Ch 12
Ben
I was sitting in a metal chair; a medical droid was checking my bacta bandage from the wound Rey had given me.
I remembered it so clear, it was like all of a sudden everything around went quiet, there was a strange feeling of awareness. Like when someone's following or watching you.
I sat still through the Force and suddenly she was there.
I froze in shock, and I could sense the fear inside of her. And the rage... pure rage that could be channeled into...
And my thoughts ended there, she had picked up a blaster and shot me.
She hadn't actually hurt me, but it felt like she had.
Yet when I looked down, there was no wound, no blood, no death.
When I looked back up she was gone.
I stood up and ran, I could still sense her.
Was she on the ship? If she was, how had she gotten on without being detected?
Finally I found her and raised my hand towards her.
"You will bring Skywalker to me" I commanded her. She just stood there, confused and questioning my actions.
There was nothing, no response, to resolve to give into my demands on her part.
Frustrated I lowered my hand, realizing she wasn't on the ship, but we were being connected through the Force.
"You're not doing this; the effort alone would kill you" she continued to glare in my direction.
How was it that we could see each other?
I was intrigued by this turn of events. How was this even possible? What was stranger still was that she hadn't tried to attack me.
"Can you see my surroundings?"
"You're gonna pay for what you did!" She shouted back.
"I can't see yours" I said, a part of me became calm, curious. "Just you"
That seemed to cause some form of reaction. She hadn't physically done anything, her brow twitched slightly, but I could feel the turmoil inside of her. She was stunned, confused and scared at this situation, just like I was.
"So no. This is something else" I stated, her silence was beginning to annoy me.
That's when I heard it, a door had creaked open, but listening to it was like hearing it from underwater. She turned her head and I felt another presence, a light.
"Luke" I said and nodded, sure of my discovery of my uncle dropping in on our conversation.
That's where the connection ended and I stood there in the hallway. I had tried to activate it on my own many times after that, unsuccessfully. Our connection eventually became something odd, sometimes unwanted, sometimes much needed. The more we used it, the more we were able to open it ourselves.
The memory continued. Now I was staring through a window, overseeing the production of new droids.
Much like the first time, things and sounds began to mute around me.
I could feel her... her light was so warm, so... comforting. I turned around and she was there.
This time her eyes were weary, but there was something else behind them...
"Why is the Force connecting us? You and I"
"Murderous snake" she spat. She definitely had a fire in her. It wasn't the first time I'd seen it, yet the more I saw of her the more I was drawn to her, to her light. "It's too late. You lost. I found Skywalker" Her words triggered something inside of me, why couldn't she understand? How could I make her see the truth of who I was? What I had become?
"Did he tell you what happened? The night I destroyed the temple, did he tell you why?" I don't know what made me ask her those questions, but I hated a one sided story. I hated being blamed for everything and paying the price for the mistakes others had made.
"I know everything I need to know about you" her tone never wavered, each word cut like a knife through my soul.
"You do?" I asked, "Ah, you do" I had remembered that just as I had once searched her mind, she was able to search mine.
"You have that look in your eyes, from the forest. When you called me a monster" I told her.
She was angry, determined, there was that dark fire inside of her, hatred.
"You are a monster" she said
"Yes... I am" I said, wholeheartedly agreeing with her.
She seemed shocked at my agreement, her brow furrowed and her thoughts were racing. I had left her speechless.
The connection began to fade, I could feel it, and once it did I was left confused and with a handful of water from the mysterious world in which she resided.
