Guess what I wished I owned, but do not? Star Wars

Previously…

"We could have gained a lot of credits selling a pretty thing like you to the Hutts," Rigil observed as he aimed his blaster at Rey's head. "However, you've made me angry hurting my brother like that."

His finger touched the trigger.

"Unfortunately it's gonna cost you your life now," he declared.

Rey clamped her eyes shut to prepare for the shot, but it never came. After a few long moments she slowly she opened her eyes. What she found stunned her. Protruding through Rigil's chest was a long, red plasma blade that belonged to the person currently wielding it.

Kylo Ren.

His task completed, Kylo Ren violently kicked Rigil's corpse off of his saber and it landed on the floor with a loud thump. Unfortunately his body fell only a foot away from Rey's form, and she softly gasped when the side of his face abruptly met the metal floor, his dead gaze fixed on her. Rey wasn't exactly afraid, yet the ordeal deeply rattled her and she desperately tried to look at something else. Remembering Ren, Rey looked up to see him still standing in the same place with his saber tightly gripped in his hand.

Kylo Ren's dark hair was glistening and messily clung to the sides of his long face as sweat continued to drip down it before ultimately descending to the floor. In contrast to his usual poker face, his heavy breaths and piercing eyes demonstrated how shaken he was after being subjected to such torture. He had been brought close to death and what she was currently witnessing was the aftereffects. Ren had an almost maddened look about him that was somehow more disturbing than any of his previous attempts at intimidation. What Rey was seeing was Kylo Ren in his rawest form, and as much as she despised to admit it, it was frightening.

This fear though was quickly replaced by bewilderment once she recalled that the twisted man in front of her had saved her. Her eyebrows knit in confusion and her injured head struggled to make sense of the situation. Did he save her to repay her for saving him a few times, or was it something else that motivated him to help her? Better yet, perhaps the light she had witnessed in Ben Solo had momentarily emerged? Maybe he wasn't completely gone, just simply lying dormant, ensnared in the tangled web of darkness Kylo Ren had made for himself. Hope began to faintly swell in Rey's chest, yet it did nothing to stop all these thoughts from causing her already present headache (thanks to the blow she received) to further throb.

Deciding that she couldn't exactly remain on the floor forever, Rey bit her lip and tried to sit up despite the excruciating pain in her side. Accomplishing this, she firmly planted her palm of the floor in order to help her stand up. Yet when she was about to execute the maneuver, Ren abruptly brought his plasma blade uncomfortably close to her face like he had done in Takodana. She remained frozen in place as his weapon hummed and crackled a mere inch from her nose. Rey had experienced this all before, yet she didn't feel any less nervous as the light saber's heat caused her skin to prickle and moisten.

"What are you doing?" she firmly asked after tearing her eyes away from the saber to look up at Ren. His shaken visage had disappeared a little and he seemed to be regaining his usual countenance. However, he still appeared severely weakened due to his poor posture and how he seemed to subtly sway in place.

He narrowed his haggard eyes at her. "Not allowing my prisoner to escape," he managed to reply despite his uneven breaths.

He is irredeemable resonated within her mind like before. However the whisper of the voice that had said it was only a memory now as she recalled its words.

Rey's eyebrows furrowed as she returned his heated glare. "I should have known you wouldn't save me out of the goodness of your own heart," she hissed. Time and time again she had risked her neck for him and he only ever saw these instances as opportunities for himself. Then again, what else could she expect from a cold-blooded murderer? Rey felt foolish for believing he had acted upon a small calling to the light. Whatever light existed in Kylo Ren was clearly still hidden deep within him.

Why should you help a man who destroyed the only light that ever dwelled in his heart? The voice had warned.

It should have taken a quick recollection of Han's murder to explain his present behavior. Yet the more she became familiar with Ren, the more she humanized him. Because of this she found herself holding out hope that there was still good in him, somewhere. Clearly this mistake could one day prove fatal unless Rey learned to separate the lost boy she saw with the man standing in front of her. However, that was a task easier said than done.

Ren raised a curious eyebrow at her. "I'm flattered that you even considered me capable of such a thing, but unfortunately you're wrong. No, you're of more use to me alive, so if you want to stay that way I suggest you do everything I say," he demanded bringing his saber slightly closer to Rey's face.

Imagine what he'll do to you if you save him again! wiggled into her mind again once more.

She gazed defiantly at him, but was aware of how the saber's closer proximity caused sparks to flare dangerously close to her face. Rey wanted to tell him flat out that she would never be his prisoner, that he couldn't tell her what to do. Perhaps if she moved quickly enough she could take advantage of his weakened state and overpower him. The only problem with this plan was that she was currently weaponless, quite injured herself, and at his mercy. Rey couldn't exactly tell whether Ren would follow through with his threat, but for now she wouldn't risk it. She just needed to buy time.

