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Silence settled on the room as the two stared at one another. The cold fear that exuded from her enveloped him like a blanket. The air thickened around him with the fear to the point it was almost hard to breath. It was like a weight settling on his chest. Then suddenly the sensation just disappeared. It was as if she pulled back her emotions into her body. The air cleared allowing him to take a deep breath. Isla squinted her eyes at him and tilted her head as if confused.
"Sorry?" She asked quietly.
"Who exactly are you?" He asked again. Maybe she hadn't heard him the first time because of her fear.
Isla continued to look at him curiously. Her eyes searched his mask as if she could see past it and was searching for something.
"You already know who I am..." She said after a moment.
He said nothing. She tilted her head again.
"You know exactly who I am, Where I come from, and what knowledge I hold..." She said. "So why bother to ask...I know you can take whatever knowledge you wish..."
A small grin appeared hidden behind his mask. At least she wasn't as stupid as some of people he interrogated. An image of Poe Dameron popped into his head.
"Because you are my guest..." He said simply. "I am giving you the chance to answer truthfully of your own free will...the information I have been given might not be correct."
Her eyebrows shot up as she listened to him.
"I am your...guest?" She asked turning out her hands. "Or is that what you say to all the girls you tie to a chair?"
Kylo Ren said nothing but stood and began to slowly pace around. Isla released a snort. "If I am your guest I would hate to see what you do to prisoners."
That comment made Kylo pause as he passed by her. He reached out to gently take her chin and tilted her face to the side to get a better look at the black eye she sported.
"It was not by my command that this was done to you. I personally find the interrogation methods used by the soldiers barbaric..."
Which was a true statement...He preferred to interrogate them internally at least then there were no physical signs of torture that could be seen. He looked into her eyes from behind his mask. In them he could see a fire. Just like with Rey. This was not going to be easy. But atleast she was easy to converse with.
"I ask you again...who are you?"
She looked up at him defiantly. "I and I will ask YOU again...You already know... I can see it in you...so why bother asking..."
"Because you could be lying." He said as he walked around her chair again. "According to general Hux his sister died when she was five years old."
" Oh really?" She asked surprised. "Is that what he was told?.." Then her face became thoughtful. "Interesting...But why would I lie about being who I am..." She asked. "What could I possibly gain from pretending to be his sister?"
Kylo Ren stopped in front of her. She did have a point. He was silent for a moment before he turned to her.
"He is the first general of the First Order.." He stated repeating what Hux himself had said. "Maybe you were hoping to garner some play of a reunion in the hopes of getting at Supreme Leader Snoke.."
Isla stared at him for some time with one eyebrow arched high on her forehead.
"Wooooow," She said finally. "Surely the great Kylo Ren is not such an idiot as to really believe that..."
At that Kylo Ren had to turn around to suppress his laughter at her thinking the same thing he did when Hux had first made the comment. But then he stoned himself. He had to get information out of her and at this point she was only stalling. He whipped back around and slammed his hands down on the chair on either side of her head causing her to gasp in surprise. He looked over her and stared down at her exuding a dangerous aura as he invaded her space. Isla stared up at him with wide eyes, her breathing quickened as she felt his presence cover her imposingly.
"Where is Luke Skywalker?...Where has the resistance gone?..." he asked in a dangerous voice.
Isla blinked and took a deep breath to control her breathing. Once more he saw her fear disappear behind a well trained stubborn mask.
"What makes you think I would ever tell you anything?" She demanded as she glared up at him.
"...Your soldiers shot down my ship...nearly killed me...kidnapped me...beat the hell out of me...now you tie me to a chair and demand I give you information that will cost me my life."
Kylo Ren leaned further into her causing her to shrink back further into the seat away from him. He only stopped when he was mere inches from her face. The tension between them grew until it was almost stifling. It was as if they were inclosed in a small bubble together where they were the only two people in existence.
"Give me the information I want...or I will take it from you..and trust me when I say that the wounds you have now are nothing to what you will have if I have to take it from you." His low growl made her entire body tingle.
Isla glared daggers at him before she slowly began to lean forward towards him. Kylo didn't move even as she came closer and closer until had he not had his mask they would have been touching noses. As she spoke her lips grazed his mask and she looked into the darkness of his mask as if she could see right into his eyes. He was giving her the choice of taking the easy way or the hard way. Part of him hoped that she chose the easy way, because he knew the pain his power could cause.
"Only if you say...please..." She growled back at him in her own low voice.
