Kylo had began to lose hope seeing Masro awake again. Since the kyber caves were cleared out she had not appeared there nor had she appeared in his dreams, no matter how hard he tried to reach out. He had taken to bringing whatever could dull his senses back from various catina's on his missions, knowing Masro would never approve of his endeavors. Her father was a heavy drinker, so she never approved of drinking. One particular evening he was drowning his sorrows into a particular heavy variant of mead. Kylo went down to the sick bay bottle in hand, to visit Masro.
"Sir, are you ok?"
"I'm fine," kylo Barked. "Now leave me and my wife alone. I'm going to lock the doors."
"Yes, Sir."
Kylo used the force to lock the doors, he put the bottle down on the tray in the room and stood over Masro's chamber. He clicked the buttons for it to open and sat next to her as the fog cleared.
"My love, I've gone down a dark path I don't know how to turn from. It's was our third wedding anniversary a few days ago, but I've been away on missions. On those missions I have done unspeakable things, I know you would not approve of. Why did you hold me at such high standards?" He turned to look at Masro's body. A tear rolled down his cheek falling to Masro.
The doors unlocked, kylo was furious. When they opened it was Axe, standing there in a knight's robe. She walked in closing the door behind her.
"Why have you disturbed me?"
"Master, I felt your sorrow across the ship. It broke me. I have come to try and bring you out of it."
"By doing what?" Axe dropped to her knees in front of Kylo.
"Look at your wife's cold body while I pleasure you, or you can have my warm body now like old times." She lowered her robe to reveal her naked body. Kylo looked at her, anger was there but lust was at the forefront. Axe reached up to unbuckle Kylo's pants, he let her turning away from Masro's body. She took him into to her mouth bringing a gasp from Kylo as she made him grow to the occasion. He closed his eyes and pretended it was Masro on her knees in front of him. When he was close to finishing, kylo felt a subtle change in the force. He opened his eyes to see Masro standing there in tears. She was rippling with emotion and couldn't hold her force any longer fading away. Kylo pulled himself out of Axe's mouth.
"Get out, don't come near me again if you do, I'll kill you." He stood and fixed his pants.
She dressed and walked to the door turning to give Masro's body a sly smile before exiting.
"Masro, please return to me. I'm so sorry. Please." Dropping to his knees. "I'm weak. I need you to help me stay strong. It's been so long since I've seen you."
When she didn't return to him after several minutes he turned to her body, letting the mead get the best of him he climbed up on her lifting her gown. He pulled himself out again and stroked to hardened length. He found her opening and roughly pushed himself into her. Kylo knew if she had been awake it would have been very painful as she was not ready for him. He continued to work in and out of her, her body starting to slowly respond. It excited him to know he could have her body even if she wasn't with it. Kylo thrust harder more frantic closing his eyes to imagine the sounds she would be making if she were awake. His release came thundering out of him and his body quaked. He pulled himself out of her and just laid with her body, intertwining his hand with hers.
"I'm sorry, Maze." He fixed himself and left telling the attendant that she needed to be cleaned up and fixed. He returned to his room with the bottle of mead, intending to sleep. When he opened the door, he had hoped Masro had come to him, but his room was empty. He went to bed and had a restless night sleep.
Days passed, he reached out to Masro and still nothing. He avoided Axe in all cases and had her sent on a Mission so he wouldn't have to see her. Time passed and he lost hope again.
It had been a few months, since the encounter near their anniversary. Kylo was in deep meditation, he had released his force fully embracing the power he had gained from Mortis. He feared using it as he knew what it did to him physically. Kylo felt a flicker of the force that was familiar. He opened his eyes, and she was there crouched in a corner looking sadly at him with tears falling down her cheeks. She looked to be tortured covered in cuts and bruises even in a metaphysical form, but he thought he saved her.
"Maze," he spoke her name dozens of times at the same time.
"Ky? You…you can see me?"
"Yes, what's happening to you?" He jumped up rushing to her side, pushing his force down so he returned to normal.
"Everything I deserve." She flickered, kylo touched her and she solidified.
"What do you mean?"
"I changed your true path. I know the truth now."
"You're not making any sense, my love."
"You need to let me die so you can return to the balanced path."
"Die?! Never. You keep me balanced."
"You only feel that way because I've made you feel that way, besides it's too late for me."
