Tainted Love

Chapter 5

I would love to dedicate this chapter to Reylo_Forever. She is such a bubbly, cute, and sweet person! Her comments and messages make me laugh. Not to mention she is a brilliantly fantastic writer! Thanks for being a great friend chickita!

Rey struggled to regain her balance as the trembling ceased.

"What in the galaxies was that?!" She whispered again.

A siren began to wail in the background.

"What is going on," Rey wondered. "It has to be the Resistance! Who else could if be?"

Rey pushed the stray hairs out of her and ran towards the nearest window she could find. Sure enough, the Star Killer Base was beginning to collapse, and X-wings could be seen fighting TIE fighters in the air.

"Now's km by chance to find an escape pod and get out here," she thought.

Glancing out the window once again she muttered, "I hope Finn, Han, and Chewy are alright."

Turning away she sprinted down the corridor with the blaster held at the ready. She came to a corner and heard footsteps approaching. She looked around, trying to find a place to hide. A few feet away she saw a utility closet. Running as lightly and quietly as she could, she ducked into the closet as a pair of stormtroopers rounded the corner.

Rey concealed herself as best she could in the compact space. The stormtroopers we're speaking to one another, and as they drew nearer Rey tried to decipher what they we're saying.

"Yeah, rumor has it Phasma beat 'im up pretty bad," said one trooper.

"Can't say I pity him. Its about time he got a taste of his own medicine," said the other.

"Who are they talking about," Rey wondered.

"I have to wonder why though."

"I could honestly care less about what happens to Ren; man's diggin' his own grave."

The stormtroopers' words faded as they rounded another corner farther down the corridor. Rey let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding.

"Kylo Ren? Beaten? Who is Phasma?" These thoughts raced through Rey's mind as she cautiously crept out of her hiding place. Tiptoeing forward, she kept her ears and eyes searching for any sign of movement.

She rounded the corner the stormtroopers had come around. Coming down the hall from the opposite direction came 4 more stormtroopers. How had she not heard them? They caught sight of her and pulled their blasters from their side.

"Hey you! Stop right there!" a trooper yelled.

Rey turned on her heel and sprinted back the way she came. Not caring to turn her head and shoot at the stormtroopers coming after her; the only goal she had in mind was to get back to the safety of the utility closet.

"Blast her!" the stormtrooper commanded the others.

Lasers began to fly all around Rey. It was a miracle stormtroopers don't aim very well or she would've been dead.

As Rey neared the closet she felt a burning sting on her forearm. A laser had barely misses impaling Rey's arm, but instead grazed the skin and clreated a shallow gash on her arm. Blood began to trickle down out of the wound.

Rey gritted her teeth and grunted in pain. She reached her safety and readied her blaster. Leaning just barely out of the closet to see the stormtroopers she pulled the trigger and took down two of the four troopers.

With only two left, Rey peered farther around the corner and fired two more shots at them. One of shots was successful, and took down another stormtrooper.

Rey ducked back into the closet and waited until she could hear the stormtrooper get closer to take him out.

She waited for what seemed like forever before she finally looked around the corner again. She expected to see the stormtrooper standing nearby ready to shoot once Rey showed her face, bit there was nothing. There was no living being around. Only the dead stormtroopers that Rey had already defeated.

"Where did that nerf herder go?" Rey wondered.

Still treading with caution, she continued up the hallway to find the escape pod hangar.

Her breath caught in her throat as a metallic clad stormtroopers exited a room Rey hadn't seen.

She pressed herself up against the wall and tried to blend into the shadows as best she could.

The metallic stormtrooper paused as if she heard something, but then continued moving down the corridor.

Rey relaxed her aching muscles and grabbed her forearm in pain. It was still bleeding, even worse now, and had a burning sensation. She went to follow in the same direction as the metallic trooper, but something pulled her towards the entry way to the dark room the stormtrooper had just left. Peering in she saw a figure lying on the ground in the middle of the walkway. Upon looking closer she gasped when she realized the figure was a man, not just any man, but Kylo Ren. He was lying in a puddle of his own blood. Something pulled Rey as she turned to leave; she couldn't leave though she is wanted to so bad.

**Kylo Ren POV**

Terror. Disgust. I don't know it's kinda a toss up when you wake up covered in blood. I blink my eyes and try to remember where I was and what had happened.

The memories came back as the pain did. Phasma, I was going to kill her. There was a movement by the entrance. It was a girl; she was coming nearer.

"Help," I whispered. Was that really my voice? I sounded so weak and vulnerable. I tried calling to her a little louder, but to no avail, it was still a whisper. I didn't have time to worry about my pride right now I needed help.

The girl came closer and the ground began to shake. She looked up, and then back at me.

"We need to go. NOW!" she said.

It was Rey.

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May the Force be with you, and the dark side give you cookies!

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