So, before I get things started, I wanted to clarify a few things:

1. Currently Ben is 29 years old (born in 5 ABY) and Klara is 26 (Born in 8 ABY) Poe is 32 (born in 2 ABY) Rey is 19 (born in 15 ABY).

2. The force awakens takes place in 34 ABY

3. ABY stands for After the Battle of Yavin

4. Ben turned to the Dark side in 28 ABY when he was 23 years old

5. Force Wave: One of the most powerful forms of Force Push, it was essentially a wave of pure Force energy that pulsed out from the Force user that utilized it which knocked back anything within the power's blast radius. Klara will be using this in this chapter

6. Force Fear: is a dark-side Force power and possibly a dark-side variant on the Jedi mind trick, used by the Sith. The wielder would strike directly at the deepest parts of the target's mind, causing an uncontrollable shaking fear that would wreak havoc with the target's capabilities. Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren will be using this in this chapter.

7. "What in the universe" is an expression used in shock or surprise.

8. Force Jump: Force users call upon the force to aid their jump and push off, launching into the air. These force sensitive people also use the force to help the landing as not to break their legs.


Chapter 8: Rey


19 ABY

Fifteen years ago…

Raised voices attempting to remain hushed could be heard by Ben, souring his mood further. He sat on a ledge peering out to the horizon as he attempted to mute them out by digging his nose further into a text regarding the Jedi ways, difficult as it was. His parents and uncle had sensed the Force in him since birth and soon, he would be of age to train as a Jedi under Luke. Luke had pestered his parents about it and yet, much to his disappointment, both of his parents denied him the privilege. The answer was unclear to Ben other than them saying he wasn't of age. Ben Scoffed. There were younger trained in the past so why should this prevent him from training? He was capable, he knew it. Yet Luke always listened to his mother's wishes. For once, he wished others would listen to his.

Ben was interrupted from his thoughts as a small figure swiped the book that he had been reading from his very hands. "Hiya, Ben." She said in between giggles as she caught his soured reaction.

"Give it back, Klara. I'm not in the mood." Ben grumbled as he attempted to retrieve his stolen text. Klara drew back further.

"You weren't even reading. I saw. You remained on the same page for quite some time." She teased him.

Ben shot her a glare. "Why do you pester me so much? Go annoy someone else." Ben said as he swiped his book back and opened it to where he had left off.

"But I want someone to come with me to the markets and father won't let me go by myself." Klara whined.

Not bothering to look at her as his irritation flared, Ben grumbled, "You know I hate that place so why even bother asking me?"

Klara remained silent for a moment and Ben thought he had hurt her feelings somehow, so he glanced up from his book. Ben noted that she did not have the look of someone hurt but rather...concerned. "I know how much it bothers you when they fight so… I just… wanted you to be away from this." She voiced, concerned as she pointed at the closed doors across from them. The arguing continued.

Sighing Ben closed his book and stood up. "Alright." He said which earned him a tight embrace from her as soon as he spoke. She was much shorter than him, in fact, he was certain almost all kids his age was shorter than him. "But don't get in the habit of dragging me down to some ridiculous market each time this happens." He returned her hug and grimaced at the thought. He hoped his parents would work through whatever differences they may have.

"You and I both know that's a lie." Klara stated as she ran ahead, not waiting for Ben. Ben chuckled as he followed her way out. She knew him too well. Klara had the power to make him do anything she wanted. He smiled. But he did it because he loved her as if she were his own sister.


Present

Takodana

34 ABY

"That was Rey. I got acquainted with her briefly before coming here." Han replied to Maz's question. Leaning back, he took a bite from a pastry before speaking again, "I'll tell you what though, that girl definitely knows her stuff. In fact, I'd say she's almost as good as me when it comes to piloting or knowing the mechanics of the things she flies." He finished, his admiration for the girl quite clear in his voice.

Chuckling, Klara turned towards Maz. "The Force is strong with her Maz. I'm sure you sensed it. She's the one I've been having visions of." Maz regarded the information given by Klara and pondered.

"Vision's?" Han asked, raising an eyebrow in question.

Klara had forgotten how much Han didn't quite know of her Force abilities. As far as he knew, she had the Force and wielded a lightsaber but never truly knew the specifics due to his lack of being around. Han was always on the run and couldn't stay in one place too long. This was many of the reasons why things with Leia and him were so complicated.

"Yes. I have precognitions, or Force visions that typically give me a glimpse of the future. I only ever get small glimpses and within these glimpses I can feel the emotions going on as well. Sometimes I see people or sometimes it's a place. Whatever I see, I usually end up with questions." Klara paused as she stole a glance towards Rey talking to Finn before looking back at Han. "In this case, I've been having one about Rey."

