Because you all are amazing, I'm going to try and keep doing daily updates until this is done but I'm catching on how fast I can write so perhaps we might have to do a few days between updates for Part 12 through The End.
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Part IX
Rey made it back to Dantooine in record time. The hyperdrive in the new ship hummed like a well-oiled machine. She had to radio ahead, tell them she was coming in on a different ship.
General Dameron and Major Connix were waiting for her in the hanger and Poe whistled as Rey stepped out of the transport. "Where did you find this beauty?"
Ahch-To, where they believed she had gone, was clear across the galaxy and not of the same hyperspace lanes that led to Mygeeto. She had looked up some different worlds that she could fib about but feeling fun and light she took Ben's suggestion. "On Chandrila. The hyperdrives on the old ship finally gave out and I was stranded until I used," she made the same gesture that Ben had, waving her hand in front of Poe's face, wiggling her fingers as if revealing a magic trick, "my Jedi powers to get a good deal."
Poe folded his arms over his chest, "I didn't think you were supposed to use the Force to steal."
"Would you rather I be stranded on a Core world with a First Order bounty on my head? Or be taken by Kylo Ren and have the location of the Resistance pulled from my mind?" Rey put her fists on her hips, not pleased with his tone.
"I just don't need some hot-headed Chandrilan tracking his ship back here and causing trouble because you made a decision before thinking it through."
Rey clenched her teeth if only the General knew the tall, dark, and lightsaber wielding Chandrilan that she could bring upon them with just a thought. She was also livid with Poe, the trigger happy flyboy who was always the first to run into a fight, even without considering every possible consequence. But now that he was the leader of the Resistance, his missions, often only succeeding by the skin of his teeth, were hailed as heroics.
If only she could really tell him that she had delivered a well crafted, well maintained, untrackable and untraceable, clean ship that the Resistance could use to slip behind any First Order occupied stronghold. But she wasn't going to tell him that, she was actually thinking about grounding it for maintenance any time a new mission came up.
Since she had taken too long to reply, Poe took it as silent obedience. "As soon as you are settled we need you to get back to work on two of the fighters. I don't know why Kaydel approved your little Force adventure when we have some important attacks coming up."
Reaching out her hand, she called her saberstaff to her palm. She had just helped free an entire world of lifeforms. She had helped give a people back their culture. She had a hand in banking reform and the building of hospitals and schools across the galaxy. Some of her pillow talk involved freeing the Stormtroopers and considering the best way to downsize the military. The leader of the galaxy called her Empress…but that was another life. She was starting to be more and more unsure as to why that life scared her so much.
It was better than only being seen for one set of skills. Yes, she had been a scavenger on Jakku and knew her way around a spacecraft better than anyone classically trained in mechanics, but Ben saw so much more in her. For sure he saw the lost and scared girl of her past, but he also saw strength and perseverance, her quick wit and eagerness to learn, her compassion and her heart. He saw greatness while at times she felt that all the Resistance saw was a silly girl in robes playing with a laser sword.
She marched to her quarters and started to unpack. Taking out the pair of soft gray leather gloves, she touched at the buttons where his fingers had worked and Rey could almost feel his heat. Next, she readied to take a shower, wanting to wash the day's travel grime from her skin, but also she was fearful of washing his scent from her hair. After removing her tunic, she pulled the purple crystal from her breast band, where she has placed the kyber close to her heart, and put it in her box of Ben.
Rey sulked around the base for days. Only Finn and Rose asked about her trip to the Jedi Temple, and Rey kept her answers short and generic. Yes, Leia was at peace, no she had not seen a Force ghost, and no she wasn't any closer to knowing her purpose as a Jedi. Except Rey knew within her heart that she was never meant to be a Jedi and was thankful for Ben sharing information with her about The Gray.
The bond opened almost every day for two weeks. At first, they were fleeting like before, just enough time for them to see each other. They both would have preferred to have time together, but just knowing the other was safe had been enough.
"You seem upset, my love," Ben said into their empty quarters one night halfway through the week.
Rey sighed, knowing that they never really discussed her day to day life with the Resistance, but she needed someone to talk to who wasn't on this side or that...she needed someone on her side. "Poe is being a humongous ass."
