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"You're a monster," Rey hissed out, pushing more of her weight into the lightsaber she was using to hold Kylo Ren's own saber immobile.
"I had hoped you would come up with a different word to describe me." She could feel the smirk in his words, the cockiness in his attitude. Did he honestly think he was so much better than her? She had had training, she was stronger than even he knew, than even the great and powerful Master of the Knights of Ren knew.
Rey could almost feel herself gaining power as her gaze narrowed and her jaw set in an angry line. She was far more powerful than even Master Luke. She would strike them all down to protect her baby. She would kill everyone who stood in her way. She was invincible, wondrous and omnipotent. Nothing could stand in her way, nor would she let it.
"You are nothing but the scum beneath my boot. How pathetic that my child should share your genes." Rey's voice lowered impossibly further as inspiration struck. What was the point in thinking about how powerful she was? Words were nothing. They were useless.
Perhaps an act... A demonstration was in order.
Rey thrust out her free hand, the motion helping to focus her mind as she lifted Kylo Ren into the air by his throat, laughing as she felt his puny attempt to combat her with his own gift.
"Do you truly think you can defend yourself from me?" She felt a flash of anger as he began to lower of his own accord, sucking in a deep lungful of air before Rey used another surge of power to stop the breath that was pouring into his body, her enemy's lungs locking up as they tried in vain to grab the much needed oxygen. "How does it feel, my dear, sweet, pathetic Kylo? To feel your body weakening as the person you love chokes the very life from your body?" Kylo Ren coughed and clawed at the robe that was around his neck, as if that could help him.
Rolling her eyes at the pathetic display, Rey dropped the father of her child to the ground with a flick of her wrist. "I felt so betrayed by you, so heartbroken the first time you tried to kill me. My feelings were almost as pathetic as you are, really. But I understand now, the urge you had." Rey ran her free hand up and down the side of her body, feeling flush with excitement at what she had nearly done. What she could do. "Is this what you feel all the time? Such desire, so power? Well, probably on a more dimmed level as you aren't half the Force user as I am. It's no wonder you were so weak as to give in at such a young age."
Kylo Ren stood up slowly, as if his very soul ached. Should it have? Rey didn't care. Perhaps if he stood to his full height she might have more of a challenge when she finally killed him. She laughed at the absurdity of that. Then she rolled her eyes again as Kylo Ren removed his helmet, revealing to her a face that nearly set her free and broke her heart all at once.
She shook her head, allowing the treacherous thoughts to leave her mind. To go somewhere else, literally anywhere else and to never bother her again. To be so taken with one person was weak.
"Do you think revealing the face of one Ben Solo you have long claimed to be dead will do anything for me?" Rey sighed as a stormtrooper began to sit up awkwardly. She spared him a few seconds before she shoved him back down with the Force, smiling when she heard his helmet crack from the blow as it hit the ground.
"Rey. This isn't you." Kylo held up his hands almost as if he were trying to calm a wild animal.
"You don't even know me! You think because we've fucked that you know me?"
"I do know you, more than I care to admit. You are letting your emotions cloud your judgment. Can't you see that your succumbing to the dark side?" The dark side? He thought that this was the dark side? Maybe he hadn't been properly introduced to how it truly felt to be influenced by the darkness. Should she be the one to show him?
"You will just say anything to try and make me less powerful, won't you? You can't stand to think that I might be so much stronger than you without the assistance of the light or the dark. That I might be the strongest Force user that there has ever been. My powers are so great I know they far surpass your own. You are useless, Kylo Ren. Worthless." Kylo Ren flinched imperceptibly at Rey's words, causing a smirk to grace her features, making her seem ugly and less human. Couldn't she see what she was becoming?
Rey's fist clenched at her side at her own thoughts. She was fine. Better than fine! She could take on the entire First Order and not lose sleep over all the lives she wiped out from existence. It would all be for the greater good, starting with Kylo Ren, a murderer and deceiver. How many times had he betrayed Rey? He would never stop. He couldn't stop, it was in his very nature. That didn't mean he couldn't learn a lesson or two before the end and she would be just the person to give it to him. She clipped her lightsaber to the hilt on her side, determined to show him just how powerful she was.
"Rey... Ben is right. This isn't you. Please, I implore you to see reason." Master Luke spoke from behind her, causing Rey to startle before flashing angry eyes in his direction. He stood stiffly, as if he was in intense pain. Her mind was open and allowed the sensations he was feeling to engulf her. It was so intense Rey almost bent at the waist from the agony of it before it left her, almost as if it had never been. For a brief moment she felt herself again, almost as if a switch had been turned off, allowing her to see things how she truly saw them, not how something was telling her to see them.
And then it was gone, slipping below the surface as her hatred coming boiling to the front, consuming her once again.
"Why do you keep saying that? I came out here to save you! To protect you from dying! You were too easy to take down, old man. Someone had to help you, although I can see I should have just let you die." She stared at her master, feeling both angry and confused. She had been helping him, hadn't she? It was Kylo who was the problem, didn't he see that?
