AN: I know that I've never posted this early, but I'm going on a college tour today and I won't be home. I watched Force Awakens last night and it really put me in a Reylo mood, so chapter 5 might be my longest chapter yet.
SaintsFan1- Yep, Rey is starting to see right through his act. But now that Luke knows he fears that she might turn to join him, so Kylo might just be proven right. But only time will tell. Also thanks again for reviewing!
Now let's get on with it shall we.
Chapter 4
As Kylo pulled away from Rey he growled, she was so stubborn. When she had contacted him he had been in his room trying to feel her emotions. He had come back from a meeting with Hux about the weapon and it's current state. It was fully functional and they were speeding up production to make more. However he was only half listening as he could feel something inside him change.
He felt shock and anger, he tried reading Rey's thoughts and they were overflowing with hatred for having a connection with him. He inwardly smiled, she had a lot of potential with that type of anger if she knew how to channel it. He was surprised when she contacted him, he was planning on revealing himself soon but she decided to take matters into her own hands.
He had tried to appear kinder to her so he wouldn't scare her off, it took all his strength not to lash out when she kept questioning his intentions in a rather snappy way. He tried to get to know her, and he meant every word he said. He was sorry for about what happened with her family, and he wanted to help. Yes, it was a way to persuade her to join him, but he could feel the pain of that memory and he wanted to disintegrate it.
He wanted her to trust him and when he told her the truth she wouldn't believe him. He couldn't help but feel pissed off, he was generally trying to help her and she outright called him a liar. However, this did show progress. He could talk to her more freely now, he wouldn't be as harsh as he would with others though, he had orders to make her trust him and that's what he intended to do.
He left his quarters to tell the Supreme Leader of this development with Rey. As he grew closer to the throne room he could sense his master's energy overflowing him. Thankfully he was in a good mood and wouldn't mind being disturbed. Before he opened the doors, as if on cue his master spoke. "Kylo Ren, what brings you here at this hour?"
Kylo bowed before replying. "I have an update about the scavenger master."
"This better be important, go ahead."
"She knows about the connection and has just contacted me."
"Interesting, does she know who you are?"
"Yes, she contacted me to tell me that I wouldn't find out where the new Resistance base is. However, I could feel her trying to keep a barrier around her mind to try and keep me out before she even reached out to me."
Snoke stopped to consider this. "No doubt that Skywalker is afraid of your influence on her, so he's trying to increase her mental defenses. Is it a problem for you?"
"No master, I can still read her thoughts and emotions. I can also tell that she's still on the island, she isn't entirely blocking me out. But even that small blockade doesn't matter, it isn't very strong and I can get through it easily."
"Excellent. Tell me, did you try to earn her trust like I asked."
"Yes, but when I told her the truth she didn't believe me. It will take some time for her to fully trust me. But I think I have a way in, she wants to know who her parents are and she feels great pain about it. I can also feel her doubting her master when I left. I had told her that he will hold back on her and she's starting to feel confused."
"Excellent, I want you to use this to your advantage, make her feel that she needs to come to you if it's the only way for her to learn the ways of the force and to find her parents. Did you find anything else about the base as you talked?"
"No, it was only mentioned once, but I believe that she is leaving with Skywalker tomorrow from what I could tell by her thoughts."
"Perfect. Go and rest apprentice and reach out to her tomorrow, we need to know where that base is located in order to destroy the Resistance."
"Yes master." Kylo turned and left to go back to his room. He was tired and wanted nothing more than to just sleep, Rey was still in his head. He could feel her peacefulness as she rested, it was soothing. When he arrived in his room he changed into sweats and a black t-shirt before sitting in front of the mask of his grandfather as he did every night.
He asked for guidance on how to deal with Rey, she was stubborn and would be difficult to sway. Kylo knew that before he was Darth Vader, his grandfather had a padawan that was as stubborn as he was. He asked for how to deal with someone like that and not feel enraged. He needed to make Rey feel less afraid or at least less hatred towards him if the plan was going to work.
There was no answer from his grandfather, there never was, but it made him feel a little bit more confident with the situation. He made his way to his bed and let sleep overcome him.
Rey awoke at the crack of dawn, it became a habit from living on Jakku. She needed to get up early or all of the good parts would be gone, no parts equals no food. She went down to the beach and ran two laps around the wide perimeter of the area for her morning exercise. She went back up the mountain for breakfast with Luke and to collect her belongings.
Luke had cooked fish and rice again, not like there was much variety up here. They ate in silence and she could feel the uneasiness wafting off of her master. He was afraid of failing the Resistance in being their last hope, he was afraid of facing his sister after what happened to her son. Most of all was his growing concern for Rey with her connection with Kylo. He was afraid that she would turn to the Dark Side if she kept communicating with him.
When she finished eating she got up to collect her things from her cave. There wasn't much, it was just clothes, one or two personal items and her makeshift bed. Once she had everything she went to go wait for Luke.
He was staring at the water from a cliff when she found him. His face was tired looking and his eyes were dark with sorrow. Rey gently cleared her throat to get her master's attention. He turned to her and approached slowly. "Are you ready to leave?"
She looked at him with a soft look in her eyes. "Yes, are you sure you're ready master?"
He sighed and took one last look at his makeshift home for the past couple of years. "Yes Rey, I'm ready. Let's go home." He smiled at her and she returned it as they walked down to the Millennium Falcon where Chewie and R2-D2 were waiting.
Luke's eyes widened at the sight of the Falcon. "How is this old rustbucket even running." He laughed quietly to himself as memories started to flood back to him. Chewie and R2 came out to greet them and they couldn't look happier to see Luke.
