A/N: I'm so sorry for the late update. This chapter is a pretty slow but I promise the story will pick-up soon. I just wanted to get a layout of where Rey and Kylo were weeks or months after Crait. Hopefully, I was able to portray that.

Reviews are always welcome! Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 2: Happening Again

"We have nowhere to go, General," Poe said in defeat. "We can't float in space forever. Rations, supplies, fuel, morale. They're all running seriously low."

"I know, I know. But we must have hope." Leia sighed in grief. Even after she's lost everyone shes loved, hope was a needed spark.

"I'm sorry ma'am. But look where hope has gotten us." Kora snorted. She was young, looked to be about Rey's age.

"Kora!" shouted Poe in shock mixed with rage. The looks around the cargo bay were an infusion of outrage, irritation, restlessness, and sadness. But deep down they knew it was the truth.

"Kora, I understand." Leia lifted her hand, palm toward the girl. "We are in a tough position. We don't really know where any of our allies stand. Let alone know if they will help us"

"No one came to help us, General." snapped Rentan "They heard our distress call and they ignored us. Left us to die!"

Leia sighed, almost on the verge of collapse. She was right when she told Holdo that she wasn't sure if she was able to take any more losses. Her heart was breaking. Everything she's fought and protected for the last 30 years was radically exterminated by her own son.

"I can't stress enough how badly we need supplies, Princess." Poe pleaded.

"If we really ration the food, that we currently have, we have less than a day and a halves worth ma'am," Finn interjected.

She was happy her friends had survived, but barely. By their literal skins, they were able to escape Crait. But space was very limited on the ship. She wasn't used to constantly being around people. All her life on Jakku, after Starkiller Base, on Ahch-To, and even when the Force connected her with Kylo. She was always alone.

She found it easier being able to ebb an flow with the Force when Master Skywalker was around. He had a calm understanding of her newly raw and awakened power. He had told her the last time he felt this much power was in Ben Solo. He was more scared than ever, she felt, was because he didn't want Rey to end up like his nephew. She knew she couldn't end up like him. She wouldn't. It was why she denied Kylo on the Supremacy. There needed to be a balance. Like she felt on the island.

Her last image of Kylo was of him kneeling on the floor of the console room on Crait. She felt all of his sadness, malice, and his abandonment. Rey didn't have the time to care. He was a monster. And her friend's lives were at stake.

'Let the past go, let it die if you have to.' she remembered as his words haunted her ears when she closed the hanger door and left the bond behind her. He was to become part of her past. Rey couldn't let it die. Not yet. And it bothered her down to her core.

She needed off this ship. Soon.

Kylo needed away from the Order. He felt smothered by the people around him. If he had to endure one more "strategic" session, he was going to Force choke them all.

"Supreme Leader, what are we do with these Rebellion rumors?" a general squawked as he slammed a hand on the table. Ren looked at the general and nodded. At the moment, he could care less. There have been rumors, like these, for weeks. People kept sending reports about seeing a girl with a Wookie. Or seeing his father's YT freighter. Again, they were just rumors. In truth, she and the Resistance had seemed to have fallen off the face of the galaxy.

"Sir?" Vrei Yidrath, the diplomat of his knights, looked at Ren. "Sir, are you ok?" she leaned to him and whispered

Kylo snapped out of this headspace. "What of these rumors? They are only that. But we can never be too careful. Vrei, send a small squadron of 8 troopers to inspect. Have Kier take command." Keir Astar was the most the level-headed of the Knights, the Monk. Ren sent her out knowing she would be able to acquire information from civilians without bloodshed being dropped.

"Yes, Supreme Leader." Vrei slammed her fist into her chest walked out with her orders.

"Supreme Leader" Hux hissed. "We still need to proceed with plans to how we are to replace the Supremacy."

"I could care less about the replacement of that ship. Your obsession with that monstrosity is ridiculous. " Kylo glared at the ginger Kowakian monkey-lizard under his mask. He hated him more than he hated Snoke. "It is a waste of finance." Ren rubbed his leather covered hand over his mask out of habit.

"We need that ship!" Hux demanded

"We have no need for a ship of that size." Ren snapped and rose to his feet. The people of the table flinched "We could use our finances elsewhere. Like expanding the fleet we lost when they decided to put a ship into hyperspeed right through the Supremacy. Or when they blew up a dreadnought."

"Sir," Admiral Junicar Corcas interjected,"We could push some of those credits towards the replacement of the TIE ships we've lost or armor and weapon upgrades for our troops."

"Something I can agree on, Admiral." Kylo acknowledged.

"Thank you, Supreme Leader" Junicar smirked towards Hux. All Hux could do was huff.

"Meeting adjourned" Kylo swiftly left the room before anyone was able to salute him.

While Kylo walked the halls, Stormtroopers walked out of their way to avoid him. He could sense their fear of him. Now that he was Supreme Leader he felt their fear was amplified. They were all scared he would have one of his infamous tantrums and lash out at them. This thought made his smirk under his mask.

As soon as Kylo entered his quarters, the world turned silent. The humdrum of the ship, droids, and its people had all disappeared. The air around him felt heavy and echoed. His heart thumped wildly. He knew what was happening.

'This must be a dream.' He thought 'That was over.'

It ended when he ended.

Kylo slowly turned around to see the shape of her. She was here. Or there. Where ever she was. Her frame looked smaller than before. Ren realized she was sitting on something with her legs crossed under each other, her hands dangled over her knees, eyes shut. She seemed to be meditating.

He could feel her but couldn't feel her, not like before. This connection was weak. Kylo Ren wondered if she knew he was there. Or here. He could see the fall and rise of her shoulders from breathing. Kylo stepped quietly towards her as not to startle her. His gloved hand stretched out to her. She looked peaceful but drained. All spark and spunk seemed to be lost. Even in this state she still looked captivating.

As soon as she appeared she was gone.