"No, I feel this way because we are one and I love you. I've always loved you."
"Do you? I didn't think you did anymore," she looked at him full of hurt.
"What?! I visit you as much as I can and reach out to you, but you never come."
"I see those, and I am here. I just don't have enough force to usually form in this realm. I've seen everything you have done, even with her. I've told you in the past I wouldn't want to return to a world that something like that could happen in." Masro pulled away from Kylo looking down.
"I'm sorry. I was weak in the moment." She looked at him, eyes older than she should be. Full of pain.
"Before I die, I want to use the last of my force to restore what led to our children being conceived. I know it has brought you much turmoil, I don't want that to be what leads you down the wrong path." She grabbed his hand before he could object.
They were at the academy preparing for a small peace mission to Coruscant, Skywalker was hoping to expand the Jedi and use the original temple that has laid empty since the empire fell.
It was the middle of the night; they were to leave in the morning. It was heavily raining, and Ben heard a knock at his door. He rose to see who it was when he felt her pain. Ben rushed to the door to see Masro standing soaking wet in the rain. She was shivering, her robes were torn and disheveled. She looked like she was in a trance, her lip was cut, and she had some bruising around the edges of her face. He pulled her inside, quickly undressing her to get her out of the cold soaking clothes. Masro just stood in shock, letting him do what needed to be done. Ben grabbed a blanket and came rushing back, when he noticed more bruises forming on her arms that looked like clinched hands prints. He walked around her and saw even more forming on her back. He wrapped her in the blanket pulling her close.
"Maze, what happened? Who did this to you?" She just broke down into his chest. He pulled her to his bed so he could just hold her. Ben was going to scan her brain because he was fuming, somebody needed to pay for what happened to her, but she looked up at him finally her trance broken.
"I should go, I shouldn't have come here," she tried to pull away from him, he just held on.
"You're not going anywhere until you give me an explanation of what happened?"
"I fell, can I leave now?" She felt his anger rolling off him in waves at her, her force wanted to explode from her body to intertwine with his.
"Masro. Skpar." The way he said it was an angry order. She lowered her eyes.
"I can't tell you, because you'll make to big a deal out of it. I don't want to talk about it, and have to relive it, please."She looked back at him with fear and hurt in her eyes. Ben pulled her back in his arms searching her face for answers. He put his hand on her cheek.
"Maze, nobody should be able to lay a finger on you. If you were my wife as it should have been all those years ago then this would never have happened."
"We didn't get married though, and our path changed."
"Our Love didn't." He lowered himself to kiss her lips, she hesitated responding to him. He pulled back feeling rejected, Masro reached up to his face pulling him back to her lips. They embraced closing their eyes and releasing their force into each other. Ben reached to lower the blanket wrapped around Masro, she pulled back from his lips and stopped him.
"I don't want to go further than a kiss, at least not tonight. I…I just can't."
"I understand," kylo was shaking with anger knowing Masro was abused. She reached and touched his face and he instantly calmed. "I just wanted you to know that I continue to have feeling for you. I don't want you to hurt, nor anybody to hurt you. Will you tell me who did this? I want to destroy them; nobody will touch you again."
"Maybe someday, but for now can we just go to bed. Can you just hold me and protect me now?"
"Of course, I'm always going to protect you. I hope soon you can confide in me."
The memory skipped, they were on a ship with Skywalker, heading to Coruscant. Ben landed his ship, on a Coruscant landing dock. They walked off to be met by junior senator Orris Madmund.
"Master, we are going to explore the Jedi temple."
"Fine but keep your coms at ready."
Ben and Masro were the only ones selected to join Skywalker for this mission. So, they were pretty excited to spend some time alone together. They took a transport to the temple, a shadow of what it once was. The building was covered in graffiti, and many parts on the exterior alone needed repair badly. They knew it had been taken over by Darth Sidious during the reign of the Empire.
"You sure it's safe to enter, Ben?"
"Not really, but that's never stopped us before."
They marched forward up the steps not knowing what would meet them on the inside. Ben was enamored with the history of the building, knowing many great people were trained in these halls. Masro normally excited by historical buildings was Leary of it.
"What's wrong, Maze?"
"Something feels off about this."
"I don't feel anything."
"Maybe I'm just overthinking it. A lot has happened in this building."