Chewie immediately came in for a hug. "Haha. I missed you too Chewie how are you?"
"Arrggh"
"Glad to hear it." Luke let go so that he could turn to R2. "Hey there old friend." R2-D2 went closer to his owner so that Luke could rub his hand on his head. R2 made quiet beeping noises in satisfaction. Luke smiled, "Come on we best be leaving."
Rey turned to Chewie before he started to walk away. "Is the ship ready to go?"
"Arrggh Argh."
"Perfect." They boarded the Falcon and Rey and Chewie took their respected positions and started up the ship. Suddenly Rey could feel Kylo's presence within her. Not now. She didn't want Luke to know that she made contact with him. He'd be furious if he found out. She tried to pull up her wall so that he couldn't be let in. She and Chewie made the preparations for the jump to lightspeed as she put in the coordinates for the Ileenium system. She could feel her barrier starting to go though as she she could feel Kylo's presence again.
She put the ship on autopilot after making the jump to lightspeed. She told Chewie to get her if something happened or if they arrived. "Is everything okay Rey?"
"Yeah, I just feel like meditating for a bit." She didn't want to lie but she knew that the only way to get Kylo to leave her alone was to tell him to directly. Luke looked at her, trying to decide if there was something wrong, not wanting to invade her privacy he decided to trust her, but he still felt like she was hiding something.
"Alright. I'll stay here and catch up with Chewie then and to pilot the ship just in case something happens." Rey had forgotten that Luke was a pilot as well, so she allowed it as it would give her more time to get Kylo out of her head.
"Okay. Thanks master." She left to go to the barracks part of the ship. She sat down on one of the bed's and closed her eyes to contact him.
"What do you want now Kylo?"
"I'm just seeing how you're doing. I can sense some anxiety coming from you."
"Look I don't have time for this I need to focus on piloting right now."
"That's right you're going back to the Resistance. But that's not why you don't want to talk to me right now is it?" She emitted a low growl, why doesn't ever just shut up.
"Why do you even care?"
"I can feel the uncertainty coming from you Rey, and it's towards Skywalker." She cursed at herself. Great now he knows about the doubts I have with Luke.
"So what. The only reason I'm feeling uncertain is because you made me question him in the first place." He chuckled a little bit at her words.
"Yes that's true but there's something else isn't there. It's consuming you."
"Again why do you care?"
"Am I not allowed to feel concern for someone even if I'm a monster in your eyes?" Why did he do this to her. He made her question her very thoughts and feelings towards him.
"If I tell you will you promise to leave me alone for the rest of the day."
"If that's what you want, then yes I promise." She was uncertain at his words. How did she know if he was lying or not.
"How do I know that you're not lying to me?" She could feel him trying to contain his anger at her mistrust in him.
"I'm many things Rey, but if I promise to do something then I follow through." She considered his words. She searched through his thoughts and saw that he was telling the truth. She wondered why she didn't do it earlier when he offered help with her parents, but she quickly put it out of her mind.
"Alright I'll tell you. I don't want Luke to know that I'm communicating to you. He gave me strict instructions not to and I don't want him to be mad at me. He's closed off but I can feel him starting to get used to me and I don't want to ruin that."
"I see. He's going to find out eventually Rey."
"I know but I don't want him to. I just wish that it was easier to keep you out of my head." Rey thought that she felt a tiny feeling of hurt at her words from Kylo. But it disappeared before she could even register it.
"Is there another reason why you don't want Skywalker to know?"
"I don't know. If there is I haven't figured it out yet." There was silence for awhile as Kylo registered what she had said.
"Well I intend to keep my promise. I won't bother you again today. I have business I must attend to anyway."
"Thank you Kylo." He didn't respond as she could feel him leaving her mind. She felt a sense of relief of knowing that he wouldn't bother her for the rest of the day. She had to admit it felt good to talk to him. He listened to what she had to say and he actually sounded sincere. Something she didn't know that the man was capable of.
She returned to the cockpit and Luke turned to face her. "Well how was your meditation?"
"It was nice and relaxing. It helped to calm me down. I could feel Kylo but I did what you taught me and kept him at bay."
"Glad to hear it." Rey took her position in the pilot's seat and turned the ship off autopilot. Luke spoke up, "You know Rey you aren't that bad of a flyer. If you want I could give you tips on how to improve."
Rey smiled, she liked the thought of getting closer to her master. "That would be great." Luke smiled and moved in next to her to give her some pointers. It was fun and she learned a few things about maneuvering tactics if they were being pursued by multiple fighters. They couldn't do much while in lightspeed, but she took what she could get.
Luke still had a sinking feeling in his stomach that she wasn't telling him something. But he didn't want to try and pry, if he did it might make her feel uncomfortable and not want to open up to him. He decided to wait until she was ready to tell him.
It wasn't long before something beeped to let them know that they had reached their destination. Rey pulled the ship out of lightspeed and started to descend towards the planet. She could feel Luke tense up as he was uncertain of what to expect when they landed. "Don't worry master, everything will be fine."
Luke smiled, grateful for the small boost in confidence. Rey was nervous as well, she didn't know if Finn was awake or if something bad happened to Poe or the General. Suddenly she felt warm all over, she inwardly smiled as she knew what it meant. Kylo had gotten mad at something and was releasing his anger.
The warmth helped to sooth her nerves as she prepped for landing.
AN: I hoped you guys liked it. Luke's starting to get nervous about the connection with Kylo and Rey doesn't want to tell him what she's been doing. Hopefully it doesn't lead to anything bad.
Well I gotta go, my mom won't stop yelling at me. Please review I like hearing what you guys think.
Bye guys!
