•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•

EPISODE XXIII - I NEED LUKE.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away continued...

General Organa paces back and forth. Finn hasn't known her terribly long, but he has never seen her look as pale, as frail, as shocked as she looks now. Not even when they arrived back with Luke.

"He's pretty insistent that he speak to you, Luke," Poe says, shifting as if his leg's still bothering him.

"Don't!" Finn interjects. Everyone looks at him. "I mean, you shouldn't-don't trust him. He might have something planned. I mean, he can't be helping Rey. We saw him take her."

Leia cocks her head, studying him. "You question him."

Finn glances over his shoulder to see whether Admiral Ackbar or Lieutenant Connix is there. Nothing but blank wall greets him. "Um-" He clears his throat. "Me?"

"And Poe."

"I don't know that-wouldn't somebody else be better? Someone with more experience?"

"Experience interrogating someone? Perhaps. But, Finn, you're the only other one on this base who has experience with the First Order."

She's hoping I can get through to him somehow, Finn realizes.

There's no way.

"We'll do it," Poe declares.

Leia still looks to Finn. He nods. "I'll... do my best."

"We'll be watching," Leia says, gesturing to a series of monitors.

"I can do this," Finn mutters to himself as they head towards the cells. "I can do this."

"Yes, you can," Poe affirms, winking at Finn.

They round a corner, and Finn presses a button, opening the cell doors. Kylo leans against the wall, dragging his hands repeatedly through his black hair. He stops as they come in.

"Comfortable?" Poe asks, breaking the silence.

"Where's Luke?"

"You're not getting to talk to Luke. Not yet. You're talking to us." Finn steps closer. "Where's Rey?"

"That's why I came. Because I don't know."

"We saw you-"

"Yes, I took her from Stewjon," Kylo interrupts. "I did. I-I'm sorry about that, okay?"

"What?" Incredulous, Poe turns to Finn. "What'd he say?"

Kylo's voice comes out a whisper. "I said I'm sorry."

Poe laughs. "Okay. Stop playing games with us."

"I'm not playing a game!" Kylo shouts. Both Finn's and Poe's hands fly to their blasters. Kylo tries again. "Snoke wants Rey for whatever reason. He sent me to get her, and then-a lot of things happened, Rey got sick, King Prana made us work as scavengers and we escaped-and then we went back to Jakku... Rey wanted to talk to someone there. And Snoke came back and he wants Rey. Hux said he wanted to take Rey. Not me."

"I am so confused," Poe mutters to Finn.

"See, this is exactly what I need to speak to Luke! Neither of you will understand. Luke might know why-what it is Snoke wants with Rey." Kylo peels himself off the wall, and Finn notices that his arms are trembling. "The more time we waste, the closer Rey gets to him-and-"

"Why did you have her lightsaber then?" Finn demands.

"She gave it to me." He starts out shouting, then drops to a whisper as if he knows how ridiculous it sounds.

"Are you asking us to trust you?" Finn interrupts, laughing at the absurdity. "Because we have no reason at all to even consider that. Plus, your story doesn't make sense. Rey just decided to go back to Jakku?" Okay, that doesn't surprise Finn overmuch. But: "With you? And that doesn't explain how we saw you grabbing her and dragging her into that ship on King Prana's-"

"You were there?" Kylo gapes at them.

"Yes, and we saw you dragging her into that piece of junk ship!"

His eyebrows swoop together. "If I hadn't grabbed her that thing would've taken her legs off!"

Poe shrugs as if to say, fair point.

"You actually expect us to believe you were helping after you kidnapped her-twice-and tortured her, and killed your own father?" Finn hadn't meant to let that last clause slip out. Oh well.

Kylo grips his side, cringing. "She saved my life, okay? She escaped on King Prana's-she was sick, I thought she needed medicine-but she escaped, and there was this serpent, and she killed it because it was about to kill me, and then King Prana tried to feed us to a krayt dragon and we used the Force to kill it instead and Rey convinced him to let us work instead of becoming food while she repaired a burned ship and then we escaped."

Poe's jaw hovers.

"Are you actually crazy?" Finn demands, dumbfounded.

"That's what happened." Kylo's fingers still pinch his side, and Finn notices color draining from his face.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Poe asks.

"Nothing." He takes his hand from his side, but Finn notices something crimson smeared on his fingertips.

"You were injured in that crash!"

Kylo frantically shakes his head. "No, it wasn't the crash-it's just a graze wound-I'll-"

Poe marches forward. "Help me, Finn." He grabs Kylo's shoulders, biting his lip because he's surely aware that Kylo could use the Force to make him fly across the room if he wants.

"A graze from what, a blaster?" Finn demands, kneeling and tearing at Kylo's shirt. What might have once been a graze wound is a swollen mass of purple flesh, mottled and leaking something yellow and green and sticky. "That," Finn says. "Is infected."

"No-it's just a scar, it's by a scar-"

"I can see the scar, and I can see the wound!" Finn yells. "Hey, General, Skywalker, everyone who's listening-we need a doctor in here!"

The door whirs and Dr. Kalonia rushes in. Behind her, Finn sees Leia.

Kylo shrinks backwards as Dr. Kalonia tears his shirt further. "When did this happen?"

"Two weeks ago," Kylo answers, voice small.

Dr. Kalonia shakes her head. "We're going to have to take him to medical. Does anyone have restraints?"

Poe produces a silver pair. Kylo holds out his wrists, closing his eyes as the handcuffs snap on. Finn grabs one of Kylo's arms as Dr. Kalonia takes the other.

"Fight us, and I'll shoot you," Poe says, though they all know Kylo won't be fighting. Why not, though, Finn still doesn't understand.

As they half-carry Kylo past his mother and out the door, he keeps his gaze glued to the ground. Only when they're about to round the corner does Kylo look back, his face occluded with shame and fear as he looks at his mother.