"How do we destroy a command planet?" I asked quickly, he stared at the ground and shrugged his shoulders. We both sat silence as we tried to think of different ways to destroy the ship, the only options I could think of would get us both killed. Then his shoulders dropped and he let out a long breath.
"What is it?" I asked, he sighed and turned around to look at me. His mind was obviously caught with an idea I wouldn't like.
"I'll fly the ship through a First Order planet and I'll put you on an escape pod for the closest planet" he offered, but I shook my head.
"No, You'd die" I forced myself to say, he averted his eyes away from mine. Tears welled in my eyes and fell down my cheeks, he looked over his shoulder and saw me. Grief flooded over his face as he saw me, I just shook my head at him. "No we can't do that...I don't w-want you to-" I stuttered out, but Ben just stared at me.
"Rey, if I can do this. The the first order with be destroyed" he said happily, he put his hands on the sides of my face and tried to comfort me but I just shook my head.
"Whatever happens we do together" I demanded, "but we will find another way" I assured him. He didn't like that idea but I didn't care.
"Rey..." he said softly, I threw myself onto him and wrapped my arms around him. He immediately wrapped his arms back around me as I cried into his shoulder.
"I'll die with you Ben, we're doing this together" I said softly, "I can't lose you, not after I found the other piece of me" I muttered. Those words hurt him. He didn't want me to die and I didn't want him to either. But I couldn't live without him, I'd feel incomplete. He pulled me very close to him and I felt him nod his head, "ok, we do it together" he said quietly, relief filled me as he said those words.
"Good...ok, What now?" I asked, I lightly broke the hug and stared up into his eyes, they looked sad.
"I direct the ship toward Gaulle, the First Orders main fuel and resources planet" Ben said, "I'll have you wait here and then...I'll work it out from there" he said frantically. I smiled and ran my hand through his hair.
"We can be together after this, you and I" I said happily, a smile grew on his face but it faded quickly. He stood up and walked into the small room he was in before, I sat on the bed and pulled my hair into three buns, down the back of my head. I crawled out of the soft bed and stretched out my arms and legs, wishing I could never leave that bed. Ben walked out of the room with his padding and cape on, looking as cynical as when I first saw him. I took a deep breath and looked up at him, "what am I supposed to do?" I asked.
"Start up two escape pods in my private hangar, I need someone to be there for when we leave" he instructed, I nodded my head and watched as he placed his mask over his head.
"I need to go set the course for Gaulle, stay here" he commanded, I nodded my head and watched as he left the room in a hurry. He was either extremely nervous or excited about this because of how fast he was moving. The door slammed shut and I was left alone in Ben's room, the dark room I will now only remember as a dream. I walked over to his bookshelf and picked up one of his books, it was all about the Sith reign during the republic times, when Darth Vader was young. I flipped through the pages but they were all written in languages I didn't know, I didn't understand anything.
I put the book back on the shelf and looked around the room a little more, I couldn't find anything I hadn't already seen. I glanced over at the door that Ben had walked in and out of before, I pursed my lips and eagerly walked towards the room.
It wasn't anything special, a closet with a sink and shower. The cold air in the room was crisp in my lungs, I almost wished I didn't walk into that room. Somehow I sensed something wrong with this room, I didn't like what was in here but I didn't even know what it was. I reached into his clothes and pushed them out of the way, I was shocked to see a door on the other side. I pushed on the metal door and it slowly opened into an all white room. I gasped at the strange sight, walking inside seemed rude yet my only option to feed my curiosity. There was only one thing in that entire room, a large black box on a white pedestal in the far side of the room. I cautiously walked toward the black box, making sure there were no alarms or cameras anywhere. I approached the box, not knowing if I should be afraid of what was in there or excited, I decided on excited.
I pressed the top of the box and it hissed as the top opened to reveal something awful. Inside the box was Darth Vader's old and mangled mask, I stared at the mask and couldn't move. I reached my hand up and slowly started to move toward it, my hand levitated over the broken helmet. I heard whispers in my ear as my hand grew closer, telling me to touch it and see my past...to know my story. Everything inside of me wanted to touch that mask, for this hunk of metal to show me what my life is. Everything around me turned blurry and my entire life focus was on this mask, the voices were growing louder and more angry.
"Fulfill your destiny! Touch it!" A hateful voice shouted, fear filled me and I snapped back into reality.
I quickly retracted my hand and stepped away from the mask, I did not trust those voices. Who knew what darkness they could've told me if I listened to them. I quickly ran out of the white room and closed the door, running out of the closet as well. I took a deep breath and paced around the room, all I had to do was wait for Ben...just wait.
