Kylo Ren awoke the next morning, replaying the events that happened the night before. He was for certain now that she truly was his weakness, and was ashamed for giving into his desires.
He looked at her now, her face beautiful,and peaceful as she laid there asleep.
Rey awoke at once, as if she felt his eyes upon her. She rubbed her eyes and yawned.
"Hello...there," she said hearing the awkwardness in her voice.
He stared straight ahead now, trying his best not to stare at her bare chest that was now exposed as she propped herself up.
"Get up," he said with no emotion in his voice. "We should be arriving at Takodana shortly."
He then rose to his feet, picking his clothes and hers off the floor. He threw hers to her, and stared at her rather intensely.
"Leave," he demanded. "I must shower."
She looked at him now, confused. She knew what they did last night was purely physical, a simple desire for each other's bodies. But she thought at least he would be somewhat nice to her at that moment.
"Fine," she spat. She grabbed her clothes that he had thrown to her on the bed,and proceeded to redress herself.
He sighed in annoyance, he just wanted to shower, wanted her gone from his room, gone from his thoughts.
Rey walked into the front of the ship, and noticed Kylo Ren was now sitting in the pilot seat. He was staring at the same levers and buttons she had admired and graced her hands on the day before.
She hated how awkward she felt. They had seen each other, in their most vulnerable state, their bodies had been intertwined with the other. The image would be forever planted in her mind.
He stood up then as he realized she was standing there before him. He adjusted his clothes, smoothing out the wrinkles on his sleeves trying to make himself look presentable, he huffed out deeply.
She approached him, and sat in the copilots chair. "How much longer?" she asked as she looked up at him.
"Um," he momentarily forgot where he was. "We will arrive shortly." he said staring at his boots.
She saw then that his face was flushed. "Was it possible?" she thought to herself. "The great Kylo Ren, embarrassed, flushed,uncomfortable?" She wondered then if there was any possibility he felt more uncomfortable than she did.
"Good," that's all she could manage to say. "Good."
"Alright," he clasped his hands out in front of him. "We should begin today's training."
She knew it now, he did feel awkward. May be, even more awkward than she did.
Kylo Ren sighed out deeply as he entered the training room. Rey started to get annoyed, she didn't want what they did last tonight to interfere with her mission.
"You need to focus," she spat as she picked up her mock saber.
He looked at her now, and raised a brow at her.
"I feel just as uncomfortable as you do right now in reference to what occurred between us last night. It was a moment of weakness, a foolish act on both parts, and I shouldn't have initiated it."
"So please," she continued. "Stop thinking about it. Stop avoiding eye contact, stop acting like a child. Clear that thick skull of yours and focus on my training dammit."
She was right, he thought. He had let his guard down, his weakness and desire for her cloud his judgement. He nodded in acceptance, and sighed out deeply.
"Put down the saber," he barked. "We will be training differently today."
He walked over to the far right hand if the room, and rolled out the punching bag Rey saw her first time in the room. He then grabbed two pairs of boxing gloves from the attachment on the wall.
"I want you to imagine me...as this bag you see before you," he said.
She laughed at his words, "This will be...fun." she thought to herself. She looked at him then and said confidently, "That...will not be a hard task, hand over the gloves."
He handed them to her, and watched as put them on her rather small hands.
She began punching it immediately, giving it a left hook, then a right. She imagined his face, perfectly just as he wanted her to. She punched and she kicked,savoring each blow to the bag she imagined as the man watching over her. As she round house kicked the bag, she stopped in her tracks and looked over at him, he was putting on his gloves. She gave it another left hook and groaned with satisfaction, "What the blazes are you doing?"
He looked at her then, a slight smirk building upon his face, "I thought I might join you," he said as he snapped the buttons to his gloves. He then dragged out another punching bag, and placed it beside hers. He started punching it, rather hardly, she wondered who he imagined the bag was. She hoped it wasn't her.
She nodded then, and resumed beating the life out of her punching bag.
It felt good, imagining this inanimate object had the face of the man she hated. She thought to herself again about what her Master had told her, "Bring him back," he instructed, and remembered the distinct word he had used, "Compassion." She wondered if she would be able to complete her mission, for her hatred of him was overpowering everything else in her mind.
Kylo Ren blew out one last punch to his bag and sighed deeply. He was out of breath.
They resumed to their position at the front of the ship, an hour later, finished with the days training session. Rey could see the lush green planet of Takodana in the distance.
She smiled at herself then, for she remembered vividly her first time on the planet. She remembered how she exclaimed to Han Solo how she had no knowledge of that much green in the galaxy. She remembered the tears in her eyes upon her first arrival there, how the beauty of it all overwhelmed her greatly. She remembered how happy she was there, until he came and met her in the forest, paralyzing her in her tracks.
"The girl I've heard so much about." Kylo Ren had said to her.
She didn't remember much then after that, for he was unwillingly knocked unconscious at the wave of his hand.
Kylo Ren watched as Rey gazed out into the open before her, he found it amusing how she looked like a giddy child. He prayed that Snoke or the First Order would not track him here. He needed, and wanted more time with her before he presented her to the Supreme Leader.
"Sit down," he said. "We are to begin descending momentarily."
She obeyed, and sat down, gazing out into the vast, openness of space before her.
