Chapter 46: Running Back
A loud bang wakes me from my snooze. My hand shoots over my belly protecting it. I grab my saber from the floor but there is nothing around that my Light touches that alarms me. I lower my arm and lean back to let out a long sigh. I don't know how long I have been asleep so I slowly open the door to peak outside.
It's deserted, empty, and dark. I don't want to go outside with my saber and alert anyone who might see me with it. I also don't want to go out without it. It's dark. What was I thinking coming back to him. I just knew what danger the Resistance was in and I have no one else to teach me about the force. I just needed to know that I wasn't leading Kylo to the Resistance. Now that Finn remembers me, he won't stop looking for me either. I have made such a mess of things.
Another loud bang erupts from the sky. I disengage my lightsaber and walk outside. In the stars is a serious of red flames, a battle between light and dark. I squint my eyes, the Destroyer blocks out a large portion of the stars, I can only see its black outline. A shiver runs through my body. In the sky is a swarm of red and blue lights. The First Order is attacking the Resistance. I just wanted Kylo to take me somewhere safe and now I just brought total doom to the Resistance. An flaming x-wing flies overhead and lands in the street behind me and engulfed the street in its fiery glow.
"Noooooooo!" I yell out. I run into the middle of the street, everything glowing in the fiery red light of the crash. I instantly become to hot from the heat coming off the scene. I look around me. Where is everyone? I run over to the ally that brought me into this empty street. I run down it and stand at the edge of the shadows.
In the market lays countless dead merchants and resistance pilots. Standing above them are white stormtroopers. I let out a gasp and one looks at me. He raises his gun and pulls the trigger. The beam comes towards me but stops just inches from my face. I grab over my heart and move to stand against a nearby wall to steady myself. The glowing red light shines just nearly an arms reach away. I can't stop staring at it, it frozen in time. But then I feel him, him approaching me. I look into the market and he's stomping towards me. Fist clenched at his sides.
You killed them all.
'I did.'
Stay away from me.
I spin around and sprint back towards the Resistance pilots burning xwing. Once in the street I turn and run back towards the building I was in. I have no idea what to do. I feel him, slowly wrapping his force around me. Careful not to hurt me. I'm frozen in the middle of the street, the flame still glowing bright. Xwings and Tie Fighters cris crossing above us, but up to high to notice me. I hear him walking up behind me and then he stops and unfreezes me and I sag to the ground.
I quickly get to my feet and spin to face him. He's closer than I thought he was and I gasp. He grabs my arms to hold me from turning back to run.
'Why are you running from me?' What a dumb question.
"Because you murdered all those innocent people! I told you to just come for me!" I yell at him. I bang my fists against his chest as hard as I can. "Why are you such a monster!" I yell. His grasp around my arms tighten. I start hitting him even harder. "I hate you!"
"You also forget they had our General and we need him. If we don't have him I can't stay with you. I would have to run the Destroyer myself." He's so angry with me for running from him when he saw me. I can feel it coarse through my veins and in my very heart. I feel his darkness overwhelm me. I close my eyes and think of the baby's visions and happiness like on Naboo. I try to push his darkness out.
"I hate you. I hate you!" I yell through my teeth, squeezing my eyes tighter. His darkness grows through me. I yell out as I try pushing it out but it consumes me. A warm tingle forms above my top lip and my body goes limp in Kylos hands.
He catches me in his arms, cradling me like a child against his chest as he walks back to the shuttle.
'I shouldn't of done that' He looks down at me, we are almost to the market. He stops and kneels down to balance me so he has a free hand. He reaches over and pulls my cloak to cover my stomach. He stands back up, I can't deny that this man makes me feel safe... Spending these three weeks away from him weren't as pleasant as I thought going back would be. I wanted to be back with him.
"Don't do anything." He says. His words confuse me and bring my attention into more focus. I pick my head up alittle and look around. As he steps into the market with not a Stormtrooper in sight. Finn stands across from us. Baring his teeth.
"I will not let you take her again." He ignites his lightsaber, the same one I saw last time when we were in the field. Kylo looks down at me and slowly lowers my feet to the ground to let me stand, my body still weak from trying to force him out.
"I told you that next time I saw you that you wouldn't be so lucky. Traitor." Kylo hisses at him. I grab at his arm and he looks down at me.
Please don't.
"Rey! What are you doing? Run!" Finn yells at me, Kylos head snaps in Finns direction.
Another flash of light forms in front of my eyes, this time I'm laying in bed next to a crying baby in a bassinet at the lake house. I get up to go comfort her but someone steps in front of me. "Finn, what are you doing here? It isn't what you think!" I yell. He looks over to the baby and picks her up. I go to take her from him but instead he steps back. "Give me Ana!" I yell. I didn't know that was her name yet. It just came out. I just want to touch her.
"I... I... Can't. She must be destroyed." And he disappears into the shadows. I snap back out of the vision. My free hand instantly shoot to my stomach and my eyes dart to Finn who is wide eyed staring at my hand over my cloak. He looks back at Kylo then to me.
"Nooo." I say. I feel Kylo pull the vision from my memory as it makes me dizzy for a second.
'That's not going to happen' Kylo turns and steps in front of me. Finn already ignited his lightsaber and his feet shift and he starts running towards us. Kylo snaps his lightsaber on and meets Finns saber just inches from him.
"What... Did... You... Do... To.. Her!" Finn yells at Kylo between slashing. My heart sinks. Kylo will surely kill him now. The sleeve of Finns orange suit slides down his arm, reveling some his mechanical arm.
"Stop!" I yell. I ball my little hands up. Kylo raises his hand and pushes Finn across the market area and into a building on the far side. He runs to me, setting his lightsaber on the ground by my feet. He grabs my hands.
"Don't." He says. I look over and Finn isnt moving from the ground. I look back at Kylo. Is Finn dead? Kylo puts both my wrists in his one hand and leads be behind one of the crome buildings to his ship, stormtroopers stand attentive at the bottom of his ramp. He rushes up the ramp and sits me down. Quickly we take off towards the Destroyer.
This is not how I imagined this going. I feel like I just screwed everything up, I sink into my chair and his ship lands in the hanger. Im noticeably pregnant, maybe not through my cloak, but if Snoke sees me...
And what about the vision? And Ana? Could I name her that. Is Finn dead? Is the General here? My thoughts overwhelm me.
**I know some people wonder why I would have Rey go back to him. No matter where so was she couldn't escape him. No one is safe around her. Plus, undeniably she loves him and wants to be with him. She thought she could get to the lake house, but Kylo is a evil person. Maybe that is what draws me to him as a character in the first place, I dont see him as a soft unless in bed ;) The way he would do anything for her to protect her. He in the perfect evil villain man. Thank you always for reading :)
Like I have mentioned before, everything happens for a reason.**