Han nodded, soaking up this new information on Klara's ability within the Force. "What did you see?"

Klara took a large gulp from her drink before sighing. "I saw Rey fighting against…Ben." She looked up from her drink to watch Han's expression fall. "He was angry but-and I think-he was conflicted. I believe he's always been conflicted. I sensed that Rey plays a huge part in this war."

"Do you know when this happens?" Han chocked out.

"Unfortunately, no." Klara admitted shaking her head. "I see things in the future, but I never know when they take place."

Han sighed and nodded. He felt many things regarding his son but none greater than the feeling of regret. Klara knew this too. Not because it was written all over his face when she spoke his name but also because she was familiar with that feeling. Han was always in and out of their lives, sometimes gone for a few days and sometimes a few weeks. It wasn't that he didn't love his family but because of his past dealings with others which lead him to a wide load of debt and a bunch of people that despised him. They hunted him as if they had nothing better to do, so when Han was with his family, it wasn't long before he had to leave to throw off his trail. This was a regret Han had always voiced out, but Han also knew nothing different. Smuggling was his life and unfortunately, there was no getting away.

However, when he was with his family, Han always made sure to make up for his lack of attention to his family. Though Han lacked the same Force bond that Leia had with their son, he comforted himself with the fact that he had a fatherly bond with Solo. Especially in Ben's younger years. But, as Ben aged, they started to become more distant, even more so when Ben was training under Luke. If he had paid more attention to Ben then maybe…just maybe, he would've prevented Ben from going to the dark side.

Then there was Klara. Someone who was not only his family but someone he also considered his own daughter. The day of Klara's birth was joyful yet sorrowful at the same time. She lost her mother during childbirth and it devastated Luke. Leia and he helped Luke with Klara as he grieved. Leia become like a mother to Klara, and him, a second father. When news of Ben's attack reached him and Leia, they were both shocked and devastated especially with knowing that Ben killed Klara. They hadn't seen her, and Ben killed everyone at the Jedi Temple, so they all assumed Ben had killed her. He and Leia fought, and he left. Han hasn't seen Leia since.

"How are you alive?" Han asked, breaking the silence. He turned his attention to Klara as we watched her fidget with her hair. Something he found she did when she was uncomfortable or nervous.

"That day, I fought Ben, but I couldn't-he-I wasn't strong enough." Klara stuttered, ashamed she couldn't stop him. Stop him from murdering thousands later. "He threw me off the cliff assuming the fall would kill me, but I fell into the river below."

Han nodded, absorbing her information. "Why didn't you come find us, kid?"

Klara explained to him why she was unable to come to him. She then explained that once she did regain her memory that she didn't come see them even then, too ashamed of her failure. She explained what she did before she met Maz, following any lead about her father.

"I just wanted to find him so that maybe…maybe he could help us get Ben back. I also missed him too." Klara finished. At some point in their conversation Maz had dismissed herself, leaving just her and Han to catch up.

There was a moment of silence as Han continued to take in this information. Klara had always been worried about the reactions of both Han and Leia when she returned. She had always feared that though untrue, they may blame her for not stopping Ben. It was a feeling she couldn't help. Although they may not blame her for her failure, Klara knew she would always blame herself. If only she had tried a little harder. If only she had spoken up about her vision of Ben as a Sith. If only she could've been enough to help him then maybe all of this wouldn't have happened. There are so many ways she could've tried to stop Ben from becoming the person he currently was today, and yet it was never enough.

Shaking her thoughts away, Klara focused on a deep-thinking Han. She wondered what he was pondering. No doubt related to his son and most likely his wife. One thing was for sure: Han needed to see Leia. She knew that they both missed each other but both were also very stubborn to likely admit it.

"Han, you need to see Leia." Klara spoke out, breaking the silence.

Glancing at her, Han let out a heavy sigh. "Leia doesn't need me."

Klara scoffed at his excuse. "Oh please. She's always needed you, you're just too much of a fool to see it."

Han gave her a pointed look. He knew she was right but was surprised by how straight forward she was. Han had almost forgotten this aspect of her; it reminded him of Leia. "Does she know you're-?"

Klara flashed him a smile, "Oh she definitely knows. If she hadn't missed me so much, I'm sure her lecture would have been worse."

They both laughed at that and both were reminiscing the lectures they were given in the past by Leia. Klara shuddered at the thought. Unlike Ben, Klara was not very obedient. She had the tendency to get herself into some sort of mess that she would have to dig herself out of. Sometimes, Ben, Han, or even her father would be the ones to come to her rescue but as soon as Leia found out, damn, would she never hear the end of it. Since Klara's mother passed during childbirth, Leia didn't hesitate to step in and unconsciously assume the role for Klara which she didn't mind in the least. Seeing Han again only brought back fond memories of a simpler time. Before all the chaos among the stars and planets came to light. Before Kylo Ren.

