"Ben! Ben! Where the blazes are you going?"
He didn't turn around, "Stay here Rey, do not follow me."
She didn't listen of course, and followed quietly behind him.
"Hux!" He exclaimed.
He heard nothing.
"Hux! I know you're there you bumbling fool! Face me! Face me you coward!
Kylo Ren was shocked then when he saw the General before him. His hair was disheveled, he was sweating profusely and he had an animal like expression on his face. He looked...insane.
"I find your lust for my demise rather amusing, General, but you are extremely foolish to come here," he told him. "You have no weapon to defend yourself." He ignited his saber then and faced it towards the red haired man.
"Put that away Ren," he spat. "Fight me like a man." He lunged towards him then, tackling him to the ground. The two men punched each other with extreme rage. Kylo Ren gave Hux a sharp left hook, nearly breaking his jaw.
He spat blood and wiped his mouth and rolled on top of Ren, and started punching the life out of him. He punched and punched and punched until Kylo Ren's face was bloody and battered. He then took out his blaster pistol and aimed it towards the man's forehead.
"This will bring me nothing...but great pleasure," Hux said with a snarl. His hand was seconds away from pulling the trigger.
"NO!" Rey exclaimed as she ran towards him, saberstaff in hand. "Stupid girl," Hux said and blasted her in the leg. She toppled to the ground instantly.
"NOOO!" he growled. Kylo Ren was enraged as he had ever been in his life at that moment. He forced grabbed his saber hilt then, and screamed in anger as he ignited it and drove it straight through the man's chest. The red haired man then toppled over, and breathed no more.
He then ran over to Rey, and saw that she was still breathing. Her screams of agony as she clutched her leg greatly unsettled him. He started crying then, and moved the hair out of her face. He then picked her up, carefully, in his arms and walked backed to base.
A crowd had formed outside, they watched in awe as they saw the tall black figure caring a girl in his arms. Finn ran up to meet them, "What the bloody hell happened?!" he exclaimed. Kylo Ren simply looked at him and said nothing as he walked towards his room with Rey, still clutching her leg. As he laid her down on his bed, he couldn't stand the sound of her agonizing screams any more. Seeing her in pain brought him pain. "Make it stop Ben! The pain...please!" she begged.
He didn't hesitate. He knew then what he had to do. He placed his hands on her forehead, and willed her unconscious by sending the force through her body. He did so she would not feel anything as he forced healed her wound. He placed his large hands over her leg then and shut his eyes. Kylo Ren had only forced healed once, on himself, when his father's friend shot him in the side with his crossbow. He cleared his mind then of all of his anger, frustration, anxiety he was feeling at the moment and solely pictured her face. He thought of the way her eyes shined whenever she looked at him, the way she rolled her eyes whenever he annoyed her, the way she smiled, the sound of her laugh.
As he opened his eyes, he sighed in relieve as her wound was closing up. He thought then of waking her up, kissing her, hugging her, telling her how much he loved her, but he thought it best to let her sleep. He then rose from his bed, and silently left the room.
As he walked out, his mother greeted him. "Ben what happened? Finn told me Rey was shot?!"
"Yes, but she is alright, mother, she's sleeping now," he informed her. "I told her not to follow me…but she didn't listen…." He said as he looked to the side.
"General Hux was here, he tried to kill me. Rey saw him on top of me with his pistol raised to my forehead, and…well… he shot her in the leg when she lunged towards him."
She gasped in horror, "Where…where is he now?"
He sighed, and replied to his mother with no emotion, "He's currently lying dead in front of his ship," he replied. "I...killed him. I had no choice."
She turned around and cracked open the door to his room. She noticed how peaceful Rey looked as she laid there. "She's lucky to have you Ben," she whispered to him. He stood beside her and watched Rey sleep as well, "No," he said. "More like I am lucky to have her." Leia looked up at him and they shared a warm smile at the other.
She left the room then, and he walked in and pulled up a chair beside his bed. She looked so peaceful, so beautiful. He gently touched her hand as he watched her sleep. She slowly opened her eyes at his touch and looked up at him. "Ben..."
He was startled by the sound of her voice. "Where am I? What...what happened?" she asked.
He squeezed her hand gently, "Hux was here, and we were fighting. I told you to stay back, not to follow me, but of course you didn't listen."
She smiled at him, "He shot you with his blaster pistol in the leg when he saw you," he continued. "You hit the ground pretty hard. You're in my room now, I had to will you unconscious so you would not feel the pain when I force healed your wound."
"You killed him...didn't you?" She asked.
He paused, "Of course I did Rey. And I have no remorse whatsoever."
She looked at him with a confused expression, "Why...why was he here? Did Snoke-"
"No, he came here by himself. He was foolish to come here, to try to kill me, kill you."
She tried to raise herself from the bed, and he pushed gently pushed her back down, "I want to get up Ben. Let me get up," she protested.
He stepped back then and pushed his chair out of the way, he watched as she slowly plopped her feet to the floor, and shrugged as she drug her leg slightly as she walked. "Well I guess this puts us back a couple of days, doesn't it?" she asked.
He looked at her, catching her as she almost fell to the ground, "Yes, but it's alright. The important thing is that you are okay. You need to rest your leg for at least two days to ensure you can properly walk. Until then, we can practice meditation."
