My Sweet, My Dear, My Rey

Chapter Five

Luke had heard Rey's cry for help. He had gotten back to the now destroyed academy an hour or so earlier and was devastated. He knew he had to help Rey. It was too dangerous having her in Ben's presence right now. She was too little and Ben could easily hurt her - or worse - kill her.

Luke flew back to Leia's newly-founded group on D'Qar called The Resistance, which was going to be used to fight back against the growing evil that called themselves the First Order.

Luke landed his ship at the base and stepped out to see Leia already waiting for him with tears in her eyes. "Leia-", Luke started. "I know about Ben. I felt it.", Leia said, cutting her brother off. Luke hugged his sister tightly. "He killed every last one of them, except one. His counterpart, Rey. Remember you and her met when you came to visit two weeks ago?," Leia nodded, "Well, he took her back to the First Order. She sent me a message through the Force, she's very scared and wants to escape. She said that Ben is being changed into something bad, something evil by Snoke.

Leia placed a hand over her mouth. "That poor girl! I'll go plan an emergency rescue.". Luke watched Leia quickly walk to the meeting room. He felt terrible - Leia, his own sister, trusted him with her son's life and safety and now Ben has turned to the darkside. Luke has failed him and Leia.

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Rey woke with a yawn. She rubbed her slightly puffed eyes from her crying last night and hoped off her bed. She walked out of her room and went to the kitchen where she saw Ben - or Kylo as he now was - making toast. He was dressed in all black, something Rey really didn't like.

His back was towards her but he could sense her little presence and he said, "Good morning, my little Rey! How did you sleep last night?". Rey didn't want to answer him right now. She climbed up on a stool and Ben set a plate of toast in front of her. "Now eat up, then get dressed. I have to meet with the Supreme Leader then The Knights of Ren are going to help with my physical training. You're still too young, so you will be staying with Captain Phasma and learn a few things from her, ok?", Kylo said.

"Ok.", Rey said sadly. Kylo frowned, but Rey just ignored it and started on her toast. "Don't be so sad, Rey, things are going to be much better from now on, you'll see!", he said. "I still don't see why we're here, B -", Rey stopped herself, "Uh... I mean Kylo?". Kylo sighed and ran a hand through his silky hair. "Rey, you will understand when you are older, ok? Now please stop asking me that and finish you food.".

Rey frowned and quickly ate her breakfast. She placed her plate in the dishwasher and made her way back to her bedroom. She paused halfway there when she heard Kylo ask, "Wait, Rey! Don't you want me to help you get dressed? You know, like we usually do?". Rey almost forgot that she and Ben did that, but this was not Ben this was Kylo Ren, a murderer, someone who she couldn't trust, someone who was dark and could hurt her. "No, I can do it myself.", Rey said.

It took Rey a lot longer to pick out what to wear since Ben would usually help her pick something, and the only things in her closet where either black or dark grey, which Rey disliked very much. It took her even longer to get dressed by herself, but she still managed to do it. She decided on wearing something similar to her padawan attire, but in mostly dark grey and some black, with little black leather boots.

Rey came out and was startled when Kylo instantly scooped her up and kissed her cheek, which was another thing they did. Rey realized that this was a little bit of Ben shining through the growing darkness of Kylo Ren. She giggled, kissed his cheek back, and snuggled into his neck. "Ready? Let's go.", he says. On their way out, he grabs his mask and puts it on, which Rey clearly doesn't like. "Relax Rey. You'll get used to it.", Kylo reassures her.

Time skip: two weeks

It was just any regular day for Rey. She would wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed, Kylo would drop her off with Captain Phasma, who would teach Rey basic survival skills and how to shoot a blaster along with a group of stormtroopers-in-training who were around fourteen to sixteen (Rey looked a bit out of place in the group), and Kylo would go off to train. Rey was listening to Phasma explain how important your weapon is, when an alarm went off. "Stay here and do not leave for what ever reason!", she ordered before she ran off to do whatever.

"What do you think is going on, Rey?", her best friend, FN-2187 (Rey nicknamed him Finn) asked. "I don't know, I hope everything's ok.", Rey answered.

Rey, Finn, and the other stormtrooper cadets just sat there, wondering and waiting for about fifteen minutes. Suddenly, the door burst open to reveal Luke, a young man with black, messy hair and a blaster, and a orange and white BB unit. Luke froze all of the cadets, except Rey, who ran up to him and hugged him. "Come, Rey. We need to leave immediately.", Luke said. "Wait! Can we please take my friend with us? His name's Finn and he's really nice.", Rey pleaded, pointing at Finn. "Oh, alright! He can.", Luke said.

Luke released Finn and they all snuck back to the Falcon, where Han and Chewie sat, ready to fly them out of there. They flew out and the young man with the black hair from before went down to the gunnerman's seat and shot down any TIE fighters. They jumped into light speed and Rey felt a hot flare of anger from Kylo. He was pissed.

"Master Luke?", Rey asked, looking up at the Jedi, "Kylo is really mad. He's not going to hurt us is he?".
Luke looked at her and bent down to her level, holding her shoulders. "Don't worry, Rey, he is not going to come for us for a while. We'll all keep you safe.", Luke said, "Rey I want you to understand that Ben is gone, and Kylo Ren wants you. You CAN NOT trust him, understand? Once he catches you, he and Snoke will twist you into another version of him? Promise me that you won't let him get you, Rey, ok? Promise me!". "I promise", Rey answered. "Good.", Luke said with a reassuring smile. He got up and let to go talk with Han.

Rey walked over to the young man who was fixing an antenna on the BB unit. "Hello!", Rey greeted cheerfully, "my name's Rey! Who are you?". The young man, who looked to be around Finn's age or maybe a bit older, turned to her and smiled. "Hi, Rey. The name's Poe. Poe Dameron. And this is my droid, BB8.". The BB unit beeped a hello to Rey. "Hold on! I want to introduce you to my friend!", rey said before running off to grab Finn and drag him to Poe. "Poe, this is Finn, Finn, this is Poe, and that's his droid BB8!", Rey said with such an amount of cheeriness that the two young men had to chuckle a little bit.

Poe and Finn seemed to enjoy each other's company. Rey got Chewie to be on her side when Poe and Finn challenged her to a match of holochess. Of course, Chewie and Rey won from his years of experience. They continued to play several matches to help pass the time while they waited to get back to D'Qar.