A/N - A very very short chapter, but a necessary transition before what I anticipate to be a long one!
It was dark when Rey woke. Cold. It took her a long moment to realize that she wasn't in her makeshift home on Jakku during a freezing desert night. That she was somewhere far worse.
Memories engulfed her in a rapid, brutal wave. Her chest constricted and she could barely breathe through the panic trying to consume her. She was in the palace dungeons, she was certain of it, and she was now at the mercy of Hux and Snoke, who had somehow known she was coming.
A chill crept down her spine; she couldn't bring herself to think about the implications of that as she mentally took stock of the damage to her body. She was sore, tired and weak, but she was alive and whole. For now at least.
Slowly, past the terror of her current situation and her pain, she began to realize something else. She would now know what Ben would do, how he would react without her there, if he would keep control of himself, if he would put the greater good ahead of her, or if he would allow the bloodthirsty, vicious, and malevolent side of himself take control again.
He would come for her, she knew that, but what she didn't know was if it would be the man that came for her, or the monster that man could become.
Another chill slid down her spine but this one had nothing to do with fear for herself, and everything to do with the fact that hell may have just been unleashed on her friends and the Resistance.
And that hell may very well be Ben.
A/N - Hope you enjoyed!
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~ Elizabeth (FanOfDeliciousFlavour)