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The bond connects them while they sleep, while their defences are down and their conflict is at rest. Her dreams are dark, she dreams of demons trying to drag her away from her friends, she sees them as the family she never had. Black oily skinned beings try to pull her down with them. She struggles, screams out, her friends can’t hear her, they don’t see her struggle, but he does.
He goes to her, takes her hand tries to pull her from their grasping fingers. Her eyes are wide, she is surprised to see him, she clasps her other hand to him arm,
‘Please,’ she begs him.
Something stirs within him and he strains his muscles as far as they can go, he does everything he can to save her but they drag her down, down with them. All that is left is an oily pool of darkness where she once stood. He pounds his fist against the floor, not fully realising how much she meant to him until she was gone.
Suddenly a hand rises from the dark pool, then an arm, he pulls, Rey has returned but not his Rey not as he remembers her. Her eyes are dark, her lips are as red as blood. Her dress is black and clings to her curves, skimming the floor around her feet. She stands before him, with a suggestive smile, she reaches for him and he hesitates, steps back and takes a defensive stance. Rey giggles slightly,
‘Shhhhh,’ She soothes. When she reached for him again he is still. She presses her lips to his and works her hands into his hair. He kissed her back, she is so soft, so pliant, he wraps his arms around her, she is so small. So fragile, he worries he will break her.
‘You won’t break me.’ She whispers against his mouth. He wants this, he needs this but it’s wrong. He wants his Rey.
‘No.’
‘No?’ She is angry now.
‘Not like this Rey. I want you but not like this.’
‘Poor little Kylo,’ She taunted him. ‘What’s the matter? Can you not rise to the occasion?’
Kylo grits his teeth,
‘This isn’t you Rey.’
‘Maybe this is who I’m destined to be.’
She reaches out her hand and his throat feels tight.
‘Rey stop.’
‘Reach for your saber.’
‘I won’t.’
She squeezes tighter,
‘Take out your saber! Let’s finish this.’
‘I won’t fight you Rey.’ He chokes out.
Fear flickers across Rey’s face and he realises she is still in there somewhere. kylo falls to his knees and throws out his arms,
‘Kill me.’
‘Fight like a man!’ She screams, tears in her eyes.
‘Kill me.’
She releases his throat,
‘I can’t.’
When she falls to the ground, the dark liquid slides away and she is his Rey once more.
‘There you are.’ He smiles at her and touch’s her face. She leans into his palm.
‘Kylo why must it be this way?’
‘It will not always be this way.’
‘But if I am always of the light and you are always of the dark how can we be together?’
‘We will meet in the gray, my love.’