This story is dedicated to my brother, who passed away on March 31, 2019. Merida was his favorite Disney princess, and he was the one who took me to my first Star Wars movie. Love you, bro.

Merida aimed her arrow at the target ahead. She released her bow, and the arrow flew until it hit the center of the bulls-eye.

"Let's see what you can do, Magic Boy!" she teased Kylo, as he prepared to aim his arrow.

"Your overconfidence will be your downfall, my fiery princess," the former Knight of Ren jokingly warned Merida.

"And your faith in yourself will be yours."

"We'll see." Kylo gave her a wink, before pulling his bow back. Merida decided to distract him by touching his arm. He released the bow. Merida watched in amazement as his arrow split hers in half.

"Not fair!" she pouted, folding her arms in front of her. "I fired my arrow perfectly!"

"Yes, but even a weapon like this is insignificant to the power of the Force," he explained. Tossing the bow to the ground, Kylo grabbed Merida and pulled her close.

"Now it's time to take what I want," he softly growled before his lips met hers.

"Merida," Kylo whispered, full of desire for the red haired beauty.

"Merida," he muttered, as his eyes fluttered open. He sighed. It was only a dream. He cradled her cloak close to his body. He hoped that Merida would return with her sewing kit. If he had any chance of becoming King, he needed Merida, and also clothes to wear.

"I have to convince her to not run away," Kylo thought to himself, as he saw her bow and arrows. "She is insistent on not getting married. But she cannot be Queen otherwise."

He reached out for his lightsaber and turned it on. His weapon terrified Merida. Kylo had a thought. If the lightsaber scared her, then it would scare her family and any potential suitors.

"Her greatest weakness is family," Kylo told himself, as he walked around in the cave. "If she thinks I will harm them, then she will have no choice but to marry me. Then we will reign as King and Queen. She will be angry, but in time, she will see that her destiny lies with me."

Merida made her way back to the castle. She found her horse and scolded it for running away. She led it back to the stables. She quietly snuck past her sleeping family members and headed to her bathroom.

"Whew!" she gasped in relief. She undressed and slipped on her nightgown. She spied her sewing kit and sighed. She had to go back to the cave, but not now. She needed to figure out a time when she could slip away without her family knowing.

"My cloak!" Merida suddenly remembered. Kylo had it. How was she going to explain why it was missing? Then she had an idea.

"In the morning, I will visit the boys," she said to herself, as her head laid down on the pillow. A moment later, she was asleep.

"No!" Merida wept bitterly, as she addressed her parents. "I don't want to get married!"

"Merida, please calm down!" Queen Elinor begged her.

"Don't tell me to calm down!"

"Don't yell at your mother, young lassie!" King Fergus scolded her. "You need to get married!"

"No, I don't! I won't marry one of the clansmen!" Merida strongly insisted.

"She is right," they heard a male voice tell them. They turned around to see a man with a sword of red light approach them.

"She will not marry them. She will marry me!" the man added, the weapon now pointing in their direction.

"No!" Merida shouted. She stepped in front of her parents.

"Don't hurt us!" she desperately pleaded with Kylo. He turned off his lightsaber and replied,

"I won't, if you agree to marry me."

"Why are you doing this? Do you hate me this much?"

"I don't hate you, Merida. But I knew if I asked for your hand in marriage, you would have said no. Because you are afraid."

"I'm afraid? I'm not the one trying to blackmail an innocent woman into marriage because they are afraid of being alone!"

Kylo drew closer to her. Merida grabbed her bow and arrow, and pointed it in his direction.

"You wouldn't!" he scoffed.

"Oh, I would!" Merida hissed. To her horror, the bow and arrow flew out of her hand. As Kylo came closer, Merida screamed,

"No!"

"No!" she yelled, as she sat up in her bed. It was only a nightmare. She closed her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths.

"It was a bad dream, that's all," Merida encouraged herself, as she rose from the bed. Other than the nightmare she had, she slept well.

She called for a servant to draw a bath for her. She needed to see when she could go back to the cave, to mend Kylo's torn clothes. Then she was going to run away from home.

Merida sat in the basin, and began to bathe herself. Normally, she did not take a bath two days in a row. But today, she felt compelled to do so.

"It's because of him," she realized, as she thought about Kylo. The short time she spent with him awakened something inside of her.

"I want him," Merida whispered. "But I can't... I won't..."

She was afraid to get married. If she got married, she would be one step closer to becoming Queen. If she became Queen, that would mean her parents would not be alive. She frowned at this thought.

"I can't give in to this attraction I feel for him," Merida insisted, as she finished bathing. She put on a light teal dress and exited her bedroom.

"Wake up, you wee devils!" she teasingly scolded her sleeping brothers, Harris, Hubert and Hamish. It took a moment for the triplets to open their eyes.

"Merida!" they cried at the same time, as they rushed to hug her.

"Easy there, boys!"

"We want some sweets!"

"I will get you some sweets, but you need to do me a favor."

"What is the favor?" Harris asked.

"I need you to tell Mother and Father that you lost my cloak, if they ask."

"But we didn't!" Hubert insisted. "For once, we didn't do it!"

"I know, Hubert. I lost it."

"How did you lose it?" Hamish asked.

"You do not need to know that. I just need you to take the blame. If you do, I will give you sweets for an entire week," Merida promised.

The boys looked at each other and replied in unison,

"Okay!"

"Very good. Now it is time for your baths." All three frowned.

"I can always call Mother and she can bathe you," their sister reminded them. The boys did not want that. Merida chuckled as they began to take off their pajamas. A servant helped her draw baths for the boys.

"I am going to miss you troublemakers," she said to herself, as her brothers bathed. She reminisced on their short lives. Merida was so lost in thought that she did not realize Hamish was touching her face.

"Merida, why are you crying?" he innocently asked. She smiled at the boy and replied softly,

"I guess I am a little tired. Now finish your bath."

Merida hated lying, but she could not tell him, or anyone else, the truth.