So it was to be the hard way then. He thought as he leaned off of her. He was Kylo Ren the apprentice of Supreme Leader Snoke and master of the Knights of Ren...He would never..say please...to anyone. He put his hand towards her and used his power to pull her head towards him as he began to enter her mind. The process of going through someone's mind was like breaking into someone's house and looking through all of the rooms. He went through her thoughts. He felt her anger of being capture and saw how she fought back against the soldiers. Snoke was right she had caused a lot of trouble for them. He began to dig deeper into her mind. As he did her face took on a look of pain. She began to whimper as he stomped among her thoughts. She had to stop him.
She looked towards him and began to concentrate through the pain. At first he didn't move but then she noticed his hand shaking. Behind his mask Kylo Ren concealed his own look of pain as she began to send the pain he was causing her back onto him. It first began as a headache and then intensified. His eyes began to burn as he watched tears began to stream down her face. But he did not release her. Onward he tore through her mind. He saw visions of her childhood with her mother father and brother. So she was indeed Hux's sister. He was close to finding out why she and her mother had left when suddenly..
"NO," She growled
The vision began to change and Kylo found himself staring at a door in her mind. How had she done that? How had she closed him out..and why? What happened for her to leave and her father to fake her and her mother's death? But he didn't have time for that now. He had to find the information he needed. He continued to look around. He saw a familiar figure in her thoughts and went towards it. Luke Skywalker, to her the man had been like a second father even though he had not chosen her to be a Jedi apprentice. He trained her to control her powers and how to fight. Kylo Ren could see the fondness the Jedi held for her just from her memories. It infuriated him. He didn't have much time. The pain she was throwing back on him was making him see spots in his vision. He was almost there. He saw her standing with Skywalker on an island in the middle of an ocean. He saw her following the aging Jedi up a long path of stone steps. He knew this planet. He had been here before..Then once more the scene changed and the door closed on him as she deflected him from the memory.
"Are you going to be a Jedi?" He suddenly heard a small child ask.
Kylo Ren turned around and found himself in another memory from her past. His eyes widened as he watched the vision before him. A tiny girl in a dirty mud covered dress with her bright red curls wrapped up in a scarf stood before a tall lanky ten year old boy with dark curly hair and dark eyes. Nearby Luke Skywalker spoke to a large man about he and his apprentice staying in the man's home for the night. The boy looked down at her proudly.
"I'm going to be the best Jedi in the universe even better than my master and grandfather."
The little girl looked up at him with wide eyes and a look of awe. Kylo Ren could feel her admiration and love for his younger self. He suddenly released her and stumbled backwards. She knew him...She knew him, she knew him from before..Kylo Ren looked back up at the chair where she lay with her eyes closed gasping for air. A trail of blood trickled down her nose.
He turned and stormed out of the room away from her. He swept past the stormtroopers and down the hall. He did not stop until he slammed the door to his bedroom quarters and locked it behind him. He walked into the bathroom and stood before the mirror. Then he took off his mask and slammed it down on the sink before staring into his reflection. His hair was wet from perspiration and sticking to his face. His skin was pale and glistening. His eyes were blood shot and from his nose trickled a small stream of blood that matched hers. She was a powerful empath indeed. She also had powers of mind deflection. That she had probably learned from his old master. He could tell from her mind that they were close. That was how she had been able to shut him out from those memories.
But what really troubled him was that she knew him from before. He did not remember her. But she remembered him and when he had felt the emotions of love and admiration she had for the boy before her, the feelings that pulled him towards the light came back full force. One thing he had always yearned his entire life was for someone to admire him as they did his master. She had viewed him as a hero. Kylo Ren slammed his fist down on the sink. He was no hero. He gave a sigh and leaned against the sink watching the blood drip from his nose. After a while he cleaned his face and walked over to his chair that sat in front of the pedestal where his grandfather's mask lay. He knew he would have to report to Snoke soon to give a report on what he had discovered of the girl. But he did not want to go in this troubled state. Snoke would know something immediately and might demand to see the girl himself. Kylo Ren knew what that would mean.
He knew himself to be powerful in taking information from somone's mind. But Snoke..Snoke cared little for the damage he did when interrogating a person. Kylo Ren atleast left them in one piece. He had seen beings reduced to babbling vegetables after Snoke was done with them. If he got a hold of her...There would be nothing left afterwards, and there were many things Kylo Ren needed to know. He thought he knew where the planet with the ocean was that he saw. But he still needed to know where the resistance was and the Englightened. He also wasn't sure why but he wanted to know how much she knew of him from before, and what happened for her to disappear from her family. She was suddenly a lot more dangerous to him than she had been before.
"Grandfather," He whispered. "I need your guidance..."
A/N
Hi guys so I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had alot of fun writing the dialog between them. I really love her character and her history. Next chapter we'll see more interaction between them as well as her brother seeing her for the first time. Please let me know what you think!
