Bond (Kylo Ren x Rey)

Broke

Sitting Rey down, Poe informed her that Leia must not have briefed her yet on the details of the impending confrontation. In a couple weeks time they would be flying to Vrogas Vas. It was a lifeless, rocky planet that had once been the home of a Jedi temple and an old Rebel refueling base. The Resistance would move equipment into the base and start steeling it for any potential damage it could sustain from their enemies. Then they would send the signal alerting the First Order to their location. It was a risky plan, but many had by now received the Resistance's call for help and would contribute their volunteers and any supplies that could be smuggled out of their respective planets.

Rey's expression of anxiety was mirrored in Poe's face.

"This is the best chance we have at giving it all we got. We'll have a solid base to protect us as well as troops and supplies from all across the galaxy, Rey," the pilot promised. "I believe we can do this. We can take them down. End this."

Sighing at his wary confidence, Rey agreed to give any assistance the Resistance needed.

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Hours later, she was re-boarding the Millennium Falcon. They would be collecting supplies from planets sympathetic to the Resistance. Poe assured her that it would help if she went just in case anything dangerous occurred that might require her force-sensitive abilities.

However the real reason Rey agreed to the journey was so that she would have a mission to distract her from thinking about how high the chances were that she would have to encounter Kylo Ren on the battlefield. How could she fight him when she just swore to General Leia to do the exact opposite? Would she even be able to hurt or even kill him if it was necessary? Thoughts sending violent shivers down her spine, she threw her pack into her old quarters on the Falcon.

Tomorrow.

She would think about it tomorrow.

For now, after helping reload the ship, she was exhausted. Mentally and physically. Dropping onto her bunk in a huff, she didn't even bother to chuck her shoes off as she easily drifted into a deep sleep.

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It had been a long day of sitting in meetings. Kylo hadn't seen Rey in days, he thought to himself while unwrapping his cowl in his quarters. Maybe the force bond had somehow broken. He set his lightsaber down in the alcove by the door and turned around to head to the 'fresher. But he was no longer in his quarters anymore. Of course this had to happen right as he had been thinking about their bond. Great.

Tensing up and ready for confrontation, his eyes settled on Rey. Asleep on her bunk. Kylo relaxed his uptight posture, realizing he no longer had to brace himself for a fight. She was facing him, curled into a tight ball. He quietly padded closer to her sleeping form, stopping inches from her bunk. He was curious now. Curious to see what the scavenger looked like when she wasn't upset or angry with him. When she was peaceful. Muffling his movements, he squatted down to be level with her face. She was so small in that moment; not the imposing figure he had battled many times. Kylo's eyes scanned her face, taking in every inch. Studying every freckle that dotted her tan nose. Rey's dark eyelashes fluttered in her sleep as her deep breaths blew the wisps of hair around her face into little tornadoes.

Something in his heart broke at seeing her like this. So vulnerable. So reminiscent of when they had touched hands one night many moons ago. Kylo reached out a hand to brush a strand of brown hair from her face but paused mid-air. He had broken everything he touched. He was a monster. Undeserving of touching her for fear he would tarnish her light, her goodness.

Kylo inaudibly sighed and stretched back up to his full height. He noticed the small goosebumps scattered over her arms, and he did something that the Supreme Leader of the First Order would never do. Kylo Ren grabbed Rey's blanket and lightly draped it around the dreaming scavenger.

It was an act of Ben Solo.

As he turned away from the sleeping girl, he materialized into his own quarters feeling lightheaded and strange. He didn't hate it.

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