A Reylo Romance: "Don't be Afraid, I Feel it Too"

Kylo's Story, Part 4

"You can't just stick the memory drive into the ship's system," Finn says, coming out of nowhere. I liked it better when he wore a Stormtrooper's uniform, which clicked and was noisy when he walked and I could hear him coming from a mile away. I continue hooking up the memory drive to the ship's main computer on the bridge, ignoring Finn.

"It's a BB-Unit," Finn continues, taking a seat in the co-pilot's chair beside me. I give him a look that silences him. But likely not for long.

When I finally have the memory card connected I go through the information that comes up on the screen. It's all in code.

"It needs to be installed into a BB-Unit," Finn starts up again. "Then she can talk to us and-"

"I don't need her to talk." I scroll through the data some more. There must be some program in the ship's computer data base that could decode it.

"It's encrypted," Finn says, his voice grating on my nerves.

"Why?" I ask.

"Because there's sensitive..." He trails off and doesn't finish his sentence. I glance over at him to see what's happened, but all I can decipher from the look on his face is that his brain just stopped working for no reason. I look back at the code. He's right, it's encrypted and I can't seem to make sense of it.

"We can take it back to the Resistance Base and..." He trails off again. I slam my fist down on the console, making him jump. I'm just barely holding myself back from choke grabbing him and just reading his mind so we can get through this conversation a lot faster.

He looks scared so I relax back into my seat, rubbing at my eyes. I have no other leads in finding Rey. I'd hoped the memory card would help. Maybe I could take it back to the First Order Base and have them analyze it, but then Snoke would have it and I'm quite sure there's information on it that the Resistance doesn't want Snoke to see. I sigh. When did I start caring about the Resistance?

"You'll take the X-Wing to the Resistance Base and get them to put this card into a new BB-Unit, then bring it back to me," I say to Finn.

He gets up immediately, then stops. "The X-Wing I came in on only had enough power for a one way trip here," he says.

What was this for him, a suicide mission? I hold back another sigh. "Then we'll use my ship's charge to re-charge it-"

"And," Finn interrupts. "I sort of wrecked the wings in a crash landing into the trees."

I close my eyes for a second. "Then you'll tell me the location of the Resistance Base."

"What?" Finn looks frightened again. "No, I can't-"

"You'll tell me the location of your Resistance Base," I repeat, a little slower this time, because he's got the intelligence of a Stormtrooper and because I didn't use my Force influence the first time.

"It's on Ahch-To," Finn says.

Interesting. I search the ship's computer for information on the planet. Nothing comes up. I could be spelling it wrong or Finn's pronunciation could be off, which is more likely. I get up to give him the pilot's seat.

"Then take us there."

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"I just don't think it's fair that you can read my mind, but I can't read yours," Finn says. It's the third time he's attempted to start a conversation, a different topic each time. I cross my arms and sit back in the co-pilot's seat. We're in warp drive and should reach Ahch-To soon. But not soon enough. "Exactly how we're going to fly an First Order Upsilon-class Command Shuttle right onto the Resistance Base without being blown out of the sky?" Finn asks.