Ben chuckled, "I thought that was common knowledge."
She gave him a sharp gaze before smiling. Even though it was only days since she'd been with him on Mygeeto, Rey missed the way that he made her feel at ease. When he opened his arms for her, she raced towards them, letting him envelop her. His scent calmed her further and Rey dug her fingers into the fine fabric of his surcoat.
"It's just my purpose here seems so one-sided. They only see me as the odd girl that can fix ships. Poe parades new recruits by my work station in the hangar and says something smart like 'Even the Jedi are doing their part for the cause,' like my only talent is throwing a wrench."
He cupped her cheek, tilting her face up towards his, but she continued, "Sometimes I do want to throw a wrench, or Force push it, into the back of his ego inflated head."
Ben had to chuckle now, "You know that you are so much more than any of them will ever know," he put his finger under her chin so she couldn't look away. "Right?"
Her shoulders slumped, "Is it so bad to want some recognition from time to time?"
"It's a very un-Jedi quality but I have already told you that you would make a terrible Jedi." He finally kissed her pouting lips, "I know, and appreciate everything you are doing to help me and help the galaxy, and whenever you are ready, the rest of the galaxy will know what you have done as well."
Rey now smiled up at his words. While the Resistance still treated her like an uneducated orphan from Jakku, that couldn't possibly understand the workings of government and the needs of the galaxy, she had Ben, her Supreme Leader, her Emperor, that saw her worth, values her counsel, and loves her more than all the stars.
"Thank you, Ben," she said up to him with a loving smile, but she was still keyed up, her body still buzzed with frustration. "I just wish I could shake this feeling of wanting to cause physical harm to him…knock him down a peg."
Secretly Ben loved her little dark areas, the parts of her that still itched for violence…for a fight. Those dark spots may come in handy down the line when she stands with him as a united front. Stepping back from her, he held his outstretched arms at her shoulders, "So sabers or sex?"
Rey's face when slack with surprise and then she blushed. "What..." she stammered.
"You need to work off this energy, re-balance yourself," he smirked. "So will it be sabers or sex?" He prayed for the latter and he thanked the Force when he saw her eyes become hooded with lust. "Sex it is," he breathed out as he once again closed the small distance between them, pulling her into his arms.
That night they found that they could indeed join intimately through the bond. Forgoing the worry of trying to match up furniture in their separate environments, Ben just quickly stripped her of her simple clothing and took her against the steel wall of her quarters.
He held Rey in his arms as if she was weightless, as she wrapped her legs around his waist and he thrust up into her with vigor. She gripped her hands in his dark hair and attempted to muffle her cries and moans of pleasure into the crook of his neck. When she reached her pinnacle, she bit into the meaty part of his shoulder to avoid waking the entire hall her quarters were on.
The feeling of her clenching around him and the sharp pain radiating from her bite caused Ben to call out his climax while thrusting his seed deep inside her. Without causing them to part, he walked to his couch and sat down with a satisfied but exhausted sigh. He cradled Rey into his lap, stroking at her hair and bare back as she rested against his chest.
"Thank the Force for bond sex," Rey's breathy laughter ghosted across his heated skin and she heard his chuckle in reply as her ear was pressed over his heart.
The bond allows them to stay like this for a little while longer before they both felt the air around them shift and Rey extracted herself from his lap before she was forced to fall out of thin air again.
"My love," Ben said into the fading bond.
"My home," Rey replied back just before he disappeared.
She pulled another little white pill out of her box of Ben and quickly swallowed it.
Days later, Rey was in her quarters in the middle of the day having just rebuilt the engine of an X-Wing. She was covered in grease and grime and in desperate need of a shower before the midday meal. Just as she was setting her saberstaff down on the dresser in her room, the familiar feeling of the bond opening prickled up her spine.
Turning to look over her shoulder, Rey saw Ben sitting in his full Kylo Ren persona and knew he was in his throne room attending to official business because he only offered her a slight incline of his head.
Knowing that they would not be able to speak during this bond, Rey turned back to her dresser and a mischievous grin spread across her face. Reaching behind her, she pulled at the purple velvet ribbon that held her hair back in a messy ponytail. As the bow came undone her chestnut hair fell around her shoulders.
