Torture

Five

Exhaustion muddled your mind. You had been holding up the strongest barrier you've ever made for what felt like days now. You could feel that wretched man trying to barge into your mind every second you began to loosen your grip.

He hasn't visited since the first day you awoke in the cell. But others had. You were beaten senseless by storm troopers almost every waking moment, only left to peace when you slept, or more like when you were knocked out by a blow to the head. Dry blood was layered across your face, you could feel bruises so deep that made every waking moment terribly painful. And the gashes from torturous devices being slid across your skin felt no better. But you had to keep strong, you could not let your gaurd down to that monster, or yours and the fate of the resistance would be decided. You had to wait for the right time to let your powers loose.

You were once again clasped to the cold metal chair having just been through another round of interrogation and god awful torture. An odd feeling in the force arose, not only could you tell he was asleep, but a disturbance in another upon the ship was present. You knew this was the best time to strike.

Your tired mind began to slowly release its grips on the barrier it had constructed, a overwhelming sense of relief washed over your aching mind and body. No time to bask in it though, you weren't free of any of this till you and Poe were free. You began to scour the ship for the lone saber aboard. As your mind slowly searched for it, you opened your mouth to speak to the lone storm trooper inside the cell.

"You will release these restraints, and leave with the door open," you commanded.

The soldier came up to you, you could sense the smugness that radiated around him.

"What'd you say, rebel scum?" He questioned. You could tell your powers were sorely weakened by your search for the saber, you decided to give more of your strength to the trooper and responded again,

"You will release these restraints, and leave with the door open," within mere seconds of your statement you pin pointed the saber, and began to work on igniting it. A vision of the saber flashed across your vision, you had done it, turned it on, and now you were ready to hurdle it to your hand. You could feel it burn through every wall that laid in its path as it barreled towards you. The storm trooper had flicked a switch that unlocked the restraints just as the saber flew across your vision and landed into the palm of your now released hand. Instantly you struck down the soldier, and began to get up. Your body was aching from head to toe, fresh blood still dripping from several new injuries. Adrenaline began to course through you body, helping pain subside as you made your way to the now open door. You peered out to see two troopers on either side of the door, instead of bringing more attention you decided to knock them both out with the hilt of the saber and drag them into the cell, closing the door behind you.

Panic began to wrack your body as you searched for Poe's presence in the force. He was so small, his life barely hanging on, you feared the worst. Quickly you went in the direction of his pull. You rounded a corner to see two troopers placed outside what seemed like another cell. You instantly barreled towards them, taking them off guard, and incapacitating them both. You dragged both the bodies into the cell and rushed over to the metal chair that lay in the middle of the dark room. You rounded the chair to see Poe in an even worse state than you.

"Poe- Poe it's me," you said as you held his face in your hands. Slowly he opened his eyes, his face bruised and swollen from a recent beating. You quickly let go and undid his restraints, pulling him into a deep hug. Poe groaned at your embrace but still hugged you back before realizing the situation.

"How did you-" He started but then stopped when you flashed the handle of a certain someone's lightsaber across his vision. His mouth laid wide open at the sight but his face soon turned to a scowl,

"He is going to be so pissed," he laughed weakly as you helped him get out of the chair. You waited till you could see he could stand on his own, his legs still wobbly from the hours and hours of torture he had endured. Before you both could get on your way a white uniform flashed across the doorway, he noticed the door open and quickly entered the cell. The trooper seemed rattled as you ignited your new found blade and brought your hand up ready to choke him at any moment.

"Wait wait wait-" he started, breathing heavily through his mask, you could see he was over it and soon pulled it off to reveal a sweet and innocent looking face, "I'm here to help," he finished.

He was the new feeling you felt in the ship, the disturbance. You looked at Poe and thought hard about what to do. He seemed to be genuine, and you knew that he would not say words like that normally as if he was found out he would be executed immediately. You had to trust him.

"Can you get us out of here?" You questioned, a harsh tone lay thick in your words. He shook his head quickly and led you both to the door,

"Just follow me or you'll get lost," he warned. We began to snake through what seemed like a maze of infinitely identical hallways. You jokingly wondered how anyone could figure out where to go. This place was a Labrinth.

You closed your eyes for a split second as you all fled only to feel the deep darkness of a certain man begin to storm towards your location. He was coming.

You looked at Poe and your new ally, then down to the foreign lightsaber that you held tightly in your hand. TIE fighters only held 2 people. If you all tried to escape you most certainly would be killed with that monster on your tail. You stopped running with them. They both didn't notice at first, but after a few more steps Poe looked back at you and whisper yelled, "what are you doing we have to go!"

You stopped him and shook your head. He came close and held your face in his hands, his frantic eyes searching for a reason to this all, he found it quickly as usual, "Y/N.." you stopped him as you held his hand against your face, your eyes slowly closing to savor the moment.

"You have to go, he's coming, I'll hold him back and meet you at the hangar," you said now looking deep into his eyes. You could see so much worry and fear plague his thoughts. He knew you weren't coming, he knew you were about to sacrifice yourself like he attempted to do for you. But it would be different this time. You wouldn't allow him to come back and save you. You looked at him intently, "Poe," you said bringing his lips to yours in the first and only kiss you'd probably ever have. He held you there, not wanting to ever let go, but you pulled away before you were tempted to go with them. "Now go, and don't die on me," you said while smiling and began to run in the other direction, towards the darkness, towards what could very well be your death.