Rey gave the storm trooper a second to get down the hall so he wouldn't be caught helping her, then quietly exited the door and turned to walk down the hall in the direction she knew Ben was walking.
Sure enough she turned a corner and there he was taking long strides down the hall towards the control center. He stopped dead in his tracks looking more confused than ever.
"What are you doing here?" He said, then finally got over the initial shock and walked towards her, when he got to her he placed his hand on her lower back urging her forward.
"You really think you could keep me locked in that room forever?" She said walking with him.
"And you didn't try to...escape?" He said carefully.
"No. I told you I'd help you and I will. I just want to be more included...you know...see what you do when I'm not with you and stuff..." She was making this all up as she went and knew how fake it must sound but she couldn't think of anything better.
"Rey," he said and stopped walking, grabbing her arm so she would spin around and face him, "who let you out of my quarters and why?"
"Is it so hard to believe I made it out myself?" She acted offended. He gave her that, 'seriously' look and then kept walking.
"I'll get it out of you later," he said and left it at that. They made their way to the control center and surprisingly Kylo let her in as well.
"General how's fuel supply?" He asked Pryde who turned to look at him. But when he saw Rey, the hatred in his eyes shone like she had never seen on someone. Kylo wasn't paying attention to him and walked around quickly checking on everyone's stations.
"Just fine, sir." General Pryde said not taking his eyes off Rey. She smirked at him then began walking slowly around looking at things.
General Pryde certainly would not allow this. "Supreme leader do you really think it wise to let the enemy wander freely about our control center?" He tried to stay respectful but she could hear the anger in his voice. If Rey loved doing one thing, it was pissing off her enemies. Especially when they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
"General, I highly doubt she could see anything that would be of much use to the resistance by the time she'd be able to tell them about it." He said now leaned down looking at a monitor.
"Yes, General," Rey played along, "I wouldn't dare try to alert the resistance to anything I saw. I told Kylo Ren I would help him and I'm no traitor..." She stared intensely back at him, his face was growing red. She gave him a half grin. He was planning to kill her afterall...a little payback doesn't hurt.
She walked over to where Kylo was leaned over the monitor and put her hand on his back as she leaned down with him, pretending to look but really glancing up at Pryde. Ben gave her a weird look but didn't move and continued talking to the person sitting in charge of this screen. She watched as Pryde clenched his jaw.
"What's this over here?" She said quietly to Kylo.
"Hmm?" He said looking over at her. She grabbed his arm and led him over to a different unmanned monitor. They came to stand in front of it and she got in front of Kylo, leaning down slightly to play with the screen a bit.
"Here," Kylo took the bait and leaned over her, placing her hand on the control.
"It controls the cameras on the entire ship."
Bingo. Rey grinned as a plan formed quickly in her mind.
Kylo didn't seem to notice what was happening and continued to show her how to scroll through and see all the cameras. Obviously happy to show off his ship.
"If you want to see the different floors you just click on the numbers here then scroll..." he went on. Rey turned her head so their faces were an inch apart. It took Kylo a moment to notice she was looking at him as he excitedly talked. He finally looked away from the screen and at her.
"What?" He asked with the smallest hint of a grin. Rey has never seen him smile before unless he was about to do something evil but this was a small, simple, boyish grin.
"You are really passionate about this ship aren't you?" She said grinning herself.
"Of course..." he said...a long moment of eye contact and they both looked back to the screen. Rey scrolled around on the different cameras.
"Say, for instance, I wanted to see the lower bay where the smaller ships are kept," she prompted him.
General Pryde interrupted immediately.
"Sir, this is really not a good idea I must insist!" He took a few steps towards them.
Kylo ignored him, instead clicking around to find the lower bays camera. As he clicked on it a scowl came over his face.
"What's that ship doing ready to launch, I haven't authorized any flights."
"I'll get my men on that immediately," General Pryde said quickly.
"Why don't we go check it out?" Rey said said nudging Kylos chest with her shoulder.
"The troopers are perfectly capable-" his eyes caught Rey's. She was staring at him in an intense way trying to get his attention. He searched her face and understood at once.
"Yes let's...let's go see what's going on. General don't worry about sending men down. I'll handle it." Kylo turned to leave the room and Rey followed, while closing the door behind her, she shot Pryde a 'now your in trouble' look. He looked like he could have spat nails in that second. But he knew he couldnt lose it in front of Kylo so he remained quiet.
They got on the elevator to go all the way down to the lower bay.
"So what's all this about?" He said to break the silence.
"All what?" She asked innocently.
"You know..." he said hesitantly, "the touching...taking me down here...you're up to something."
"So what if I am?" She grinned, hands behind her back.
Just when Kylo thought he had her figured out she would do something like this. He wasn't sure if she liked or hated him at this point. He deserved to be hated...he knew that. He had done despicable things...things he never should have and that haunted him every night in his sleep. He let his own foolish human desires take over him and push him to do things he never would have normally.
"Listen, Rey-" the door opened and Rey quickly got out. He chalked it up to her not hearing him and followed her. They walked right over to the fighter and Rey stuck her arm under it.
Kylo was very confused.
"What are you doing?"
With a small grunt she pulled her arm out from under the ship, holding in her hand a round black sticky bomb. Kylo stepped forward, taking it from her and looking it over.
"How did that get there? And how did you know it was there?" He asked in disbelief.
"Lucky guess," she shrugged. He gave her a disapproving look. She knew something.
He disarmed the bomb and tossed it to a trooper.
"Put that back where it came from." He looked down at Rey,
"Who was supposed to be on that fighter?"
She stared up at him, she knew he already knew the answer.
His jaw clenched. He stormed back to the elevator, Rey jogging after him.
"Wait, Ben, where are you going?" She asked, but she had a clue.
"I'm going to kill General Pryde," he said. If she wouldn't have known him so well she would think his voice was calm...but she knew he was holding back a lot of anger. The kind of calm rage that only he could do so well. She followed him back towards the elevator.
"No...no listen, you absolutely cannot do that."
"Watch me," he said and stepped in the lift. She stepped in too, standing directly in front of him so he couldn't hit the button for which floor to go to
"You can't kill him, Ben. I'm not saying that because I don't want you to...because believe me, I do! But you can't. He's serving another master and will stop at nothing to stay in control. I fear if you start a fight with him he will call upon this other...person and you won't stand a chance." Kylo looked down taking in her words slowly.
"Serving another? His allegiance has always been to the order. Why would he have a change of heart now?"
"I think he's served this one a lot longer than you've realized possibly a lot longer than you've been around..." she said. He looked confused...but believed her.
"Is that why he tried to get rid of you?"
"I believe it is." She answered. He sighed looking away.
"So what do we do now?" He asked.
Rey thought a moment.
"We find out who he's been conspiring with," she said confidently.