Rey clenched her fists in her lap. "Fine," she managed to say through gritted teeth.

"Good. Now get up," he instructed.

She glowered at Ren one final time before she shakily rose to her feet, a difficult task considering her body still hurt. Once standing, Rey slightly wobbled in place and grasped her head when a feeling of dizziness overtook her. Ren seemed to pick up on her condition and extended a hand to help steady her, but she shot him a look when he attempted this. Like hell she would accept his help.

Thankfully he got the message.

"Suit yourself, but know if you slow us down I will throw you over my shoulder if I have to," he warningly explained.

"I find that hard to believe considering the shape you're in," Rey bitterly spoke as she managed to stay upright despite the overwhelming feeling to collapse.

"As a student of the dark side, it's an easy task to utilize pain in order to further invigorate and drive myself. Therefore, I am more than capable of handling a scavenger like you," Ren scoffed as his saber emitted a menacing spark.

Rey didn't care how much he believed in what he just said, the statement sounded utterly ridiculous. If this is what the dark side taught, the dark side was trying to get its followers further harmed, or worse, killed.

Kylo Ren kept his weapon trained on Rey as he suddenly swooped down to pick something off of the floor. When he was upright once more, she saw his gloved hand grasping the smooth, metallic hilt of her light saber. Rey's hazel gaze was fixated on her weapon as Ren securely clipped it to his belt. If only she could retrieve it, then maybe she stood a chance against him, however… She looked down at her bright red fingers that had been previously crushed by Rigil's foot. The scavenger wasn't sure whether she would be able to properly wield it with her injuries. There was always her left hand, but Rey wasn't confident in its abilities to withstand the brute strength of Kylo Ren.

"Walk," Ren commanded while gesturing with his hand towards the door.

Ignoring her willingness to evade his saber and force grab her weapon, Rey stiffly turned and began to walk in the direction he indicated. With a constant warmth lingering close to her back, Rey was careful not to stop or else she risked impaling herself on Ren's saber. Whenever they encountered a new passageway he would murmur "stop" and only then would she dare not move. Soon after halting, Rey would feel the Force wash over her as it seemed to prod at the world around her. Though she sensed it, it wasn't exactly directed at her so it was difficult to determine what it sought as it expanded into the unexplored hallways. After a momentary pause, Ren would utter a swift "right" or "left" and Rey was expected to move once more.

Despite his previous urgency for haste, Ren was not moving very quickly himself. Clearly he was still suffering from his ordeal despite his speech about how it was meant to strengthen him. If anything he was slowing them down, but of course Rey wasn't complaining.

When they passed the hallway leading to the ship's airlock room, her curiosity soared. If they were not returning to their ship, where were they going?

"Where are you taking me?" she finally asked.

"Give me one good reason why I should tell you?" he fired back.

"I don't know, it's the least you owe me after I saved your life, what is it now? Oh yeah, two times," she provided.

Rey didn't need to see his face to know Kylo Ren was fuming. "If you must know, I'm finding a pilot who will bring us to the First Order," he spat.

"You're looking for Almari?" she asked in surprise. With the one of the men dead, and the other incapacitated, the only other able body on the ship was hers. "Didn't she capture you?"

"So did you at one point, but it didn't take long for me to change that. With the activator for the cuff gone she has no way to hold me back," Ren spitefully said.

As soon as Ren mentioned the activator, a flash of realization struck Rey so harshly she hoped he didn't sense it through the Force. Being as subtle as she could, she tentatively pressed her palm against her pants in order to ensure that she still had it. As she did this, Rey felt her heart quicken. One wrong movement and she would be found out. She had to use every bit of carefulness she had acquired over the years in order to not catch Ren's attention. When the scavenger finally felt something oddly shaped under the coarse fabric, Rey slowly slid her fingers into her pocket in order to find the item.

The tips of her fingers grazed the activator. Almost got it-

"Stop," Ren suddenly said.

Rey immediately stopped what she was doing and stiffly ceased moving. Her heart wildly thumped in her chest and she felt her nerves ignite and burn under her skin. Ever so slowly she turned her head to look at Ren, only he wasn't looking at her. He was glancing down a new corridor that they had arrived at and seemed to be intently studying it. When Rey felt the Force rush past her and sweep down it she released an internal sigh of relief. He didn't know what she was up to.

