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His Padawan by blueenvelopes935
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
03 Mar 2017
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In this Dark AU, Rey finds the droid in the desert with the map but she never finds the Resistance. Instead, Kylo Ren finds her. A girl meets a Sith named Ben Solo in a castle on Mustafar. Things are never what they seem on the Dark Side.
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Reylo massive AU mustafar bolt hole pregfic babyfic
["So what do you do exactly?" Rey asks. "You never did tell me. Vanee just told me that your business is the Force.”
He gives her a cryptic but true non-answer. "You could say I'm in the family business. And, yes, everyone in my family has the Force."
Half an hour later, he and Rey are eating dinner. She's gobbling her food just like he remembers. Her table manners ought to be off putting, but they're not. Because Rey doesn't know any better. It will be a long time before he erases the bitter legacy of Jakku, Kylo realizes. And maybe he will never erase it and these peculiar habits will just become Rey’s eccentricities. He’s fine with that, he decides. He has his own eccentricities. And besides, for a girl with a nearly feral upbringing, Rey has a strange nobility about her. She is very self-possessed. Kylo decides that he will take the bad with the good. And he’s never been one for prissy girls.]
[“The Force defaults to balance, Rey. In the aggregate and in an individual. When you get too far to one extreme of Dark or Light, the Force calls you back to the center. And so a Dark Sith like myself is moved now and then to mercy and compassion. Maybe even forgiveness now and then.” He flashes her a wry smile. “And to whims like saving a tortured innocent stuck in a First Order cell.”
“Oh.”
“It's also why the purest among the Light are drawn to show compassion for those in Darkness. Find any prison or slum, Rey, and you will find agents of the Light ministering there. Social workers, teachers, the religious, the do gooders among us. They are compelled to try to help, to forgive humanity's worst examples, to save souls and soothe hurts. It's a fool's errand, for the sins of the world persist. But hope springs eternal for those in the Light.”
Kylo learns forward in his chair now, holding her attention. “You, Rey, are the Light. And that's how you appear in the Force to me. Gleaming and pure. Radiant and strong. Your power is blinding in my mind's eye.”
“And you like the Light? You like my Light?”
“Yes,” he admits plainly. “I am Dark, Rey. But still, I can admire the Light and appreciate it.”
“What does it mean to be Dark?” He can see Rey struggling to understand these abstract concepts.
“Darkness is the triumph of emotion, Rey. The Dark Side embraces the full range of experience and desires. From love to hate, from anger to sorrow, from pride to shame, from power to helplessness.”]
[Is love blind? Maybe at the beginning. But over time, love is turns a blind eye more than it is blind. Because love in its fullest, most mature form sees faults and shortcomings. It recognizes weakness and failure. And it understands and accepts. Tries to support where it can. And, on occasion, to gently prod you towards growth. And so who you are when you first fall in love is not who you will be years later. Because love can change you. ]
[First, he stole her heart and then he stole her trust. And now, Rey thinks bitterly, she has stolen his shuttle.
Rey gets to work searching for the transponder. There has to be a transponder on this ship. Maybe even several. An hour later, she has disabled three of them and shut down most of the main computer system as well, hoping that means any automatic uploads and downloads will not betray her location. Rey has worked to rehab and strip clean enough stolen ships on Jakku to know how to subvert the normal security devices used to locate a lost ship.]
[Snoke had insisted that Kylo learn to use the tricky crossguard Sith saber of old. It’s more broadsword than elegant dueling foil, but it has distinct advantages. Chiefly, when it comes to disarming passes. There is more surface area of blade to use to flip your opponent's saber. That's how Snoke had defeated many a Jedi in his heyday and the Muun Sith had made sure to pass on that knowledge to his Apprentice. ]
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