AN: Hey guys! I don't know why I'm updating this so late, I can't blame work for this one. Okay tomorrow I promise I'll update earlier, I hope this doesn't become a habit.

I'd like to thank ABI-92 for following this, it means a lot so thanks!

SaintsFan1- You don't need to apologize for reviewing late, I know how it is. If anything I need to apologize for updating almost at 11 to you. Kylo will definitely try to not anger Rey for awhile, he doesn't want to lose her again so things should be pretty nice between the two of them for the most part. Yes, Hux did deserve what he got, and Kylo would've done more if he wouldn't get punished for it. Yeah if it weren't for Hux we wouldn't have that moment between the two, even if he shouldn't have done it. You'll see something similar in this chapter, but Rey won't get beat up this time. Leia isn't the only one who's getting annoyed at Finn, he'll start to get on the other's nerves as well in this chapter. Finn just might pull something, but I don't think he will with Luke piloting the Falcon, perhaps later on. Thanks again for the review!

C.Z.B.- Kylo and Rey's mini cuddle time was pretty adorable, and it just might become more adorable in this chapter. Yup, they're definitely on good terms now, let's hope it stays that way. Hux definitely deserved what he got, and that is a very interesting way to get rid of him. I love it! (Especially the whole cactus and having it on fire part!) Yeah Snoke clearly wasn't thinking straight, you'd think he wouldn't want any harm to come to a potential ally. Oh well, it did work, Hux didn't have to go that far though, Snoke's methods might be wrong but they do work. Thanks again for reviewing!

I think it's about time we get started on chapter 17. This is definitely one of my longer chapters, so enjoy!

Chapter 17

Rey had stayed in her room the next day, she was given ice for her bruises and they were starting to slowly stop throbbing. Her leg still hurt though, so she stayed in bed and tried not to move as much. But she was beginning to get bored, she needed something to do besides eat and sleep.

Even though she'd been on the holonet the past week, she couldn't think of anything better to do. She didn't want to put any pressure on her leg, so she tried to bring the remote over to her with the force. She managed to get it halfway to her bed before she lost her hold on it and it fell.

"Oh great." She tried to lift it again but it wouldn't budge. "Come on, I just need you to come a little bit closer." After 5 tries she fell back on her pillow and groaned. "I can't even lift a remote, I must be the worst Jedi ever."

"I wouldn't say that." Rey slowly sat up to see Kylo in her doorway. For once he was walking around with his helmet off. He lifted up the remote and brought it over to her.

"Thanks. Since when do you walk around without your helmet?" He let the doors close behind him and walked to the side of her bed.

"My duties were done for the day and I saw no purpose of having it on. We'll be stuck on this ship for awhile. Snoke wants to have us get rid of some other threats eventually."

"I see." The thought of them using that weapon again made her nervous. With the Resistance gone, there was barely anyone left to challenge them. "So what are doing here?" He sat down on the edge of her bed.

"I had nothing better to do. Besides I thought I should see how you're doing."

"Thanks. The bruises aren't starting to throb as much, but my leg still hurts."

"It should be better by tomorrow for you to start walking around."

"I hope so, I'm starting to get tired of being stuck in here. Clearly it's affecting my force skills." She chuckled at her words. "Oh who am I kidding, I'm hopeless."

"Come on Rey, you're more powerful than you realize. You just need more practice."

"Kylo I can't even lift up a remote and bring it to me."

"If you want I can show you." She stared at him, he was offering her help. But, she knew better than to let him train her.

"Oh no, I am not letting you do that. I may trust you, but I will not learn the ways of the dark side." She crossed her arms and waited for his answer.

"I wouldn't show you that, you're not exactly ready for that yet."

"Mmmhmmm." She raised her eyebrows at him.

"I just meant that you're not experienced enough. I'd only be showing you the basics."

"Uh huh. And how can I be sure of that exactly?"

"Read my thoughts. Honestly I'd think you'd figure that out by now." She rolled her eyes at him.

"I know that, it was just a question." She quickly went in, saw that he was telling the truth and got out. "But how can I be sure that you won't try to sneak something dark in there."

"Well for one you'd have to be angry enough for that. And two, you need to master the basic uses of the force in order to advance on things like that."

"Fine. I'll allow the basics, but only the basics. If I see the slightest hint of darkness I'm out."

"Deal. What do you know so far?"

"Oh we're starting now?"

"No, I'm just wondering. You can tell me later if you want."

"Oh. Eh, I might as well while we're on the subject. All I did with Luke was spar with him and I tried to keep him from going into my mind, along with trying to enter his. We also briefly worked on levitation, as you could clearly see. It was literally only like half of a day. And of course you already know about my attempt at trying to push with the force. Other than that, we didn't really do much."

"Uh huh. So basically I'm just starting from scratch."

"Pretty much." He ran his hand through his soft hair.

