Lingchi

Open Your Eyes

She had a slight headache, it wasn't enough to make her whimper in pain to alert the people around her that she was up, no. She didn't want to do that, she didn't want to look into the mask of a man who refused to show his face, who has such an unhealthy obsession with her, who killed people for his own personal gain, she didn't want to stare into the mask and not see his face. She saw a mask, not what was underneath, that was rather scary.

To know that he was hiding, waiting. It was scary to know nothing about him, but know every thing at the same time because he had shown her every thing about himself, and she knew... oh, she knew and there was absolutely no hiding from it, he didn't know that though. He thought he could hide it under his mask without anyone finding out, his mother, his father, his Emperor... you can't hide everything, certainly this.

She flexed her arms slightly, so it would look like she was twitching in her state unconsciousness, she found out that there were restraints on her arm, preventing her from moving around, getting up, trying to kill every stormtrooper on the ship. Smart, maybe they knew she would do that, Kylo Ren knew... oh, of course he knew. Be claimed to know every little thing about her.

That he watched her, studied her and when they were students under Luke, she didn't find that a problem. But now it was. It was like he knew everything about her, says to get under her skin and he was a Sith... It was frightening... just to... know that he knew how to kill her without batting an eye lash.

Hope's breath quickened in slight fear, fear... yes. She was afraid of Kylo Ren, who wouldn't be afraid of him? She had heard that he killed when he was angry, he kill people. He would go to a village and kill as many as he could, or he'd just do that to look for something, for someone... he wouldn't do it for fun. Unless the dark side had changed him to kill for fun, since he was bored. He would kill with enjoyment and excitement, the rush. But he wouldn't do it just so he could feel it, right?

There wasn't an answer she could find to her questions, so she resorted to breathing in and out to calm her nerves, what was he going to do to her to force the location of Luke out? Will he torture her? Force himself through her mind? That was all Hope could think of, but she was sure Kylo Ren would have a lot more ideas.

Heavy footsteps approached her, she sucked in a breath before releasing it once more, knowing that she had to pretend she was still asleep, even though she wasn't. The swishing of cloaks reached her ears as the person knelt down beside her, she could hear faint breathing from the person before a hand touched her cheek, a gloved one did. It was hard to remain still, to not grit her teeth at the fact that he was touching her skin. A murder's touch.

She expected it to be harsh, heavy... but it gentle, light... and caressing. Like a caring father's touch, it was so unfamiliar and... unexpected that her couldn't help but tilt into it, just enough to confirm she was awake. Then she blinked open her eyes and growled when she met Kylo Ren's empty eyes. She could feel that he was smirking, she didn't have to see his eyes or his face to know that.

Her eyes immediately noticed that he had a lightsaber in his hand, her lightsaber. Hope curled her lips slightly and tried to jerk her face away from his gloved hand. But he held it right where it was.

"Where am I?!" She demanded, glaring at his helmet and then looking to the side and she saw Rey, she was still unconscious. Without restraints, but Hope didn't know that the other girl was sleeping, "What did you do to her?!" Yeah, she was yelling a lot, she was panicked because she didn't trust this crazy ass man.

"It's alright. She's fine..." He said, his voice robotic, hell... maybe that was his real voice. Maybe he was deformed, maybe he was hideous, maybe even... he was half alien. Hope didn't know, but someone with this awful of a personality, had to look just as bad. And she just imagined him even worse.

A person can change drastically since you last saw them... It has been seven years. She knew that he could've changed.

"Once we get to the base, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions." He told her as he pulled his hand from her face, and she wasn't sure if she was relieved or annoyed. Relieved was most likely the better explanation, but she was mildly annoyed because the warmth was gone. Yes, inside of the ship was cold. In fact, it was freezing and his hand, though gloved, had been keeping her face warm.

"I'm not telling you anything." Hope said to Kylo after a moment of the two staring at each other. He hummed under his breath; "We'll see - just know; I always get what I want." And with that, the Sith turned around and walked off, leaving Hope there, a frown of anger on her face.

Well, he'll be disappointed when he tries Hope.