Enervating Beauty (Kylo Ren x Reader)

Chapter 2- The Arrival

As I arrived back on my home planet, I rushed to my quarters as fast as my feet could carry me. My handmaids were at my side in no time as I asked them to hurry the process along with removing my elaborate hairstyle.

Their hands worked quickly undoing pins and braids, removing the iron headpiece carefully. I massaged my scalp as I felt my soft hair fall back into place. One of my favorite young handmaids, Iylin, started to brush it gently. Worry was etched across my face and the tension was thick in the room.

"Your Grace, I know that times are troublesome but please have faith. This planet adores you and knows you have only the best intentions. Please believe that."

I saw her face in the mirror and returned her warm smile. How I deserved such support on this planet was something I wondered all the time. It meant a great deal to me that so many of our people had such faith in my abilities to rule us peacefully.

I asked the handmaids politely to leave as I started to gather my thoughts on what to say to my people.

I still couldn't believe I was going to rule over so many people.

I wouldn't be sworn in as queen for some time still, but the fate of our planet was still all on me. And the delivery of the current situation and our potential future was going to be a tell-tale sign as to what my leadership would be like.

So, it had to be perfect.

I undressed and put on one of my favorite nightgowns. With a clean face and brushed hair, I sat down on my bed and finally let out a long deep breath. Too many thoughts were swirling around in my brain, entertaining all the possibilities of our planet's outcome in case Ren did come for us. I would have to make a plan, one that could be seen in a positive light to our people.

I reached over and grabbed my data pad and scrolled until I found my lead general, Atlas Brayer.

As I discussed with him what actions to take and the best way to prepare our people, he informed me that Hosnian Prime has since been struck down with the advanced weapon, destroying four other planets as well.

I cursed silently to myself and lied further down into my bed and let the soft cushioning whisk me away as the news just got worse and worse. We were just there earlier that day on Hosnian Prime, and now it was destroyed.

Somehow in the wake of my parents' deaths, I was really expected to be a leader and a politician. If I had still been there at Hosnian Prime, if I wouldn't have acted so quickly in the chaos... who knows what could have happened to me.

But there was no turning back now.

I felt a tear escape and start to roll down my cheek, consumed with empathy for the deaths of the people in the New Republic that we lost. But I wiped it away immediately, there was too much at stake for my planet. I shut my emotions off so I could go back to my duty and have a speech ready for tomorrow. I finished my conversation with the general as we devised a solid plan for our inhabitants.

Feeling more content with the state of things for tomorrow, I finally let myself rest and closed my eyes, hoping my thoughts would ease as well.

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Tossing and turning for hours, I rolled over and looked at my data pad's clock.

0200 hours.

My mind just could not stop, the gears continuing to turn as I wished and ached for sleep to come over me. But that was not going to happen it seemed. Not now at least.