Rey and Kylo Ren

Snake Planet

" And nothing is going to change you! " Rey said more boldly. Her own force moving the table that laid between them a few inches as she turned her back from  him altogether. Hands on her hips as she stood there looking out the large window.

" I don't plan on lying..." She stated over her shoulder in a muttered tone. " I wouldn't soil Han's name like that..." She then added . In all of his words and  comments Rey had to admitt that she had thought all of those things that day before he had voiced any of it. Mainly due to Luke she saw herself to be less and less. Just a Sand Rat for Jakku playing Jedi.

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“Then stop trying to change me,” he snapped at her. His eyes flickered over to the Stormtrooper again, assuring he was still not listening in on the conversation. His Bond with Rey was now Kylo’s best-kept secret and he wouldn’t have anything compromising that — he could only imagine what Snoke would do with that information, and it mostly involved Kylo being a brain-dead middle man as Snoke filtered his influence through him and to her.

Something about the air in the room shifted; maybe it was because they weren’t screaming at each other and knocking things around anymore. Kylo still leaned over the top of the table, staring at the back of Rey’s head. “Can’t you just leave? I need these weapons and I’m going to do whatever I have to to get them.” This insinuated many things from lying to gain favor to shooting down Rey’s ship and taking them by force.

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" You need this weapons to shoot down your mother's ship and kill her...or your father's ship. Which ever would probably bring a smile to your face." Rey stated with her back remaining towards him. She kept her back facing him as if she was saying without words that she knew he wouldn't strike her  down. Faith or stupidity, she wasn't sure which at this point.

" I'm not going anywhere." She then added as she looked up and rubbed between her eyes. " You should leave..."

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“I need weapons so I’m still worth something to the Supreme Leader.” Somehow it was proving harder to discuss anything with Rey while they were in the same room; Kylo had become so used to speaking through the Bond while still within the comfort of his own quarters, able to withdraw from the interaction whenever he wanted without being stopped. Now he was stupidly throwing weaknesses around in hopes to gain Rey’s favor. It had worked to open them up to each other in private, but with each of them carrying a mission of their own, it didn’t appear anything was going to sway either of their minds.

“He already places blame on me for Starkiller. I can’t fail him again.” And then he added, so as not to sound so grave, “I still have things to learn from him.” Not that Snoke had taught him anything in a long time, other than just how long he could stand strikes of Force lightning before it threatened to break him.

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Rey let a long pause form between the set of them. She then slowly turned and took a seat down at the table, her hands clasp loosely on the surface.

" I'm not going to feed into your pitty party. You don't need to learn anything from that...thing. You need to not go back. He literally has you scared enough to where you are acting like a frightened animal Ben." Rey used his real name just as she had at the fire during their last place.

" You say I'm nothing, and maybe I am. But I dontbstand by people who make me feel less than No thing like you do."

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At the mention of his old name, Kylo’s eyes shifted over to the body of the Stormtrooper, once again ensuring he was still knocked out. He had let the name pass through Rey’s lips before, in the privacy of a conversation between just the two of them, and therefore once again let it slip. “I’m not scared of him,” he said instead, but it didn’t take a Jedi to know that wasn’t true. Kylo hesitated for a moment and then sank down into the chair across from Rey, leaning forward some with his shoulders hunched to peer across the table at her.