Kylo Ren awoke to the sound of Supreme Leader Snoke in his mind, commanding him to his chambers. He woke up normally, not anxious or in a panic. The dream with the girl. Snoke had interrupted it. Just another reason to hate the old bastard. Kylo was actually sleeping well for once and didn't appreciate it being ruined. There was a large part of him that didn't want to admit that he was irritated in being interrupted in his thoughts of the girl and he put that into the deepest part of his mind. As quickly as he could, he pulled on his boots, donned his robes and put on his helmet for his walk to his master.

There was no wait as Kylo approached the door. It opened immediately and he entered the front room of the chamber. "My Lord," he said as he bowed to one knee.

"Have you given any thought to how you will find the girl?" Supreme Leader Snoke asked.

Startled, Kylo said, "No, not yet, my master, I have not had time."

Snoke cut him off, "I'm tired of your excuses, apprentice. If you have time to dream of her you certainly have time to figure out how you're going to bring her here." Kylo went pale under his mask. "Yes, boy, I know you were dreaming about her. I only caught a glimpse as I entered your mind to order you here."

"The dream ended with my killing her, my Lord," Kylo lied, hoping to block the part of his mind where he had buried the dream. He could feel Snoke probing through his brain.

"Alright then, but just to remind you to be mindful of your thoughts," the Supreme Leader raised his hand and then closed it. Kylo felt the all too familiar pain begin in his head, only this time with heat. He gasped as it radiated down his neck, to his arms clear to every finger, down his spine and legs to the tip of every toe. Every fiber in his nervous system felt the glowing hot pain and this time it brought him prone to the floor. He tried to rise but it was just too painful to even move and in his mind he involuntarily cried out for Rey. Snoke thankfully didn't hear Kylo's mind, he was too busy reviling in the pain he was inflicting on his apprentice. He finally let loose of his grip on Kylo.

"Now listen, Ren. We intercepted a transmission that the girl will be heading to Tatooine tomorrow for an expedition. I expect you to go there and return with her and the relic. Take whatever you need to complete your mission."

"Yes...ma...ster…" Kylo whispered. He was barely able to speak and equally unable to rise from the floor.

"Take your pathetic carcass out of my chambers, boy!" the Supreme Leader shouted.

Slowly, he rose. He straightened his robes with as much dignity as possibly and slowly walked out of the room. He heard the door shut with a heavy thud behind him. Seething, Kylo began the angry march back to his quarters. The first stormtrooper that came into his sight was Force choked and thrown into the wall, crumpled on the floor with a broken neck. Another lost his arm by a quick stroke of Kylo's lightsaber. People began to run in a panic. Kylo Ren was on a rampage and if you wanted to live, you got out of sight. A protocol droid exploded from Force lightning, it's head rolling down a hall while it's limbs went four different directions. A housekeeping cart heading for the stormtrooper garrison, now abandoned, was destroyed in four swipes of his lightsaber, linens singed, some having small flames. Heading down the last hallway, he took out two more droids and a trash bin with determined efficiency.

Once in his room, he removed his mask, hurling it to the floor and it bounced across the room. He punched the wall in the same place he had the day before, achieving the same result of bloody knuckles under his glove only he didn't stop this time until the glove was shredded. Going into the refresher, he took off his tattered glove so he could rinse off his hand. He saw his reflection in the mirror and was so disgusted by it he punched the mirror, shattering it and truly cutting his knuckles. The pain felt good; it was a release, felt satisfying. He was starting to come down now, his anger abating. He would have to call maintenance to fix his mirror. Again.

He peeled off his other glove, throwing it on the pile of glass with his other destroyed glove. No real need to hang on to one glove. He went out to the bedroom and hung up his robes. The girl certainly didn't waste time between missions. What could she be looking for on Tatooine? The First Order had scoured that planet looking for any evidence of Luke Skywalker and found nothing, so it was unlikely it had anything to do with him. They would start their search from the old Skywalker moisture farm and fan out from there.

His hand needed medical attention, but that could be dealt with later. He needed to mediate or more people were going to die. The prattle he would have to endure for the slaughter wasn't worth the momentary satisfaction.

Rey, Poe and Finn sat at a table in the mess hall, eating breakfast. Poe and Finn were quizzing her about seeing Kylo Ren again. It was the first encounter anyone from the Resistance had had with him since the destruction of the Starkiller Base.

"So what was it like seeing him?" Finn asked.