Taking advantage of the fact that he was distracted, Rey returned her attention to the small metal object in her grasp and gently retrieved it from its hiding space. With the activator now enclosed in her palm, she let victory replace the discomfort of possibly being discovered. Rey had what she needed to turn the tables. She knew what the brace on Ren's wrist was capable of and could use its effects to her advantage. He just didn't need to know that she would only use it as a last resort. Even if Rey was forced to use it she would not leave it on anywhere near as long as Almari or her brothers had. It was cruel enough to activate it; therefore she would do everything in her power to ensure it didn't come to that. Rey was many things, but someone who delighted in the pain of others wasn't one of them.

"Left" Kylo Ren said after his Force scan of the area was completed.

Instead of complying, Rey swiftly turned around to face him and met his dark gaze.

Ren considered her defiant behavior and narrowed his eyes. "Didn't you hear me? I said-"

"Sorry, I'm going to have to pass. As much as I'd love to return to the First Order I have more important things to do, like delivering you to the Resistance," she smoothly spoke.

"Then tell me, how are you going to accomplish this when you're currently my prisoner?" he sarcastically asked as he brought his unstable saber near to Rey's face once more. "As far as I can tell, I'm making the decisions around here."

Rey did not break eye contact as she lifted her right hand and revealed what she was holding. "Well that's about to change because I have this," she simply stated.

Kylo Ren's eyes widened in surprise and even displayed the briefest signs of apprehension at the object that had caused him so much suffering. He took a subconscious step back and even slightly lowered his plasma blade.

Good, he isn't going to risk fighting me Rey thought in relief. If he remained compliant she wouldn't be forced to do anything she wished not to.

"You wouldn't dare," he hissed. "You don't have it in you."

Rey placed her thumb on the button, but didn't apply pressure. She had to be as convincing as possible if she was going to ensure that things didn't get messy. "Is that a risk you're willing to take?" she carefully asked.

When Ren didn't answer she made a show of raising her thumb in order to press the button. Just as it was about to make contact she heard him finally deactivate his lightsaber with a hiss and hold it out to her. If looks could kill, Rey would have already died a few hundred times due to the intense glare Ren was directing at her. Wasting no time she reached out a hand to retrieve his weapon and wrapped her fingers around its dark hilt. The action caused her to slightly wince, but she tried not to let it show. Ren's hand strongly tightened around his beloved weapon in a last moment of indecision, but ultimately he released it.

Rey quickly clipped it on her belt before pointing to her lightsaber still on Ren's hip. "I'll be taking that back as well," she mentioned.

He wordlessly, roughly grabbed the saber and pulled it off of his belt before shoving it in her direction. Clearly he didn't care as much to be losing Luke's lightsaber compared to his very own. Rey gently retrieved her weapon and made sure to clip it and the activator on a more assessable portion of her belt.

"Okay, let's-"

Rey was cut off when the unmistakable sound of a blaster shot was heard. She had mere seconds to react, but thankfully she managed to duck away from it at the last moment before it abruptly hit the wall. Turning around she saw Almari wielding twin blasters with a very dissatisfied look on her face. She slowly stalked towards them with her weapons in the ready position.

"My, my, and who might you be?" she slowly asked. As Almari came closer she interestedly studied Rey, sizing her up. Meanwhile Rey did the same as she moved her hand over her lightsaber. Considering what she did Kylo Ren, she couldn't let her guard down around her.

"No one important," Rey stiffly replied.

Almari smirked in response and turned her head to look at Kylo Ren. "Got your girlfriend to rescue you then? I must say she's quite the catch, especially for someone as horrible as you."

The comment caused Rey's face to scrunch in disgust, while Kylo Ren scowled in irritation. "If you think I care about this Jakku scavenger you're out of your mind," he snapped.

Rey couldn't tell whether Kylo Ren was angrier at the first or second sentence. The pirate may have been right about him being horrible, but other than that she might have been the one with a concussion. The day she became that monster's girlfriend was the day rocks learned to fly.

"Did you just say she's a Jakku scavenger?" Almari asked. "Word is the First Order has bounty out for a young woman who also happens to be one." She then gave Rey another once over. "Now that I'm looking closely, the holopic they provided displayed a similar looking girl."

Rey firmly grasped her lightsaber and unclipped it from her belt. She did not like where this conversation was heading.

The pirate smiled and placed her fingers on her blasters' triggers. "I'm gonna go to sleep tonight significantly richer," she proudly stated before firing numerous shots at the pair.

Rey quickly activated the saber before clumsily blocking them as best as she could. However, she hissed in pain every time a shot powerfully made contact with her saber beam. One nearly caused her to drop her weapon due to how badly her bruised fingers ached.

