Chapter 51: 32weeks Along
I lay on a small bench on the patio, I have been waiting in this house for two weeks with no sign of Kylo, he keeps pushing me out just enough that I don't dare to push back, trying to keep his work and me separate but able to sense if I'm in danger. He has not said one word to me. Nor answered anything I have said. I'm not sure he can even hear me.
"Miss, you should try laying upstairs. It would better for your back. I will bring you a snack." Dalah says as she approaches me slowly. She is such a pleasant droid to be around. Always so sweet. I slowly push myself up.
"Your right, no use waiting here." I rise to my feet and drag myself up the stairs and into bed. My long thin satin nightgown clinging to my protruding round belly. The matching robe hanging over each side. I sigh and lay down facing the wall. Ana rolls and kicks at my rib, most uncomfortably. Dalah enters with some tea and my favorite green grapes.
"Is there anything else I can get for you miss?" She asks. I sit up in bed and take the tea from her and plop a grape in my mouth.
"Any fruit would be wonderful." I say at her and smile. She nods and leaves the room. I finish my tea and grapes and lay back down. I fall asleep waiting for Dalah to come back.
A sudden shift in the force startles me awake. I sit up in bed, covered in sweat. I pull the covers off me and walk over to the balcony to get some fresh air. Grabbing my stomach as it tightens a little to my sudden fast movements. I feel a presence coming, it feels like Kylo but I can tell in the back of my mind that he's asleep. I grab my robe off the ground and pull it on, slowly making my way down the stairs. It's dark out, the stars twinkle bright. In the middle of the dining room in a figure standing with their back to me looking out over the pier. It wears a thick brown cloak. I can't see their face, I feel Deja"vu from Ach'To. A light in the corner slowly brightens as I enter down the stairs.
"Can... I help.. You..." I stutter. I don't have my saber near me but I don't feel threatened by this mysterious person. The cloaked statue turns around.
"General Organa?" I stop on the stairs. My heart stops, my body breaks out in a sweat. She lowers her hood and her eyes are wide, staring at my prominent belly.
"So it is true." Her words sting me, her voice not friendly but worried. Her face looks as though she has aged ten years in the last one.
"How did you find me?" I ask. Slowly making my way down the stairs to the bottom step. "No one way suppose..."
"It's not safe for you to be here." She says worridly.
"But I don't want to be rescued." I look at her. As my words register to her her posture straitens and her face twists.
"You want to stay here?" She asks. She takes another step closer to me. "Do you honestly think he won't kill that baby once it's born? He isn't my son anymore, there is to much Vader in him... He won't stop at anything to be powerful. Look what he did to my Han." She reaches her hand out for me but I shy away and walk over to the other side of the main dining room.
"You need to leave." I say. "You need to leave and never come back. Once he finds out your here... You won't be safe. Please leave." I grab my stomach and rub it slightly to mirror where Ana keeps kicking. "I am fine here."
"You don't understand..." She starts but I am quick to interrupt her.
"No, you don't understand. I don't know why you came. I'm sorry, I am not going anywhere. Nothing you say or do will change that. Its my fault all of you get hurt or die. Look at Fin!" I'm getting all hot and sweaty. I feel a tug at the bond, Kylo stirs in his sleep. My emotions triggering his.
"I thought you would say that. Fin is alive, stable and alive." Poe emerges from behind the patio wall, he must of been waiting on the steps for a que to come in. My hands shoot to my mouth. I feel to underdressed. Much to underdressed. His eyes widen when he fully absorbs what he is looking at. I want to run and hug him but I just want to run and hide.
I feel Kylo startle awake at the realization of my situation. He's speechless and unfocused. Still in a sleepy daze.
'How did they...'
I dont know
He flushers out of bed and is getting dressed.
'There's more of them outside.'
His ultimate power never stops amazing me. He can sense my surroundings from across the galaxy. I can't even sense what's in front of me quite yet.
"How many of you are there?" I ask the General, generals...
"Enough, we had to be prepared in case he had you under security." Hesays. His voice is so calm.
"Miss, may I suggest you sit down, you don't look so well. I will bring you some tea." Dalah says from next to me. I smile kindly at her and sit at the kitchen table in the farthest seat from Fin and General Organa.
"Kylo already knows your here. If you don't leave now, I can't stop him from what he will do. Please Poe, for me. Leave. I thought I wanted to help you... But then you only wanted me for my powers to use them against the First Order. I don't want to use them against anyone!" I slam my fist on the table.
"Look what he did to you! Keeping you trapped here like an animal... Your bearing his spawn!" I stand up, focusing my eyes on Fin. His words making my ears ring.
'Stop, you know what the traitor says isn't true. Someone will be there soon to help you.'
His words don't make sense. Someone? Soon? But my...
'Just do as your told.'
