Author note: After watching episode 8 i've decided to revisit this story. To add to it, and have some fun with it again. And whoa guys, my first story broke 30k views thanks everyone. remember to follow and review.
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Luke sat there watching them, everyday for hours, the first day he slept in the visitor chair set up in the corner. Both of the force users in front of him being connected to machines beeping. They were so surprised originally about Rey being driven through, they hadn;t even noticed Kylo had been ran through as well, with their connection they mirrored the others injuries. Creating not two but four run throughs between the two of them. Luke had been here for three days straight the first day. Once Rey and Kylo were through the woods in a sense they wouldn't instantly die; the medical staff wanted to move them to separate rooms. But the second that they started to move Rey to another room both their vitals went haywire. Their heart rates jumping and dropping, their blood pressure spiking. They thought it was because of the movement; but it wasn't. It was the connection.
Luke finally had to explain to the doctors about the unusual connection between the two had only kept growing since they arrived. It use to be extreme amounts of injuries mirrored on the other. But now, you couldn't even tickle Rey's foot, a test to make sure the nerve connection was still there, would have Kylos foot twitching along with hers. Not any kind of physical stimulation the other felt. And although this was a very interesting case of medical and force based situation, they have yet to wake up now.
After the first week the doctors stopped letting luke sleep there. They told him he was going to kill himself from stress alone. And set him up on a strict visiting hours. A couple of days ago Luke arrived early, he caught the doctors and nurses whispering, he couldn't hear what, but the second they saw him, they scattered. He went and sat with the two again. Listening to their heart separate heart machines beating, which was pointless, sense they beeped in time. Like the same heart projected onto two separate screens. Something was wrong, Luke could feel it through the force everytime the doctors would come around. The nurses were less obvious about hiding it on their faces.
Today Luke would confront the head doctor as he was leaving the check up on the two of them, they have been out for close to two months now. Luke was starting to worry and if what they were hiding was about them he had every right to know. His boots were clicking across the white tiled floor. As he paced in front of their door, the doctor and two nurses were inside. Testing the physical body responses to tickle stimulation; feet, hands, neck, areas of the face. Their bodies had both long healed, but the lightsaber burn that came from Rey's lightsaber had cut dangerously close to their spines, an upward angle which seemed to pass above the stomach, between the lungs, and nicked the spine. Kylo's lightsaber had hit more true on Rey; a downward angle that passed almost straight through the stomach and nicked the spine on the other side. For doctors other than these, that burn would of killed them.
The normal kind of injury to the stomach resulted in slow painful deaths due to blood and stomach acid mixing on the inside of the body, causing more damage, it was hard to repair those organs when they received damage. A lightsaber wound was better and worse at the same time. A lightsaber cut and burned shut wounds almost as soon as they occurred. The doctors would have to cut away the burned flesh to repair the damage. The surgery had gone off without a problem, they should be okay, so why aren't they waking up. Lukes hair had gone almost completely grey, hair beard and hair now trimmed up nicely. He was wearing new jedi robes in a soft beige color that the jedi originally wore.
The door clicked open and he stopped pacing, the two nurses left early and quickly and the doctor came out after. His eyes meeting Lukes and knowing what was coming. He jesutered him down the hall to his office and they walked in silence. Luke trailing farther behind him down the hall. He made it to the office and dropped into the chair on the opposite side from the doctor. Who looked nervous but concerned, despite Luke's new hair cut he started to look worse as the weeks ran on. He took a breath and started to speak.
"There's something we need to tell you, it's not related to them not waking up. Which we've already mentioned that if they don't want to wake up. They won't." luke looked at him with defeat in his eyes, he was hoping that wasn't the truth when they told him the first time, but as time ran on. He didn't know what to do.
"But that's not why we're been acting oddly around you as you've noticed." he stacked some papers and straightened his desk. Steeling himself for what he's about to say. Luke sat up a little straighter and leaned forward.
"When General Leia was alive, she had ordered no DNA testing on young Rey, worried about what the results would tell you Luke. when after she died and you brought the two in, telling us they were cousins and she was your child. We had to do dna testing for blood transfusions. And well Leia was right. Not only does Rey not match your DNA, but she is also about a year or two years younger than Ben here. But the test the old jedi use to use to test the strength of the force. We have had years to play with the test, changing it not only to show strength of the connection to the force, but where the force connection might come from. Everyone we've tested besides leia were weak with the force, but similar in the connection they had to each other. Leia was a different ball park. Her connection was allowing her to touch others while not allowing theirs to touch hers." he took a breath, the doctors face getting a little red as he continued, Lukes face never changed from his dark sad expression, even after finding out about the dna.
"Now what we've decided that jedi and strong with the force users are able to manipulate other force connections, while they have a hard time being manipulated by other users. And because of that their force in their blood, they're very distinct, no one else matches their connection. But Rey and Ben out there? Their not just similar. Their the same. Whatever marker they share, is the exact same to each other. You and Leia were similar, for being siblings. Its kinda like blood, with dna markers. But they're a perfect match for each other. Whatever power gives the force, it created them to match."
Luke got up and left without a word. The door shut heavily behind him and echoed loudly. He walked right to their room and walked inside, he silenced his mind, his emotions, in the traditional jedi way. And stood in the middle of the room on either side of the two unconscious force users. He stood there, reached out and touched Rey's cheek, moving the hair away from her face, she should look peaceful, but her eyebrows were scrunched up together, her mouth frowning. He looked over at Ben, he looked peaceful, for the first time in his life, he had no pain on his face. The scar stood out harshly and starkly compared to the rest of his pale skin, his black hair poofing out at odd angles on his pillow. The voice of snoke no longer softly echoing in his head. Luke reached out with his other hand and lightly touched his cheek as well, his robotic hand skimming across his high cheekbones.
