Alona: Daughter Of Heroes Book 2

Chapter 9: Secrets

I wake up to find myself in a cell. Poe sits on the other side of the cell, still passed out. Ren and a couple storm troopers come in and the storm troopers take Poe to a cell next to mine. How that pilot can sleep through being dragged all the way there, is beyond me.

"What do you want?" I ask.

"It's your father who needs you. Not me," Ren responds. "Your father has been looking for you for years. Now, he will come and speak with you once he gets here."

"You know that I don't want to see him of all people. And I only need and want one father. And Snoke is not that person."

"Han Solo failed us both as a father. And like I said before, your father has been looking for you for years. He wants you to come home to us, and now you have," he says.

"And like I said before, anywhere but here is home to me. And you know that I don't want to see him of all people. And I have no home anymore, I haven't had a home since we were at Luke's Jedi academy," I say to him.

Ren got angry at what I said because of the "painful memories". "Don't speak of that place here. It's gone, it's forgotten, its dead. It can't be brought back."

Ren got a transmission from one of the stormtroopers outside. Poe was brought back in after Ren left.

"Who the hell was that?" He asked. I just shook my head and waved my hand as if saying, 'Never mind, I don't want to talk about it'. He nodded in response. He knew who it was."Are you okay?"

"I honestly don't even know. I had my entire life flip five years ago. Then, I learned that not everyone can be trusted, even your own family. Even the one person who was closer to you than anyone else."

Poe fell silent. I didn't blame him. I wouldn't know what to say either. I don't know what to say now. I didn't even know those words came out of my mouth.

"How did you sleep through them dragging you?"

Good question. It's not one I can answer."

Storm troopers came in and took me to a different room. I look back to see Poe staring at the wall as storm troopers took his cuffs off. He rubbed his wrists. I knew what was going on. I sensed my father when he came on board. It was like the freshest of any scent, and then came the worst of all terrible smells. 

I waited a few minutes for Ren to escort my father in. I see that Ren has my lightsabers on his belt as he comes in after my father. "If anyone touches my friend or the droids, everyone on this ship is dead, but us. Touching includes forcing information out of him, whether it's by machine or through the Force."

"Quiet! There is something we need to discuss," my father says.

"Yes, there is. You need to release us and our droids now!"

"And what makes you think we'd do that?" Ren asks butting in. I grimly stare at him.

"What do you want from me?" I ask turning back to Snoke.

"I have been keeping secrets, and it's time that you know them," he says.

"You've got plenty of secrets. Which one of these is it?" I ask in concern. "That you aren't actually my real father? Because I have been praying for that ever since you said that you were."

"About your family. Your real family."

"I knew it. I knew that what you said wasn't true," I stare at the floor. "I'm not even related to you, am I?"

"No, no your not."

Ren was as equally confused as I was. "You told both of us that she was your child," Ren says with complaint.