Klara's thoughts were interrupted as she heard commotion. Her and Han glanced in the direction to find Rey apologizing frantically to Pru Sweevant, a Narquois bandit that's a regular at Maz's Castle, before swiftly exiting the area through the front door.

"I'll go after her. Something's off." Klara stated to Han as she stole a glance in his direction. Han nodded. She turned her attention to the droid. During her whole conversation with Han, she had forgotten that BB8 was there, simply listening. "Best take the droid out of sight. I fear Finn may have been correct. Both sides tend to reside here, and I wouldn't put it past one of them to report the sighting of the droid."

"Yeah, yeah kid." Han simply waived her off as he bit into a pastry.

Rolling her eyes at Han, Klara dismissed herself and quickly made pursuit after Rey.

Just as Klara opened the door to outside, she saw Rey disappear into the sea of green that was the forest just ahead of her. Groaning internally, she sprinted forward after Rey. It had been some time since she had to run, and it clearly showed as her sides started to pinch with stress the further she went. The forest was beautiful as she admired it as she ran, not enjoying the view as much as she would like. It wasn't that long ago that she would come out here, after working a few hours for Maz, to meditate. It was relaxing and helped eased her mind for concentration. During these times, she felt the forest alive. As she breathed, the trees would creak as if to take a breath with her. It was serene.

Snapping out of her reminiscing, Klara halted as she realized she lost sight of Rey. "Rey!" she shouted, hoping a reply would be yelled back. Yet of course, none was. "Kriff." She mumbled to herself.

Sighing in frustration, Klara did a double take in her surrounding, looking for any signs that pointed to where Rey went. She was far from being a good tracker, but she did know a thing or two. Before she could venture further, a sharp pang of fear washed over her. Her head felt like it was constricting on each blood vessel that she had. Something is wrong. Just as she was trying to figure out what caused the Force to cry so forcefully, she caught a glance at the sky above her through the swaying of the trees. Red streaks were seen racing after its prey, the planets. The Hosnian system was not too far from here and was now in submission to the dark power of the darkest making. The Starkiller Base is the name of what had been in the works of the First Order.

Before Klara could even blink, the five specks of planets were seen as a red dot, one in which looking bigger than the others, no longer looking as planets but rather as busted rocks. The pain stopped which meant, the lifeforms were gone. Gaping at the sight before her, Klara started to feel anger. Anger at the First Order, anger at herself, but overall, simply anger. Perhaps if she had came to the Resistance sooner, then maybe she could have prevented such destruction. How could anyone ever live with themselves killing billion upon billions of lifeforms for their own personal gain? The thought was beyond Klara.

Taking deep breaths, Klara saw a distance away in the forest, the droid zooming by on a mission. That droid is going to end up dead one of these days. Klara thought, chuckling, as she pursued the droid, assuming it knew where Rey was. No matter how fast she ran, the droid seemed to always be ahead. Her thoughts on whether BB8 knew she was following him or not were put aside as the droid's head turned to her, chirped in amusement, but kept rolling away.

Not long after, BB8 came to a stop behind Rey and chirped. She saw Rey pulled from her thoughts turn to BB8 as she finally caught up to the droid.

"What're you doing?" She addressed BB8 with frustration. BB8 chirped back in reply, expressing its concern about Rey. Turning toward Klara, "You need to take BB8 back."

Nodding, Klara replied, "I will, once you come back with us."

Sighing, Rey walked forward to BB8 as the droid continued to chirp its concerns. "I'm leaving." She said, addressing them both.

Klara wasn't surprised. She had sensed eagerness for adventure in Rey but also sensed hesitation. She was waiting for someone or something wherever she came from. Klara watched as Rey knelt to BB8, expressing her concerns that the droid needed to get back to the resistance as the droid also expressed its concerns to Rey. As they bickered, Klara faintly heard buzzing in the distance that grew louder with each passing moment. Soon the sound was above them as both Klara and Rey watched several Tie fighters fly by.

"We need to get back to the others, now!" Shouted Klara.

All three of them ran with haste back towards Maz's Castle. The sounds of battle could be heard as they got closer. Once the got to the edge of the forest, Klara witnessed a part of Maz's top of the castle, crumble and destroy the statue that was created of Maz's image. Tie fighters were seen dancing around their victim, destroying every part possible of the Castle. Klara was engrossed on the sight of the place she had called home for awhile now, failed to realize Rey try and shoot her blaster at a Stormtrooper nearby. It wasn't until the shot was fired that Klara quickly changed her attention and was met with a blast coming her way.

