Star Wars: A New Beginning (Reylo Paring)

Chapter 2: Reassess

Rey lifts herself off of her knees and stands in an empty room. Not knowing how to feel about what just transpired. Confused about how a man, like Kylo Ren, could ever come to his enemy in a time of raw, unfiltered emotion and show a side of vulnerability, weakness. This Force bond they share connects them. Ties their emotions and thoughts together. The images he shared with her replay over and over again as Rey tries to analyze them. Trying to figure out who Kylo Ren is. Who Ben is. "To see him as a boy, before he became this sick, contorted monster was so innocent and untouched by darkness is so- so strange. Seeing that shows a different side of the story of the Dark Knight. A sense of vulnerability and the need for love and attention. Nothing more. Just for someone to look at him and see him. Really see him. Like me. Sure I am surrounded by friends like Finn, Chewie, and Poe, but it feels as if they look only surface level, Rey. Not at what is inside begging to be brought to the surface." Rey catches her thoughts turning sour and she relaxes her contorted face. She takes a deep breath as sets her staff up against the wall next to her bunk. She turns to the dresser to her side and pulls open the top drawer. The broken lightsaber rolls to the front of the drawer. She looks past it to the clothes folded neatly in the left corner. Pulling out a basic tunic and linen pants, then shut the drawer.

After she got dressed she slipped her only pair of boots on and laced them up. The door opens with a hiss as she walks up to the chamber exit. She steps out into the corridor of the Millennium Falcon. Rey walks the main corridor, heading to the center of the old freighter. The small lounge room doubled as a kitchen and sitting area. Rey opened the cooler to find leftover rations and pulled it out, unexcited to eat it. BB-8 rolls into the room and beeps a greeting to her.

"Good morning, Rey!" Rey smiles at the robot. Happy to have some company after her interaction with Kylo Ren. It was still weighing heavy on Rey's chest, unable to share with anyone, in fear of how it would look if they knew that she and Kylo Ren had a Force bond. She sighs internally as she scooped a spoonful of tasteless substance into her mouth, cringing.

"Rey," BB-8 bleeps "We are about to arrive at the Resistance base on Ahch-To." Rey nods at BB-8 as she replies with, " Thank you, BB-8". She pats the little robots head and continues to the cockpit. Out the window Rey watches the stars whiz by as they travel through hyperspace. Rey is anxious to return to the planet. To return to her friends, Finn, Poe, and her mentor General Organa. Rey loves the fact that this woman is fearless, strong, and yet elegant and graceful. All of these qualities make up, Leia, a seasoned General that leads the Resistance to combat the First Order. After Snoke's death, the First Order has been in disarray. This is in part why Rey must return to Ahch-To. Their limited numbers after General Hux's attack has left them in hiding. General and Rey knew that they need to stay out of sight.

A notification alert bleeps through the communication system.

"This is base one to YT-1300, state your business. Over." a masculine voice bleeds through the intercom. Rey pressed the button attached to a microphone "This is YT-1300 to base one, this is Falcon. Requesting permission to land. Over." Rey lets off the button to hear static, waiting for a response. "This is base one. Permission granted. Over and out." the voice ends the link with her ship. Rey Sets herself down into the pilot's chair and stears the old freighter towards the oceanic planet.

Rey gently eases the old freighter to the ground of the main island. She lets down the landing gear as the ship settles to the islands grass covered rocky surface. Rey shuts off the engines and heads to her bedchambers. The corridor leading to her chamber was cold from prolonged space travel and that damned heater that seems to not ever work properly. Her hands instinctively wrapped around her arms, rubbing them for warmth as she approached the door. The door hisses open. Rey gathers her wooden staff and her canvas knapsack. She looks around the room, to where Kylo Ren had sat only hours ago. The memory causes a strange whirl of emotions to come flooding back to her as a shiver ran down her spine. She forces herself out of the room, wanting to push that moment away from her mind. The door hissed open as she stepped back into the corridor. Rey began to walk to the ramp when she called out for BB-8. BB-8 came zooming from around the corner to Rey's feet, bleeping happily. The sun of Ahch-To was warm as it caressed her skin for the first time in what seemed to be a lifetime ago. The ship's ramp closed slowly, the hydraulics whining in the process. "Damn ship. This thing is older than me."