I sit down, holding my belly tight with my left hand. Ana is super active. My saber is upstairs next to my bed. Why did I not grab it.
"We are not prisoners here." I say.
"Do you think that beast loves you?" Poe face twists in disgust.
"We can help you, hide you and the child." General Organa interrupts.
"Enough. Please..." I start to persuade them to leave but a sonic boom echos in the sky above the house. I rise to my feet, someone is here but I can't tell who. Through the patio beems a ship lowers and hovers over the water. Creating constant waves under the belly of the ship just feet above the water. I can't see much other than that, it's to dark. General Organa and Fin draw their weapons and aim at the mysterious vessel hovering over the water. The door opens and fire opens from all over. There must be men everywhere around the house, I can't count the number of beams flying towards the light of the doorway. I don't even realize what I'm looking at.
What's happening?
'I sent Arsland to get you'
But...
'Just do what he says'
Arsland's ship is close enough for him to jump out to the deck below. He jumps out. General Organa and Fin gave me one final pleading look. But I run up the stairs to shield from what I'm about to see. I shut the door behind me and start to cry. I cover my mouth with my hands to muffle my sobs, it takes me a few seconds to compose myself. I grab my cloak from the back of the door and wait on the bed. I hear blasters and the rumble of some engines in the hills behind the house. Someone screams and I cover my ears.
After a few minutes the door to the room opens and the tall knight walks in, but something is off. He's holding his side and leaning.
"Rey, Please come with me." I feel embarrassed. Did he know I was pregnant. This is most awkward and not who I pictured coming through that door, and the thought makes my stomach hurt.
"Are you hurt?" I walk over to him. My cloak can't close around my stomach anymore.
"Nothing I can't handle. Please, We must leave. Ren is expecting us." He says. Even through his black clothes I can see red pouring out.
"You should bandage that first, your loosing alot of blood." I say, pointing to his wound. I can't see his facial expression behind his mask. "The General?" I look up at him with pleading eyes. He tilts his head to the side, he must be confused of why I would ask such a thing.
"The woman in the cloak and her companion managed to escape just as I was wounded. Ren will not be pleased with that." His mechanical voice echoes. It's a different sound than Kylos. Arsland's voice not as deep.
My inner self is smiling and jumping up and down.
"We need to leave." He says and turns around heading down the hallway and down the stairs. I grab a thin pair of black shoes from the floor and follow. It's still exhausted.
"Stop" I say to him just as he's almost out of view as I reach the bottom of the stops and looks back. He is much broader than Kylo but he is not as intimidating. I'm sure Kylo made a point to make his mask the most alluring. I quickly walk into the kitchen and quickly give Dalah a hug. I'm going to miss her.
"I promise Dalah, I'll be back before the baby comes, can you keep everything in order for me." I know she is only a droid and can't really understand human compassion, but I like to believe she can.
"I promise Miss." She says, I walk back out to the main center dining room and over to the patio. The air cool and crisp. I follow Arsland down the stairs but stop when I'm standing above a dead Resistance member, I cover my gasp and gape at the scene I front of me.
"We don't have time to stop, please." Arsland says from in front of me. I walk around whoever the poor dead man is who lost his life because of me. I follow Arsland onto his ramp to his hovering ship. It's small inside, just two seats but enough room to walk around. He sits in the main seat. Staring at me till I sit down, the door closes and we take off to dead space. Once there we shoot into hyperdrive. Sleep becoming more and more overwhelming as I watch the sloom of blue lights passing through the window. Arsland does not speak and I don't dare try to conversate. Soon the ship pushes out of hyperspeed and the beautiful gas planet of Bespin comes into view.
Arsland looks my way but back out the window quickly. The view of descending on this planet overwhelms me each time. Flying through the bright white fluffy clouds. I see Kylos house in the distance, his ship proped perfectly in the middle of his landing deck. Arslands ship small enough to fit on the pad along sice Kylos. As soon as we touch down I see the doors to his home open and there he is, just in running distance instead of across the universe from me. Arsland gets up and walks behind me to open the ramp. I watch as Kylo slowly walks over to our ship. I struggle alittle to pull myself out of my seat. I slowly walk down the ramp and around the ship, as soon as Kylo sees me he quickens his pace and at first he only touches my elbows, looking at me up and down through his helmet. Then he embraces me in a tight hug. I bury my head into him. He embraces me tightly back, almost to tight but Iv missed him.
"Not a word to anyone." Kylo ushes to Asland above my head.
"Yes sir." And I hear Arslands ship rumble on and take off.
** Okay so it took me longer than i thought to write this chapter, I was getting stuck on where to go because I didnt want the boring chapters to follow of her all alone waiting for him, so I scratched those and went to here. But now that Arsland knows (can he be trusted), and General Organa is back... whats going to happen.
Someone in reviews suggested twins... hmmmm ;) **