"We'll start the day after tomorrow. I guess I could start with levitation with you. It's a skill every force user needs to learn, so that should be a good place to start."

"Sounds good." They sat in silence for a little bit, neither of them knowing what to say. Suddenly Kylo stood up and started to walk towards the door.

"Well, you should get your rest. I'll just leave you be."

"Hold it right there." He stopped and turned around to look at her.

"What?"

"I've been in here alone all day, you're staying."

"Why?"

"Because I said so. Now get over here." He slowly walked towards her, unsure of what to do. He stopped at the other side of her bed. "You know you can sit next to me right?" She patted the space next to her.

"You sure about this Rey?"

"Uh yeah. I need someone to talk to, and you're staying."

"Fine." He put the pillow up against the headboard and leaned up against it.

"Now was that so hard?"

"Oh shut up and turn on the holonet already." She laughed as she did was she was told. He couldn't help but chuckle himself, she really did have a cute laugh. It was infectious.

"What do you want to watch?"

"I don't know, you choose." As Rey flipped through the channels he put his hand over her's to stop her. "I want to see this."

"It's the news."

"Yeah, about the First Order." She scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"Why do you want to watch that? It's just going to be about the explosion."

"I know, I want to see what their gonna say."

"It's probably just going to be about what happened, they don't know if anyone survived, what kind of weapon is it, blah blah blah."

"You're going to have to get used to that considering that you're staying with us."

"Yeah yeah, I know." Kylo shushed her, as the story was covered. And Rey was right, that story had been covered since yesterday and the galaxy just wouldn't shut up about it. But something caught her attention, the mention of Luke and Leia. "Wait what?"

Kylo put his hand over her mouth and she rolled her eyes. Although she had to admit, it did feel warm against her skin. When she heard the word bounty her eyes widened. Kylo moved his hand away and she waited until the story was finished.

"Uh Kylo."

"Yeah?"

"Why is there a bounty for Luke and Leia?"

"Snoke was the one to put it on them, I guess he thinks it'll draw them out of hiding or something."

"Are they wanted dead or alive?"

"I'm assuming alive, but dead if necessary. Snoke doesn't tell me every single detail you know."

"Fine. Can we watch something other than the news now?"

"Sure." Rey scrolled through the channels until she found a comedy she liked and they just sat and watched. It was pretty silent between the two of them, for awhile and after 2 or 3 episodes Rey started to lean her head on Kylo's shoulder again.

"Uh Rey, you're doing what you did yesterday again." She pulled away from him and he already missed the warmth.

"Sorry. Something about the way it feels just makes it comfortable. If you don't want me to do it just say the word."

"No no it's fine. I don't really mind it actually. You can do it if you want."

"Alright." She put her head back on his shoulder again and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders to bring her in closer. He began to stroke her cheek automatically and he didn't realize what he was doing until he looked down at her.

They stayed that way for about an hour until Kylo could feel Rey's head dip downwards as she fell asleep. He turned off the holonet and gently put her head down on her pillow. He got up and walked out of the room, leaving her to sleep peacefully.

Kylo had avoided talking to Snoke about what happened yesterday. He still couldn't believe that he thought it was necessary to take that course of action with Rey. Hux was still in the med bay, but he'd be back to work tomorrow and he didn't want to see his face anytime soon.

Unfortunately he had no choice in either matter. He needed to inform Snoke about Rey's training and he couldn't avoid Hux altogether. He took his time going to his master, he was unsure of how he was going to react with what he did to Hux.

As he entered the room he waited until the image of Snoke appeared. Thankfully, he didn't look that upset. "What is it my apprentice?"

"I've regained Rey's trust master and I've convinced her to let me teach her the basic skills of the force."

"Excellent, it seems that my plan worked."

"Yes, but Rey was hurt in the process. As Hux finished his attack she kicked him in the back and he started to beat her again. He was going to taze her when I walked in."

"I see, but it's no matter. The task is complete. Although I did hear that he is in the med bay for lightsaber burns. Anything you'd like to say about that?" Kylo inwardly slapped himself for thinking that he wouldn't bring that up.

"Well, I was upset over what happened and sort of took my anger out on him."

"I see. You aren't starting to become concerned with the girl are you?"

"No master. I was just alarmed at what I saw. It won't happen again."

"It better not, you may go." Kylo waited for the image to disappear before letting out a sigh of relief. That was too close of a call, if Snoke had found out he'd be punished greatly for it.

He walked towards his room until he felt the ship jump into lightspeed. He immediately went towards the bridge. They had left the spot of the explosion last night and were just sitting in front of Subterrel waiting for orders. There was no need for them to make a jump unless a target had been found. But Snoke would've told him they were leaving anyway. Something wasn't right.

As he reached the bridge he immediately went to Hux's temporary replacement. "Why did we make a jump to lightspeed Commander?"