"Oh alright," she replied. "Hand me my bag, will you?" He handed her her bag and watched as she rivaled through it. "Ah ha," she mumbled to herself as she pulled out a large wad of bandages.
"What did you put those in there for?" He asked. He watched as she rolled out a piece and cut it off with her teeth. "They were originally for you actually, you know, in case I accidentally slashed at your arm or something." She was wrapping the bandages tightly around her leg, making somewhat of a cast. "For me?" He asked with a slight chuckle. "You underestimate my power my dear."
She laughed, "Oh and is that why I slashed at your chest? Reopened your wound? Is that why you groaned in pain like a little girl before I forced healed you?"
He was somewhat annoyed, but he laughed it off as he watched her finish wrapping her leg. "Perfect," she said. She proceeded then to do a slight hopping motion towards the door, "Well, come on. I need to let everyone know I'm alright."
He thought about helping her then, put he stopped himself when he read her mind. He then followed close behind her as she hopped along to where everyone was.
Finn and Poe were in the dining area. Finn immediately rose to his feet at the sight of her, "I heard what happened, are you alright Rey? You had me worried sick."
She smiled at him, "Yes yes I'm quite alright, I wouldn't be though if Ben hadn't thought as quickly as he did." Kylo Ren smiled in satisfaction at her words. "So Poe," she continued, "How are you? I haven't seen much of you since we got here."
He smiled at her, "Oh I'm good, really good. Done a bit of target practice in my X-Wing with a couple of the other pilot's, but yeah I'm good, things are good."
Kylo Ren felt slightly awkward at that moment, for the last time he saw the pilot, he was torturing him in an interrogation room upon his ship. "I," he began to say as they all looked at him. "I'm going to go for a walk to clear my head, excuse me," he kissed Rey's forehead and turned about to leave the room.
"It was so long ago," Poe told her as he watched the man stride off."Things have obviously changed, I hope he knows that." Rey smiled at him, "Oh I'm sure he knows Poe," she informed him. "He just has a lot on his mind right now, I think he just needs some time to himself." He nodded, "Now, what are you two eating? I'm starving."
Kylo Ren was walking about the base now. He was admiring the various Starfighter's before him. It was truly marvelous he thought, how much the Resistance had grown, in strength, and size. As he graced his hand upon an X-wing, he saw it.
It was just as he had remembered it as a child, large, and circular in form. Most thought it was merely a piece of junk, but he did not think so. The hatch to the door was open, and the track was down, so he decided to take a peek inside.
He was instantly taken back to when he was nine, when he and his father visited the planet Endor. His father had told him of the victory achieved that day so many years ago, and Ben was desperate to visit the planet. He remembered how he practically begged him to take him there, and how his father had shrugged and rolled his eyes at him,
"Okay, kid, okay. But you can never tell your mother. She'll kill us both."
He remembered the butterflies in his stomach as they took off, "We're going," he had thought to himself then. He remembered sitting in the copilot's seat, and how he stared at his father with fascination as he pulled various levers and pushed various buttons. He remembered stepping off of the ship onto the planet's service. It was so large, so open, so beautiful.
It was a memory he would keep with him forever, a memory that would constantly replay and haunt his mind throughout the rest of his days. He sat in the pilots chair then, in his father's place, and muttered softly to himself as he sank his head down, "I'm…sorry."
He suddenly heard footsteps behind him, and jumped slightly in his chair. It was his mother. She slowly walked up to him and sat in the copilot's chair, and watched as Poe and two other Resistance pilots prepared themselves for target practice.
"You know I felt it," she told him as she stared straight ahead. "I felt the moment your father took his last breath." She showed no sign of emotion.
He stared at her, "Wherever he is, I know he is safe. Happy." Kylo Ren felt tears fall from his eyes. "I don't blame you Ben, and he neither does he."
"What I do blame... is this war," she continued. "This god forsaken war that has gone on for far too long. I blame Snoke for taking you away from me, from us. I knew you did what you had to do, but that does not mean I am not saddened by the outcome."
"I hate myself for it," he told her. "He should be here, he should be here with us. Fighting alongside us."
He could feel the anger boil inside of him, "Do not hate yourself son, your father knew the risk when he walked out onto that platform. He knew Snoke would order you to kill him. He sacrificed himself Ben, for you, for all of us."
He met his mother's dark eyes with his own, "You have to put a stop to all of this son," she continued. "You've got to kill him. Do not let your past cloud your judgment, or cloud your focus on the task before you. The past is the past, and you have been forgiven for your actions. So do it for me, do it for Rey, do it for yourself, do it for… him."
"And what if I'm not strong enough?" He asked.
She gave him a rather serious look, "Do not doubt your strength son, I have seen you train with Rey. You both have your strong points. I have no doubt you can defeat him."
He sighed out deeply, and ran his fingers through his hair. "I'm going to check on Rey," he told her, and rose from his seat. "I hope you're right," he said with his back now turned to her. She watched through the cockpit window then as he made his way back to base. She sighed out deeply, and graced her hands over the levers before her. "It's going to be okay," she muttered to herself. "It's all going to be okay."
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