I always knew my father to be a man of the empire and a right hand man to some of the most elite. He had a sharp and brilliant mind that made a room full of great generals and leaders even then feel less superior at times. Although he was ruthless and would give orders without doubting his skill and strategy, he still had a kind soul and a good heart. He had a wife and a child back on Naboo, my mother and I.
He was a very busy man regarding being a pawn to Darth Vader and others. He often wouldn't be home for weeks, months, or sometimes years, but normally it was long and painful waits. One day after my father came home, he seemed on edge, as if he had accidentally disobeyed orders. From then on and for weeks he always has had an edge on him that restricts him from being himself.
Eventually a few years later my mother was murdered, I never knew the cause, but I had a feeling in my mind and soul that it was someone with malicious intent, possibly someone trying to make my father suffer for a war crime he has committed, or the fact that someone had lost trust in him, whatever it was, someday I will find out what my father is hiding behind all of his grief and guilt.
After many years of trying to figure out my fathers secret and why he has been acting suspicious for years. I woke up one night to the sound of ships approaching and people approaching our home. Most of them were stormtroopers, about 20 of them walked off the ship, but as I imagine there could be more. After they had walked off the ship, some other guards walked off too. They looked rugged and didn't look like the others. They seemed to have worn clothing that a scavenger would wear, after they had walked out Kylo Ren had walked out. His figure was very broad and intimidating, maybe it was the fact that he wore a helmet and the kyber crystal on his saber was damaged, making him seem more dangerous and disheveled.
I grew more anxious as they approached our home, I threw on something to wear Incase they barged in. I then ran into my fathers room as fast as I could, my heart was racing and it felt like that was the fastest I've ran in a while. While running to him I felt like I was being suffocated, I wasn't truly but I felt a lump in my throat, I started to hyperventilate as I ran into my fathers bedroom. I ran up to him and started shaking him, almost as if I was trying to make him fall off the bed.
"Father, father! Wake up!" I said in a panic and with fear in my voice
He shortly woke up after a lot of aggressive pushing and shaking "what, what's wrong?" He asked and concern drowned his face
"I-I'm not sure" I stuttered "there is stormtroopers and I think Kylo Ren, you need to get up, they are approaching right now, I'm scared.." I said with a shaky voice, watery tears filled my eyes and my lower lip was quivering with trepidation
He got up and grabbed a light "listen, I need you to go back to your room and lock the door, whatever you do, do not come out, if they come to you then go out the window and run, run far away, don't come looking for me" he said and I could sense the fearfulness in his voice and his movements, his hands were shaking and sweat droplets slid down his forehead.
"But father, I can't leave you, they might kill you" a few tears slid down my cheeks and my whole body was shaking at this point
He sighed heavily and wiped the tears off my cheeks "please do as I say, everything will be ok, let me handle things, after they leave we can go back to bed and live our lives peacefully"
I nodded hesitantly and as he walked down the hall, headed to the doorway, I couldn't help but follow, I didn't want to stand by and either watch him be killed or taken from me. He walked outside and I stood at a window near the doorway, I his behind a curtain so I wasn't seen, but I watched carefully.
At first he set down the light he had been holding, seconds later he was speaking to Kylo Ren. He was struck with fear, he looked like he was pleading for forgiveness. It didn't seem to go well, as one of the unknown knights was approaching him, he took out his staff and knocked the back of his legs with it, making him fall down to his knees. It was unbearable to watch, my father now old was a very frail man. He seemed in pain but concealed it fairly well. But then he was hit upside the head with the staff, then a few more times. Somehow my father was able to conceal it, until he fell to the ground. That's when I became paralyzed with fear, my first thought was to run outside, I grabbed a staff that was on a table and I ran outside, I stood in a fighting stance, but I was very outnumbered. I then quivered in fear and my whole bday started to shake. I started to cry again, but it was very quietly and unnoticeable. Two stormtroopers came up to me and grabbed my arms, while two others grabbed my father by the arms. One of the storm troopers held a gun to his head.
I started to struggle and fight for my life, I tried kicking and moving my arms but everything was ineffective. "Let go of him!" I screamed and sobbed aggressively
Before I could properly think, there was a flash and a blaster noise being fired, he'd been shot in the head, his body was dropped to the ground. I screamed at the sight of his dead body and the blood pouring from his head. I looked away, the sight of it made me nauseous. As I looked away I was hit in the head, and knocked out, everything went black.
I awoke to find myself in a room, but it wasn't my room, I looked around, there was little lighting and no windows, I seemed to be in a prison cell, but it was too nice to be one. I stood up and my legs immediately gave out and I fell down onto the floor. I groaned and thought in my head "how long have I been out?" I clawed onto the matress of the bed and managed to pull myself up and walk on my feet again. I stepped over to the door and tried to open it, but to my surprise it was locked, I shook the handle, but it wouldn't budge. I started to pound my fists on the door but no one seemed to have heard my cry for help. I heard footsteps at the door and immediately cowered back, there was nothing I could defend myself with now, but my fists.