"Lord Ren, we were able to pick up the Millenium Falcon beginning to emerge from lightspeed into the system. We left so as not to draw suspicion for Subterrel."

"I see. Where are we going?"

"Nowhere sir. Supreme Leader doesn't want us in any other system besides Subterrel, so we're staying in hyperspace until we get the all clear."

"Very well. Carry on." He left the bridge and went to his room. So it turns out that the traitor did survive and was looking for them, for Rey. It was no matter, with the entire Resistance gone, they couldn't be able to do anything about it. But FN-2187 might cause a problem.

He cared too much about her, and would most likely try to get her himself. He'd never let something like that happen. He couldn't lose Rey again, he was lucky enough that he regained her trust after what happened. Having her taken away from him would tear him apart. He'd gotten too close to her to have it be ruined by the traitor.

As he entered his room, he immediately changed to a t-shirt and sweats and climbed into bed. Just thinking about FN-2187 trying something gave him a headache. He closed his eyes and only hoped that they wouldn't be bothered by him.

Finn had awoken at the crack of dawn and impatiently waited for Luke and Poe. When they finally came out of their rooms, he approached them. "It's about time guys."

Poe was still half asleep as he answered. "Sorry Finn, we were so tired that we couldn't help but sleep in."

"Well hurry up and eat, we're burning daylight. Hey, where's Chewie?" As Luke went to order food he pointed down the hall.

"He's still asleep."

"I'll go wake him up." Whatever drowsiness Luke had was gone, as he immediately became alert.

"Finn that's not a good idea. Chewie doesn't like being woken up unless it's an emergency. Trust me you don't want to upset a wookie."

"Oh come on, how upset can Chewie be?"

"You'd be surprised actually." Poe finished ordering his and Luke's food and decided to join the conversation.

"Listen to Luke Finn. He knows what he's talking about."

"Alright fine. I'll just go and get my stuff." Finn walked down the hall and Luke and Poe watched him turn into his room, the last thing they needed was to wake everyone that was staying in the outpost up. As their food arrived they ate in silence for a few minutes until they heard a roar.

Luke slumped down and shook his head, while Poe just rolled his eyes and continued eating. Finn had come running out of the hallway and hid under a table. Not long after a wet Chewbacca came out as well, and he was not happy. Poe turned to Finn as Luke went to go calm down Chewie.

"Finn what did you do?"

"All I did was throw a bit of water on his face to wake him up."

"I thought I told you to listen to Luke."

"But I didn't know when he was going to wake up. We're wasting time looking for Rey."

"Finn it's 5 in the morning, I don't think even Kylo Ren gets up this early. We are using the whole day to look for her, the least you can do is let the wookie wake up on his own."

"You're saying that like it's a bad thing." Poe looked at his friend as if it was obvious.

"You're hiding under a table."

"Okay, it wasn't my best idea. But at least we're all awake now." Poe rolled his eyes, Finn was one of his best friends, but sometimes he could be really stupid.

"Why don't you go check on R2 and BB-8 and see if they're charged while we get Chewie to calm down."

"Fine, where are they?"

"They should be somewhere in that corridor. That's where the charging stations are." Finn got out from under the table and went to look for the droids. Poe walked over to Luke and Chewie. "How you doing big guy?"

"Arrggh."

"I know, but try to let it go okay. This is the only way to satisfy Finn."

"Argh. Argh." Luke turned to the wookie and started to lead him over to where he and Poe were sitting.

"Come on Chewie, I'll order you some food alright."

"Argh." After Chewie's food came the three ate in peace until Finn came running back into the room.

"R2-D2 and BB-8 are ready to go." Poe looked to his friend with a skeptical look.

"BB-8 better be fully charged, I need him for the jumps to lightspeed."

"Relax, their fine."

"Then where are they?"

"Oh I forgot to unplug them. I'll be right back."

"This is going to be a long day." Luke and Chewie nodded their heads. They quickly finished their food and not long after the sounds of BB-8 and R2-D2 could be heard. As Finn came into view he had an expectant look on his face.

"Can we leave now?" Poe turned to Luke for his approval. Luke nodded and turned to Finn.

"Yes, we can leave. Come on Chewie, R2." Poe turned to his droid and motioned for him to follow. They each boarded their ships and got settled. Poe ran a diagnostic of his x-wing as BB-8 was put into place.

On the Falcon Luke and Chewie were doing the same. Luke was in the pilot's seat while Chewie was in the co-pilots. Finn sat behind them while R2 stayed by the control panel next to Luke in case they needed him. Luke started up the engine and Poe did the same. Within moments, they shot off of Florrum and entered the coordinates of what used to be Irotis.

