AN: Hey everyone! Hope you're having a good day so far! I don't have much to say at the moment so I'll just cut to the chase.
SaintsFan1- Yeah, hopefully Luke can let go of his stubbornness for once and listen. He needs to let Rey go with Kylo on her own, and he can only hope for the best. Don't worry their going to meet soon and their relationship will definitely be strained after what happens, but who knows maybe not everyone will die, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm leaning towards Obi-Wan in the movies too, but Palpatine sounds really interesting. That would be an awesome unexpected twist. I'm not going to give away her heritage just yet, but it will be worth the wait.
C.Z.B.- Thanks! I'm so glad that you liked them. I thought it would be nice to add in some force ghosts seeing as we hardly get any really, and it's not for long if we do. I'm glad you liked Anakin's personality, I'm literally obsessed with the Clone Wars and have seen it so many times that I know it by heart. (The ending of season 5 still gets me every time.) Ever since I saw it, that's pretty much the image of Anakin in my brain.
Thanks for reviewing guys and for reading this, it means a lot.
Without further ado here's chapter 10.
Chapter 10
Kylo stood outside of the Finalizer, watching as the final adjustments were being done to the weapon. It was amazing, it wasn't too large to be noticeable, but it was large enough to contain the destruction that it would soon cause. He couldn't wait to see the Resistance completely explode and with them out of the way Rey would be his.
He was so consumed in his thoughts that he didn't register the officer that was in front of him until he cleared his throat. He turned his head to look at the man, he had slight fear in his eyes and he couldn't help but smirk. "Sir, General Hux is requesting you to meet him in the holographic chamber at once."
"Very well." Kylo left and he could hear the officer behind him let out a small sigh of relief. He wondered as to why Hux couldn't ever just do things himself. The fact that he thought he had superiority over him was laughable. He quickly made his way to him, knowing that it must be urgent if it needed to be discussed with the Supreme Leader.
"Ah, I'm glad to see you showed up."
"What's so important that I have to be present as you inform Snoke Hux?"
"You'll see for yourself Ren." The two of them entered the chamber and waited for Snoke's image to appear. They bowed and waited until they were given permission to speak.
"What's the urgent matter General? There better not be something wrong with the weapon or else you'll pay with your life. Starkiller base was yours to command, I highly suggest that you don't mess this one up as well."
"Of course sir. It's not about the weapon, it's about the Resistance. Our spies have informed us that the Resistance is sending out more scouts and is increasing security. It's as if they know that something's going to happen."
"That's impossible. Apprentice have you had any confirmation of this through the scavenger?"
"No master I haven't spoken to her yet today."
"Then how is it that they know of our attack! You better not have let anything slip through Kylo Ren."
"I swear master I didn't reveal anything to her. She couldn't have found it out from me. She'd never stoop that low."
"I think your judgement is clouded."
"What are you talking about?"
"You have compassion for her."
"Master, I swear on my life that I don't feel anything for her. I can't be seduced by the likes of her and I'd never let that happen. I am only loyal to you."
"It may be. But if there is a slightest hint that the scavenger or anyone in the Resistance knows what's going to happen, I'm holding you responsible. The both of you. Dismissed."
"Yes sir."
"Yes master." Kylo and Hux left the chamber.
"You better not have compassion for her Ren, or the Supreme Leader will have our heads." Kylo wasn't even sure how he felt towards her anymore. He considered her his enemy and he was putting on an act with her. But for some reason that act didn't feel like it was supposed to be when he talked to her. She brought out concern and fear in him, something that he didn't want to have.
He didn't even know if you could call what he had compassion. She made him angry yet calm, while also experience something that he'd never felt before. He tightened his fists, he just hoped that everything would turn out okay. He couldn't fail his master again, he just couldn't. If he did he wouldn't be worthy to take on the mantle his grandfather left.
He sighed as he answered Hux's comment. "You don't have to worry about that General. I don't plan on failing Snoke again, and I don't have compassion for that girl."
"I hope you're right Ren, for our sake." Hux turned down a separate corridor and Kylo just kept walking. He needed to clear his head.
Rey had been fixing up the Millenium Falcon with Chewie for the rest of the day. They were leaving the day after tomorrow and she needed to make sure that it didn't break down. But she couldn't focus, the vision haunted her.
Hearing all of those deafening screams made her shudder. Something like that just couldn't happen, there was no way that the First Order could have another weapon like Starkiller. "Arggh, arggh."