Almari seemed to notice her discomfort and smirked. "What's wrong? Having trouble keeping up?" she sneered before releasing another barrage of bolts.

With every bolt Rey struggled to block, she felt her grip on her weapon loosen. Any moment now it would likely slip from her hand and shatter their defense. She needed to do something or else they would both be captured. Unfortunately, she only seemed to have two options: 1. Continue to fight until Almari managed to overpower her, or, 2. Try to escape back to their ship and disconnect the airlock. When Rey threw the other pirates against the control panel she severely damaged it and hopefully this caused the override to shut off. It wasn't the noblest thing to do, but option number two seemed like the only sensible one.

"Ren run," Rey commanded as she barely blocked another bolt.

"You're joking right? If you hand over my lightsaber we could easily take her out!" he argued.

"You really think I'm going to give you back your weapon after everything you've done!" she fired back while sweeping her cyan blade out to meet another shot. "You're the last person I would entrust with a lightsaber right now."

"We can't just run away like cowards! You need my help," he insisted. "Rey let me help you."

If he thought using her name was going to break through to her he was quite mistaken. Rey was in charge here and he was just going to have to listen to her if they were going to escape this mess.

"No," she firmly told him in between her rapid breaths. "Now at the count of three I'm going to stop blocking and we are going to make a run for it. Do you understand?" she questioned.

"And if I don't come with you?" Ren challenged.

"Then it's on you to protect yourself."

At of the corner of her eye Rey saw Kylo Ren consider the mayhem in front of him. He must have been weighing his options, despite her option being the least lethal. She knew he was still quite weakened and could not overpower Almari with only the Force. For his sake he needed to stick with her to survive.

"Okay. One-" Alrami got much closer. "-Two-" a blast singed off a loose piece of hair hanging around Rey's face. "Three!" she cried while turning and sprinting down the hallway.

For a moment she was solitarily fleeing down the rusted hallway which caused her to wonder if Ren had truly stayed behind. Then suddenly she saw his large frame appear next to her as he managed to keep in pace with her. Rey was immensely relieved he had gone along with her plan despite his obvious dislike of it. The disgruntled look on his face was proof enough.

Behind them sporadic bolts continued to fly around them. "To think the high and mighty Kylo Ren is running away!" Almari taunted as she pursued them.

When Rey saw Ren's face contort in frustration, she prayed to the Makers that he wouldn't stop. The guy had one heck of an ego and she could already tell Almari's comments were going to be a problem.

"This is what the First Order taught you? I didn't realize they conditioned cowards!"

Ren growled in anger and quickly turned around. Rey panicked when she saw this and was about to urge him to keep moving when he flung his arm out and used the Force to trip Almari. In his state it seemed like the most he could manage, but Rey was secretly grateful when it put more space between them and her. Maybe help from him wasn't completely horrible?

"Pirates and smugglers are the true cowards. Trust me, I would know," Ren spat at the pirate. After doing this he turned back around and continued to run alongside Rey. Whether he was referring to his father she couldn't tell. However, the last thing she wanted to do was bring him up when they were experiencing a crisis.

"Where are we going?" Ren demanded after another few minutes of running.

"Back to the ship," she replied.

"And which way is it exactly?"

"If I remember correctly I think it was this way"

"You think?" he exasperatedly said.

As they ran further down the hall, Rey suddenly saw another figure standing at the end of the hallway. At first she began to panic thinking it was another pirate, but as they neared it she realized it was not a being of flesh. It was transparent and emanating an unnatural glow, something achievable by only one thing: the ghost from before. Kylo Ren appeared completely oblivious to its presence, so she figured now was not to the time to ask if he saw dead people. As they got closer she noticed that he appeared to be pointing down a nearing hallway with an urgent look. To see the ghost displaying emotion was a strange sight to behold so clearly whatever was down that hallway was important. The ghost had always helped her before, so she saw no reason to start doubting its judgment. Perhaps it knew a shortcut back to the ship?

"Ren turn right here," she cried as a blaster bolt shot past them. Evidently Almari was back on her feet and fast approaching.

"Are you sure?" he asked, not quite convinced.

"Yes, now move!" she cried as the sound of blasters reached a climax.

They scrambled down the dark hallway and didn't stop despite the injuries that were tearing at their bodies. All Rey felt was hot adrenaline pumping through her body as she sprinted alongside her greatest foe. When her world had become so crazy, she wasn't sure. Rey just knew there was no going back to the uneventful and mundane life on Jakku. Evading evil regimes, asteroids and pirates was quickly becoming her new life. Crazy was a mild way to put it.

