Complete 11/13/2019
Post TLJ - Rey is now part of the Resistance and Kylo Ren is the Supreme Leader of the First Order. Will their paths cross anew? Will the Force once again be able to unite these two beings for whom everything seems opposed?
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Planet Tatooine- Arkanis Sector
"Mum! Mum! He opened his eyes!"
A blazing pain tore his side. He had the impression of having cotton in his head instead of his brain. The sounds were muffled, distorted, and nausea turned his stomach.
Was it the voice of a child he'd just heard?
He wanted to bring a hand to his ribs but his arm seemed to weigh a ton. He was lying on his back, seemingly in a bed or a bunk. The air was hot and he was sweating profusely. He turned his head to the left and blinked several times: the orange jumpsuit he had worn on Hoth was lying on a chair by the door, stained with blood.
It's my blood ...
He realized that he was shirtless and his abdomen was bandaged. His black pants were gone too and he was only in underwear.
Gradually, everything came back to him: the betrayal of Hux and his knights, Elias revealing that he had been Snoke's apprentice too, his flight aboard the shuttle, his decision to go to one of the old abandoned rebel bases to try to find bacta ...
He heard footsteps now and a woman's silhouette, and then another, smaller one, appeared in the doorway.
"Stay behind me Shalim."
Kylo perceived a hint of apprehension in the female voice. His head was spinning. The bile was rising ever higher in his throat and he would have killed for a drop of water. When the image before him stopped shaking and came into focus, he discerned more clearly the features of a woman with auburn hair. She was rather young with gray eyes and a thin face, and she held a blaster directly at his head. Behind her, a boy of about ten years old stared at him intently.
He began to panic and tried to raise his hand to use the Force and disarm her. He could not.
"Go get a drink," she ordered, and the boy complied immediately.
He had trouble breathing. Sylla's dagger had perforated one of his lungs and, unfortunately for him, the bacta-serum he had injected himself with in the shuttle and the doses he'd found in the infirmary on Hoth were not enough to completely heal his wound. But he felt that the bacta-patch on his thigh was still in place.
By all the stars of the galaxy ... He was really in bad condition.
Yet these strangers had brought him back here and took care of him.
Why? Did they, at least, know who he was?
In other circumstances, he would have rendered them unconscious with a snap of his fingers, searched the house for food and medicine and left.
"Do you understand me when I speak?" the woman asked. The barrel of her blaster was still pointing in his direction and Kylo nodded.
"Your ship crashed in the Jundland wastes. You were so lucky that my friend, Zed, and I were passing by there. He told me I was crazy to pick you up and take you home, so I hope you're not going to prove him right. You are seriously injured and you have a fever."
