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Meeting eyes with the sun-bleached raisin, they call a Leader; you try to muster up something to say but the words never come and reality finally sets in. You’re not going home, and the man beside you can read minds! How did that just hit you right now? You’re not supposed to be here, you were supposed to be researching a planet that held possible life, but would probably be nothing and then return home, it was supposed to be a quick trip!
Everything smacks you in the face at once, and your knees finally give out; your vision goes black, but you don’t hit the cold ground like you expected to.
Thanks, adrenaline, I knew you’d backstab me in the end.
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Your regaining consciousness slowly, not entirely for sure where you are yet, you assume you’re still in space, of course, you’re probably still floating towards the unnamed planet you had to research, wait, are you oversleeping? Your Captain will be pissed, but why hadn’t she come to wake you? You haven’t even opened your eyes yet, exhaustion still plaguing you. Trying gain some energy back, wiggling your fingers and toes, you turn to move expecting to be floating in zero gravity but instead falling face first into the cold hard ground “Ow! Shit!” You finally open your eyes, pulling yourself up to a sitting position and checking to make sure your nose isn’t broken, you remember, just by the dark, you assume marble floors, you've landed on, you’re definitely not back on the shuttle.
The memories come flooding back to you, you had passed out in front of their Leader, really Y/N? Really? What an introduction, you sure hope you’re not going back to Earth now, you can’t even imagine having the “First encounter” with an alien species, could you call them that? They seemed human enough, but then again you didn’t know what to expect over little green guys. “Miss Y/N, what was it like to make the first encounter with their Leader?” in your mind your being interviewed by a famous talk show host “Oh, yes I passed out after seeing his face, it was really such a great experience”
You stand up and regain a bit of your balance "What, do they not have beds where you come from?“ You might just fall again, you were not expecting him to be here, let alone sitting on a black chair in the corner of the small, you assume medical room. This means he saw everything, including the small interview you conducted with yourself on the floor if he didn’t think you were crazy before, he definitely does now.
"if you saw me fall and were over there the entire time, why didn’t you help me?” Trying to brush past the fact he's totally been reading your mind the entire time you’ve been awake and maybe in your sleep, gods you hope you didn’t have any erotic dreams in your unconscious state, that would be awkward. “I found it amusing to watch you fall off the bed, I couldn’t help it” He pushes himself out of the chair, to walk over and stand in front of you “And no, I’m not a pervert. I didn’t listen to your erotic thoughts, but if you happen to go over them in detail within your mind, I’d be happy to listen in"
You’re afraid to breathe in case your soul leaves your body and enters this demon in front of you. He turns away towards the door, he doesn’t have his helmet on and he almost hits you in the face with his hair as he whipped around, seeming to be happy with your silent reaction. you snap back to reality and remember what got you into this mess in the first place "So, on a scale of one to ten, how pissed is your Leader at me for passing out in front of him?
He turns to look at you again, he’s clearly confused by your weird terminology but he goes along with it anyway "He’s not angry, in fact, you’ve peaked his interest. I assume your shock at his presence amused him” You interested him? You swore you’d probably get killed for such a disrespectful first meeting, though you even getting to wake up was probably a good sign in itself. “Do I need to go introduce myself to him again? I won’t pass out this time” No promises though, Kylo laughs at that. Ugh still reading minds aren’t we? “No, no you won’t have to meet him again, Supreme Leader expects in time you’ll tell us everything we want to know, but for now I’m to escort you to your new quarters” You get a room? And what did he mean “in time”? how long were you going to be here? “What about my Captain?"
"She was useless and sent back to your shuttle, I told you she’d be safe” Good, at least he’s trustworthy in some areas. You follow Kylo out into the dark hallway again, he leads you down multiple different hallways before finally coming to one that seems to be little apartments, all lined up side by side. You’d think this to be kinda cute and after being on a shuttle with no privacy, you’d think it’d be great if it wasn’t for the whole “prison” color scheme and the suffocating atmosphere. “This one’s yours” He presses a couple of buttons on the expensive panel you’ve seen before, now you had one to yourself, you wonder if it’s against protocol if you were to tamper with it, yeah it’s probably frowned upon.
In your ever-changing thoughts on the way here, you’ve lost track entirely on how you ended up here, you must have walked down six different hallways, or at least you assumed they were different, they all looked the same to you and nothing was numbered. Again lost in your thoughts, you jump as Kylo grabs your hand with his leather one and presses it into the panel, it blinks green and makes a satisfactory beep, the doors open at that, it has hand identification?, you’ve only ever seen that on small scales, like on your smartphone at home, no offense to your small companion you miss but he sure doesn’t seem as “smart” anymore. Kylo yanks you inside your new place, did he forget he’s still holding your hand?
He must have read your thoughts because he dropped your hand like you burned him after “I-it’s not much but it’ll do until Supreme Leader decides what to do with you” You barely catch it but your pretty sure his voice just cracked after dropping your hand, you try not to focus on it as you look around the room at your new belongings “Not much? It’s bigger than what I have at home! Wow, it has its own tiny kitchen” It really wasn’t that big, but you’ve been on a small cramped shuttle for months, this was a mansion compared to that, it even had a bathtub. No more hand baths for this chick!
You hope he didn’t catch that and continue looking about, until your eyes drop to a blank slate looking thing, picking it up and examining it, this is just like your tablet back home, hmm, maybe their not that advanced. Kylo notices what your examing and reaches over your shoulder to help you turn it on “Have you ever seen a datapad before?” He helps you set it up and shows you around it a bit “Supreme Leader insisted you have one of these, so you’ll always be able to contact someone, since you’re not used to this place yet and you could get lost or killed here really quick” Oh that’s comforting Kylo, thanks.
“This is my contact number and this is emergency services, this one goes straight to the medic office, in case you need any… feminine supplies” Pads and tampons, got it. If their women still get periods, then they can’t be that far off human biology. You’re trying to skip over the fact he’s essentially given you his direct number, he could just leave you alone with a servant or something or maybe a robot? Yes, a robot would be awesome. “It’s been restricted so you can’t get into anything too important since datapads are normally for someone of importance in the First Order, but you should be able to handle it”
You let the “important people” comment slide and focus on the “First Order?” comment, looking to him “Yes, you really don’t know anything about us do you?” You shake your head, as he takes the “datapad” as he called it, away from you and turns it over to show you the back, it’s the same strange symbol you’d seen on the outside of the ship “First Order, huh?” Sounds intimidating as all hell. You look up at him, meeting his gaze. Something hits you,
Have you been taken in by the bad guys or the good guys? The look in Kylo’s eyes gives you his the wordless answer.