Poe's POV:

"YOU DID WHAT?" I screamed at Finn, "You frickin' sent Ben off to find ROSE of all the people, so they could go and hunt down Rey - ALONE."

Finn winced, "yup," he muttered, "sorry?"

"SORRY ain't gonna cut it," I yelled, "Do you know how dangerous that is? And with Ben being on Hux's frikin' REVENGE LIST! Are you CRAZY?"


A/N: And that, my dear children, is what I imagine Poe's reaction to this . . . uh . . . SiTuAtIoN would be. But I will now take this time for you ppl to listen to yet another of my BoRiNg rants. SO, the other day I was listening to My Oh My by Camilla Cabello. Basically, my weird Reylo brain translated that song into the rest of my fanfic, therefore making me scrap any other ideas. I don't really know if that leaves me at a good or bad point. For the sake of hope, I'm gonna say it's good. But yes, I am aware you don't want to listen to me when there are much more exciting things happening in my twisted version of Star Wars so . . . onto the story! :)


Rey's POV:

I screamed.

The shadowy figure swooped down to my face again, it's hands . . . no, claws grasping my head, probing deeper and deeper.

It knew everything. My deepest secrets and my thoughts.

Every.

Single.

Feeling.

The thing's claws dug even deeper into my skull, piercing me.

All I could feel was pain.

Then I screamed again. A bloodcurdling scream. Hot tears ran down my face from eyes I couldn't close.

Hux walked up to me, a mask shielding his emotions. He forced a black liquid down my throat - it tasted vile.

Then all I saw was black.


Ben's POV:

I led Rose back to where the . . . err . . . incident happened, and she took to examining the walls. She finally stopped and said, "This one. It's hollow."

I tried to blast through using the force, TRIED, but Rose wouldn't let me. She said something about secrecy and blending in and being quiet. When have I ever gone unnoticed? I'm the frikin' former Supreme Leader for all anyone knows.

Ten long minutes later, filled with me pacing and Rose getting increasingly annoyed with my pacing, she uncovered a small gadget. "It's probably just a plumbing thing," I brushed it off, but Rose (as usual) ignored me.

But this time I was glad she ignored me.

"There's a sensor built inside to detect coded symbols camouflaged in uniforms, and it seems to be that-" I cut her off, "let me see that symbol."

I bent down, looking at the camouflaged hexagon with an inner circle, sixteen sharp rays going inwards, "No," I said, "It can't be." "The symbol of the First Order,'' Rose confirmed for me, and a look of horror, yet acceptance, appeared on my face.

"That means that someone-," I started. "Re-grouped the First Order," Rose finished for me.

I sighed, considering what I should do, then muttered, "The sensor will work for me."

"No, it won't," Rose said in confusion, "Everything you're wearing is from the Resistance, and we tested you for microchips." I glared at her, "I know. If you don't remember, I was the Supreme Leader, I got special access to things."

I pulled out a wide ring from my pocket and it snapped open with my fingerprint, revealing a heavily coded symbol of the First Order, "I was going to hand this into the authorities when I found it a couple days ago, but when the whole thing with Hux and Rey happened, I decided it might be useful,"

"There isn't any tracker on it; only I could access the data it recorded, but be careful with it just in case," I continued. "Woah," Rose said in awe, a hint of fear in her tone, "Hold it to the sensor."

I complied and a door silently slipped open behind us. As Rose and I stepped inside, the door slid shut again and a couple dim lights flickered on. "Quiet," she whispered to me. I smirked, "As if I don't know already.".

A couple minutes and too many flights of stairs later, Rose and I came to a large, seemingly central cave. The same dim lights shone in both of the two narrower passageways "You take one, I'll take the other?" I asked Rose. She gave me a nod and pulled out her blaster. I followed, pulling out Luke's saber.

I treaded carefully down the passageway to the left. I came to another flight of stairs leading down even more. I followed them, keeping tense and my saber ready. When I reached the bottom, I was greeted by a hard metal door. I used the ring to unlock it and entered.

It was a small cave with a few lit candles in crevices. A little farther along, a decently sized cage caught my attention. Inside, bound and gagged, was Rey. "Rey," I called out, so sad to see her like this - so weak, not the string and capable woman she usually is.

She slowly fought to consciousness, and she gave a smile seeing me, that quickly turned into fear, "Ben! I told you not to come." I just raised my eyebrows at her, unlocking the cage and stepping inside. I quickly removed the gag, and she started coughing, a sound I was relieved to hear for once.

