Force connections

Escape!

I laid awake for a while longer, finally falling asleep as day broke.

When I woke I ate breakfast in my quarters, showered, dressed and packed a bag, instructing a maintenance droid to place it on my Tie silencer whilst I attended a meeting with Hux.

When I entered the meeting room he was already there. He watched me closely as I came in but I pretended not to notice, avoiding his gaze and sitting down opposite him. "So what do you have for me General?" I asked raising my eyes to meet his. He proceeded to tell me about the progress of  the troops who were being trained but I barely heard him. My heart had been thudding since I woke up and already hot seeds of doubt we're making my stomach churn. Hux finished talking, a scowl on his lips as he sat back in his seat his cold eyes sweeping over me, "Supreme Leader I don't believe you've heard anything I've said. I think you are intent on adding fuel to my case against you". I looked at him and in that moment I hated him and all that he represented so fiercely that I lifted him using the force and slammed his face down onto the table, creating a startled cry from him, "You are a useless creature, Snoke only kept you because he could manipulate you so easily, I don't have the same need for you, perhaps I should end you now?" . I watched his face turn red as I continued to force hold his face to the table. I applied slightly more pressure wondering if I should snap his neck. No I thought, everyone would know it was me and today more than anything it was important that I stay off the radar. I released the force hold and left the room, hearing Hux's choked coughs behind me. It was time. Everything that Hux had just said to me told me that. I headed straight for my ship. My bag as ordered was already there waiting for me and I climbed in behind the controls. I took one last look up at the bridge but Hux was not there, he would presume that I had stormed off to my quarters as I usually did when we had a confrontation. I started the engine and looked once more at the place that I had called home for so long. I almost laughed at that thought, home? More like a prison sentence. I flew away without being challenged and, although I checked the radars regularly no one followed me.

Soon Devaron came into view with its thick forests, flowing rivers and mountains peeking from the clouds.  I realised in that moment that I was terrified.  What reception would I get?  I kept one eye on my radar as I flew lower, very aware that the reception might be extremely hostile, but I saw nothing.  I switched my radar to ground radar and finally, after flying around I located civilian life.  I ducked under the clouds and spotted the Falcon, a figure stood next to it, it was Rey.  Relief washed through me that she was the first to greet me and I landed next to the Falcon, slightly hidden from sight in the dense foliage.

When I emerged Rey began to walk towards me, her face tense.  I climbed down and stayed next to my ship, my eyes on her.  "Ben I need to warn you, my fri...the resistance are not at all happy about you coming here, I've tried to explain but I can't make them understand" I nodded, just as I had expected, "They have no choice, the war is coming to them whether I'm here or not" I answered matter of factly.  Just then I heard a shout, it was the resistance pilot, his face dark, a blaster in his hand "Rey, don't trust him, this is crazy, he's probably brought his army with him".  I watched in awe as Rey stepped protectively in front of me, "Poe listen to me, this is right, it's what Leia wanted", "Bullshit! This is not the son Leia remembered, this is Kylo Ren the monster, the killer! He tortured me and I am meant to live alongside him?", Rey held up her hands, "Poe, I am going to speak to you all, try to make you understand. Now please get everyone into the main hanger". I watched the pilot hesitate and then he turned on his heel and left, glancing over his shoulder at me as he went.

Rey led me into a metal hanger, the roof covered with thick, bright green ivy.  I followed her inside and then stopped, my breath catching in my throat as I looked around.  About thirty resistance fighters were stood inside and everyone of them was staring at me. Chewbacca saw me and roared, I wasn't welcome here.

