rey unbuckled her belt, as well as Ben and the others did too but didn't dare to stand up as she still felt incredibly dizzy and was sure to just fall down if she'd set one foot on the ground while she answered:

"Well, that might explain, why we were able to feel it through the force. Ben don't be mad at it! It might have saved us by landing there a second before we did."

Ben stood up from the pilot's chair and bent over to press his palms against his knees, probably to somehow feel better after nearly being crushed by these strong G-forces,
while he looked down at the floor and mumbled out sarcastically:

"Great. Thank you shitbird."

Rey giggled at the whole swearing he did since their landing, as it obviously was some kind of stress relief for him right now which again reminded her so much of his mother.
Rose tried to wake up Finn and another girl behind her, as both had fallen unconscious, while everyone watched her until the former Stormtrooper suddenly snapped his eyes open and looked around perplexed, asking nervously:

"Are we still alive?"

Rose gave him a kiss on the cheek and beamed at him:

"Yup alive and well. A little bird helped us!"

The mind prying Snoke did with Ben: I often read about people comparing it to child predators.
I too think like that and it's supposed to sound like that too in this chapter.
Also: Kiro birds are real Star Wars birds, they are really intelligent and understand human language, just the force sensitive part was added by me.
But it fits the story better like that. Also maybe revenge to Ben being so mean to the Porg's before.