"What in the universe…" Klara exclaimed after ducking, trailing off as Rey shot the Stormtrooper and aimed it at the other Stormtroopers outside the forest. "Go," Klara instructed, turning to Rey. "Take BB8 and get to safety, I'll hold them off." Rey nodded and disappeared back into the forest with BB8.

As the Stormtroopers closed in, Klara used the Force to jump closer to them and used to Force to land in the middle as well as landing with her arms stretched out using the Force Push. The shockwave of the Force sent the Stormtroopers flying at a distance, enough to knock them out and for Klara to battle other Stormtroopers. She unhooked her lightsabers from their holster and ignited both. While duel wielding her lightsabers, she struck down Stormtroopers as they approached her, and blocked shots fired at her from afar. During this chaos, Klara had hoped Maz and Han made it out alive, including that former Stormtrooper that was with them.

Stormtrooper after Stormtrooper, Klara struck them down. In her peripheral vision, she saw an ignition of a blue lightsaber. She struck down the last Stormtrooper near her and took a glance in the direction of the lightsaber. Her father's lightsaber. Finn, that stormtrooper, had ignited it and was now fending off his former fellow Stormtroopers.

Well that's a first.

Klara returned her attention to more of Stormtroopers filling in. Using the Force, she pulled three of them in close to her before pushing them out into the water. Just as she did that, she saw Ben walking through a ruined archway. A Stormtrooper sauntered up to him and repeated intel on the whereabouts of Rey and the droid. Before Ben took another step, he locked eyes with Klara. He had felt a presence of someone with strong Force when he got of his ship, but assumed it was Maz, since she has been known to have some connection with the Force. This was the first time he was seeing Klara in the flesh. Last time he had assumed it was his imagination when he was wavering between the dark in light. Yet here she was, alive and well.

Stepping forward towards Klara, Kylo looked her over. "Well, it seems I wasn't successful on killing you." Kylo paused and watched Klara connect her two lightsabers together. He ignited his own in response. "That will change"

Readying herself, Klara launched forward attacking Ben as their lightsabers crashed. It had been awhile since she connected her two lightsabers together. She carried her mother's lightsaber with her as a memory of her and a symbol of hope and resilience. She's had several chances to permanently weld them together but felt she wasn't quite deserving of it yet. Especially since her failures to save people has become something of common lately.

With each strike, Ben would block and with each strike he took, she would block. It always seemed like a never-ending dance between them. Klara wasn't sure she had it in her to strike him down permanently and by the way he's fighting, it seemed he may feel the same way too. She had sensed a struggle within him, a struggle that shows as their lightsabers clash with one another.

"Ben!" Klara shouted.

With extreme force, he struck her lightsaber and Klara fought to hold it upright as it got closer to her face. "That is no longer my name." He spat. "That is the name of a naive fool."

Using the Force with her other hand, she pushed him away. Unlike most with no connection to the Force, he simply dug his lightsaber into the ground as he simply slid away instead of being sent flying away.

"Enough," He extinguished his lightsaber and hooked it back onto his belt leaving Klara confused. "I don't have time for this."

As soon as he used the Force was as soon as Klara experienced fear like she has never before felt. Dropping her lightsaber, Klara crumbled to the ground, scooting as far away from Ben as possible for in her mind, she was deeply afraid of what he'd do. Ben simply turned the other direction and made haste towards what she assumed would be to Rey. But she couldn't get up. No, she was experiencing all her fears on a heightened level. Enough for her to cower in a spot as she tried to hide her face between her legs. She has always had lingering fears in the background, but it never hindered her ability to think straight. What Ben did to her was used a similar aspect of the mind trick Jedi's used and turned it into an experience of utter horror. It's a technique used by those on the dark side to make their enemies either cower, run away in fear, or go insane that they attack anything nearby.

She continued to keep her head down in between her legs because if she looked up, she would find the worst fears on anything her eyes set on. If she looked at a Tie fighter then she would fear being shot down, if she looked at the water, she would fear drowning, if she looked at the sky, she would now fear a red light coming her way to destroy the planet and there would be no escape. It was an unimaginable fear that attacked her very being and rendered her defenseless. The amount of fear passing through her mind was so overwhelming, so uncontrollable, that she could no longer fight it. She was beginning to feel nauseas and dizzy all at the same time.

It was too much. She couldn't fight anymore, so she succumbed to its darkness. The last thing she saw, was Han frantically shaking her, worry clearly written in his expression.


A/N. I apologize for the delay in updates but I promise you I'm still here. I went back and edited minor mistakes. Also, my updates until I'm finished with college (end of this year) will not have a schedule but be more randomly. I apologize for any waiting period but appreciate those that patiently wait. Note that this chapter was not edited for minor mistakes.