[Rey]

"Kylo?" Rey said as soon as the door shut behind her. She spared a quick glance to Poe and Finn, who were pressing buttons and trying to get a response from consoles on their side of the compartment. She put a hand on Kylo's shoulder, but it was little different from touching a bulkhead – softer and warmer, yes, but just an object.

He lifted his head. "Rey."

"I- I can't feel you in the Force. I can't feel anything. What happened?" And then it hit her. The words tumbled out, "You cut me off. You ended the-" He looked at her so blankly she wondered if he even understood what she was saying. "I didn't know that was possible."

"The bond?" he said.

"Yes. Because I took …" Her hand fell away from him. Was this what he'd felt on Crait, when she'd tried (and failed) to cut him off?

He shook his head slowly. "No. The bond still exists. We overtaxed ourselves."

"Oh," she said in a small voice, rummaging through what she knew of the Force, most of which was from Kylo. "I- I thought that killed people."

"Become one with the Force," he corrected in a tired voice, massaging one temple. "And yes, we should have."

"Oh," she said again, subdued. Had she nearly killed them both by tapping into his connection to the Force in addition to her own? "But … we would have died anyway if I hadn't …"

He gave her an odd, lingering look. "You didn't do anything wrong."

"I didn't?"

He spoke slowly. "If we're truly partners …" He raised his brows slightly, hopefully.

She glanced behind her at Poe and Finn, who had chosen this moment to be done with their attempts at getting the system to work. They'd turned to face Rey and Kylo. She turned her back on them and changed the subject somewhat. "How long will this last?"

"I don't know." He stood up, carefully resting his hands on her shoulders. They were big hands.

She drew in a big breath and exhaled, feeling the weight on her shoulders lift and return with the motion. Partners. She stuffed that to the side for the moment. "We're blind then," she said, lips tightening in worry. "To the First Order. We won't be able to see them coming."

"We got nothing over here," Finn interjected with frustration and his own worry. "We're not going to get anything from the scanners, either. I'm going to see how the others are." He went out the door, letting them hear an angry Rose saying, 'All you're doing is standing there' followed by Finn asking, 'What's going on?' The door shut behind him. The three left in the forward compartment looked at the now-shut door, then at each other.

"Huh," Poe said unhelpfully, although it did sum up how Rey felt about what she'd heard. "Neither of you, uh, can use the Force right now?"

Kylo didn't answer. Rey turned and nodded. "I- I think that's how it is for right now."

"Huh," he said again, looking across the unlit control boards.

"I suppose we could always kill each other first and save Sidious the trouble," Rey grumbled.

Kylo said slowly, "Snoke couldn't find Luke when he had removed himself from the Force. Maybe Sidious won't be able to see where we've gone."

She raised her brows and tilted her head, twisting her lips in a moue. "This is a breather of some kind, then?"

"It could be." Kylo patted her shoulder. The contact was a comfort, even if strange to her, then he stepped past her and out the door.

"We still have to worry about each other, though," she rejoined to the closed door.

"I have a plan for that," Poe said.

"You do?"

"Yeah."

She decided not to mention how Poe's last big plan had ended up with a mutiny, the ship she was on blasted in two, and most of the Resistance dead. Before that, he'd been instrumental in blowing up the entire planet she was on. She'd escaped both times due solely by the grace of the Force, which she didn't have right now. She went out to see what the others were doing.