Reylo - Unlikely Love

The Pain

- Rey's view -

I hear foot steps coming towards my room, I hear them stop outside of my door, I look up, and my door is slowly creaking open, I brace myself for what is to come. The door fully opens to reveal Kylo Ren standing in my doorway, his lightsaber in his hand. At first I don't know what to think, but then he starts to walk towards me at an alarming pace. When he reaches close to me, I peer into his eyes, as they are the only thing that I could recognize, but instead of the warm soft brown eyes, I am greeted with eyes that are narrow, black, and filled with rage and anger. He brings his head close to my face, and whispers in my ear,

"I still have not forgiven you for what you did to me on that day".

He turns around, and holds out his hand, instantly I feel my whole body seize up, then slowly pain starts to crawl up my legs and soon it has engulfed my whole body, I want to scream, but I cannot make a sound, I feel as if my whole body is being torn apart from the inside.

"HOW DOES IT FEEL?" he yells, "DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOU REALLY COULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH WHAT YOU DID?"

The pain doubles, I am finding it hard to breath, and then, like magic it stops. I see Kylo back away, but I still cannot move. He uses the force to get me to a standing position and then he turns on his lightsaber, and walks so that he is but inches away from me, I feel him put his lightsaber tip right against my stomach.

"So long scavenger girl" he says as everything suddenly turns black.

I wake up with sweat dripping down my face, I look down at my hands, and even in the darkness I can see that they are shaking violently. Tears start to roll down my face, and for the first time in a long time, I do not stop them. I bury my face into my blanket and begin to cry. How could you trust him, what if this is all a scam so that he can kill us all, you have put everyone in danger. My mind starts to remind me of all the consequences that might occur if Kylo hasn't changed, and he is taking advantage of me. But for some reason, I neglect to believe them. I have seen his soft, tender side, and for now, that convinces me of his innocence. However, I cannot control my tears, and I seem to cry simply because I am scared.

- Kylo Ren's point of view -

I have not been able to sleep at all, my mind drifts off to places that renews my guilt. I start to replay the moment of my fathers death over and over again, and every time I watch it, I regret it a little bit more. I try to think about other things, but my mind only seems to want to remind me of my father, I replay memories of when I was a young boy with no temptations. I remember all the fun times we had, playing together, and flying the Millennium Falcon. I am lost in thought when I feel a single, small, yet meaningful tear roll down my face, I have not cried in years, and it comforts me, and so I welcome it, and soon I am fully crying.

I don't know how much time has passed, but I have since stopped crying, instead, for the first time, I allow my mind to be clear of thought. Silence. I like it, I feel calm, however it does not last long, because I can hear tiny sobs coming from Rey's room. I instantly know, nightmares. I stand up, and walk towards her room, I put my ear to the door, and slowly open it. Inside I see a little girl, curled up in a ball on her bed, crying her eyes out.

"What's wrong?" I say in a whisper. She looks startled to hear my voice, so I do not go any closer to her, fearing that the dream was about me.

"N..nothing" she manages to say "just a nightmare, I'm okay now." she finishes as she wipes her face dry, she still looks shaken.

"Do you need me to do anything?" I ask, but I already know that she will refuse, her dream was about me, I can feel it.

"I'm ok" she says looking into my eyes, I see her relax a bit more, "but thank you for asking".

I don't protest anymore, I simply smile and close the door. I stay long enough behind the door to hear her give a small sigh, and I walk over to the couch, and try to sleep.

It was now 3 in the morning, and I could hear voices coming from Rey's room, I get up and make my way slowly to the door. I put my ear on the door and listen, she is mostly mumbling, but I could only make out one thing, help me.

I open the door, and walk into her room for what seems like the millionth time. I walk over slowly and stand over her bed. I look down at her. Even as she sleeps her face is contorted to show fear, she stirs restlessly. I think of a way to make her calm down, to give her the sleep she deserves. My mind wonders to a particular memory of my mother holding me in her arms after I had had a horrible nightmare, it's ok Ben, I'm here, see, nothing to be scared about. It made me feel so safe. Suddenly, I find myself crawling into bed next to her, and wrapping my hands around her small figure, almost at once, her stirrings stops, and she starts to calm down. Soon, her breathing returns to normal, and I can tell that she is finally at peace. I wonder what she is dreaming about, I don't really care, as long as she is happy.