The Lycan in You and I ( A Reylo Romance )

Chapter 4 - Instincts

"I had the same dream of you. I could even smell your scent in the dream, only, I hadn't remembered that until I woke up in your bed, so I recognized you too."

Woke up in your bed... those words affected him so much..

"What do you think it means?"

"The interesting thing is that I had forgotten all about the dream until I was meditating on whether or not I was ready to get married. Then the force reminded me, and showed me the whole dream again. I knew that it was time, that force willed it. The next thing I knew, you were in my quarters, the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen, and here we are."

"The force? Isn't that what the Jedi and Sith used to fight with or something?"

"Well, you are not wrong, but there's so much more to it than that. The force surrounds everything and everyone. It is a living energy that runs through the entire universe. People who are force-sensitive can gain knowledge from it, use it to fight, to see memories and the future, see into others thoughts and even heal injuries to some extent.

"Are you force-sensitive?"

"Very much so. It's how I became the Emperor. I think you might be also and you just don't know it yet. It might be why we were able to share a dream."

"Close your eyes. Breathe in and out. I'm going to send you an image, let me know what you see when you get it..."

"Rey breathed. She felt peaceful. She could feel him breathing with her. It did something to her. "Just focus on your breaths. Good." Suddenly she saw a stone cottage in a forest. There were waterfalls in the distance. She felt like she was there.

"Ben, I see a cottage in the forest. There are waterfalls and streams. I can smell the meadow grass and the trees. It's warm, but not as warm as Jakku. I hear the water and birds. The sunlight is filtering through the leaves. Oh, it's so beautiful."

"Yes. That's my cottage retreat on Naboo. Very good, Rey."

Not only is she beautiful and smart, she's force-sensitive too. She was such a gift...

"You don't have to keep telling me I'm beautiful...."

"Oh, but you are. I want so much to kiss you."

" I've never kissed anyone before, but I would like to try." He's so handsome....

It was then that Ben realized that they had been speaking to each other's minds. They weren't actually speaking out loud.

He wasn't going to mess this up and miss his chance to taste her lips.

He turned to her and tilted her chin up to his. Her eyes were still closed. His hands were trembling as he cupped her face and very gently kissed her lips.

She sucked in a breath as though she had been holding it and looked up at him in shock. Her eyes were glazed over from the passion that was rising in her for the very first time.

"Don't be afraid. I feel it too. I'm here. Nothing can harm you. You're safe with me."

He stroked her cheek and gazed at her.

"Thank you for allowing me to kiss you." He smiled down at her.

"May I hold your hand?"

She nodded and gave him her left hand.

It was so tiny in his. He rubbed his thumb over her knuckles.

"Rey, do you realize that you and I were just speaking to each other with our minds? We weren't using words. I could hear you speaking to me and hear your thoughts. I know you could hear mine, because I didn't say you were beautiful out loud. This is very rare and very special, just like the rest of you."

"Ben, I'd never kissed anyone before, but I wanted to kiss you. I wasn't expecting it to be so...intense. Let's just say, I'm feeling very warm."

"You don't have to hold anything back from me. I know it felt good, it was right, it made your heart beat faster and your body want something. Don't fear it, don't be ashamed of it. It's how we were meant to be together. I feel the same way. Would you like to try it again?"

She was blushing.

"I'll take that as a yes."

This time he kissed her forehead, her cheeks and her eyelids before taking her lips. She sighed and leaned into his chest. He wrapped his arms around her tightly and she ran her fingers through his hair. She opened her mouth to him when he tugged on her lip with his teeth. She tasted like honey.

Sweet Rey..

Her scent was everywhere and it told him she was aroused, as if he needed her scent to tell him that. She was trembling breathlessly in his arms.

She was so precious...He didn't want to scare her.

He broke the kiss and pressed his forehead to hers. She was taking heaving breaths and smiling.

"Now that was a kiss."

He wanted more, but he knew he had to wait.

Hux had seen her wrists. He had smelled her. He didn't trust him.

What if he tried to scent her somehow, would he break in to his quarters and do it while he slept?

He wouldn't put it past him. Was he being completely irrational?

He needed to scent her now. Everything in him was pushing him to claim her in this small way. He had to, had to. He wouldn't be able to rest until he did.

He took her tiny wrist and kissed it. She almost let out a moan, but she was fighting herself. He rubbed his wrist against hers. Then he kissed it and rubbed it on his neck. She shuddered.

"Don't fight yourself Rey. It's okay to feel. I won't let anything harm you. You're safe."

He licked the other wrist and she actually jumped.

She was going up in flames. He knew.

He rubbed his other wrist to hers. She instinctively sought his mouth. Her kiss was hungry, desperate, beautiful.

They had to stop this.

"Rey, we have to stop now."

"But I don't want to."

"Oh, I don't want to either, but we have to. I might lose my self-control."

"Besides, the way you smell right now, so beautiful and intoxicating, if we don't go back to my quarters now, half the men on the ship could be on their way here to find you. We can't have that. You are mine."

Hi picked her up and threw her over his shoulder and ran with her back to his quarters. She let out a squeal of surprise and giggled the whole way back.