This is chapter 2 of my book: "In Darkness Bind Them" which is an Episode IX fanfic that I just started. I hope you enjoy it!
Kylo Ren looked around, Snoke's guards lay unmoving in the throne room. All he could see was destruction. He looked at Snoke's still form. He had given his life to Snoke. But Snoke had given him nothing but fear. For the first time in his life, he was free from Snoke's grasp. But somehow, he didn't feel free. He still felt bound to Snoke. To the Dark Side.
Something called to him. It came from somewhere near the throne.
"The fleet!" Said Rey. "There's still time to save the fleet. Order them to stop firing!"
But he could barely hear over the sound of another voice that rang not in his ears, but in his mind.
"Kylo ... you must fulfill your destiny." A voice whispered. It was a deep and menacing voice. "Kylo..."
Suddenly another voice drowned out the first. "Ben." It was soft, and gentle. A mirror opposite of the first.
Kylo turned to see Rey standing there looking at him. He looked at her, and realized that even though he had lost everything, he had done it to save her. And she was worth it.
"It's time to let old things die. Snoke, Skywalker." He turned away the throne to face Rey. He walked towards her. "The Sith... The Jedi... The Rebels. Let it all die."
He stretched his hand out towards her. "Rey, I want you to join me." He Said. He wanted her to rule at his side. "We can rule together and bring a new order to the galaxy."
Rey shook her head, her eyes full of sadness. "Don't do this, Ben." She said. She to hold in her emotions, but they spilled out. Tears threatened to pour from her eyes. "Please don't go this way." She begged.
"No, no, you're still holding on!" He shouted. He couldn't understand why she wouldn't let go of the past. "Let go!"
He saw the sadness in her eyes and his voice softened. He was about to tell her something that he knew would hurt her. But it was the truth, it was the answer she had been searching for her whole life. He knew he couldn't keep something like that from her. "Do you want to know the truth about your parents?" Her expression changed, she already knew the truth, he could sense. "Or have you always known?"
She has been hiding the truth from herself, he realized. He stepped towards her, he knew that he had to help her face the truth. "Have you just hidden it away?" She had he could see it in her eyes. "You know the truth. Say it."
She only stared at him. He knew that she didn't want to admit this to him, and more importantly to herself. "Say it." He repeated, gently.
A tear trickled down her cheek. "They nobody." She said softly.
"They were filthy junk traders." He said. Then he looked away from her briefly, unable to look at her as he spoke the words. "They sold you off for drinking money."
Rey sighed quietly as the tears continued to fall down her cheeks.
"They're dead in a paupers grave on the Jakku desert."
Rey's brow creased as she tried to stop herself from crying.
"You have no place in this story. You came from nothing. You're nothing." He Said.
Rey looked down and started to cry quietly again.
"But not to me." He said and she looked back up at him.
He took half a step closer to her and extended his hand. "Join me." He said. She looked down at his hand. He took two more steps towards her, and stretched out his hand to her. She looked away from his hand and into his eyes. He was afraid that she wouldn't join him. He didn't care where she came from or who her parents were. He just wanted her to join him. "Please." He whispered, begging her.
She looked back down at his hand. She slowly stretched her hand out towards his. His heart leapt, she would join him after all. But at the last moment she moved her hand away from his towards the lightsaber that hung at his belt. He felt his heart break as she began pulling the lightsaber toward her with the Force.
He reached out and stopped the lightsaber from going to her. He couldn't let her have it. If she got it there were only two things that could happen. Either she would leave him or she would try to fight him. He didn't want her to leave, he wanted her to stay with him... forever. And he certainly didn't want to fight her, not after he had given up everything to save her.
He pulled the lightsaber towards him with all of his strength. But the lightsaber did not come to him, it was suspended between them.
After a moment the Force between them pushed them back. Before long, the lightsaber split in two. There was a bright flash of light and a powerful force that sent them both to floor, unconscious.
And that was the last thing that Kylo remembered.
