para meu amiga @catitaepipa/ @handbubbles, com muitos abraços <3
Prompt: Kylo and Rey switch bodies.
Rey had been having queer dreams of late.
The connection--she would not, could not call it a bond--between her and Kylo Ren had grown ever more perilously strong, no longer tenuous and uncertain.
Her thoughts were his, and his thoughts were hers, and she awoke in the middle of the night from dreams of training and torture, from voices whispering and pounding in her head.
It was agony of the acutest kind.
She didn’t know how he could bear it.
She wasn’t sure that she could bear it.
She awoke to pain. Her heart ached with loss, and regret, and uncertainty. She felt as though there were a lightning bolt burned down her face, and a hole above her hip on her left side.
She struggled to get up from her small pallet, and her body didn’t feel right. It was awkward, ungainly, and heavy.
Her body was not her own.
…
You're so lonely. So afraid to leave. At night, desperate to sleep.You imagine an ocean. I see it. I see the island.
Time had passed, but nothing had really changed in her mind.
He reached out to her, but she didn’t answer. Her end of their bond was as silent and cold as the desert at night, as the rocky shores with waves lapping up against them.
He could feel her presence with him each and every day.
It was even more hurtful than Snoke’s poison to know that she was there and he could not reach her.
He was torn apart, between physical agony and emotional anguish.
His salvation was his unwitting tormentor.
At night, desperate to sleep, he found solace on Rey’s island.
The days all blurred together, an unyielding stretch of training, as the Supreme Leader called it. Sleep was his only refuge, Rey his only escape.
Until the morning he awoke in her body, and knew he had to find her.
The Force works in mysterious ways.
…
She traced his scars with her--his?--fingers. There were many yet unhealed, angrily pink against his--her?--skin.
The Supreme Leader is relentless.
Which of them thought it, she could not say.
How did you survive?
How did you survive?
She was more gentle with his body than she was with her own.
Somehow, she knew he was doing the same when they went to the ‘fresher for a shower, scrubbing themselves down.
Kylo splashed water everywhere, while Rey would never take it for granted.
I’m coming to find you. We have a Force bond, you know.
I know.
Kylo did not dare leave his quarters in Rey’s body. He paced back and forth, trying to adjust himself to her shape and proportions.
He tried to fill in the blanks, imagining what life was like for her on Jakku. He had seen glimpses in her mind, but she was reluctant to reflect on the majority of her life, it seemed.
You’re a monster.
I know. Can you ever forgive me?
Can you ever forgive yourself?
They were silent for a while, each thinking, learning, healing.
What did you do to pass the time?
Taught myself things. Fixed things. Imagined I was anywhere else.
You braid your hair.
My mother taught me.
Will you teach me?
Will you teach me how to be alone?
You’re huge.
You’re still undernourished.
How do you not trip over things all the time?
How do you have such strength with so little food?
