Chapter 20- Escape
Rey slipped out of the bed and her sleeping husband's arms and quietly made her way to the bedroom where her daughter slept. Like Ben, Rey often had to check to see if her daughter was breathing as it took an act of the Force to wake either of them.
Rey slid her fingers into her daughter's heavy dark hair. By some oddity her daughter opened her dark brown eyes and sat up. "Mother, what is it?" Briana asked.
"We are getting out of here now. Are you ready to go?" Rey asked. Briana got out of the bed.
"Yes. But what about your promise to Father?" Briana asked.
"I won't give your father the chance to break his promise. And I don't want you or the baby being turned to the dark side," Rey said firmly.
"But what if he follows us, Mother?" Briana asked.
"I know. If we fail your father will imprison me and take you and the baby," Rey said.
"I hope you know what you are doing," Briana asked as she slipped into her gaudy orange flightsuit that she had put at the bottom of her closet after Ben had given her new clothes.
"More or less. Your father should sleep for hours as he sleeps like you do," Rey said, gripping her daughter's hand and started to mask their Force signatures and walked out of Ben's private quarters, hoping no one noticed them leaving.
Briana licked her lips nervously as they made their way to the hangar, praying that the Force shield her mother was using was working and that Kylo wouldn't wake up too soon and discover them gone.
All too soon they made it to the hangar. To Briana's relief, it didn't look as if anyone was around to stop them. "Rey! Briana!" Kylo's voice echoed through the hangar. Briana turned to see her father come into the hangar, a look of anguish as he got closer.
"Briana, pick a ship," Rey ordered in a soft whisper.
Briana looked around. Her brown eyes scanning the hangar quickly. "Uh, that one," Briana licked what looked like a lambda-style shuttle.
"Good pick. Go and don't look at your father,' Rey ordered.
Briana licked her lips again as she and her mother made their way to the shuttle.
"Briana! Rey!" Her father's voice splintered in her ears. It took all of Briana's will not to look back.
Rey looked back at her husband. He was looking at her with such pain that could be felt across the hangar. Rey almost changed her mind then and there. She had no doubts that Ben Solo loved her and their children, but his anger was something that Rey couldn't bear thinking about. If his daughter or his son, (Rey was certain it was a boy she carried) ever angered him, Rey couldn't bear the thought of them facing their father's anger. "Rey, please," Ben said, holding out his hand to her.
It was so easy to take Ben's hand and pulling his gloves off, start kissing, his fingers, palms, and wrists. "No. I'm sorry, Ben," Rey whispered softly, her heart breaking in a million pieces. Rey all but ran as she entered the shuttle with her daughter and they took off.
Kylo watched as his wife and children left him again. He had to blink hard to keep from sobbing. Why? Why did Rey continuously deny his children the chance to be with their father and the chance for her to be with her husband? He hadn't beaten his wife and except for that first night when Briana had disrespected him, he hadn't raised his hand to her. Granted, she still hated the First Order, as he had caught snippets of her thoughts, but she had kept her disgust to herself.
Kylo thought of his daughter. He had hoped that she was starting to accept that she was his and she would never leave him. He just hadn't counted on Rey defying him again. Rey hadn't said anything about leaving in the times she had kissed him or when they tucked Briana into bed. Now she was expecting his son. Rey had wanted a boy and Kylo had checked through the Force. Kylo then turned to Phasma and his troopers.
"Find the scavenger and my daughter. The scavenger is pregnant and is not to be harmed," Kylo said. Briskly.
"As you wish, Supreme Leader. Do we put them in your cabin after we find them?" Phasma asked.
"No. They are to be locked up untill the baby is born," Kylo said, feeling a twinge of guilt that he would lock his wife up, but she had forced him and his daughter had been complicit with it. What choice had Rey and Briana given him?