"Nothing." the young jedi lied. Finn and Poe gave her looks of disbelief. Calliope's eyes narrowed as she entered the room.
"I heard you." She started.
"That doesn't mean it was meant for you." Rey snapped.
Calliope gloves wrinkled and unwrinkled in her hands, "The word you said. Why was it apart of the conversation?"
Leia, Finn, Poe and Rose all felt the urge to ask why as well. The word had nothing to do with the questions each had been asking each other for the past twenty minutes. Rey stumbled for words, stumbled for comebacks, but Finn came to her aid.
"The General was telling us you were born here."
Calliope gave a skeptical eye.
"We were all a bit curious." Poe added. His voice seemed to ease her tension. Her violet eyes fixated on Leia.
"You told them about me?"
"They found out some of it on their own. I connected the dots for them." The General's voice was strained.
Calliope took a deep swallow,
"I just wanted to inform you that the Queen would like to speak with you when you are well enough to leave the med wing." She pivoted on her heel and left.
Soon after the doctors shooed the resistance away to let Leia rest. Finn, Poe and Rose all headed back to their living space, but Rey made her way to the Falcon. She sat in the galley tinkering with her broken lightsaber. She felt it then the ship seemed to melt away before her eyes revealing a meditating Kylo Ren. Their eyes met and she strained to pull away from their connection.
"Don't." his soft voice implored, "I'm reaching out to you."
Rey's chest heaved, "I have nothing to say to you."
He grimaced at her spite, "I want to meet."
"Not on your life!" She yelled standing.
Kylo Ren closed his eyes almost smiling, "I can feel it. The hate within you." slowly his eyes opened, "You owe me one."
"I owe you nothing. I could have killed you when I woke up."
"But you didn't!" he viciously pointed out matching her stance. He could see the broken saber in her hand, "No one's going to know how to fix that but me." His grimace made her stomach turn, "Meet me and I will show you."
Rey went to shout at him a vulgar reply but violet eyes turned the corner of the Falcon's hull. Kylo Ren turned not seeing anything of course but he could feel a chasm in the force- in the outline of a person. The chasm was familiar to him. He waited for Rey to greet the other person so he would know, but she remained staunchly mute. It was odd the pull of the force gave off an ominous and struggling vibration.
Calliope could sense him and it made her arm hairs stand to point. She said nothing. To him she was dead, and she planned on staying that way. She could tell Rey was battling to end the connection. The girl's met eyes and Calliope teachingly mouthed for her to breathe and push him away.
"Just breathe." Rey muttered. She focused keeping her hands at her side to concentrate on mentally pushing him away. Kylo Ren contested her wanting to keep the vision intact until he convinced her to meet him. He watched the ripple in the force move closer to Rey and in doing so strengthened Rey's spiritual push against him, ending their meeting.
The scavenger fell back against the seat behind her.
"Why, did that take so much?" her breathing a harsh rasp, "Before they would end on their own."
Calliope tentatively sat across from her quizzically eyeing the girl before replying, "He was grounding the bridge with his want." She waited for her to calm down, "How long has that been going on?"
"A few weeks. Snoke said he was the one who connected us."
Calliope receded into her seat thoughtfully. It was Rey now searched her.
"Why did you come to the Falcon?"
"Probably one of my favorite memories is on this ship," Her fingers glided across the table, "General Organa and Han Solo picked me up in the Falcon."
Rey flinched at Han's name.
"How did you come back?" she asked softly only a bit of sourness in her voice.
Calliope held her marked hand, "I would show you rather than tell you."
The scavenger looked open the hand with a hesitation of knowing ready to place her bare hand open on the guardian's.
"You might not like everything you see." Calliope warned.
