Poe, Finn and the others were on their way back, unsure what happened to Rey and Kylo when the left the Supremacy before it exploded.
They just saw this gigantic explosion taking place on the ship, which ripped this big spacecraft into two halves.
Everyone stayed silent as they were still shocked about Leia's death and the whole situation that just unfolded the last hours before their eyes. Lots of resistance fighter's died, as they were shot down while trying to attack the Supremacy and or while fighting through the ship. So they didn't know how many casualties they have suffered by now. When they landed on the base, it was chaos. Doctors and medical droids were running and flying around, trying to save the injured rebels which were able to be secured before leaving, while people were arguing or crying everywhere.
When Poe and Finn landed, they just fell into each other's arms and cried, while Finn babbled about Rey, asking if anybody had seen her leave the ship on time before the explosion.
Nobody had, so the two friends didn't know what else to do than staying put and sobbing about the recent events.
Rey woke up as a sharp pain hit her shoulderblade. She groaned and opened her eyes while she pulled up her hand to touch the spot, just then realizing she was partly flowing in water and Kylo's hand was on her upper chest, to press it down slightly under the surface.
She looked at her wound as he was picking out small metal splinters from her skin around the blaster shot, the water helping him, to see the splinters better, as it washed away her blood. Then her glance wandered up to him and she saw, that he had blood dripping down from his forehead. His eyes found hers and she let out a weak smile: "Your eyes. They are brown again! Thank the maker!"
He stopped for a second and watched her intensely as a small insecure smile came across his lips. "Yes, they are. You are my light, bringing me back, as Luke said it before."
He paused for a moment, as his glance fell back to her shoulder. "You are hurt pretty bad. It's a good thing we have the force bond. I'll lend you as much energy through it as I can, so you can heal yourself. Will you be able to do that?"
She nodded and he put a hand behind her neck, letting his warm energy flow through her as he raised her slightly out of the pond he had bathed her in. She put up a palm to her wound and let it heal. Ripped muscle fibres started growing together, as she sometimes hissed in pain from it.
He was pushing even more energy into her, which made her feel dizzy, so she mumbled: "Stop. Don't overdo it. You still need some for yourself!"
He immediately lowered his energy inflow and she felt slightly better.
While she healed herself, she asked: "What happened to us? The Escape pod?"
"You became unconscious from the G-forces while the pod was hurled through the atmosphere of this nearby planet.
Here it came down too fast and I tried to stop the fall with the force. I just succeeded partly, as I wasn't fully there because I was dropping in and out of consciousness too. So the pod crashed into the trees over there, which slowed the fall down slightly. Then I dragged you out here from the burning thing, after I was conscious again.
That's where you woke up. End of story." he answered plainly.
"A little bit more delight for us surviving this crash please!" she teased him. He looked bitterly at her and answered: "I don't feel like laughing right now."
All the images of Leia's death now flashed back into her mind, so she stopped healing herself and looked guiltily at Kylo: "You are right. I'm sorry.
That was stupid." as she put a hand up to his hair and healed the wound on his head now, using his own energy for it.
When she was done, he stood up and gave her a hand as he helped her stand up too. Then he brushed away the blood from his forehead with the back of his sleeve and started to walk in a certain direction as if he knew where they are going.
They were in some kind of forest, with lots of different trees surrounding them and daylight shining through the treetops.
Rey knew he was acting strange, but guessed it was because of his lately deceased mother. She followed him and took his hand in hers, to which he let out a small gasp and walked a little slower without looking at her. He barely touched her back, but his hand trembled slightly.
While they walked in silence for some minutes Rey finally dared to talk again, as she felt his hand getting cold and trembling more as his mind was utterly disturbed.
She brushed his mind and felt him repeating his mother's death over and over in his head as he did back in the pond with Han's death.
"Kylo...You can cry if you want. I'll hold you. I am here for you." she whispered as she turned her head to look at him.
He stopped in his track and looked onto the floor, without answering. Then he let go of her hand and took a step forward and another one like he would just keep going.
But then he stopped again and started shaking slightly. Suddenly she heard a groan, as he sat himself on the ground and started to cry so loud and desperate, Rey was startled by this and she needed a second to realize that he had indeed listened to her and let out all his sadness at once, having a mental breakdown right now.
She instantly walked over and sat behind, spooning him as she wrapped both arms around his chest and laid her head on his back, while she listened to his cries and held her hand over his heart, feeling how tense he was and how fast it was beating right now.
Never had she seen him this helplessly, this desperate, letting his whole guard down. She felt so much compassion for him right now,
she wanted to absorb all of his pain to relieve him, even if it just helped a little. She knew he felt massively guilty for letting Snoke escape and even more, for the death of both his parents, especially his mother now.
She pulled herself up little a little, to embrace him even more from behind, as she laid both her arms around his neck and whispered into his ear:
"Kylo, I know how you feel. I really do. I can feel it through our bond. You did everything in your power to save them. You even dedicated the last years of your life on plans how to keep them alive. Do not guilt-trip yourself right now. You are not guilty. The only - really the only one - who is guilty, is Snoke.
And you still have people, family left who are looking up to you. There is still Luke, me, Poe and Finn. We know you did incredibly brave things to save others.
I love you. I will be there for you. I always will."
He grabbed her arm and let out shaky breaths while sobbing into her when she started to hum a melody she always hummed to herself at night, back on Jakku when she was too sad or too lonely to be able to sleep. It was a soothing melody which she had invented to calm down her nerves and to not feel alone too much.
They stayed like this for several minutes, as she was caressing him while he was holding onto her. He listened to her humming and thanked the maker for having met Rey,
as she was always there for him and knew exactly what to do to calm him down. Sometimes he thought, she knew him better than he did himself.
After some time, he pushed her away a bit, motioning her to stand up. She did and looked at him in a worried way, while he wiped his sleeve over his eyes to brush away the last tears. Then he chuckled slightly, with one hand still on his face while he looked at her and said: "Thank you Rey. I never did that before."
"I know. Sometimes this is the only thing that helps, when it feels, like all the light in your life is gone." she said as she brushed her thumb over his slightly wet cheek.
He smiled at her and pulled her head to him to rest his forehead against hers.
This was something which had evolved between them over the time as the ultimate trusting gesture for really emotional situations.
She loved this gesture which he had initially started after he saved them out of the stadium back then and it was something that soothed them both and brought their force bond to a perfect balance when one of them was out of place. It made her feel home and truly connected to him and she could stand like that for hours and feel their force intertwining between each other.