"I need to talk to you."

Rey pauses, glaring at the wall in front of her. "I wouldn't know what about," she says calmly, glancing over her shoulder. "You made yourself clear."

"I have? Then perhaps you did not fully comprehend what it was that I meant."

"It doesn't matter anymore, does it Kylo?" Rey bites out his name as if it were the most hurtful insult she could think of. "I mean nothing." She rubs his own mistakes back into his face, the words 'he deserves it,' running through her mind.

Without waiting for a response Rey walks out the room, yet Ben has no intention of ending the conversation there.

"I just want to speak to you! And you know you can't walk away from the bond like that, so will you just stop and listen?"

Rey opts to do neither, continuing to stomp down the empty halls of the Resistance's new base. Of course, he still follows after her, taking long strides until he passes her and stops right in front of her.

"Rey…"

"What do you want, Kylo? What is it that you want from me?"

"I just want you to listen to me," Ben pleads. "We're not done with each other yet."

"Done? Of course we are done! You tried to kill me! I think that makes us very much done, don't you?"

"I did not try to kill you!"

"Right, you just conveniently chased after me with your lightsaber ignited on Starkiller base. You just accidentally ordered your fighters to shoot the Falcon down with me on it," Rey replied, her voice filled with sarcasm.

"I didn't know you were on that ship in the first place! Hux told me you left in one of Snoke's escape pods! Rey-"

"You told me I was nothing," she cried out. "Do you have any justification for that?"

"I didn't mean it like that! You are far from nothing, Rey! What I meant was that no matter what anyone says, you are so much more than nothing. Especially to me. Don't you understand that? You are someone to me!" Ben all but screams it, and the silence that follows it tense.

"You have such a way with words," Rey mutters.

"I admit, I could have said it much better. I just…"

Rey looks up at him. "What do I mean? Ben, what do I mean? I need to know."

"I… Why does it matter anymore?

Rey shakes her head and takes a step toward him. "I am asking you for the last time. What do I mean, Ben?"

"What you mean? To me?"

She does not bother to answer, only schools her face into a guarded expression that she desperately uses to hide her hopes and fears.

Ben looks her squarely in the eye and answers with only a single word.

"Everything."