#force skype

Prompt number: #11 “I told you so” and #12 “watch me” 

Fandom: Star Wars 

Rating: Teen and up

Warnings/Tags: Reylo (Kylo Ren and Rey bicker via Force Skype)

Word Count: 879

Summary: Rey has two rules when it comes to the Force Bond: 1) don’t talk to him, 2) don’t look at him. If they can’t talk and don’t look at each other, then he can’t hurt her again. It’s logical, really. 

Read it on Ao3:

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Rey was having a perfectly ordinary morning, helping Finn prepare for the next Resistance strategy meeting. He was anxious, she could tell. So was she, for that matter, but she was trying not to show it, for Finn’s sake. This was the first plan that the two of them had come up with all on their own. They had been at it all night and most of the day, going over every facet and planning for every eventuality. If it worked, it would mean a real blow against the stormtrooper training facilities, something she knew was near to her friend’s heart. 

So it was, in other words, the absolute worst time for the sound to dim and Kylo Ren to appear beside her. She successfully ignored him for weeks, pretending he wasn’t there anytime he appeared. The first time it happened, she had set rules for herself: don’t talk to him, don’t look at him. At first it had just been because she had been angry, but now…well, she reasoned that if they didn’t talk and didn’t look at each other, he couldn’t hurt her again. Eventually, he always disappeared – in varying states of temper. This would have to be the same. She stared steadfastly at her work, pointedly not acknowledging him. 

As was typical, he wasted no time with his opening gambit.

“You can’t just keep ignoring me.” 

“Watch me,” she muttered reflexively. 

She expected him to sigh or complain or maybe even rage at her, but instead, he perked up. “That at least proves you can hear me.”

Just then, Rey’s tired brain caught up with her mouth. She had just broken her first rule. She swore loudly. Started by the sudden outburst, Finn raised an eyebrow at her across the table. She smiled as though nothing had happened, and he shrugged and went back to his work. 

“Seeing you, hearing you, it doesn’t change anything,” she said under her breath. 

“You have nothing to say to me?”

“I have plenty to say to you.”

“Then say it. Go on.” He leaned down so so their heads were level. “Tell me why you left me behind. Or, if you hate me so much, tell me why you didn’t kill me when you had the chance.”

“Weakness.” It was the first thing that came to her head. That’s what it was, wasn’t it? If she was stronger, better, she’d have been able to resist. 

She could have sworn he almost laughed. “That’s my line,” he said.

She shook her head, putting her stylus down. She’d go back to being silent, that would show him. 

“Or maybe you don’t know why any more than I do.”

Rey didn’t respond. She loudly shuffled the maps in front of her and hazarded a glance over at Finn. To Rey’s horror, she found him squinting at the air beside her, where Kylo Ren stood, as though struggling to make something out. 

As though he could sense Finn’s attention, Kylo said. “Are your new friends getting suspicious? You have told them about…this?”

“My new friends trust me,” Rey said out of the corner of her mouth. “

“You haven’t told them.” Kylo said it with a sort of awe and hope that confused her enough to break her second rule. Rey looked up into his face, finding his eyes. This was a mistake. She found she couldn’t look away. He was studying her cautiously and she could feel the emotions roiling around him of him. He wore shame and anger like a cloak, as usual, but shooting through it was a thin cord of that hope, bright as starlight in her mind’s eye.  

Suddenly, Finn cleared his throat and Rey’s attention snapped back to her surroundings. 

Finn was looking at her with concern again. "You okay, Rey? Only, you’ve been talking to yourself? And that’s weird, even for you”

Her cheeks colored as she avoided looking over at Ben – Kylo Ren, she corrected herself. His name was Kylo Ren. “I have not been talking to myself. I can see why it would look like that, but it’s…it's…”

“Tell them it’s part of your Jedi training,” Kylo offered. She was annoyed but grateful at the suggestion. 

“…a part of my Jedi training.” She paired this invention with a bright, almost manic smile, and all of the conviction she could muster. Finn continued to frown at her. 

“That sounds –”

She was saved by the sudden appearance of Poe, Rose, and Ransolm Casterfo at the head of a group of resistance leaders. They entered the room in a buzz of noise and conversation. Moving a little more slowly than the rest, General Organa stood in the doorway. Poe doubled back to help her to her seat. 

“Told you so,” Kylo said softly. Then he was gone and Rey was again alone in a room of Resistance fighters. Rey shook her head to clear it, then was immediately 

“Oh really?” Rey spat, but she couldn’t quite muster the venom she was going for. She knew what he was saying was true; he’d proven it over and over again this past year, appearing to her like this at the most inconvenient times, forcing her to duck out of meetings and meals and even her training with Leia to shout at him to leave her alone. I’ll find you, he always said, and it was a threat but it sounded like something else.

And now he was in front of her again, seated this time, hair in disarray, eyes downcast, fingers playing together, and the words had tumbled out of him as if he, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, was uncertain, or shy, or nervous.

Music by Sanjay - https://youtu.be/w6pZEqvgXqI 

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