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Chapter 2
Kylo Ren POV
It has been three days, three long days of wonder and impatience. I want them found, I want them to pay. I want to see her.
I lay on my cot, lost in thought. Due to my training and deep meditation sleep really isn't needed as much as others. Yet, I want to dream. I want to dream of her. I close my eyes and breathe deeply. Please, let me see her. I try and tap into our bond. It is growing stronger, or maybe it is because we are getting closer.
Before I know it I can see her, laying on a bed, in only a tight shirt and shorts. She must have been training. I can feel her pain still, but she is thinking of me, too. She misses me. She fights to try and sleep. I can see that the damn pilot has been trying to work with her, to give her a sparring partner.
I will kill him first! I look at her room. She has nothing except a broken lightsaber, her staff, and a picture of.. Me?
"I wonder where you got this," I say softly, waking her.
She shoots up and looks at me. Her face, full of color and dirt. She smells like grass and flowers? She gets up, and all I can focus on is her legs, covered in bruises and scars.
"Ben? What are you doing here?" She asks, she wants to move closer but stays in place. I look back over at the picture that she has.
"Where did you get this?" I ask as I pick up the photo of me and Han.. It feels like a lifetime ago.
I can feel the embarrassment and pain in the bond. She didn't want me to see it. She doesn't want anyone to know how much she wanted to see me.
"I see you and the pilot are getting along.." I trail off, spitting the words as venom. I will kill him in front of you. I will prove you chose the wrong side.
"He is only a friend. Please, Ben, won't you come to your senses? Please? I know there is good in you. I can see the conflict in your soul. I feel it. I saw our future." She said it. Our future. She wants what I can't be.
"You will join me, Rey. You will rule by my side or you will die with everyone else." Why won't you join me? The power, the freedom. You can have it all.
"I can't. I will not let the light go. Did you see it? The future we could have? Training a new Jedi world. Having a family.." She trails off. The pain is back. She wants a family. Always wanting.
"You can have that.. If you join me" You are nothing… but not to me. I send those words back through the bond. She feels them, and I see the pain. Her feeling in the force is pure and strong with the light.
"REY! Are you up yet? Let's get some breakfast and get back to training." I see him, that man who she calls a 'friend'.
"He is growing feelings for you.. I can't wait to torture the life out of him in front of you. Join or die with the rest of them." Is the last thing I say before she vanishes. The fear in her eyes is all that tells me what I need to know. She is starting to let him in.
I shoot up on my cot and put my boots back on. I grab my saber and latch it on my belt. I will find you Rey. I will kill them all. You will never belong to anyone else.
I walk briskly to the control room, barking orders of where we are in locating the Rebel base. I hear the same nonsense I have been given for three days. I won't let them escape us. Our new base is almost done with construction and we need supplies.
"We will go to base and refuel and restock our supplies. Ready my personal ship when we arrive, I have business to attend to." I sit in my chair, watching as orders are given and everyone works hastily on my watching eye. I will find them, I will find her.
"Sir, we think we may have found them." Hux chimes with his smug look.
"Where?" I bark, making him jump.
"On a planet about four days from our base. We can refuel and restock within two days and set out." He adds but the smugness is gone.
"No I will send out on my own first, I want to know the layout before we send in an attack. Make sure my personal ship is ready to go when we arrive." I get up and leave the room. I dare not look back. Found you. I send to her.
Rey POV
Poe has become a great sparring partner but his moves are predictable. With the force, I can sense what he is going to do before he does it but he never lets it get him down. He is always around. No matter what, he keeps my mind preoccupied.
"Want to go for a run through the forest? It may clear your mind," he says to me after our match. Today we used 'weapons' to our routine. The past five or six days have been nothing but meditation, training, and Poe's antics with Finn.
"Sure, not like we have anything else to do." I smile at him. Why can't this be Ben? I feel How much he cares for me, but he isn't Ben..
I let him run before me, saying I needed a few to myself. Just a minute to clear my head. Why is it so hard to let go of Ben? Why can't I just go and live a life I know will bring me no pain?
The forest is quiet today, the smell of the trees and moss fill me. I close my eyes and let the force into my soul again. I can feel it all. The life of the trees, the death and life it gives back. I see what it means to be a Jedi. I want peace in this galaxy, for everyone to live in harmony like before. Before the wars, before Snoke, before Kylo Ren.
"You are a hard one to find, little scavenger." I freeze. It's him. It's Ben. This is no dream or vision, he is here. He found us.
"I came alone," he purrs. His saber already out and ready. He came to kill me.
No, I came to take you back.
"I will never go with you. I will never betray my friends. I will never accept the darkness." I say out to him. My words full of pride and bravery but my heart is not into it. I want him to come home.
"You will join me, or everyone here will die before your eyes." The brown eyes that I saw before, were replaced with black orbs of hate and anger and something else.
"Jealousy.." I say out loud, this makes him take a step back before running at me with his lightsaber. I hit the nerve.