"They want you, not me," she said, her voice finally sounding somewhat clearer than it did. "Who's they?" I asked her, already working on the bounds, revealing quite a bit of rope burn. "Hux and someone called Commander X," she answered.

I growled, "Hux, of all the people . . . I should've known." I cut the last few greenish-vomit-damp looking ropes with a sharp piece of flint I found on the ground. Where she should have had a bit of rope burn, there were instead cuts, with an unhealthy green-blue tint to them.

Rey turned around to face me, still wearing that beautiful gown from Saturday night, "Rey, you-." She cut me off, catching my mouth in hers. Neither of us could help it. Her hands twined with my hair, mine holding her hips. It felt so good to finally taste her again and I brought her in even closer, her hand falling to my chest.

"Get a room," someone said and we broke apart immediately. Honestly, what is it with us being interrupted? Come on people, can't we get a little privacy?

I turned around to see a very smug looking Rose, obviously holding back a laugh. "Wait, how did you get here? Didn't you go through the other tunnel?" This time she did laugh, "It's apparently just a different route to the same place."

"But come on, we gotta get out of here," Rose said, already taking out her blaster and jogging out. I grabbed Rey's hand and started to follow. Rey ran a few steps but fell down. Hux had apparently not fed her - she was thin and weak. Those ropes had some kind of acid on them too.

I gave a quick glance around, then picked Rey up bridal style and hurried out.

Rey leaned against my shoulder, her breathing shallow in the humid tunnels. Rose had blasted at least five guards by now, and we were expecting more. Exactly two minutes and forty-three seconds after we started running, the alarms sounded.

Just ahead, I spotted another guard. Just like the rest, he was dressed in stormtrooper wear, tinted by red, the symbol of the First Order printed neatly over his heart. Rose shot him dead. And the next two that popped out of the shadows.

"Ammo" Rose said urgently as we continued running along. "Here," I tossed a pack to her - it wasn't exactly easy to do while holding Rey. Rose caught the pack, an impressive feat considering we were running full speed down a narrow, dark tunnel.

We finally broke through to the dark, looking-very-abandoned backstage. We didn't stop running - Rey needed to see a medic.


Rey's POV:

I rested my head against Ben's chest, rising and falling steadily. I could see that we were finally out in the open, clouds threatening a rainstorm. I would have enjoyed the fresh air more if my entire body didn't feel like it was burning.

Soon, the rain started. It was only a drizzle, and the cool water felt cuts didn't feel so bad now.

Ben rushed me inside to a brightly lit room, and I could hear medical droids whirring around me. I was asleep in minutes.


THE NEXT MORNING (Wednesday)

I woke up in a bright white room. A medical droid rolled out, a sliding door closing behind it. I was dressed in a short gray gown, and I felt so much better than the day before. All my injuries were treated and wrapped in gauze.

I looked to my right, and couldn't help but smile. Ben was sleeping on the chair next to me, looking so peaceful and innocent. His dark curls framed his face, hiding his scar. You could almost mistake him for a young boy, not yet having faced life's trials. I reached out to shake him awake, wincing at the soreness in my wrist.

"Ben," I whispered, giving him a poke. He gave a grumble and turned around, mumbling something about five more minutes. I gave a loud laugh. Someone was apparently not a morning person.

"Ben," I called a little louder, this time actually shaking him. He groaned and opened his eyes, blinking at the bright initially looked confused as to why he was sleeping in a chair and waking up to medical ward lights, but he gave a bright smile when he saw me.

"Rey! You're up!" I smiled, "Yeah, and I'm guessing you stayed up all night, which isn't healthy by the way," I teased and he lovingly glared at me, "I refused to leave your side." I softened my gaze, "And I'm glad you did," I said and I leaned up to kiss him.


A/N: Yay! Happy ending to this chapter! *pause while I leave to go celebrate* Oh don't worry people, there's plenty of unhappy things I have planned. 50% of the characters are going to go through a near-death situation, so I suggest enjoying the happy(ish) chapters while they last. I also have a cute reylo moment planned for the next chapter too, and I have absolutely no clue when I'm gonna get it out. Aiming for next Sunday. Pray for me. Anyways, love u guys! See y'all later! :)

(Yes I know this chapter is so much later than I planned. I have tried and failed, and failed again, and again, to stick to a schedule)