"I bet I can think of one thing that didn't happen in this building." He stopped in front of her and she looked up to meet his eyes.
"Are we going to fix that?" Masro reached up to unbuckle her cloak, pushing it off to land on the floor. Ben gently pulled Masro into his arms and kissed her.
"Yes," he said nearly audible. Ben force opened the nearest room it seemed to be a meeting room it was surrounded with windows. They kissed with him walking her backwards into the room. They undressed each other quickly, hoping nobody flying by could see them. They brought their bodies together; he was gentle of her body knowing she was covered in bruises. She pushed him to the floor, and he helped lower her to straddle his legs. Masro cried out from pain as the position caused Masro's injuries to flair up, but she pushed through it knowing all positions would cause her pain. Masro looked into Ben's eyes.
"Can we be together now?" She asked.
"Always." He kissed her wrapping his arms around her. She lowered a hand and helped him inside, bringing a cry of pleasure from them both. They moved together, looking into each other's eyes. Giving themselves completely over to each other. Their force flowed freely around them, making the ruins of the room float. As they grew closer to climaxing, it became a chaotic mess with objects flying and smashing into each other. She brought him screaming, causing lightning to fly from his fingertips and set the wall behind them on fire. Masro reached around Ben to bring cloth from the shredded curtains over to put the fire out.
He looked at his hands, not exactly sure where the ability came from. Ben looked at her with terrified eyes. She managed to climb off him with great painful effort.
"Perhaps, it's not a good Idea for us to be together after all," she started to dress and avoided looking at him again. Ben jumped up stopping Masro, looking at her seriously.
"You know I have the ability to pull from the dark side, I have both in me. It's who I am. You have never cared before."
"You're right. It has never bothered me knowing you have the abilities. It's seeing you use them that scares me."
"Maze, I would never use that ability. It only happened because I fully released myself to you. Don't you see I'm stronger around you? I have more abilities because of our passion."
They finished dressing in silence, Masro walked over to look out on Coruscant. Wondering if Darth Sidious or Darth Vader stood here planning the destruction of the galaxy. Ben came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her. They knew Skywalker was on his way, they felt him getting closer.
She turned in his arms and brought him in for a kiss, accepting him for all he is.
The vision jumped.
Ben and Masro returned to Coruscant several weeks later, Masro had been sick for a couple of weeks. Worrying Ben greatly, they had grown very close in their relationship. Masro was by Ben's side day in and day out now, where she felt safe and he kept her that way. She refused to see the medic at the academy, even though Ben was insistent. Though her appetite picked up another thing unlike Masro.
"Maze, I think when we land on Coruscant you should see a medic. I'm getting really worried about you. If you don't want to see the one at the academy that's fine, but here you can hide who you are."
"Fine, if it will get you to stop badgering me, I'll go see one, alone," She stopped looked at Ben covered her mouth and ran off. They landed and Ben was heading for the temple, to check on construction, Masro took a transport to a medic office she knew. She wore her cloak with the hood on when traveling, not wanting to be revealed as a Jedi. Many people were still Leary of them on Coruscant. When she arrived, she walked across the dock to head to the office. It wasn't in the greatest part of the city, there were droids just dumped on the street and people begging for credits.
"I don't have much, but I can offer you my food," Masro gave her lunch to a couple of kids and their mom. She looked very grateful until Masro moved her robe to retrieve it flashing a glance at her lightsaber. The mother grabbed her children back and tried to scuttle away with them with out the food. Masro chased after them, grabbing the mother's hand. She shoved the food into her hands. "I'm not here to hurt you."
She continued to the medic office; it wasn't far from where she left the family at. Upon entering, the office was filled with people of all races, she walked up to the counter.
"Reason for visit?"
"To see what's wrong with me."
"As the doctor is very busy it will be several hours." Masro waved her hand pushing the force out.
"You understand I'm on a diplomatic mission and will see me next."
"Oh, we have an opening and can see you next, miss…"
"My name doesn't matter."
Masro was taken to a room and sat on the medical table. A droid came in a few moments later. She described her symptoms and the droid had her lay down for a scan.
"Well miss you are with child; we could take care of it if you need."
"No."
