Chapter 11

"They won. Hux was captured. The fleet is no longer yours to command." Her voice was quiet as she said it.

"I don't understand," he said, even though that was not quite true. He did understand. Suddenly, so many things that surprised him today now made sense. Rey had done this behind his back. He just couldn't believe it. He looked down and saw her virginal blood on him, the same blood still smeared into the sheets between them and on her own nude form. "How much?" he asked.

"What?" Rey asked. She hugged herself now, and Kylo found himself torn between his desires to comfort her, strangle her for her betrayal, and fuck her until everything else no longer mattered. All three choices involved being closer to her though, and so he crawled forward, backing her into the headboard, until he had her between and underneath him again. Rey kept her eyes on him, which was smart, because they were the only things keeping him from going mad with everything he felt.

He took her chin between two fingers and glared at her. "How much was fake?" On some level, he knew he should be interrogating her to undo her damage to the First Order, but he was certain that he could come back from any political or military blow. He could not come back from her. She gazed at him in some mix of shock or awe. He no longer trusted his judgment. He reached out to the force, but her emotions were nearly as turbulent as his own, making interpretation impossible. "Rey, tell me!"

Rey gazed at him, wide-eyed and frightened, and it reminded him of her reaction to his plea that she rule the galaxy at his side. Would she be calling for his lightsaber next? Then knocking him out and abandoning him again? He had lost completely.

Grief overwhelmed Kylo, and he tucked his head into the nook of her neck, sobbing and clinging to her as he abandoned hope. Rey wrapped her arms tightly around him, pulling him closer, and suddenly he was angry. How dare she comfort him when she did this to him!

Kylo bared his teeth in rage as the familiar need to destroy overtook his senses, and he bit down hard on the tender flesh of her neck. Rey cried out and arched into him. His cursed body hardened in response to her, but then, her own hands had moved and were now clenching his ass, trying to pull him into her.

Fine. Senseless fucking it was.

Kylo fueled all his fury into her as he slammed his way home inside her. Rey cried out again at the rough treatment, but her hands only clutched him tighter.

He pounded into her while biting her neck, occasionally licking and sucking as his desire surpassed his anger. Rey rose her hips to meet him, but she struggled against his grip on her neck, which confused him until he heard her voice in his head.

Let me kriffing kiss you, you nerf herder!

Kylo froze. Rey writhed underneath him, her frustration emanant through the force. He ignored this, let go of her neck, and stared at her. Her face was a mess of tears and lust. "You want to kiss me?" he asked.

"Yes!" Rey exclaimed with vehemence. Her breath hitched as she gazed at him, and in a small, cracking voice, she said, "You don't want to kiss me anymore, do you?" Tears streamed down as she said this, and she rubbed them away with the heel of her hand.

Kylo truthfully didn't know. "You betrayed me," he said, hurt flooded him, and though he was already buried inside her, he thrust against her.

Rey gave him a scathing glare and thrusted back. "You imprisoned me."

Kylo bristled. "I treated you kindly!"

"And I spared your life!" Rey shot back. "Finn, Poe, Chewie… even your mother thought I was insane when I said I wouldn't kill you."

Kylo narrowed his eyes at her. "And why didn't you kill me?"

Rey glared at him. "Because I love you, you half-witted luggabeast!" she shouted, and she crumpled. "I don't want to lose you."

"You might have thought about that before you delivered my fleet to the Resistance!" Kylo hissed. Then curiosity got the better of him, and he asked, "How did you pull this off?"

Rey's face and voice were bleak, but she answered him. "Nearly everyone aboard this ship but you and Hux is easily influenced by force suggestions. While you were in the office yesterday, I invaded minds to learn what the First Order had planned for the Resistance. It was difficult, but it became easier. And then this morning, you gave me the idea to try talking to someone directly through the force across distances. I knew it was possible, because Snoke had done it to you, and even you and I had communicated that way at times, but I had never tried it across the galaxy before."

Rey sighed. "It took time, but I reached your mother. I reached Poe and Chewie and Rose, who had not been captured. We made plans. I didn't reach Finn that way, because… well, Finn is Finn, but I needed to check my theories against someone in the Resistance who also knew the First Order, which is why I asked for his company again today. We made plans and I sent out orders through the force for the stormtroopers to… well… make it easy for the Resistance when the time came."

"But that's not why you asked for him yesterday when you arrived?" Kylo asked. The realization they had only been together such a brief time hit him then, and he wondered that so much could happen so quickly.

"What? Oh, no," Rey said, smiling ruefully. "I… had hoped that you would offer to stay with me when I said I didn't want to be alone, but you didn't, so I had to say something." Her eyes watered again. "Truthfully, I didn't want them to see me like that. They would have known immediately how much I cared for you. I would have escaped for anyone else. Hux's cage wouldn't have held a bloggin."

Kylo had no idea what a bloggin was, but this confession from Rey softened his rage somewhat, at least. "So you do love me," he said, and this felt right.

"Yes, I love you. I may have always loved you," Rey said. She leaned back and closed her eyes, as if annoyed by this possibility.

"You have a funny way of showing it. Have you forgotten you shot me when we first met?"

"Of course I did. Love is terrifying!" Rey protested. "I spent nineteen years avoiding attachments, and then I meet you and there's this huge weight in my chest I can't even identify, only I know it's tied to you, and you were powerful and masked and I had no idea what was going on except that I was not at all ready for it. Of course I shot you. Do you think I shoot just anyone on meeting them?"

Kylo's anger faded into warm affection for Rey's impossible logic. Kylo smirked, pulled out of her, and hugged her gently around the waist, leaving his head against her chest so that he could hear her furiously beating heart. The view of her bare breast was not bad either.

"I don't do these things with just anyone either, Kylo. I did need to distract you, but I could have done it other ways. I… I thought you might not forgive me, and I wanted to be with you at least once. The Resistance was already on its way, so..." Rey groaned her misery. "I feel like a monster."

Kylo pulled his left hand free. He caressed the side of the breast he faced, then gentle brushed the nipple with his thumb. "I am angry at you," he said, for it was true, even though he had trouble focusing on it in the moment. He was not nearly done being angry with her. "And what you did was monstrous." Catastrophic, really. The galaxy needed the First Order. The Resistance was not at all equipped to fill that vacuum with anything but chaos, and billions would suffer as a result. "However," he said, and he rolled the nipple under his thumb, enjoying the sound of her heartbeat picking up in response. He pulled his other hand free and grasped her other breast. She moaned. "However, I still want you, Rey."

"Then take me," she said, and he did.

So there's the basic explanation of what happened for the Resistance to win, without going into details. Yes, Rey went a bit dark side to pull it off, hence her denial when called a jedi in the previous chapter, etc. I didn't elaborate on it here since Kylo has no problem with the dark side, and Rey was much more worried about her relationship with Kylo than her force alignment when it came up in discussion.

This basically concludes the story, but there will be an epilogue featuring Hux that explains things a bit more and lets you see where things head next.

And to answer earlier questions before I forget again, I don't have any knowledge that Hux/Phasma are canon, but I can totally see it happening if only because they're both powerful and power-hungry. I don't think it would be a love story, but it could be interesting and kinky. Like, I have a hard time not imagining Hux being a submissive to Phasma's dom if they went that route, but I'm not writing that, lol.

I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you think!