"Oh sorry Chewie. Here you go." She handed him the wrench that sat beside her. She had grown close to the wookie, it was comforting knowing that she had him for a copilot. Off in the distance she saw Finn running up to her, she exited the cockpit and went out to greet him.
"Hey Finn what's up?"
"Uh nothing. Look I just wanted to apologize for what happened yesterday. I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable." Rey looked down at her feet, they had avoided that topic yesterday and she wished that it wouldn't have come up again.
"Oh it's um fine Finn really. I'm just not really comfortable with people getting too close to me. Hugging, holding hands, combat positions are all fine. It's just that I've never really had what you did yesterday happen before. You don't have to worry about it."
Finn let out a sigh of relief, glad that he didn't upset her. "That's good to hear."
"Uh yeah. Is that all?"
"What do you mean?"
"Is there something else that you want to tell me?"
"No I think that was it."
"Oh alright then." She could feel that he wasn't telling her something, but she didn't want to push him. "So what have you been doing today?"
"Just hanging out with Poe and prepping for the move. I really hope that what you saw doesn't come true."
"Yeah, I hope so too." Suddenly Poe could be heard yelling their names from a distance.
"Finn! Rey! Come here!" The two looked to each other and started to run off before Rey stopped herself.
"Uh Rey, Poe is that way."
"Yeah yeah I know. I just need to tell Chewie where I'm going. I'll meet you over there."
"Alright, don't take too long."
"Uh huh." She ran back onto the Falcon to get her things and to find the wookie. "Chewie, where are you?"
"Arggh." She looked where the gun was and sure enough he was there.
"I'm going with Finn and Poe. For some reason Poe wanted to see us. Keep working on the Falcon I'll be back soon. Call me if you need me."
"Argh." She turned to leave the Falcon and was glad that part of her reason for stopping was complete. She felt fear and worry come from within and she could only hope that something didn't happen to Kylo. Uggh, there it was again. Why did she always wonder if he was alright? She shouldn't even be thinking about it in the first place.
She ran over to Finn and Poe who were waiting for her. "So Poe, did you tell Finn as to why you needed us."
"Yeah, we just got a report back on the bounty hunters."
"And?"
"There was quite a few of them around the perimeter of a planet not too far from the base. When our fighters approached they wouldn't let them in the atmosphere."
"What planet was it?"
"I think it was Subterrel or something. It was an uninhabited planet for years, it used to be a mining planet, but after the empire took over no one's lived on there for years. A lot of smugglers went there and it was becoming too dangerous to keep going in and out of there."
Finn spoke up with confusion on his face. "Why would bounty hunters want no one to enter an uninhabited planet?"
"Well one of the x-wings was pulled into the hangar of one of the bounty hunter's ships. They interrogated him as to why we were bothering them. Apparently they were using it as a base of operations and didn't want to be disturbed."
"Huh, are they a threat to us? Why did they attack in the first place?"
"From what I can tell they aren't a threat. The reason for their attack was to see if we weren't a threat to them. They just want to be left alone, and from the way they flew and had their aim they're pretty good bounty hunters."
Rey thought about this, since when did bounty hunters pick planets in the middle of nowhere for a base? "So are we going to leave them alone?"
"For now yeah, but who knows for the right price they might be useful to us."
"Yeah, I guess. Is there anything else?
"Not really." Rey had a far off look in her eye and Poe couldn't help but notice it. "Rey is everything alright?"
"Hmm? Yeah everything's fine."
"You sure? You had a far off look in your eye. What were you thinking about?"
"Oh nothing." She couldn't bring herself to tell him that she had Kylo on the brain. "I was just thinking about how good it is to be back with you two."
"Yeah me too Rey."
"Me three!" She couldn't help but laugh at Finn's reaction. "We make a pretty great team. We've got the pilot, the jedi, and the really funny handsome former stormtrooper." Poe laughed and chimed in.
"I don't know buddy, I think I'm the handsomest out of the two of us. You can take funny since that's all you got."
"No way, I'm way better looking than you. I see the way girls look at me."
"Yeah, but I think they were looking at me." Rey just couldn't help but laugh at their banter. They turned everything into a joke.
"Haha. Why can't both of you be the handsome ones, ever think of that?" Finn turned to her.
"No way Rey. In a group there's always one really handsome guy that everyone falls for, and it's usually with the girl in the group." Rey could feel herself blush a little bit, she hoped that they didn't notice. "Come on Rey we need your opinion. Out of the two of us which one's better looking. Because come on, you really don't know of anyone else as good looking as me."
