~ 𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 ~ A Ben Solo/Kylo Ren Story

3.

Celeste darted inside. Even though she had managed to get on the ship with relative ease, she was terrified of being discovered by using the force too much. Leia has assumed that because she was so untrained, the girl would be difficult for Kylo to sense. They just had to hope. She waited for a while behind a few fighter-crafts until she felt the destroyer taking off. Once she was sure she could stand, she made a quiet comment into her transmitter, stating that she was inside, and safe, for now.

She tiptoed around stealthily until she found an inconspicuous-looking door and pushed it open, slipping in just before a small parade of stormtroopers marched past. She exhaled and locked the door behind her, before gasping at the sight of the room. It was darker, emptier, and larger than she had expected. Completely empty inside, all that was there was a large, semi-circular window.

She could see stars stretching for as far as she could see, surrounding her. Their beauty made her feel small and meaningless. It was intoxicating, suffocating, choking her, with the vastness of space. The stars twinkled. Many of them had systems containing life, and perhaps her parents were in one of those systems...

She didn't know how long she stood there for, her hands pressed against the glass, her face so close to the window that her breath fogged it up. Her eyes were locked on the view. Of course, being a pilot, she had seen it before, but this was different. She was snug and safe in her small craft, with the voices of her friends in the radio in her ear. She was so alone, in such a large ship, and she was so scared. She knew this might be the last time she got to take in the galaxy like this. It was a calming, but scary thought. 

Suddenly, she heard the door behind her creak as someone attempted to open it, pulling her out of her haze. Celeste cussed in her head, silently sprinted to a corner of the room, and pressed herself against the wall. She fumbled with her blaster and pointed it at the door with her left hand, her right outstretched, ready to force control whoever was behind it. 

The door creaked open and she braced herself, blasting with one hand and simultaneously reaching out to the person's mind. She instinctively closed her eyes. She never heard the blaster make an impact, and though she could sense a presence, she couldn't reach into its head. It was blocked off completely.

"What," a deep, robotic, terrifying voice asked her, "do you think you're doing?" She opened her eyes and almost fainted. Ren. 

Suddenly, it was as if a hand was pressed against her throat,  intoxicating, suffocating, choking her. She could feel rage radiating off of the masked creature. Her blaster shot wavered in midair, held there by Ren, with barely any energy holding it. 

"Who are you? Why were you trying to get into my head?" He hissed, taking a step closer. Celeste whimpered, then mentally kicked herself. She was strong. She got herself into this mess, she had to get herself out. 

"I-I'm nobody," She choked out, gasping for air. Her lungs ached for a full breath. 

"You lie," Kylo growled, dropping his hand. She fell to the floor, coughing. "You have a strong force presence. I can feel it. Why are you here?" He asked, almost innocently, pacing across the floor, towards her. She remained silent, her throat hurt too much to attempt to speak anyway.

"You test my patience," She felt a strong pressure in her head as if it was being pressed on from all sides. She cried out, as the pain faded into darkness, and she was unconscious.

~~~~~

How did a stranger get on the ship? Who was she? Why does she have such a strong force signature?

Ren angrily stormed out and pointed at the nearest stormtrooper outside the door of the viewing room. 

"You. Get the girl from in there and bring her to holding cell 17-C," He growled, stomping past. He walked to General Hux's quarters and knocked on the door roughly. The redheaded man stepped out. 

"Can I help you, Master Ren?" He asked dully, annoyed. 

"Don't take that tone with me," Ren applied pressure on the General's neck threateningly, "Who let the girl onboard? Where did she come from?" He demanded.

"What girl?" The general sneered. Kylo grew impatient and pushed into Hux's mind easily. He could see everything the general had witnessed that day. He did, in fact, see the girl. She appeared anxious, and Hux had approached her suspiciously, before his memory went black for a period of a few seconds, before popping back to where it had been before the girl was there. 

"She controlled you, didn't she?" He sighed and turned on his heel, his cape swishing dramatically behind him. 

"Master Ren, what is the meaning of this? What girl?" Hux asked, following him. Kylo pushed him away, irritated. He walked past a different general, who saluted him. He ignored the gesture. 

"Review all security footage, starting with the minute we landed on this planet. A girl smuggled herself aboard, I need to know where and when and how," He commanded. The general froze, looking questioningly at him. 

"Now," 

"Yes Master Ren, sir, right away," The general hurried off.

Kylo clenched his fists. He was surrounded by idiots. They were weak. But the girl....she had raw, untamed power. But she was untrained, that much was obvious from the feeble way she had tried to access his mind. Now that the girl was in a cell, he could go down and interrogate her whenever he felt like it.

He suddenly felt something urging him to see the supreme leader. The urge was strong. It was not his own urge, it was Snoke, convincing him to come. But he would not refuse it. He could not. 

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