Eventually a lone door appeared at the end of the hallway. "Is that the airlock?" Ren urgently asked.

Rey only needed a quick glimpse at the door for all the color in her face to drain away. That wasn't the airlock door and she had no idea where it led. However, at this point it didn't matter. Turning around wasn't an option with the female space pirate closing in on them.

"Doesn't matter, we just need to get through it!" she cried as they neared the door. Once they finally reached it, Rey began to tinker with the control panel in order to open the door.

Ren looked from Rey to Almari as she continued to approach them while installing a new power pack into one of her blasters. "What's taking you so long?" he snapped.

"I'm sorry this door is locked. However, if you think you can open it faster than me, then by all means be my guest," she sarcastically replied gesturing to the panel.

"Just hurry," he hissed in response to her comment.

Rey's returned to what she was doing and continued to fabricate commands on the control panel's keypad. "Almost there…" she whispered to herself as she entered a few more integers. "Come on. Come on…"

"Rey," Ren said warningly as Almari moved closer.

The pirate pointed her recharged blasters at them. "Gotcha," she said victoriously.

"One more…got it!" Rey yelled just before they both had to avoid several more blasts. Thankfully it wasn't long before the door opened and the pair quickly scurried inside. Once through the door, Rey slammed her fist against the control panel. The door clamped shut permanently blocking their pursuer from reaching them. With the door now shut the two force users were immersed in complete darkness as they heard Almari's pounding on the other side of the barrier.

"Now what?" Kylo Ren dryly asked as they stood in the darkness. "This sure is a brilliant plan," he muttered.

Rey began to feel along the walls for a light switch of some sort. Honestly she had no idea where they were. If they were in a room hopefully there was another entryway they could sneak through. There just had to be, they couldn't possibly be stuck. The ghost would not lead them towards a dead end, right?

"Help me find a light switch. We can't do anything until we get some light in here."

She heard Ren grumble to himself but ultimately he joined her in her search. After a few more moments of blindly feeling around, Rey heard what sounded like someone pulling a heavy lever before suddenly the lights came on. Able to see, she glanced at Ren who was standing nearby.

"You found the switch?" she inquired.

"No, I thought you did."

Confused, Rey looked around the room and found a large lever flipped upwards. What was strange was that neither of them were anywhere near it when the lights came on.

"Strange, I-"

Rey was cut off when she felt the room suddenly begin to rumble and hum. Ren just looked around, curious as to what was happening. Slowly other parts of the room began to light up revealing a cockpit like area with a few chairs, screens, buttons, and levers. Gradually the rumbling increased to the point that both Rey and Ren were struggling to remain upright.

"What's going on? What did you do?" he accusingly asked while bracing himself against a wall for support.

"I didn't do anything! I don't know what's happening," she replied, a tint of worry seeping into her voice.

"Well fix it," he hurriedly stated.

As if on cue there was a loud sound, like something detaching, and the room abruptly lurched forward. They both managed to hang on to the railing on the wall, but the event was wildly disorienting. Despite the increased shaking of the room, Rey used the railing to slowly make her way over to the control boards. Whatever was happening she had to somehow make it stop. Once she finally reached it, she sank into the chair and began to mess with the numerous buttons and levers, yet nothing was responding. It was almost like the controls had a mind of their own. Eventually something finally did happen, only she didn't press anything for once. A metal screen began to slowly rise revealing…

"Oh no…" Rey darkly muttered.

"What is it?" Ren called from the back of the room. Only what they were in wasn't a room at all.

Rey sat in her chair staring out at the stars and a large, orange planet that lay suspended amongst them. What was disturbing was that the planet was growing larger, meaning they were quickly heading toward it. A sinking feeling in Rey's stomach told her that this wasn't just some room. What room had so many controls and navigational systems if it wasn't a cockpit?

When Rey didn't answer, Ren made his way to where she was but froze when he looked out the window.

"No, this can't be happening," he growled.

But it was. They had entered an escape pod that had mysteriously detached from the main ship and were now currently hurtling towards a planet, and the worst part, Rey couldn't even control it.

A/N: I hope that was long enough to make up for my weeks of disappearance. Between homework and a terrible cold it was pretty difficult to write, but I'm healthy again and I have a long weekend so I finally found time to get to work on this! As always thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed and faved my story. You guys mean a lot to me, so please let me know what you think of the chapter. Your reviews are literally all it takes to make this overworked, ramen-eating, cat-loving, college student very, very happy. Also I hope everyone has a nice Valentine's Day whether you have someone special in your lives, or you're painfully single like me. Just spread the love people, spread the love.

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