"Quite terrifying, actually," Rey replied. "He wasn't injured by a bowcaster so he was much stronger. Much stronger. He had me on the defensive the entire fight."

"What turned the fight your way?" asked Poe. "What did you do to win?"

Rey paused for a moment before answering, "Well, nothing. I didn't really win." She went on to explain the layout of the cavern, with the crossbar bridges and the pits. "I fell into one and he pulled me out. He saved me."

Both men looked at her, incredulous. "What?!" Finn exclaimed, "He saved you? Why?"

"I don't know. He reached down, grabbed my hand and pulled me up. You could be a little more grateful," she playfully nudged Finn.

"You have to understand that I'm trying to wrap my head around Kylo Ren of the First Order saving your life or any life for that matter," Finn shook his head.

Poe started to laugh, "Maybe he likes you, Rey."

"Oh, stop it," she said with a smile.

Finn started laughing, too, "Rey has a boyfriend, Rey has a boyfriend."

"OK, that's enou…" Rey stopped as a hot pressure began to build in her head. She reached up, grabbing her temples. "What the…"

"Rey, are you ok?" Finn put his drink down.

The pain and the heat in Rey's head became worse and worse, knocking her out of her chair and driving her to the floor. It began to radiate down her neck, into her arms, down to her fingertips, down her spine into her legs and into her toes. It was the worst pain she had ever felt in her entire life. Crying out in agony, both Poe and Finn rushed to her side.

"Rey, what is happening?" Poe put his hands on her shoulder while she laid on the ground curled in a ball.

"I...don't...know…" she whispered. Other people were beginning to gather around.

"Someone get a medical droid!" Poe yelled.

In her mind, Rey heard Kylo Ren yell out her name. She tried to respond but she was in too much pain. Impatient, Finn picked her up to take her to the medical bay, Poe right behind. On the way to the medical bay, the pain subsided and Rey went limp. Finn and Poe burst into the bay.

"We need help!" Finn yelled.

A nurse stepped forward, "What happened?"

"We were eating breakfast and all of a sudden she grabbed her head, fell out of her chair and was on the ground," Poe explained.

"Rey, are you awake?" the nurse asked.

"Yes," she whispered.

"Finn, put her on this bed over here," the nurse pointed to a bed against the wall. "We'll get her hooked up and start getting vital signs. Rey, can you tell me what happened?"

"I was, I was fine, then this pain started in my head. Like an intense pressure with heat and it got worse and worse, like my head was going to explode, then it started to go down my neck and back. Into my arms and legs. It hurt so badly I couldn't move. I just fell over," she felt a tear rolling down her cheek. "I've never felt anything like that in my life."

"OK, I'm going to let this droid do it's job of taking your vitals and checking to see if you're ok physically. I'll be back in a moment to check the results and see how you're doing," the nurse walked off to attend to other patients further back in the bay.

Finn and Poe were staring at her. Finally Finn said, "Are you ok, Rey?"

"I think so," she replied.

"What was that?" Poe asked.

"I have no idea," she didn't tell them about hearing Kylo call her name. Not because of their joking earlier, but because it just seemed very strange that happened but she wasn't sure why.

"What, Rey?" asked Finn. "You look like you're thinking about something."

"I am. Trying to figure out what the hell happened to me."

He nodded, "Good point."

"Why don't you guys get out of here? I'll be fine here, if anything comes up I'll have them call you. There's no need for you to stand around while a droid analyzes my vitals."

Poe looked at her with concern, "Are you sure? I know I can stay. I can clear my schedule."

"Oh, me too, me too," Finn said, "Whatever you need."

"I think I'd like to rest a little bit, to be honest," she laid her head back on the pillow and sighed.

"If that's what you want," Finn smiled and leaned down to hug her. "Let's not do this again," he said, laughing.

She lightly laughed, "Yes, I'll try to avoid it in the future."

Poe hugged her, as well, "Call if you need us. For anything."

"For anything," she repeated. She leaned back into the pillow again and closed her eyes. She didn't know what happened but she was fairly sure Kylo Ren had something to do with it. Why else would she have heard his voice during the attack? Did he actually cry out for her? Was he being put through the same pain? So many questions and no way to get any answers. She felt more tears spring up in her eyes.

She wondered if she could reach out to him in the same way, by calling out to him. She didn't have anything else to do so she figured she might as well try. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. She really didn't know if doing any of that would help but she thought it wouldn't hurt. Kylo...Kylo…

Images of a fiery planet began to form in her mind. Lava spewing up from vents, rivers of lava flowing. Volcanos erupted on the horizon. Mining equipment working through the fire and soot. A rather dreadful landscape all around and yet there sat Kylo Ren, meditating, in her mind's eye, at least. His meditation became a shared vision.