And standing there between the two, touching both of their faces. He was pulled into a vision.
In a empty white expanse, the ground, and lower horizon of the sky were white. The upper sky, changed, the sun shown, the sun set, the moon rose and the stars shined. In the middle of this light solar light show. The two of them stood there, Rey and Ben clashing with light sabers drawn. Both had perfect mirrored form, they're lightsabers the same color, Rey wore black and Ben wore beige jedi clothes. They were screaming, clashing, fighting, the light flashed, and they were standing, dancing. Hand in hand, twirling to music that wasn't there. Flashing again back to the fighting, he understood. He wasn't in a vision. He was in their minds.
He started forward, rushing to them but the distance never closed, but Rey glanced over for just a second. The world shattered and he was just standing in the room again. Rey and Ben's heart rate monitors were beating out of tune, for the first time they were brought in. both their heart rates spiking, beating so fast. Doctors and nurses came rushing in, a large nurse grabbed Luke and dragged him away from them. The machines screeching even in the hallway. What had just happened, he wasn't sure.
He sat on the floor for a moment, against the wall, all the sound in his mind and the hallway being the stretching of the machines in their medical room. If his touch and breaking them from their fight is what kills them, he wouldn't be able to live with himself again. More nurses and doctors came rushing so he got up, he wouldn't be around to trip them or listen to the heart monitors stop. They'd have to come find him to tell him. So he went to meditate under this new information, that Rey wasn't his daughter, that she the pull she felt with everyone is because she's Ben's force twin. Not blood twin.
The original jedi books never mentioned a solely force twin before. The ones that came close were often blood twins, or blood siblings. Rey had to come from somewhere, as luke was walking to the place he liked to meditate at this rebel base was deep within the planet. The caves underneath had glowing plants and dripping glowing slime. The water that flowed around the caves were a peaceful place, that Luke often came to meditate with. To breathe, think, or even feel. Whenever he felt overwhelming and crushing grief he would come here. He had lost his sister, and han and often needed to escape the rebels who expected so much out of him, and now he lost his connection to his daughter. Was his birth daughter out there somewhere? Live a normal life, the woman who was Rey's mother, his former love, had brought Rey to him as a toddler, said that her place was with him and her family. Had she lied and kept her real daughter?
How did she find someone who was such a match for their family, their strength, how had she managed to keep another force sensitive child from when he went looking for younglings to teach? Was… his daughter even alive?
The trip down to the cave was a blur, his heart hurting, his breathing labored, he snuke down through the base to a storage room that had a door that lead to the cave system. It was locked and boarded up when he first found it a week after they first arrived, after he had gotten kicked out of their medical room. On some planets the force was strong in the sky, making jedi crave to get to the highest place, to meditate and think of nothing but the force. Luke always considered himself a bad jedi, because he was always close to the force he wanted to feel. He thought he was like his father in that sense. Anakin had always been emotional, it was part of the reason why the jedi hadn't wanted to train his father. Jedi thought emotions were dangerous, that they clouded your judgement and lead people to the darkside.
Anakin, and Luke always thought that emotions if handled wrongly could lead to the darkside, that but Anakin handled his emotions wrong; which pushed him to the darkside because of the fear. Fear of unknown, fear of losing people he loved. Luke had kept up a way of the jedi, the lack of belongings, to live similar to a monk where all they owned could be carried on their back. Children who tended to be strong with the force hadn't felt much of a need for belongings or money, even when they were enslaved or poor. Rey had shown that tendency, her belongings could fit into a backpack. Clothes, a toy she kept with her on jakku.
Leia was similar as well, despite being a princess and being given anything and everything she could of wished for, she didn't have much more than what was required of her to have. And when she became general, she didn't keep much of her princess things, though Luke was sure she had her crown hidden away in her belongings. The thought suddenly hitting Luke that her belongings were still just hanging around, probably placed in the room meant for the general on this base. He walked his way down the small wooden bridge that connected natural walkways. The plants on the walls and in the water glowed shades of blues and greens. The random flower glowed a bright purple. Bugs that glowed flew around in shades of yellows and oranges.
Crystals grew in small clusters that glowed as well, the walls dripped slime that glowed a white color. On the second trip down here Luke had brought empty glass jars to collect the slime. The amount of stuff that was glowing still wasn't enough to light the way, so he collected jars of the white glow and put it on the edges of the paths. Rebels from before must of ventured down here to create an escape route, but once they found out it totally dead ended, they cut their losses and sealed the door leading here. The first day down here Luke had taken a nasty fall into the water because the edge wasn't as well lighted as the rest of this place had been.
He had made it to the cavern that in the very center had a natural outcrop of rock that made almost the perfect seat. He sat down and started to mediate, hoping to get the emotions he was feeling under control. To remember to breathe, that the force hadn't let them die when they had been skewered then the force wouldn't let them die now. Unless the force had wanted to keep them in that dance forever. Maybe that was the vision Rey had yelled about shortly before they both fell. Rey wasn't his blood daughter, he felt this hole in his chest, ached and burned. But the force still sang like she was family. Maybe once they were both awake, he'd start hsi search for more force users, to start a school again. Maybe not as a jedi academy but as a school for those to learn how to control their power, and how to help others.
He breathed in through his nose and out through his mouth. And let the calm of the water underneath him wash over his soul.