"I'll destroy her," rings in his ears and he's shocked by how shamed he is he ever said those words. He'd meant them, oh how he'd meant them. He'd been lost to his rage and he'd thought he could … he knows now that he could never hurt her. Kylo struggles with Rey's rejection and a new threat pushes them together again.

Rey is in the hands of the First Order. Having thought of nothing but her while he was away, Kylo is surprised to find that everything is different when he returns to the base. The helpless girl he sees before him is nothing like the Rey, he thought he knew; her spirit has been broken, the fire within her has been quenched. What happened while he was away?

Rey is a broke college student, working extra shifts at a department store when a mysterious shopper visits her for 8 straight nights. Modern Reylo AU/Secret Santa fic challenge.