"Rey?" he answered her, then saw her, wearing the white dress she always wore in his dreams, his vision of her. It was so unexpected he didn't even think to shut her out of his mind.

"Kylo, what's going on?"

"We seemed to have established a telepathic link."

"No," she interrupted him. "That's not what I meant. I'm sorry. Were you just in a great deal of pain?

This was not something he would readily admit to someone. "Why?"

"Because I just went through the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life and right in the middle of it I hear you calling my name."

He didn't speak for a moment, "Snoke was punishing me," he said flatly.

"What? That's insane! Why did I feel it?" Rey wasn't sure if getting her questions answered was clearing up anything or not. "Why would he punish you?"

"It does not matter," Kylo's tone remained flat.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"I frequently envision the planet Mustafar when I meditate. It is important to my grandfather."

"It's, uh," Rey didn't know what to say.

"It is not nice and it is not supposed to be. You would not understand," his voice trailed off a bit. "My meditation is not for peace."

"Why did Snoke punish you?" Rey asked again. For some reason, she wanted to know. For some reason, it mattered. She needed it to be justified.

"I told you that it does not matter. Why must you press me on the issue?"

"Because he shouldn't punish you at all!" she exclaimed.

"Really, now? You are worried about my well being all of a sudden?" he paused, "He punished me to remind me to be mindful of my thoughts."

Rey noticed the backdrop for their vision was changing to a beautiful green countryside near a lake with tall mountains and a beautiful villa. They were standing on the veranda of the villa. Rey could almost smell the flowers and wished she could really be wherever this beautiful place was.

"Wait, why have things changed? Where are we now?"

"This is Naboo. Another important place to my grandfather. I...don't envision this place very often. Rarely, in fact. It's too placid," Kylo shrugged. He was starting to drop his formal demeanor.

"It's beautiful. Maybe someday I'll get to visit. So, mindful of your thoughts. What thoughts are so bad that he has to torture you for them?"

"Rey, you're treading into things that aren't your business."

She looked at him sternly. "It became my business when I was also being tortured."

Kylo sighed, "Snoke came into my mind while I was sleeping and I was having a dream about you."

"Me?"

"Yes, you. I told him I killed you at the end of the dream but that apparently wasn't good enough. I didn't though," he stopped short.

"You didn't what?" she pressed.

"Kill you, I didn't kill you in the dream," they were going into territory he had no desire to discuss. He decided to try and turn the conversation. "Why do you think you felt what I felt? Did you feel anything yesterday?"

"No," she said, "Why?"

"Because the same thing happened yesterday, slightly less intense," he replied, "This bond doesn't make sense."

She thought for a moment, "Maybe since I was in your mind from the dream and you called out my name it called me into it. Maybe it gets stronger by the day. I don't know. Wait, he did this to you yesterday, too?"

"Yes."

"And how many years have you put up with this? You could be so much more!"

"What, be a Jedi?" he scoffed, "Why do you even care? You think I'm a monster."

"Maybe you would be less of a monster if you didn't have such a sadistic beast for a master," Rey felt her temper rising and she really wasn't sure why. He was right, why did she care? "This is not how a master is supposed to treat his apprentice."

"We need to end this. If Snoke picks up on this, we will both regret it," with that, Rey's consciousness was back in the medical bay, the nurse standing over her, checking over the reports the droid had printed out. She could still see beautiful landscape in her mind.

"There she is! You were sleeping so soundly I didn't want to wake you up. All of your physical stats check out fine. It looks like this was an anomaly. You're welcome to stay as long as you like," the nurse smiled at her warmly.

"I think I'll go back to my room for now," Rey said, wobbling a little as she stood up. She exited the medical bay and headed for her quarters. She was going to rest for a while then find Finn and Poe to go over her plans for her mission to Tatooine tomorrow. General Organa had suggested going there to look for any artifacts or items she might find helpful in her studies of the Force. She was going to search the home of Obi Wan Kenobi, one of the last Jedis. His home had been abandoned for many years so she wasn't sure if she would find anything at all but it was also the childhood home of Luke Skywalker so she was curious about that in the very least. Maybe she would find something of interest there, as well. She was starting to really look forward to this excursion. She smiled. You never know what you might find when you're scavenging.