"Or me. And we won't judge you on who you pick. But it's going to be me." Rey laughed, there was no way that she could pick between the two of them. But there was something about what Finn said that stayed in her mind. You really don't know of anyone else as good looking as me. That wasn't exactly true, she could think of one other person.
Kylo was extremely handsome. Poe never saw his face and Finn didn't see it very well from the ledge, and she believed that he was more focused on surviving in the snow than looking at his face. They didn't know it, but to her he beat the two of them in a landslide.
The way she could see his eyes sparkle as she saw herself in them. His thick, long black hair framing his face. His muscles were large from all of those years of training. Plus he was tall, which was a good intimidation feature, and it made her more compelled to look him over while she had been strapped down. But his face was the best of all. It was so soft looking and she could see his emotions clearly that it made her forget that he was on the Dark Side. His face was pointed and she could see a couple of misplaced freckles on his cheek. It was adorable really how his face wasn't completely smooth. His nose was long and his lips were slightly full. And she had to admit, the man looked good in black.
Rey wasn't even sure as to why she was thinking so much about his features, but it made her heart flutter as she did. Poe's voice snapped her back to reality.
"Well who is it Rey?"
"Uhh, do I really have to choose?" Poe and Finn opened their mouths at the same time to say the same answer.
"Yes!"
"Alright, alright. Umm I guess I'll go with Poe, but Finn you are very attractive yourself." Poe raised his fist in victory.
"Haha yes! Oh yeah! But you can have that title in the group Finn."
"Thanks." Rey smiled but she was starting to feel empty again, so she made up an excuse to leave.
"I'm going to head back to the Falcon to help Chewie, I'll see you guys later." She walked back towards the ship and boarded it. Chewie was still down by the guns and she told him that she'd be in the cockpit. As she sat down she could feel his presence within her and she let him in.
Kylo needed to know if she knew about his plan, so he contacted her as soon as he reached his room.
"Rey I need to talk to you."
"Uh sure. Is everything alright? I was getting the sense that you were afraid and worried earlier."
"Look, I need to know if you know what we've been planning I've only mentioned it once and we're getting reports that you have increased your security."
"Uh no, I don't know about your plan. And how did you know that we increased our security?'
"That's not important right now, I just needed to know. The Supreme Leader thought that you had found something out from me."
"Well I didn't. If it'll make you feel any better I had a force vision about the planet blowing up. But Leia said that they could sometimes be wrong, we aren't really relying on it. We're just taking precautions."
"I see." At least he knew that he wasn't responsible. But they would have to act immediately, who knows when they would start treating it as an actual threat and not just a possibility.
"Are you sure everything's okay?"
"Yes Rey, there's nothing you need to be concerned about." At least not for now anyway. "So how have you been?"
"Um okay I guess. I've just been working on the Falcon really and hanging out with my friends."
"Uh huh. I sensed a little tension between you and the traitor."
"Oh um it's nothing really." From his end it didn't feel like nothing. He had made her uncomfortable and he wanted to know if it could be used to his advantage.
"Really? What did he do exactly?"
"Um he kind of approached me a little too closely."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well we were talking and he had his hand on my shoulder. And then he just started moving closer and it just became uncomfortable for me."
"I see. And what may I ask where you talking about."
"Um I was trying not to tell him and Poe about the force connection with you. If I did they would lash out at me. They don't really like you."
"I think that they despise me is an appropriate way to describe it. Let me guess they want to have the privilege of killing me?"
"Well I wouldn't know that, but I assume that they would."
"Indeed." There was silence as neither one of them knew what to say.
"You have a nice laugh."
"I'm sorry. What did you just say?"
"Your laugh, it's nice. I didn't think that you were physically capable of it."
"Yes well, thank you. You don't really laugh on the Dark Side. Unless you count enjoying Hux being humiliated in front of everyone." He could hear her laugh in the distance.
"You know your laugh is kind of cute, in a way."
"Really?"
"Um yeah." He felt his cheeks get warm and he was so glad that no one could see him.
"Thanks. I gotta go, I still need to finish up the Falcon."
"Uh right. I'll talk to you later then."
"Yeah." He felt her leave and he could still feel heat rising to his cheeks.
AN: So what did you guys think? Rey's starting to feel a little attracted to Kylo but doesn't want to admit it. Kylo just might be feeling compassion for her after all, but only time will tell.
Please feel to review, it's comforting knowing that people support this.
See you next time guys! May your day be like a pirate's life. (I'm in a Pirates of the Caribbean mood, watching it later. Okay now I'll let you guys go.)