When they had arrived, Luke turned to R2. "Alright buddy, I need you to pull up all of the nearby systems from this position." He beeped in respondance and pulled up a list of known systems. "Send that list to BB-8 and Poe." R2 did as he was told and they waited for Poe to confirm that he had received them.

"Got it. Where to?"

"Let's try the farthest ones first and work our way inwards. I highly doubt that the First Order would want to stay so close to their last known position."

"Copy that." They spent the whole day going from planet to planet and there was no sign of the Finalizer anywhere. Finn was starting to become impatient.

"This is getting us nowhere. We're supposed to be back by now."

"Finn it's getting late, maybe we should go back. It's clear that the First Order isn't around here."

"We can't give up Luke. What about Subterrel, we didn't check there yet."

"Finn that place is full of bounty hunters surrounding the planet. They no doubt know that there has been a bounty placed on me. Seeing the Falcon will lead them to believe that I'm on it, I've been seen many times on this ship."

"Come on, we have to give it a shot."

"I told Leia that we'd stay out of trouble."

"Please. After we can go back to Florrum, I promise. We'll be in and out in a matter of seconds." Luke sighed, it was worth a shot, he just hoped that they wouldn't be spotted.

"Fine, but if we're noticed I'm blaming it on you." Luke contacted Poe to let him know and he heard concern in his voice.

"Are you sure about this Luke?"

"If it'll allow us to go back, we might as well."

"Alright." He was cut off and Finn turned to Luke.

"You know I can hear you right?"

"I'm well aware of that, I'm just tired and it's been a long day." When they had reached the coordinates for Subterrel, they jumped out of lightspeed. As soon as the planet was in sight, there was nothing but bounty hunter ships surrounding it. "Alright, they're not here. Now let's go before we get spotted."

Unfortunately it was too late as gunfire could be heard coming from the bounty hunters. "Perfect. Chewie, put up the deflector shields, R2 get Poe on the line." Suddenly Poe's voice could be heard.

"Luke what do we do?"

"Try and draw their fire, we need to get the hyperdrive running. Set the coordinates for Florrum I'll tell you when to make the jump."

"Copy that." Poe flew his x-wing away from the Falcon while firing at the bounty hunters, trying to get them away from Luke, but there were too many of them.

"Finn I need you to go down into one of the guns, R2 take control of the rest from here. Chewie start up the hyperdrive, I'll try to get us out of the line of fire." Everyone took their respective positions as Luke moved the Falcon as fast as possible to try and dodge the blasts. He was going all over the place, and it seemed to be working.

This went on for a good 10 minutes before Chewie told him that they could leave. Luke immediately told Poe and the two got ready to make the jump to lightspeed. They made the jump and were on their way back to Florrum. Finn emerged from the guns and went to Luke. "That was amazing flying."

"Thanks, I'm a little rusty but all things considering it went rather well."

"I can't believe that out of all those systems we couldn't find them."

"We can't always have our way Finn." When they had landed at the outpost Leia was waiting for them.

"So how did it go?" Finn approached her with his head slightly down.

"We couldn't find her. But I guess we could try again tomorrow."

"I'm sorry Finn but we have to focus on finding somewhere else to stay. Besides you checked every system around Irotis and I don't want you going beyond the outer rim."

"But we're eventually going to go after her right?" Luke came up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder, causing Finn to look at him.

"We were spotted by bounty hunters Finn. The First Order has probably already been notified, and we can't go up against their fleet with only 4 pilots and the Falcon. We need to leave soon."

"You're giving up on her?"

"No I'm not. But Rey can handle herself and we just have to believe in her abilities. She'll be fine, if anything she'll find a way to come back to us if we can't go to her." Poe grabbed Finn by the arm and started to pull him away.

"Come on Finn, it's been a long day let's go and rest."

"Fine, but don't expect me to give up on this." Poe sighed as they walked to their room.

"Finn you need to let this go and move on. Rey knows how to take care of herself."

"Whatever." The two entered their room to try and get some sleep. Luke and Leia had come inside and were sitting at a table in the cantina. They needed to find somewhere else to go, but they couldn't think of anything at the moment.

"Luke do you think that Rey's going to be alright?"

"I do Leia. I don't think Kylo would intentionally harm her in any way, it's Snoke that I'm worried about." Leia nodded her head, they talked for a few more minutes until Luke stood up and went to his room. Leia followed suit, but went to her room. She hoped that Finn wouldn't try anything to get Rey, they needed all the people they could get if there was going to be any hope left for the galaxy.

She let sleep overcome her, it was the only way she could erase her problems from her mind and be at peace for once.

AN: I hope you guys liked it. I think this is my longest chapter, but I can't be sure. It's definitely one of the longer ones though.

Again, so sorry for updating this at like 11, I'll try not to make a habit of it.

Please review and let me know what you guys think, it really brightens my day. (Or night if you review tonight.)

I'll see you guys in the next chapter, may the force be with you.