Next Rey started at her arm wraps, slowly unraveling the soiled linen from her pale arms. She unfastened her vest and that too slid from her shoulders. Kicking out of her boots, she started to work at the fastenings at her side that held her wrapped tunic closed. It was at this point when she heard the slight mechanical intake of breath from behind her.
Now she turned to him with the most innocent doe eyes she could muster before continuing to unfasten her top. It's soon joined her other clothing on the floor and she stood before him in pants and her breast band. His mask may have been turned slightly to her right but she knew his focus and eyes were completely on her.
Rey removed the rest of her clothing in the slowest and most seductive manner possible. She watched his hands grip the edge of his chair knowing that he was itching to reach out and touch her. Instead, she turned from him and entered her fresher and they both learned something else new about the bond that day.
The bond did not care about walls.
Ben was forced to...no...Ben had the esteemed pleasure of watching the fine mist of the shower coat the tanned skin of his love. He watched beads of water roll down her curves, between her breasts, over her mound.
When Rey realized that he could still see her and his mask was turned directly her way, her mouth popped open with surprise before she smirked, pushing her wet hair out of her face, Rey trailed her hands down her body, resting them between her thighs.
As Ben watched Rey started to rub at her clit, he wanted to growl mine. He also shifted in his seat in the hope to conceal the problem now settled into his lap. For a moment he considered using the Force to freeze everyone in the room, cross the small distance between himself and Rey, fuck her into oblivion, and then erase the memories of those in his audience chamber. The amount of power and calculations it would take him to achieve such a feat was almost unmeasurable. Also if he was unable to perform the mind sweep, he would be known as the crazed Emperor that humps thin air, or he would have to kill everyone in the room.
The outcome of this meeting made the success of his New Order hang in the balance, otherwise, he may have considered killing everyone to get to his love. So instead he started to plan his sweet revenge.
The bond closed just as she reached her peak.
A few days later Ben was once more in this throne room, lounging alone in the large chair after an extremely long evening of meetings and hearing the issues of his people. He had removed his helmet just as the last diplomat was leaving and he now sat with his forehead in his hands.
"Long day?" Rey's voice broke through the silence. She knew he was alone for he would never show such an exhausted posture in front of anyone else.
"It's more tolerable now," Ben said with almost a relieved smile. Holding out his hand, he beckoned Rey to him.
She crossed her small quarters and was thankful that the bond gave her enough space to go to him. Once Rey was within his reach she was pulled into his lap and she sat on his right thigh, wrapping her left arm around his shoulders.
Ben buried his face into her hair before resting his head on her shoulder, just taking in her scent, her warmth, and her light.
"How can I help?" Rey asked as she stroked at his hair.
He needed to talk about anything other than reform, having heard Hux's voice grind on about it for hours already, so he decided to lighten the mood and said in a playful tone, "I should punish you for the little stunt you pulled the other day..."
Rey scoffed in jest and leaned back so she could look down at him. Her gaze followed his as he sat up to his full height. "I have no idea what you are talking about," she offered back innocently.
"Perhaps I can refresh your memory," he smirked and moved his left hand between her thighs, cupping her mound.
Her expression flashed surprise before she bit her lip as Ben started to rub her on the outside of her pants. "Oh, that..."
"Yes, my love...that," he whispered dipping his face to capture her lips.
As they kissed, he continued to work his hand between her thighs and she pressed into him, whimper and begging for relief. His right arm curled around her small waist and his hand slid past the tie of her pants, now rubbing at her moist nub with his fingertips.
Rey jumped in surprise when she felt Ben's long fingers slip between her folds and continue to work her into a frenzy. Her body temperature rose as the tightness in her core did as well. She didn't know why he was teasing her, why he wouldn't just take her, so she decided to encourage him. "I need you..." her voice was heavy with want and she met his dark gaze.
"It's not fun being teased, is it sweetheart?" He said as he pulled his hand away from her core, watching her twist in his lap to get some friction. She bit her lip and nodded her head, her eyes pleading with his to continue what he was doing.