I duck out of reach and roll to the side before he comes crashing down once again, inches from my face. He wants me dead. There is nothing left in his heart for me.
"Stop Ben, please.." I say before sliding to the side of his saber. I use the force and push it out of his hand. He isn't concentrating. He's distracted.
Before I can blink he is running at me, ready to go for combat, hand to hand. His strikes are precise and filled with more rage than he had before.
"STOP CALLING ME BEN!" He makes contact with my legs, tripping me. I use what energy I have left and push him as far as I can. It makes no difference as he charges me once again.
With the all the force he can bring, he pulls the rocks up and on me before I can deflect them. Trying to cover my head is no use, the sheer pain breaks my focus. This is where I die.
"I won't kill you here, my little scavenger. No, you are my prisoner. If you don't want any blood shed, I suggest you come quietly." With all my energy gone, I still try and say no. That I would rather die but soon my vision is filled with black and all I remember is being carried to a ship.
"Ben.. Please.. Don't leave me.." My world then becomes blank as I fall asleep. Don't hurt them. Please, don't hurt them.
"Mommy please! Don't leave me! I don't want to be alone!" I am screaming, crying, pleading for my mommy and daddy to come back. What did I do wrong?
"You will fetch a nice price, now be a good girl and follow me," I don't want to go. Don't leave me here!
With all my energy, all my pain, I can feel something inside me, telling me to push. Telling me to run.
I scream as I push the merchant halfway across the desert and run. I run and hide hoping they come back for me.
I shoot up in bed, the nightmarish memory coming back. I look around the room I'm in and it looks familiar to me. This is Ben's quarters.
I run for the door, trying everything to open it. Screaming, pounding, using all my anger and fear to will it open. Nothing.
I look around the room and see a small tray with a letter and food, 'eat I will be back in a few hours. -Ren'
I look over the food, and realize that I must have been unconscious for hours maybe days. I put the meat in my mouth and start to chew. At least the food is good. Better than starving.
I slowly eat, looking around the room. Nothing but white walls, a cot, a showering room, and clothes. Does he expect me to wash up and change? What is with the dress? I eat what is left and sit in the floor, crossing my legs. Meditation always calms me down, and right now I need all the calm I can get.
I close my eyes, and let go of all the feelings in my head and heart. I feel only energy. I feel and see only the beautiful colors of the force around me. I need a plan, a plan to get back to my friends. Are they okay? Did he keep his word? I push my eyes tighter together, concentrating on what needs to be done. Feel the peace, the serenity, the freedom. Feel the force in yourself. Let go of the fear, and feel the energy around you.
I feel the smile on my face as I let all my emotions wash out of me. I am focused. I have a plan. I will bring Ben back, I just need to show him how much he is needed. How much I need him. I can see the jealousy in him. Does he see that I care about Poe? He is only a friend, why are you so mad?
Before I am done with my thoughts the door is opening and in steps the Supreme Leader of the First Order. Ben.
"You are up. I was beginning to worry you would never wake up." I get off the floor and face him, like a Jedi would.
"Didn't think the all powerful Supreme Leader would worry about a scavenger girl." I bellow out. I won't let him intimidate me.
"Normally, no, yet you would be great use to me. For us. I have a proposition for you, will you at least listen?" There is kindness in him, in his words. He came here not as Supreme Leader Kylo Ren but as Ben. Ben, please be in there somewhere, please see how much I need you.
I gather the courage I have left and walk to him. Before I back down, I put my hand on the scar that I branded him with. My Ben. My sweet Ben Solo.
Poe POV
I can't believe I was so stupid and let her be alone. Why would I do that. I just wanted her safe, safe from him, safe from the war. She's so strong, so beautiful, so brave. There isn't another girl in this universe like her. I don't care if she is a Jedi, or some great hero, to me she is just Rey.
"Anything yet?" I ask Finn as we try and locate the First Orders new base. I will bring her back. I just need her to see the real me, give her time to see she can trust me.
"Let me know soon as you see or find anything," I say in defeat. Where are you Rey?
I walk to my quarters, hoping she is okay. I honestly can't believe I fell for someone.. With the war, the Rebellion, I never even tried to look at anyone, but with her it felt right. I can give her a normal-ish life. I could give her freedom. Flying the galaxies, adventures away from the war. I wanted to take her away from it all. I wanted to be the one she could confide in.
You should have just said it, not while you were in the forest. You should have just said your peace and let her decide.
Anger fills me as my hands are clenched to the point of my nails breaking skin. I could help her learn to love. Give her someone to cry to. Let her beautiful eyes fill with hope. Hope. That is what I need.
I lay down on this rough cot, remembering her soft skin, her beautiful smile. Yes, she loved the flowers I brought her. She said she never had anything so beautiful back home.
"I will get you back, Rey. I promise." I tell myself out loud before falling asleep dreaming about her holding my hands.