Rey turned toward the Falcon, feeling the dawning horror that was coming from her best friend Finn and Chewbacca's uneasiness. Was it Kylo Ren that made them feel so, or was it her? Was Rey herself the problem? She couldn't be. She was the next generation of Jedi, she was going to help create a new world order with the Jedi helping the galaxy to be free from tyranny. She wasn't going to become another person to suppress the galaxy. She wouldn't.
She put her hand on the life growing inside of her womb, urging all of her foul thoughts back, as far back as she could push them. Only then did she feel the flicker of light come towards her, warming the ice that had begun spreading through her soul. She could breathe, finally. Truly think for herself.
Rey felt immediately horrified by her actions. Her cheeks heated as she turned her gaze to an unmasked Kylo, feeling ashamed by the hurt she witnessed in his eyes before he glanced away from her. How could she have been so cruel?
Rey took a hesitant step forward, almost as if to embrace him, but stopped when she realized what she was doing. She glanced back at Luke, then Kylo and then down at herself. Were they all really standing outside of the Falcon, weapons at ease and with no ill intent towards one another?
"I'm so sorry, I don't know why I said any that." Rey rubbed her belly in a soothing manner, hoping to calm down the growing dread that was filling her soul. "I don't know what's happening. What's happening to me?"
"We have discussed before how the child is constantly surrounded by the Force as it is a Force user. It's possible that the child is draining you, making you more susceptible to the dark side in ways that we hadn't thought of before." Master Luke answered, stepping forward cautiously to lay a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"I knew our child was strong from when we connected, but I didn't realize how strong. To possibly change one's side of the Force? That's never been heard of," Kylo Ren exclaimed with awe in his voice. Rey took a step back when he proceeded forward, lifting his lip in a snarl when Master Luke blocked his path. "I assumed we had finished our.. discussion when you found yourself on the ground and near death. Perhaps I was mistaken?"
"You will not take Rey. She is in no condition for whatever you have planned."
"Rey is right here," She bit out, tossing her hands into the air. This was no time for a pissing contest of any sort. When Kylo smirked at Luke, Rey glared at her former lover. "Yeah, none of that either. I'm still not going with you for obvious reasons. If you have ever loved me at all, you know its for the best."
Kylo Ren nodded his head in acknowledgment, his eyes clouding in confusion before gripping his head with both hands. After a few seconds, he stood back at his full height. His hands were shaky, his skin was more pale than usual and he had a haunted look on his face.
"Kylo?" Rey asked tentatively. She noticed Master Luke had crept closer to the Knight as he was bent over, a studious expression on his face. "Kylo?" Rey asked again, unsure if her Kylo would respond or if someone else would speak through him.
"I am fine." He muttered.
"Do you really believe that? What's wrong?" He looked away from her, slightly turning his body away from anyone's prying eyes. Rey could still feel Finn and Chewy scoping out the situation from the Falcon. The big babies hadn't even made an attempt to come down to assist anyone. Babies, the whole lot of them.
At his silence, Master Luke spoke up. "Did you hear his voice, Ben?" He fidgeted with the hilt of his lightsaber before folding his arms at his chest, hands disappearing into the sleeves of his Jedi robes.
"Whose voice?" Rey asked, afraid of the answer.
Luke, never breaking wary eye contact with Kylo Ren, spoke up. "Snoke. I could hear him clearly in your head as you nearly collapsed to the ground."
"I didn't almost collapse. I said I was fine." The wind blew past at his lie, his robe billowing around his boot clad ankles, hair curling around his face.
"What was he saying?" Rey piped up, an answer to her long asked questions forming.
"I think you should come with us, Ben. Let me and Rey help you get rid of whatever has been done to you." Rey's mouth fell open at the suggestion. Take Kylo with them? Was Master Luke delusional? Obviously they had been jumping from planet to planet in order to ESCAPE Kylo Ren, not invite him onto the Falcon. Even Rey knew that was a bad idea.
Granted, only a few short months ago she had tried to do just that, take Kylo back to the resistance with her or just flee the battle altogether. Grow old together. But after her escape, he had become darker, crueler, sinister. Could this be the reason why?
"Nothing has been done. I must return to the Supreme Leader."
"What happened after you let me escape, Kylo? You thought you were going to die, but you didn't. Ever since, you've been so much darker. At least, until you found out about the young. What happened to you?"
"Happened?" Kylo murmured, confused by the line of questioning. "I... I don't remember." He shook his head, almost as if to clear whatever was lurking. Looking back at his uncle, he asked, "You heard the Supreme Leader?"
Master Luke nodded his head in confirmation.
"No one else knows I found you here except for those on my ship. It should be easy enough to wipe their memories as long as no one has reported in. We should stay here while we figure everything out. I don't trust any of you and you don't trust me. This is the safest course of action."
"Agreed." Luke looked back towards the Falcon. "I will go inform the others."
"Oh and Skywalker?" Luke turned back towards his nephew. "I am not Ben Solo. Call me that again and I'll rip out your tongue." With that, Kylo Ren stormed away back towards his ship, anger in every step.