*Author's Note*
This is my first story so bare with me! I'm not sure how long it will be yet, but I'm guessing around 20 chapters. I will update about once every week, but sometimes I'll do a couple more;)
Chapter 2
Kylo was furious when he left the girl's cell. She had gotten into his mind! His! How could he let this happen? The girl had probably never felt that powerful in her entire life, and it was all because he let his guard down. Now he had to face Supreme Leader Snoke, and tell him of his failures with the girl.
Although livid, he was entrigued. She was so powerful with the force, yet she didn't know it. He could feel the power and anger surging through her when he dove into her mind. The scavenger from Jakku would make a wonderful apprentice. He would show her the ways of the force.
While Kylo was making his way through the complex maize of Starkiller Base, he started to think of his attraction to the girl. When he first saw her on Takodana, he was mesmerized to say the least, of her beauty. When he carried her in his arms, she was so light that he was afraid he would crush her. As he watched her sleeping in the interrogation room, he couldn't help but to think of slowly unwrapping those dirty tan cloths around her arms and undoing the simple three buns that held her hair together tightly on the back of her head. How long was her hair? Did it cascade down her back, or did it stop near her shoulders?
He stopped thinking of her when he arrived at his destination. As he walked through the doors and onto the platform, he thought about what was going to happen to him. Will Snoke kill me for being weak and letting my guard down? Will he do something to the scavenger? He wasn't sure why, but that idea was unsettling for him and he didn't like it. For some reason, he didn't want anything to happen to her. His stomach turned at the thought.
The hologram appeared, towering over Kylo. His face, grey and adjourned with its nasty fill of scars, looked even angrier than usual. Kylo knew that his master would release hell on him.
"The scavenger... resisted you!" He spoke, getting right to the point.
"She is strong with the force! Untrained, but stronger than she knows," Kylo tried to reason with him. He didn't have his mask on so Snoke could see all of the emotions written on his face. Fear. Uneasiness. Panic.
Snoke's menacing voice spoke again, "And the droid?"
"Ren believed it was no longer valuable to us. That the girl was all we needed," spoke General Hux as he made his way towards the hologram. When did he come in? Once he was standing side by side with Kylo, he spoke again, "As a result, the droid has most likely returned to the hands of the enemy. They may have the map already."
Snoke looked down on the two men. "Then the Resistance must be destroyed before they get to Skywalker."
"We have their location. We tracked their reconnaissance ship to the Ileenium system," spoke a confident Hux, a little too confident for Kylo's taste. He may be biased though, since he hated the worthless, slimy Ginger.
One again, Snoke answered in his eerily haunting voice, "Good. Then we will crush them once and for all. Prepare the workmen."
"Supreme Leader, I can get the map from the girl. I just need your guidance," begged Kylo, hoping that he would consider. He still didn't know why, but he really wanted to be in her presence again.
"If what you say about this girl is true, bring her to me."
She was standing in the middle of the desert with him, her best friend. At first she thought it was a memory, but this never happened. She hadn't known Finn at the time. Unkar Plutt was standing a few feet away, and they could escape. All they had to do was run. She nodded at him, the action signaling to him that the time had come. They sprinted away, through the busy market place. They could hear Plutt's dreadful screaming coming from behind them. When they almost made it through the crowd, the sand gave in and they fell into a black pit. All of a sudden, Rey's back hit something hard as she landed. She could only see darkness as she tried to stand. She called out for Finn but he wasn't there. It was no use. She was alone. From behind her, she heard an odd sound as a red glow illuminated the room. It was the same sound she heard in the forest of Takodana when Kylo Ren activated his light saber. She turned around quickly, quick enough to see the blade coming right for her.
Rey jerked awake. She was still shackled to the metal table in the same room. It was just a dream. She tried to move her arms and legs, hoping that somehow the restraints had come undone, but had no luck. Rey sensed someone behind her, guarding her door. She knew it wasn't him. If it were, she would be able to feel his anger. She tried to turn her head to see but had no luck.
She was not sure where the idea came from, but it was worth a shot.
"You will remove these restraints, and leave this cell with the door open," she said, hoping that he heard her.
The stormtrooper turned to face her. "What did you say?"
"You will remove these restraints, and leave this cell with the door open."
He walked up to her then, so she could see him. "I will tighten those restraints, scavenger scum."
Rey didn't know what to do. Should she try again? Although intrigued with him, she still feared Kylo Ren and what he could do to her. Now was her only chance. "You will remove these restraints, and leave this cell with the door open."
"That's it. No desert rat will order me around." The stormtrooper reached for her restraints and tightened them.
Rey screamed out in pain, for there was something sharp digging into both of her forearms. Her vision was blurred because of the tears that had not yet left her eye sockets. She had to be strong. She wasn't going to let this revolting soul see her as a weak prisoner.
The stormtrooper left her then, returning back to his post near the door.
All Rey could do was try to get her mind off of the pain she was feeling. She thought of Finn, her best friend that she had only met a day ago. He was the first person to show her kindness, and she was grateful that he stumbled into her life. She thought of Han Solo. As Kylo Ren put it, she felt like he was the father she never had. She admired him in a way that she never had admired anyone before. She thought of Chewbacca and BB-8, two of the most friendliest creatures she had ever met.
She felt the blood trickle down her hands and drip onto the floor from her fingertips. The dripping reminded her of her time at Jakku, at times when all she had to drink were the tiny drops of water that occasionally fell from the sky. Those days were the hardest, when Unkar Plutt wouldn't let her have her tiny cup of water. "It's raining outside. Go fend for yourself!" he would tell her. At this point, she's not really sure if she'd rather be here or back on Jakku. Her hands were tingling due to the lack of blood flow. They were to the point of being numb, and without looking, she knew from experience that they were turning a purple color.
How long have I been lying here bleeding? Eventually I'm going to bleed out and-
She felt him. Close. He was coming to her room. She wasn't sure how she should feel. Hopeful? Scared? By the time that she decided she was going to be hopeful, hopeful that he would remove these extremely tight restraints, Kylo walked through the door and came to stand in front of her.
"SN-5698 has informed me of the stunt you tried to pull"
Rey looked down at the floor, at the wall, anywhere but at him. He had his helmet back on, and she didn't like it. She wanted to see his face.
As if he read her mind, Rey heard a small hiss and the helmet was whipped off. Once again, she reveled at his beauty.
"How did you know?" He spoke, "How did you know what to do?"
Rey didn't really know the answer to this question. "It just came to me."
A small smile formed on his lips, but it went just as fast as it came. She liked his smile. It made her relax, and it made his face abandon that ominous demeanor.
"I sense great power in you. But you need a teacher. I could show you the ways of the Force."
The Force?
He slightly nodded then. Wait, can he read my thoughts?
"You will learn it soon enough."
She was about to fire back with a witty comment about his over cockiness assumption, when he looked down and examined her hands. He noticed the pool of blood on the floor. He had sensed her pain and discomfort when entering the room, but brushed it off, thinking it was the effect of laying on a stiff metal board for hours.
He looked her in the eyes then and undid her restraints. She fell forward a bit, but he caught her and helped her stand up right on the floor. Once standing, she recoiled from his touch, as if he had burned her. Grabbing his helmet and shoving it back onto his head, his metallic voice said, "Follow me. We need to do something about those wounds."
*Author's Note*
I know a lot of the dialogue has been straight from the movie so far, but from now on, it will all be original! Please leave a review!
