How it Should Be

Blood

Reys P.O.V.

I left my room to get Ben something to sleep in, I took our trays back to the cafeteria too. I made my way to storage.

On the way there I ran into Po, "Hey where are you headed?" He ask.

"Storage for some clean clothes. You?"

"Same here."

We walked together, with an obvious tension. He's probably going to say something about Ben being here.

"Ya know, when all this shit started and you found Finn on Jakku? He interrogated me. Along with a dozen other stormtroopers who beat the shit out of me. He nearly knocked out a few teeth. I've never had someone get inside my head like that. It really messed me up."

"You do remember he did the same thing to me? I may not have gotten beaten up but he took me against my will too. Got inside my head. But I got into his. I saw that he was afraid of what he was becoming. That he was afraid he would never be as strong as Darth Vader. But the strength he feared he would never get was the strength to defy his master and turn to the light."

"Darth Vader never turned to the light. He died on the Death Star."

"Yes he did. In his final moments he saved Luke's life. He collapsed and ask Luke to take off his mask so he could see the face of his son with his own eyes. Luke told me that, and he wouldn't lie about his father."

"Look I know you care about him Rey but be careful. All of us here care about you we owe our lives to you."

"Po, did you know I'm Palpetine's granddaughter?"

"You're what?" Po took a step away from me in the storage room.

"I found out yesterday. Ben told me. And Palpetine killed my parents for trying to protect me. Luke knew, Leia knew, but they didn't tell me. Because if I would have known who I was I wouldn't be who I am. If that makes any sense. Ben helped me defeat Palpetine, and if it weren't for him I would be dead. He won that fight as much as I did and he saved the Resistance as much as you and I did. His mother just died cut him some slack."

Po threw down the clothes he had in his hand.

"Slack? Cut him some slack? He's slaughtered thousands! Destroyed entire planets! He murdered his own father right in front of you! And all the sudden you're in love with him? What the hell changed?"

"What changed was him. He has been manipulated by the Sith since the day he was born. He never knew what to do. He wasn't never shown right from wrong or allowed to learn from his mistakes he was forced into being a Jedi. He didn't want to be. And so that resentment turned to hate and eventually into Kylo Ren. He's fighting things you and I could never imagine. He murdered his own father thinking that would make the world clearer for him and make his path definite because he was and is so confused about what he's supposed to do with his life! Snoke told him that would give him clarity, and it nearly tore him apart."

"Look I get it his mom just died and he has daddy issues-" I cut him off.

"Daddy issues? Really Po daddy issues?! You are ridiculous!"

"He's the supreme leader of the first order! He's tried to kill you and me and Finn and Rose and everyone here! No one wants that reminder. As far as they see it as long as he's still alive the fights not over. The war isn't over."

"Well they're going to have to learn that it is. And he helped stop it. He helped us win. He may have been the bad guy for a long time but he is a good man. Twice the man you'll ever be." I glare at Po and leave the room.

I don't think I've ever been so angry with someone. Ben has made progress as Ben returning to the light and if he hears about any of this, it could throw him back to where he was when I met him. I can't risk that. I won't. Maybe Ben was right when he said we should leave.

I get back to my room and try to unlock the door but I won't budge.

"Ben! Are you still in the shower let me in please!" I yell through the door.

I hear a muffled cry for help and I know it's Ben. Something inside me woke up, and I flung the door open and I saw in a split second people I've come to love and trust beating Ben up viciously on the floor. And Finn is leading the pack. Something inside me throws them to the ceiling and I run to Ben's side. Everyone falls to the floor.

"R-ey?" He asks in the midst of coughing blood.

"Oh my god, Ben! I NEED A MEDIC! Someone help!" I yell as loud as I can. These wounds I can't heal. I can't focus.

"God, what the hell happened?" Po says, running into the room.

"Oh please, the last person I want in here is you with everything you said!"

"Rey, I'm sorry but he needs help so I'm gonna go get the medical droid, if you'll let me."

I nod my head and try to talk to Ben, whose barely conscious.

"Ben, Ben I'm right here Po is getting help okay?" I have tears welling in my eyes, "Youre going to be fine."

He stared at me with his blood shot eyes, and he grabbed my arm with all the strength he had. Don't hurt them. He can't even speak. What did they do to you?

Everyone who was in here had darted out of the room to avoid me. Everyone but Finn.

"He deserved it. I'm not sorry." I look at him, anger in my eyes. He flies up against the wall, my saber in my hand, and my hand around his throat. I ignite it and hold it an inch from his eye.

"Don't you dare. I could kill you right here right now. He could have killed you but he didn't. He has the capability to slaughter every single person that was in my room. And he didn't. Why do you think that is? Because he. Has. Changed. Get out of my sight you sorry excuse of a friend let alone a person. You were supposed to be my friend."

I turn back to help Ben, Po was standing in the doorway, and saw the whole thing.

"I know what you saw Po, just please help me." The tears are falling now.

Po and I get him on a stretcher and he's rushed to the infirmary. Finn was left in the middle of my room staring at Ben's blood on the floor.