"Ok everyone please, please listen to me" Rey began, jeers drowning her out slightly, "No one is to hurt Ben, that's an order".  A raft of cries went up and I watched as the traitor stepped forwards "So we are calling him Ben now are we?  No, that right there is Kylo Ren!", I scowled at him, still feeling a hot rush of hate towards him for his cowardice.  Rey stepped in front of me again, "Look, I know that Ben has done terrible things but we need him here.  He can help us defeat the First Order, he knows it better than anyone of us", a tall man in pilots clothes stepped forwards then, "What's in it for him?", Chewbacca roared in agreement. Rey glanced at me for a moment but I stayed expressionless, determined to keep my self from these people, "Ben saved me from his Supreme Leader when I went to the supremacy", a hushed whisper went up then and I could tell that it was the first that any of them knew about that, "Because of that his life is at risk", the pilot called Poe scoffed, "So? Let them have him, Rey one good deed doesn't make him a good person".  Now I glared at him, remembering when I had looked inside his mind, remembering how huge his ego was, he glared back and again Rey spoke up for me, "There's more.  I have a force connection with Ben, we don't know why but for some reason we can communicate when we are not together, that is how I know him like I do and also why I went to him on the supremacy".  Poe spoke again, his arms crossed tightly across his chest "So how long has this been going on Rey? You and him?  How many of these little connection chats have you had!", I glanced at Rey and she blushed, "Enough to know that we can trust him".  My eyes stayed on her then until she looked at me and then I went back to staring straight ahead.  The crowd were far from convinced as we left the hanger and as I walked with Rey I kept my hand on my saber.

Rey took me to a little hut on the outskirts of the base.  There was a bed inside and then a separate toilet and rain shower, far sparser than I was used to.  I looked around and then sat on the edge of the bed.  Rey sat down next to me, looking at her hands in her lap,"I'm sorry Ben", my eyes drank in her beauty "For what?" I asked, concentrating for a moment on her lips, "For the way that everyone is treating you".  I looked down at the floor, "I expected it to be this way" I said after a moment.  Rey nodded and then she reached her hand out to me.  Hesitantly I took it and marvelled again at how tiny it was in mine, "Ben, it might help if you took off some of your layers, people might see you as less of a threat if you don't look so official?",  I let go of her hand then and pulled off my gloves, placing them beside me on the bed.  She watched quietly as I unfastened my tunic and took it off.  Now I was just wearing a black vest and my trousers.  I watched her eyes run over my bare arms and then our eyes met.  For a moment we just stared at each other and then Rey leant in close to me, her hand on my cheek, her fingers massaging the raised scar and then her lips were on mine.  I closed my eyes relishing the fact that she was really here, that this was real physical contact.  Her tongue pushed into my mouth and I felt my pants tighten as a wave of desire ran through my body.  She felt it to, I knew from the way her tongue moved faster.  I wasn't sure in fact if she was aroused herself or through her connection to me.  As I kissed her I leant down on her, pushing her onto the bed and leaning my chest onto hers.  I felt her hands push up under my vest and caress my back, sending a groan from both of our mouths.  I pressed my hardness against her leg and we both gasped.  She pushed her leg back against it and I ground down onto her, our breathing escaping in heavy pants. And then she was pushing me up until I was sat against the wooden headboard and she was straddling me.  We looked into each other's lust filled eyes for a moment, my erection pressing almost painfully against her through my trousers and then she began to buck against me, grinding her private parts against mine.  We both cried out.  She fell against me, her forehead pressed against mine as she continued.  The feeling was becoming overwhelming and I struggled to maintain any composure as her lips found my neck, nibbling and kissing until I moaned, her own moan swallowed up in her kisses. I slid my hands under her top, running them up her back until I reached the bindings that she wore around her breasts and then sliding my hands down again to cup her bottom, all the while continuing our grind against one another. She sat back slightly and tugged my top off, over my head and then proceeded to kiss every inch of my bare chest, sending shivers down my spine, and pleasure into my body, making us both moan and move just a little quicker against each other. I was nearing my goal, not caring that I would mess up my pants, just completely lost in our moment, when suddenly I heard a voice, "Rey? What do.....". We both stopped abruptly, our heads spinning towards the door. There stood the pilot named Poe and he did not look happy.