•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•

EPISODE XLVII - YOUR PLAN HAS BACKFIRED.

"Make sure she feels the betrayal," Snoke snarls, shoving Hux out the door.

Elation sweeps through Hux. Kylo Ren isn't coming back after all. A grin slides over his face as he strolls down the hall and pertly knocks on the cell door.

"Don't come in!"

Hux rolls his eyes and enters. Rey stands, her arms folding over her stomach. "What now?"

"You are to be informed," Hux intones. "That Kylo Ren will not be returning after all. It seems he decided you and the baby aren't quite worth it."

Her eyes narrow. "That is a lie."

"Is it?" Hux taunts. He circles her like a vulture, head bobbing closer to hers. "He's not coming. That's a fact."

She inhales. "Well, he probably realized it was a stupid plan, and a trap to kill him." Her voice trembles, and Hux exults. "And I'm proud of him for it. He's still choosing the Light, not the Dark. And your plan has backfired. You've given me new hope. He hasn't forgotten me. He will come back."

With those last four sentences, she sucks all of the joy from Hux. No. He can't believe this. He doesn't understand it.

"Our plan hasn't backfired," he hisses. "You—you're—I will personally see to it that your child grows up without love! I will see to it that if you don't die during bitch, that someone slips poison in your drink! I will make your child feel insignificant, squash-worthy, like the insect it is because you—"

He's pushed across the room by some unknown force—no, by the Force. "For that," he snarls. "I'll personally take a whip to your—"

Hux's throat closes. He gags, gasping for breath, as Rey tightens her fist. She's choking me. She's actually choking me.

And then she lets him go, and he scrambles to his feet and out the door. Her face is ashen.

"Excellent job, General," Snoke greets him. "You may have succeeded after all."

His hands still on his throat, Hux still tries to calm his racing heart. She could have killed me.

She chose not to.

But Snoke would have let her, he realizes, glaring at the Supreme Leader for the first time not with jealousy, but hatred.

I'm expendable to him.

Of course you are, taunts his father's phantom voice.

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A month after the brawl, Leia awakens early, at the first light of dawn. Her pulse thuds in her throat, and she dresses and hurries to check the monitor to Ben's cell. He's fine. Asleep.

She tries to shakes off the feeling she's failing him again as she turns and spots a blip on the radar.

"Is that-" Admiral Ackbar starts, but even though it's still just approaching their planet, Leia knows.

"It's Luke!"

"Oh, thank the Maker!" C-3PO sighs.