The door opened and it was one of the unknown knights from before, they grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the room, I didn't dare resist, I was afraid something might happen if I were to. I was dragged into a dark room, mainly filled with lights by buttons on a control panel, I could see clearly, but it was hard to tell that there was a dark figure in front of me. I finally noticed when a hand reached out and grabbed a saber, he ignited the saber and the glow from it shone on his mask. I stood completely still and didn't make a noise. I was inches away from Ren. He didn't speak, but there was a thick barrier of tension between him and I. The knight had left and I was left alone in the room with him. I figured I would be killed by now, but we just stood there in complete silence, maybe for a few minutes or so, until he finally spoke, it was not a voice I wanted to hear at all, it was raspy and dark.
"Do you know what your father did?" Ren asked and the blade of his saber receded
I took a moment to pull together what I would say "N-no, he was innocent and never did anything wrong"
"Or so you think. After Darth Vader died he had a certain amount of people he wanted dead, people who betrayed his trust, your father being one of them. I was set out to kill him, and fulfill his wishes" Ren spoke contently
I thought and sighed "am I going to be killed?" I swallowed down a lump in my throat and finally managed to look at his mask
"No, I will spare you, either you work here or yes, you will die. Since your father was obviously very sharp minded, it means you must be too, maybe you could be a good right hand person to me in the first order" he spoke
I nodded hesitantly, I only agreed because I didn't want to die and I was paralyzed with complete fear.
"If you fail to obey my commands, you'll die" he spat
After we talked he sent me back to my room, this time the door stayed unlocked, maybe he had began to start trusting me, either that I seemed like a coward, or that he is superior to me. I laid down on the bed, curling up into a ball, as I did I began to sob into the comforter and claw onto it. I felt so weak and helpless. I wanted to be held in the arms of my father again, but as I came to my realization, all that mattered right now was staying alive and gaining trust. As long as I can do those 2 things, I'll be able to make it, but at the moment all felt hopeless. I felt desolate in my room, there wasn't much I could do, I didn't want to move or eat anything, I felt so empty.
I eventually cried myself to sleep and the next day I woke up with my eyes stinging and red. My face felt numb and the smallest light hurt my eyes. I found what seemed to be a wardrobe and I opened it to find was all black clothing. I normally didn't like wearing dark clothing but it was all I had. I pulled on a black dress that had a small train behind it. It fit my small body perfectly and hugged my curves tightly, the only problem is, is that the collar was too low, so a lot of cleavage showed, I didn't like wearing revealing clothing but it was all I had. The dress had silk long sleeves and somewhat of a cape on the dress. I looked around for makeup and found simple things, like concealer and eye makeup, along with some lipstick. After doing that I brushed through my long golden hair.
I slowly crept out of my room and walked down a hall. I had no idea where I was going, but all I knew was that if I didn't find Ren and he needed me for something, then I would have a chance of getting in trouble. Eventually one of the unknown knights found me, they figured I was lost so they helped me get to Kylo. I walked into the room Kylo was in, everyone in the room was either giving commands or controlling the ship, I figured this was the cockpit after I saw the screens from the workers.
I walked up behind Kylo and waited to see if he would notice I was there, he did notice after a minute and turned around, the first thing he said was "your late" in the most menacing and meanest way possible. He sounded very annoyed and enraged.
I sighed "I'm sorry, I didn't know where to go and I barely got to sleep so I slept in.." I mumbled and flinched when he stepped towards me. "What do you need me to do?" I asked and I clearly had fear in my voice. Deep down inside I hated him deeply, he killed my father, not directly, but he sure did give the order, when I stood in his presence I wanted to scream and punch at him. I was soon met with an image of me being thrown off a cliff by Ren. He seemed to have use the force to put an image in my mind since he could read minds with the force. I gasped and back away a little.
He cleared his throat "this way" he said and I followed, I was very on edge after he showed that image of my death. I didn't want it to happen so I thought of something else, like the nature on my planet. I felt a strong sense of calmness coming from Ren, he seemed to like nature a lot, too bad he was stuck on this dump.
Ren and I approached a ship on the hangar bay and he led me into one, we sat in a room on the ship and he sat across from me.
"where are we headed?" I asked and looked over at Kylo, he seemed very tense and on edge, almost as if he could sense there was something coming.
He didn't answer but a blaster shot, he was quick to respond but he pushed me out of the way. As a result he was on top of me, covering me Incase anothe shot, it did but he stopped it using the force.
My face was bright red and I looked at him, he seemed very protective of me, in a good way, I couldn't tell if he wanted to protect me because he cared about me, or if he was protecting me because I was his pawn.
Kylo shot up and immediately killed everyone attacking, but he couldn't get to the cockpit in time to control the ship, so it was going down, and quickly, we were headed for the planet coruscant. I ran to the nearest thing that could keep me safe from the crash, but I would most likely die. As the ship got inches from the ground, it stopped sharply. Kylo had brought the ship down safely and went to look for me. "Are you ok?" He asked. I nodded and he took my wrist and got off the ship with me.
"Where are we going?" I asked and looked around, I had never seen coruscant, but it was very open and beautiful, the gentle breeze felt nice on my skin, but I suddenly was dragged across a large field.
"We are headed to find help, right now we seem to be lost, but we'll find our way, eventually"