Instead, he took her hand and pressed it down in his lap, guiding her fingers over top his stiff cock. Rey's breath shuttered at his desire for her and she almost felt bad for rubbing herself in front of him when he was not able to find his own relief.
So she set her own wanting aside and turned her attention towards Ben, continuing to rub at him through his cool leather pants as he attacked her lips once more. One handed and without the use of sight, Rey worked at the closures of his pants until she had his silken member free and in her warm palm.
Ben groaned against her lips as her lithe fingers wrapped around his cock and began to stroke him from base to head. "I'm sorry I teased you," she whispered across his lips before running her thumb through the moisture collecting at the tip.
His eyes were still dark and Rey knew that her penance was far from paid, so she slid from her perch on his leg, collecting herself on her knees before him. "I'm sorry, my Imperial Majesty."
Looking down at her, so pretty and addressing him formally, he reached out and cupped her chin lovingly. "My Empress."
Keeping his gaze, Rey bowed her head, kissing the sensitive piece of flesh just under the glands and he sucked in a breath, still stroking the side of her face. Before long Rey took him into her mouth, using her lips and the flat of her tongue to bring about moans, grunts, and curses of pleasure.
Ben uttered frantically that he was getting close to his peak but Rey continued, wanting to draw the orgasm from him. His finish was warm and surprising at the back of her throat and she swallowed quickly. His hands were still buried in her hair as he bowed his body around her small head and she lavished him until he was spent.
When she came off his cock, a pearl of his seed painted her pretty pink lips. Reaching out, he used the pad of his thumb to collect it, before slipping the digit into her mouth. "Now, my love, let me take care of you." He pulled her back into his lap and brought her to climax with his large hands.
Each time the bond brought them together they acted like lovesick teenagers, barely able to keep their hands off each other. Ben continued to leave her little gifts and notes, although since they started exploring the physical aspect of their relationship, some of the notes made her blush and flood with want at the same time. She was just thankful that he hadn't tried his hand at poetry yet.
On day three hundred and fifteen Rey was blissfully leaving her quarts after spending the night with Ben trying to bring her to orgasm in every possible way. His lips between her thighs were heavenly and he had finished her off early into the morning by making slow love to her.
So she barely noticed Finn and Rose loitering outside of her quarters.
"It's none of our business," Rose hissed.
"But it's almost every night..." Finn said back in the same quiet tone before catching sight of Rey. "Hey..." he started awkwardly. "You've been looking happy lately."
Rey stopped in front of her friends and smiled, "I think I am happy, or very close to it."
"We're glad that you are finally feeling like you are fitting in," Rose added and tried to drag her fiancé away before he could say any more.
Being pulled part way down the hall, Finn broke from Rose's grip and walked back to his first friend, "Are you seeing anyone?"
His question was blunt and Rey was taken back for a moment. She feared that someone had somehow seen her with Ben. They had theorized that the only reason that Luke had been able to see them together in the bond was that he was Force sensitive and that Ben could be felt in the Force on the island long before Luke barged in on them.
"Why would you ask that?" Rey decided to avoid answering directly.
"Finn," Rose hissed again, coming up beside him again.
"What?" He asked dumbly. "She must know..."
"Know what?" Rey cut in, looking between them.
Finn looked down at his hands and rocked on his feet, "The walls around here are thin and we've noticed...ow!" He cried out as Rose slapped at his shoulder trying to get him to shut up.
"Noticed what?" Rey pressed again.
"Noises," Finn squeaked as Rose pinched at him.
"Noises," Rey said unamused and growing tired of his game of twenty questions.
He waved off Rose who was still trying to get him to shut his mouth, "It sounds like you are having quite the time in there, but we've never seen anyone else but you go in or come out."
Rey turned red, mortified that her...bonds with Ben could be heard throughout the wing. She stuttered a few times trying to come up with a suitable answer before settling on attempting to make Finn feel as uncomfortable as he had made her, "I'm in there alone..."
"Alone?" Finn asked too quickly before realization set in. "Oh….oh! Alone…"
Despite his darker complexion, Finn turned about as red as Kylo Ren's lightsaber blade while Rose palmed her face in dismay.