Lies ✺ Kylo Ren

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It had been several hours since Lo had been arrested, and she was just as confused as she was when the Stormtroopers kicked down her door. She'd been stripped of everything valuable she had on her – her necklace, her ring, even a brooch she was wearing in her hair – everything had been taken away from her for being supposed "evidence" of her crimes she never commited.

Her hair was falling out of the tight braid and fell in clumps around her face but she didn't bother doing anything about it, she just felt numb. She just wished Ben could come in and help her, prove her innocence but something was telling her than he wasn't ever coming.

The handcuffs that kept her wrists together were starting to hurt and got in the way every time she wanted to move. She wanted to scream, cry and fight against her restraints but she'd already done enough of that to do anything with. Even with her screaming of her innocence, the Stormtroopers still didn't believe her and only made her restraints tighter. After everything that had happened, Lo was still determined to prove her innocence – no matter how hard that would end up being.

Sighing to herself, Lo closed her eyes and forced herself to think of something nice to distract her from what was unfolding around her. The memory was when she and Ben had gone to the almost medieval planet of Tegriri and spent the night dancing and drinking the night away when she was twenty-two, it was one of her favourite times she'd had with Ben.

She remembered her long flowing dress that was black and weighed so heavy from jewels and skirts, she almost couldn't walk properly, let alone dance but she did try. She loved the music, she felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders as she moved to the music, spinning around in endless circles until she had to lean onto Ben for support. She drank enough wine to make even the hardest and toughest knight want to pass out – even when she never did. She just got giddy, and wanted to keep on dancing until sunrise.

That night was the first time they made love, and they didn't regret anything, it felt natural, almost like they'd waited their whole lives for that moment they never even realized would happen. After that night, they were inseparable. They barely let the other out of their sights, perhaps out of fear it was all a dream and they'd wake up alone or perhaps they were just two – almost normal – young people in love and practically ended up with their clothes on the floor and in a bed together every night.

For the first few years of being together, everything was perfect. But one day, Lo quickly noticed that something had changed in Ben but she didn't know what it was or how to address it. She'd asked her parents but they just gave her the simple answer; "it's what happens with all relationships – first is the passion and you want to kiss them all the time then as time goes on, that passion goes away and you settle into more normal people. Your father and I went through that the first six months of us dating – you should feel lucky you and that Solo boy lasted that long".

"He has a name, mother. He's not just 'that Solo by' anymore, that's my boyfriend you're talking about, and his name is Ben." Lo rarely disagreed with her parents but she was overprotective of Ben in the same way she was with her younger sister; if anyone even tried to badmouth them, she'd go full on Wookie on them.

Lo's mother sighed, looking up at her eldest daughter as she worked on one of her infamous broths. She was taken aback by her daughter's defiance, something that clearly wasn't there while she was growing up and obviously came from Ben's influence. "I take you to help with the deliveries and look what happens – you become a rebel's child and a play-toy for the Devil. If you don't buck your ideas up, young lady, I'm grounding you for a year. You'll never see that boy again and you'll be forced to stay here and work. Do we have an understanding?"

It was Lo's time to sigh this time, nodding her head as she stepped down from the counter in the kitchen. "Yes, mother. I understand. I'll start arranging deliveries and orders."

After that argument with her mother, Lo became far more careful with how she acted and talked to everyone. But inside, she wanted to be that rebel's child her mother didn't want her to be; she seemed to be far freer than Lo ever would be.

Lo moved out of home several months after the first argument with her parents, moving into a small house with Ben and the pair settled happily into life together once more. The day she moved in was also the day he gave her the ring she always wore on her finger – something he'd made out of scrap metal from the base, just to make it clear that she was taken and belonged to him.

Lo was forcefully shaken awake by a Stormtrooper, instructing her to stand up and follow him. She wasn't even aware she had fallen asleep but she had no choice but to force herself to wake up and remain awake as she was escorted out of the craft that carried her to... wherever she is.

All Lo saw was black; everything was black. The only things that stood out were the white Stormtroopers and her in her red dress and blonde hair. She stuck out like a sore thumb and made it clear to everyone that she did not belong in that world; she belonged somewhere far, far away. Before Lo really had a chance to look around where she had been taken, she was shoved forcefully into a black cell and the door locked behind her. Only one thought came to her at that moment; where the hell was the resistance when you need them?