Masro returned to the Jedi temple, lost in her thoughts. How was she going to tell Ben? Was she going to tell him? She decided to erase their relationship, with great heart ache. Masro would wait until she started to show, then leave the order. She would raise their child on Naboo, though she would be disgraced it wouldn't matter as long as her child was raised not to fear any abilities he or she may have.
Ben turned to see Masro, he ran to her seeing her distraught face.
"What's wrong? Are you ok?"
"Yes. I'm sorry Ben. I love you too much to ruin your future," she pulled a confused Ben in for one last kiss and touched his forehead.
Kylo pulled away from Masro, looking at her with hurt in his eyes. "You were going to leave me and take our child?" His anger built up was unbearable for her, Masro started flickering.
"Yes." She burst into tears. "I'm so sorry. If you hate me now, I forever understand."
"You changed your mind. Sometimes what you said didn't make sense but now I know you were never going to leave."
"Yes, I was. When you told me about the trip to Naboo, I was so happy because I could just disappear. I just wanted you to Stay on your path and not stray. I don't want you to think I didn't love you, Because I did and still do. I've ruined everything."
"Masro, Stop. Why are you doing this?"
"He says I have to. I'm already dead in that chamber. The hope is gone from my soul. My heart already perished when I watched…I can't say it again." She avoided eye contact. Kylo shifted uncomfortably at the mention but pulled her back to his arms.
"Who is He?"
"Death," she said looking up at him broken of any spirit. No longer a will to live behind those eyes.
"No, if he were death, he would just take you. This is something else, something trying to keep us apart. You need to fight now more than ever, I will convene with my master to gather thoughts and build a plan,"he said with such determination that Masro pulled him in for a kiss. It was returned warmly but with hesitation behind it. She pulled back. "We will have words when you awaken on this subject, for now you are mine your soul belongs to me and cannot be taken."
"Your words give me hope, a dangerous notion in my position. Will you forever be upset with me?"
"No, I just don't understand why you changed thing so much."
"I guess It's difficult for me to believe that someone as important as you could want me, so I end things between us before you ended it forever."
"If I didn't want you, I wouldn't start the cycle over. I want you to promise when I wake you, to never use that ability on me again."
"I promise, I will only undo the damage I caused."
"One thing still troubles me, you have yet to reveal who did such a vile violent act to you."
"It is of the past, you said you destroyed the temple and only a few remain. You most likely killed him, so it is not worth dredging up the pain. I'm becoming unstable, I can feel it. You have given me a glimmer of hope, please help me."
"Always, my love," they kissed, and she slowly disappeared back into the force. Kylo dressed to immediately call upon his master. He marched across the base to the inner sanctum. He roared into the room.
"My apprentice, I have felt a disturbance in the force. Have you felt it?"
"Yes, Master. It's why I'm here. My wife has come to me in a form given by the force. She has told me that Death has manifested into a form to torture her and for me to let her die."
"I sense this brings you great turmoil. Do you believe this story she has told you?"
"Master, it is not a story. She is being tortured; I saw the end results on her body with my own eyes. I thought I saved her mind years ago, but since the kyber had been all mined from the planet we haven't been able to communicate."
"Yes, you spoke of your mission to Mortis. Did she tell you where she is being held captive?"
"No Master. I….I neglected to ask that."
"You will have to mind bond to help her, to go where her spirit is. Beware if you die then you both will die."
"Yes, Master. I'm prepared to fight." Snoke disintegrated into the dark. Kylo stood and marched to the sick bay stopping at the knight's temple. He summoned Shim to help him on his mission. They reached the sick bay and locked the medical team out. Kylo pulled a gurney over to lay next to Masro. He climbed up.
"Master, my people have done this ritual for eons but it's very dangerous."
"I'm aware of the risks. My wife doesn't deserve to be tortured! I will do anything to save her."
"Lay down, I will place these essence and plants on you both, but I will have to connect your minds myself."
"Wait, does that mean you could be hurt from this?"
"Yes, but I'm willing to sacrifice myself to save her. Masro was always kind to me at the academy, she always helped me when I needed anything. She is worth my sacrifice."
Kylo laid down, Shim started chanting and placed the plant essence mixture on both his palms and Masro's then on both their foreheads. She placed a hand on each of the heads and pushed her force out while finishing the chant. Shim's eyes turned completely white as she continued. The essence released on both their bodies into the air and then down their throats.
