Reteach Me | Kylo Ren x Reader

Chapter One | The Red Sea

The Commander sat straight up in his bed. His chest was on fire, he could hardly breathe and his skin was broken out in painful goosebumps. He started wheezing, attempted to gulp in air but he found that his body wouldn't perform the action. Sweat fell from his brow as he threw the sheets off of him and stumbled his way to his bathroom, unsure of what else to do. He was taking in very little oxygen at this point and was feeling dizzy and nauseous.

He held onto his sink with an air tight grip, as if the sink held his life itself. Was this another nightmare? No, it couldn't be. He was awake, he was wide awake and feeling this pain in real time. Kylo heaved, trying to expel whatever it was that was ailing him from his body. Nothing was working, in fact he began to suffer even more. He began screaming as his skin started to prickle, gradually turning into what felt like someone ripping his skin off. Soon, his skin was burning, feeling as if acid was being secreted from his glands and melting his skin away. His face was turning red, and he looked to the man in the mirror for help for his reflection was the only person there.

He was shaking in agony, the pain now causing him to hallucinate his teeth an hair falling out. He was terrified, and he didn't know whether he was going to live or die right here in his bathroom. "Hel-help me!" He said to no one in particular. "Please, help me!"

Just as strangely as the phenomenon started, all of his symptoms vanished. He stopped shaking, stopped holding onto the sink and just felt his face, feeling the need to confirm that his skin had not slipped off of his bones. His entire body was now covered in a fine layer of sweat, his hair was damp and darker than usual. He relaxed, saw that he wasn't dying and let go of the tension that built up in his muscles. He looked to the mirror again, his eyes blood shot with bags hanging below them.

"What the hell just happened to me?"

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"You've got nothing to worry about." You had finally let go of your breath when you heard what Rey had to say. "You really mean it? That test...it says-"

"It says nothing, sweetheart." She was smiling ever so sweetly at you while she held out the test for you to take. You jumped up, swiftly grabbing the small stick from her and saw that the first window said "not pregnant," the second window had a line and the third had an identical line. You breathed in and out heavily once or twice, Rey placed her hand on your shoulder reassuringly. "Are you alright?" She asked you, you had finally found it within you to nod. "I'm, um, doing a lot better than before the...thing." You giggled, she giggled, then you walked toward her kitchen. "Can we get back to celebrating now? I kinda need a swing." Rey laughed at you as she chucked the negative test into a nearby trash bin. "Well swing, but leave some for me. After all, you did make me hold that thing that you pissed all over."

That night you and Rey nearly got black out drunk. Finn got off from work and came to pick you up just in time to see you sleeping on Rey's kitchen counter and Rey was asleep on the floor right below you.

Weeks went by and you never gave your pregnancy scare another thought. You spent most of your days picking up odd jobs around the base for a few credits here and there, your nights you spent mostly curled up next to Finn fast asleep at either your or his house. You were never alone, once you and Finn decided to become a thing he made sure he was always with you at night. When he was with you the nightmares of Kylo Ren were never present.

One morning, the morning you promised to chaperone a field trip for the preschool aged children on the base at the nearby zoo, you woke up feeling ill. Your stomach felt full even though you hadn't eaten since 6 pm the previous night, there was an odd metallic taste in your mouth, and you just generally felt nauseated. As you were getting dressed Finn was speaking to you about something with his job, something that you didn't really pay attention to. "Baby, are you feeling okay?" He interrupted his story to check on you.