Chapter 3

Rey didn't know how it was possible but Kylo Ren was sitting across from her. She could see the scar she gave him working towards healing, not realizing how deeply it ran. There was a brief moment where she wanted to reach out and trace her fingertips along this scar. But she quickly shook herself out of the fantasy and raised her blaster towards him, not hesitating at all. When she looked to see if her blast struck true, she no longer saw him in front of her. Instead, she found herself looking through a brand new hole in the hut that her blaster had created.
On the other side of the galaxy, Kylo still sat in the chair in the medical bay, clutching his stomach where the shot from Rey's blaster struck him. Or, at least felt like it did. Looking down at himself, he saw no holes and found that he was just fine. But he noticed that like the blaster shot, Rey had also vanished from his view. Standing up from the chair, Kylo searched for her. He always felt such a thrill when seeing her, even if she didn't feel the same way about him. Rey ran out of her hut searching for Kylo. It was difficult for her to understand how she could be seeing him clear as day in front of her when she knew he had no idea where she was in the galaxy. No one knew where she was except for the Resistance. She could feel him around her once again and she turned to face him. He slid into view and was standing right before her just a few feet away. They stood facing each other, staring into each other's eyes.
"You will bring Luke Skywalker to me," Kylo demanded as he reached his hand towards Rey. He felt a little disappointed that he couldn't even break into her mind. Rey stared at the tall man in front of her and almost laughed at how he couldn't get into her mind that he had back on Starkiller Base. However, she couldn't help but wonder why he wasn't able to. Kylo was incredibly strong with the Force and whatever was happening shouldn't have been able to stop him. He slowly pulled his hand back and put it down at his side.
"You're not doing this. The effort would kill you," Kylo spoke in his low voice that sent chills down Rey's spine in a way that didn't frighten her but excited her. She hoped that he wasn't able to pick up on that. Rey did have some admiration of this man before her but still couldn't get over the fact that he murdered his own father.
"Can you see my surroundings?" he asked inquisitively as he looked behind and all around him. Rey was dumbfounded by his question. She couldn't stop her thoughts about her mentor Han Solo and she spat back at him without thinking.
"You're going to pay for what you did!" Rey shouted towards him, hoping quietly that she wasn't too loud for fear of Luke to walk in on what was happening. She knew what was happening wasn't necessarily wrong, but she wasn't about to get in trouble after all it took to get Luke to train her. Kylo didn't seem to register her anger at all as he turned back to face her.
"I can't see yours...just you," he continued. The way he spoke was quieter than Rey was used to and that strangely calmed her down. She felt herself sigh at what he said and found it difficult to keep up her angry exterior.
"No, this is something else…" Kylo went on, still puzzled by this connection he shared with the woman in front of him. He couldn't help but let his feelings for her wash over him. This woman who had seemingly been no one from nowhere had captivated him and he allowed himself to feel what he knew Snoke would disapprove of. Rey felt his emotions make their way towards her and found that she wasn't at all surprised by how he felt. What surprised her was that these emotions mirrored her own about him, although she constantly fought to hide these emotions from herself.
Rey was brought back to focus when she heard the door of Luke's hut open up. She turned towards the door then back at Kylo quickly. His gaze followed to where she had been looking.
"Luke?" he asked her. Before she could respond, Luke walked over to her and looked towards the hut he let her use while he would train her. "What's that about?" Luke questioned as he pointed to the newly formed hole in Rey's hut. She decided against telling Luke that she was just conversing with Kylo Ren and turned to face him with her response at the ready.
"I was cleaning my blaster and it went off," she replied. Luke looked at her and shrugged, motioning to her to join him for her first lesson about the Jedi. Rey started after him, but not before looking back behind her one last time, searching for the man who made her wild with anger and a sense longing at the same time.